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PETITION SUBMISSIONS: BAD DAY

With so many bottles of Felix Felicis being handed out, Archimedes Rose decided to try his own hand at brewing a batch. Unfortunately, the recipe didn't quite turn out right. Or right at all, actually. The resulting potion curses someone with terrible luck for 24 hours, but it does look and smell exactly like genuine Felix Felicis. While Archie's certain there's some non-evil use for his new "invention", he can't think of it right now.

And so the bottle is forgotten, and when it falls out of his bag and lands in the snow, he doesn't miss it. It sits there for an hour before [Petition Character] finds it, golden and glowing, completely unattended.

Who's excited about a spontaneous petition event! The character selected will find a bottle which appears to be Felix Felicis, but when they drink it, they'll instead be cursed for a day with awful luck. The rules:

The deadline for petitions is Mon, Mar 5 at 11:59 PM MT.

You can complete a petition for as many of your characters as you want. Obviously, only one character in the game will be chosen for this.

This will largely be decided through RNG, with a side of whoever would be funniest. The event's meant to be humorous, not traumatizing! If you want your character to be emotionally scarred, this isn't the petition for you.

The effects will last 24 hours from when your character drinks it.

They must drink it before the end of March, or the potion will expire and have no effect.

If you want to do anything unconventional with it (share it, give it away, etc.) just run your plans by the mods before you do anything.

And here's the petition form:

Character Name:
Why do they deserve this?: There must be a reason why you want to punish them.
What would you do to them?: Give us an idea of how you'd want this terrible day to go. What humiliation would you like to unleash on your character?
Anything else?:

Character Name: Why do they deserve this?: There must be a reason why you want to punish them. What would you do to them?: Give us an idea of how you'd want this terrible day to go. What humiliation would you like to unleash on your character? Anything else?:

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Character Name: Quentin Youngblood
Why do they deserve this?: I think we all know why. I mean is there another character that deserves this more than this asshole?
What would you do to them?:
My idea for this is actually funny, I promise. I want to play this like a kind of probability super power, except instead of really good probability, he inherits really bad probability. The kind where he’s late to every class, misplaces homework, inherits an insanely clumsy side; he’s tripping over air and bumping into tables.

To the point that midday, Quentin invents his own conspiracy about himself. And not just himself - the whole school. They’ve been cursed. His theory is that the land itself is trying to expel them - anon, the ghosts, the mimics were all just the beginning but now this - individual curses are the real meat of everything and he strongly wont believe that he’s alone in this - or that it’s even connected to the strange rando bottle he found on the ground and drank despite the two dozen warnings they all received about accepting anonymous food.

So - my idea is that Quentin is gonna trip his way through half the day and then dramatically get proactive about it. Start taking steps to prevent himself from falling victim to this curse, start getting hella careful about stairs and his bed - that bed he’s hit his head on three times already today - and the books he keeps dropping and the pens that keep leaking - but in his flurry to get proactive about everything, he ends up just finding new and creative ways to fuck things up literally the same.

He’s gonna try to start a movement where the sophomores all bubblewrap themselves so that even if the school gets sucked into a blackhole, at least the sophomores will survive.

Or they’ll start a game where they just wrap themselves in bubblewrap and bump into eachother. Idk but SOMEHOW this potion will help Quentin fuck even that up.
Anything else?: this got really long and I don’t even know if this is anything you want???

I said “oh my god” out loud in the middle of a meeting with so much vitriol that my boss took me aside to ask if I was okay.

Can we vote? I vote for this.

Character Name: Essie Morales-Tran
Why do they deserve this?: She's very squishable.
What would you do to them?: Essie (& possibly her candy rustling cohorts) take the potion and no one starts barfing so hey, off to a good start!!! Then Essie spots a white rabbit which leads her to what she thinks is a treasure map!!! Even better!!! But it is definitely not actually a treasure map. And thus begins a day of hunting across campus that ends in woe where no treasure is found, all books tossed off Azurcrest cliff smack her in the face, and all the shirtless men are Very Old.
Anything else?: & they probably look like Harrison Ford.

Character Name: Ferdie Ayers
Why do they deserve this?: He needs to learn that bravery doesn't mean drinking strange beverages. Also, he takes himself wayyy too seriously lately, and has earned some slapstick.
What would you do to them?: Firstly, the freshmen who were getting back at Ursula would stick a "kick me" sign on his back with a permanent sticking charm, so he'd be faced with the impossible choice of getting kicked all day or getting a hole in his shirt OR a uniform violation. (It'll be a busy day.) His Divination Kite would get rained on. He'd walk in on a couple like...two steps too far into making out and his eyes would be burned forever (and then he'd probably get rained on again while trying to dole out detenition.) He'd try to relax on a Coppertale roof and alllmost slip off. Just your average-to-bad Very Head Boy day, in the end.
Anything else?: I love this event already.

Edited 2018-03-02 03:50 (UTC)

Congratulations, Ferdie! Enjoy your no good very bad day, because you just found a little bottle of totally legitimate and not at all messed up Felix Felicis.

Re: Head Boy Tries Floor Medicine

ferdie - 2018-03-12 16:48 (UTC) - Expand

Character Name: Nia Papadakis
Why do they deserve this?: may potentially confuse a gecko with an alligator
What would you do to them?: Nia has a bad hair day, and then she gets locked in a broom closet with the school's lone genuine Jimmy Buffet fan. The doorknob falls off and they're trapped there for hours and it kind of smells mildew-y. And the underwire in her bra starts poking out of the side and into her armpit. And this James Buffet ass kid proceeds to serenade her with The Full Collection because it's the only way they can deal with the stress of possibly dying in this musty broom closet. Meanwhile, outside, freshmen break the rules.
Anything else?: She is a broken woman, after.

If this True Fan doesn't do Volcano then he's stripped of his title.

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Character Name: Ursula de Luca
Why do they deserve this?: Because she really ought to know better by now.
What would you do to them?: The day starts out mildly irritating. Oh my god, she's got a zit. Her hair's frizzy. She falls in a mud puddle. There's a dead beetle in her locker. Then she develops a case of the hiccups that won't go away and various people try to "help" cure it by jump scaring her. The bathroom ghost joins in by helpfully throwing a roll of toilet paper at her. She walks by the auditorium during play practice and gets sprayed with fake blood. Then she's up in the owlery trying to send a letter home about her terrible day when a freshman seeking justice for Ocean locks her inside with a lot of very stinky birds and her own owl gifts her with a dead mouse and hiccup. Sigh.
Anything else?: ..This is basically a series of pcal slots that I have or would sign Ursula up for.

Character Name: Georgiana Mills
Why do they deserve this?: No good deed goes unpunished.
What would you do to them?: Georgie tries to share the wealth with this good luck potion, and ends up raining destruction across this school like a good-natured agent of chaos. She gives a secret shot to someone cramming for a test at the last minute and they get accused of cheating. Hands someone a lucky coffee and a bird poops on the drawing they've been working on all morning. Actually, make that several birds. Every good thing she thinks she's doing goes horribly, horribly wrong the second she turns her back and skips merrily away.
Anything else?: 🤙

Character Name: Austin McNamara
Why do they deserve this?: Cosmic balance.
What would you do to them?: Austin spots the bottle, which looks an awful lot like his bottle of Felix Felicis. Figuring he might as well double his luck, on St. Patrick's day no less, he drinks both. All of it. For the rest of the day, his luck vascillates wildly between amazingly good and just awful. He wins new shoes in a contest he didn't even know he was entered in, then he throws up on them later. He wins like 400 dragots in lucky poker, then gets it taken by a raccoon. His flirting works and then he gets locked in the basement storage room somehow.
Anything else?: If you allow this you have no one but yourselves to blame.

Character Name: London Holloway
Why do they deserve this?: She’s a trash baby. Also, it’s funny when she suffers.
What would you do to them?: For the duration of the potion, every single person she encounters will confuse her for Paris, even after she starts wearing an “I AM LONDON” button. She’d get some particularly spicy photos of some classmates, only for them to be ruined. She would miss out on juicy gossip. Gets mud on her favorite shoes. Other stuff, probably.
Anything else?: Does not hesitate for one second before drinking the whole bottle.

You're welcome.

YOU'RE ALWAYS YELLING AT ME TO BE NICE AND THEN YOU DO THIS

I'm the arbiter of everyone's luck now and the power went to my head.

I vote Austin gets it, takes both, and instead of cancelling each other out, it makes his day vacillate wildly between good and bad luck

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bubblewrapped - 2018-03-01 21:31 (UTC) - Expand

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gonnabefamous - 2018-03-01 21:37 (UTC) - Expand

i'm submitting every single one of my characters to this

Edited (meggie is going to disqualify me because all my plot ideas are emotional scarring) 2018-03-01 21:07 (UTC)

Honest 2 gosh same

My good son Archie giving us what we want

q: what if my character will be scared but i PROMISE it'll be funny for the rest of us

THAT MIGHT BE ACCEPTABLE

Basically I don't want to inflict major trauma and angst that lasts for the rest of the game and ten years later your character's still not over the wounds.

Edited (COMEDY!!!!!) 2018-03-01 21:12 (UTC)

Anyone that picks random potions up out of the snow and drinks them kind of deserves this?

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Quentin

Quentin

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Essie!!!

Head Boy Tries Floor Medicine

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Nia

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Ursula de Luca

Georgie

Austin

London

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