Truth or Dare — Group TWO Summer Camp '22

MODERATION POST—Round IV

Glenys Urquhart had been thrown a doozy with the firing of the cannon delivering into her hands a new question. Especially one that probably had a lot of answers. Her answer to what she kept in her room to which her parents were unaware: a floppy disk. Curious. Curious not because it was a mysterious floppy, but rather than anyone of their age even know what a floppy was, or had a computer with components to be able to make use of it. Which apparently they hadn't. And its contents still remained a mystery. With that question answered, she was free to pursue Verona Andréas to ask them about the weirdest combination of food that they liked to eat together. To that, he would have to answer french fries with ice cream (frosty's?). An excellent food combination choice, and not at all weird.

Olive Adair would climb bacck to the deck from the crow's nest, nearly falling in the process when Phyllis had yelled up expressing her love. A good natured call back would be returned, lauding the other's goal keeping skill. Two feet planted, she would find herself paired again with Verona, this time receiving a question from him. She had to rate herself on a scale of 1 to 10. Insecurities would show when she answered only 4 or 5 for appearance, but her self-confidence would shine when she added 8 or 9 for her personality. The inside mattered most anyway. Still, Ronnie would not hold back from retorting and countering her numbering with one of his own, telling her she'd severely undersold herself before giving introductions. Next up was Glenys Urquhart who had earned a dare. Her task: to act like the nearest person on their left for fifteen minutes.

Poor Maximilien de Fostoncy seemed cursed with those who had second thoughts about sticking around. Third time's the charm? At the very least, the canon would be consistent with filling the gaps and delivering him with things to respond to. To the group, he would be prompted to admit that he once had spilt juice on a cousin's clothes and blamed it on another cousin. Scandalous. Although it had seemingly ruined his relationship with that cousin for a good while. Pity. Boredom would briefly spike until the lovely lady Phyllis came to solicit his assistance with the completion of a dare. And he doth certainly not protest. Especially if it meant getting to hold her hand. Not that he would really recognize that particular emotional feeling just yet. A moment later, he would direct the pair over to find one Manuela Macedo. The South American was to receive a dare, and Max had just the thing for her. She would have to act like a famous historical figure (and of course tell them who it was). Almost like a game of charades, but without the fun of guessing.

Far be it for Max to be the only one slightly distracted, though. Phyllis Stanwood would also find herself feeling something out of the ordinary when their hands and interlocked, and she couldn't seem to place exactly what. Electrical jolts and the magnetic draw of eyes to the hands and big smiles abounded. Totally normal. Not at all more than necessary. But away they would be to complete their truths and dares together, now, and for Phyllis, they would have to find Olive Adair. Her trial would be one of truth, having to answer something she had done that she thought would be scary but actually turned out to be quite fun.

Verona Andréas, after finishing up with Olive and Glen, would track down the newly made pair, specifically seeking out Maximilien de Fostoncy. Although he wouldn't be able to hold back from commenting on how cute a pair they made, he would be quick to dive into the question currently burning on his mind. Max would have to answer what the biggest lie he'd ever told someone about himself would be. A good question made all the better by the way it wouldn't be as private as he might have liked it to have been.

Quentin Gagné should have been a Gryffindor. He had the spunk, the recklessness, and the sheer determination of spirit with the necessary lack of knowing when to give up. Not everyone can lick their elbow. But he had been dared, so apparently he was going to do it if it killed him. Not even the fire of the canon, nor the administration of a task would interrupt him. Poor Jack Burnett would be compelled to share a deep family secret. Although whether he could even understand the question spoken from a lolly-gagging tongue would be uncertain. He could, though. And would be quick to answer that he shares a Binding Mark with his adoptive brother, Ruka, before going into the details of what that entailed.

Moments later, Jack Burnett would be given a new target by the ever generous canon, striding up to Haley Rose to inquire about a juicy topic that few seemed to touch. He wanted to know who her secret crush was. And while he waited for that, he thought to 'help' Quentin out with the elbow licking problem. His solution was to enlarge the tongue.

Jack casts engorgio
Wisdom roll: [d20]:1 + 15 = 16 (perfectionist prevents a critfail, therefore success)
Accuracy roll: [d20]:13+9 = 22 [hits]
Evasion roll: [d20]1+3 = 4 [fail]

Quentin would find his tongue swelling to mass proportions. It would surely be large enough within seconds to be able to make up that small distance to lick his elbow, but at what cost? There was only so much room in the mouth for a tongue, and a swollen tongue (like in anaphylaxis) could cut off an airway.

Adelaine Barlowe would be rightfully taken aback by Mauela's question. She had been questioned about having killed anyone. Thank goodness she had said no. No child murderers on this boat. It was quite the telling situation that someone would feel compelled to ask that, though. Not wanting to dwell on the moment, apparently, she would turn to seek out Maggie Hawkins. Addie had a dare to give, and it was going to be a good one. Or at least one. If perhaps a little overdone. At least by the end of the game, everyone was likely to be dressed as pirates! The props and costume pieces weren't there for nothing, after all.

Haley Rose was quick to fulfill her last dare, dressing the part and speaking the talk of the piratey way. When she could, anyway. It seemed like more often than not, she was dissolved to laughter at the attempt. Nevertheless, she would seek out the enigmatic Adelaide Barlowe, rounding on her like a captive on the noose. She would have to share and reveal her personal greatest treasure. Which didn't happen to be a what so much as a who. Nina, the cat, would qualify as that particular answer, the pet being what was nearest and dearest to Adelaide's heart. Shocking, really, that it wasn't a poster of Natasha Romanoff still glistening with lip gloss impressions of a multitude of kisses.

THE CANON HAS FIRED!

@Verona Andréas (@Cassandra Ironwoods's iNPC) is given Quentin Gagné, who selects Dare
@Haley Rose is given Verona Andréas, who selects Dare
@Adelaide Barlowe is given Maximilien de Fostoncy, who selects Truth
@Jack Burnett is given Adelaide Barlowe, who selects Dare
@Olive Adair (@Sienna Lenoir's iNPC) is given Jack Burnett, who selects Dare
@Quentin Gagné (@Della Barfield's iNPC) is given Glenys Urquhart, who selects Truth
@Glenys Urquhart is given Olive Adair, who selects Dare
@Maximilien de Fostoncy (@Lindsey Springhall's iNPC) is given Phylicia Stanwood, who selects Dare
@Phylicia Stanwood (@Bridget Collins's iNPC) is given Haley Rose, who selects Dare

—Players will finish any outstanding truth questions/dares received the previous round
—Players will then ICly receive another fire of the canon to receive their next target
—Players will administer that new truth/dare to their target
—You are free to react to a received truth/dare as soon as you receive it (you don't have to wait until next week if you don't want to)
—Those who do not select a choice for the next round, default to receiving both at the behest of the canon
—Anyone who missed the deadline and was removed from the game is more than welcome to wrap up any existing RP/truths/dares and make an exit RP post (@Maggie Hawkins, @Manuela Macedo @Aly Salinger)

This is the last moderation. Feel free to continue playing if you would like to, but there will be no further moderation posts after this one

@Cassandra Ironwoods as Ronnie

Haley froze as she realized what question she was being asked. Who was her Secret Crush? At first the red-haired girl thought it would be easy to answer this question, because her Crush wasn't a Hogwarts student so no one would know him anyway, but at the same moment her eyes widened when she realized that her Crush was also sitting in this round. Until a few weeks ago, the question would have been much easier because she could have just said that there wasn't one and been done with it. It wouldn't even have been a lie but today she sits here in this circle knowing she would be lying to herself with that answer. But would anyone even care if she lied? Surely she was asked the question because it was a typical question for this game and not because anyone really cared. And no one would even know if she was lying.

But it was Haley, even at the idea of such an unimportant game, who felt remorse at the thought that she would not answer honestly. But was it really remorse or an unconscious desire to speak out and admit it to herself? Gosh, that was the last moment Haley wanted to seriously think about her feelings and now an innocent question triggered all the chaos inside her.

By now she must have been ruminating for several minutes and she had the uncomfortable feeling that all those eyes were staring at her. Come on, Haley, just say something. "My Secret Crush?" She repeated the question, shaking her head as if she had been absent in thought. "Um, well my Secret Crush is-" her gaze wanted to move to him, but she stopped herself. Don't do it. Don't. She kept admonishing herself. "Is Ron." She replied, looking sheepishly at her hands.

Haley didn't have the courage to say the full name and she knew it wasn't an official nickname of his, much more one she had given him herself. For one thing, she might have been relieved if he knew and maybe he could put one and one together and knew she meant him but she didn't have the courage to say it out loud. Still, she hadn't lied and embarrassed, she lifted her gaze and looked to Verona. She didn't know what she expected to see in his face, maybe disappointment at the thought that she didn't mean him (although she did) or joy because he knew she meant him? Don't be silly Haley, he doesn't feel the same way.

To get the awkward situation over with as quickly as possible, she now decided to move the game along quickly. She had to hand out a Dare and with all her chaos of thoughts, she didn't want to put a lot of work into thinking it over and took the typical one that could only be chosen. "Kiss the prettiest person here." Sputtered out of her mouth before she could even think about it further. But then it just came crashing down on her - what have I done? Her eyes feasted as she realized that she had just told Verona to kiss the prettiest person. Haley Rose was probably the only and stupidest person to ask their own crush to kiss someone else. She really could have buried herself, what had she been thinking? She had barely been able to stand watching Charles and Ronnie kiss, how could she do that to herself?

She would have loved to just get up and leave, the evening was coming to an end anyway, it wouldn't even draw attention to her but she remained rooted to the spot. She couldn't manage to get up and nervously looked at Verona to see his reaction.

Action: giving Ronnie his dare

Owl / DM for Interaction

So it seems the game will come close to an end. So far Ronnie had fun playing the game. But the good things must come to an end one way or another. While waiting for Maximilien to answer his question, Ronnie looked up at the sky. The sunshine is bright above him and it's at its peak. The warmth of the sun that hit his perfect tan skin, reminded the Brazilian back home.

As Ronnie closed his eyes while soaking up the warmth that the sun provide, he heard another fire ring out from the canon. The Duellist hurried to make his way towards the cannon and with less agility than he previously had, the crumpled paper hit him on his chest and rolled down on the floor not too far from him.

The blue-grey-eyed boy bent down to pick up the paper and he then unfold the paper. In the said paper there was a name - Quentin Gagné - and follow up with a dare beside his name. Although Ronnie had fun and loved to play Truth or Dare, he ran up ideas to give it to the other boy whose name also sounds French just like Maximilien.

Ronnie was in the middle of his thinking process when he heard his name being called. Well, not his full name, but still it is his name that was being uttered. Ronnie scanned one face after another then his eyes landed on Haley. Did Haley just say my name or is it just my imagination? the Duellist thought to himself with knitted eyebrows, his gaze never wavering from the redhead beauty.

Then something that come as a surprise for him was when Haley asked or perhaps dare the Castelobruxo student to kiss the prettiest person in the circle. Ronnie smiled up at Haley. His eyes scanned to where Olive was located and make a faux gesture to look like the dark-brown-haired boy about to walk up to the other girl.

As much as Ronnie loved to tease Haley and thinks Olive is pretty, her (Olive) prettiness nothing compares to Haley. From the moment Ronnie saw Haley through the picture Cash had sent to him before Summer Camp rolled in, Ronnie was enamored by the Gryffindor. Ronnie then stood up from where he was located.

He then walked around the circle until he stood beside the soon-to-be third year. Once Ronnie stands beside Hales, Ronnie dropped to his knees so both Haley and Ronnie are on the same eye level. At first, Ronnie thought it will be easy to kiss Haley but what he did not prepare for was how green and pretty Haley's eyes are.

"Um.."The second youngest of the Ramírez suddenly lost for his words when his own eyes gaze deeply into Haley's. Their heart beat erratically and the young Duellist was afraid he might get a heart attack on the spot. Be still heart Ronnie chastised himself. The Brazilian then takes a deep breath. Without so many words, he put both of his hands against Haley's cheeks and leaned in slowly.

While closing his eyes Ronnie hoped Haley did not mind that the boy invade her personal space and is fond of physical touches. As he leaned in, he give Haley some times to pull away or even reject him. But since neither is happening, Ronnie closes the gap between him and Haley. His heart still beating hard out of his chest.

With gentle tenderness, Ronnie kissed Haley's lips. While kissing Haley, Ronnie brushes the thumbpads of his against Haley's jawlines. The gesture alone was to ease him more than Haley. And when the kiss ended, Ronnie pulled back. "I love to kiss you again if you let me,"The boy murmured softly in Portuguese then flash his charming dimpled smile at the Quidditch player.

Ronnie then stood up from where he planted next to Haley and return back to his previous position. Ronnie waited until the last dare or truth had been given. When the game officially ended, he approach Haley again. "How about we walk back together to our shared tent?"Ronnie inquired Haley as he hold out his hand to be held by Haley.

Once Haley intertwined her hand with Ronnie, Ronnie will plant a kiss on the back of Haley's hand and both students will walk back to their share tent hand in hand.

@Cassandra Ironwoods as Ronnie

Haley still couldn't understand what she had just done. And she was still wondering if it would be a good option to just get up and leave. She doesn't know if she could handle seeing that handsome boy kissing someone else again. The boy who has been on her mind since the beginning. The boy who had turned her head and made her forget the painful memories of her previous relationship. With him she could imagine opening up again, she couldn't explain to herself why, but the girl had a big crush on this boy.

But she couldn't undo it and she was rooted to the ground. She noticed his gaze wandering to another girl and it was like a stab in her chest. But the stab quickly turned to fire. Anger reflected in her eyes for a moment. Stop it, Haley! You have no right to be jealous!

Ugh, she had forgotten what being in love or having a crush could do to you. But it was this handsome boy with the charming manner that was taking her mind away. But she loved that he did that. Even if he did it quite unconsciously. She tried to swallow the jealousy and put on the fakest smile she had ever shown.

But the smile turned into an O and her mouth opened slightly. He didn't go to this girl, it almost seemed like he was coming to her. And he did. Haley panicked inside, what is he doing? Wait, is what she's thinking going to happen now? No, never. Or is it? With her big green eyes she looked at him and watched his every move.

By now the Brazilian beauty was kneeling in front of her, but she was still at a loss for words. As soon as he looked at her, she had lost herself in his blue-grey eyes. The world around her had faded out and there was only her and him. Finally, everything was engulfed when he put his hands to her cheeks. Her skin crackled under his touch and she hoped this moment could last forever.

Haley closed her eyes and leaned in, her heart pounding wildly and her breathing quickening. Until the moment their lips touched and suddenly the panic fell from her shoulders, but her heart pounded even harder. She fell in love with the feel of his soft lips on hers and after the short kiss ended, she let her eyes close for another second before looking at him. This time a genuine smile on her lips.

"You need to stop saying things in Portuguese that I don't understand." Haley whispered softly so that only Ronnie could hear her.

The place suddenly felt so empty when Ronnie had left again and she couldn't help but let her gaze rest on him. The game was about to end and since the kiss she hadn't noticed anything around her, her focus was on just one person in that circle.

"I'd love to." She replied with a wide smile and reached for Ronnie's hand. To her relief, he didn't let go after she stood up but the two intertwined their hands. Haley's heart leapt and without saying anything she smiled at him.

Action: kissing her Crush and leaving the thread