[Closed][Camp 2023] Summer Duels, Game 2: Slytherin vs Guests - page 1 - Campgrounds

1 Aug 2023, 20:46

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Slytherin: 100% HP (3600/3600)	│ │	Guests: 100% HP (2600/2600)
[ Dmitri Jones, Y7, Human ] 100% HP (1900/1900) STA: 19 \| EVA: 9 \| STR: 2 WIS: 18 \| ARC: 11 \| ACC: 15 Perfectionist Perfectionist II Spell Spread Terrible Presence Evasive Manoeuvres Evasive Manoeuvres II Blindvision ────── No Effects	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	[ Amaury Favreau, Y7, Human ] 100% HP (700/700) STA: 7 \| EVA: 14 \| STR: 1 WIS: 12 \| ARC: 14 \| ACC: 16 Lovely Creature Charmer Perfectionist Evasive Manoeuvres Fearless Spell Spread ────── No Effects
&	│ │	&
[ Astrea Neptune, Y6, Human ] 100% HP (800/800) STA: 8 \| EVA: 15 \| STR: 2 WIS: 12 \| ARC: 10 \| ACC: 18 Terrible Presence Lovely Creature Spell Spread Non-Human Enthusiast Perfectionist ────── No Effects	│ │ │ │ VS │ │ │ │	[ Maksim Preobrazhensky, Y7, Human ] 100% HP (800/800) STA: 8 \| EVA: 10 \| STR: 6 WIS: 12 \| ARC: 8 \| ACC: 12 Perfectionist Evasive Manoeuvres Charmer Perfectionist II Evasive Manoeuvres II ────── No Effects
&	│ │	&
[ Ruby Cazares, Y6, Human ] 100% HP (900/900) STA: 9 \| EVA: 9 \| STR: 5 WIS: 13 \| ARC: 11 \| ACC: 12 Perfectionist Perfectionist II Spell Spread Fearless Non-verbal Magic ────── No Effects	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	[ Hadashi Hitoshi, Y6, Human ] 100% HP (1100/1100) STA: 11 \| EVA: 10 \| STR: 3 WIS: 14 \| ARC: 10 \| ACC: 10 Fearless Perfectionist Calming Presence Spell Spread Healing Sage ────── No Effects

Notes on Abilities

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- Terrible Presence from Dmitri and Astrea do not stack, but they affect each other.
- Increased Critical Failure from Terrible Presence is countered by everyone (via Fearless or Perfectionist).
- Auto-Miss from Terrible Presence is countered by Ruby, Hadashi and Amaury via Fearless and by Maksim via Calming Presence from Hadashi.
- –10% damage is only countered by Ruby, Hadashi and Amaury via Fearless.
- Everyone in the duel have +2 WDC from Lovely Creatures on both sides.

When she heard about 3v3 this summer, she got an evil grin on her face. She had it last year, and it was more than enough. Good luck to those participating this time. But yeah... She was there for judging and securing the fairness of the battle. She was personally more afraid of Ruby getting a lot of damage, but that was a friendly heartfelt moment that she had to push back as far as possible to stay vigilant and cold-blooded as she had work to do.

All the faces were familiar from previous summer parties or wherever else. She duelled some of them both in previous years, or throughout the school year. So she knew what some of them had in mind, but it will not hurt to observe more. She'll be duelling them next year anyway.

She stepped up on to the stage, greeted all the participants and dropped her usual:

"Do not kill each other," with a smile, artificially stretched as wide as possible.

"Play fair, let's hope your wands won't fail you and your reaction stay sharp," she continued now aloud, and stepped down from the stage.

"And now, begin!" she shot her usual green light into the air, signalling the beginning of what could be a massacre. Because she knew what they could do. But what was more frightening — that she knew she didn't know what else they could.

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Meenauh Silmataurea | STA: 9 | EVA: 10 | STR: 2 | WIS: 25 | ARC: 14 | ACC: 13

Dmitri Jones

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2 Aug 2023, 04:50

Banner by the lovely Pea Elena Fowl
Cocky - Shea Coulee (Explicit)

Roleplaying as Dmitri Kazimir Jones
Perfectionist II | Spell Spread | Terrible Presence | Evasive Maneuvers II
Sta 19, Str 2, Eva 9, Wis 18, Arc 11, Acc 15

Ah. Summer.

A mix of the yelling of teenagers and the reverberation of some kind of magically-conjured music made a curious but familiar cacophony on the wide, green grounds of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

For a lot of these wizarding students from all across the globe, this event was a welcomed atmosphere—a fun respite after a long, boring academic term.

Sunlight and warmth permeated the skies of the campgrounds, only dulled by the fact that this far into the Scottish highlands, none of that really amounted to anything other than a way to label this particular span of time between cold torrential rains and cold winds dotted by dead orange leaves.

Let's be real.

If this wasn't depressing enough, Dmitri Kazimir Jones had to leave his books back in his tent to, what, waste his time on rookie foreigners thinking they could duel an undefeated Hogwarts duelist and come out on top?

Dmitri hated the summer.

But he hated not winning more.

Thus, he had no choice but to keep up the charade that this was a fair fight at all and not an exercise of futility in the part of the visiting schools.

Looking across at his opponents as he entered the arena, he had the vague sense that some of them looked like he had seen them before. Alas, if Dmitri really cannot place who you are—like these three in front of him—you probably have not done anything worth his attention.

Like maybe winning duels.

"I have NEWTs, let's make this quick." The boy would drawl out in that particularly bored tone of his.

"At least make this worth my time."

———

Doing as strategized

If you can't beat 'em, nerf 'em.
Stamina: 20, Evasion: 11, Strength: 2, Wisdom: 18, ArcPower: 11, Accuracy: 20

Dan Palmer

Librarian Aide, I

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3 Aug 2023, 16:29

Absolutely. Unbelievable.
On a trip that was supposed to be relaxing and stress-free, Hadashi found himself dragged into a duel anyway. He couldn't escape it no matter what time it was. How in the world was he supposed to get through the tower of books he was supposed to read if he kept being interrupted?

As he walked into the match grounds, he saw one of the opposing duelists. Maybe he could have a bit of fun with a more friendly match than he was used to.

And that. Was when the little shit started to speak.

The unrestrained arrogance on this pompous gaijin named Dmitri was beyond that of even Matthais Pride.
Hadashi's mood thoroughly soured. While he would love nothing more than to grind this caricature of a human into the dirt, he more just wanted to leave before he ended up walking up and knocking his teeth out. Or better, have Narumi-kun do it. Boy would that be entertaining. Hadashi would certainly shelve that thought for later. While he couldn't publicly condone such an action, he was more than willing to look the other way until Narumi-kun sent his broken body to the hospital wing.

Any comradery among duelists was lost on this one. Hadashi's voice was ice, his tone chilling.

"Is that how they teach you to act here at Hogwarts? No wonder you're famous for terrorist attacks and birthing the most violent and globally hated wizards in the world. I wonder if I'm looking at one right now..."

Never had Hadashi despised someone so fast. Two sentences was all it took for Hadashi to see that this one was an irredeemable, unlikeable, rotting dumpster of a person. Even Matthias had taken a few days to get there, and Hadashi began to doubt he even measured up to this one.

He looked at the other two opponents.

"Are you at least worth talking to? Not arrogant and completely intolerable?"

Regardless of his thoughts, and regardless of the outcome, the duel was on, and Hadashi just wanted to get this over with so he could go back and read.

Doing as strategized

Ruby Cazares

Explorer, II

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3 Aug 2023, 19:57

A duel that took place between six participants was an entirely new concept to Ruby, but as such, it was intriguing. When Slytherin and Ravenclaw had tied for the championship win—just like that stupid tie in her match against Ravenclaw—both houses had been invited to summer camp to compete against other schools. This was the first time she had been a part of that, so she didn’t know what to expect, but it couldn’t be that different to duelling Hogwarts students, right?

When she had seen that her teammates were Dmitri Jones and Astrea Neptune, her confidence was further bolstered. With a team like that, how could they lose? It just wasn’t going to happen. All of them were skilled duellists in their own right, and unless the foreigners had trained exceptionally hard, the Slytherins would provide strong competition. Interestingly enough, though, Ruby knew one of their opponents already, which she hadn’t expected considering her lack of effort to mingle with the students from other schools. Amaury Favreau, a French pureblood, was someone she had met through their families, and both he and his sister Sylviane were rather the type of people she felt at home around. She would offer him a brief nod of acknowledgement. Still, that didn’t mean they would go easy on one another. The game was the game.

Even the moderator, Meenauh, was someone she would consider a friend, and Ruby flashed a brief smile at her before the Gryffindor began going over the usual introduction. She knew Meenauh would be completely fair, though, so there was no advantage to be gained through their positive relationship. Less positively, though, the game hadn’t even started yet, and it seemed like there was already a problem. One of the foreign students had taken Dmitri’s comment way too seriously. If such a small thing got to him this badly, clearly he had very little self-control, apparent instability shown as he rambled about violence and terrorism. “Now that’s jumping to conclusions that are a bit far fetched, don’t you think? Jones here is clearly just invested in his studies, that hardly makes him a terrorist,” she stated plainly, her tone cold and condescending.

She and Dmitri didn’t always get along, often snapping at one another in the event that one of them made a glaring mistake, but they were teammates. That earned him some small loyalty. Besides, it was more fun when they were making fun of the other team as they dominated the duel. Surely history would repeat itself in that their opponents would bend to their will and the scoreboard would mark Slytherin as victorious. "Are you at least worth talking to? Not arrogant and completely intolerable?" This kid was irritating. “Depends. You don’t seem so friendly yourself,” she drawled. The truth was that, much like Dmitri, she was incredibly arrogant—although she preferred to call it confidence—and generally unpleasant, especially in duels. She had no intention of making friends today. Now, the duel had begun, and she readied herself for what was to come.

Doing as strategized

Astrea Soleil Neptune

Ministry Level 1 Employee, II

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4 Aug 2023, 21:52

Rather remarkably, Astrea had been only subjected to a duel of such magnitude once before, engaging in a 5v5 game of Chess Combat some years before. But such a modified structure could not compare to the otherwise standard system of this year's summer duels. Though she had loathed participating in this year's summer camp for the entire month, it would be a greater slight to forsake the Viridian Viper's success after an underwhelmingly tied year of championships. Her only solace in the chaos was her promising team pairing, declaring the possibility of only a worthy match considering Dmitri and Ruby's formidable track record.

How flattering it was to be held in equal standing as her historical superiors, even if Astrea knew her unopposed position amongst the trio. Throughout the years, she had remained securely subordinated to her former captain and prefect, partially by estranged choice. Though Ruby had quietly evolved into somewhat of a close acquaintance, staking greater claim upon the constantly shifting duelling roster would simply result in needless complications as the costs far outweighed the reputational boost. She did not need to depend on fear to maintain her status or level the palpable power imbalance, only appropriate acknowledgement. After all, there were greater things awaiting her upon the horizon of encroaching maturity than a breach of her primary desire to maintain her harmonious isolation. It was far from an ambition one would expect from such an archetypal Slytherin, yet it had kept her peace for this long.

Unlike her irritable, steel-tongued duel partners, she preferred a far more graceful approach — complete and utter focus. As an individual of few words and fewer acceptances of useless provocations upon the duelling piste, it surely must have been a fool's choice to pair the Slytherin with such mouthy company. Faced with such baseless accusations upon their persons under mere school identity, it was abundantly clear to Astrea that her call to general neutrality would grant her little peace. The duel had scarcely even started and already she could anticipate the distasteful crackle of needless social tensions. She would likely receive no respite until the summer’s end, not with the roaming crowd of an underaged wizarding community.

Dramaticism occasionally had its merits, as any attitude towards life did, yet one could not utilise such childish, far-flung excuses to disguise the obvious impudence that had possessed their foreign "judge". One would expect their privileged guests to hold some modicum of self-respect to insult them upon Scottish grounds, where the Vipers held indisputable dominion against the international community. Evidently, they had overestimated their unmannerly visitors.

Whether or not she had been deemed worthy of conversation, Astrea would neither respond to their opponent's taunt nor acknowledge her partners' short remarks, instead conducting only proper routine preparations before the duel's imminent beginning. An aura of distant frigidity accompanied her otherwise indifferent demeanour, evidently the work of sheer, sneering disapproval. However brief or noteworthy their combat would become, she could not expect anything but juvenility to loom over their shoulders. As their moderator's signal shot off, Astrea readied both her wand and patience for a duel well-fought.

Action: Doing as strategised.

astrea neptune ...	... johannes sauer
hogwarts wizardry. duellist.	durmstrang. horntail horde.

Cecily Quinn

Second-String Quidditch Player, III

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5 Aug 2023, 03:31

Ah, Hogwarts. Amaury wouldn't go so far as to say it was his least favorite place on Earth, but it certainly made a case for it every time he was here. And yet, he was back again. Was it entirely because he still had a bone to pick with the Hogwarts scum after suffering a loss in the summer games last year? No, of course not. It was also because he loved to win, and he was absolutely about to do so.

Insults were already flying as he approached the stage. Although the Hogwarts students looked somewhat calm and collected, the international student already present seemed to either have a fragile ego or a poor upbringing. Either way, he was making a fool of himself, and such poor judgement did not bode well for his team's success. Amaury used the moment of distractions to survey their opponents. All three looked slightly exasperated, two were familiar, and one he could actually put a name to. The Cazares girl, who had a glint of recognition in her own eye. He returned her acknowledgement courteously, although it didn't appear that their acquaintanceship would serve any means of tilting the scales. She would certainly pull no punches when it came to knocking him down, and he had strict plans to return the favor.

Turning towards his allies, he nodded a greeting towards the familiar Durmstrang boy, grateful he could count on at least one member of his team. He knew Maksim was a formidable duellist and would be an asset to the team. Tilting his head marginally towards the other boy, he muttered, "Get a grip. Con." The duel hadn't even begun and he'd already had enough of the boy's low-brow shit-talking. It seemed like everyone involved wanted to get this over with, so they'd might as well get started.

action | doing as strategized

con | idiot

C. Quinn

and until we meet again.

A. Favreau

Ami Procoppio

Second-String Quidditch Player, III

1 608 259

5 Aug 2023, 04:45

RPing as Durmstrang iNPC Maksim Preobrazhensky. All dialogue in italics is spoken in Russian.

As Maksim began to focus his mind on the match in front of them rather than the millions of other silly little things he was prone to worrying about, he caught snippets of the insults being flung between the two teams. Such negative talk made his heart sad, and his eyebrows furrowed just the slightest bit as he readied his wand and slipped into a duelling stance. "Kids..." he muttered under his breath in Amaury's direction. "So edgy, these days. Whatever happened to regular, semi-silent duels?" Frankly, he was only doing this whole duelling shtick because Amaury had asked him to (not nicely, by any means, but Max had a hard time saying no to people regardless), but if he was gonna get hit with spells, he might as well go out with a bang.

Action: as strategized.

Meenauh Silmataurea

Explorer, II

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6 Aug 2023, 21:53

UPD: Added Impedimenta effect on Astrea.

ROUND 1

Slytherin: 84% HP (3010/3600)	│ │	Guests: 96% HP (2500/2600)
[ Dmitri Jones, Y7, Human ] 88% HP (1680/1900) STA: 19 \| EVA: 9 \| STR: 2 WIS: 18 \| ARC: 11 \| ACC: 15 Perfectionist Perfectionist II Spell Spread Terrible Presence Evasive Manoeuvres Evasive Manoeuvres II Blindvision ────── –220 HP (Aqua Eructo) –4 ACC [1] (Aqua Eructo) Wet (Aqua Eructo) Lightning (150) 10% Spell Spread AFC	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	[ Amaury Favreau, Y7, Human ] 93% HP (650/700) STA: 7 \| EVA: 14 \| STR: 1 WIS: 12 \| ARC: 14 \| ACC: 16 Lovely Creature Charmer Perfectionist Evasive Manoeuvres Fearless Spell Spread ────── –50 HP (Petrificus) Paralysed [3] (Petrificus) 10% Spell Spread AFC
&	│ │	&
[ Astrea Neptune, Y6, Human ] 100% HP (800/800) STA: 8 \| EVA: 15 \| STR: 2 WIS: 12 \| ARC: 10 \| ACC: 18 Terrible Presence Lovely Creature Spell Spread Non-Human Enthusiast Perfectionist ────── –5 ACC (Impedimenta) Lightning (150) 10% Spell Spread AFC	│ │ │ │ VS │ │ │ │	[ Maksim Preobrazhensky, Y7, Human ] 100% HP (800/800) STA: 8 \| EVA: 10 \| STR: 6 WIS: 12 \| ARC: 8 \| ACC: 12 Perfectionist Evasive Manoeuvres Charmer Perfectionist II Evasive Manoeuvres II ────── No Effects
&	│ │	&
[ Ruby Cazares, Y6, Human ] 59% HP (530/900) STA: 9 \| EVA: 9 \| STR: 5 WIS: 13 \| ARC: 11 \| ACC: 12 Perfectionist Perfectionist II Spell Spread Fearless Non-verbal Magic ────── –220 HP (Aqua Eructo) –150 HP (Lightning) –4 ACC [1] (Aqua Eructo) Wet (Aqua Eructo) Lightning (150) 10% Spell Spread AFC	│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │	[ Hadashi Hitoshi, Y6, Human ] 95% HP (1050/1100) STA: 11 \| EVA: 10 \| STR: 3 WIS: 14 \| ARC: 10 \| ACC: 10 Fearless Perfectionist Calming Presence Spell Spread Healing Sage ────── –50 HP (Petrificus) Paralysed [3] (Petrificus)

Dmitri vs Amaury & Maksim

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Dmitri cast Fulgari on Amaury & Maksim (Spell Spread)
Wisdom DC: 16 + 2 (Amaury's Lovely Creature) + 2 (Spell Spread) = 20
Wisdom Check: [d20: 8] + 18 = 26 > 20 → Success

vs Amaury
Auto-Miss (19-20): = [d20: 14] → No Auto-Miss (Astrea's Terrible Presence)
Accuracy Check: [d20: 4] + 15 – 1 (Guests' Charmers) – 2 (Spell Spread) = 16
Auto-Dodge (19-20): [d20: 18] → No Auto-Dodge (Evasive Manoeuvres)
Evasion Check: [d20: 16] + 14 = 30
16 < 30 → Miss

vs Maksim
Auto-Miss (19-20): [d20: 11] → No Auto-Miss = (Astrea's Terrible Presence)
Accuracy Check: [d20: 13] + 15 – 1 (Guests' Charmers) – 2 (Spell Spread) = 25
Auto-Dodge (17-20): [d20: 17] → Dodged! (Evasive Manoeuvres II)

Ruby vs Amaury & Hadashi

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Ruby cast Petrificus Totalus on Amaury & Hadashi (Spell Spread)
Wisdom DC: 14 + 2 (Amaury's Lovely Creature) + 2 (Spell Spread) = 18
Wisdom Check: [d20: 6] + 13 = 19 > 18 → Success

vs Amaury
Accuracy Check: [d20: 17] + 12 – 1 (Guests' Charmers) – 2 (Spell Spread) = 26
Auto-Dodge (19-20): [d20: 6] → No Auto-Dodge (Evasive Manoeuvres)
Evasion Check: [d20: 3] + 14 = 17
26 > 17 → Hit
Damage: 50
Strength DC: 10 + 11 ARC / 5 = 10 + 2 = 12
Duration: [d3: 3] → 2 rounds + 11 ARC / 10 = 2 rounds + 1 = 3 rounds
Effects:
— Amaury got hit with Petrificus Totalus and got paralysed (can't move, cast or be attacked) for 3 rounds.

vs Hadashi
Accuracy Check: [d20: 14] + 12 – 1 (Guests' Charmers) – 2 (Spell Spread) = 23
Evasion Check: [d20: 1] + 10 = 11
23 > 11 → Hit
Damage: 50
Strength DC: 10 + 11 ARC / 5 = 10 + 2 = 12
Duration: [d3: 3] → 2 rounds + 11 ARC / 10 = 2 rounds + 1 = 3 rounds
Effects:
— Hadashi got hit with Petrificus Totalus and got paralysed (can't move, cast or be attacked) for 3 rounds.

Astrea vs Amaury & Maksim

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Astrea cast Obscuro on Amaury & Maksim (Spell Spread)
Wisdom DC: 10 + 2 (Amaury's Lovely Creature) + 2 (Spell Spread) = 14
Wisdom Check: [d20: 14] + 12 = 26 > 14 → Success

vs Amaury
Auto-Miss (19-20): [d20: 7] → No Auto-Miss (Dmitri's Terrible Presence)
Accuracy Check: [d20: 15] + 18 – 1 (Guests' Charmers) – 2 (Spell Spread) = 30
Auto-Dodge (19-20): [d20: 18] → No Auto-Dodge (Evasive Manoeuvres)
Evasion Check: [d20: 19] + 14 = 33
30 < 33 → Miss

vs Maksim
Auto-Miss (19-20): [d20: 17] → No Auto-Miss (Dmitri's Terrible Presence)
Accuracy Check: [d20: 9] + 18 – 1 (Guests' Charmers) – 2 (Spell Spread) = 24
Auto-Dodge (17-20): [d20: 2] → No Auto-Dodge (Evasive Manoeuvres II)
Evasion Check: [d20: 15] + 10 = 25
24 < 25 → Miss

Amaury vs Ruby & Dmitri

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Amaury cast Aqua Eructo on Ruby & Dmitri (Spell Spread)
Wisdom DC: 13 + 2 (Astrea's Lovely Creature) + 2 (Spell Spread) = 17
Wisdom Check: [d20: 15] + 12 = 27 > 17 → Success

vs Ruby
Auto-Hit (19-20): [d20: 7] → No Auto-Hit (Hadashi's Calming Presence)
Accuracy Check: [d20: 18] + 16 – 2 (Spell Spread) = 32
Evasion Check: [d20: 9] + 9 = 18
32 > 18 → Hit
Damage: 80 + 14 × 10 = 220
Duration: [d3: 1] → 1 round
Effects:
— Ruby got hit with Aqua Eructo and will suffer –4 ACC for 1 round.
— Ruby got Wet effect and will get –20% damage from fire and +20% damage from lightning from the next round.

vs Dmitri
Auto-Hit (19-20): [d20: 6] → No Auto-Hit (Hadashi's Calming Presence)
Accuracy Check: [d20: 10] + 16 – 2 (Spell Spread) = 24
Auto-Dodge (17-20): [d20: 11] → No Auto-Dodge (Evasive Manoeuvres II)
Evasion Check: [d20: 14] + 9 = 23
24 > 23 → Hit
Damage: 80 + 14 × 10 = 220
Duration: [d3: 2] → 1 round
Effects:
— Dmitri got hit with Aqua Eructo and will suffer –4 ACC for 1 round.
— Dmitri got Wet effect and will get –20% damage from fire and +20% damage from lightning from the next round.

Hadashi vs Slytherin

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Hadashi cast Metelojinx on Slytherin
Wisdom DC: 12 + 2 (Astrea's Lovely Creature) = 14
Wisdom Check: [d20: 2] + 14 = 16 → Success
Damage: 50 + 10 ARC × 10 = 150
Effects:
— Lightning Cloud with potential 150 damage is conjured above Slytherin.

Maksim vs Astrea

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Maksim cast Impedimenta on Astrea
Wisdom DC: 13 + 2 (Astrea's Lovely Creature) = 15
Wisdom Check: [d20: 18] + 12 = 30 > 15 → Success
Accuracy Check: [d20: 12] + 12 = 24
Evasion Check: [d20: 5] + 15 = 20
24 > 20 → Hit
Effects:
— Astrea got hit with Impedimenta and will suffer –5 ACC next round.

Lightning Cloud

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Dmitri (10): [d10: 4] → Miss
Astrea (10): [d10: 5] → Miss
Ruby (10): [d10: 10] → Hit!

Just as expected, the whole battlefield practically exploded with spells right away. Meenauh noticed that no Protegos were thrown right away, so the damage would be pretty significant as she thought. But the duellists did not go with raw damage. They strived for control.

Hadashi opened with a quick Metelojinx, and the cloud indeed appeared rapidly above Slytherin's heads. Not only it moved quickly, but the a lightning struck and reached Ruby in the same second, marking the first, though indirect, hit of the duel. Meenauh flinched as she remembered her last one.

At the same second Amaury and Dmitri split their spells. Meenauh nodded as she saw Fulgari cast, a rare spell, so she nodded in appreciation, but it didn't reach any target to Meenauh's surprise. One went past Amaury, and the other was gracefully dodged in the very last second by Maksim. Amaury's streams of water cut through the stage and hit both Dmitri and Ruby, soaking both of them wet. A good thing the lightning struck just a second earlier, because otherwise it wouldn't be pretty.

Astrea split her Obscuro, trying to introduce the guests to darkness, but she failed just by mere inches. Maksim, in return, cast a great Impedimenta, introducing troubles to Astrea in the closest future.

While it didn't sound like a nice start for Ruby, she seemed to collect herself beautifully. A split (which Meenauh didn't know she could do!) Full Body-Bind Curse travelled right to the hearts of the two intended targets — Amaury and Hadashi, and two thuds marked the paralysed bodies hitting the floor. Meenauh's jaw dropped as she imagined Maksim's face. 3 versus 1 now... Uh-oh.

I N F O R M A T I O N

You have 96 hours from the timestamp of this post to owl me, Meenauh Silmataurea, your actions. If you do not send your actions or post within the allotted time, your action is void. There are no extensions.

Word count minimum is 50 words, but feel free to write as many as you like. Do not hint at your actions in your post, as it'll let the other team strategize against you.

Your stats, abilities, and spells have been locked on 22nd of July. Any new spells that are added after that day cannot be used.

For any questions, comments, or concerns I ask that you only contact me through my owls.

And most importantly, have fun!

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@Dmitri Jones, @Astrea Soleil Neptune, @Ruby Cazares, @Ami Procoppio, @Cecily Quinn, @Dan Palmer

Meenauh Silmataurea | STA: 9 | EVA: 10 | STR: 2 | WIS: 25 | ARC: 14 | ACC: 13

Cecily Quinn

Second-String Quidditch Player, III

1 062 660

9 Aug 2023, 04:07

Amaury had but a moment to internally celebrate his team's confident and offensive start to the duel. His spell split and connected solidly with the male Slytherin and Ruby-- sorry, kind of, Ruby-- and he could tell that it did some damage. But the Slytherins were not without a strong opening strategy of their own. His muscles tensed, then froze, and he felt a flash of panic as he slowly, painstakingly slowly, felt himself fall to the ground, incapacitated. Maksim was on his own against the three Hogwarts cretins. The kid was a good duellist who could hold his own in a fair fight, but 1 versus 3 was anything but.

Well, he supposed, at least he had plenty of time to celebrate his short-lived victory here on the floor.

action | doing as strategized

C. Quinn

and until we meet again.

9 Aug 2023, 10:56

Banner by the lovely Pea Elena Fowl
Cocky - Shea Coulee (Explicit)

Roleplaying as Dmitri Kazimir Jones
Perfectionist II | Spell Spread | Terrible Presence | Evasive Maneuvers II
Sta 19, Str 2, Eva 9, Wis 18, Arc 11, Acc 15

Dmitri raised an eyebrow at the younger boy's response, fake clutching his pearls before scoffing. "So many words for two of my sentences!" Looking at his teammates in a can-you-believe-this-guy way, he'd chuckle. "Makes me wonder what they teach you at Ma-hoe-TAWK-o-row's School of Theatrics and Overreaction."

With a guffaw, the Slytherin boy casually enunciated an incantation the exact moment their moderator signaled the start of the duel—only to stop short as he watched both of his spells miss his intended targets.

Gritting his teeth, the only silver lining Dmitri saw from the round was the fact that Ruby was able to take out two of their opponents with a beautifully cast Petrificus... including that mouthy kid from earlier.

As he gives Ruby a faintly-impressed look, he'd quip, "Well that shut him up quick."

———

Doing as strategized

If you can't beat 'em, nerf 'em.
Stamina: 20, Evasion: 11, Strength: 2, Wisdom: 18, ArcPower: 11, Accuracy: 20

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