On a 7-9, you succeed to modest effect.

⚁⚅ + 0 = 8.

You swing yourself into the waters of the Chilly Tarn, and they go straight to work, dissolving and unraveling every stitch of cloth and leather from your navel to your toes. Being mentally, morally, and physically prepared, well, it's still a shock. Stay up, stay up. Keeping your brave face clamped firmly on against the chill, you march forward over the sandy bottom. Splashing your way up onto the beach, your manhood to the fore -- still proud, yes! -- you stand forth among the upperclassmen.

"Nice job, greenie," the annoying Leontes brute says. "Took it like a man."

The chilly water does rather mask that ache in the ribs where he poked you.

The Minerval girls aren't afraid to point and giggle. "Wonder if he likes his girls cold?" says one. "Guess he's in the right House," her friend replies.

Slander, pure slander. None of Anastasia's friends from Draconis were chilly in the slightest to you.

At least the brandy was under your shoulder, not at your hip. You take another nip to forestall a wave of shivers. The skin of your legs is fully tensed up in gooseflesh. If you had quills you'd look like an angry porcupine. Your feet are rather numb.

"All right you lot!" the Leontes fellow calls to the first-years on the boat. "You see how it's done!"

This strikes you as a little much, after you've bravely taken one for your entering class. But mostly from his attitude. And that poke in the ribs.

What do you do?

• Stand and shiver and hope the others make out all right.
• Choose someone to help out. You can use FETCH on people, right? Pick a favorite. Roll +CUNNING(+1) to CAST A SPELL.
• Use your wand and improvise a summoning of the boat. Sure, FETCH should totally work here. Roll +CUNNING(+1) to CAST A SPELL. Should be spectacular, whatever happens.
• Talk the upperclassmen out of inflicting the Chilly Tarn on the others. Roll +AMBITION at a penalty of one, as a bottomless, shivering first-year, to convince them. (Custom Move, +AMBITION-1, for 2d6+1).
• Or another Move.
• Or skip ahead to another scene.