The Shifting Game || Sapphire Storm Vs UltraViolet

Playing Quidditch was something Elisa would never back off from, despite any hurdles in her way, including the upcoming holidays that brought her yet another chill up her spine, Orpheus's graduation soon, and would take over everything, closing the unfinished chapter of her father's role in the family. She shook her head as she returned her mind from the thoughts of it, as her fingers tightened against the hard wood of her broom, his last gift.

She made her way to the pitch, her platinum hair tied into a messy bun, as strands gently lay on her face. Her gaze remained with a lack of much emotion as she looked around. She barely knew anyone; while there was Draven, a guy she'd met before everything fell apart, from a time when she was nothing more than a cheerful preteen trying to scale her new life in the school, but right now she wished not to interact with anyone. Her eyes fell on some others, Julia, Zach, they were people she'd interacted with perhaps once? Never much

She slowly mounted on her broom as she listened to what the caretaker had to say, his words on a clean-fair game, almost naive, thinking a Quidditch match'd go without a single foul was like thinking the sky'd suddenly turn green.

Elisa cracked her neck in an attempt to ease her mind before the sport as she took off to face the game.

ROUND 1 MODERATION

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Snitch Find DC: 30/Snitch Catch DC: 35
Average Wisdom of Team SAPPHIRE STORM + 15 : 21 (Cheating DC for Team ULTRAVIOLET)
Average Wisdom of Team ULTRAVIOLET + 15: 26 (Cheating DC for Team SAPPHIRE STORM)
Stamina Check DC: Average Stamina of Everyone (no brooms) + 15 = 23

The Bench

The Quaffle

The Snitch

The Bludgers

KOB Fouls

Outcome

• Lots of Cheers and Boos
• Robin and Hayato fail to strategize.
• Aodhan and Camile Strategize successfuuly
• Landon grabs the Quaffle successfully 3x times and passes to Zach each time. Landon mishandles the quaffle once and hurts himself for 50 HP
• Zach scores 3x times, and fumbles a shot once.
• Zophyr scores once
• Miharu spots the snitch.
• Kanae's bludger mishit is intercepted by Damien and shott back at Kanae. Kanae dodges.
• Alphose mishits a bludger towards Damien. Damien dodges.

Current Score
30 vs 10

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Zach flew his broom. It started with an unstable stance, and Zach quickly reminded himself how to fix it. He looked at Landon to look for his validation. After all, Landon was the one who taught him how to fly and the one who supported him to fight his fear of heights. Landon Matthews

Stable levitation in the sky, Zach looked at the moderator. He was Mahdi Hassan, the Caretaker in Hogwarts. Zach hadn't had any interaction with the man. He didn't know if he would interact with him because he looked scary. He wondered why Hogwarts employed a scary-looking person to be the students' caretaker. But his judgement could be wrong. Maybe he was a scary-looking man with a Hello Kitty heart.

He also saw another man in the spectator stadium that he believed was the Headmaster of Mahoutokoro. He brought... a blinding banner. Zach suddenly felt embarrassment. He was pretty lucky that his Headmaster or Head of House didn't do what that man did. That man reminded him of the uncles in their nephews' games. If Zach could take his wand to burn that banner without making any problems, he would do it immediately.

But he must put his focus on something more important.

In front of him, the game started. He heard some boos and cheered. He also saw some who didn't really take any interest in the game, or perhaps they did; Zach didn't know.

He flew near Landon since he didn't really understand how to play Quidditch. He was that typical boy who screamed when the others screamed and booed when the others booed. What he understood was the goal and the snitch grab. So he kept flying behind Landon, tailing him.

Landon often grabbed the Quaffle and passed it to Zach so he could throw it to the goal post. His first attempt succeeded! He gave the boy the biggest grin he could make. The second attempt, Zach couldn't do it. "Sorry!" he said in a high-pitched voice since he didn't know if his normal voice could reach him in this situation.

The next one was weird. Landon grabbed the Quaffle from him, but then he turned it back. Zach was flustered, confused, and didn't know what to do. But he quickly regained his awareness once he saw the other Chaser and threw the Quaffle to the goalpost. The next one was successful; the next after it, Landon wasn't successful in his attempt to grab the Quaffle. Zach flew over him and said, "Hehe, good job! Thank you for letting me throw the Quaffle."

Action: Sapphire Storm team
Interaction: @Landon Matthews; @Mahdi Hassan; @Kotoka Sako
TRUNK
STA 8 | EVA 11 | STR 3 | WIS 13 | ARC 10 | ACC 12
Broom: Silver Arrow (+3 to all stats), stats after the broom stats addition:
STA 11 | EVA 14 | STR 6 | WIS 16 | ARC 13 | ACC 15
Rapid Reviver | Blindvision | Healing Sage | Paragon of Health (Landon Matthews & Mio)

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Mentions Reducio @Zach Zaphiere, @Kanae Suzuki, @Mio Kasasagi, @Miharu Goto, @Landon Matthews, @Romélie de Brissac, @Blaize Valerian, @Robin Marie, @Hayato Ichiyagi & @Julia Evans

Date 18th of April, 2026

Words 283

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 Chaser when you attempt to catch a passed Quaffle (such as when the Keeper has possession of the Quaffle and passes it to a teammate) you have advantage (meaning that it is rolled twice and you keep the better option) on attempts to catch if the opponent team attempts to intercept.
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 Seeker when you have found the snitch, if someone attempts to use Alley Oop to help you find the snitch, you will not have disadvantage. However, with this broom you do not gain the +1 chance to grab the snitch for rounds that the Alley Oop is used. To clarify, each round someone attempts to grab a snitch they get a +1 to the attempt and this stacks. There is no bonus (or stack from this round's attempt to grab) to grabbing the snitch.
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.

The whistle blew, and the game was on. Forget the fact that he barely knew who his own teammates were. That wasn’t important, right? Right. He had been set to saving duty for the round. Thankfully no one of the Sapphire Storm fell off their broom. That was perhaps for the best. He had intended to keep his attention on the beaters, as in his experience they were the reason most people fell. But somehow they had mostly decided to play catch with each other instead.

Very little fouls were to be seen either. In his opinion a bit of cheating could only enhance a game. But such was life when those in charge decided to take the referees spiel about «a nice clean game» seriously. Not much he could do about it. Max found himself wrapped up in the play for the quaffle, and failed on more than one occasion to keep his attention where it should be. The Hufflepuff fourth year seemed to truly be in a groove. As far as Max knew the badger had mostly been keeping the bench warm during the official games. Turns out he could actually handle a quaffle. Good for him! Grabbing and handing it off to a ravenclaw that seemed to be at least a bit less full of himself than stupid Dragonclaw. Not only did he get the quaffle when passed, but he also scored for all but empty hoops. Max’s mind drifted further as he cast a glance at the seekers looking high and low for that glint of gold. Was it? Yes, it did indeed seem like a smart guy on his team had succeeded in locating it. Huzza for that!

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Frankly, Mamori had no idea what he'd done to deserve being mentioned in the same breath as Maisie Gemma Gemmell, the reigning queen of full attendance in the jock division, who had probably played two to three times as many unofficial matches as him this season alone. But he'd almost let this short menace lead him astray from the actual issue, that alone was the real crime here. "The only reason you'd notice how many matches I've played is if you'd been in most of them yourself," he said, chewing on a crisp and sliding a sideways glance toward @Aodhan Shaw, "which honestly just means we've been catching the same condition this whole time." That was when his attention drifted toward his snack cart and the marshmallow biscuit wrapper sitting on top of it, torn open and contents down by one biscuit. The pink-haired badger narrowed his eyes at the crime scene, slightly irritated but not about to let a good opportunity for some extra pocket money slip by, so he held up the carcass and gave it a little shake in front of Aodhan's face. "That'll be 3 knuts, plus 1 knut for me personally hauling this cart all the way over here, plus 1 knut in tax, so 5 knuts total. Would you like to settle now or should I just send the bill to your room." He'd tack on another 2 knuts later for paper and ink when the invoice actually got drafted. Somewhere in the middle of enjoying his snacks the match had started, and this round landed him on cheer duty for a bro with chocolate colored skin, a job he treated with bare minimum required to count as participating. All he managed was three half hearted, voice-cracking-through-puberty shouts of encouragement before he went right back to munching. Whether that had anything to do with said bro's aim going sideways is anyone's guess, but the ball did end up close enough to clip a certain trust fund kid. A bit of a shame either way, he genuinely couldn't tell you which was more disappointing, the ball missing the enemy the team had been hoping to hit, or not catching the trust fund kid square on instead. Also, forget visible blood, the broom casualty count was still sitting at zero, did they swap the pitch out for a petting zoo??? "What the actual hell, a whole round and not a single foul." Mamori slumped back into the bench, mood souring by the second. "Guys, where is the violence in this sport, if nobody delivers in the next 5 minutes I'm gone, I've seen livelier chess matches."

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𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 Silver Arrow 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 +3 to all stats :DDDDD 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑠 sta. 5 8 | eva. 10 13 | str. 5 8 | wis. 9 12 | arc. 3 6 | acc. 10 13 𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 Non-Human Enthusiast | Foulplay 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 As strategized