To Bludger or to be Bludgered? pv group

All eyes turned upwards as the match began, and while Ari had full intentions on watching the game, he had tried to come up with a plan of action with Val as they sat together on the bench. Unfortunately, that fell through. His attempt at conversing was met with silence and confused eyes. Had he done something wrong?

This is why I don't talk to people.

While not irritated with Val, Ari decided it would be best to create distance to prevent further awkward interaction. Social anxiety had its victory for the day. He removed his feet from the bench in front of him and hoisted himself up to stand, folding his arms and tapping his foot as he shifted his focus to the sight of Harlan scoring point after point for the opposing team. While Harlan had not done anything to Ari personally, the competitive spirit of frustration nested in his clenched jaw. Losing was a form of failure, and failure was an unacceptable thing.

No words were said as he made his way over to Riley as she booed the other team's success, taking a seat next to her. He quickly located Elena and kept his gaze on her for a moment before returning to bouncing back and forth between the various plays happening simultaneously. He could try to look for the snitch himself, but it wouldn't be smart to point it out should he find it. After all, he knew she was more than capable of finding it herself.

"Stay focused, moonbeam. You've got this."

ACTION: As strategized

ABILITIES:
Perfectionist | Charmer | Unfettered Flight | Spell Spread
STATS:
Sta: 11 14 | Eva: 11 14 | Str: 7 10 | Wis: 12 15 | Arc: 9 12 | Acc: 12 15
BROOM:
Silver Arrow
+3 to all stats

tba

Gliding through the air after a long time felt seriously peaceful for Elisa; the game had immediately gone straight to action the moment Ebony had blown the whistle. Countless brooms swishing past each other, while the benched players roared with cheers, the first part was going well for their team. With Harland's immediate scoring of 60 points, it didn't seem that bad.

Her eyes fell on one of the rival teams' chasers, who seemed far too pleased with himself as he shimmyed past the chasers.. She slowly swung her bat towards him, the moment a bludger neared her, in an attempt to thwart his plan, only for it to be intercepted by some girl and thrown to Zephyr. Elisa widened her eyes as she mouthed You okay?, to the first year.

She hovered for a second to notice any potential bludger dangers, only to suddenly feel one of the large metals hit her from back as an excruiciating pain shot up her spine, Elisa groaned out of pain, it wasn't as bad as some she'd taken before, but after practically a year without experiencing it, her body had almost forgotten the pain those metal balls brought.

She glanced up to see the person who'd sent it her way. Of course, it had to be Prat, her annoying cousin strove for every moment to up her, "Bloody Snollygoster", she cursed. She knew that stuck up would probably rub it on her face for the upcoming few months, even if he ends up getting a hex in return after the match. The guy was just as much of a shameless creature as he was an okayish cousin.

mentions| @thunderbolts @Ari Gwild @Elisa Shakestra @Elena Clark ooc notes| n/a date| 19/03/26

295 |word count val/regent (they/she) |aliases ♛ [black and white quidditch kit] |outfit

Valour stared ahead at the match, enraptured by the effortless flying by some and more catastrophic attempts by others. An upperclassman of hers - Ari, she thought - had approached her to talk strategy. They blinked up at his towering form and dark aesthetic, eyebrows furrowed slightly in disinterest. She did not deign speak first. Talking was not really what they'd signed up for; they meant no offense to the guy, but their ideas were going nowhere. Through their brief chatter, Valour remained distracted by her rather cold roommate almost being knocked off her broom.

"Sorry emo boy, this is far too good not to watch."

Stifling a laugh, Valour watched as Elisa made a quick recovery from her collision, trying to hide her slight satisfaction from the whole ordeal.

A beam of straw gold flitted amongst the players, searching aimlessly against the wind. The second year had become the object of Valour's interest over the last few months, growing curiouser which each encounter. To many, a perfect idol. To Valour, a kindred haunted spirit. Their eyes remained fixated on her from afar. Much like the moon to the earth, she flew out of reach while Valour was forced to remain landlocked. At times, it felt like the earth orbitted the moon.

actions| as strategised broom| nimbus 1500 as keeper, negates opponent's goal-scoring advantage

n/a |note intuition - 10% auto-hit and auto-evade abilities |magical race

The Golden Phoenix Snitch Find/Catch DC: 28/25 (LC)
The Thunderbolts Snitch Find/Catch DC: 26/23
The Golden Phoenix Cheat DC: 24 (6S)
The Thunderbolts Cheat DC: 25 (6S)

BEATERS
The hitherto rather successful Thunderbolts — with Damien’s Quaffle goals — saw no sign of a cease in their victorious streak. Max, in an attempt to carry out a backbeat towards Mirada, found that his bludger was unable to pass the brick wall that was Graci as she intercepted with ease. Her bat smoothly connected with the bludger, and it was sent hurtling towards Elisa.

Concurrently, Prat sent another bludger towards Elisa — again. Ebony was starting to wonder whether the boy was using his position as Beater as an excuse to carry out a personal vendetta. Elisa, perhaps foreseeing that the opposing beater would target her, moved to intercept the bludger — but in an unprecedented twist of events that the referee herself could not have predicted, the bludger seemed to fly towards Persephone instead as Elisa intercepted it. Perhaps the girl had a vendetta of her own, too, against her own teammate. Or perhaps it was a genuine mistake, wherein the bludger was directed faultily.

In that very moment, both Graci and Prat’s bludgers simultaneously collided into Elisa. The girl was unable to withstand such force after already having taken a hit prior, and was unfortunately sent tumbling towards the ground with nobody to act as her saviour. Ouch. please don't ask what is going on here

“Manjunath, you’re up.” The referee motioned to the second-string beater to mount her broom.

The Golden Phoenix: 60 | Thunderbolts: 60
・Laasya and Cash successfully strategise.
・Ari and Riley successfully strategise.
・Artie & Harumi successfully boo Prat.
・Valour & Astal successfully cheer Elena.
・Damien scores 60 points.
・Denise and Zephyr both take 50 damage.
・Graci bludgers Elisa for 450 damage, she is KOB.

・More information about the Quidditch System can be found here.

・As this is not an official game, posts need to be 200 words.

・The deadline to submit strategy via DM/owl and to post is 120 hours (5 days). I'll be more lenient with this for the first two rounds or so, but typically, failure to post on time means your character's action is void and failure to send strategy means the team's actions are voided. Feel free to owl me if you need an extension, as IRL things can get busy.

・Each player is allowed one action per round.

・KOB players no longer need to post, though you may if you desire.

・Rolls are in the reducios and on Discord. Owl me/DM if I made any mistakes or if you have any questions!

Banner by Julia Evans

Team: @Persephone Grimsbane, @Harumi Everdane, @Zephyr Deakin, @Harlan Montgomery, @Julia Evans, @Cassandra Ironwoods, @Denise Yarbrough, @Artie Kempston, @Elisa Shakestra & @Laasya Manjunath
Dialogue: #F07435
Date: 19.03.26
Words: 284

He was adamant on keeping focus this round. No bludger would get past him to hurt anybody on his team. He was so focused in fact, that he completely missed the stupid eagle scoring. Not one time. Not even two or three, but six! He only noticed because of the cheers. He worked his jaw. That smart ass Damien could go take a nap. Preferably at the bottom of the lake. With his fancy words, why did he have to be good at quidditch too?

He tore his gaze away. He would make them all eat mud. Figuratively at least. He was pretty sure a few of the other team could murder him if they wanted. To not even mention the fifth year on the bench. No, he needed to lock in.

There! The bludger was positioned beautifully. He kept a firm grasp on the bat as he swung a straight up glorious backbeat. It even sent the bludger right where he was aiming. Then stupid Graci had to come in and ruin it. She redirected it as easily as if he had tossed a ball of cotton at her. He scowled.

What was worse was that the redirected bludger hit Elisa and knocked her off her broom. «Dammed it!» Under other circumstances he would have been sort of proud of the string of curse words that followed. This was not the moment for it. He slowed down enough to spot Laasya on the bench. Hopefully they would be able to take care of this together. No encouraging words came to his mind this time as he circled around, ready to go at it again. But a bitter mutter took their place. «Eat shit.»

Stats sta. 6 | eva. 5 | str. 8 | wis. 4 | arc. 5 | acc. 7 ——————————————Trunk
Broom. Nimbus 1500 —————————————————————Action: As strategized

Reducio

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.

Banner by Julia Evans

Date: 19-03-26

Mentions: Reducio @Maximilianus Kenneally Vidler, @Harumi Everdane, @Zephyr Deakin, @Harlan Montgomery, @Julia Evans, @Cassandra Ironwoods, @Denise Yarbrough, @Artie Kempston, @Elisa Shakestra, @Persephone Grimsbane

Notes: N/A

Laasya:#ff751a ❀ Others:#ff9d85

L A A S Y A

Oh for goodness sakes. The match wasn't going well according to Laasya. For one thing, the Thunderbolts had somehow managed to score a whole 60 points! And for another thing, the snitch hadn't been spotted yet, although it was quite minor as according to the few games she watched or so, the snitch was never found early on. The only improvement was that she had managed to strategize with the captain Cash a bit while Artie and Harumi both booed the Thunderbolt's beater Prat who seemed to have a grudge against poor Elisa for some unknown reason that Laasya would find out once this game was over. Her suspicions were confirmed as Elisa had taken a nasty bludger by that Prat again and had fallen off her broom! Yikes! Laasya thought to herself as Ebony announced the Laasya was ought to play now as she was the second string beater. The perfectly aimed bludger which Max had sent at Graci was intercepted by her and sent back to Elisa, thus causing her to plummet to the ground with the force of both the bludgers on her. "Continuous targeting." Laasya muttered to herself as she prepared to mount her shooting star, which was way more ancient and weaker than most of her fellow players' brooms. And Zephyr and Denise had both hurt themselves while handling the quaffle. Even though the teams were equal with points, one of the Golden Phoenixes' members were out of the game. The game was becoming very intense now, now that the teams were neck to neck with points. Laasya prayed that she did not get kicked off her broom and managed to do something useful on the pitch. She yelled to everyone on her team "Good luck everyone! We got this!"

M A N J U N A T H

Word Count: 295

Stats
STA-7{8}, EVA-8{9}, STR-4, WIS-7, ARC-2, ACC-7

Broom
Shooting Star: +1 evasion; +1 stamina

Abilities
Prodigal Charms Learner

Action
As strategized