Results: A)You go off of the ramp backwards, which causes you to spiral wildly out of control, do probably one million spins in the snow, and then… You find you’re still moving. You made it!! Even you can’t believe it. Gain 3 points. If your talent is Song, your rapid oscillations turn your voice into a beautiful sound hurricane - and when you land the audience is so stunned that they don’t even noticed you’ve stopped singing for a good minute while catching your breath. Gain 2 extra points.
B)You execute a sick flip, which - depending on your talent - the audience receives with varying success given it interrupts your talent for a hot second. Gain 1 point. If your talent is Weapons Handling, you don’t miss a beat in tossing up your weapons and catching them, essentially performing MULTIPLE sick flips with yourself and your props. Good use of ramp! Gain 2 extra points.
C)Doing a silly pose, performing, and speeding through the air is quite the combination. The clown judge appreciates the offering, though your landing could use a bit of work. Gain 2 points. If your talent is Dance, your landing truly WAS good! The silly pose transitioned into an emotional, beautiful contemporary display that causes one of the judges to immediately tear up. Gain 2 extra points.
D)Rocketing off the ramp seems to be the best option, though you go so far that you have less of the downhill performance area to actually perform your talent on. Oops. Gain 1 point. If your talent is Mime, however, you manage to make the most of your airtime by getting in some rare mid-air mime scenarios. Are you a bird? A plane? Supertroll? Gain 2 extra points.
DAY 4 - A Cliff Adventure After your ramp adventure, you spot the next logical ramp-up to the performance: a sheer drop-off. The organizers were at least kind enough to place helpful ‘performance enhancers’ near the cliff. At the top, there is a hang-glider for your use, as well as a zip-line towards the finish-line. For those wanting to simply plummet, there is a sweet half-pipe and a large trampoline at the bottom of the cliff to cushion your fall and potentially add style points.
A) Use the hang-glider B) Use the zip-line C) Use the trampoline D) Use the half-pipe
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 9:43 am
Hivestuck
My name is: Rutaca Spuode My team is: Orange My talent category is: Weapon Handling My choice is: D) Use the half-pipe
Current Score: 6
Well, she'd tried -- there was only so much that a warrior could do in the air. It just meant she had to practice some new techniques -- maybe she could get one of the little winged children to help? Though, Autumn wasn't so little anymore... Or maybe Athera -- she seemed up for helping. Or... Well, there were many trolls who she could talk to about fighting ideas. A few who were using ranged weapons, too... would that be better or worse for aerial attacks?
Anyway, the next stretch of her performance was upcoming and it was... a drop. T'will be a problem, indeed. Keionx thought, frowning. Trampolines were unsafe with a weapon in hand, and both gliding options... well, she couldn't wield a sword while doing so. And, honestly, she was neither keen on falling nor on flying -- she preferred the ground, or the trees, thank you.
So she picked the only logical option, one that kept her feet in skis, and those skis on snow. "Hiyaaaa!" she crowed, as she made her way down the halfpipe, mixing sword maneuvers along with ski maneuvers. She was feeling the burn in her lower body and stomach muscles...
My name is: Psykgi Mentha My team is: Red My talent category is: Mime My choice is: A) Use the hang-glider
Current Score: 6
That pose was probably the most awkward and humiliating thing she had ever ******** done, but she'd been humiliated worse before. She bounced back. She bounced back well. She was not going to bounce back literally, however -- that trampoline looked like very much NOPE. Nope. Nope was a perfectly descriptive word for her feelings, and she decided she might as well mime it out. That halfpipe also looked... nope.
But a zip line or a hang glider... well, Psykgi knew all about those. Fond memories of hang-gliding with Scorpa, and rescuing plushie hamsters flashed through her mind. Ah, fun times -- being above it all, seeing the clouds... like roleplaying as a highblood, or leading a crew, flight was an exhilarating experience. It was also not one she wanted to do all of the time. She was basically happy about her place in the spectrum, on alternia-firma, in support roles.
Anyway, hang-gliding... She had no idea how to do miming on one of those things, but she also didn't care. She could mime when she was down, maybe do some fancy gestures, maybe take a bow. Or do something cool in midair? She'd just give it a try, do her best, like she always did.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:13 am
Hivestuckx
My name is: Nanogg Breckt My team is: Teal My talent category is: Song My choice is: C) Use the trampoline
Current Score: 9
"...in their fire?!?" Suddenly, he could hear it, his own voice -- a hurricane of sound that somehow turned the improvisational song, more or less an anvil song he was making up as he went, into something... actually really nice. He fell down, yes, but when he got up, bruised and bloodied, he actually felt... emboldened. Not humiliated, but emboldened.
"kept in a box, locked up tight, // was the ring that drew their ire." he continued, remembering the rhyming scheme as he headed down towards...
An actual dangerous drop.
The hang glider looked fun, and so did the trampoline and the half pipe-thingie. The zipline looked fun, too, but he had grown up with ziplines. He knew how to use them. He could do literally any of the other things any day, too. But Nanogg... Nanogg was emboldened. Nanogg was feeling restless if a little beaten up. And there was one thing there, one thing that he would never do otherwise. One thing that would never have even crossed his mind. One thing that even his lusus would have told him not to do.
Hm. If Hemera could give the current state of her ice hive a grade, it would be a B-. Decent, still, but had a ways to go. Especially now that someone's lusus stomped all over the place. Really, if they didn't have the space, photography existed.
But she could only sigh, and focus on rebuilding what had been loss. No use in fussing over it. It took a little extra time to get back to square one, but she figured she could also add the chimney she had been thinking about.
Hivestuck
My name is: Hemera Moachm My team is: Teal Yesterday's Total: 9 Damage: 3 Repair: 3 New Total: 9
Wander strolled in, looking to work and maybe have a better night with her ice hive entry. As she approached, she caught sight of something that made her jaw drop. Other trolls, highbloods, smashing entries and being mean to the people trying to do their work!
"H-hey! Stop that!" she called without thinking.
And for playing hero, the lowblood got called out for her stutter and her hue. Then, in the most surprising twist of all, they destroyed what little was left of her ice hive.
Wander just stood there, hearing nothing besides her biscuit's pumping. Once the group turned and left, she finally fell down on her knees, and cried.
Hivestuckxx
My name is: Pennie Teller (Wander Oudini) My team is: Orange Yesterday's Total: 3 Damage: 4 Repair: 3 New Total: 3
My name is: Rutaca Spuode My team is: Orange Yesterday's Total: 2 Damage: -3 Repair: +3-1 New Total: 2
Building Material for Tomorrow: Nasty Parking Lot Ice
Keionx/Rutaca hated this ice structure. She hated it so much. It looked hideous, and it was turning out to be hideous, but she would keep packing the ice on anyway and maybe it would turn out... not trash.
My name is: Nanogg Breckt My team is: Teal Yesterday's Total: 4, using sparkly snow Damage: -5 Repair: +2 New Total: 2
Building Material for Tomorrow: sparkly snow
Mari screamed at the children that had decided to wreck HER shelter, stabbing at them and their lusii with her pointy stick -- now devoid of mushrooms -- until her relentless poking and attack pattern chased them off. She sat in the ruins of her shiny ice-hive and cried. And cried.
Finally, her Noghi arrived to comfort her. He was her big strong boy, and he would only get stronger. He couldn't repair it fully, but it wasn't bad anymore. No, actually, it was... okay. Her shinies were safe. Her boy was there.
Reemus took a second, squinting to find his ice hive. Looked to be the half-gone lump. But it wasn't gone-gone, thanks to the ice he'd used. And even if it was basically nothing, he could still find it with how black and peppery it was. A unique way to stand out!
Everyone's hives took a beating, so he didn't take it personally. He just went back to work, restructuring the hive out of more of the same he had been using. Maybe if it still looked okay...he could show it to Vos tomorrow? He liked that idea.
Hivestuck
My name is: Canine Eninac (Reemus Grroou) My team is: Yellow Yesterday's Total: 6 Damage: 4 Repair: 2 New Total: 3
My name is: Froggy Friend (Sonnie DeFrog) My team is: Green Yesterday's Total: 7 Damage: 0 Repair: +2 New Total: 9
Building Material for Tomorrow: Frigid Water
Sonnie sighed, tired from adding to his frog-hive but happy to continue making it. Not many trolls seemed interested in going into his little ice sculpture home, but they were enjoying themselves on the ice! Which is to say, they kept going near and falling on their butts. They were laughing, though! Sonnie felt warmed by bringing them such joy.
A familiar, sad sound caught his attention, however. Someone was crying... Wander? The greenblood dropped his materials and rushed for the source, finding the brownblood collapsed in front of her (also collapsed) hive. This didn't seem like a cry that a funny dance could solve. Sonnie rushed into action.
"Hey, hey..." He took off his prop head, setting it to the side before kneeling down next to her. His hand hesitated to pat her back, hold her shoulder, anything. He flinched, putting it back by his side. "Pennie... Pen..." Sonnie kept his voice as soothing as possible, trying to keep himself from reflexively crying with her. "What happened? You don't have to tell me, if you don't want to..."
Psykgi knows she is a special snowflake. It's not easy being special -- sometimes you melt.
She doesn't melt easy, though -- but snowflakes? They do. She's catching them again, and she's going to try to make this one her biggest yet.
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:09 pm
Hivestuck
My name is: Acteon Lyalle My team is: Blue My talent category is: Song My choice is: A
Current Score: 8
Okay, so their sick flip didn't help their song any, but come on, it was cool as hell. Surely they should have been rewarded better for doing a cool flip! At least they didn't beef it. Their song was paused, but they took a deep breath and continued down the slope, wondering if they should have picked something better. Maybe they could have made their song cooler.
Anyway, Acteon wasn't letting that stop their fun ski adventure performance. They saw a cliff approaching quickly, and needed to make a decision on where to go with that. They needed to focus more on their performance, so they grabbed the hang glider as they approached the end of the cliff. They wouldn't need their hands to sing, and they'd have plenty of time between screaming and making weird noises to sing their beautiful songs.
They wondered if there was points for being first too. That would be nice. "I really, really, really, really, really, really like you and I want you, do you want me, do you want me too?" they sang. People loved peppy love songs right? Those were always funny to do. They continued the chorus loudly. "I really, really, really, really, really, really like you and I want you, do you want me, do you want me too?"
