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undergrounds2017-04-14 09:24 pm
undergroundmods) wrote in undergrounds2017-04-14 09:24 pm
Easter fun at the Redbright Institute (Scavenger Hunt!)
Spring is in the air and the Redbright Institute is hosting a weekend of Easter-themed family fun. The event is held outdoors on the Redbright grounds and includes an Easter egg trail, five-a-side football, croquet, arts and crafts, and a cake sale. Plus, a stall for refreshments selling tea and coffee for the adults and fruit juice for the kids. It's all decidedly kid-friendly and not magical at all. Expect to see lots of excitable children running around.
Of course, there is one event for the grown-ups: the much anticipated scavenger hunt! Teams sign up on the morning of 14th April and must solve all the clues by the event's close in order to win the grand prize.
Instructions for the Scavenger Hunt
• There are five clues to solve. You will receive each clue one at a time. Each clue leads to the location of the next clue.
• The answer to the clues is always either a person or a location (or sometimes both at once). To find the next clue, you must search the location or ask the person the clue points to. The answers are not all located in the Redbright Institute, which means your characters will be racing across London to try and find all the clues.
• Except for the first clue which you are given directly at reception when you sign up, every clue is wrapped up with a red ribbon. The ribbon itself has no significance, it just tells your characters that they've found the actual clue rather than a random object.
• You can ask for help up to three times. Help is provided by Mogget, who as you all know is very friendly. You need to tell him the clue you're struggling with before he can help you, so make sure you do that in your first tag to avoid wasting time.
• Everything above is ICly explained to your characters when they sign up so they know what to do. They also know about the time limit.
• When you think you know the answer to the clue, post ICly with your character searching that location or approaching a character and highlight that part of your tag in bold like this. This will allow me to quickly and easily see that you've answered a clue so that I can reply to either give you the next one or let you know to try again.
• Every character that participates will receive an Easter egg and a bonus two activity points!
• You have until 23:59 Sunday 16th April (GMT+1) to solve all the clues! If you manage to solve them all in the time limit and reach your end goal, the characters in the winning team(s) will receive an awesome prize and an extra bonus four activity points. If you don't solve them in the time limit, your team won't win the prize.
• One more tip: If you think you know the answer, go straight to that location or person in the first couple of tags! You can dally around for as many tags as you want, but that will waste time and make it less likely that you'll get through all five clues within the time limit.
[The scavenger hunt is closed to those characters who signed up, but the rest of this event is open to everyone! Feel free to mingle. If you have any questions about the event, please ask here.]
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She blinks. "Oh- thank you. I really do appreciate that. If this doesn't pan out, I'll consider it. Thank you, Ces." She gives him a good, honest smile. It's nice to be able to talk to him like this, without all the innuendo and putting on a performance.
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"You're very welcome, Nance," he replies to match her.
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"I like it. It's shorter. Less complicated." She'd always thought his name was Cesar like the Roman emperor before she actually learned how to pronounce his name.
As for Nance? She rolls her eyes at the nickname. "Nothing I haven't been called before," she teases. Nance, Nan, there weren't too many nicknames you could have for Nancy.
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"I'm sure you've heard plenty," Cesare responds, pulling a wary face. He has no doubt that Nancy has been called a wide range of dreadful things because of her profession.
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"Oh yeah- everyone's got something t'call me." She's still chowing down on her pizza, now on her second slice. "I think insufferable cunt was my favorite." Of all the things she had ever been called, for some reason it stuck out in her mind.
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Well, that's a little awkward. Cesare is fairly sure he's called Nancy that at some point. The phrase sounds easy to him, as if he uses it fairly regularly and probably does. He doesn't remember using at her, but he's pretty certain he has. He winces ever so slightly.
"I was probably off my face drunk when I said that. And look: I got you pizza." As if that makes up for everything. At least it's a start.
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Nancy looks at him. "Oh- I didn't- I didn't mean to- I don't think you've ever called me that." She's not quite sure he has, actually. But maybe he did. After a while, all the insults blurred together.
"You did- and it's damn good pizza, too."
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"I've called you plenty of other things though." He has no doubt a lot of what he's called her has been a lot worse, particularly when he banned her from his hotel. That was not one of his best moments.
But next thing they know, Cesare is thankfully distracted by a young man who's looking at him like he's prey. Cesare smiles and rolls his eyes before leaning in to speak to Nancy as he pours another shot.
"That man over there...I don't think he realises that I remember what an appalling lay he was."
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"You have." He'd said a lot of awful things about her. Some of it was regular dirty talk. But sometimes, he really meant it, and it stung. He'd scared the hell out of her that night. Similar situations had found their way into her nightmares.
She glances over at the other man, then back to Cesare. "Wait- you fucked him?" She points at the man, because she's extremely subtle when she needs to be.
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"Fuck would imply it actually took time. He didn't... You look surprised..." He presumed it was obvious that he had at least dabbled with other genders at some point. He's old as sin, after all. If he hadn't, he would likely be some uptight, repressed homophobe. Cesare has never been against other sexual preferences and expressions, even if he was taught otherwise.
"The Greeks and Romans took men as lovers..." he says as a way to try and explain that this isn't even remotely a big deal.
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"You should have told me- I ain't legally allowed to donate blood, then!" A bad joke about the fact that she'd happily opened up her veins for how many years, now?
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"And I hate to break this to you, Nancy. But I'm afraid that the majority of men over two hundred have likely dabbled. Your previous clients and your boyfriend included." He smiles and gives her a bit of a shrug before sipping his drink.
"It's just the nature of time. You get bored. You try new things."
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She rolls her eyes. "So gay vampires have probably been with loads of women then, too."
If he's trying to get a rise out of her by mentioning Cooper, though... "We don't talk about previous sexual encounters. It's not fair."
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"Haven't you ever...?" he asks with a sly smirk, sipping his drink. Look, he's avoiding any further mentions of Cooper. Isn't he good?
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She shakes her head. "No- confidentiality. And he's over 200. That's a lot of people to fuck." Mostly she didn't want to have to explain about her ex-boyfriend.