2017-01-02: Greetings from Minnesota!

[Bob Schroeck]

Chapter 4: 2017-01-07 1:12 AM UTC to 2017-01-07 10:51 PM UTC

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Teresa Testarossa (tessa@adelaide)
2017-01-07 1:12 AM UTC

Kaname Chidori (kaname.chidori@adelaide) said:
> Tessa, tell him!

Miss Chidori is quite correct, Sergeant. The only ordnance you are to use in tomorrow's conflict will be improvised missiles composed of local snow, loosely packed. Consider this a training exercise, where actual injury to the red team(s) is counterindicated.

Teresa Testarossa, Captain, MITHRIL
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Ruby Rose (ruby.rose@dietmeierfarm)
2017-01-07 1:14 AM UTC

Ruiko Saten (ruiko.saten@blossom) said:
> Here's one of Rei and Kuroko.

Looks like Rei let go of that snowball *way* too soon. I hope she throws better tomorrow.

Ruby Rose
"Victory is in a simple soul."
Yeah, no, I don't know what it means either.

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Melissa Mao (melissa.mao@adelaide)
2017-01-07 1:21 AM UTC

Kensuke Aida (kensuke.aida@santa-rosa) said:
> You can't deny that an Evangelion snowball fight would be *awesome*, though.

Little hard on the nearby terrain, though, don't you think?

Melissa Mao, Sergeant, MITHRIL
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Nabiki Tendo (nabiki.tendo@antigonish)
2017-01-07 5:14 PM UTC

It's 45 minutes until zero hour, people, which means you have only 30 minutes left to get your bets in. I'm on site at the Dietmeier farm now -- and indoors, I'm no fool -- so find me there if you still want to place a wager.

The Wikstroms tell me there was a fresh snowfall overnight, so there's plenty of ammunition available.

Nabiki Tendo
Entrepreneur
If you want it, I can get it.

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Nabiki Tendo (nabiki.tendo@antigonish)
2017-01-07 5:46 PM UTC

It's a quarter to noon -- bets are closed. And my older sister bet $10 on "no winner", so I won't get to keep all the money if there's a tie.

Way to spoil my fun, Kasumi.

Nabiki Tendo
Entrepreneur
If you want it, I can get it.

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Miki Kaoru (miki.kaoru@addams-mansion)
2017-01-07 6:06 PM UTC
(Edited by Miki Kaoru, 2017-01-07 6:11 PM UTC)

It's noon and the first snowball was just thrown. I'm watching from the porch of the house (at least for the moment -- it's *very* cold out here) and it's... well, snow is going in every direction, people are screaming and laughing, and unlike any snowball fight I've ever been in there are blasts of light and fire and who knows what else, except that it isn't, or isn't *just*, snow, going every which way.

And there's something blue lurking in the snowbanks that's jumping out at people, clinging to their heads for a moment, then diving back into the snow. I'm not sure what's going on there.

I'm (reluctantly) a spectator and not taking part in the fight because I couldn't talk my sempais into forming a team with me. Utena and Anthy came with me to watch, although I think Utena might have decided to jump into the action as a team of one. Which would be just like her.

EDIT: Mr. Wikstrom just let us know that the photo his mother took of all the participants before they started (she was standing on a ladder so she could get everyone) is now up on the farm's server for everyone to access. Here it is:




Miki Kaoru
Statistician and Squad Leader,
Varsity Fencing Team
The Urban School of San Francisco

Posted from my iPhone

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Lindy Harlaown (lindy.harlaown@steeple)
2017-01-07 6:29 PM UTC
(Edited by Lindy Harlaown, 2017-01-07 6:42 PM UTC)

I've been watching from the farmhouse for the last half-hour and I just have to say, this is not a snowball fight -- this is a snowball *war*, complete with its own war correspondent. Eleanor Wikstrom, the mother of the residence manager, is out there in the middle of the action with her digital camera, getting dangerously close to people doing more than just throwing snow. Doesn't anyone care if she gets hurt? At least she made sure to stay behind Nanoha when she lobbed that "Snowball Breaker" attack.

EDIT: I was just told that Ms. Xiao Long activated Mrs. Wikstrom's Aura -- whatever that means -- several weeks ago, so she's quite a bit tougher than she looks? And supposedly if she does get hurt she'll regenerate, possibly before they can carry her off the field. If it's compatible with magic, I'd like to see about having that done for all our people at the Steeple.

Lindy Harlaown
Admiral, TSAB

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Miki Kaoru (miki.kaoru@addams-mansion)
2017-01-07 7:16 PM UTC

I'm not sure what "activating someone's Aura" actually *is*, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was what gave Mrs. Wikstrom the energy to bound all over the field taking photos for the last hour. She's back inside right now, getting a cup of coffee, but from what I'm overhearing from the kitchen she's planning on going right out again. Mr. Wikstrom is trying to get her to stay inside but she's not having any of that. Something about not having this much fun since she was a little girl and don't you want close-ups of all the action? I don't think Mr. Wikstrom is going to win that argument.

Pretty much the first thing Mrs. Wikstrom did when she got back in was upload the pictures she took to the farm's server. Since I still had the folder open from before, I felt I should go ahead and share a few more of them. Mind you, I don't know who most of these people are, so I can't identify them for you.






















That last one I know from the first post in this thread -- that's Ruby Rose, who lives here at the farm. I haven't seen her here yet, though -- she's apparently still hiding from her roommate Weiss?

Is it just me, or is every displacee girl incredibly pretty? I mean, I'm used to being around pretty girls, what with living in the same house as Utena, Anthy, Wakaba, Nanami, Juri-sempai and of course my sister Kozue. Not to mention Mrs. Addams! But it seems like compared to all the other displacee girls they're the median.

Miki Kaoru
Statistician and Squad Leader,
Varsity Fencing Team
The Urban School of San Francisco

Posted from my iPhone

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Nana Misaka (nana.misaka@blossom)
2017-01-07 7:18 PM UTC

Miki Kaoru (miki.kaoru@addams-mansion) said:
> Is it just me, or is every displacee girl incredibly pretty?

Don't worry, Miki. You're pretty, too.

Nana Misaka
Formerly Misaka 13577
They've given me a name, and taken away my number.

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Jennifer Parker (jennifer.parker@lom)
2017-01-07 7:31 PM UTC

Miki Kaoru (miki.kaoru@addams-mansion) said:
> Mind you, I don't know who most of these people are

I know you were at the Christmas party, Miki, Marty and I met you there. So were most of people in those pictures; surely you must have met at least some of them?

Okay, let me quickly ID everyone for you that I can: The first picture is Nani Pelekai from Hawaii and her little sister Lilo. The next one is Sakura from Venice -- I don't remember her last name, but I remember her magic cards, because she let me look at them (but not touch! I remember, Sakura! ). After that is Kozue Sakaki and Chiho (Or is it Chiyo? I'm not sure) Mihama, also from Venice. The girl in the yellow coat in the next picture is Akane Tendo from Nova Scotia, but I don't recognize the redhead. The next two are Pecos and Big Norse from the Banzai Institute in New Jersey. (That's the only names I ever got for them.) And I'm pretty sure the little girl in the white coat with the gold staff thing is Nanoha Takamachi from Philly.

Jennifer Parker
The blonde one, not the brunette

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Miki Kaoru (miki.kaoru@addams-mansion)
2017-01-07 7:41 PM UTC

Jennifer Parker (jennifer.parker@lom) said:
> Okay, let me quickly ID everyone for you that I can:

Thank you, Jennifer. Now that you've put names to faces, yes, I do remember meeting some of them now. It's just that there's a big difference between what people look like dressed for a formal concert and what they look like dressed to play in the snow. Especially when you've only met some of them once.

Meanwhile, I think we've had our first injury. I've been indoors for a while now, and while I was in the kitchen getting some hot chocolate (Mrs. Wikstrom has recruited some friends of hers from her church to make cocoa and snacks for everyone) I heard an air horn go off. By the time I got back to where I could see the field, they had brought someone in and laid him on a divan in the big sitting room after getting him out of his boots and coat. There's still a small crowd around him, including that Sakura girl, so I haven't done more than just look into the room to see how he's doing.

Nana Misaka (nana.misaka@blossom) said:
> Don't worry, Miki. You're pretty, too.

Thank you, I think?

Miki Kaoru
Statistician and Squad Leader,
Varsity Fencing Team
The Urban School of San Francisco

Posted from my iPhone

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Touya Kinomoto (touya.kinomoto@venice)
2017-01-07 8:12 PM UTC

Ah, that was me, and it was my own damn fault for not paying attention to my surroundings. I was at the edge of the fight, looking for Sakura (my little sister, btw, so her family name is also Kinomoto, Jennifer), when I heard that big guy from Montreal start chanting somewhere behind me:

"I am the flesh and bone of my own snowball.
Ice flows through my body, and frost courses through my blood.
I have created over a thousand snowballs
Unknown to death, nor known to life.
I have withstood frostbite to create thousands of projectiles
And yet, those hands that have braved so much will never hold anything."

I noticed everyone else in the area was running away, and I had just enough time to think, "Oh, crap. That's right, he's from *that* game, isn't he." And just as I did, he finished up with

"So as I pray now, I call forth -- 'Unlimited Snowball Works!'"

And yeah, if you know "Fate/Stay Night", it was pretty much what you'd expect. Except I was trapped in a snow globe when it happened.

Ten minutes later I woke up in the parlor of the farmhouse with hot chocolate being waved under my nose.

I'm okay, really, but that's *more* than enough snowballs for me today.

Touya Kinomoto
I have nothing clever to say here.

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Minami Makimura (minami.makimura@dga)
2017-01-07 8:28 PM UTC

Touya Kinomoto (touya.kinomoto@venice) said:
> "So as I pray now, I call forth -- 'Unlimited Snowball Works!'"

Oh, I got a photo of that!




Minami Makimura
VP/Crisis Manager,
Double Exposure Inc.

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Touya Kinomoto (touya.kinomoto@venice)
2017-01-07 8:42 PM UTC

Minami Makimura (minami.makimura@dga) said:
> [image]

Huh. It seemed a whole lot bigger from the inside.

Touya Kinomoto
I have nothing clever to say here.

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Alice Carroll (alice.carroll@venice)
2017-01-07 9:02 PM UTC

Lindy Harlaown (lindy.harlaown@steeple) said:
> that "Snowball Breaker" attack

Oh, I've seen Nanoha's show -- did she come up with a mega special incantation just for the Snowball Breaker, like Archer did for his Unlimited Snowball Works? I mean, you already knew what it was called, Admiral Harlaown, so she must have been working on it over the last couple days, right?

Alice Carroll
Prima Undine, Aria Company
The "Alice in Wonderland" jokes are mega uncool, okay?

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Lindy Harlaown (lindy.harlaown@steeple)
2017-01-07 9:15 PM UTC

Alice Carroll (alice.carroll@venice) said:
> did she come up with a mega special incantation

Yes, she was in fact working on it for the last few days, and did finally come up with something that made both her and Fate giggle about it for the best part of an afternoon. I'm sure she won't mind if I post it here, as I believe she was somewhat disappointed that only a few people on the field of battle would ever hear it. And I certainly heard it often enough to have it memorized by now: "I summon the white of amusement down upon my opponents. O snow, gather, and become the white which covers everything. Hit them all in a blaze of white! SNOWBALL BREAKER!"

Lindy Harlaown
Admiral, TSAB

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Alice Carroll (alice.carroll@venice)
2017-01-07 9:31 PM UTC

Lindy Harlaown (lindy.harlaown@steeple) said:
> "I summon the white of amusement down upon my opponents. O snow, gather, and become the white which covers everything. Hit them all in a blaze of white! SNOWBALL BREAKER!"

Oh, I love it!

Alice Carroll
Prima Undine, Aria Company
The "Alice in Wonderland" jokes are mega uncool, okay?

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Minami Makimura (minami.makimura@dga)
2017-01-07 9:45 PM UTC

Jennifer Parker (jennifer.parker@lom) said:
> I remember her magic cards

Is it a Standard legal deck or more of a Commander thing?

Minami Makimura
VP/Crisis Manager,
Double Exposure Inc.

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Konata Izumi (konata.izumi@appartements-mont-royal-sud)
2017-01-07 10:15 PM UTC

Minami Makimura (minami.makimura@dga) said:
> Is it a Standard legal deck or more of a Commander thing?

Just what we need in this thread -- geeky gamer jokes.

Konata Izumi
Still waiting for my quest in this world

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Miki Kaoru (miki.kaoru@addams-mansion)
2017-01-07 10:51 PM UTC

The sun's down behind the western treeline and I just heard another air horn. I think it's over.

Most of the participants were still out on the field as recently as fifteen minutes ago. Don't hold me to this, but I don't think *anyone* won.

Miki Kaoru
Statistician and Squad Leader,
Varsity Fencing Team
The Urban School of San Francisco

Posted from my iPhone

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