Unofficial Dodgeball

Acacia had spent the better part of the morning clearing a large circle in the snow, and trying to get everything set up in this stupid weather. When she had heard that some wizarding children had no idea what dodgeball was, she had been horrified. A childhood was not a childhood without the sport. You had not truly lived until you been hit in the head mercilessly with the ball at least three times while trying to wage war against the other team. So one afternoon when she was bored, she had borrowed some quafffles and convinced, bullied or begged friend and stranger alike to give the game a try. She had managed to get a decent turnout as well- turns out a fairly tall second year on a broomstick was either persuasive or intimidating enough to get people to join.

The battlefield for today was a large circle in the snow with a line clearly marked out down the middle. Not to clearly of course- the game itself without a healthy amount of cheating. For those cheaters she caught or those hit by the ball, she had a bunch of beach towels up on the hill for them to sit on. Benches were hard to come by at camp, so she had to make do with what she had brought. If they didn't want to get wet pants though, they shouldn't have gotten knocked out of the game in the first place. Skill issue.

When the first players started to arrive, she walked over to explain the rules. She had a whistle at the bottom of her bag from somewhere, which she planned to put to good use by turning everyone deaf every time she caught someone cheating (and it was to obvious to pretend she hadn't). "Rules are simple. Hit a player on the opposite team three times to get them out" she said "last team standing wins. Throwing from over the line is cheating, wands are cheating, hitting people in the head is cheating, anything else I say is cheating is cheating". Once everyone had arrived, she sorted them off into teams. Holding her whistle in one hand, she ran over to the side of the field and chucked the balls on the line. An ear-piercing noise signalled the start of the game.

Team 1	Team 4
Captain: Violeta roux @Ava Winchect [3/3 hits remaining] @Ara Villa [3/3 hits remaining] @Ehsilat Wilst [3/3 hits remaining] @Violeta roux [3/3 hits remaining] Lorelai Diniz [3/3 hits remaining]	Captain: Eli Milner @Eli Milner [3/3 hits remaining] @Aston Beckett [3/3 hits remaining] @Brookline Quinn [3/3 hits remaining] @Renelle Dalton [3/3 hits remaining] Ariam Vargas [3/3 hits remaining]

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There are 6 balls in the game

6 balls are on the ground, 0 balls are being held

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"english" "french" "parselmouth" thoughts

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Reducio

[size=75][b]Post date[/b][/size] August 20, 2024 (5:14 am) [/td]

RP Date Summer Camp Speech Reducio "Ara's Speech" 'Thoughts'	Outfit/s Reducio Hair: Items:

What did muggles do in school? Apparently instead of flying lessons, they have gym class. A thing they play in that class is something called dodgeball. Ara read about it in a book about some person in "middle school". Though the young Slytherin was familiar with this game, she's never actually played it for she's never attended muggle school. To her luck there was a person who set up a game of dodgeball.

Ara was teamed up with a few people from her house and 1 international student for this event. None of her teammates were people she knew, except maybe Winchect for she was quite popular in Slytherin in their first year. The others? Not so much. Their names didn't ring a bell in her head. The person organising this game was named Acacia Murillo, quite a unique name she supposed, but it didn't ring a bell either.

She listened attentively to the rules with her pissed resting face. "Aight, let's do this" Ara said while cracking her knuckles. The black and white haired girl was then startled by the ear-bleeding, high-pitched sound.

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action	waiting for the game to start/winging it
abilities/stats	🆂🆃🅰 8 •🅴🆅🅰 8• 🆂🆃🆁 8•🆆🅸🆂 8 •🅰🆁🅲 4• 🅰🅲🅲 4/ Lovely creature

How the heck was Brookline gonna play this muggle sport? Seeing the sign up sheets, she thought, Ooh, a muggle sport. Sounds fun! Let's do it!

But she wasn’t “ready” for the deep density on the sport. She did it anyway. Walking to the place the dodgeball was placed, she felt a stringy pile of dread spiraling up inside in the very pit of her gut. What happens if she let her team down? What happens if she falls down on the hard ground? What if she kicks the ball instead of throwing it like, when the girl explained how to play? What if she curses in Welsh, and all her teammates look at her, and the other team takes the advantage and gets everybody out?! What if..! WHAT IF! What if...

... Shut up, freakin’ idiot, breath, in, out... Breath... Her inner voice seemed to say, forcing all “what ifs”, “what happens ifs” and the spiraling pile of dread down the drain.

Brunette plaits fell in front of her dark blue eyes, as Brookline caught sight of her teammates. Her teammates accommodate mostly of her fellow Ravenclaws and a kid that went to a different team. Dodgeball was gonna be easy, right? Not. Hard and harsh. Can Brookline even throw a good one? Could she even catch? She shut her mouth when she realized she was doing it again.

She stood still, patiently, simply waiting for the game to start with a shrill call of a whistle