all the boys who the dance floor didn't love

[culver]

WHO: General Nill, General Damian, & everybody who signed up or just wants to come.
WHERE: Central Park.
WHEN: 7 December, 10 AM - sometime Saturday or Sunday.
WARNINGS: WHO KNOWS.
SUMMARY: Damian told Nill she wasn't prepared for war, and she's determined to show him differently.
FORMAT: Quick to start, but do whateva you want.



[The field is huge, without cover, and blanketed in snow. To anyone passing by before ten in the morning, it looks serene and beautiful. But as soon as the clock strikes that special hour, two imports with something to prove take to the field to shake hands and wish each other the best. In what?

Snow war.

Pick your side or make your own side, take prisoners or show no mercy; this is more or less a free-for-all. Who will be victorious? Nobody has a clue. As long as Damian gets whapped in the face by at least one snowball, everything will end up just fine.

Team suggestions are just that: suggestions. If you want your character to defect, start their own team, etc. please feel free! And start any new thread headers you want, these were just some Hallie suggested. Have fun!]

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TEAM NILL (a.k.a. Team Teen mom)

[culver]

[Calvin is in charge of building this fort, so you'd better believe it's going to be pretty awesome and over the top. Nill has more or less assembled her troops and their supplies, which amount to a bunch of thermoses of hot chocolate and tins of cookies. If this isn't the best team, then I don't know what is.]

THE SNOW FORT

[magicalworld]

There is a hand-lettered banner on an old bedsheet strung between two tree branches in front of Team Nill's snow fort. The red ink proclaims ENEMIES: ABANDON ALL HOPE. Through a combination of imagination, stupendous strength, an excess of free time, a glorious bounty of packable snow, and sheer lunacy, Calvin has outdone himself in trying to live up to his boast.

The fortress is ringed with grotesque snow sculptures: decapitated snowmen, dismembered snowmen, snowballs stuck on sticks in the ground to resemble severed heads with sad raisin eyes. A number of these cautionary tales look somewhat like Damian. The warnings mark the outer boundary of the moat- a ditch dug in the snow filled with looser, softer snow that an attacker could sink in up to the waist. A kid's waist, at least. The moat-snow looks exactly the same as the rest of the snow. Only by following the gruesome markers can one stay on solid ground, avoid this trap and reach the main fort.

The fort glistens under the morning Sun. It wasn't enough for Calvin to make thick three-foot walls of tightly-packed snow- he doused them with water as well and left it to freeze. Now the fort's walls sparkle with a slippery covering of protective ice. Parts of the ice have been formed into jutting icicles around the main entrance. The wall's only weakness is a deliberately fragile section in the rear, in case they need to make an escape route or a secret entrance.

Inside, there are little snow ledges for defenders to stand on and see over the wall, and pits filled with literally hundreds of meticulously-crafted snowballs to throw. At the center of the fortress is a large mound of snow that has been tunnelled and hollowed out to form a crude igloo. The messy writing on the sign outside it reads 'COMMAND BUNKER- INTRUDERS KEEP OUT.' The little yellow handkerchief flag flying above the whole complex has what looks like two white wings painted on it- the symbol Calvin has chosen for Nill's faction (the other side of the flag reads 'Fortress Designed and Constructed by Calvin- Boy Genius. All Rights Reserved').

Calvin takes his snow wars very seriously.

Standing on top the wall, he yells at the top of his lungs at his allies. "THIS FORTRESS IS INVINCIBLE! EVERYBODY ON THE OTHER SIDE MIGHT AS WELL SURRENDER NOW! BY THE TIME WE'RE DONE EVERY ENEMY WE HAVE IS GOING TO HAVE FROSTBITE UNTIL JULY!"

[gevurah]

Now the snow sculptures are just morbid and without a doubt worrying for a kid of Calvin's age. (How old is he again? He never seems to grow even an inch when Kate seems him...)

She places herself near on of the ledges just for fun, but really she's kind of impressed by the amount of detail he put into this.

"You're pretty good," she says.

TEAM DAMIAN (a.k.a.Team Batface)

[culver]

[I'm sorry you're stuck with Mini Napoleon.]

open;

[amiga]

[Helena doesn't mind being stuck with Mini Napoleon, if anything she's been needlessly encouraging of him. Their HQ will be stocked with plenty of warm blankets, extra gloves, buckets, hand shovels, etc.-- everything Damian had asked of his sister and more. Also, she's supplying hot coffee and donuts, thanks to her powers, as well as a festive soundtrack.

For now, she is preparing an arsenal of differently sized snowballs for the coming battle.]

open;

[xuffasch]

<sub>( Beware, all those who thought that Damian was being hyperbolic when he was talking about this day. Because behind a ten-by-fifteen wall of pounded snow you will find this structure. Damian, dressed in a navy coat with brass buttons, wielding a saber and donning a festive hat, Damian paces at the head of his fort, looking down on his troops with a critical eye.

At intervals, he will be doing the following:
- handing out mission assignments while looking over over-complicated maps of the park
- returning from skirmishes covered in snow and barking orders
- taking a brief breather to down more coffee
- growing increasingly frustrated and throwing a very dignified general's tantrum. )</sub>

OPEN.

[solidorkable]

(Larsa is standing around, dressing up for the occasion by dressing in high Imperial boots, a heavy black and white coat and white gloves. Larsa is there to provide emotional support for Damian's many victims and even offer battle strategy. Nursing a cup of tea, he sighs, wondering why he lets himself get pulled into these sorts of things.)

NEUTRAL ZONE

[culver]

[Who knows where this is, but use it for random meetings and such!]

OPEN

[dogwitch]

[Jade's got her little "hospital" set up. There's plenty of hot cocoa to go around for anyone that wants it and blankets too just in case anyone gets too cold. She's pretty much just waiting around on stand by to help out anyone that needs it.

Also no funny business in the neutral zone. The area's meant for peace you guys!]

open

[gevurah]

[ Kate's come with a medical kit, with just enough supplies just in case somebody gets hurt during the game. Well, it may be a game, but given how competitive some people can get (Damian) Kate opted to play it safe. No telling how things will turn out.

Remember baseball from spring? A harmless game gone wrong. ]

OPEN

[deadthenred]

[ Bucky's taking this real serious— he'd wanted to dress up all in white for the element of surprise, but he didn't own any white things that weren't t-shirts and they got cold and stuck to him after a couple minutes out in the snow. So he had to scratch that plan.

He was proud, however, of the advantage he'd gotten by scrambling up a treetrunk. Good visibility, the higher strategical ground. He could bail out easy if he got caught, there were a lot of places for a body to fall. Not that he was thinking about falling. Not that Bucky was afraid of heights in the least no sir.

The one problem with being up so high was that he didn't have much snow to throw down at people. So he had to make every bit of it count.]

open!!

[uhhh]

[ Tavros is just no good at this stuff. if it were a video game, sure. but this? with real people? requiring on his own tactics and physical prowess? no.

he's technically on Nill's team but he's created a space for himself in the no-man's land, accumulating supplies for both sides. they're supposed to be for his allies but he's not really sure exactly who those are and who's taking what but there's a veritable arsenal of snowballs just ripe for the gathering.

take them as you will. ]

open

[undeadsidekick]

Giant fields of white really aren't Jason's style, but then again neither is anything non-fatal. They don't provide the necessary cover to his kind of operation, and giving somebody the opportunity to escape is just sloppy. Even beyond Batman levels of sloppy. Still, he figured the chance to embarrass Damian in front of his little girlfriend (and Helena, too) was a little too good to pass up, and so there he was, making less than genuine attempts to be stealthy (if there was even any chance of that) in the fresh laid snow. Damian, or somebody else, would take the bait eventually.

He wondered briefly if there were any rules explicitly against body slamming somebody into a snowdrift. He couldn't remember, but then again, it probably didn't matter anyway. In another twenty minutes, people would be too soaked and too tired to care and then he'd strike, just when the runt least expected it. This would be good.

[culver]

[So far, she has managed to avoid all but one stray (or very well-aimed) snowball. She hasn't thrown any herself yet, but she is prepared to scoop up snow at a moment's notice. For the moment though, she has a tin of chocolate chip cookies and is passing them out in the neutral zone. No, this isn't a ploy to get anyone undecided to join her team. She is just being nice.

And anyway, can't fight a snow war on an empty stomach.]

OPEN

[lastnerv]

[Shinji isn't supposed to be here, or at least doesn't want to be here, and it's his sincere hope that if he stands around in the neutral area long enough everyone will stop noticing him and he can just go home and forget about this.

Why is winter so cold]

BATTLES

[culver]

[Isn't there that one person you really wanna nail with a snowball? Well, here's your chance.]

Open!

[adventureboner]

((Jake literally had. NO idea what was going on. He basically saw the battling, stared for a moment.. and just about JUMPED straight out of his snow pants as he BOUNDS head first into the fray.

The first person he lays his eyes on is getting WALLOPED by a snowball.)) HAHA!!! Brilliant!!

oh yeah OPEN please hit him

[wild_roar]

Kotetsu was out and about getting a good look at the fresh snowfall, a cup of coffee in hand and his hat pulled down over his eyes. He hadn't even realized he had stepped right into the middle of the battlefield until he saw the elaborate fort on one side, and even then, all he did was stop and stare, fascinated. Wow, so they weren't kidding. They really did come out to have a snowball war, huh?

It was just so delightful and cute. Ah, kids! He stood there grinning like an idiot, right in the line of fire. If he got pelted with snowballs, it was is own fault.

Scouting Damian's fort, open to anyone from any side

[magicalworld]

Calvin is astonished when he gets a glimpse at the imposing edifice Damian's forces are quartered within. Astonished and angry. No one's snow fort is allowed to rival his masterpiece! No one's.

Slowly crawling on his belly through the snow, Calvin peers at the enemy citadel through a little pair of plastic toy binoculars. "There's got to be a way to bring that thing down," he muses to no one in particular. "There's no such thing as an invulnerable position! That I haven't designed, that is."

It's hard to be stealthy on a field of open white snow, especially with a bulging backpack full of snowballs and a dark blue jacket sticking out. Calvin is dimly aware of this, but is willing to run any risk to discover the enemy's weaknesses.

Open (Team Jupiter)

[jupiterson]

[ Jason's taking this kind of seriously. He's built up a wall of snow to serve as a makeshift barrier, and he might have cheated and used his wind powers to help gather snowballs together. He's creating a decent arsenal.

Maybe arriving here in mid-winter has its plus side.

He's looking forward to this. ]

i know how to prose gud

[allbloodyhail]

SPIKE DON'T CURR ABOUT ANY CHEATING HE'S GOING TO NAIL YOU UPSIDE YOUR FACE FROM BEHIND A TREE. YEAH.

TEAM CATFACE (Nepeta's group)

[shipper]

[Nepeta is so ready to ambush pretty much anyone who walks by and doesn't dodge fast enough. anything goes in war, and sticking to one side is just too limiting.]

[bumbumbum]

[Klarion has assigned himself to snowball making duty. That is, until he spots an adult or just someone he wants to throw a snowball at. He's made a sizable amount of snowballs and is making another while he looks up at Nepeta.]

Do you see anyone out there?

[xuffasch]

_{( Damian's crossing the battle lines with incredible speed, but he's still an easy target. He knows to expect at attack from Nill's camp, but not from anywhere else... )}

also open and stuff. Hi, Team Catface!

[kegflipped]

[ Troy ended up over on this team, having ended up here kind of by accident. Whatever, though. Dig this mad-awesome snowball fight.

There's some weird people here, but he guesses that's just kinda gonna be a thing from here on out.

He's also come to realize that his powers include a perimeter of warmer temperature that he's not sure how to turn off, so he can't stay in one place for too long.

So maybe he's not that useful, but... Troy Barnes, ladies and gentlemen. ]