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Captain Tobar Brishen

January 18, 2011 1:50 PM

Quidditch Signups! by Captain Tobar Brishen

Tobar knew that he was going to have a hard time getting a full team with the current students of Teppenpaw, the only thing he could pray for was that the new first years would be signing up and hopefully they could play. He wanted to win but it did not have to be this year. He had the next four years to get the team into a winning state, hopefully though next term he wouldn’t have to worry about it at all.

He wasn’t as creative as Hannah or Lucie had been so his signup sheet was a yellow sheet of paper with maroon ink. He might get Kristenna to do the signup sheets next term but for now this seemed to work.

Teppenpaw Quidditch team Needs you!

This is the year for us to be back on top! And we need all of you to sign up! If interested in trying out, please sign your name below along with your year and the position you’re interested in. Preference will be given to returning players, however, all skill levels are encouraged!

Tobar hung the sign up the added his name.

Captain Tobar Brishen – Fourth Year – Chaser

Subthreads:

Signing Up! by Derwent Pierce IV

Why not? by Andrew Duell

Another Name for the List by Benjamin Holland

Signing up!...hopefully with my new friends by Jessica Applerose

YES! Now we're talking! by Arista Rose Thornton

Making a full team. by Kirstenna Melcher

And now we're over the top. by Kate Bauer

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Derwent Pierce IV

January 21, 2011 3:41 PM

Signing Up! by Derwent Pierce IV

Derry had looked forward to coming to Sonora for a long time. It wasn't so much the classes or learning or even being able to use magic for himself that he'd been looking forward to (though, to be fair, the last one was a pretty big draw). Mostly, though, it was people. Mt. Pierce had exactly four children on it and two of them were Annette and Annabelle who were girls and therefore were not allowed to play on brooms. Him and Thad were not nearly enough people to play mock-Quidditch (though that hadn't stopped them from trying) or even Broom Tag.

Sonora had four whole teams that played against each other. It was going to be wonderful.

Derry didn't hesitate at all when he saw the sign-up sheet. He took out his quill and added his name to the list immediately.

Derry Four, Year 1, Beater

Beater, because that was what Three had been. Derry never even considered not following in his brother's footsteps. Four followed Three. That was how Derry's world worked.

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Andrew Duell

January 21, 2011 4:28 PM

Why not? by Andrew Duell

There it was again, the Quidditch sign up sheet. Now he had a decision to make. Should he sign up or not? During the opening feast he had talked to Tobar for awhile, and had definitely gotten the feeling that the new captain wouldn't mind having him back on the team. He did have fun his second year while he was playing on the team. Last year he didn't sign up for the team again, he wasn't quite sure why not. He just never got around to it. Well, he was going to do things differently then he did last year.

With as much flourish as he could muster, he pulled out a quill and scrawled his information on the page. He paused at the last column and thought for a moment before decided that it really didn't matter.

Andrew Duell - Fourth Year - Any Position

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Benjamin Holland

January 21, 2011 5:14 PM

Another Name for the List by Benjamin Holland

Ben's face lit up when he saw the sign-up sheet on the board. He'd been waiting for this for as long as he could remember. Playing pickup games just weren't the same as playing for a real team. Cy had trained him since he was three to be a Beater.

His older sister was at college now, and he missed her more than any other family member. He personality was unmatchable, bubbly and loud, yet listening and caring. The letter she'd written him last was tucked in to his robes, alongside Kara's coloring page, and James' two dollar bill. He looked to the sign up sheet to see that Four had already signed up for Beater. He added his name with out hesitation.

Ben Holland -First Year- Beater

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Jessica Applerose
January 21, 2011 7:41 PM

Jessica Applerose
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Signing up!...hopefully with my new friends by Jessica Applerose
Jessica was nervous about signing up for Quidditch. She loved the game, but if she didn't know anyone on the team, she was going to feel stupid and lonely. As she approached the sign-up sheet, however, she saw Ben and Derry's name on it, and she lit up. Her new friends could be her new Quidditch mates!

Jessica was immensely glad that she was signing up with her two new friends. She wouldn't be alone, and this was a great way to get to know them better.

Taking out a quill and quickly dipping it into ink, she signed her name nicely. She'd played Quidditch for years as a Seeker, and she aimed to be better than all of her siblings. She was always competing with them in her head. She hoped and prayed that she would make the team. She wanted to make her parents proud.

Jessica Applerose - First Year - Seeker

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Arista Rose Thornton
January 22, 2011 1:44 PM

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YES! Now we're talking! by Arista Rose Thornton
Arista's eyes lit up as she entered the Common room and saw the sign that Tobar had put up. Arista had been on the Teppenpaw Team last year and she hoped she would be able to make it again, and even do better than she had last year. To be honest to herself, the red-head had done an awful job, and she knew it. But this year, this year, she hoped to be MUCH better! She had after all, been practicing with Amira as Addison watched from the ground. Her younger sisters loved to throw any size ball in her direction for her to catch and throw back to them to practice and she wasn't going to say no to any help they could give her.

The family daredevil that she was had reared its ugly head that summer as she darted through the air, even as her younger sister Addi cried in terror on the ground below her. She dove and drove her broom anywhere and everywhere at the same time. It was almost harder to catch her than it would have been for Addi to catch the snitch from the ground standing stationary! Many times her sister, younger by only a year had run to their mother crying real tears because she'd thought that Arista had hurt herself. But to the now twelve year old, a bruise was just that, a bruise, and it would go away.

Alright, it was true that at the beginning of the summer Arista had figured out what the pain in her wrist by her thumb of her right hand had meant. Tendonitis. A sign of over use. The twelve year old did not care an ounce. She was meant to play Quidditch, and nothing was going to stop her! Especially not something like this.

The new second year had done her research and found out that truly, other than surgery, the only way to cure tendonitis was not to use her arm. She laughed when she'd found out. "Yeah, right!" she remembered thinking as her Mother told her she'd better rest it. She didn't rest it, and quite a number of times the red head's face had turned a brighter shade of red than her hair had been for the pain had become so intense she didn't know what to do with herself.

These were the times that Addi had gone crying and running to their mother, but Arista forced the wanted tears away and kept fighting for what she wanted. To fly through the air and soar into the clouds! Even now, her hand hurt, she knew she shouldn't have lugged her trunk, her sister and her sister's trunk, but it was important or they'd never have made it to school!

Pulling her arm up to her chest, allowing it to lean on her front, she took a deep breath and pulled out a quill with her left hand, and taking it in her right, signed her name.

Arista Rose Thornton, second year, chaser

She didn't care if her hand hurt, she wanted more than anything to play again!

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Kirstenna Melcher
January 22, 2011 3:16 PM

Kirstenna Melcher
Alumnus
House: Teppenpaw
Written by: Allegra Brockert

Age in Post: 13
Birthday: February 2

Making a full team. by Kirstenna Melcher
When Kirstenna finally went to sign up-in her excitement over being named Assistant Captain, she had sort of forgotten she needed to actually do so-her face lit up. There were already six names on the list including Tobar's. Kirstenna would make seven. They would have a full team.

That was it. That was all Kirstenna had hoped for. She didn't necessarily care about winning. The Assistant Captain just wanted her team to have a fair shot though she was disappointed not to see Kate or Dmitri back. But if they had decided not to play anymore, Kirstenna wasn't going to force them. They only needed seven, not an excess, though reserves were nice to have, though it might be pushing their luck to get them.

She placed her name on the list.

Assistant Captain Kirstenna Melcher, Third Year, Keeper

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Kate Bauer
January 23, 2011 9:33 PM

Kate Bauer
Alumnus
House: Teppenpaw
Written by: Grayson Wright

Age in Post: 12

And now we're over the top. by Kate Bauer
Of course no one had really expected her to win in the game against Crotalus – Marissa Stephenson had been three years her senior and playing Seeker for most of that time – but Kate knew Marissa’s superior skill wasn’t the only reason Teppenpaw had lost its shot at the finals last year. Others included Kate using a school broom and just not being very good. She had tried her best, but she just wasn’t there yet.

Knowing that, and even seeing that Teppenpaw had a full team without her, did nothing to deter her from signing up again.

It wasn’t just about the game anymore, it was about Rachel and Momma and, now that he’d bought her a proper broom over the summer, Dad and politics and all sorts of things. It was a lot for a game to bear, but Kate didn’t think she was the first person to dump all that onto its shoulders. Heck, the entire W.A.I.L. controversy had begun, she thought, when she was still in diapers. And now that she was in, and she and her sister had both laid all their cards on the table over the question, she couldn’t leave. Even if it was really for the good of the House, it would look like she was caving in to Rachel and Momma and Jeremy, and she couldn’t do that. She’d put up with being demoted to extra if she had to.

Which, honestly, was kind of likely since a bunch of first years were enthusiastic enough to beat her to it and she was pretty sure she’d seen Rachel flirt with Tobar at least once, but still. She had a principle to stick by, and she was going to stick by it. She had already decided she wasn’t going to let her stepfather’s money take away who she was, the way her sisters and mother had, and this was just one way of letting everyone know that so she couldn’t back down from it later. Smiling for the benefit of the common room, she walked up to the list after supper one night and wrote her name: Kate Bauer – Second Year – Seeker or Chaser

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