Feb. 7th, 2017

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[personal profile] longcons
HELLOO this is CAMERON i also have a character to intro bc yall dont see enough of me around here i guess lmfao sorry

this is cassius holcomb, coppertale sophomore. also known as cash, because cassius is a silly name. his concept is "overcompensating suburban kid shoots for the moon, lands amongst the dumpsters" and, well, that's it in a nutshell. he's here to join the OVERACHIEVERS CLUB, although, amusingly enough, not the goody-two-shoes club. cash won't push you under a bus, but he won't stop you from making a bad choice, either. he's perfectly willing to watch you eat shit so long as his face stays clean, especially if it helps him to get ahead. he's not a bad kid, though! he wants to be a nice boy, he's just acutely aware that it's a dog-eat-dog world.

cash comes from an almost parodically-suburban* nuclear family that was obsessed with keeping up with the joneses. cash inherited those sensibilities, but ruined it for his family when he came out as transgender at 13. his folks passive-aggressively ignore him entirely, and he's been essentially on his own ever since then. as a result, he's very into the concept of self-sufficiency; he never wants to have to scramble to figure things out again and he knows he can't rely on anyone else to do things for him.

he's always trying to make the grade, win the award, be the best... but sometimes his tendency to trip and fall into hijinx gets the way of his dreams. he might be trying to peddle you a pyramid scheme. c'mon, how can you say no to this face?

oops forgot to add )
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don't worry, this is the last one!

the FINAL pick-up hockey game is next sunday (12)! if the character(s) you want involved were signed up for the last game and nothing has to change, disregard this post!

but! if you:
- have a new character you want to add,
- have a character who didn't join before but has now,
- have a character who has dropped out and will NOT be playing (either for this single game or the rest of the season), or
- want to change the badge level for your character...

... then please comment over here before 11:59PM MST on friday! changes to existing characters can just be added as replies to their original comments. & if you have made a new character and want to handwave that they were at the first game and/or the previous season, that's totally fine!

game 3 will feature... something special although i have no idea what!!!

if you're like "wtf? hockey?", check out the first game. and if you're curious about stats (kas, literally nobody is, it's just you (shut up i don't care i made a table anyways just be glad it's not a spreadsheet yet)) they're here.

& & & if you have any input about how the league/games are run, please share it with me! here, dropbox, email, w/e. i would love to know if there are player-side improvements i can make!

guys my city is currently covering itself in ice and i hate it
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Since her freshman year, Clem's been running a Pro Quidditch betting ring for Gooseberry students. And guess what? The Pro Quidditch season is starting this weekend! Miscreants and sport enthusiasts unite!

As this is her third year doing this, she has a pre-established ward for participants. If your character participated last year, or has been vetted in this year by a reliable member, drop me a comment on this post and I'll add them to the list (which is going to live here on the betting page).

I have some information on the 24 teams playing available here! (PS let me know if you can't see this gdoc I've been having some trouble with it). Last year the top three teams were, in order: Drake Kill, Sweetwater, and relatively new team Klamath, which was an upset.

XAVIER LEWIS placed the correct spread bet last year despite the long odds on Klamath, and won the entire pot of 350 dragots.

more info on how quidditch works under the cut )