DANCE PLANNING

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DANCE PLANNING
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This post is for the members of the Student Council to discuss, OOCly, the plans for the dance. The dance itself will take place October 31st (with the 1st of November being an in-service day with no classes so students can recover) and will be Halloween themed, but is otherwise up to the Student Council to plan.

We ask that the planning be finished and whatever details the student council wishes to include be submitted no later than midnight the morning of October 16th (Eastern Standard Time). Any details not filled in by the council will be filled in by the mods.

The Student Council is free to make an IC discussion post as well if desired; this post is simply for hashing out the plans for the event.

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Comments

[inflictwounds]

Throwing this up in the wrong account aw yeah - but Adelaide will 100% be gunning for some sort of costume party. Either something fun and casual and geared towards elaborate costumes, or a more sophisticated masquerade ball. She just wants costumes and themed foods.

[onebetter]

The idea of costumes will be instantly seconded by James.

Though he's unsure if they should allow/encourage magic enhanced costumes or if there should be a costume contest where the rules explicitly forbid any supernatural means of clothing.

[infestedcouncilpresident]

Perhaps the contest has two brackets. One for mundane costumes, one for magic costumes.

[transfusionem]

The more contests the merrier!!

[onebetter]

True that!

Question is how we organize this on an OOC level. Toplevels for the contests and people describe/link their costumes below it seems easy enough, but deciding the victor....

We could set a deadline for submissions and just full RNG or we could go with votes, which'd take longer....

[fistsofchange]

(Ignore wrong journal) we could also just decide the winners ourselves as the student council. There’s what, six of us? Much easier to tally six votes than a whole game’s worth.

[playitagain]

We could do... student council members vote, and maybe like, appoint one student and one teacher PC judge?

[onebetter]

That sounds neat!! We can have the student council recruit for extra judges on the Network, a little before the actual party?

And then the schedule would be smth like.... First 24 hours after event gets posted is for sign-up to the contest, the next 24 hours the judge characters cast votes? As to not drag it out too long so people can actually play their victory and defeat.

[infestedcouncilpresident]

Sounds pretty solid to me

[playitagain]

I dig it!!

[heromedal]

I've previously had Rex use illusions on foodstuffs to make them look like gross things for pranking purposes, he'd totally suggest doing that to all the food so everything looks nasty but is actually as delicious as always.

[infestedcouncilpresident]

Kohaku reluctantly approves. Eric enthusiastically approves

[playitagain]

Nana whines at James and Adelaide for like 20 minutes until she relents. (Tex loves this idea.)

[onebetter]

James' sword just screaming at him to OBEY NANA......

James is good with the gross food though as long as actual ingredients are clearly labeled so nobody gets an allergic shock because certain foods were harder than usual to identify.

[playitagain]

Here's a couple ideas!

We could do it outdoors in a spooky forest, maybe with some NPC mages making the trees grow to give it a cool, spooky forested canopy look and hang lights from it?

Nana will probably try to encourage council members to dress up as specific fictional characters and go in character sometimes (tho not all the time).

Also: campfire with s'mores, and maybe ghost story telling?

[heromedal]

I very much like the spooky forest idea! Creepy faces on trees is my absolute jam. If we go for that, I'd like to volunteer Rex to do the magic for it (only 'cos I can think of a few prompts I could do in a catch-all around it). Could even tie the spooky forest and campfire thing together! The night starts in an artificially induced enclosed woody area, then to return it to its natural state all the magically induced growth is arranged into one giant/several smaller bonfires and everyone splits off for spooky stories?

Re: Costuming, having the council have a theme is cool by me, Rex will have no input because he doesn't care about fun (but he will echo whatever Adelaide says because she is his not!wife and if she wants him to dress a certain way he will).

[playitagain]

I am definitely down for Rex doin' the magic!!

And this sounds good!

[onebetter]

James is down for the council having a theme - well, depending on the theme, but he trusts Nana it won't be humiliating, haha.

Also +1 to all location thoughts, this is coming together to be a fun party.

[playitagain]

Ahahaha yeah, Nana's vote would be famous movie monsters? Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, etc.?

[onebetter]

Assign us our monstersonas, Nana. Pull the trigger.

[playitagain]

Frankenjames...?

[onebetter]

The doctor or the monster.........

[playitagain]

...pictured monster but doctor's great too.

[onebetter]

If James gets any wiggle room he'll pick doctor, solely because he's vain, lmao.

[playitagain]

Ahaha. Perfect, yes, fund it.

[infestedcouncilpresident]

Dibs on mummy

[playitagain]

Done!!

[heromedal]

The possibility of Adelaide dressing Rex up as a vampire for her own sick amusement has been discussed so if that's still on, Rex is the world's largest Dracula.

Otherwise he'd be invisible man and just wear his stealth cloak all night, so he doesn't have to talk to anyone.

[playitagain]

I WANT REXCULA SO BAD

[heromedal]

You do realise this means Nana must be Gill-man?

[playitagain]

I figured Gill-man or a high level misunderstanding of the canon such that she cosplays Grand Moff Tarkin.

[transfusionem]

I am all for matching costumes for the council, that'll be great.

[playitagain]

Eeeexcellent!!

[heromedal]

Since Rex is doin' the magic set up, here's my concept for the actual staging-

To prevent the cold getting to everyone, it'll be a ring of trees with their branches interlocked tightly enough to prevent wind getting in (kinda like thatching). There will be a main entrance in the form of an extra-large hollow tree with a creepy mouth that opens to let people in, but for safety reasons any section of branches will open up if knocked on. Every tree will have some kinda spooky face on it, which will sometimes (but not always) change when no one is looking. The canopy will be similarly interlinked, enough rain couldn't get through if it comes down, but depending on weather might open up to show the moon.

So people don't get muddy costumes/break a heel on uneven surfaces/electrics don't get wet the ground will have a level barrier for people to walk on, which will be hidden under an ankle level fog. The dance floor is its own translucent barrier, raised a bit higher over the fog, so people can see fancy footwork.

Since he's Rex and he knows he'd appreciate it, they'll be a couple places where the foilage lets people hide. He intends this to be a place that people with social anxiety can step out of the way or have conversations without screaming over music, but they'll be prime for a) sloppy make-outs and b) jumping out at people to spook 'em.

Once the night is winding down, Rex will be really extra by having all the artificial growth disconnect and merge together into a wicker man style structure, which will burst into flame. He'll suggest having it make sounds like wailing people being sacrificed because he's grim but will be easily negotiated to having it just laugh maniacally. The wicker man will explode into a series of bonfires launched around the area, looking very dangerous but being perfectly safe, so people can spread out and tell ghosts stories etc. while leaving an extra-large one at the sight of the dance, so people can find it easily and don't get lost. Not wanting to be responsible for burning down the forest, he'll synchronise the fire with his wood so it can't spread to anything. Unintentional bonus, this means all the smores will be perfect because the marshmallows won't combust, just heat up.

Any additions/objections?

[playitagain]

I think this sounds good!! I like the foliage to hide in, and the barriers and stuff. It also sounds flexible and whatnot?

Nana will be against the wicker man sounding like people are being sacrificed, but love the idea in general.