Closed Capture The Jolly Roger

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"You do not actually expect us to believe that do you?" Kamila asked Aryaan. Rider of magical whales, this boy was insane! If they made it through the game without her throwing him overboard Kamila would be quite surprised. He was acting like this was just a game, which it was not it was a competition. "If you are a whale rider. I am Minister of Magic." She declared, "No actually I am queen of magic. You may address me as Miss Kamila Yavlinsky the all-powerful, royal, and unstoppable queen of magic." She threw her arms in the air as if to make a dramatic statement.

The captain had given her the definition of leviathan. "Thank you for the definition. There are no words in Russian with that mean that. Well, there sort of is morskoy zmei, which literally means sea serpent." Kamila added.

The organizer of the event started reminding them of the rules. Kamila was exited, not because she wanted to know what the rules were. Kamila did not like rules. This meant the competition was going to start soon. Of course, once all the rules had been said there was the usual have fun thing. How could she have fun and abide by the rules at the same time?

At last, the game began.

Interacting: @Kim Sato Stephen Shwartz @AngelFyre McCubbin @Meenauh Silmataurea Cielle Johanson @Ivy Bellamy Aryaan Shamsi @Hui Ming @Elspeth Baine @EmmaLee LeDames | Mentioning: @Pax Zhang
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Word Count: 225|Language: Japanese, English, Thoughts | Interacting: Edward Smith@Noah Jupe and team Sapphire

It didn’t take long for the team to assemble, and the team captain to reveal swimwear that made him resemble a pink and yellow starburst. Oliver couldn’t help but to let out a light hearted chuckle. It wasn’t that it was ridiculous. In fact Oliver felt it was a brave choice compared to his jet black trunks. It was just unexpected. “Those are awesome” He added with a friendly smile.

“Let's do this Cap’n!” He chirped with excitement in reply to Edward overlooking his botched English accent. Not like Oliver’s was perfect either having grown up in Japan for a little while.

Figuring it best to actually get ready, Oliver took off his shirt and tossed it out of the way before heading over to the team huddle. His instructions were brought up first, and admittedly he tuned out the rest. After all, he knew what he had to do and whom he would do it with. While Edward continued on with the plan, Oliver scanned over the ships taking notes of what he could gather in sight.

He was brought back to reality with the count down to the games beginning. His expression was calm and almost that of a bored child, but on the inside his heart was racing against itself with each beat growing faster. Here we go, he thought to himself.

Actions: Doing as strategized

Theo was ready. More than ready! The longer he thought about it, the more certain he was that signing up had been a great idea. In fact, he wouldn't even mind having to go swimming, that would surely be nice and refreshing in the hot temperatures.

But for now- there were different things he would focus on. Surely chaos would break loose in a few moments, ships would be invaded and flags would be stolen- in an ideal scenario not his team's, but he doubted it. So what to do? Stay and defend or go and attack?

As long as the game didn't start he would be observing from his own team's ship, looking across the water to the different obstacles. He was quick and definitely not weak, even less so since becoming a beater, but which of the obstacles would be the easiest for him to do? Or- if others attacked, maybe it would be worth discussing who might have the best chance with which obstacle?

There were paths to every ship from two sides, but Theo doubted that they were meant or even able to enter that way. Surely they would be forced to go past the obstacles to steal flags, right? That also meant that going back with a flag would be much more difficult than entering without one in some scenarios. How would he- Well, he'd figure that out when it was time.

Action: Doing as Strategized

pretend this says second year until i get a new banner

Roleplaying as iNPC Vivienne Beaumont
French | English | Spanish

Interacting with: Olive Adair (@Sienna Lenoir) Everett Brooks (@Willow Anderson) @Sophia Nelson @Serena Bowen Mentioning:

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Date: 26th August 2022 Outfit: x

Realizing that she had forgotten to actually introduce herself, she quickly said, "Oh, my name's Vivienne Beaumont from Beauxbatons, by the way. That's probably an important piece of information to know if you need to get my attention during the game," she chuckled before adding as an afterthought, "you can call me Vivi too, if it's easier." She was rambling, and half of what she was saying definitely wasn't that important, especially when they needed to strategize what they're going to do, but she just couldn't help herself. She loved talking and meeting new people which was a good trait to have right now considering everyone on her team was unfamiliar to her. She was sure people didn't find her annoying anyway. Everyone here was very nice, at least from the people she had come into contact with during the month. Plus, she always thought the best of people in general (which will definitely come back to bite her in the ass at some point in her life, but Vivienne is as naive as you can get, honestly).

Vivienne turned her attention away from her teammates to look at the other teams, in an attempt to at least gauge a sense of what the other teams are doing. Truthfully, she couldn't really see what any of them are plotting, but she did want to appear like she was doing something. When Olive asked what strategy they were planning on doing, Vivienne jumped at the chance to be helpful, "Yes! Okay, I think we should definitely have something planned. While we always could go in blind, guns blazing and hope for the best, I still think it's important we have at least some sort of a plan."

She turned to Everett then, "Are you the team captain?" She asked. She had recalled earlier Olive asking the same question, but she was looking out at the course instead of listening to his answer, so she missed it. "Do you have any sort of idea?" Whether they did just go in blind and hope for the best, or someone is able to formulate a good enough strategy, Vivienne had complete confidence that they would win this thing.

Action: Doing as strategized
Stats: STA: 8 | EVA: 7 | STR: 7 | WIS: 6 | ARC: 5 | ACC: 7
Abilities: Fearless, Calming Presence
Allies: Her team

Bubba tried to mentally prepare himself for the hell that awaited him. He was just going to try and at least not be a hindrance to his team. He had checked out all of the other places they could possibly be attacking and unfortunately, the only ship it looked like he have any prospect of actually stealing a flag from was his own. Did that count? Probably not. So instead he decided he'd be a human shield for their own flag. He wasn't sure how much he would really be able to do. He figured if nothing else he could fly through the air at them to knock them off course, beyond that he was feeling exceedingly useless.

He also regretted having this shirt dyed violently pink. In hindsight, getting in the spirit of things was one thing, but he'd ruined a perfectly good shirt. Well, he supposed that wasn't precisely true, he could just get someone to change it back to a color that was not violently pink. But he'd know it had been pink. He looked around the deck at his motley crew of teammates. Evelyn, Hiro, and Ayako looked like they could handle themselves. River looked close to his size though, you never know, he thought, she could hide a lot of power in that small frame.

He heard the signal for the start of the game and set himself in a defensive position. Here goes nothing, he thought.

Serena watched as her other teammates joined her at the ship. She gave everyone a smile as they entered. She was excited to finally get the game started, but first things first, the strategy would need to be discussed.

Serena turned to the captain of the Teal Treasure, a boy around her age from another school, Ilvermorny. She hoped that he would have somewhat of an idea for strategy. Like in Quidditch games, Serena preferred to follow whatever her captain said. It wasn’t that she didn’t understand or wasn’t able to think strategically; the fourth year simply didn’t want to undermine the captain’s authority. Plus, the captain likely would be able to see the bigger picture or come up with plays that she couldn’t.

So, Serena kept silent for now, listening to the other members of the group. If she was asked to give her opinion, she would, but she wanted to give Everett a chance to relay strategy first. For now, Serena wasn’t sure whether she wanted to stay on the ship to defend her team’s flags or go after another team’s flag. Both strategies had their pros and cons. Defending the flags was obviously important, but focusing on defense too much could cause them to have fewer points at the end of the game. But then focusing too much on offense would leave their ship wide open. The more she thought about it, the happier she was at not being the one who had to make these decisions for the whole team.