Quaffle And (Dis)order: A Friendly Skirmish

Akihiko’s teams had dropped like flies. The airspace was now being dominated by the unruly Hogwarts players, while his own team had been significantly reduced to a much smaller number.

After spotting the snitch, he was determined not to allow to Hogwarts students to take any of his remaining teammates out. Even if it weighed him down, all he could do was attempt to catch any players that would fall off their brooms and keep them from hitting the ground thousands of feet below.

He pulled back, keeping his eyes locked on his teammates in case any of them were to go down. He knew it would be difficult to turn the tides of the game, especially with so little of players remaining to do anything to stop the opposing team. However, it wasn’t over until it was over.

Keeping an eye trained on the snitch, out of the corner of his eye he watched another teammate fly off her broom, struck by the bludger and unable to defend herself. He knew a lost cause when he saw it. Saving her was one of them. This game, however…

Steeling himself, he prepared for what was to come. He had to win this, for his pride or whatever other reason he could conjure to mind to motivate a desperate attempt at a win. He couldn’t let his teammates down.

Akihiko Takahashi Stats
Stats: Stamina: 10 | Evasion: 10 | Strength: 3 | Wisdom: 15 | ArcPower: 1 | Accuracy: 13
Abilities: Charmer, Keen Eye, Evasive Maneuvers I, Evasive Manuevers II
Broom: Tinderblast

Reducio

In the role of Seeker, if an opponent attempts to Bludger or Blatch you, there is a 20% chance that you veer out of the way the last second and another enemy player at RANDOM is targeted instead.

Note: The new target still gets their normal dodge attempt. This is not considered to be an auto-dodge, in fact this roll is done before any accuracy rolls are done.

Action: As strategized

Percival could not help but let out a laugh as he watched his bludger successfully ricochet into another of the rapidly dwindling Mahou team. His mood instantly grew lighter as he watched them fall through the air. It was quite cathartic to watch. A smirk was pulled tight across his face, despite the copper taste that seemed to be a permanent fixture on his palate. It honestly surprised him quite a bit that he had managed to make it this far in the game. Usually, getting knocked off a broom meant a trip to the hospital wing. As the boy shifted, he could feel a twinge deep in his chest. Making him realize he would have to visit anyway.

The boy brought his hand up to wipe away more of the blood that dripped slowly down his face. Holding onto his bats a little tighter as the younger girl flew them through the air. "Skies seem to be getting a lot clearer." he hummed out blissfully. He wondered how many of the other team they had to send into the Earth before they would forfeit. Not that he wanted them to, he would very much rather take the time to send them all into the ground personally. Percival let out a chuckle to himself as he readied his bat. Maybe that was just wishful thinking.

Mentions: @Avis Greymond

| Stamina 10 | Evasion 16 [+4] 20 | Strength 14 | Wisdom 10 | Arcane Power 8 | Accuracy 16 [+4] 20|
Broom: Oakshaft

Foulplay | Lovely Creature | Beast Master | Rebound | Nonverbal | Broken Broomshaft |Fearless

Reducio

1. 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 (must be declared, if not declared the target will be random and can be an ally but not yourself).

2. 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.

3. 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.

Date: August | Time: Daytime | Mention:

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xo

She ducked, dodged, and dived around the quaffle. The game was beginning to see an end Bea thought. The Japanese team hadn't had much luck so far, and their players were going down like flies. Just as the thought occurred to Bea, it was just her luck that the same thing happened for Hogwarts. One of their chasers, a younger boy that Bea had seen around the Common Room sometimes, but had never interacted with before this moment, was knocked off his broom. Down she swooped, picking him up just in time before the magical safety spells ignited. Bea turned her head at his thanks, removing her goggles from her eyes so she could actually look at him properly. "You're welcome. We're team-mates. That's what we do." She wasn't sure what to do next. She'd never been in a position where she'd actually had to save anyone. Granted, she hadn't played in many matches to begin with. She supposed she could return him to her broom, but where the heck was the magical piece of wood?! She scanned her eyes, but for now, she would keep Damion safe with her while she surveyed the rest of the game. Their chance at something would come.

xo

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Sta 10 13 | Eva 10 13 | Str 4 7 | Wis 17 20 | Arc 8 11 | Acc 10 13
Silver Arrow = +3 to every stat
Sixth Sense | Perfectionist | Spell Spread | Impartial | Nonverbal Magic

Oonagh was still rather annoyed and grumbling that she was stuck on this bench while that almost dead Slytherin who had once seemed quite scary was bleeding all over the person who had rescued him. It just showed her though that he was all bark and no bite, after all he had barely done anything since the start. So he really could only focus on little first years then, which was kind of pathetic. She should have thrown more rocks at him back at the Lake...

A loud groan left her mouth as she slumped down. "Either get me a go tae bash thair skulls or do something, yer dead useless up there!" She shouted, crossing her arms and looking sour as she glared at the things going on up in the sky. While she was at that she also threw some insults in to the sky at one of the chasers in the other team. Mostly consisting of various cusses and immature terms. She was frustrated and had hoped that she would get to play. But now even if she were to get a chance to play, it would not matter anyway, since that is like being the last pigeon to get a go at the dropped bag of chips and fish on the pavements, after a bunch of seagulls had already made it their target. She would be flinging her bludgers at the leftovers and while that might be better than not getting to hit the metal balls at anyone, it still was annoying.

Would it have been so hard for Percival to just drop down instead of weighing on the featherbrain like a bag of potatoes?

ROUND 4

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 around the same time as before and 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: 31 (wisdom) / 28 (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)

The Bench

All the noise from the bench this time around seemed to come from Hogwarts, both cheers and boos.

The Quaffle

With the high action ongoing, it seemed that the Quaffle has been forgotten by both sides

Debuff Fouls

It seemed that all the actions are centered on the seekers. Chiaki shadows the Hogwarts seeker, Eve; just as Beatrice and Damien blurt Akihiko

"Foul! Can you guys go ONE ROUND without fouling? Penalty lap Shaw!"

The Snitch

Evelynn spiral dives towards the snitch; just as Kanae Alley Oops Akihiko is a desperate bid to catch up to the Hogwarts Seeker. Unfortunately for Mahoutokoro, Kanae seemed to be unused to throwing people, and the trajectory was just a little bit off.
It looked like this was a done deal as Eve dived towards the Snitch, but then at the last moment the little golden ball moved; and the Hogwarts Seeker found herself broom-to-broom with Chiaki.
In the momentary confusion, the Snitch had slipped away.

Beaters

It seemed that Hogwarts had finally given Percival a repreive to go back onto his own broom. Without the senior menace beating about the bludgers, it appeared that Aston was going to be trying their luck to emulate their senior.
Meanwhile, a rogue bludger shoots itself towards Chiaki, but is dodge with ease.

Aodhan, fresh from his fifty points tries to Blatch an alley-ooped Akihiko stratight off his broom. But what's this? Despite speeding towards the snitch, Akihiko manages to roll his broom out of the way, and Aodhan shoots past him harmlessly and right into--

"BLATCHING! That's a foul! CAN YOU GUYS STOP WITH THE FOULS".

Outcome

• Akihiko and Eve both fail to catch the snitch
• Damien and Beatrice successfully blurt Akihiko, are caught and have to do a penalty round
• Avis returns Percival to their broom
• Aodhan accidentally blatches beatrice. Beatrice and Damion are KOB. Must do a penalty lap
• Chiaki successfully snitch blocks. Successfully evades being seen. No Penalty lap
• Miharu completes penalty lap

Current Score
40 vs 60

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Aly, having given up on attempting to strategise with her benched teammates, may have been playing a Keeper in this match... but she had been the Ravenclaw Seeker for over a year now, and her eyes were drawn to the battle of the Seekers as easily as if it were the most natural thing in the world. Mahoutokouro's team seemed pretty singularly focused on it, both Alley-Ooping their Seeker and also sending another to Snitch-Block the Hogwarts team's; Aly whooped loudly as Eve dove for the Snitch anyway. "You got this! Let's go, Eveeee!" But perhaps her cheering just wasn't loud enough, or maybe it distracted the lioness instead of bolstering her, for the ever-elusive golden ball just slipped barely away from her fingers.

Aly groaned under her breath, but then her gaze was drawn instinctively to something else - a different shock of curly red hair falling from the bright daytime sky. Aly swirled to check, but Eve was still atop her broom, so - Oh! It's Bea! Aly shook her head, slumping down on her benched seat. Lear's twinkliest toes. First-string Keeper's out, we'll have to send in the second-string...

She sat there motionless for a moment before jumping up. "Oh!" she exclaimed to no one in particular, very much not living up to the whole intelligence standard of her House at the moment. "Wait a bloody minute, that's me!"

Aly swung a leg over her Oakshaft and took to the skies. Though she was less than thrilled that Bea was down for the count, it sure did feel good to be back in a Keeper role for the first time in years... back up here in the skies, where she belonged.

Action: As strategised

Reducio

STA: 10 + 4 = 14

EVA: 14

STR: 5

WIS: 19

ARC: 7

ACC: 16 + 4 = 20

Applicable Abilities:

Charmer Reducio -1 accuracy to all of Aly's opponents (defined as the Mahoutokouro first-string and second-string Quidditch players)	Keeper's Catch Reducio 10% chance to automatically block an attempt to score a goal as long as Aly is taking an action in the goal area
Paragon of Health Reducio Up to two allies (defined as Oonagh Brown and Callum Alistar) gain +10% temporary health points calculated from their stamina; any effects that are based on a percent of their health (such as an attack that does 10% of their maximum health) would be based on their natural maximum health score, and temporary health points cannot be healed	Lovely Creature Reducio This increases the snitch-finding Control DC for the opponent team (defined as Mahoutokouro) by +2
Foulplay Reducio When performing a foul, Aly has a 25% chance the foul goes unnoticed by the referee, causing her to not have to take a penalty lap	Keen Eye Reducio Aly has a 10% chance to automatically identify the location of the Snitch

Broomstick:

Oakshaft 79: +4 to two stats of choice, plus special abilities for negating scoring advantages while blocking, crit successes on blocks, and blocking = kicking for damage (aka all 3 applicable Keeper abilities)

Japanese ~ English

Reducio

Word Count: 207

Mentions: @Evelynn Decipio

Date: August 2025

Chiaki, despite her general kind and soft-hearted appearance (which, most of the time, she was), was a lot more devious on the pitch when she wanted to be, and she was ready to put that to good use for her team. Slyly, as she took to the sky, she trained her focus on Evelynn, timing her ascension to match with when she saw the opposing seeker begin to spiral dive. Holding her breath, preparing in case of a painful collision, she put her broom racing skills to good practice as she zoomed between Evelynn and the snitch, hoping that her sudden presence cutting through the seeker's trained focus would throw her off.

Watching with baited breath, she couldn't help but let a small smile through as she witnessed the snitch slip through Evelynn's grasp, seeing her plan had worked. "Sorry," she called out, feigning politeness. "I didn't see you there!"

As she called out, she caught sight of a rogue bludger hurling itself towards her, which she easily slid to the side to avoid. A small glance towards the referee confirmed her suspicions that her 'accident' in blocking Evelynn's snitch grab attempt had been overlooked. Perhaps she was better at quidditch than she gave herself credit for.

Action: As strategised

Reducio

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

Unofficial Quid game as Kanae Suzuki
mentions:@Chiaki Hiroi@mahou team
open to interactions ! < 3

Reducio

RP Date August 2025 Speech Reducio "Kanae's Speech (Japanese)" "Kanae's Speech (English)" 'Thoughts (any lang.)'

Outfit/s Reducio hair fit: Items: broom height for rp purposes: 5'1 Post date (GMT+8) 21 August 2025

Tough luck went both ways this time.

Kanae didn't know whether to cheer or not -- majority of the crowd was boo-ing anyway. It was better than 5 minutes ago so yey?

At least Chiaki-senpai had swooped in like some kind of guardian angel. She gave them a little whoop at that. It was already surprising that the other seeker didn't get the snitch. Kanae circled slowly, letting her legs dangle for a second before pulling them back tight.

Her eyes scanned the pitch: bludgers whizzing and refs screaming. Speaking of the ref, they were way too tall for their age and screaming way too much for their own good.

She winced at the result of her “grand idea” of tossing Akihiko closer. In theory, it sounded genius. In practice? She might as well have just lobbed a sack of rice at Hogwarts’ seeker and scurry away to happy hour. The last thing she wanted was to sit out the rest of the match looking useless.

“Alright, Kanae, get your head back in,” she whispered, giving her own cheeks a little slap. She grinned at the thought, broom tilting forward. Perhaps it's miracle time, maybe? Even if her next move crashed and burned, at least she’d go down sparkling.

RP Word Count: 209/200
OOC:
Calming Presence in Effect

Moderation:

Reducio Action: as strategized Position: First-String Chaser 1 Broom: Silverarrow (+3 to every stat) Raw Stats: STA 7 | EVA 7 | STR 10 | WIS 9 | ARC 7 | ACC 14 Stats w/broom: STA 10 | EVA 10 | STR 13 | WIS 12 | ARC 10 | ACC 17 Abilities: Evasive Maneuvers I Reducio 10% auto-evasion chance that anything that targets this player automatically misses Calming Presence Reducio Allies gain a 10% chance to auto-hit on all actions needing an accuracy vs evasion roll. This does not stack. Chaser's Interception Reducio When a Quaffle is being passed by the opponent team, users with this ability automatically get a 10% chance to intercept the quaffle as long as the user is taking a quaffle-related action during that quidditch round. Note: a quaffle cannot be intercepted twice in one quaffle round (there are five quaffle rounds in one quidditch round). Foulplay Reducio When preforming a foul, this player has a 25% chance the foul goes unnoticed by the referee causing the player to not have to take a penalty lap.