2017-01-02: Greetings from Minnesota!

[Bob Schroeck]

Chapter 8: 2017-01-10 9:41 PM UTC to 2017-01-12 12:15 AM UTC

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Sumire Saito (sumire.saito@dga)
2017-01-10 9:41 PM UTC

Sun Wukong (sun.wukong@dietmeierfarm) said:
> Velvet nearly freaked when another shopkeeper said, "Oh, you're from *Australia*!" after talking to her

You sound Australian, Velvet?  But Remnant doesn't have an Australia?  That's a bit bonkers.  I'm Aussie and I'm keen to have a chat to see if we can suss out what’s going on.

Sumire Saito
Drummer, Green Leaf Girls
Sophomore, Franklin High School
"Keeping the beat, one smile at a time."

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Weiss Schnee (weiss.schnee@dietmeierfarm)
2017-01-10 10:12 PM UTC

Tomo Takino (tomo.takino@venice) said:
> No one has any more suggestions?  Okay, then, in my official position as a random person with no authority whatsoever, I declare the discussion closed!

Thank you, Tomo.  <rolls eyes>

So... compiling all the suggestions, that means the categories are:

• Cutest combatants
  
• Most egregiously stretched-out combat
  
• Best single attack
  
• Biggest snowball
  
• Sheer Volume Award
  
• Thank You For Not Turning Green Award
  
• Most egregious use of a superpower
  
• Most improved between the start and the end of the Snowball War
  
• Most impressive defence
  
• Most creative use of a kitchen tool
  
• *Still* didn't get wet
  
• Best improvised attack
  
• Unluckiest combatant
  
• Most creative use of the medium
  
• and, finally, Who you'd most want on your team the next time we do this?
  

(No, Yang, we're not using your suggestion. Not after Skuld censored it that badly.  And if she hadn't, I would have.  It was disgusting.)

Now that we've worked out the categories (and annoyed Tina again), get your votes in by email to the address that Washuu-chan set up for us.

Oh, and we need ideas for what the award will look like. Nora was insisting on a Golden Snowball until Kris told her how to make yellow snow.

Weiss Schnee
Dietmeier Farm, Lake Wobegon, MN
Yes, I live on a farm.  No, I am *not* a farmgirl.

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Tina Foster (tina.foster@venice)
2017-01-10 10:51 PM UTC

Weiss Schnee (weiss.schnee@dietmeierfarm) said:
> (and annoyed Tina again)

Yeah, I'm annoyed! But this time I'm doing something about it.

I didn't get very many good photos – I'm more a wildlife photographer than a portrait photographer – but I like this one that I took of Mahoro Ando from Windsor. I didn't know she even had a winter combat outfit.




Tina Foster
Meiritsu University Photography Club member-at-large
Stranded in the USA

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Rei Hino (rei.hino@blossom)
2017-01-11 1:31 AM UTC

@Yang Xiao Long, I wanted to say this in public: Thank you for taking Ami seriously as an opponent, even if it was only a game. Some of you heard the rumours about how she had her emotions controlled. Most people didn't hear how she didn't take it well when she found out. You gave Ami her self-confidence back in a way none of us could have.

Oh, and next time, *I'm* your opponent. Fire versus fire!

Rei Hino
Love and Passion can smoulder, or burn like a beacon

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Skuld Ravenhair (skuld@yggdrasil) (Moderator)
2017-01-11 4:50 AM UTC

Weiss Schnee (weiss.schnee@dietmeierfarm) said:
> get your votes in by email to the address that Washuu-chan set up for us

@ALL, This forum is not email. I've deleted the votes posted to the thread, and I have NOT forwarded them, so you'll need to vote again.

Skuld Ravenhair
Norn of the Future
Leader of the Valkyries
Sysop and moderator

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Yang Xiao Long (yang.xiao.long@dietmeierfarm)
2017-01-11 4:55 AM UTC

Rei Hino (rei.hino@blossom) said:
> Thank you for taking Ami seriously as an opponent

What's not to take seriously?  Ami's a badass.  And a sweetheart.  But I'm glad I helped.

Rei Hino (rei.hino@blossom) said:
> Oh, and next time, *I'm* your opponent. Fire versus fire!

Bring it on, Mars!

Yang Xiao Long
I Burn!

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Ruby Rose (ruby.rose@dietmeierfarm)
2017-01-11 1:12 PM UTC

Yang Xiao Long (yang.xiao.long@dietmeierfarm) said:
> Bring it on, Mars!

<sigh>  Here we go again.

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

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Shanpu (shanpu@antigonish)
2017-01-11 7:22 PM UTC
(Edited by Shanpu, 2017-01-11 7:29 PM UTC)

Ranma Saotome (ranma.saotome@antigonish) said:
> It's actually something like "Shanpu" or maybe "Xian Pu"? But if you're some dumb jock martial artist who's too busy running to pay attention to pronunciation, you might end up saying "Shampoo". And then everyone else copies you...

Shampoo (珊璞, Shanpu, mean "uncut coral", but no "Xian Pu", that stupid fan thing, mean nothing) understand and is no offended, Airen.  And used to it now.  Shampoo also clever enough appreciate puns come from mangle Chinese.  But that just Great-grandmother and stupid Mù Sī -- no believe fanfiction writers who say every person in Nyucheizu have silly grooming product name!  (Although one elder *did* marry outsider plumber who gave entire village running water long ago -- that fanfic too-too crazy coincidence.)

EDIT:  Also, please no use 山脯 for Shanpu.  Yes, Shampoo have impressive bust.  No, Shampoo *not* named "Big Tits".

Shampoo
留得青山在，不怕没柴烧
"While there are green hills, there will always be firewood."

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Mio Akiyama (mio.akiyama@dga)
2017-01-11 8:32 PM UTC

All right now, now that we're done with picking awards and all that, and before we get any further sidetracked by discussion of translations and all, is it time to go back to posting pics before Tina complains again?

Mio Akiyama
Douglass Gardens Apartments
Somerset, New Jersey, USA

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Nabiki Tendo (nabiki.tendo@antigonish)
2017-01-11 8:36 PM UTC

Mio Akiyama (mio.akiyama@dga) said:
> is it time to go back to posting pics before Tina complains again?

I'll let you have one photo for free. Mousse (Mù Sī? No, you just said we shouldn't get sidetracked by that) heard about lacrosse and adapted it to snowball throwing. Although I think that's more like a handheld trebuchet than a lacrosse stick, but he made it from a short staff and a soup ladle, so what do you expect?



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

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Naru Osaka (naru.osaka@blossom)
2017-01-11 8:04 PM UTC

Shanpu (shanpu@antigonish) said:
> 珊璞, Shanpu, mean "uncut coral"

That's uncut like an uncut gem, unfaceted, right?  Mom has a bunch of faceted coral necklaces in her store.

Not that I'm advertising or anything!

Naru Osaka
A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it.
— Proverbs 17:8

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Ferris Bueller (ferris.bueller@chicago)
2017-01-11 9:05 PM UTC

Nabiki Tendo (nabiki.tendo@antigonish) said:
> I'll let you have one photo for free.

First hit's on the house, eh, Nabiki?

Ferris Bueller
Ben Rose House, Chicago
Taking the day off from taking the day off.

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Nabiki Tendo (nabiki.tendo@antigonish)
2017-01-11 9:13 PM UTC

Ferris Bueller (ferris.bueller@chicago) said:
> First hit's on the house, eh, Nabiki?

Always!

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

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Shanpu (shanpu@antigonish)
2017-01-11 9:22 PM UTC

Naru Osaka (naru.osaka@blossom) said:
> That's uncut like an uncut gem, unfaceted, right?

Jewelry girl have it right.

Shampoo
留得青山在，不怕没柴烧
"While there are green hills, there will always be firewood."

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Sakura Kinomoto (sakura.kinomoto@venice)
2017-01-11 11:24 PM UTC

I think I'd better do something to help keep Tina happy.  <smile>  So let me just turn the tables on my best friend and post a photo of *her* for once!  Here's Tomoyo, who had no idea I took a picture of her while she was taking pictures.  (The zoom feature on my cell phone helped a whole lot there!)



Didn't your hands get cold, Tomoyo?

Sakura Kinomoto
Everything will surely be all right.

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Tomoyo Daidouji (tomoyo.daidouji@venice)
2017-01-11 11:41 PM UTC

Oh my... Sakura-chan, you've reversed our usual roles!

I never expected to see myself from your point of view. I must admit, it feels a little strange -- I'm so used to being the one behind the camera, recording everyone else's precious moments. To think you caught me in the middle of photographing someone other than you... fufufu, how uncharacteristic of me.

Seeing this photo reminds me that memories aren't just made by the subjects we treasure, but also by the people who care enough to notice us.

I suppose I should share those moments which took my attention away from you -- starting with Mister Archer from Montreal.  (You cannot guess how glad I am that you weren't the target of his "Unlimited Snowball Works".)



Miss Rin Suzunoki from Okeechobee very kindly spared a moment from the fight to let me take her photograph.



Miss Suzunoki's very good friend Miss Onsa Amano, also from Okeechobee, who was playfully teasing her a moment before I took this shot.  Then they started roughhousing in the snow.



Young Miss Wednesday Addams, from San Francisco, who I think is almost -- almost but not quite -- as adorable as Sakura-chan.  If only she'd smile more!



Here are two of the Undines from our residence in Venice Beach -- Miss Alice Carroll and Miss Aika Grantchester, who didn't see me taking their picture:



And two more who did, Miss Akari Mizunashi and Miss Alicia Florence.  (As I understand it, Miss Akira and Miss Athena chose to stay behind and keep their gondola business open.)



And finally, much like Sakura-chan I took a photo of a photographer -- but Miss Tina Foster spied me as I did:



And yes, my hands were cold, but I cannot operate my camera well with gloves.  The sacrifices we must make for our art...

Tomoyo Daidouji
Through the lens, every smile becomes eternal.

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Tsubaki Takamura (tsubaki.takamura@teikokukagekidan)
2017-01-11 11:41 PM UTC

Wait, wait, wait.  I'm confused.  *How* many people were on the field taking pictures?  Mrs. Wikstrom, of course, but also Tomoyo, Sakura, Tina, Mio, Minami, Melissa, Subie-chan... who else?

Tsubaki Takamura, Lieutenant
Wind Division, Imperial Combat Revue

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Mio Akiyama (mio.akiyama@dga)
2017-01-11 11:54 PM UTC

Katsuhito-sensei and Garnett from Coquitlam, too.

I just took a few pics with my cell phone.  I wasn't really out there to take photos.

Mio Akiyama
Douglass Gardens Apartments
Somerset, New Jersey, USA

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Sakura Kinomoto (sakura.kinomoto@venice)
2017-01-12 12:11 AM UTC

Me, too.  I only saw three people with actual cameras, not just their phones -- Mrs. Wikstrom, Tomoyo, and Tina.

Sakura Kinomoto
Everything will surely be all right.

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Weiss Schnee (weiss.schnee@dietmeierfarm)
2017-01-12 12:15 AM UTC

I still don't quite understand how it is that I ended up in charge of this whole process, but it apparently falls to me now to remind people that there are less than eight hours left in which to vote on the awards for the snowball war.  Submit your votes by 8 AM UTC, which for some unfathomable reason is the middle of the night for most of us who took part.  So basically your last chance to vote is right before you go to bed -- unless you're plagued by insomnia, in which case you have a few more hours.

In any case, get your votes in now or they won't be counted.

(Fortunately *I* don't have to count them -- Washuu-chan's systems will tally everything up automatically, thankfully.)

Weiss Schnee
Dietmeier Farm, Lake Wobegon, MN
Yes, I live on a farm.  No, I am *not* a farmgirl.

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