The Midsummer's Festival!

[tartan_pussy]

Posters appear magically all over the school that say:

Midsummer's Festival

When: Tonight!
Where: By the lake
What: A party celebrating the summer solstice.

There will be food, drink and a bonfire! All students are invited.

((OOC: All RPing for the festival should take place in this post.))Down by the lake, there is a large, magical bonfire

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[sbisawesome]

Strong Bad knew the thing that made every party great was an awesome costume. Therefore he'd decided to dress as a ship's captain. Even though he now knew it was absolutely not the latest style, as he had once been led to believe, he still thought the ladies were gonna love it. Besides, he wasn't just any old kind of ship's captain. He was ... a pirate!

[cheatachu_72]

The Cheat was a ninja. This was simply who he was. Perhaps it was an intrinsic sneakiness, perhaps it was simply the way of viewing the world, or maybe it was his ability to hurl busts of Van Buren with deadly skill. For whatever reason, The Cheat's ninja-bilites were second to none.

Except Jackie Chan. That was one bad ass -

Shut yo mouth.

So when he saw Strong Bad - his own, his best friend, the one closest to his heart except Marzipan when she was putting out - dressed as a ship's captain, he felt rage in raging parts that he'd never raged before. And when The Cheat realized that Strong Bad was not just a captain but a pirate, well...

This could not go unchallenged.

Fneh! Feh meh meh fneh FEEEH!

(Hey, man. What's up with the lame ass costume? Everyone knows that pirates are so Paris Hilton. Ninja is where it's at. Check out my skillz.)

And then he tossed a bust of Van Buren up in the air, in a wild display of ninja prowess.

Take that, pirate dude.

[sbisawesome]

Strong Bad was Not Amused. The Cheat hadn't made such a blatant display of insubordination unworthy of sidekick status since ... since he screwed up the jumble caper!

What a misuse of a bust of Van Buren!

"Oh, man. You know I love you, The Cheat, but there's no way I can let you call pirates Paris Hilton. Pirates are the quintessence of cool! What's cooler than a swashbuckling guy with a big knife? I'll tell you what! Nothing, that's what!"

Strong Bad climbed up to the top of the pile of red dirt that had been mounded beside the bonfire.

"FRIENDS, ROMANS, PIZZA GUYS, LEND ME YOUR EARS! THE TIME HAS COME TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST NINJAS! ALL PIRATES MUST UNITE! THIS ... IS ... HOGWARTS!!!!"

[daxtastic]

Dax couldn’t help but offer up a Fact. If The Cheat was attempting to hit the clearly superior pirate sidea fellow student with a bust of Van Buren, perhaps she could retaliate with a hit of knowledge!

"Actually, we have a great many so-called pirates to thank for the basic astronomical skillset that first led to charting the year’s solar progression! Why, if it weren’t for pirates, we might not even be at this party tonight."

It was important that her students knew how much they owed to all pirate kind!

Get your traditional-style mock marriages here, yo!

[lemondrop_party]

As ever, Albus had a secret plan. He'd been stymied in his hope that introducing his half-brother Abercrombie Targaryen (a.k.a. 'The Old Man') to Minerva McGonagall would banish Abercrombie's unfortunate fixation on Dodongos, but he had resolved not to accept defeat. A mock marriage would unite Abercrombie with Minerva, an eminently more suitable and less triceratopsian companion than any Hyrule dungeon dweller!

So he stood by in his best set of dress robes, happy to officiate, and armed with a stack of faux marriage certificates.

Re: Get your traditional-style mock marriages here, yo!

[maid_brienne]

Brienne passed Jaime as they walked toward where Dumbledore and so she was the one who eventually got the honor of approaching the man.

"The Kingslayer and I would like to be married," she said, after taking a breath to steady her nerves and glancing over at Jaime to make sure he was still there.

Re: Get your traditional-style mock marriages here, yo!

[slayerofkings]

"Not permanently, mind you," Jaime added.

Jaime/Brienne. Game on!

[lemondrop_party]

"It is a Midsummer tradition for people to join in mock marriages. I assure you the wedding will have no legal standing whatsoever," Dumbledore said cheerily. In truth, he wished that Abercrombie would stay married to Minerva. The only comfort: Dodongo/human marriages were not yet legal even in the wizarding world.

He handed each of the two a ring that appeared to have come off the outside of a cigar, and turned to write The Kingslayer in the blank next to the word Groom on the faux certificate. "What is the bride's name?"

[charlesofdensen]

All right. He's positive one of the band members will show. There's booze and fire.

Plus, free food.

Plus, fire.

Plus, marshmallows he brought down for him and his few friends to cook on the fire.

[blue_ataru]

After last year's debacle, Aayla had considered staying inside the castle, in the library, away from any strange food and drink. But she would not be defeated by a mere party, so she wandered out, found a friendly face, and plopped down. "I'm not sure why exactly it's necessary to celebrate being at a particular point in rotation of your sun. But I suppose there are worse reasons to enjoy yourself."

[charlesofdensen]

"Not that us humans really need a reason, we'll find any excuse to celebrate." He finished putting a marshmallow on the thin rod he brought, roasted it, blew it out, and took off the marsmallow, sucking out the inside and discarding the burntness.

"Looks like it may be picking up." He placed another marshmallow on the rod, and held it out for Aayla.

"Care to try?" he asked, mildly smirking.

[blue_ataru]

"I can't find fault in this," she agreed, raising her eyebrow at the marshmallow. She smirked at his question, took the stick-and-marshmallow, and held it out to the fire. "We did something similar to this when I was a Padawan. Out on a rim planet, fire going--it was local game animals, though, not marshmallows." She pulled hers from the fire, watched it crackle in the flame, blew it out, and waited for the last embers to die before popping it in her mouth, burt crusty outside and all.

[iknowhowtoqueue]

Oh! A Midsummer party? He hasn't been to one of those since he was a little kid.

Arthur took up a bowl of soup, sipping it down as he watched the bonfire take off.

[researcher42]

Ford wandered over, sipping a glass of obscenely pink and appallingly alcoholic liquid.

"Hey Arthur. Nice evening, isn't it? No better way to celebrate whatever it is we're meant to be celebrating than a nice primal bonfire. I'm not sure how the ninja and the pirate fit in though..."

[iknowhowtoqueue]

"I think that may just be a conversation those two are having, Ford. And we're celebrating the Midsummer."

[researcher42]

"Oh. Good, I thought perhaps the old war had broken out again." The Pirate Ninja wars were, of course, some of the most prolonged and bloody in Galactic history. At least, that's what the history editor at The Guide claimed.

"Midsummer. We're celebrating the point in orbit when the Earth's axis tilts most towards the sun?"

[doctorkilljoy]

Killjoy had never been one for parties; they struck him as a waste of time. But when the Ravenclaw bar materialized by the lake, it took his projector with it. He manifested his old office chair and settled down to watch the gathering crowd.