Summer Camp Spin the Bottle Group 5 Closed

Interacting with @Annie Morgan

A smile formed on her face as she heard Annie's recognition. She gave her the beanbag without hesitation, "Here you go," She responded as she carefully pushed the beanbag towards her, trying to be careful to not surprise her and to give her a chance to feel where it was. She had no idea how Annie had lost her vision but it was clear that she had, at least partially lost it. Serena did not have the full details though, "No, no, there is no need to apologise. Sorry for scaring you," She responded, shaking her head and waving her hands in response. Of course, she was not entirely certain that Annie could see her actions but that did not stop her from doing them. At this point, it was a habit of hers to be quite expressive with her hand motions.

She smiled, sitting down cross-legged as she accepted the compliment. Was it even a compliment or not? She had no idea but she took it as one. Being prepared was always a good idea. After all, it was literally her lack of preparation that had caused her countless harm in the past. Being prepared for everything - especially the unknown - was the key to safety. At least, that was something she had started to realise over the years. Did it make her any better at planning or being prepared? No, not even slightly. But she tried and at this point, what more could you really expect from her?

A soft laugh escaped Serena as she heard Annie's words about the pyjamas. She was wearing a rather cute dress, but if it got windy or anything, Serena could definitely see her getting colder. "To be honest, I think I'm the only one wearing my PJs right now so you're probably dressed more suitably than I am," She added, noting that many others were dressed in actual outfits and here she was just... chilling in her rat onesie. Though, it was adorable. "Yeah, I think we can do with a calm evening for once! And food always helps, of course. Your dress is very cute, though, so I think it's a smart choice! But, let me just grab a couple of extra blankets, okay? I'll be back in less than thirty seconds."

Slowly - as to not scare her - she got up and made her way over to get some more blankets and another beanbag, for herself. She may as well grab a few extras for any others that decided to join them. Within thirty seconds, she made her way over to the pile, grabbed some stuff and returned, "Hey, I got some extras too, Annie," She announced as she arrived so the girl knew it was her.

Dropping the items near them, she froze for a second as her eyes landed on the very familiar face of her brother who had recently arrived. He was busy talking to some girl that she did not really know so she was not certain if he had seen her but she rolled her eyes at the sight of it. For a guy who said he disliked Hogwarts, he spent an awful amount of time here. And the grounds were huge, why did he have to pick like a few metres away from her? Sheeesh, she was here first!

But she could not let that boy ruin her mood. So she dropped a beanbag down, sat down and turned away from him to focus on Annie. "I'll leave the blanket here, just near your right arm if you need it alright?" Serena said, placing it where she said she would for the girl. Opening the bag of crisps, she felt Pizza Rat start to stir in her pocket. Of course, the timing was simply coincidental but it made her giggle a little. It was as though he sensed food and woke up!

Outfit of the evening

Dale took in the atmosphere around him, the starry skies, the slight evening wind, and the soft ambient sounds of the harp set the scene for a slumber party really well. Dale even brought his pet rat Winter with him, Winter scramperd carefully around his shoulder, taking in all the sounds and smell, his pure white coat blended in quite well with this shirt. He looked around to see if he knew anybody, they were the obvious one. Annie, his best friend, was accompanied by someone else. Dale thought he knew her, Serena… she stood out quite a bit with her rat… costume? What even was that supposed to be he wondered? He himself wore something a bit more modest, a pair of plaid pants, a simple white shirt t-shirt, perfect to sleep in.

Dale didn’t want to bother the pair immediately, instead heading over to the real main attraction, the snack table. Lined up on the table just ripe for the picking was the perfect spread of junk food, crips, cookies, and a few sandwiches. Dale grabbed himself a plate and filled it with a beautiful spread of food, this wouldn’t be his last time coming to this table, he also grabbed himself a blanket before again looking at the people. He saw a few more familiar faces, people he’s seen around before here and there, but didn’t really know the name of but only really one person he really knew well. With his new found food and blanket he made his way over to the pair of Annie and the other girl.

As Dale got close to the pair he announced his presence, he knew that Annie would be able to recognize his voice."Hey, Annie, nice to see you here.”He waved to the other girl, “Hi I’m Dale, don’t think we’ve met before. Mind If I join you two?” Dale said as he was already spreading out his blanket and setting down his plate of food. As soon as he sat down Winter ran down Dale’s side and onto the blanket, where he made his way to his plate. Dale set aside a crips for him, that oughta keep him occupied for the better half of the night.

Dale was looking forward to the evening, as summer camp was getting ready to end, Dale was mentally preparing himself for the year to come. Not only the busy school times, and the stupid amount of papers he had to write, but also the day-to-day boredom that came with Hogwarts.

“Do they have anything planned out for the evening? Or is this it?” Dale sincerely hoped that this was all that was planned for the night, this was really relaxing. Dale looked at Annie “And Annie, did you forget that you were coming to a slumber party?” Dale asked with a smirk on his face, his friend looked like she was going to some garden party and not a slumber one. He looked over at the one he assumed was Serena, she was wearing some kind of rat costume, he wondered what winter thought of it, he himself thought it was a bit strange, but he didn’t want to sound rude, “I like your outfit too, I think Winter likes it too” he said as he gestured over too his pet rat who was happily nibbling away at a crisp.

Interacting with: @Serena Towers@Annie Morgan

Moderation Post - Round 1

Groups of students were just chilling, chatting with each other. A few were likely aware of the rumours to play a game of Spin the bottle but most of them just seemed to be interested in the slumber party aspect of it. An older student with jet black hair ushered them together and handed them a bottle and somehow, the game began before they even realised it.

Howard White spun the bottle. Who knew what he was thinking? Did he want it to land on his ex-girlfriend, Falentra? Would it be a way back together or would it just be awkward? The bottle spun around, almost landing on her but it kept slowly creeping forward at the end and ending up landing on Johannes Ambrozy - a very different choice.

Bloom Silverton had joined the spin the bottle game willingly to snog someone to connect with others. As she spun the bottle, she found that it landed on the Gryffindor who had won the 'Fiercest Gryffindor' in the Yearbook, Anastasia Beckett. But she was also one of the prettiest, according to the same yearbook so... yay?

Aleksandar Panchev was likely dreaming about a beautiful angel he had met. Unfortunately, as he spun the bottle, it ended up landing on that very angel's cousin, Angélique Colette de Clairmon. Well, that was one way to get right in the middle of family drama...

Dale Kurt secretly probably thought Arjan was the cutest of the group (who didn't?! Probably everyone, to be honest...) but he ended up spinning the bottle for it to land on Elena Jangleton. Would this be the spark of a cute relationship?!

Arjan Oberoi just wanted to have fun, maybe kiss one of the cute girls that he liked and avoid any of the guys. Luckily for him, it did land on a girl. Annie Morgan, however, was perhaps not so lucky that it landed on her. She would not even be aware that the bottle was pointing at her - someone should warn her! (Of the spin and probably that Arjan's a jerk).

Honestly, what did Irina Afanasyeva and Alexei Petrov think about Hogwarts at this point? Did they love the fact that most of the events seemed to include a whole bunch of kissing or did they hate that? People do say there's a fine line between love and hate so... you know, kissing and fighting kind of makes sense, no?

Glen Pope and Serena Towers somehow found themselves in this situation more than once. They had managed to get through the awkwardness of accidentally ending up on a date during Valentine's Day but... as the bottle stopped on Serena, they ended up with yet another choice to make. Did either of them even realise what was going on? Hopefully by now they did...

Phaedra Stavrou had a great opportunity here to annoy her childhood friend if she wanted to. But the bottle spin seemed to have another idea in mind. It landed on one of the few people she probably did not want it to land on! Her and Falentra Black would find themselves face to face, the bottle between them with a choice to make. Was it time to bury the hatchet (or uh... put down the wand?) and become friends? Maybe even something more? Could they get over the chaos that happened before?

This Round's Pairings

@Howard White and iNPC Johannes Ambrozy (@Astrea Soleil Neptune)
@Bloom Silverton and @Anastasia Beckett
iNPC Aleksandar Panchev (@Ruka Burnett-Tân and iNPC Angélique Colette de Clairmon (@Santario Martin)
@Dale Kurt and @Elena Jangleton
iNPC Arjan Oberoi (@Serena Towers) and @Annie Morgan
iNPC Irina Afanasyeva (@Lavinia Cloven) and iNPC Alexei Petrov (Anastasia Beckett)
@Glen Pope and @Serena Towers
@Phaedra Stavrou and @Falentra Black

Make your choices. Will you kiss your partner or not? Now is the time to decide!

For this round, you have all been paired with one person so everyone has a chance to post. Depending on activity, you may be given more rolls each round or extra time to post etc.

You have until 26th July to post.

Note: You do NOT have to post in order. Please post whenever you can. I have just put the rolls in order but you don't have to post in that same order at all.

Interactions/Mentions: @Dale Kurt & @Serena Towers + her iNPC Arjan
Action: Internally dying at the idea of having to kiss a stranger. Hasn't rejected him yet?

Interacting| Arjan Oberoi (@Serena Towers) | Aleksander (@Ruka Burnett-Tân) Mentioning|

The Face Reducio

Open to Interactions

T O P_

B O T T O M S / S H O E S

Spin the Bottle was what it had come to. Not entirely surprising for a group of teens and pre-teens alike. Aleksandar would have been content to watch, but what a waste of the night would it be if he did not participate in the events unfolding?

He had spun the bottle lazily as his turn arrived, watched its wobbling halt with a smile before following the line of its neck pointing at his target. An interesting outcome, what were the chances? Out of all the unfamiliar faces in the group, the person he was now confronted with was one he recognised. A beautiful host containing a demonic parasite. Aleksandar didn't find himself fooled by her delicate appearance and her flirty boldness. There was something rotten under that charade, like the maggots crawling their way out of Dorian Gray's portrait.

Nonetheless, Aleksandar smiled pleasantly and lifted himself off his beanbag chair as she approached, a slight tilt to his head. She was shorter than him, a good deal even, but her confidence lifted her. In any other girl he might have thought of it as attractive.

Her words made the corners of his lips quirk up as if he was entertained by her spunk, endeared even. He leaned down, lifted a hand to cup her jawline, soft fingertips brushing against her ear as the tip of his nose touched her's. Before his lips could make contact, he turned his head, pressed them close to her temple instead. "I'm not quite that charitable," he rasped out. Pulling back from the disguised demon, Aleksandar offered her a cold smile, icy blue eyes watching her face intently. His hand fell from her jaw to instead burrow in the pocket of his joggers with a nonchalant shrug.

This fallen Angel would have to take her poison elsewhere.

She smiled up as Phaedra wandered over to join her clearly on the hunt for food which Elena was more than happy to provide at the drop of a hat. "At your service, here you go." She said picking one up and offering it to her cabin-mate with a smile. She decided it was a good distraction as any to keep their mind off what the bottle had in store for them focusing instead on what delicacies had been stored here for them. There was still that temptation Elena had to just get up and drift onwards somewhere else but that would just look silly at this point and the Gryffindor resigned herself to staying here and seeing through this to the very end. Surely, it couldn't be that bad, could it? She was positive everyone else would be feeling the nervousness very soon if not already.

It seemed that she wouldn't have to regret every single thing about this particular activity as a familar voice made itself known. "Bloom!" Elena replied in lieu of a greeting silently relieved that there was at least one familiar face here and that was good enough for her. Their cabin assignments might have not worked out in their favour but this was good enough for the Gryffindor and suddenly, the brunette felt like that maybe that if her friends were willing to see where this took them than she might as well put herself to the test too. A thoughtful hum escaped her at Bloom's questions as her eyes scanned the circle which had been assembled by now. "No one in particular but that could change." She said whispering to the girl before giving her a friendly nudge. "What about you?" Their converstation would be quickly be broken up as someone managed to send a bottle their way and it was just like that, the evening activites got underway.

Soon enough, the first names were being dropped, Bloom and Phaedra both had wound up with two other girls as Elena leant forward curious to see what the outcome would be regardless and after the passage of a few minutes, the spinning of the bottle came to a shuddering stop on her. She slowly lifted her gaze to see who had spun it and blinked once, twice. It was not someone Elena ever recalled seeing, a total stranger and she wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not. Gathering her courage, she'd rise making her way over to the boy looking at him for a second. "Well, this is certainly an interesting way of making introductions." Elena commented in what was probably a poor attempt to make some humor to break the awkwardness as her head leant forward probably in a friendly gesture to peck the boy on his cheek if he'd allow it. She didn't know him and as far as she knew, he didn't know her either, that probably was as much as her courage and nerves were going to allow her to do. Anything more and Elena Jangleton might have frozen right then and there out of sheer embarassment.

Interacting| Arjan Oberoi (@Serena Towers) | Aleksander (@Ruka Burnett-Tân) Mentioning| Santario Martin

The Face Reducio

Open to Interactions

Interacting with @Annie Morgan, @Dale Kurt and Arjan. Mentions: Angél (@Santario Martin)

Serena gasped, her eyes lighting up as she spotted the 'Winter' that Dale spoke of, "Wait! This is Pizza Rat!" She instantly starting talking as she bought her own pet rat out of her pocket, placing him on her lap, "THEY SHOULD BE FRIENDS!" Okay. She was way too excited. But not many people had a pet rat and Pizza needed some more friends. The lack of friends and company was probably kind of sad. She was very happy, if that was not obvious.

Her happiness was rather short-lived though. Before she realised, they had been dragged into a game with some of the nearby students. Serena spotted Phaedra, not too far away - was Phaedra playing too? And... her brother, of course. She resisted the urge to roll her eyes. The Prince resorting to playing with lowly peasants like her? Oh, how sweet - and not entirely sarcastic, definitely not, nope. Wait- what were they playing? Spin the bottle? She gave a half-arsed 'oh sure', thinking it was basically truth or dare. You spun the bottle, when it landed on you, you had to pick a truth or dare - right?

She almost gagged as she heard a girl calling her brother a... god?! Geesh, that boy's ego was out off the charts already - why would anyone want to make it worse? He already considered himself a Prince - and referred to the fact that he was literally named after a God - but now to have others refer to him in that way too? A visible 'Ew' expression could be seen on her face as she watched Angél and Des Arjan flirt - if that was what it was. Is this what flirting was?! Because if so, she was suddenly very glad that no one flirted with her. It was vomit-inducing.

WAIT.

WHAT. IS. THIS. GAME?

No no no no no no no no no no. Just no.

A mild look of panic crossed her face as it started to dawn on her what exactly the game was. There was no option of 'truth' - no one was picking it. And there was no 'dare' mode... unless the dare was just... to keep the other person?!?

Was she going to lose her first kiss to some random game? Well... Not her first kiss. But she did not really count the first one because it had been an accident. Of course, she was pretty well aware that everyone else counted it. But it had simply been a guy falling into her and kissing her and then rumours being spread about her being a 'kissy prefect' when she did not do anything wrong and therefore, it should not count - in her opinion. Anyway, that was besides the point, the point was that if she might have to kiss someone in front of everyone?!

Don't land on me, don't land on me, don't land on me...

Serena thought to herself as she stuffed a few crisps into her mouth. If she was eating, no one would want to kiss her right? That worked, right? She was kind of just hoping to stealth away into the background and sort of disappearing into the night, without people realising it.

But that was when Des said something about it being his turn and started to spin the bottle. Her eyes widened as she saw it pointing towards Annie. What. The. Actual. Heck? He was not actually going to kiss her friend, right? That was just weird. Right? RIGHT? WAIT- HE WAS GETTING UP.

Serena sat there, her head turning between Annie and Des quickly. Like whatwhatwhatwhatwhat, in a stage of panic. Honestly, she was seriously not prepared to play this. And that's when she heard Annie's words.

"Help. If a scary man with a fancy name comes over here tell him I am not interested in locking lips."

He was definitely a scary- well, not a man- but close enough. He did not have a fancy name. He had Serena's bloody name! Well. Arjan or 'Des' as she referred to him was his own name, of course. But they both said Oberoi! Did that now count? Not many people knew him as Desmond but that was the name he had when they were growing up. Serena, to this day, often called him 'Des' - which seemed to annoy him, so it was kind of more fun to use it. Phaedra would likely be one of the few who knew him as both - since the three of them knew each other many years before.

His name did not matter though. What mattered was that Annie was not interested in kissing him and therefore, Serena would not let it happen. "Is bare na socho" Punjabi for "Do not think about it..." She said suddenly, as he got closer to them, in a slightly darker tone than most people had heard from her. For some reason, her tone of voice always lost that happy sparkle whenever she was talking to her brother. It would be more monotone than they were used to, hints of anger.

There was a look in her eye as she glared at Des that told him that she would happily 'flipendo' him right off the campgrounds if needed. It was not a threat she made often or lightly but she was not about to allow her friend to get kissed without permission. Of course, all he had done was got up and walked over but she did not trust him in the slightest. He looked far too smug and it infuriated her. But they both knew something - Serena knew far more about him than he cared to admit. She would happily spill any and all embarrassing stories of him to the girls around if needed.

Outfit of the evening

OOC: All references of "Des" = Arjan. (It's his birth name and therefore, she refers to him as that). Punjabi dialogue isn't exactly correct but also, I'm lazy and Serena's Punjabi isn't fluent so it's close enough.

The end of summer break was near and finally there was a freakin' event that was scheduled for night time. Damn the Hags and the killer shadows, Howard's skin was at jeopardy here! A slumber party seemed a little lame. In his mind he had imagined a bunch of little girls screaming about dolls or boys or unicorns or something, but he again would have to remind himself, maybe it'll be fun. He shied away from wearing any kind of sleepwear or pajamas as Howard rarely slept through the night anyways. So, he just stuck with what he had been wearing all along, his camp tee.

For a while he would just wonder around and chat with those that he knew and do his best to avoid any he might clash with. However, it wouldn't be long until whispers of a game of spin the bottle started to circulate. One of the older students pointed out a group nearby. As he made his way over he would be relieved that almost all of them seemed to be near his age. Nothing would have been more awkward than to stumble across a group of first years. Although he could just scare the crap out of them, but no. No bullying. Howard would offer a series of waves and head nods to those in the group that he knew while avoiding the foreign students and maybe a certain writer that most likely hated his guts.

Some chatter would transpire as people began to take seats amongst the blankets and beanie chairs that were offered, but he just felt like getting to the action. "Let's get to it, yeah?" Howard reached into the center of the group and gave the bottle a good spin. Round and round it would go. Would it be Falentra? Most likely an awkward situation, but it'd be a lie to say he didn't miss her in more way than one. Bloom perhaps? One of his newer friendships, but she sure was pretty. Probably best to keep thing platonic...for now anyways. Frenchie was there. Another chance to mess with the big dumb Durmstrang? Oh god!! Don't land on the meatball!! Phew! Dale or Elena? Both attractive people, but he barely knew them. Annie? Cute as a button, but could make Quidditch practice a bit awkward. Either of the foreigners (Irina and Alexei) would do, but no. Glen or Serena? Howard would forget him as soon as the bottle past, however his heart would drop as it zipped by Serena. The little Indian princess! The dark haired Huffle beauty! It wouldn't be the first time he dreamt of planting a big one on her, but alas the stars refused to align. Red eyed would widen with terror as the bottle slowed near Phaedra before he quickly averted his gaze. Praise be to Merlin it past her by. Then the bottle would slow and come to a stop.

"Uhh." Howard murmured as he looked at the boy ( @Astrea Soleil Neptune ). This wasn't really what he had in mind when it came to snogging, but rules were rules. He would rise from his seat and approach the other, leaning in for a quick smooch.