SAVE YOUR DATE : round 2 fall ball 2022 game

They/She

It didn't matter if Chikao was succeeding if they were managing to fail so miserably.

"God fricking damn it," Pax continuously muttered under their breath as they briefly glanced up to see to see some that had already succeeded. In fact, several of the others had managed to succeed. "Fricking cheaters."

Their eyes careful scanned over the almost identical pieces of gold, looking for something that resembled a key. However, after running through a maze that was comprised of identical golden stalks of corn, rummaging through almost identical golden trinkets and selecting the correct one was proving to be a lot more difficult than they'd initially anticipated. And a lot more painful on the eyes as well.

"Ok, calm the eff down," they reminded themselves. "Getting pissed isn't going to help."

Taking a deep breath, they decided to start from the beginning. A re-do. Maybe they'd missed something in the haste of everything. Stretching their legs quickly before ultimately giving up and sitting down on the ground, they began to carefully pick out the golden goods. Yes, speed was of the essence, but speed had been why they'd been taking so fricking long in the first place. This time, they'd take it slower.

Reducio

Stats:
Sta-9 | Eva-9 | Str-6 | Wis-3 | Arc-6 | Acc-9

Abilities:
-Muggle Condition
-Fearless

Reducio

Word Count: 202

Mention: @Hunter Argentum as Chikao

Date: October 8th 2022

Kim told Colin about Sophia having some things to take care of before joining him tonight. Colin snorted. "Things to take care of!? I'm surprised she wasn't ready yesterday, Kim. You know how she loves being with you. I'm surprised she'd miss even a minute here!"

Colin's fingers were nimble fortunately, so he was able to make fairly quick work of getting the job done. His hair had never been quite this long before --- and frankly, Colin was thinking he'd not want to have it much longer than it was before he drank the potion. He wondered if Clair would bring some kind of hair shortening potion to rescue him with, or would they have to find a pair of shears?

Colin was just about ready to follow Rapunzel's lead and let down his hair through the window as a couple of the others were already doing when he felt a strange tugging sensation on one side of his head. "What---?" he began. Something was definitely wrong!

"Yeep! Hey! How---?" Colin soon found the problem! Someone had braided some his hair in with someone else's and now he --- neither one of them --- could easily move one! He turned at the sound of a stranger's voice. Sounded like one of the foreign students.

“Sir, I hate to say this is but our hair appears to be knitted together- I believe it may be my fault braiding hair is not something I do often,” the boy said. Colin didn't know who he was, but it was plain that his own pale blond and the other's brown hair were twined together.

"Oh! No worries lad! At least we're different colours --- we'll have this sorted in no time! And I wouldn't blame yerself. Look! The braiding patterns are different! Some rascal braided our hair together! --- And I have a pretty good idea who!"

It took a bit of work to their bad hair day sorted, and after the delay, Colin went over to one of the windows to find Clair waiting down below. He smiled brightly when caught sight of his dashing knight and shoved his silvery tresses out the window and watched the super long braid tumble down towards where she was waiting.

"Alright lad! Just have to brace for Clair's long climb!"

@Clair Fernandez | @Bailey Glade as Lloyd || Suspects @Rebecca Loops of pranking him!

Finding the key hadn't sounded like a hard task to do but it was a lot harder than expected. With high hopes, Samantha started to look through the golden coins, assuming this would be one of the easiest parts of the challenge. There was no doubt in the young girl's mind that she rather searched for this key than go back into that dark and scary maze. She would only return through that horrible maze with Bubba at her side, she wasn't going to leave her date behind. Also, she was way too scared of the maze to return there alone.

The longer it took her to find the key, the more annoyed Samantha became. Why were there so many coins?! After rolling her eyes dramatically, the prefect continued her search. Instead of randomly shoving coins aside, as she had done before, she now selectively looked through the pile of coins. When she had checked a section of the coins and she didn't find the key, she would carefully place them on a different pile. She hoped her plan would help her to find the stupid hidden key faster. Seriously, where could the little thing be? It felt like she had gone through the pile at least a thousand times already!

Bubba was not having a wonderful time. This was taking literally forever. His hands had started cramping an hour ago from the motion of braiding his hair, again, and again, and again. Could he get carpal tunnel from braiding his hair? Because this was definitely repetitive. He looked down and spared a thought for Sam. Where was she? He was surprised she hadn't come bursting through the owlery door already, laughing at his ridiculous state. He could not wait to cut all this off as soon as possible. He wondered how Sam put up with it. All that hair, it just seemed so much to manage. Not that he would want her to cut it, she really did look quite stunning.

"Oh, Bubba, what the hell are you doing? How the hell did you get into this shit?" Bubba asked himself as his frustration reached what (at least at this point) had been its peak. All he wanted to do was go to a ball. Go to a ball and spend time with a girl he was sweet on. And until this had happened, it had been a really nice time. They were having fun, walking around, talking, and getting to know each other a bit better. Even this Elsian kid, who seemed destined to get a punch in the mouth sometime in the future, seemed positively charming in hindsight. He just wanted to go back to the ball and finally have his dance with Sam. Even if disco had gone out of style 30 years ago.

Interacting: @ N/A Mentioning: @Samantha Salwis, @Elsian Cox

Dialogue: ✕ | Thoughts: ✕ | Quotes: ✕
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At last the potion was located, with nothing else to do, Monica tipped the bottom of it sky word, and drank the contents. She coughed, having drunk so quickly the liquid blocked some of her breathing tube, but after a moment, the bottle was empty. Monica stood tall, a satisfying sigh escaping her lips.

Her head felt weird, her hair pulsating, then dropped to the floor. Within moments, the Slytherin was covered in her own blue locks, and moments more, nearly the whole room was engulfed. The moderators spoke up, giving the next instructions. Monica's face went pale, she had no idea how to braid hair!

Her sister was always the one that did her hair for her... perhaps there were some things she could remember... but even so, how on earth would anyone, signal handedly braid this much hair? She couldn't choke now! That wouldn't be right, she had come this far, after all, how hard could it be?

She began to navigate to the end of her hair, gathering it all up in a snake like form throughout the room. After that, she took small pieces to practice what she was doing, and also try to make a plan on how she would tame all this hair. After sometime of practice, Monica felt she could waste no more time. She layered various parts of her hair in sections, and began to try to braid them together. Hopefully this would hold!

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Action:
Drank Potion, Begin to try and braid hair

| 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉: Hiro (@Kim Sato's iNPC)

Roleplaying as: Agata Ríos Matos
Languages: Spanish - #e62719 English - #195ee6
Interacting with:
Mentioning: @Marius Brown as Sherlock Dols

RP as: Chikao Narumi
English, Japanese, Russian, Giant

100% HP: 1000/1000
Evasion: 0
Strength: 10
Wisdom: 10 +10%
ArcPower: 2
Accuracy: 10
Terrible Presence

It took Chikao awhile, but by the time he was reaching about halfeay through he could feel a sudden impact of sleepiness strike him. Being the lazy boy he was, he was honestly about to consider just taking a nap instead of finishing the job he had started. He was already half through, and Pax hadn't showed up yet. One small little nap wouldn't hurt, right?

He yawned, feeling the weight of tiredness, from overeating, and weight of his hair pulling him down to the ground. He was still having fun, but dreaming away and waiting for his "prince charming" to arrive would make the scene more fairytale like, right? Wasn't there some sort of stoey about a prince kissing a princess to wake her up from a dream? Chikao wasn't sure, no memory of such a tale came to mind clearly. He let out on final yawn, and decided to continue braiding his hair at a bit of a slower pace than normal.

He wondered how Pax was doing and what they were doing. Did Chikao really need Pax for such an event? Maybe not, but there's no fun without friends in such an event. Afterall, this was a night of fantasy and trickery; there was no point in spending such an evening alone by oneself. A thought came to the boy as his slothful nature kept overtaking him, wondering if Pax would be up for one final fight by the end of the night.

Pea is still unmoving from her spot, probably going to be bored to death soon. Can't believe at this point there are still people stuck in the maze when there are rescuers who moved on to the third stage already. Those losers won't win, the white-haired roll her eyes. But a boy leaves the field of corn looking as cheery as ever, greeting her with compliments, something that she isn't surprised by. If she looks at her list of participants correctly, the boy is a foreigner, precisely Japanese, by the name of Hiro Bakugo. "Flattery won't get you anywhere, darling." Pea said even though she was flattered by his sweet tongue. He isn't horrid-looking, perhaps even kind of cute. Pea wonders about the ugly who is happen to be this gentleman's date. "And my name is Pea Elena Fowl, but you can call me Pea~ now move along." It is obvious that she sounds nicer compared to her complaints earlier. Perhaps it was one of the boy's tactics so she wouldn't get irritated by how long it takes him to complete the maze. If it is, the tactic surely worked. Pea then explain to him the next round where he immediately started going into his golden pile along with the rest of the rescuers who still struggling to find the key in a mess of gold.

The Rescuer
After minutes passed, several people finally found the key that they are supposed to find. What is more surprising is that Hiro Bakugo is the first one to find the key among the people who were left in round 2 even though he was one of the last to complete the maze. Hiro is followed by Agata Ríos Matos, and Pax Zhang. Who later preparing to move on to the next round.

The Damsel
It looks like some people are struggling to finish their braid, but Monica Evans just finally got the potion that she needed. It was then that she braided her hair instantly. Later, Chikao Narumi was finally able to finish the challenge, followed by Monica, and Sherlock Dols.

If you pass the 2nd round, you can move on to the 3rd round through this LINK~ (more details on the thread)

But if you did not pass the 2nd round, you need to RP another post here, and the DEADLINE would be on the 16th of December.
(reminder : If your partner didn't pass the DC check/failed to post, you also cannot move on to the next round and need to do another post until you both passed the DC (although your DC will remain a success)

If you and your partner wish to withdraw from the game, please shoot me an owl. But it has to be an agreement between both the Damsel and the Rescuer.

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