Hogwarts Summer Camp Chess Combat, Game 2

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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

"Let the game begin!"

And with that, the first round had begun and the entire game area became a patchwork quilt of colourful spells and incantations. The familiar jolt of magic and a good plan- if only dear Johannes had remembered that fumos landed local, now he had unknowingly boxed himself in- was the only thing that let him know his spell had succeeded before darkness came upon him. His face felt smothered, curls pressed uncomfortably against one abruptly closed eye and there was no difference between the back of his eyelid and the dark. Blindfolded, as if a creature deemed dangerous to themself and others.

Biting his tongue from a very passionate curse, both of his hands came up to the edge of the blindfold with the full intention to rip it off and probably rip into some kids in the meantime. From beyond the abyss that had become his visual, he heard the encouraging voice of Alexei urge everyone on, a good hint of annoyance held within the five words, and the sound of rapid sneezing. This was not going well. But his queen had the right idea.

A bad start, but they still had plenty of time to flip the table. A bad start, but what was a little blunder in the grand scheme of things? The rival team would not underestimate them. This was only the beginning.

WC 231

Action: Doing as strategised.

Round 2

10th of July 2020, 13:06
Chess Combat, Game TWO

The teams continued to play thoughtfully. Players went for certain cooperation and aimed to at least not getting more damage. Katrina dodged the Knockback Jinx that was sent her way by Bridget, which made her able to move one cell forward. It seemed as if the Slytherin boy (Erik) made an attempt to move forward as well, but eventually kept his ground, protecting his Queen from the side.

The black Queen's spell, though not being a very bright cast, was aimed perfectly and it was an amazing display of agility from Raine, which made her avoid the spell the very last second before the collision.

While the other bishop from team Black (Neculai) stood to protect the face of his Queen, the other rook (Evanore) continued to roast Milosh, who just got the first flame extinguished (with the amazing luck of Queen Alexei). The next second his clothes were set on fire once again, though the flame seemed to be weaker than the previous one.

Johannes, indeed, removed his blindfold to find himself in the smoke, blocking his vision, though the smoke seemed to start dissipating.

On the other side of the field, Milosh conjured a semi-bright fire in the direction of the opposite rook, but it seems he concentrated too hard on the spell — some kind of strange aura affected him and spell went completely a different direction.

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 is moderated by @Meenauh Silmataurea

Team Black (3700/3700, 100%) Bridget (500/500), Rook, A1 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Knockback Jinx Spell DC: 8 + 2 = 10 (Milosh's Lovely Creature) Wisdom: 9 < 10 → Roll required, >2 to cast (10–9=1 +1) (Karilyna's Terrible Presence) Spell Success Roll: [d10: 6] > 2 → Success Target: Katrina Auto-Miss (10): [d10: 6] → No auto-miss Accuracy: [d20: 5] + 8 – 1 = 12 (Opponents' Charmer) Evasion: [d20: 20] + 8 = 28 → Miss (12<28) Round End Effects: None Erik (600/600), Bishop, B2 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Voided (no post) Round End Effects: None Karilyna (800/800), Queen, A3 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Knockback Jinx Spell DC: 8 + 2 = 10 (Milosh's Lovely Creature) Wisdom: 9 < 10 → Roll required, >1 to cast (10–9=1) Spell Success Roll: [d10: 2] > 1 → Success Target: Raine Accuracy: [d20: 20] + 9 – 1 = 28 (Opponents' Charmer) Evasion: [d20: 15] + 8 + 7 = 30 (Raine's Dodging: 5+8×0.25 = +7) → Miss (28<30) Round End Effects: None Neculai (900/900), Bishop, B3 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Voided (no post) Round End Effects: None Evanore (900/900), Rook, A5 Reducio Round Start Effects: - –1 Accuracy, –1 Arcane Power (round 1) (Mucus ad Nauseam) Action: Fire-Making Spell II Spell DC: 12 + 2 = 14 (Milosh's Lovely Creature) Wisdom: 10 < 14 → Roll required, >4 to cast (14–10=4) Spell Success Roll: [d10: 6] > 4 → Success Target: Milosh Accuracy: [d20: 19] + 8 – 2 = 25 (Opponents' Charmer, Mucus ad Nauseam) Evasion: [d20: 3] + 6 = 9 → Hit (25>9) Damage: 60 + (6-1) ARC × 10 = 110 (Mucus ad Nauseam) Duration: [d3: 2] → 1 round (1-2: 1 round, 3: 2 rounds) Round End Effects: - –2 Accuracy and –2 Arcane Power next round (round 2 of Mucus Ad Nauseam)

Team White (3570/3800, 94%) Johannes (600/600), Rook, E1 Reducio Round Start Effects: - Blindfolded (No Accuracy or Evasion bonus from stats until Blindfold is removed) (Obscuro) - –4 Accuracy for 2 rounds (Smokescreen Spell) Action: Remove the blindfold → Blindfold removed Round End Effects: - –4 Accuracy for 1 round (Smokescreen Spell) Katrina (600/600), Bishop, C1 Reducio Round Start Effects: - –4 Accuracy for 2 rounds (Smokescreen Spell) Action: Move D1 → C1 (leaves the Smokescreen) Round End Effects: None Alexei (1000/1000), Queen, E3 Reducio Round Start Effects: - –1 Accuracy, –1 Arcane Power (round 1) (Mucus ad Nauseam) Action: Extinguo Target: Milosh Spell DC: 7 + 2 + 2 = 11 (Milosh's Lovely Creature, 2 rounds of Extinguo) Wisdom: 1 < 11 → Roll required, 10 to cast Spell Success Roll: [d10: 10] = 10 → Success (wow!) Round End Effects: - –2 Accuracy and –2 Arcane Power next round (round 2 of Mucus Ad Nauseam) Raine (800/800), Bishop, D3 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Dodge (+5 +25% of Evasion to the Evasion roll) Round End Effects: None Milosh (570/800), Rook, E5 Reducio Round Start Effects: - Aflame from Evanore's Incendio Duo for 2 rounds: –75 HP per round (damage was avoided because of successful Extinguo from Alexei on the same round) Action: Fire-Making Spell Spell DC: 9 Wisdom: 10 > 9 → Roll required, >2 to cast (1 + 1 from Karilyna's Terrible Presence) Spell Success Roll: [d10: 4] > 2 → Success Target: Evanore Auto-Miss (10): [d10: 10] → Auto-missed Round End Effects: - Hit by Evanore's Incendio Duo: –110 HP - Aflame from Evanore's Incendio Duo for 1 rounds: –75 HP per round

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.

Happy International Chess Day!

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.

"Flipendo!" It wasn't really a spell she was eager to direct at her friend, but she didn't exactly have much of a choice. Besides, no hard feelings, right? And anyways, it missed. Although she would never admit it out loud, and felt bad for thinking it, she was disappointed that the Knockback Jinx hadn't hit its mark. Just another thing that came with being so competitive.

This round hadn't gone as well overall for her team, although the older Ilvermorny girl had sent yet another perfect Incendio at the rook across from her. Honestly, with the girl's clear disposition to cast the Fire-Making Spell, it was a surprise she didn't go to Hogwarts. The students from her school, quite possibly herself included, seemed to think fire was the only feasible solution to their problems, despite the fact it usually just made things worse. The Slytherin certainly wasn't complaining, though; the fire would keep him occupied.

Their Queen's words reminded her of something. Encouragement. It was a normal part of team sports, and in the wizarding world, this counted, right? Bridget was not huge on the whole cheering thing and tended to remain silent, but if it would help her team keep going strong, she'd do it. "Come on! We've got this."

Despite the fact things hadn't gone quite as she would've hoped, she readied her wand once more. No matter what, she just had to keep casting and hope her spells landed. Narrowed eyes surveyed the board and formulated a new strategy. It was time to get back ahead.

Action | Doing as strategized

Outfit | Hair

Charmer & Fearless

Evanore kept close attention to her current opponent, the boy in the hoodie. Knowing that multiple flames would be harder to put out than one, she cast her second incendio duo at the boy through the sniffles and sneezes. And it was apparently a good decision, as he seemed to have managed to put out the first one already. Though, this new fire did not seem as lively as strong as the first one. Evanore assumed that it would probably go out fast on its own, which was really not what she attempted. It must have been because of her challenging state from the previous spell her opponent had cast. Her nose was red and stuffy, nothing different than a bad cold, but if anything it made spellcasting and focusing on the game that much harder than it needed to be. Though, that was probably the intentions of the boy. He’d done a good job with that one.

There was no doubt that adrenaline was pumping through the veins of the small girl. How could anyone not experience that in this situation? There were blasts coming from all sides, incantations being muttered from everyone, and knowing when someone could be attacking you was no easy task. At least she’d be able to keep an eye out on peoples placement on the board and their range. Knowing that at this time, the only one who could target Evanore was the boy right in front of her. And he was on fire, so what could he possibly do? *ACHOO*, right, he’d already done something. Evanore quickly pushed a strand of heir out of her face as she prepared for her next move.

Mentions @Annie Morgan

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Action: Doing as Strategized

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Action: Doing as Strategized

Mentions: @Anastasia Beckett & @River Dewlight

Writing as Alexei Petrov

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

Abilities: Charmer, Statistically Relevant

Action: Doing as strategized

Yawning slightly, he surveyed the affects of the most recent round. It was, as with the first one, a fairly mixed bag. He ran his hand through his hair, mussing his normally perfectly arranged locks. They still weren't having quite the amazing sweep of the board (pun) that he would have liked but they were having some success. The redhead gracefully dodged a knockback jinx and the dark-haired girl in front of him also managed to spectacularly dodge a spell. The blindfolded boy managed to remove his blindfold, not that it did much good since he was still surrounded by thick smoke. Alexei's own spell had worked that time, which was nice. Unfortunately, the boy he had extinguished managed to promptly catch on fire again. How inconsiderate...

That boy was still on fire, which was unfortunate, but it didn't seem as strong and Alexei didn't intend to spend the entire game putting out his team. Not the way one won something like this. No, the way that to win this was to hit back and hard. Then again, his magic seemed rather off today, and tackling other players seemed a bad idea. He drummed his wand against his leg for a moment before making a choice. He yawned again as though he was bored before continuing his plan.

Action: Doing as strategised.

Katrina moved out of the smoke. Coughing once to clear her lungs. No point in having a cough interrupt any spells she decided to cast. The game was moving ahead without her and honestly, she had no clue what she was supposed to be doing.

There was a flash of light and Katrina managed to lean to the side just in time. It flew past and ended up hitting nothing. Katrina scanned the row of people opposite of her and noticed that Bridget's wand was extended and pointing at her. Katrina gave her an incredulous look and a smirk pulled at her lips. Bridget had tried to Flippindo her? She couldn't hide the snort that escaped her lips, she was glad it hadn't actually hit her. Katrina refocused on the game, looking at what others were doing.

It was time to make her move. She was going to do something. What exactly? She really wasn't all too sure. She definitely should have read the rulebook before diving head first into a game that she hardly understood. Hopefully her best guess at what to do would be the best choice of action.

Katrina fiddled with her wand, mind clicking into place. She knew exactly what to do.

Doing as Stratigized

Doing as strategized