Quaffle And (Dis)order: A Friendly Skirmish

"English | Japanese"

It was the second game in a row with Sara that Ginyami had during which the two were on shakey ground. Granted, this one was an unofficial game, but it was still difficult for Ginyami because he knew it would be difficult for Sara who did not like playing quidditch, especially as a Beater. Still, he also knew Sara wasn't the type to want to let his teammates down. He might have thought that since he had learned how to distance himself from Ginyami, he would have learned what was good for him and how to say no to things he didn't actually want. Since they were just about the oldest first string players on the team, however, and there was only one year left for them to play, he supposed to made sense that Sara would at least want to be there for them for that last year. Which meant Ginyami was going to be there for them, too.

Even if Sara's qualms against playing were about potentially hurting other players, Ginyami had no such concerns. He knew that was just as much a part of the game as cheating and that if you consented to playing quidditch, you were basically consenting to getting roughed up at least a little if you weren't quick enough to dodge. No, what was bothering Ginyami that day was something else entirely. It was the first game they'd had since Sara had broken up with him and he wasn't sure how to go about navigating their relationship anymore. Not their relationship as romantic partners, but their relationship as people. Would Sara have preferred he stay far away from him? Not talk to him of course, but would he not even want him looking at him? It was even worse than their fight the last time because at least then, Ginyami had known Sara planned to hear him out eventually. This time, though, he had seemed completely done with his peer and anything he'd had to say to him.

Thus, when Sara walked close to him, Ginyami's heart jumped into his throat, causing it to close up. The other young man wouldn't look at him, staring at the ground instead, but something was better than nothing, right? Especially when he actually chose to talk to him. Though...he probably would have and probably had said the same thing to everyone else. Probably. Or maybe he was just telling him this in order to let him know they should at least cooperate at teammates if nothing else. Somehow, the notion just fractured Ginyami's heart more than healed it. Because if he wanted them to function as teammates, it was probably just for the same reason he was playing quidditch at all - for the sake of others. Not because he himself would have wanted anything to do with his ex if he could help it.

Swallowing hard, it was all Ginyami could do to nod in response and utter, "...You too. Good luck. And...please stay safe."

Then Sara and the others were launching into the sky on their brooms with Sara taking his place next to Hiro as his fellow beater on the Mahoutokoro team. So Ginyami took a deep breath, recomposed himself as best he could in preparation for the game, and followed suit.

At least as the one lone keeper on his team on his side of the pitch, he didn't really have to interact with anyone except their opponents. Which was just fine with Ginyami, because at that moment, he really didn't feel like interacting with anyone else. No one else really deserved to be subjected to the brunt of his negative emotions, though; not even the opposing team. Hopefully they would be spared his wrath that game, at least.

Action: Doing as strategized.
Interacting with: @Sara Kohana
Mentioning: @Tone Bakugo
Position: Keeper
Health: 1100/1100
Stats: | Sta 11 | Eva 13 17 (+4 from Oakshaft 79) | Str 5 | Wis 12 | Arc P 6 | Acc 20 24 (+4 from Oakshaft 79) |
Abilities: Charmer / Fearless / Foulplay / Evasive Maneuvers / Evasive Maneuvers II / Impartial
Broom: Oakshaft 79

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- In the role of Keeper when you attempt to block your goal, if your opponent somehow has advantage on attempting to score a goal, that is negated (they only have their normal single roll against you).

- In the role of Keeper a critical success on an attempt to block a goal not only means that the Keeper caught the quaffle but they have also successfully passed the quaffle (without a chance of interception) to an allied target of their choice. A critical failure in this case cannot happen for a Keeper, they get to re-roll the attempt to block.

Note: Critical failure and critical success chances can be expanded with certain abilities and skills.

- In the role of Keeper, if the Keeper effectively blocks an attempt to score rather than obtain possession of the quaffle they can kick the quaffle at the user who attempted to score. This must be declared at the time actions are submitted. This would have damage like a bludger using an accuracy roll to hit and the user's strength score to determine the amount of damage done. If the quaffle hits or misses the target, a quafflegrab the next round would be necessary to determine which team has possession of the quaffle again.

ROUND 1

A note to all players: The word count minimum is 200 words. The next deadline to post and submit strategy is 6 days, deadline should be linked in Discord. If you believe a mistake has been made in the calculations of this round, please reach out to me ASAP so it can be addressed promptly.

Team Hogwarts Snitch Find/Catch DC: 30 (wisdom) / 27 (accuracy)
Team Mahoutokoro Snitch Find/Catch DC: 32 (wisdom) / 29 (accuracy)
Average Wisdom of Team Hogwarts + 15 : 25 (Cheating DC for Team Mahoutokoro)
Average Wisdom of Team Mahoutokoro + 15 + 2: 27 (sixth sense) (Cheating DC for Team Hogwarts)

Cheating

The Bench

The Quaffle

The Snitch

The Big Beaters

Outcome

• Egon and Marai did not post and their actions are voided
• Miharu Scueessfully Quaffle Pocked, and did not get caught
• Aodhan cobbed Akihiko, and will have to do a penalty lap
• Aly, Callum, Katsuro and Jaime all failed to strategize
• Oliver, Oonagh, and Chiaki Boo’d & Cheered successfully
• Kanae and Damien scored 10 points each on the Quaffle
• Percival Bludgers Tone and Kane Successfully.
• Tone Defends Akihiko against Percivals Bludger and is KO’d
• Sara dodges Percival’s Bludger. Sara Bludgers Percival for 1.4K damage
• Aston Blatches Yami. Yami is KOB. Aston will have to do a penalty lap
• Avis saves Percival

Current Score
10 vs 10

Submitted Plays

Health and Post Tracker

Banner by the amazing Beatrice Forsyth!

Date: xx/07/25 WC: 246/200 Interacting with: @Katsuro Souto | @mahoutokoro team Open to interactions!

French English Japanese Thoughts

Jamie kept her attention on the pitch as she tried to analyse what was going on, it seemed like both teams were more than happy to try and get one over on each other by sabotaging early on in the game. She was very happy herself to see that her teammate didn't get caught while the one from Hogwarts got caught meaning that he'd have to do a penalty lap, how great was that!

Seeing that her team was doing okay Jamie turned towards the seeker next to her, wondering if they could maybe try and come up with a strategy that could help them win if both of them got up on the pitch, or to maybe brainstorm some lovely insults they could throw at the opposing team to try and distract them, Jamie could get really quite creative in that department.

Unfortunately it seemed that both of them had too much to say about strategies each of them brought up, and as much as Jamie appreciated a good brainstorm she hadn't expected one of their own to get knocked off their broom so quickly. This meant that neither of them had been able to get a solid strategy in place before she herself had to get ready to join her team in the sky.

At least this meant she'd be able to fly this game and get some much needed practice in, getting onto her broom Jamie prepared to help her team to victory.

ACTION | ABILITES | STATS
Action - As strategised
Evasive manouvers | Charmer [Opponents Hogwarts players] | Fearless
sta • 7 | eva • 8 | str • 10 | wis • 5 | arc • 1 | acc • 14
Stats with broom (firebolt, +4 eva)
sta • 7 | eva • 12 | str • 10 | wis • 5 | arc • 1 | acc • 14
Broom actions
In the role of Beater, if an ALLY dodges a bludger during the round, there is a 20% chance that you catch that bludger with your bat and you send it at a RANDOM enemy target.

In the role of Beater, if you hit an opponent with a bludger the bludger will then ricochet off that user and target a second opponent of choice at disadvantage (must be declared, if not declared the target will be random and can be an ally but not yourself). Ricochet damage is 75% of the original hit.

Avis watched with a grin as Damien slung the Quaffle through one of the hoops on Mahou's end. 10 - 10 was manageable and the other Chasers seemed to be doing their jobs beautifully, despite the foul. She shot a nervous glance at the Seekers high above her head but was suddenly distracted by the current battle of bats going on at the other end of the pitch.

Gripping her broomstick, the Ravenclaw swooped in, keeping an eye out for potential falling bodies and sure enough, one of the beaters, after doing a fair amount of damage on his own, took a Bludger hard, leaving his Oakshaft spinning in the air as he was chaotically knocked off. Avis felt her stomach drop but her mind was all focus as she dove forward, praying to Merlin she'd be able to lug a whole other person onto her Moontrimmer.

Pulling up underneath the falling beater, his face came into view and Avis sighed internally. Of course it had to be the supposedly notorious, albeit extremely intimidating starting beater for Slytherin, who always seemed to have a menacing frown plastered to his face whenever she'd seen him on the pitch. Granted, she'd never had to play against the seventh year during her first season seeing as she'd sat the bench but also granted, she'd seen exactly what he could do and never had even the smallest inkling of desire to play against him in general.

With this in mind, she reached out an open hand, her other one desperately clutching her broom. "Here. I've got you!" she called out.

Despite exchanging merely a few sentences, his exchange with ginyami felt heavy with each word. And Sara’s brain seemed insisted on bringing forth a flash of all their previous conversations. The long talks, the comfortable silences, the laughs, and the more tender memories. All followed by the sharp stinging reminder that it was out of their grasps now. He admitted to himself that hearing the words ‘ please stay safe’ from someone that had hurt him more than any bludger ever could, threatened to lose his focus on the game. His grip tightened on the broom as he remained in the sky. The uneasy fast paced beating in his heart that he was tempted to mistake for the loud breeze now that they were higher from the ground.

And perhaps he really shouldn’t have said anything. Because as the game just started, hogwarts was already out for blood. Sara winced as he saw their seeker get cobbed and opened his mouth to say something but before he could another noise sprung him to see a bludger hit Tone right on the shoulder. Even worse, his friend didnt get to make it out of the way before he was hit again. He really wished that was the end of it but it was just the beginning. He barely managed to evade them. Out of pure defence, he sent it back to the sender and watched with an uneasy frown as the other fell from his broom.

@Percival Rainwood

That… beater. He was good. Mixed feelings swirled in his stomach as he saw the other beater looking barely conscious, thought saved by a teammate. If Sara hadn’t done that, there was no doubt he could cause more damage to his teammates that he already did. Still… if the other somehow met his gaze during the fast paced game, Sara lingered his gaze a little longer before ducking his head slightly out of slight respect..or maybe guilt.. before continuing the game.

"BLATCHING! That's a foul, Beckett!"

This was when Sara really felt sick. A feeling so natural while playing the game, but seeing that one other person fell sent him to freeze. His broom move slightly, stopping as the realisation that Sara was too far to catch up sunk in.

He was… cursed.. surely.. to never be able to tell someone to stay safe.

ABILITIES

|| Terrible Presence || Lovely Creature || Fearless || Evasive Maneuvers I || Rebound | || Evasive Maneuvers II

BROOM : OAKSHAFT
In the role of Beater, if you hit an opponent with a bludger the bludger will then ricochet off that user and target a second opponent of choice at disadvantage (must be declared, if not declared the target will be random and can be an ally but not yourself). Ricochet damage is 75% of the original hit.

In the role of Beater, if an ALLY dodges a bludger during the round, there is a 20% chance that you catch that bludger with your bat and you send it at a RANDOM enemy target.
Note: For the rules lawyers out there: you are not considered your own ally.

In the role of Beater, if you critically hit with a bludger, instead of doing double-damage you do 2.5x damage. If you critically fail with your bludger attempt to hit, rather than having your bludger randomly target another user (including yourself or an ally) the bludger cannot target you on a critical fail (but it can still target your allies). On a re-target, there is a random roll for target and then a fresh accuracy roll.

STATS
Stamina: 5 || Evasion: 19 || Strength: 15 ^{+ 4} 19|| Wisdom: 3 || Arcane Power: 10 || Accuracy: 18 ^{+ 4} 22

@Ginyami Midorimori, @Tone Bakugo

Callum sat on the bench with his broomstick propped up beside him. Dark clouds loomed overhead, threatening to unleash a torrential downpour at any moment. However, Callum wasn’t paying attention to the weather, nor was he focused on the strategy he was supposed to discuss with Aly. Instead, his gaze was fixed on the pitch.

The game had just begun, and players were already targeting one another with ruthless precision. Percival had landed two solid hits on one of Mahoutokoro’s Beaters, knocking him clean off his broom and earning loud cheers from the Hogwarts bench. But the luck didn’t last long. The other Mahoutokoro Beater retaliated quickly, sending his bludger screaming back across the pitch toward Percival. The bludger hit him square in the shoulder.

Callum flinched at the impact. “That’s going to hurt,” he muttered under his breath.

Bludgers were flying everywhere, forcing players to dodge and weave to avoid being knocked off their brooms. Despite the chaos, both teams managed to score, bringing the score to ten points each. Fortunately for Hogwarts, Eve had spotted the Snitch before the Mahoutokoro Seeker. Putting them at an advantage over Mahou. Callum’s grip tightened on his broom handle. Excited about what was unfolding on the pitch.

Japanese ~ English

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Word Count: 235

Mentions: @Katsuro Souto

Date: August 2025

As she had expected, the game would be off to a chaotic start. There was so much happening, it was difficult for Chiaki to know where to direct her attention. Instead, as discussed, she focused on Evelynn, who had set her sights on the snitch. Chiaki wasn't much of negative person, but at least her booing seemed to have done something, even if it be slight - though a small part of her couldn't help but feel a little bad about having to intentionally throw someone off their game. For some reason, it felt different to broom racing, where she would have no trouble at all doing something to stop their opponents from winning. She would have to channel that spirit for the next round, for the sake of her team.

As she did so, she continued to observe the others. A couple of their team fell from the sky, and Chiaki winced at the sight. At the heights that quidditch was played, a fall that far could only be nothing but painful. Even though the bench grew emptier as more of Mahou's team took to the sky, she kept her legs tucked in beneath her with her broom by her side, and turned to recognise her fellow broom racer, Katsuro.

"Hi Katsuro-san," she smiled. "I didn't expect to see you here on the pitch today. Are you here to support our school's team as well?"

Action: As strategised

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Stats:
stamina - 10 (13) | evasion - 10 (13) | strength - 7 (10) | wisdom - 7 (10) | arcpower - 7 (10) | accuracy - 15 (18)

Abilities:
calming presence (allies: all of Mahou team) | cat's grace | evasive man. | muggle condition

Broom:
silver arrow