{ MISSION ORP } THE DRAMATIC CONCLUSION PAGE 29

[Zoobey]

Perhaps it was the effects of the second day of Joy Formula Number 5, or perhaps it was the work of something much more ominous that lead to the infestation of inches and inches of snow all through Deus Ex Machina, which was, for all intents and purposes, an island in what is considered tropical territory.

Nonetheless, there was snow, all over the courtyard, outside, the facilities, and on the training grounds. Oh, there was indeed snow on the training grounds, and also a giant red banner sticking out from the ground like a sore thumb. Mounting the red banner were a set of beautifully decorated columns and arches made entirely of snow, and in front of it more snowmen. And a little more in front of it Jule, in her Mrs. Claus outfit.

"Happy holidays!" Julie was jingling her holiday bells as she talked, "Come and join the snow sculpture competition, it begins soon! You can make anything and even win fantastic presents!" Presents was sadly, a trigger word for any Joy induced brain: any individual infected with even the slightest bit of Joy would in fact turn into a rabid dog at the mention of presents. A joyfully spirited rabid dog. Already, there were Hunters pitching their banners, marking off their work area with team names such as "Team 3000 Snowmen and One Cannon" or "Team Reindeer Action".

Needless to say, there were a lot of contestants, but it didn't matter how many entered what mattered in the end was the thought of presents.

SNOW SCULPTURE CONTEST RULES

- Julie hands you a pamphlet as you register yourself. You CAN solo build a sculpture or find a team/couple of group members to build a sculpture with.
- Your sculpture must now take over 10 x10 feet, and must be a single, or a small unit of sculptures.
- Your sculpture must (MOSTLY) be entirely made of snow and ice! This snow is very thick and packs well: it is surprisingly easy to make snowmen from it! Snow seems to be pretty unlimited!

ROUND 1: RECRUITMENT PHASE

- After you have gotten a brochure from Julie, you will need to come up with a contest team name for yourself and/or your team. Simply write your team name with a flag and stick it to the ground. You may begin discussing the base of your structure/gathering snow for it/ socializing with others, but you cannot begin quite yet until round 2!
- Once you found your team members, make sure you quote them. If you are interested in recruiting people for your team, simply quote them. PLEASE KEEP IT MAX 3 people a team. 1-3 is a good team size.

JOY EFFECTS

Day 2:

- Joy Formula Number 5 continues to show the general signs of Joy including all sorts of holiday spirit, but also a strange sort of urge to sing only Holiday songs aloud in joy.
- Hugging seems to also have become a common occurrence around the facility as well as over-extensive holiday get-well wishes
- No violent tendencies have yet to be in effect: and the effects of Joy seem to be relatively a little less mild

 

[Pixie Nyxie]

Dakota had been watching his window for what seemed like forever. The walls rang with what he could only describe as a moderately decent singer as he belted Baby, It's cold outside.

"I simply must go - Baby, it's cold outside
The answer is no - Ooh baby, it's cold outside
This welcome has been - I'm lucky that you dropped in
So nice and warm -- Look out the window at that storm
My sister will be suspicious - Man, your lips look so delicious
My brother will be there at the door - Waves upon a tropical shore
My maiden aunt's mind is vicious - Gosh your lips look delicious
Well maybe just a half a drink more - Never such a blizzard before"

He continued to sing as he left his room, grabbing a couple others that knew the song. His destination was outside into the brisk cold. s**t was it cold? No it most defenitly was. And look at that...on the ground was INCHES of snow. So much snow, so much snow indeed.

All he had heard was winning presents....PRESENTS?!?!

He sent a quick text to the only other hunter he thought he could rope into being on a team with him.



"Who care's about training! It's all about the Presents!" That last word came out with a gleam in his eye...just on the hint of crazy before he snuffed it and smiled. "I can't wait~~"

Lilwolfpard

Ceres,
Merry Christmas Gorgeous, have you taken a walk outside yet? There's a huge snowman sculpture contest and we can win PRESENTS.
Wanna be on my team? Meet me outside where all the snow is at.
And the red sign.
Dakota

 

[LP]

Aleister had been an odd mood lately, it was different than his normally jumpiness.

<Ugh so much joy why are you guys even doing this Christmas stuff?>

<Because it's fun, lighten up pookie.> Aleister made his way to the courtyard doing a weird little dance two steps forward one step back and humming along his way. When someone mentioned Presents. Oh hi, Aleister's head snapped towards Julie. "Presents? She just said it. Come on Pookie we must join the festivities!"

The puca sighed in Aleisters head as he signed up with a team name. Team Rapidash! was scrawled on the paper and he grabbed a flag for a spot to claim. Oh how he missed building snowmen and what not! Maybe he could make an igloo with a mini-snowman army and snow-furniture!  

[Lilwolfpard]

So hard, she had tried so hard. After her little...brownie incident, she should have known this would happen. The water, something in the water had CLEARLY made her want to sing right? What about the hugging? Though these thoughts were the first that came about as the..effects had started to settle in.

As it was now? She was too full of joy to give a rats a**!



"Nnoooppppee~~~" She was laying back down on her bed, kicking her sockless legs back and forth in the air sort of like a child would.

The voice was significantly more grumpy now...

Not that she really registered it, picking up her phone and reading the text. Kicking her feet one last time, she launched herself to her feet and didnt stagger at all! (ok maybe a little) Grasping a chair for support, she grabbed her hunters coat and slung it over her shoulders. "Snowman contest apparently!"

Muffled sounds of anger and disappointment, only that she could hear, were what followed. She did not bother to reply with a text... instead she went to where the other guy said he was at. Outside. Check. Red sign...? Looking around she realized for a moment that she had no idea whe- OH there it is! skip in her step she slung a arm around Dakota and pulled him into a overly tight hug. "PRESENTS? Really now! Count me in. Do we need another? Oh this will be fun. I wonder whats inside the presents! Have you ever built a snowman before? We used to do it aaalll the time..." She rambled off... Oh Joy... what a wonderful thing you were to even cause someone whom was not too keen on touch, to openly touch others! Not to mention talk as fast as a bullet train during rush hour.  

[Pixie Nyxie]

Dakota didn't have to wait long before Ceres joined him out on the field of snow. When she came dashing towards him though, he held his hands out for her hug, and surprisingly returned it like normal.

Which meant no groping of certain aspects that he often took advantage of on the ladies. No it was a normal, OMG IS SNOWING AND ITS CHRISTMAS AND PRESENTS AND SNOW AND...AND...kind of hug.

He turned so that his arm laid on her shoulder and held his other hand out, waving it in front of him. "Babe, We'll deck the halls~" He started to sing before Chama cut him off.



She rang through his head and he shook it before smiling broadly. "Presents Ceres, are the name of this game. Well actually its snowman sculptures but the presents..." He hissed the word before smiling, "I come from Arizona, I don't think it's ever snowed there but its okay! Cause its snow! It'll form itself. Our hands are nothing more then the physical labor behind the glorious image and art of SCULPTURING." He waved his hand again before shaking his head. "We do need one more person, but...Perhaps we will do without another...But I'd prefer another..."

Deck the halls started in his head again, clearly cutting off his idea of a third team member before he grabbed a piece of cloth and stick to use for a team name. After scribbling the name on and tying it to the pole, He shoved it in the ground claiming the spot in the name of THE THREE SNOW BALLED WISEMEN(WOMEN) cause Ceres is a woman.

Team Three Snow Balled Wisemen(women)

Members: Dakota, Ceres, ???

Lilwolfpard

 

[Bittiface]

Otto walked around in a drugged up daze. Life was just so wonderful~ So magical~

He ended up wandering outside at some point, lifting up his hood and properly wearing his scarf to keep warm. When did it get cold and snowy? Meh~

And then... magic.

A contest? PRESENTS??? Julie.. Julie was... Otto's new best friend.



He texted his posse. They needed in on this.

danse-hexe

OMG Reeeiiiine! SNow! Presents! Come outside ktnx~ lolz

Kaiyumi

omfg Eva! u hav to come outside! there is snmow and presnetsz yayyyyy!!!!!!

 

[Kaiyumi]

Eva received Otto's text. Despite the fact the word was typo'd, Eva's joy-infused instantly zoned in on one word in particular: presnetsz. Presnetsz, as in...presents?!

"PRESENTS. WHERE?!"

Suddenly NOTHING ELSE MATTERED. Whatever it was Eva had been doing before (eating), it wasn't nearly as important as getting outside and seeing all these presents for herself...and snow! There was snow?! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! She wanted to make snow angels, and snowmen, and have a snowball fight, and...

If Eva were to remember any of this after the effects of the joy wore off, even she would be extremely embarrassed by her conduct. Until then, though? She didn't feel any shame at all for the way she rushed outside, made her way over to where Otto was and tackled the boy in glee. "PUPPYPUPPYPUPPYPUPPY! I got your text! Presents!"  

[Bittiface]

Otto grinned ear to ear when he heard Eva call him and tackle. HUGS ARE AWESOME OKAY?!

Otto started bouncing up and down as he hugged Eva back tightly. "PRESENTS, EVA! PRESENTS!!!" ...Otto just used her name. Otto never called anyone but the higher ups by their names.
He laughed joyfully, then let her go and held her shoulders tightly.

"We're gonna win them all! ALL OF THE PRESENTS! With ART!"  

[Syusaki]

The sound of holiday bells caught Wilson’s attention. Curiously, he headed toward the source, laughing like a doofus as he happily stepped through the snow. It reminded him of his home, which always received snow every year. The red banner with the words ‘Snow Sculpture’ blazoned across it caught his attention next and his eyes widened with excitement. Snow sculpture? Cool!

Once he received a pamphlet from Julie he got even more excited. Presents? OhmygodpresentsthatmakesmesoexcitedIhavetodothisIhaveto. Then Wilson spotted a vaguely familiar figure. Hadn’t he seen that death trainee at the mission too? And yet, why was he by himself? THAT WAS UNACCEPTABLE. He ran over to Aleister, waving and beaming. “Hey, you! Mind if I join your team?” [Oh for the love of Jack…]

LP

 

[Dragain]

If Ryan was 'out of character', Ariane was probably either drunk or very out of character or both; the cold was not bothering her as much as it was supposed to, although she had always preferred to stay warm and indoors on a snow day back home... Not that those were very frequent, in her memory. In fact, she was in a rather jovial mood as she hummed a Christmas tune to herself, skipping down the stairs two by two on her way outside.

By the time she noticed the text, she was already outside, dressed in a pair of leggings, fluffy boots and a coat below her hunter coat. It was like coatception. She even had gloves on.

OnionGrump

Sounds good to me! 8DD I'm on my way!

The text was much more cheerful and desu than what she would normally type, but she couldn't help it. There was joy in her and she just had to spread it around. She then cheerfully skipped towards where the contest was held, holding up a bro-fist for Ryan to bro fist the moment she spotted him.

"Yo, Ryannnnn," She grinned.  

[LP]

Aleister paused, he grinned at Wilson as the hunter ran over waving. "Sure!" He wasn't going to turn down a chance to make friends either. He paused, "You're Wilson... right?" He didn't want to get the fellow hunter's name wrong.

While Aleister was waiting on conformation, he started thinking out loud, but only loud enough Wilson could hear him. "I was sort of thinking of starting with an Igloo, what do you think? We could build from there, or we could do something castle-like if you're into that...?"

Team Rapidash

Aleister, Wilson, ?

Syusaki

 

[kuropeco]

A snow sculpting contest.

With presents.

There really didn't need to be anymore convincing for Gale Gentry. He strolled out into the snow, gloved hands on his hips as he surveyed the vast expanse of pure white, sparkling, glittering snow in front of him. His breath was visible in the cold air, and Gale felt excitement thrumming in his veins, barely noticing that he was singing under his breath.

"Oh, the weather outside is frightful...by the fire is so delightful
Since we've no place to go...
let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!"
 

[Dragain]

Ariane might had giggled when Ryan bro-fisted her. Might. She might also had giggled at the pile of snow that Ryan had gathered for them.

"Presentsssss!" She made sure to put emphasis on the word by stretching it and wriggling her fingers, saying it like it was the best thing ever to exist. In fact, as she continued to wriggle her fingers in what she hoped was a mysterious manner, she decided that the 'presents' were so awesome that, "We should be named Team All your Presents are belong to us."

Made perfect sense to her.

OnionGrump