Closed Firewalking event

ROUND TWO

The second round commenced and the things got even more heated both literally and figuratively. The Ravenclaw girl was yelling even louder now, so the pressure was building up. And as soon as the first contestant set foot on the course, flaming flowers started flying onto the course from all directions from two machines carefully concealed in the bushes. Now they didn't only have to endure the lego-induced pain but also avoid the flowery missiles unless they wanted to be set on fire.

"GO GO GO GO, DO YOU WANNA BECOME A ROASTED MARSHMALLOW?!!!!"

It seemed that despite the intensity of the competition most participants managed to make it across once more just fine. However, there seemed to be casualties and unexpected incidents. First of all, Drew didn't even make it two steps onto the course when he was hit by a flower and then, probably when he was trying to shake off the flame, another two flowers plummeted right at his shoulder and he stepped in the way of the fourth flower. The kid caught fire fast and smoke was starting to rise from his clothes so the girl yelled at the nearest adult she could find, asking them to cast aguamenti and drag the now unconscious guy to the healing tent for treatment. Just when everyone was probably hoping the worst part was over, Kim started falling and Felix ran onto the course after him. The girl waved a small red flag and yelled:
"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING, FOOL? YOU'RE BOTH DISQUALIFIED FOR BREAKING THE RULES, GET OUTTA HERE!!!!"

The unfortunate events didn't end there. Another contestant was hit by a flower, this time it was Hadashi. But it was only one flower and he managed to put it out fast. That would slow him down a bit and he'd probably be hurting in the next round which could affect his performance, but otherwise he was fine and made it to the end of the course successfully.

The contestants barely had time to rest before the girl started yelling again.
"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? DO YOU WANNA WIN OR NOT? ROUND THREE, READY, SET, GO!!!!!"

OOC information:
You have until next Monday noon again to post.

RANKING AFTER ROUND 2

1. Cassie Heather (Lucia Fox), Serena Towers - 22 points
2. Galton Lansdale  - 21 points, Hadashi (Dan Palmer); -1 point from this round from getting hit by flowers, -3 stamina for the next round because it hurts
3. Sophia Nelson - 20 points
4. Charles Alluring (Henry Knight), Jane Victoria - 19
5. Quentin Gagne (Della Barfield) - 18 points
6. Aida Mòrsgor-Ama - 17 points 

Unconscious:
Andrew Lycan (Rose Moon) - 9 points (hasn't posted) 

Disqualified: Kim Sato (final points: 18), Felix Jeong (final points: 20) 

For a moment, it was just the two of them.

Felix was staring into his eyes too and the usual glare that was always present was absent.

Kim's heart started to pound even faster and he could feel his cheeks heat up with color. Could Felix actually feel something for him? And then, the boy dropped him. He literally dropped him. Like a hot potato. "Aaahh!" Kim cried out as the way Felix had let him go had been at the worst possible angle. He fell onto the uneven fiery LEGOs, twisting his wrist in the process. And even burned his hands. It hurt, it hurt a lot. But that wasn't the worst of it.

Now there were apparently flaming flowers being shot at them from the bushes. One of them hit him on the back and quickly burned a hole through his suit and attacked his back.

Kim cried out again in pain and fumbled inside his pocket for his wand. Drawing it out, he turned around to try and cast the extinguishing spell when another flaming flower struck him in the chest. The flower 'missile' burned a hole through the left side of his suit, right above his pec muscle. And then singed his skin and tears came to his eyes, although he was doing his best to not let the pain get to him. He had to get off the course as soon as he possibly could.

Being in the line of fire was dangerous.

He could put out the fires after he was able to ensure no stray flaming flowers would hit.

This was the worst he'd ever been hurt before, since coming to Hogwarts. Kim didn't like it. It was one thing if it had been a duel but this was supposed to have been a competitive game.

You didn't expect to get hurt like this in a game. The look on Felix's face would have normally made Kim become even more confused but right now he was dealing with the pain. He didn't have time at the moment to analyze Felix. Ah, this was embarrassing, participating in a game and getting 'attacked' by Felix in more than one way, and now getting disqualified for Felix's actions... it was all too much at once. Kim hadn't even broken any rules! It had been all Felix!

Not to mention the fact that he was going to need to take a trip to the healer's tent to get cream for these burns. Kim felt a bit faint. Everything in his life had gone downhill ever since he'd met Felix. It was all his fault!!! But what had that moment been? Where their eyes had met and it seemed as if they were both confirming their attraction towards eachother. Kim was still lying on the ground but at least some adults had come over and put all the fires out.

He rejected any attempts to assist him.

There was no way he was going to let adults help him over to the healer's tent.

Kim could manage that on his own. He didn't need anyone, it wasn't as if he was weak at all.

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Felix let his vision blur over, taking several steps back.

He fought the urge to turn his head away from the sight in front of him. He couldn't look at that, for some reason, he couldn't bear to look at Kim’s tear stained face, the way the salty droplets blossomed at the corners of his oh-so-pretty eyes and spilt over, tracking down his cheeks as burns sprouted across his body; and Felix felt guilty. He tried to tell himself that the boy would have been burned anyway, he was going to fall- had Felix not caught him. But that didn’t stop the older boy from regretting every second of his movements. Which was weird, and unusual. Where had all this guilt been for the past months of his hogwarts life. Hadn’t he infuriated, injured and teased several people with absolutely no remorse. He doubted he’d care at all if there was someone else here burning in front of him instead of Kim. Wait, why? Why was Kim different? Didn’t Felix dislike the boy? To be fair, Felix disliked everyone. It definitely wasn't as though Felix had any feeling of attraction towards him. That had a minus rate of ever happening. While Kim was entertaining to rile up and tease and pester, Felix had 0 feelings for the boy. Maybe some negative ones, but definitely no positives. He was just a classmate. Just another annoying fellow student that he had to endure the presence of whilst he was at this school.

Still, he didnt help Kim up, or so much as offer a hand. Instead he turned and walked away. Since when had Felix cared about things or people anyway.

Sophia was eager to start round three, and to prove her tolerance of pain. The burning of her feet was starting to get to her, but she knew she could handle one more round. She wasn’t even crying yet.

She was trying to shake off the burning sensation when she saw something happening at the other end of the course. Something involving Kim. She was a bit mad at him right now, but she couldn’t turn her attention away.

Kim was being held by someone, not completely unlike how he’d held her mere minutes ago. That was strange, but what was really strange was the expression in the boy’s face. The only word to describe it was lovestruck, but that didn’t make sense, did it? He was being held by a boy, and Kim had just flirted with her, so that didn’t make sense. Unless he was bi?

The train of thought was interrupted as Kim was dropped to the flaming legos, not only burning himself horribly, but Sophia could swear she heard a crack from his arm. Then the boy - who Sophia couldn’t even see clearly - had the freaking gall to walk off.

What the heck.

As Kim and his tear-stained face began making his way, well, away, Sophia stormed over to him.

“You’re not taking care of this alone,” she said firmly as she reached his side. She grabbed his uninsured arm and dragged him in the direction of the healer’s tent.

“We’re getting you fixed up,” she said coldly, leaving no room for argument.

She may have been angry, but she still loved her friend.

Action: giving up her chance to prove herself to escort her lovesick friend to a healer

Notes:

Reducio

felix, soph didn’t get a good look at your face since she first meets him weeks later and doesn’t recognize him

@Kim Sato || @Felix Jeong

Aida warmly returned Quentin’s handshake with a tight little squeeze of their luminous white hand.

"I really don’t understand how everyone is so fast,” replied Aida. "I really do want to go faster...” ZaZa hooted with curt attitude as if to complain that it wasn’t the owl’s fault, hitching a ride the whole time.

After trying the course again, Aida only came back slower. Quentin also didn’t seem to be doing to well compared to the others. ZaZa moved her head around in a circle, silently curious about the Beauxbaton boy.

"This is so frustrating. Sure, it hurts, but… usually I’m good at running fast. Maybe I should have warmed up before coming here. What if we just tried to leap more, and then we would hit fewer blocks?”

Open to interactions with anyone.
Mentioning: Quentin Gagné ( @Della Barfield).
Action: Stretching legs as if preparing to leap and run (evasion +3 for this round)
Base Stats: Stamina 10, Evasion 6 [9 with buff], Strength 1, Wisdom 10, Arcane Power, 10
Accuracy 11
Abilities: Blindvision, Sixth Sense, Beast Master

Interacting with: @ Serena Towers

Things had began to heat up. Not only did you have the annoying little fire bricks to walk on, there were now a whole host of flying obstacles. Galton was impressed, who would have thought his fellow students could be so vicious.

Actually that wasn’t surprising. Less surprising when it came to fire even. If there was one thing Galton had learned from all of his duels, it was that his fellow students rarely ever missed a chance to light someone on fire. A barbaric reality that was some how legal in dueling, and seemingly legal at balls as well. But Galton had signed up for this, so he could not truly complain. Or if he did, he only had himself to blame.

There was little room in his head from complaint right now though. He still had one bout to go, and he was in good standings. He needed to keep his mind fixed on the task at hand, and the candy that awaited him afterwards. And dancing!

As he waited on the sidelines for his next go he would cheer once more for his date. “Let’s goooooo! Faster you finish the faster you make sure your rat isn’t on fire!” While that seemed like the perfect motivator to Galton, it may have been a bit alarming as well… Serena would know what he meant… probably… maybe… hopefully!

Action: Prepare for pain, raise stamina

Interacting with @Galton Lansdale

Serena did not really care for points or winning. She had no idea who was 'first' or not in this whole thing or even that there were points being acquired by anyone. All she could focus on was getting from one side to the other without getting hurt. That was all that mattered. She could hear a girl screaming something about a roasted marshmallow, which sounded kind of tasty if the girl was not implying that they would be that roasted marshmallow.

But that was not what motivated Serena. What hit her was Galton's words. They were like an arrow right into the heart, piercing her deeply as she realised that he was right. The faster she got through this, the sooner she could get back to the celebration and make sure that Pizza Rat was fine. She had left him there with Erin to look after - which might have proven to be a mistake. The badger was simply trusting the snake right now but that was all she could do. If there was a fire that happened around Erin or Pizza, it would not be their fault but they would suffer. And she really did not want that to happen. "WH-" Her eyes widened for a moment as she exhaled sharply, focusing back onto the course.

Her eyes narrowed onto it. She could do this. She had to do this. For Pizza. "You're right! Let's kick this course's butt!" She announced as she prepared herself to run right through it once more. The faster she could get through this walk, the better it would be for her rat. Now that was motivation to succeed.

ACTION: Prepare for Pain: Raises stamina +3 for this round

Stamina: 10 | Evasion: 13 | Strength: 2 | Wisdom: 15 | Arcane Power: 5 | Accuracy: 10
Abilities: Part-Goblin, Evasive Maneuvers, Beastmaster
Fifth-Year Armour: +10% auto-dodge on attacks [=20% auto-dodge overall]

Outfit of the Ball

Roleplaying as iNPC Quentin Gagné of Beauxbatons
Interacting: @Aida Mòrsgor-Ama Ellwood

Quentin was able to get slightly more speed in the next round. But it didn't help and those damn bricks hurt like hell. His new companion, Aida, didn't seem to be doing any better either. They were both dead last.

Aida suggested that they both try to get in leaps. Quentin winced at the thought of his feet coming down on the sharp corners of the demonic toys. There were so many of them, he couldn't imagine being able to miss any of them upon landing. But in all realness, Aida's plan was better than doing nothing at all. "D'accord. We'll try to jump. Get through the course as fast as possible. No matter how much it hurts."

Quentin followed the snowy eagle's lead and began vigorously stretching, preparing his calf muscles for the hefty excursion. He wondered how his wrestling idols would have handled such an obstacle course. People at his muggle school had tried to tell him that wrestling was fake, but he knew he needed to believe in his idols just as he needed to believe himself to cross the fiery path in front of him. He began mimicking as best he could how a professional wrestler would stretch and hype himself up, not being conscious of the fact this could draw a lot of attention to him.

Action: Stetching dramatically (evasion +3)

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Jay felt quite surprised by the chaos that happened in round two, it appeared that a couple of students got disqualified from the game. The Griffindor thought that it was probably better for them, with two people off the game that would mean fewer opponents and a higher chance to win. Once Jay had finished rushing through the course they felt out of breath, running in a dress wasn't at all that fun. They grabbed their leg and did a quad stretch, which ought to help a bit, so far their legs haven't cramped at all during the game and hopefully, it wouldn't in the last round.

The green-haired student continued to stretch as each contestant ran through their turns. They thought of different strategies to get across the fire course. Doing leaps to get across didn't seem like a bad idea, the more they stretched the less chance there would be of twisting an ankle. Jay looked at the other contestants as they ran through their turns, there were multiple people who seemed to be doing much better than them. There were only a few students they recognized, all from Hogwarts, Jay was slightly surprised when they say one particular student. The so-called candy king, now that was an interesting day. Jay chuckled as they continued to stretch, it was now their turn again. Good luck to me

Actions: Stretch your Body: Raises evasion +3 for this round