Hogwarts Summer Camp Chess Combat, Game 2

Combat Start

10th of July 2020, 01:00 pm
Chess Combat, Game TWO

Once the first match was over, they still had time to clean the field and prepare the arena for the next match. Professor Vernatis did a great job and now it was her turn to moderate the arena. She learnt all the rules by heart, they were not difficult. Her goal was to be vigilant and make sure the duel was as fair as possible and only the legitimate spells were cast. It was a bit more difficult compared to regular duelling she had attended before. But her duties of a prefect made her a moderator in the out-of-school events as well. She stepped in the middle of the arena with the list of students and started to call them in, showing them to the left or to the right —dividing them into the teams.

Once the students discussed their strategy and positions and announced their readiness, she asked them to greet each other.

"Remember that only the legitimate spells are to be used and no physical attacks are possible. Please, make it fair and good luck," she proclaimed and coughed to cleared her throat before announcing the start, "Let the game begin!"

Team Compositions

Team Black	Team White
@Bridget Collins Evanore Fairclay (@River Dewlight) @Neculai Lazar @Erik Tharaldson Karilyna Kawahara (@Thora Larkston)	Johannes Ambroży (@Astrea Soleil Neptune) Milosh Rehnquist (@Annie Morgan) @Raine Sage @Katrina Walker Alexei Petrov (@Anastasia Beckett)

This match will be moderated by @Meenauh Silmataurea

Team Black (3700/3700, 100%) Bridget (500/500), Rook, A1 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: - Round End Effects: None Erik (600/600), Bishop, A2 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: - Round End Effects: None Karilyna (800/800), Queen, A3 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: - Round End Effects: None Neculai (900/900), Bishop, A4 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: - Round End Effects: None Evanore (900/900), Rook, A5 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: - Round End Effects: None

Team White (3800/3800, 100%) Johannes (600/600), Rook, E1 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: - Round End Effects: None Katrina (600/600), Bishop, E2 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: - Round End Effects: None Alexei (1000/1000), Queen, E3 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: - Round End Effects: None Raine (800/800), Bishop, E4 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: - Round End Effects: None Milosh (800/800), Roook, E5 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: - Round End Effects: None

Some important links

The Chess Combat Rules can be found here.
The list of Duelling Spells can be found here.
The Duelling Mechanics explanations can be found here.
If you need a reminder of which spells you personally have access to, they are locked-in here.
The spectator thread for this game is here.

Starting now you have 72 hours to post RP for the next round and to discuss and decide amongst each other which actions each of you will take and your Queen will owl your actions to Meenauh Silmataurea AND Professor Zahid AND Professor Vernatis.

@Katrina Walker | @River Dewlight | @Thora Larkston | @Erik Tharaldson | @Neculai Lazar

Bridget decided it was high time she reconciled her current duelling record. It had been nearly a year ago now that she'd lost her first, and so far only, duel and for the competitive girl, it was not okay to be devoid of a single win under her belt, as was the current case unless you counted Aurelia's S.W.A.G. club. Today she was determined to fix that.

The first duel concluded and the arena reset, Bridget made her way onto the chess board and stood waiting, wand held loosely in her dominant left hand. Honey-colored eyes surveyed those that would soon make up her team or opponent and went to the side she was directed to when Prefect Silmataurea addressed them. The first thing she realized was that she was up against Katrina. The brunette wasn't all too thrilled about that, since sending harmful spells your friend's way wasn't high on her to-do list, but it would be fine. They'd been up against each other in S.W.A.G. before, anyways. She wondered how the Gryffindor would hold up--fire seemed to be a staple in duelling, or any Hogwarts event where spells were cast for that matter, and the lion was understandably deathly afraid of it. How could you not be when it was the thing that had wiped out your entire family and destroyed your childhood home?

Hopefully Katrina would be alright. "Good luck!" she called to the redhead. With a smirk, she added, "You're going to need it. No hard feelings." It was kind of nice, just being able to joke with a friend. Her concentration needed to be on the duel now, though, if she wanted to win.

Turning to her team, she could at least recall seeing all of them before. That meant the two girls that were relative unknowns were from Ilvermorny and she'd seen them back in the fall. The other team had several Durmstrang students, evidenced by the fact she didn't know them at all. The Slytherin wasn't too thrilled with the members of her team she knew by name, Erik Tharaldson and Neculai Lazar. Yet another thing she knew from S.W.A.G. club--they couldn't exactly be trusted to do what was best for the team. In fact, there was a pretty high chance they'd forget the rules and start attacking the White Team.

Well, whatever. She couldn't do anything about her team now. The small Ilvermorny girl was nominated as Queen, a choice Bridget wasn't completely sure about. It wasn't that she thought she was some weakling because of her size--Thora had proved shortness did not mean frailty--but of course she had doubts, what with not even knowing the girl. Still, it was unlikely she was so big-headed as to accept the position of Queen if she knew she couldn't take a few hits and was no good with a wand, so that was a small reassurance.

Now, the most important thing was her own performance. With any luck her teammates would have some amount of skill, so if she did her best, that would have to be enough. Squaring her feet, eyes narrowed slightly, Bridget readied her wand. It was time to play chess.

Action | Doing as strategized

Outfit | Hair

@Bridget Collins @Anastasia Beckett @Raine Sage @Annie Morgan @Astrea Soleil Neptune

Katrina was pretty excited for the game to begin. She had never played wizard chess... or any kid of chess for that matter. However, she was strategic and a quick learner so hopefully she would catch up quick. There wasn’t much worry on her side of things, after all, there were older people around to make sure no one got really badly hurt.

As they got sorted into teams, Katrina couldn’t help but puzzle. She knew no one from her team. Hopefully that wouldn’t be an advantage, but she would have to deal with things as they came. Surely they were from the other schools, at least, Katrina assumed they did.

Bridget called out to her and Katrina smiled at her friend’s face. She hadn’t put two and two together that she would be against one of her only friends. Hopefully she could put everything aside for the sake of the game. It was a game after all. Katrina decided she would avoid doing anything to her, but if they had to, she would.

“Be ready to lose!” Katrina smirked, an air of play acted confidence was portrayed from her silly upturned nose, “I can’t wait to win,” her acting fell away and Katrina gave Bridget a look that clearly said, ‘stay safe’.

It wasn’t that Katrina was worried about her getting hurt. In fact, she was really looking forward to having an excuse to practice some spell casting. But anything that had more than three Hogwarts students in one place often ended with someone hurting or unconscious or bitten or on fire. Katrina dearly hoped that the latter one wouldn’t happen, she still wasn’t sure how she would react when fire was around her. There had been a while where she was fine with it, but now she seemed more sensitive then ever after having to plan a summer without having a home.

Alright. Time to get her head in the game. Katrina walked up to her spot and looked around at her team. They all looked ready to win. Katrina took out her wand and spun it in her hand, feeling the grooves down the length of it. Don’t you dare fail me this time wand. She was ready to win this thing.

Doing as Strategized

Outfit

Action: Doing as strategized

Stamina: 8 Evasion: 8 Strength: 3 Wisdom: 10 Arcane Power: 3 Accuracy: 8

Abilities: Fearless
Prodigal Charms

Playing as: Milosh Rehnquist
Action: Doing as Strategized

Mentions: @Astrea Soleil Neptune, @Anastasia Beckett @Katrina Walker & @Raine Sage

Playing as Evanore Fairclay (Ilvermorny)
Abilities: Fearless & Charmer
Stats:

Reducio

Stamina: 9
Evasion: 6
Strength: 1
Wisdom: 10
ArcPower: 6
Accuracy: 8

@Bridget Collins @Thora Larkston @Neculai Lazar @Erik Tharaldson

The last time Evanore had gone into a duel, well it didn’t really end too well for her. Even though she’d never had too many issues casting her spells, that day was just not a good one. Today would be better though, she was set on that. When the arena was reset after the previous game, Evanore quickly made her way to her decided spot and held her wand firmly in her hand. Her team was made up of mostly people she didn’t know. Especially the Hogwarts students she had no clue who were, other than seeing some of them around here and there. Karilyna was at least from the same school as herself, which made her a little less nervous.
No wait, she wasn’t nervous, just excited. That was at least what she hoped to convince herself as she stood there, opposite of the other team.
It wasn’t that she didn’t like duelling necessarily. She found the adrenaline and excitement to be quite fun, she was just not very skilled in it. Also she would usually find other ways of having fun than slinging spells at other students and potentially hurting someone. A part of her never really liked the idea, but she knew everyone eho’d signed up knew what the risks would be. Including herself.

Glancing over to her teammates, she nodded and have them a quick «Good Luck», before she turned her attention back to the game.
The girl quickly revised the spells she had available to her usage and the rules she would need to apply. Evanore subtly tightened the left strap of her overalls and pushed her hair behind her ears. The game was soon to be on, and she had no intention of losing this time.

Outfit

Action: Doing as Strategized

Action: Doing as strategized.

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playing as johannes cyprian ambroży
text colour #4d5c7f | outfit ref here
abilities charmer, foulplay
Stamina: 6 | Evasion: 5 | Strength: 7 | Wisdom: 6 | ArcPower: 7 | Accuracy: 9
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mentions @Anastasia Beckett | @Annie Morgan | @Raine Sage | @Katrina Walker

Duelling was always fun. The high stakes, the taste of adrenaline. And if Johannes was anything like his great uncle Anselm in habits- which he was, very much so- he was an adrenaline junkie. So as much as he felt like summer camp was a bit of a drag, when he had seen the signup list for 'chess combat', he didn't waste any time scrawling his name down in dark, flat letters. After all, he had a very short bucket list at that moment and actual duelling was high up there, followed very closely by learning the drums and getting an ear piercing or two.

Anyway, it was a nice day out in London to practice his spellwork- the temperature mild as the sun peered out cheerily from behind white clouds. Oh, that sun would be their silent spectator to an event that Johannes had silently looked forward to from the moment he had left his mark on the page, a watcher from above as their regular, human-shaped actual spectators stared.

Teams were announced, roles set in place, and he just now realised that out of his own team, there were only two he recognised. A decent amount, considering the fact that he hadn't really gone out of his way to actually talk to people since he arrived, which was literally the whole point of living in a small area in the same vicinity for things like this but still. Clever Alexei, the boy whom it seemed that every Durmstrang girl Johannes had ever had the pleasure of talking to complained about, and carrot-topped Milosh, who- he'd never admit it- had one of the softest looking hair that he'd ever seen, and this came from a similarly curly-haired bugger. The other two, probably from Hogwarts or something.

Alright, introductions were a no then. Great. Fantastic. He'll have to find out who exactly who he's going to deck, and whos going to deck him. Because one, he didn't listen much when names were being called up, focusing mostly on the faces, and two, he's not going to get out of this as unscathed as the playing field did, will he? Certainly not, if the other team was going all in. Heck, certainly not if his team was going to go even half in.

He stepped into his designated cell with all the grace of a strangely smug cat- or perhaps a falsely innocent cub looking for trouble- rolling and stretching out his shoulders obnoxiously with his wand in a deceivingly loose grip in his left hand, the chipping black polish blending into his outfit. A rook he has become and a good one he will be- Alexei was their queen, which seemed somehow fitting. But no matter, because the other team looked just as determined as he felt inside, hidden behind the smirk he's come to call his signature.

Ohoho, this was going to be fun.

WC 485

Action: Doing as strategised.

Writing as Alexei Petrov

Interacting with
Mentioning
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Stamina: 10
Evasion: 8
Strength:12
Wisdom: 1
ArcPower: 3
Accuracy:8

Abilities: Charmer, Statistically Relevant

Free actions: Activate Charmer against the other team
Action: Doing as strategized

Alexei liked to think he was excellent at things involving strategy. Being the youngest of a family so full of people that were so excellent at everything else meant that he had to be good at something. He was athletic, but not as athletic as his sister. He was smart but not as smart as his brothers. He was decent at magic, but nowhere near comparable to any of his siblings. So that left cunning and planning for the youngest Petrov to master and excel at.

Sure, in real life, his strategy when it came to women was highly questionable and not exactly getting him the best results, but other than that, he thought he had a pretty good plan when it came to dealing with life. Chess was probably one of his favorite pastimes, as it involved outwitting other people and often was a nice activity to do with a pretty girl.

His team looked somewhat decent. He recognized several of his schoolmates, which was promising. While the Hogwarts girls seemed to be the prettiest he'd ever seen, Durmstrang was still far superior to any of the other schools, and he liked the idea of having teammates of a similar caliber to himself.

"Let's win this," he said confidently to his teammates as he approached his spot. He wasn't going to bother introducing himself until they had won the game. If they were a bunch of losers, he didn't much want to make any of their acquaintances.