all i do is win win win [pickup quidditch]

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It was a beautiful Saturday morning, and Jamie was bored. When she was bored, she normally flew a couple laps around the Quidditch pitch, but this didn't feel like one of those days. She needed to do more than just fly - she needed to play. If it had been near to one of the Flying Club meetings, Jamie might have been able to convince herself to wait until then to fly with some others, but as it was the next meeting was too far away and she was itching to fly. She had gone down to the Quidditch pitch intent on finding some others to play a game with. Even if it was a small game, not with a full team of seven, Jamie would be fine - she just felt like she was in some kind of Quidditch funk. The bad part about being ridiculously happy all the time was that it was hard to channel that into good Quidditch playing, whereas anger and sadness were perfect conduits. When Jamie got to the pitch, she quickly found a box of balls, picking up the Quaffle but leaving the Bludger strapped in until someone else came along to play the role of Beater.

team one:
@jamie
@ripley
@tatiana

team two:
@roxanne
Irina Rose Krum
@henry

rules:
there are no rules
no posting order, but obvs don't double post
flip a coin to see if your passes/goals/bludgers are successful (heads are success, tails are fails)
if you have the quaffle and a bludger succeeds at hitting you, other team gets the quaffle
first to 50 wins

[Irina Rose Krum]

Irina had been finishing breakfast in the Great Hall when she had been accosted by her two sisters. The Hufflepuff captain (and Irina's friend) Jamie had said something on her way out of the castle about her putting together some sort of pickup game.  Though she still refused to participate in real matches, a friendly pickup game couldn't hurt.  So she made her way out of the castle, her hair tied in a high ponytail, dressed in a red hoodie and black leggings.  She barely glanced over at the Durmstrang ship as she made her way to the broom cupboard.  Her mother had gifted her with a brand new broomstick for her fifteenth birthday, much less a gift than a bribe to join the Gryffindor team, but in the end Irina's stubborness had won out.  As she entered the pitch, she saw just Jamie Greyback flying around, her sisters nowhere in sight.  She chuckled, shaking her head.  "My sisters told me I would find a pickup game here, but I seem to have beaten them here," she said, smiling.


@jamie
@tatiana
@ripley


@henry
@roxanne

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Tatiana had been on her own way to the Quidditch pitch to service her broom when she had seen Jamie there. They didn't have a scheduled practice time or anything like that, but Jamie had grabbed a set of Quidditch balls. Pick-up Quidditch. The two of them couldn't just play alone; they only had a Keeper and a Beater, so Tania had raced back to the castle to inform some people who she thought might be interested. Fortunately, she knew all of the school's Quidditch players by sight and by name, and her sister Ripley was one of them.

Getting their sister Irina on board with the idea hadn't been too difficult; she and Ripley had teamed up, convincing her to join in, too. (Even if she wasn't part of the Gryffindor team, she was a Krum.) With one Gryffindor playing, it only made sense that Tania should try to find some more members of her elder sister's House; otherwise, Hufflepuff would have a definite advantage.

She had passed the word on and had gotten some positive responses, so, hopeful that those people would follow through, Tania decided to run back to the pitch. The January weather was still cold, but she was dressed for it and in a better frame of mind than she had been in months, holding herself to her resolution that she would be better, which might have included taking more Calming Draught than usual.

When she arrived, she assumed that Ripley would have gotten there before her. Irina, however, was there, conversing with Jamie. “What position are you playing, Rina?” Tania grinned. “You'd make a good Chaser, you know.”

@ripley
@roxanne
@henry
@jamie
Irina Rose Krum

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Jamie didn't have to wait long for someone else to join her on the pitch, but it wasn't who she was expecting. Irina was one of the children of a famous Quidditch player, but the Hufflepuff had never actually seen her friend play Quidditch, at least not when Jamie could remember. It seemed she intended to join in on the game anyways, though, so Jamie greeted her with a smile, chuckling a little at Irina's comment about her sisters. As if summoned by Irina, Tania came running down to the pitch, and asked Irina what position she was going to play. Jamie didn't particularly care, because at least now that Tania was here, she could release the Bludgers and trust there was someone there who knew how to Beat well enough to keep her from getting a concussion. "If you two want to hop on your brooms, we can take a lap while we wait for others to come?" Jamie suggested, already mounting her broom to begin her warmup laps. Pick up game or no pick up game, Jamie was going to do her best to win.

@tatiana
Irina Rose Krum

@ripley
@roxanne
@henry

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It didn't take long for word that there was probably , and it didn't take much longer for Roxy to finish breakfast and grab the couple of things she needed to play from her dorm. She couldn't pass up on the opportunity to play, and Merlin only knew she needed the fresh air.

She found Jamie, Irina, and Tania already on the pitch, and joined them just in time to hear Jamie suggest they take a warm-up lap. "Works for me!" she said, grinning and mounting her broom, hovering a foot off the ground. No time to waste, there was Quidditch to be played!

@tatiana Irina Rose Krum @ripley @jamie @henry

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@tatiana & @jamie
@roxanne & Irina Rose Krum

ripley hurried up the stairs from the hufflepuff common room. she was excited for what the morning held. a make shift quidditch game between her house and gryffindor. her and tania had convinced irina to come down and play for the opposite team so she was looking forward to it. she had had to change though, she had been planning on a walk in the ground after breakfast and the clothes she had been wearing were too thick to play quidditch in. so she had changed, a simple pair of jeans, grey sweater and some sneakers. she hurried her way through the grounds, putting her red hair up into a messy ponytail as she made her way down to the quidditch pitch. "well looks like the best of hufflepuff is all here." she said as she walked to tania and irina. "i'd watch out irina .. she might be setting you up." rip teased as she grabbed her broom and swung a leg over it, pushing off into the air she made to fly over to where her captain was. "hey jamie!"

[outfit]

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@roxanne & Irina Rose Krum
@jamie & @tatiana

jay zipped up his sweater as he walked down to the pitch. there had been talks of a pick up game this morning and he was done for that. when school started up again the gryffindor team would be jumping straight back into practice and he wanted to make sure the christmas break hadn't made his own skills rusty, he doubted it had but with the amount of food he'd eaten over the last few weeks there was no telling. he jogged the last part and made his way onto the green in the middle. he saw roxy already flyinf in the air and he waved his hand at her in greeting before walking over to tania. "you're joining us?" he asked with a grin as he reached down to pick up one of the spare brooms. "morning tania." he said with a smile as he looked over the broom. his own was up in his dorm and he liked to practice on the school brooms, they tested his skills a lot better. "careful irina, i might start trying to recruit you." he said with a grin as he tucked his leg over the broom and kicked off into the air.

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Watching people materialized onto the Quidditch pitch was actually kind of cool, Jamie thought with a smile. She hadn't been sure how much attention a pickup game would garner, but it appeared that there were enough of them to at least have something resembling a game. Three people a team - that would work. "We're playing Hufflepuff against Gryffindor." Jamie announced. There were three students from each house, so it would be an even match. "One Beater and two Chasers per team." That was a little different from what positions people normally played, but they would be able to cope. "No Keepers, so the best defense is really a good offense." She didn't want one of the Chasers naming themselves unofficial Keeper, so that was worth mentioning too. "Since it's just pickup, I think we can just play until fifty points." That would keep it nice and short, and make it so no one got too exhausted before their day actually started. Jamie scooped the Quaffle up from the ground, and lobbed it at Roxy. "You guys can start with the ball. You're going to need all of the help you can get."

@tatiana
@ripley

Irina Rose Krum
@roxanne
@henry

(let the game begin! reminder, there's no posting order, but don't double post. flip a coin to see whether or not your passes and bludgers are successful. try to pass the ball at least once before going for the goal to keep things interesting~)

[Irina Rose Krum]

Irina just chuckled at Jayden's suggestion he was going to recruit her. "Fat chance Longbottom," she told him, not unkindly. She eyed the Quaffle, then the Beater bat -- Jamie had said two Chasers and one Beater per team and well, it would do Rina some good to hit something.  "I think I'll play Beater against you little sister," she said, grinning wickedly as she grabbed the bat.  Mounting her broom, she kicked off, feeling the roaring rush of the wind and adrenaline pumping through her.  Jamie had tossed Roxy the Quaffle first, and Irina pelted off towards the Bludger.  She thwacked it with a strong backhand towards her sister Ripley; Irina knew she could be a ruthless Chaser, but there was a reason Irina didn't let herself play Quidditch full-time.


@ripley
@tatiana
@jamie


@henry
@roxanne

heads - sorry Ripley no bludger injury this time XP

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Three Hufflepuffs, three Gryffindors. Well, that made teams easy. No Keeper, which was fine, and fifty points to win. More fancy flying to avoid the Bludgers and push the defence from the Chaser position. "Sounded good until you said we needed help," she answered as she caught the Quaffle that Jaime threw to her. "We don't need help, we're awesome." Not that Jamie and Tania and Ripley weren't awesome, but she and Jamie at least were pretty evenly matched on the pitch. It would be a good game.

She waited for everyone to be in the air before tossing the Quaffle to Jayden.

Irina Rose Krum
@henry

@tatiana
@jamie
@ripley

(heads: pass to Jayden successful)

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While Jamie began her laps around the pitch, Tania waited until Ripley's arrival. Also joining in were Roxy Weasley and Jayden Longbottom. They had even numbers for a Hufflepuff-versus-Gryffindor three-on-three, and Jamie laid out the rules: Two Chasers and one Beater per team, with no Keepers or Seekers.

Irina had announced that she would be playing Beater against her, which Tania didn't think would be too much of a challenge. It would be fun, though, which was the whole objective. She grabbed her bat, mounted her broom, and kicked off into the air just after her sister, watching cautiously as Irina immediately bolted towards the Bludger. Irina had reasonably good aim, hitting it towards Ripley.

“…Irina!” Tatiana scolded. There wasn't any point in trying to hit someone who didn't have the Quaffle! (Well, thought Tania, the Slytherin players usually played dirty, but that was Slytherin…) Focused on the Bludger, Tania thwacked it back in Irina's direction to keep it from colliding with Ripley. Last she'd seen, Jayden had gotten the Quaffle from Roxy, but—in trying to defend her team—she'd lost track of him. “Sorry!” she called, hoping Irina had enough time to get out of its way.

@ripley
@jamie

Irina Rose Krum
@roxanne
@henry

OOC: 1. First time flipping a Canadian coin… 2. Heads. It hit Rina.

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The game was going off too a good start, it seemed, and Bludgers were already flying. Luckily, none of said Bludgers were coming towards her, so Jamie was safe enough. While looking to avoid Bludgers, Jamie was also looking for an opportunity to steal the Quaffle back for her team. It didn't take long for the opportunity to come - Roxy threw the Quaffle to Jayden, and while it was an admirable pass, Jamie was just a tad faster than Jayden in going in for the catch, and she snatched the ball out of the air before the Gryffindor could receive it. She reversed her broom so that they were heading towards the Hufflepuff side of the pitch, and looked around for someone to pass the ball to before she got slammed with the Bludger she had been afraid of earlier. The Krum sisters both appeared to be ready to catch the ball, so Jamie just lobbed it in that general direction and prayed that they wouldn't collide.

@tatiana
@ripley
@roxanne
Irina Rose Krum
@henry

(since no one was posting, jamie intercepted~ coin was heads, so either tania or ripley can successfully catch the ball)

[Irina Rose Krum]

Irina swore out loud as the Bludger hit by her baby sister Tania knocked into her elbow of her arm holding the broom. She let her arm wiggle loose, squeezing her broomstick with her legs, making sure her arm wasn't permanently damaged. There would definitely be bruising in the morning but Irina could live with that. So she continued on, groaning as Jamie intercepted Jayden and Roxy while grabbing the Quaffle for her own possession. She knew her fellow seventh year was good, great even; Jamie had tried out for professional teams already and was the captain of the Hufflepuff team. All the more reason NOT to go easy on her. So with her strength in her good arm, Irina swung the Bludger that was pelting back towards her directly at the Quaffle that has just left the safety net that was under Jamies arm.

@jamie
@tatiana
@ripley

@henry
@roxanne

called heads, coin toss says heads, Bludget makes contact with Quaffle throwing it off its path

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@roxanne & Irina Rose Krum
@jamie & @tatiana

when he missed the pass, jay inwardly scolded himself. while it was only a fun game, it should still be treated like a proper game, the same thought put into it and he'd lost focus for a moment. he shook his head slightly as he turned his broom to follow jamie, ready and waiting to try and intercept a throw she might do. hes scanned the field to see where roxy and irina were. he'd seen irina get hit by the bludger but it didn't look like it had done more than winged her so he'd wait till the end of the game till he asked the fellow gryffindor if she was alright. in the next second, he got his chance. jamie made to pass the quaffle to ripley or tania but irina seemed to be on the ball and suddenly it was knocked flying off course. "nice one!" he called as he he leaned forward and managed to beat the two other hufflepuff flyers to it and he grabbed it out of the air, tucking it under his arm as he turned his broom around and found roxy not to far away from him and he made to pass the ball to her, chucking it in her direction. "roxy!"

tails - pass to roxy unsuccessful

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Jamie cursed silently when the Quaffle that she had just thrown was intercepted by a Bludger, knocking it off course, and practically into the arms of Jayden. Jamie wasn’t willing to give up that easily, though – she knew that she could intercept the Gryffindors’ passes, since she had just done it not a minute ago. When Jayden called out for Roxy, it just made Jamie’s job all the easier. She angled her broom so that she could fly right into the path of the Quaffle, snatching it before it could make its way into Roxy’s arms. Now all she needed to do was get the Quaffle to Ripley or Tania before a Bludger ruined her game again. That wasn’t going to be easy, but Jamie figured that the easiest way to prevent that from happening was to fly in an erratic zig zag, so that any Bludger aimed towards her would have to take her zigging and zagging into account. Jamie made eye contact with Ripley before throwing the Quaffle in her direction, hoping that the other girl would catch it so they could actually score.

@tatiana
@ripley
@roxanne
Irina Rose Krum
@henry

(heads, ripley can catch the ball)