The morning rises on another day...and with it a strange and ominous sight. Throughout the beautiful gardens rest a series of snow berns, surrounding two large snow piles. Atop the great snow mounds rests a flag each. More alarmingly all who enter that no man’s land find themself ruthlessly pelted by a hail of snowballs!

A snowfight had begun! A snowball fight to end all snowball fights!

THE GREAT SNOWBALL WAR!

Part 1) The Build Up

A snowball war is not a simple matter. Rarely does one begin with a surge of white powdery violence. No such things begin with ESCALATION. In our case one errant gardener had been struck by one too many child thrown snowballs and retaliation had been inevitable.

You may roll one of the following:

SKIRMISH!: So a person of direct violence.... While others argue and play with snow sculptures, you bring the fight directly to the enemy! Choose a Weapon skill/Corresponding Trait, Atheletics/STR, Battle/Perception, or Defense/Reflexes vs TN15. You gain 1 Snowball point for success and 1 per raise

BUILD!: Let others fight and freeze, you understand the importance of a well fortified position! Or at least a pretty one. Choose Engineering/Intelligence or a Craft/AWA vs TN 15. You gain 1 Snowball point for success and 1 per raise

INSPIRE!: Call the troops to victory! Let them feel the glory of the cause through bombastic speeches, rousing song, ...interpative dance?! Choose one Perform/AWA or Perform/AGI or Courtier/AWA vs TN15. You gain 1 Snowball point for success and 1 per raise.

TREACHERY!: Hey...I mean sometimes you just want to win. Its not your fault they didn’t see it coming. Choose Stealth/AGI or Sincerty (Deceit)/AWA vs TN15. You gain 1 Snowball point for success and 1 per raise

Part 2) The Battle

The battle rages in full swing now, the time for escalation is over and all is committed to VICTORY. The gardeners rally around their beloved Banner of the Spade and Rake, the children press hard to overrun them!

Choose a side: The Gardners or The Children

GARDNERS: DEFEND OUR FLAG!

You may roll a Defenses/REF, Jiujutsu/STR, or Etiquette/AWA(to shame the opponent) vs TN20. You gain 1 DEFEND! Point for success and each raise grants either a Snowball Point or a DEFEND! Point (your choice, must be declared in roll)

CHILDREN: TEAR DOWN THEIR BANNER!

You may roll Jiutjutsu/STR, Stealth/AGI, or Courtier/AWA vs TN20. You gain 1 ATTACK! Point for success and each raise grants either a Snowball Point or an ATTACK! Point

Part 3) The Aftermath

The battle was long and arduous, many were forced inside to cower around braizers and sip hot drinks. Doomed to murmur the horrors they had witnessed to any who would hear. But for a happy few the day was won! And now...this had to be cleaned up before the Consort or Lord Shiba wander into the gardens!

After tallying the ATTACK! Vs DEFEND! Points a side will be declared the winner and their supporters get bragging rights!

Now everyone must unite or we are all in hot water!

You may choose one of the following:

War? What War! Their hasn’t been any war! - Courtier/AWA vs TN20 to smooth this over and distract while your comrades work. Success grants a snowball point and 1 additional point per raise. YOU MAY NOT CHOOSE THIS IF YOU HAVE CAN’T LIE

I mean yes there was a war, but we are very sorry now. - Etiquette/AWA vs TN20 to try to calm a few angry officials down. No conventions were violated….well none were written either. Success grants a snowball point and 1 additional point per raise.

Heave Ho! - Raw Strength vs TN15 to get the snow shoveled and the paths cleared. Success grants a snowball point and 1 additional point per raise. Shovel young one, shovel for your life depends on it!

We can rebuild it, probably… - Engineering/INT vs TN20 to fix damage to some of the garden structures. Maybe even improve them...or at least keep them up until blame can be shifted!

And I am out….bye! - Stealth/AGI vs TN20 to just get the heck out of here! Let someone else pick up the mess (you craven coward!). Success grants a snowball point and 1 additional point per raise.

And now at the end...tally your snowball points!

The Highest Wins a children’s game! And can probably start calling themselves the ‘Marshal of Winter’ or some other suitable title.