(18SS) Pong with Beer

[Circe]

The tables for beer pong is set up with red and blue cups, one color for each side. Circe decided to do this to make the rules a little easier to follow when you were drunk. There is a variety of beer brands and flavors to choose from, with the pitchers being labeled. There are already 20 cups on each table, opposite each other and by color, with the balls ready and waiting. Water jugs under the tables are available for refills of the cups.


A main table has the pitchers of beer and plastic drinking cups ready. Circe happily leads the way to a table, stopping only to fill a pair of plastic cups with a cherry beer. She starts to pat herself down. Then she pauses as she turns to those that followed her (Penance Echo Quick ). "Well, I ain't got pockets. Anybody have a coin ta toss?"

ooc: Thank you CyledyrWyllt for these rules. Each attempt to sink a ball is Dexterity + Athletics. If both players succeed in the same round, one of them may take a second shot. The first team to reach a total of ten successes wins. Please mention the next player(s) in your posts and keep track of how many beers you have had to drink in your signature line. Your side drinks a number of beers equal to the number of points your foes score in that turn. As for the effects of alcohol, subtract one die from any Dexterity, Intelligence and Wits based dice pools for every 2 cups (round down) that your character consumes in excess of her/his Stamina (Stamina +2 if she possesses the Merit: Toxin Resistance). Social rolls gain a +1 bonus per 2 drinks in excess of Stamina (max +3). Have fun!

[Echo]

Shimmying up to the table she looks at Circe, then at herself,

"I got pockets in ma shirt." she says tugging at the plaid thing tied around her waist. "Buuuuuut I ain't got a coin to toss." she shrugs, looking at Penance for the fabled coin to toss. Wasn't like Quick in that fancy fucking hedgespun suit would have a coin.

[Quick]

Quick, quickly following suit at the mention of a drinking game, eyes the game setup.

"Sorry, no coin. Teams, by the way?" By the looks of it, the game would be a 2v2. Quick has a score to settle with the Summer Queen, but... he also has a stake in bringing the event together. More of a cooperation thing than a competition one. But the Elemental would let the others decide.

[Rhodes]

A chill wind blows across those gathered at the beer pong table, sending a shiver down the collecting spines as the suited Fairest arrives.
"I just so happen to have a coin..." Rhodes interjects to the group with a charming smile, holding out a sparkling quarter. Turning to the crowned woman bedecked in black and gold, he inclines his head and spreads his arms in a genteel bow, coin glinting in his left hand. "Do I have the honour of addressing the Summer Queen of Sacramento?" The smile never leaves his lips.

[Circe]

Circe's look turned disappointed until a cold gentleman arrived. And there was a little hint of fog where Circe's blast of Mantle heat clashed wtih his cold, "A knight suited for this fun night, with the quest item we need!"

Circe then curtsy in response to the Flowering's bow, "Ya have found Queen Circe of Summer. Welcome ta the fun night. Ya have a name? Are ya lookin' to play this game?"

[Echo]

Echo laughs as the blooming man with his spine chilling breeze ambles over.

Her blade sharp eyes take in Quick's suit, and the Flowering's jacket and sighs. She needed some threads.

"We have teams, if Penance stays away, an out man out if she comes the fuck over!" Echo says, then yells over at the stern Asian women who seemed to want to pay, but was motionless as they all surrounded the beer pong table.

"But fuck. We have me, Spring~" she grins, fangs gleaming as bats her eyes, "Queen Circe of Summer, Quick, of Winter and you....who ever you are of Autumn. We gonna split us up, warm and cold? Or mix and match?"

[Rhodes]

"A Knight? Sounds a little dangerous for my taste, but I do like the title..." the Fairest says grinning, rising from the bow. "Queen Circe. May your season as reigning monarch be as prosperous as it's namesake. My name is Rhodes. I recently arrived in the city, and thought it wise to introduce myself to the Freehold, as I may be here for some time."

He looks down at the game, his face inscrutable, before looking at the gathered changelings. Echo's fluttering eyelashes gain absolutely no reaction. "Please - carry on without me. I would not wish to interrupt, and games like this one were... a lifetime ago, for me. This way, you keep your teams square."

The Flowering Fairest sets the quarter down on the table. "My skills are somewhat typical of my Court - learning the powers of the magics bestowed to us, the occult in general, has become something of a passion of mine. If you have need of keen eyes or a scholar's mind, I will be happy to assist the Crimson Court while I remain. But for now..." Rhodes casts his eye around the party, "I should introduce myself to the out-of-season Monarchs, and of course the soul that maintains the Freehold itself, unless I have the fortune that you are one and the same...?" Once again, that roguish smile.

[Quick]

The chill wind the man brings with him feels like it would fit with Winter... but the bone chilling feeling that comes with it can only be Autumn. Court of Fear. Never mind the man's threads - spun out of dark, roiling clouds. Quick manages to smile. To, you know, be polite. But the newcomer's presence unsettles him.

Echo brings Quick back with a shout. For that other newbie. The Asian one. Quick is anxious to get started... Rhodes, Penance. Whoever.

A moment later, during Rhode's introduction, it looks like it won't be him.

"Not this guy. Look for Sasha. Purple eyes. Pretty. She's Winter's Queen. Sure you can't stay for the game?" At this point, Quick's pretty sure the answer would be a no. Worth asking though.

[Circe]

Circe laughed, whether at Echo yelling at Penance or the second part. "Oh, a Freehold foursome? Such a shame there ain't a fifith or we could be Power Rangers Freehold," the Queen was making no effort to control her power.

"More shame tonight Rhodes," Circe pouted, "I could've named ya the knight of the pong. Or beer," she shrugs, "OR I could'a been the ref if Penance still plays. But as for yer skills that is good ta hear," the laughed again, "Always good ta know what something's weak point is. Ya attack for the massive damage. Well, not ya," she points at Rhodes, "More like me. That's why we're called the Iron Spear. Autumn tells us where ta blast, and Summer makes sure They don't last."

She gives Quick a flat look, "Ya couldn't waited for me ta use some double speak for fun first could ya Quick? Oh well," she shakes her head as she shrugs, "I guess we're just gonna wait on Penance . Unless Echo and Quick," she puts herself between the two of them, resting a hand on a shoulder for each of them, "One of ya happens ta have a really strong want for going at it with me?"

[Echo]

"The Verdant Victor, the Emerald Empress, She of the Antler Crown...is not me. 'tis Ingrid." Echo bows, gesturing to the Darkling Queen. "She is currently speaking to the all around favourite to bear the weight of the Leaden Mirror." Echo's blade sharp eyes, glaze over, just gazing at the Autumn Fairest. "Lucifer." the weight of the Shadowsoul's name causes the Razorhand to stumble, wishing desperately to be in her Queen's place. Talking to her, giving her a gift....

Echo blinks, shaking her head, her mane of sand and glass, tumbles and falls. Laying rightly as fur tends to do after such ministrations.

"Teams ain't square until Miss Slowpoke gets off her ass, so you leavin' is a damn shame." she says, even as she turns to Circe, "Lady Azure, I would simply love ta come atcha" she laughs, wicked smirk upon her lips.