Hogwarts Summer Camp Chess Combat, Game 2

A steeled brown gaze swept the board as the Queen scanned the white team's ranks for her next victim. Her previous failure had been irksome, even if she refused to let it show, and to repeat the performance would be simply disgraceful. But to make her mark, she'd have to act fast, since people had already begun making their next moves. It was probably a good thing that things were running so quickly, as the Thunderbird lacked the focus and logic to plan out which spell to use and the possible consequences of such. After all, she practically operated on spontaneity.

"Flipendo!" Karilyna directed her spell towards a redheaded girl a few squares away. Though both the wand motion and incantation seemed right, and light made its spiraling way out of her wand, the girl managed to dodge in time. Ugh. This whole duelling business really shouldn't have been this difficult. Perhaps she could chalk it up to lack of experience or nerves, but whatever the case was, this was slowly getting worse and worse. She could certainly handle a miscast, or perhaps loss, if it had to come to that, but she'd honestly ought to do better. So, try harder she would do.

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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

Johannes made it out of the quickly-dissipating smoke without a hitch and a good two-lungfuls of fog to make up for it- for that he was grateful, there was very little visibility in there and he would have never seen a spell coming his way if he tried. But now that he was out in the open, coughing into the collar of his shirt, it was very clear that things were not going well. Well damn.

At least he was covering Alexei from one side, but that was the only decent thing about this whole fiasco. From the corner of his eye, it didn't look that their team-named "queen" seemed very happy about how things were going either. Johann didn't blame the dude. Awe man, what was there to do? He had already placed himself on defence and he hadn't been able to do anything productive since that really bad decision he made to smokescreen himself, all there really was left to do was attack. Attack, but who? What a predicament.

WC 171

Action: Doing as strategised.

Mentions: @Anastasia Beckett & @River Dewlight

Action: Doing as Strategized

Round 4

10th of July 2020, 13:12
Chess Combat, Game TWO

Team Black had to repeat their blitzkrieg, hoping to get more impact from it this time. One spell hit this time (Karilyna's), quite hard upfront to be honest. Well, two spells, basically: the massive assault resulted into Katrina's backfiring from trying to dodge them, so she hit herself with her own spell as well, considering the fire burnt her skin a bit before fading away (this must have had its impact on the spell's success as well). Well, three spells, actually, but one target (Bridget) was not the desirable one. Everything seemed to go well, but something happened to her casting, maybe some irritation from previously missed spells. Her spell backfired and hit her with decent power.

Neculai had an idea, it seemed. The Levitation charm sent Milosh's way went... not Milosh's way. The target put slight effort to evade it and moved to protect his Queen as Raine moved to the side to protect the Durmstrang boy. Johannes manage to send a strong Knockback Jinx towards Erik but missed just a little bit.

While everyone was busy casting and moving, Evanore, who kept her ground for quite a while, made a silent step towards the centre of the board.

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 (3421/3700, 92%) Bridget (347/500), Rook, A1 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Knockback Jinx Target: Katrina 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) Critical Failure Range: 2 1 +1 (Karilyna's Terrible Presence) Spell Success Roll: [d10: 1] < 2 → Critical Failure → Backfire Damage: 100 + 7 ARC × 10 = 170 –10% = 153 (Karilyna's Terrible Presence) Round End Effects: Hit by backfired Flipendo, –153 HP (not knocked back as no free cell behind) Erik (474/600), Bishop, B2 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Knockback Jinx Spell DC: 8 + 2 = 10 (Milosh's Lovely Creature) Wisdom: 6 < 10 → Roll required, >4 to cast (10–6=4) Spell Success Roll: [d10: 5] > 4 → Success Target: Katrina Auto-miss (10): [d10: 7] < 10 → No Auto-miss Accuracy: [d20: 16] + 5 – 1 = 20 (Opponents' Charmer) Evasion: [d20: 16] + 8 = 24 → Miss (20<24) 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: 9] > 1 → Success Target: Katrina Accuracy: [d20: 3] + 9 – 1 = 11 (Opponents' Charmer) Evasion: [d20: 1] + 8 = 9 → Hit (11>9) Damage: 100 + 9 ARC × 10 = 190 Round End Effects: None Neculai (900/900), Bishop, C3 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Levitation Charm Spell DC: 9 + 2 = 11 (Milosh's Lovely Creature) Wisdom: 7 < 11 → Roll required, >4 to cast (11–7=4) Spell Success Roll: [d10: 6] > 4 → Success Target: Milosh Auto-miss (10): [d10: 8] < 10 → No Auto-miss Accuracy: [d20: 2] + 4 – 2 = 4 (Opponents' Charmer, Dhampir) Evasion: [d20: 12] + 6 = 18 → Miss (4<18) Round End Effects: None Evanore (900/900), Rook, B4 Reducio Round Start Effects: - –3 Accuracy, –3 Arcane Power (round 3) (Mucus ad Nauseam) Action: Move → B4, Success Round End Effects: - –3 Accuracy and –3 Arcane Power next round (round 4 of Mucus Ad Nauseam)

Team White (2818/3800, 74%) Johannes (600/600), Rook, E2 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Knockback Jinx Target: Erik Spell DC: 8 + 2 = 10 (Milosh's Lovely Creature) Wisdom: 6 < 10 → Roll required, >4 to cast (10–6=4) Spell Success Roll: [d10: 9] > 4 → Success Auto-miss (10): [d10: 3] < 10 → No Auto-miss Accuracy: [d20: 7] + 9 – 1 = 15 (Opponents' Charmer) Evasion: [d20: 16] + 6 = 22 → Miss (15<22) Round End Effects: None Katrina (63/600), Bishop, C1 Reducio Round Start Effects: Aflame for 1 round, –50 HP per round Action: Knockback Jinx Target: Erik Spell DC: 8 + 2 = 10 (Milosh's Lovely Creature) Wisdom: 9 < 10 → Roll required, >1 to cast (10–9=1) Critical Failure Range: 1 (1+1 (Karilyna's Terrible Presence) –1 (Katrina's Perfectionist)) Spell Success Roll: [d10: 1] = 1 → Critical Failure → Backfire Damage: 100 + 9 ARC × 10 = 190 –10% = 171(Karilyna's Terrible Presence) Round End Effects: Hit by backfired Flipendo, –171 HP (not moved as no free cell in the direction of the spell) Hit by Karilyna's Flipendo, –190 HP (not moved as no free cell in the direction of the spell) Aflame for 1 round, –50 HP Alexei (1000/1000), Queen, E3 Reducio Round Start Effects: - –3 Accuracy, –3 Arcane Power (round 3) (Mucus ad Nauseam) Action: Dodge Round End Effects: - –3 Accuracy and –3 Arcane Power next round (round 4 of Mucus Ad Nauseam) Raine (800/800), Bishop, D2 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Move → D2, Success Round End Effects: None Milosh (355/800), Rook, D3 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Move → D3, Success 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.

What the actual bloody hell was going on?! It was like the other team had carefully thought out each move and were trying to kill her. Katrina noticed that several people were sizing her up, but she didn’t expect her own spell to backfire again!

Thinking back, Katrina could only remember two times that her spells had actually cast and hit someone. First was a tickling charm in the SWAG game, Two Flags. The second was the smoke charm from the Blossomball that was the most unhelpful thing anyone had cast that night. So she shouldn't have been surprised that her spells were going to also backfire now.

Her own Knockback spell hit her in the chest and she careened backward through the air landing heavily on her shoulder. Thankfully, she didn’t hear anything crack, but her shoulder would certainly be bruised. It took her a moment to catch her breath. But when she was actually able to stand again, another bloody Flippindo spell hit her, you guessed it, directly in her chest. This time, Katrina went limp in the air and landed flat on her back. She struggled to catch her breath, laying there for several seconds while her vision swam. She felt like she was going to die, but refused to accept that and struggled to her feet.

There was an angry glow in her eyes. She was not going down again.

Action: Doing as Strategized

They say third time's the charm. They were wrong. Third time was most definitely not the charm, as the third Flipendo Bridget sent at Katrina did not hit. It didn't even simply miss. No, it just had to backfire.

One minute she was saying the incantation and the next she was on the ground, the wind knocked out of her. It wasn't hard to figure out what had happened: unless Katrina cheated, which the brunette couldn't imagine her doing, no one on the other team could hit her. So she'd hit herself. The blow to her pride was admittedly far worse than the force from her failed Knockback Jinx. She could take it. She could get back up, and she did. But right about now she needed to do something right, because three fails in a row was not going to cut it.

Action | Doing as strategized

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

Abilities: Charmer, Statistically Relevant

Action: Doing as strategized

Alexei sighed slightly. Why couldn't he cast anything successfully other than that single Extinguo? And even that hadn't been very helpful, since the boy he'd extinguished had promptly caught fire again. He half wondered if just punching out all of his opponents was an option. Probably not, but he would keep it on the back burner for if this game continued to go this way.

Mentions: @Anastasia Beckett, @Raine Sage & @River Dewlight

Action: Doing as strategized

Action: Doing as strategised.