complementing: (✿ dealt with all my cards [ FORTUNA ])
minako arisato ([personal profile] complementing) wrote in [community profile] recolle2017-07-12 10:22 pm

semi-open || cowgirls need not apply

WHO: Dreadful Women's Adventure Club
WHERE: Churchill Downs Riding School and Stables
WHEN: Backdated to July 9th
WHAT: July's DWAC adventure is chocobo riding! Please sign up here to join the club if you haven't already!
WARNINGS: I apologize in advance if some of these horse riding terms are wrong ahaha.

[Those bingo cards sure have gotten everyone in a tizzy! Minako has to admit that it's a surprisingly nice game, though, despite where it'd come from, and decides to move the DWAC date up by two weeks to help anyone who needs the 'chocobo race' tile filled-- including herself, of course.

Saddle up, ladies, it's time to ride.]


STABLES

[Time to pick your partner! The stable have a variety of docile sunshine yellow chocobos used for beginner riding lessons. Well, they're supposed to be docile. The stables can't help you if the one you pick decides that you're looking at it funny and starts pecking at you. Or tries bucking you off while you get into the saddle. Or just decides to be ornery in general.

Good luck?

The stable has two prized black chocobos too, the proud parents of a little baby chick that likes to somehow squeeze out of her pen and wander around the barn. Maybe you can help the stablemaster herd her back to her parents. And don't you dare think of stealing her.]


MANEGE

[The area outside the stables is wide and spacious, but not quite used to accommodating groups of riders larger than five or six. The ladies might have to take turns going out with their chocobos. But don't worry, Minako arranged for a picnic lunch to be delivered, full of 'cowgirl' foods like pulled pork sandwiches, cornbread, chili, twice baked potatoes, and peach cobbler for dessert. The little black chocobo chick is wandering around too, so anyone waiting won't stay bored.

The trainers will be out with the riders, guiding them through basic gaits and even some obstacle jumps once they get the actual stop and go part down. Did your chocobo stop being ornery? Probably not, huh. Don't be too startled when your chocobo jumps at the sight of a random but h u g e bug in the grass, and be careful of not digging too hard into your chocobo's sides, too. They don't like that very much.

Once the trainers have deemed everyone one knowledgeable enough to continue on their own, they move to a different area to keep watch over the group. Now you can ride however you'd like! Which means it's the perfect time to take care of that bingo tile, of course. Who will throw down the gauntlet first?]
abovethefold: (pic#11293917)

[personal profile] abovethefold 2017-07-19 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it even a race if we don't?

[Idly she pats her mount's neck as she considers.]

Dinner? It's been a while since we've talked about things. [There's a tiny curl of the lip, and her voice goes flat.] And I suppose I should tell you what's happened with that boy I mentioned before.
originallutece: like good for you if you get it tho but the context is 100% robert (happy; this is undoubtedly a robert icon)

[personal profile] originallutece 2017-07-19 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Now you're simply going to have to. But yes, dinner sounds the perfect prize.

[She's not grinning, but the smirk is clear in her voice.]

On your count of three, then?
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[personal profile] abovethefold 2017-07-19 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[She imagined she'd have to anyways... it would have been brought up eventually one way or another!

Katherine eyes Ros out of the corner of her eye, noting the posture that says she's ready to race. She doesn't think that Ros would cheat and take off on "two," but she still doesn't know her cousin that well, and it seems like a strong competitiveness is something the two of them share. Hmm...]


All right. Ready?

Three!

[It's a dirty trick and she knows it, but Kath will hesitate just long enough to make sure Ros realizes they're going before squeezing her mount's sides, spurring the bird into a run. It stretches its neck out with a wark of delight... and they're off!]
originallutece: and aggressively British to boot (happy; what ho i'm super chuffed)

[personal profile] originallutece 2017-07-20 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Katherine!

[But there's no time for protesting, not right now; with a laugh she leans forward and races after her. She's got only a few seconds' worth of a head-start, but Rosalind has been doing this for far longer than her, so it's anyone's race.]