Hogwarts Summer Camp Chess Combat, Game 2

RPing as Evanore Fairclay (Ilvermorny)
Charmer & Fearless

Team white was one player down. The redhead had been the target of too many spells, and she had fallen to the floor. Evanore didn’t know this girl, but she couldn’t help but feel a slight sting of guilt, even though she hadn’t even been the one who caused her downfall. On the other hand, Evanore felt a rush of excitement and pride, knowing that so far their team was doing great. They had the upper hand for now.

Outfit

Action: Doing as Strategized

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Doing as strategized

As Karilyna moved to raise her wand yet again, she paused, lips pursed. But why? The Thunderbird hardly pitied anyone, or made the effort to express sympathy; such feelings had pretty much never been extended towards her, after all, so why would others need it? Besides, last time she'd checked, nobody liked being pitied. Right? Something like that. Still, in all honesty and fairness, she couldn't help but feel bad for the redheaded girl across from her [Katrina], whom she'd hit time after time without mercy nor reason. She'd never seen the girl with the teal streak, held no grudge, and thus had absolutely no rational reason to target her.

Okay, but this was a duel. She blinked quickly, bringing herself back to the game, glad that she had amended her worries with a surprisingly logical argument. Was it fun to be hit with spells? Well, no, but what was a duel without spells? The raven-haired girl brought her wand up in front of her at last, the incantation falling from her lips. "Flipendo." It had proven to work a few times, and the girl was counting on it to succeed as well as the ones preceding it.

Just like that, a beam of light sent the redhead flying backwards through the air. Piece of cake. Karilyna turned her attention away, on her guard for any attacks coming her way. Honestly, being the queen, it was quite the pleasant surprise nobody'd hit her yet. Of course, she was well protected, since she'd practically been walled in by people who were as tall as… well, walls. But that was because her teammates were smart. The black team knew how to play this game.

The redhead, though, didn't get up, meaning Karilyna had knocked her out with one too many Flipendos. Oops. She winced, glancing at the unmoving figure lying prone on the ground. Despite Karilyna's indifference, a pang of guilt still shot through her, though it lasted only a moment. The thrill of competition quickly replaced the hesitation, though, and she turned her brown gaze away. After all, she hadn't meant to knock someone out so fast; while she might be the rightful queen of the black team, she was, quite frankly, a weak first year up against a team of second years. Besides, entering a duel was practically asking for pain. You evaded as best you could, and if you weren't fast enough, well, you'd be hit. Logic.

Bouncing lightly on the balls of her sneakers, she gripped her wand harder. Four out of five opposing players still remained on the board, and so they were far from done. She couldn't afford to get distracted by every little thing that happened ─ focus was key.

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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 Team, Erik Tharaldson, Katrina Walker

White team was not doing well. Not in the slightest. Directly in front of him, his target's wand was raised at some unknown mark, a gleam of red shimmering about the tip just as his own took form- only for the blonde's spell to suddenly starburst into a backfire, sending them to the floor and letting the Pole's wonderful flipendo to go soaring over the cell, null. Darn. He took a quick look around the field, gauging what he had missed in that second of concentration and- ooh dear.

One of his teammates, a girl of silky auburn hair that was now splayed out upon the floor in shades of orange and- teal? Interesting-, unconscious. One player down. He needed to change his pace, third time was most certainly not the charm. Change the pace, but he was running in blind. Blind. That's what he needed. Some more time, that's all.

WC 151

Action: Doing as strategised.

Round 6

10th of July 2020, 13:18
Chess Combat, Game TWO

The White Queen and White Rook aimed at the intruder — Neculai, who dared to step into the heart of the opponent's zone. Half of the time has passed and Alexei still couldn't collect himself properly to lay an attacking spell. With an opponent (and not just a regular human opponent) by his side, it was even less possible to concentrate. The spell wasn't produced. But Milosh's was. The flame erupted from his wand to travel in a burst towards Neculai, but it wasn't strong enough to set him aflame. Still hurt.

Bridget gave herself a pause from casting the previous round, probably to recover after the backfired spell. Probably not enough time has passed to fully recover as the next spell failed her as well, gladly no backfiring this time. This would be a hard hit if connected, but as it didn't Raine moved away from the direction of shooting to stand face-to-face with the Black Wolf team's Bishop.

Most spells definitely went Milosh's way as he found himself in almost the middle of the battlefield, surrounded by all players. Evanore's spell was dodged gracefully, but then Johannes really messed up and maybe stumbled upon something, but his Green Sparks Charm went Milosh's way instead of hitting Erik in the face. But even that spell was dodged lovely. The opponent's Queen, a cute little face, unleashed the demonic power from the depth of her child soul and channelled that power into another Flipendo, which cut through the air much faster than can be caught by the human eye. It hit so hard that probably the next thing Milosh would know — lying on the floor, knocked down.

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 (2917/3700, 79%) Bridget (347/500), Rook, A2 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Fire-Making Spell II Target: Raine Spell DC: 12 + 2 = 14 (Milosh's Lovely Creature) Wisdom: 9 < 14 → Roll required, >5 to cast (14–9=5) Spell Success Roll: [d10: 4] < 5 → Failure Round End Effects: None Erik (348/600), Bishop, C1 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Move to C1, Success Round End Effects: None Karilyna (800/800), Queen, A3 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Knockback Jinx Target: Milosh Spell DC: 8 + 2 = 10 (Milosh's Lovely Creature) Wisdom: 9 < 10 → Roll required, >1 to cast (10–9=1) Spell Success Roll: [d10: 10] > 1 → Critical Success Accuracy: [d20: 18] + 9 – 1 = 26 (Opponents' Charmer) Evasion: [d20: 19] + 6 = 25 → Hit (26>25) Damage: 100 + 9 ARC × 10 = 190 Round End Effects: None Neculai (522/900), Bishop, D4 Reducio Round Start Effects: Aflame (Raine) for 1 round, –50 HP per round Aflame (Milosh) for 1 round, –50 HP per round Action: Dancing-Feet Spell Target: Alexei Spell DC: 8 + 2 = 10 (Milosh's Lovely Creature) Wisdom: 7 < 10 → Roll required, >3 to cast (10–7=3) Spell Success Roll: [d10: 10] > 10 → Success Auto-Miss (10): [d10: 5] < 10 → No auto-miss Accuracy: [d20: 16] + 4 – 2 = 18 (Opponents' Charmer, Dhampir) Evasion: [d20: 15] + 8 = 23 → Miss (18<23) Round End Effects: Burnt by being aflame (Raine), –50 HP Burnt by being aflame (Milosh), –50 HP Hit by Milosh's Incendio, –99 HP Evanore (900/900), Rook, B3 Reducio Round Start Effects: - –3 Accuracy, –3 Arcane Power (round 5) (Mucus ad Nauseam) Action: Knockback Jinx Target: Milosh Spell DC: 8 + 2 = 10 (Milosh's Lovely Creature) Wisdom: 10 = 10 → Roll not required Accuracy: [d20: 10] + 8 – 4 = 14 (Opponents' Charmer, Mucus ad Nauseam) Evasion: [d20: 14] + 6 = 20 → Miss (14<20) Round End Effects: - –3 Accuracy and –3 Arcane Power next round (round 6 of Mucus Ad Nauseam)

Team White (2565/3800, 68%) Johannes (600/600), Rook, E2 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Green Sparks Charm Target: Erik Spell DC: 6 + 2 = 8 (Milosh's Lovely Creature) Wisdom: 6 < 8 → Roll required, >2 to cast (8–6=2) Spell Success Roll: [d10: 4] > 2 → Success Auto-miss (10): [d10: 2] < 10 → No Auto-miss Accuracy: [d20: 1] + 9 – 1 = 9 → Critical Miss (rolled 1, new target: Milosh) Evasion: [d20: 5] + 6 = 11 → Miss (9<11) Round End Effects: None Katrina (0/600), Bishop, Eliminated Reducio Round Start Effects: Unconscious Action: — Round End Effects: Unconscious Alexei (1000/1000), Queen, E3 Reducio Round Start Effects: - –3 Accuracy, –3 Arcane Power (round 5) (Mucus ad Nauseam) Action: Knockback Jinx Target: Neculai Spell DC: 8 + 2 = 10 (Milosh's Lovely Creature) Wisdom: 1 < 10 → Roll required, 10 to cast Spell Success Roll: [d10: 3] < 10 → Failure Round End Effects: - –3 Accuracy and –3 Arcane Power next round (round 6 of Mucus Ad Nauseam) Raine (800/800), Bishop, D1 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Move → D1, Success Round End Effects: None Milosh (165/800), Rook, D3 Reducio Round Start Effects: None Action: Fire-Making Spell Target: Neculai Spell DC: 9 Wisdom: 10 > 9 → Roll required, >2 to cast (1+ 1 (Karilyna's Terrible Presence)) Spell Success Roll: [d10: 10] > 2 → Success Auto-miss (10): [d10: 5] < 10 → No Auto-miss Accuracy: [d20: 9] + 10 – 1 = 18 (Opponents' Charmer) Evasion: [d20: 10] + 7 = 17 → Hit (18>17) Damage: 50 + 6 ARC × 10 = 110 –10% = 99 (Karilyna's Terrible Presence) Duration: 3 → not aflame (1d6, 1-3: not aflame, 4-5: 1 round, 6: 2 rounds) Round End Effects: Hit by Karilyna's Flipendo, –190 HP Knocked Down by Karilyna's Flipendo, needs to stand up to continue fighting

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.

Her spell failed. Again. Missing twice was one thing. Not even getting the spell out of her wand was a whole other, her only consolation being that the spell hadn't back-fired. The incoming third year, usually calm and collected, or at least capable of keeping her emotions in check, stamped her foot in frustration. She had thought herself to be good at this, more or less; maybe not at the level of their Queen, who was clearly an excellent spell-caster, but skilled enough to be a competitor in this game. But this? This looked like she hardly possessed the level of competency needed to cast a spell, much less aim properly.

Eyes narrowed, lips pressed into a thin line, Bridget definitely looked mad. More at herself than anyone else, but still mad. Right now there wasn't much else she could do besides keep casting, though, and she was most certainly not a quitter. Sucking in a deep breath, then letting it out to hopefully help her refocus, brush off the frustration, she squared her stance, shoulders back, wand at the ready. It was time to prove her worth in this game.

Action | Doing as strategized

Action: Doing as strategised.

Menitons: @Anastasia Beckett
Action: Doing as strategized (aka the only thing I can do)