Player Plot: Paint Ball Battle

[worldsaway]

who: Open to All
what: The Annual Paintball War.
when: 17/01
where: The Jungle + The Hot Springs
warnings: Violence, Swearing and Nudity. The Tarantino Experience.

The Game It’s a chilly morning when the competitors gather in the jungle for the competition, there are still thin layers of ice and snow on the rocks and leaves and the air is cool and crisp. All competitors are outfitted with a full set of equipment, including a paintball gun, a battle pack (a set of 5 colours, 10 of each colour except for three, glittery pods), protective eyewear, a face mask (in a variety of colours and patterns) and camouflage clothing. Players are transported in groups (but not teams) of five into different sections of the jungle. The Perimeter guards monitor the outskirts and the boundaries are marked with flags. Each team is told the general rules of play, which are as follows: You are given a set of 5 colours, 10 of each and 3 glitter bombs Each colour has a different effect on its target, summed up with one word. You need to be hit with 3 different colours or one glitter bomb to be “killed” Use glitter bombs wisely, you only get three. Each coloured pod has a word written on it, in its designated colour. The colours, words and effects are as follows: Red- “Over-confidence” Being hit with red makes you irrational, your decisions are stupid and poorly thought out. This makes you an easy target. Blue- “Rhythm” You are compelled to sing and dance. Every step you take is jazzy, you can’t stop trying to move to the music in your mind. You’re compelled to rhyme or sing every thought you have, to a maddening degree. Purple- “Flirtatious” You are now feeling flirtatious. Your mind is off the prize and on your teammates and enemies. They become your focus instead. Pink- “Ditzy” You’re feeling distracted. Your focus is shot and you can’t stop spacing out. Your imagination is running wild and you see things out of the corner of your eye. You also can’t stop yourself from chattering away. Glitter: Glitter’s effects are long term. The glitter stays on you for weeks after, in your hair and faintly sparkling on your skin. It’s also an instant out, meaning you must leave the game once you’ve been hit with one. The winner is the one who makes it out without being hit by three different colours or a glitter bomb.

The Hot Springs After the war is over, paintballers can retreat to the hot springs. For characters over 18, there are washrooms set up before you enter, there are two segregated by gender (but not heavily monitored either way), with a third for those who don’t identify as either gender or for those who don’t care who they see or who sees them naked. Assisting one another in a scrub down is encouraged, since there will be paint where your arms can’t reach. There are stools to sit on with scrubbing brushes, clothes and a wide variety of delicious smelling soaps to help wipe away the paint. The glitter will not come off. Once you’re clean, you’re welcome to soak in the warm waters of the spring. There is a nude spring (over 18s only) and a clothed spring for younger characters. There are soft, fuzzy bathrobes and towels for modesty outside of the spring.

The Lounge There is a buffet of delicious, wintery foods to warm you up. Hot soups, curry, roasted meats and vegetables as well as finger foods such as cold meats and cheeses, crackers and breads. Fresh fruits, steamed and fresh vegetables and a variety of dips. On the dessert table there are mini pies, tarts and cakes to choose from for dessert. In the lounge is a hot chocolate bar with a variety of different chocolates, marshmallows, creams, sprinkles and alcohols for the adults who need an extra kick. The tables are set indoors, in a small but cozy lodge. There is a large fire that warms the room well and dozens of couches, lazy boys, hammocks and beanbags to settle into. The room is filled with lanterns and candles and it’s the perfect time to regale one another with stories of victory and tragedy from the war. The lounge is open from the beginning of the game, large TV screens will play shots of the game with commentary from a number of people. Those who are unwilling or uninterested in participating can stay in the lounge as long as they like. This means that they can enjoy the thrill of the competition from the comfort of a nice, warm chair. The winners are posted here.

Comments

[franciscoramon]

I can teach you some about science. I mean, if you want. And not all of it, obviously. 's a pretty big topic. My specialty is mechanical engineering, so that means I'm mostly all up in physics and robotics and programming and some chemistry, but I know some stuff about other fields. What kinds of science are you interested in?

[ Cisco's always willing to share knowledge, and encourage curiosity and enthusiasm in others, particularly when it comes to science. He'd had so little support, when he'd been young and fascinated by the world, wanting to understand how it works, so now that's made him twice as eager to react enthusiastically when other people show even a glimmer of that same interest.

He's glad to hear that things between Alec and Jace seem destined to last, and that Alec doesn't seem annoyed when he brings up Clary and alludes to what she'd said. Alec's reaction is... not at all what Cisco was expecting. ]

No, it makes perfect sense. She's from further in the timeline than Jace, but you're from further in the timeline than her, and you know how it all shakes out, but you don't want to let on to either one of them.

[ Sure, it's all a little confusing, but if there's one thing Cisco's used to, it's some hot and messy timeline shenanigans. This situation is child's play, compared to other stuff he's dealt with. ]

So probably, the reason you told her not to tell Jace about his future is... she was wrong about him dying, and you know that, but you don't want her to. Or am I wrong?

[ He's just making guesses, after all. Informed guesses, maybe, but guesses nonetheless. ]

[angelic_archer]

I'd like to learn. Izzy's into biology and forensics and that isn't - [He can't quite hide a hint of disgust over some of the subjects she talks about at home. There's some work topics that shouldn't be dinner conversation.] - a subject that interests me. Physics though... That would be things like trajectories? The others are things we aren't really subjects that we were taught.

[Alec had been interested enough in history and mythology to not mind the lack of diverse subjects, but now that he's met people who know subjects he barely had more than a basic understanding of, he wants to learn more about the world.] Just being pointed in the right direction would help. [Cisco probably doesn't have time to really teach someone but even suggestions of books to read would get Alec started.]

I've told them a few details so they won't freak out. Jace thought I died so I had to calm him down over that. Clary hasn't wanted to know anything, which is probably hurting her.

[Fidgeting with his wedding ring keeps him from touching the rune on his side, his expression shifting from grief to something closer to neutral.] No, she's right. He died. Jace was killed during one of the wars. I know that he comes back, but she doesn't. Not yet.

[franciscoramon]

[ Cisco makes a sympathetic face; he might help the police department, make centrifuges and things that could be used for law enforcement and forensics, but it's not his cup of tea, either. ]

Sure. Trajectories, objects moving through space, motion, all of that. And if you get deep enough into it, into the theory, it's about the building blocks of the entire universe. The fundamental laws beneath it all.

[ He wasn't going to start Alec at theoretical particle physics, of course, but it couldn't hurt to let him know that was on the table, that physics was far-reaching and strange and wonderful.

He listens without interrupting as Alec lays things out. He's glad, selfishly, that his own situation is far less complicated. There's only himself and Eddie from his world here, and there had only been a small gap between them in the timeline: half a year in which had passed in a haze of loneliness and depression, for Cisco. So he doesn't run into complex situations like this, where he has to measure, in the way Alec does, how much to tell and how much to keep hidden. ]

I'm glad. Not about all the wars and dying and secrets and stuff. I meant - that he comes back. I haven't met Jace yet, but... I mean. Losing people sucks.

[ He thinks about Ronnie, and gives a tiny shrug. Not the most eloquent articulation of that sentiment, but he's not wrong. ]