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OCTOBER

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WEATHER

Fall is in full swing, and temperatures are beginning to drop. Expect crisp mornings and cold evenings, with the temperature warming slightly during the day. The dog days of summer are gone, and they seem to have taken the sun with it. A mysterious, heavy fog will begin to set in from the south starting around the 27th, and stick around through the end of the month.

ONGOING THROUGH OCTOBER

HOMECOMING! Homecoming is coming up toward the end of the month, and anyone who is anyone will be in attendance! VPrep will be hosting its own dance during the third week of October as well.
SCHOOL SPIRIT! With clubs and sports in full-swing, teams will be going head-to-head with other schools, such as Piltover Prep, Demacia School for Young Ladies, and Bandle City Academy. VI has a reputation to keep as being the best of the best, but will they keep it?
MUSICAL THEATER! Valoran Institute is gearing up for auditions for their first production of the year. Fall means time for musicals, and this one seems to be a particularly interesting one! So brush up on your solfege and get your monologues ready, it's bound to be a blood bath!
SHADOW FEST! This holiday is coming up on the 31st of the month. People are encouraged to dress up in costumes, and either play tricks on others or pass out treats. The school will be decked out in spooky decorations all month, but not all of those skeletons are decorative!
WILD CARD! Come up with your own prompt!

MONSTERS OF THE MONTH!
Shambling onto campus, the zombie apocalypse has come! Thankfully, individually they don't seem to be much of a problem, but in large groups they may be a bit harder to deal with. It seems that they have brought friends as well; the halls may be a bit more haunted than usual, and that skeleton in the anatomy lab may prove to be a bit more "alive" than originally anticipated!

MINI EVENT!

HOMECOMING HAUNTINGS! At the end of the month, Valoran Institute will be hosting their annual Homecoming game and dance. The sport? Well, all of them of course! And in the evening, a dance encompassing all three schools will take place on campus. But what's this? We have some uninvited guests from the Shadow Isles. Time to dance with the devil, Valoran Institute! It's bound to be a spooky fun time!

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The students of Valoran Institute were not known for their humility. When you're enrolled in a school known for raising what could only be called champions of their nation and of their respective crafts, 'charmingly cocky' was the best thing you could call them.

"You'll be fine. Our team won't lose to Piltover." There is no doubt in his voice. If Garen was going to have his name even remotely attached to a team, it was going to be the best team in all of Valoran. That was just fact.

"Do you need any help?"

"It's unlikely." She agreed. She raised an eyebrow as Garen went on, though.

"Want to show us girls how it's done?" Leona asked, skeptically.

"Is that a challenge, Leona? Because I'll take it." Garen stands up and stretches, more than ready to jump onto the field at any time. He was fairly sure he was better than any of them at rugby, but he also felt like training was one of his callings. One of the things that set Garen apart from his peers was that he was as much leader as fighter.

She had meant to call out condescension, but if he really wanted to go for it...

"...Alright. Who knows, maybe you'll learn something too."

This actually was a good opportunity. One of the other players had been trying to teach her what she called the "magic tackle", but it was an order of magnitude harder against someone who was shorter than you due to centers of gravity. Being the tallest member of the girl's team, Leona had never had much luck with it. Garen topped her by several inches, though.

Garen was, in this case, totally sincere in his offer to help out. Of course he did believe that he was better than almost everyone on the woman's team by a fair margin, but he thought the same of the men's team too. You were never going to claim the title of the undisputed best if you didn't actually believe it yourself, after all. He hardly had room to doubt himself.

"Maybe I will. I'll go change into my spikes, see you in two minutes." He stood up and jogged off to the changing room, and would eventually return in exactly one minute and fifty eight seconds.

When he got back, the rest of the team had taken a break to watch. Leona was their star player, and the team pride was on the line as she went up against an interloper. Even if the "interloper" was from the same school and played in the same sport.

Leona herself stood waiting for Garen, arms folded and generally not looking very worried.

[OOC: So how do you want to play this? I'm fine with basically whatever.]

"Well then, running is my usual position and I've heard only good things about your tackling, so we'll start with me that?" One-on-one rugby was fundamentally pretty awkward, but they could probably make it work, even if it became more like wrestling than rugby.

Garen spun the ball in his hands as he hopped on the spot, warming himself up with deep breaths. Leona seemed to be underestimating him. Her loss.

Three, two, one, go!

Ball in hand, Garen charged, running straight at the goal line, right through Leona.

It was a weird moment, but Leona assented to this and braced herself for Garen's charge.

Stance wide, butt low, arms close to the body, Leona met Garen with a shove that was angled upwards, rather than forwards. She had never managed to get this to work, but if it did, Garen's considerable mass would do him not a lick of good as he lost contact with the ground entirely.

Or maybe she'd be on her back in the mud in a second or two, while Garen claimed victory.

A bunch of tackling, running, and slight lecturing later, Garen and Leona were more or less finally done. They had pretty much gone even as far as heads up challenges went, which Garen had not expected, but he hoped his explanations were good enough to make up for his not actually being amazingly better than Leona.

Although if there was one thing in his favour, it was that Garen had just about started to break a sweat. He hadn't held back, though. He was just the sort of person who didn't actually know how to get tired.

"If you can do that much, I'm sure you girls will crush Piltover. I guess my help was unnecessary after all."

Leona, on the other hand, was fairly tired by now. She had, after all, already been practicing for a while before Garen had even shown up. However her performance had satisfied the team's honor, and spirits were high.

"Damn straight."

Edited 2015-07-05 06:48 (UTC)

"Still. Standing offer if you need anything."

Unfortunately, Garen had now been warmed up and he was still raring to go. He wasn't sure what there was to go do, but he wanted to do it. So while he was unfailingly polite, he was also practically hopping on the spot.

OCTOBER

It's okay. Sports, what is sports?

A pile of points.

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how2rugby?

it is a mystery, lost to the ages

MINOR TIME SKIP!

Stupid manaless champions

you just hate us cause you ain't us