THIS MEANS WAR II: THE PAINT EDITION

The event is pretty simple in theory but a little more complicated in mechanics. Simply put it's a snowball war paintball fight

for your life.

Not really, sort of, but here's how it works:

➜ if you feel the deja vu, it's probably because this is similar to the January 2013 event! It was a big success and it's time to pit the Holly Heighters against each other again in a similar fashion.

➜ There will be four teams taking part in this snowball war: red, pink, orange, and purple. If you go to the taken list, you will see your character's name has been associated with a heart. You may change the colour of your character but only if you have another character on that team (for example, a person with 4 characters has 3 characters on red and one on orange, they may get two of their red characters switched on a randomized basis). Also yeah, the list got a little funky so if it looks a little off it's because some had to be randomized because what is listing.

➜ Starting on the 15th, there will be 6 battles played in a versus like fashion. To ensure you have a chance to tag everyone and anyone you would like, each team will play each time. Every two days a new battle will begin, meaning that the battle will take place on the 15th, 16th is an off day, then another one will happen on the 17th.

The scheduled battles are as such:
15th: Orange vs. Purple [ School ]
17th: Red vs. Orange [ Forest ]
19th: Purple vs. Pink [ Businesses ]
21st: Orange vs. Pink [ Businesses ]
23rd: Red vs. Pink [ Forest ]
25th: Red vs. Purple [ School ]

➜ But how does this all go down? Unlike the snowball event, there won't be a lot of change. As the schedule above shows, the fights will take place in HH without a new setting. If you're on a team that day, such as a Purple team member on the 19th, then you'll be magiced to that area listed next to the match. Your team will be on one side of the area and the other team will be on the other side. The goal of the battle is to hit each person from the other team with paint.

➜ ICly the rules are as such: it's pretty much like dodgeball. Once the playing characters have been transported to the field, they will be magically adorned with an armband of their teams colour as well as never ending paint filled paintball guns with their teams colour. Once they have been hit with a paintball, their armband will disappear, meaning they are hit. Once an entire team loses all of their armbands, they lose, and the other team is the winner. This really doesn't matter too much considering the winner of the game will be randomized on the day the log is put up, so it's perfectly reasonable to not want to play your badass, paintball champion character losing to some wimpy person that can't even shoot straight in a thread, and just because your team is "chosen" to lose doesn't mean you need to not be IC in this matter. You can just pretend a stray paintball hit their shin and they were out or something. Just have fun with it and don't give the winnings too much mind. Also, team hits don't count, only hits that come from a different team.

➜ If you don't want to participate, you can have your character not show up and ignore the colour on their name. They can just go about their business.

➜ Also, since these matches take place in and around Holly Heights, you are free to reply to log threads that don't have anything to do with, such as a student being in the 15th thread because they're at school!

➜ The incentive this time is written on a banner at the base camp of each team in each place: Win the tournament to meet the Landlord. written largely and with the above rules written out. Whether or not this is true is left unknown. The winner of the tournament will be randomly decided BUT don't let that get you down! All teams will get consolation prizes, which may or may not be better than the actual grand prize. Those will be revealed on a post on the 27th.

➜ For right now, feel free to converse among yourself about this but there will be two threads below to make sure that this is as realistic and inclusive oocly and icly as possible: each team will have a thread in which four team captains can volunteer on a first come first serve basis. When the teams arrive with their bands, the team captains will have it written on theirs. Another thread will be for choosing a team name. Simply suggest a name for your team and the name with the most plus ones will be chosen to represent your team. If it's a tie or there's no plus ones, it will just be randomly decided or whichever I think is more painful.

➜ Game wise, there will be one large log post for this whole event, with sub threads for each versus battle. In the comment will include Blank vs Blank and who has been selected to win. These threads can be for team interactions, open ended Tag me! threads, team member against team member interactions, or even interactions from bystanders. Have fun with it, there's no limit to what you can do! But please state your team or lack-thereof in the subject.

➜ As another note, the first couple of times might be a little confusing to characters, but after they get the jist, feel free to make team filtered posts to strategize, agree on team outfits/uniforms, etc. if you'd like to get really into it. Also, if you'd like not to participate, feel free to just go about posting as usual.

➜ As always, questions go here!