The Craven Twins
February 09, 2007 11:55 AM
Pecari Tryouts and Training by The Craven Twins
The twins headed to the pitch with an item never before seen at one of their training sessions; a clipboard. The sign up sheet was a total mess (Stephen’s ‘helpful’ nicknames and the obscuring smudges over them notwithstanding) and there was going to have to be some good old fashioned hands-upping and skills testing to work out who to put where, especially with the proliferation of Chaser-wannabes and complete lack of Seekers. This suggested a lot of the first years were clueless about the game, given that Seeker was the big glory position.“Ok, listen up,” Ash called, once a sizeable group had gathered on the pitch. “We’ve got a fair few of you-”
“-but a bit of an imbalance in terms of who wants what positions,” continued Sorrel. Those who knew the twins quickly adjusted to the sentence sharing pattern of their speech. Those who knew them well realised it had nothing to do with some freaky twin bond thing, but everything to do with competitiveness.
“So, last year’s team are going to get up and-”
“-warm up. If you just signed up this year-”
“-stay down and have a chat.”
Ash pulled out a Quaffle and threw it to Liz. He tried to grin at her in a friendly friend sort of way (which he’d always been able to do before) but he could tell he just couldn’t pull that off for some stupid reason. Well, the reason being that he thought about her in her underwear (or less) a lot. Perhaps he should get her in a dark corner of the common room and try to find out about it first hand… It was getting beyond the point where he could pretend he didn’t want to, and he couldn’t do with being distracted on the Quidditch Pitch.
“Don’t relax too much, we’ll be sending the Bludgers in once you’ve warmed up a bit,” he warned them all, though he found himself still looking at Liz. Even in baggy Quidditch gear, she was fit. Trying his best to keep his mind on the outside of her clothes, he turned back to the first-timers (not all firsties, technically). Sorrel was already prepping them.
“-going to want to test your skills, obviously,” she was saying.
“-but we’d like to know a bit about what you think of your own abilities,” Ash chimed in, used enough to the pace to pick it up even when his mind had recently been elsewhere.
“So we want from each of you how long you’ve played,”
“And how able you think you are to play each of Chaser-”
“-and Seeker, on a scale of one-”
“-to five, five being the most able,”
“-and one the least.”
“The chances are you’ll be reserves for both anyway.”
“But we need to know who best to sub-on in each case.”
“Don’t try to give us bull to out do other people’s scores.”
“Cos we’re gonna test you anyway.”
“And we don’t want liars or big egos on our team.”
“There’s only just room for Stephen’s as it is.”
Above them, the old team seemed to have settled into their activity, so Ash took a Bludger and his bat, leaving Sorrel to go through the list person by person and get their ratings and experience.
“Ok, guys, I’m letting this loose,” he called up. Flying to join them he warned. “I’m just here to keep you from getting in trouble. I want you to practice your dodging skills, in case me or Sorrel can’t get there in a match.”
OOC - old team, play ball. Newbies, give Sorrel your experience, and ratings, one for each position (Chaser and Seeker), and make your posts juicey, as they will be part of what I use to decide who gets what. It’s quality of writing, not how amazing you claim your character is at playing that decides these things. Sorry this has taken so long, assume it's happening quite near the start of term. Go fuzzy time!\n\n
Subthreads: Oh! Pick me! Pick me! by Elly Eriksson
Woo! *is excited* by Irene Liddowe with Irene
hoping being a bludger magnet don't hurt me by Caedence with Lizzie Lavine, Saul
<i>hey</i>... I'm feeling a little less than appreciated by Stephen Baxter
Bring'em on. by Meredith Lail
Chaser Tryout Exercise (Attn: ALL) by The Twins with Elly, Saul Pierce, Caedence, Irene Liddowe
Part 3: Seeker Test by The Craven Twins with Irene Liddowe, Elly
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Caedence
February 09, 2007 5:23 PM
hoping being a bludger magnet don't hurt me by Caedence
Caedence clutched her broom to herself as she walked towards the pits. She had her braid covered in a black ribbon to keep it from loosening. She didn't know why, but she felt a tight braid made her better. In the other games, her braid had become frizzy. She was sure that is why the bludgers hit her. At least, she hoped it wasn't really bad skills at quidditch.She listened carefully as Ash talked. Well, as ash and Sorrel continued to interupt eachother. How typical, sibling rivalry. One-upmanship. Well, at least she didn't have any annoying brothers or sisteres to deal with. Or to protect from neighborhood kids who would want to kill her or him.
She snapped out of her train of thought when she heard teh words 'last years team'. Okay, so they were going to keep the old team? Caedence now found herself rather confused, to tell the truith. She glanced as the quaffle was tossed towards Liz. She rolled her eyes as she watched Ash continue to look at her. She mounted her broom and with a quick, "Good Luck" to the newbies, took off into the air.
"Hey, Lizzy, maybe when he lets out the bludgers I won't get hit this time?" she joked. She stretched her arms all the way out and rotated them. She was a bit rusty and hoped that didn't effect her playing. Cracking her neck, she said, "Let's do this!" \n\n
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Lizzie Lavine
February 09, 2007 8:34 PM
well, considering your track record... by Lizzie Lavine
Lizzie was slightly nervous. When the quidditch sign ups (and the mild insanity that accompanied it) were posted, she'd been excited to start a new season. Afterwards, she started feeling extremely anxious whenever she thought about it. Actually, the main reason she was anxious was because of the conversation with Stephen that had occured. So Ash liked her- so what? Wasn't that what she wanted? A reverse Midas' touch was taking over her social interactions, it seemed, since the enitre issue with Jake and Jen had gone up in smoke. She feared that same reaction occurring if she were to have a relationship with Ash. So, the idea came again- what did she really want? Lizzie wasn't sure.However, being on the pitch that morning, Lizzie was sure of one thing- Stephen wasn't a liar. Ash's eyes were glued to her the entire way through the little beginning speech and afterwards when he tossed her the quaffle. She wanted to grin at him, but she found that she couldn't bring herself to do it. The boy was far too focused on looking at her to warrant that much. Liz met his eyes, sending him a rather stern look of her own before shaking her head and mounting her broom. If she had learned anything from growing up with her brothers and their friends, it was that when boys looked at a girl that way, there was only one thing they could possibly be thinking about. Lizzie was torn between feeling flattered and mildly annoyed that what he was thinking about was how she looked, and nothing else.
"Let's hope not!" She laughed at Caedence's quip as the returning players took to the air, remembering the girl's propensity to be hit by bludgers, "Okay chasers, let's roll!"
She looked about for the last third of the chasing team, but didn't seem to find him. Liz shrugged and figured he had to be around there somewhere. It wasn't like Saul to just not show up to quidditch. Looking to Caedence, Liz started some simple passing drills with her, making a weave so that their pass height and distance would be varied, just for the good practice. It was simple enough, and they'd been running this as a warm up drill for years now, so it shouldn't have been hard to follow.
While working the pattern, Lizzie's mind felt like it was on repeat: What do I want? Do I want Ash? I like Ash, but is that what I want? What do I want?..." The recycled thoughts were almost distracting. Sure, she had liked Ash for a year or so now, and sure, he was exceptionally fine. He was athletic, funny, cute, and most of all, he had seen her at her worst a few years ago and had been encouraging. That had been a really rough patch in her life, and she had been genuinely upset. That was something most people never saw of Lizzie, but Ash had. She thought about it, and when she did, she couldn't help but grin. Of course she liked Ash- what had she been thinking? Did it really matter that he was looking at her? Maybe not. Maybe she liked having the attention.
"Alright Caedence," she finally shouted as she tossed her the quaffle again, unable to stop smiling, "Let's keep warming up. You pick a drill- the bludgers are out, so we came do some dodging, if you want."\n\n
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Caedence
February 13, 2007 1:35 PM
..isn't good? by Caedence
Caedence's brow was begining to sweat, and she wiped it. This was a little bit of a workout after a summer away from magic. Fighting punks at home was one thing, flying and catching a red ball was something totally different. It began to take it out of a person. She inhaled deeply, reasoning that if she could learn to survive practice, then a game would be no sweat.She looked around, realising that the ball only went between her and Lizzy, realising that was rather odd. At first she thought it was an insult, Lizzy's way of saying she thought Caedence wasn't good and Saul needed no training. Sure, the kid was able to stay in the air, but that wasn't Caedence's fault! She then noticed, the other Chaser was no where to be seen. Where was he? Surely she wasn't slow enough to not notice another student transfered. What was it then? Did the boy forget practice?
Caedence snapped back into reality as she saw a rush of red once more heading at her. She caught it inches from her nose. Man, she needed to get her head...well not out of the clouds since that is about where they were, but at least in the practice at hand. "Alright Caedence, Let's keep warming up. You pick a drill- the bludgers are out, so we came do some dodging, if you want."
She frowned playfully. Was that supposed to be a joke on her 'magnetic personality' that she seemed to have on the field. It broke into her signature wolfish smile as she detected a good chalenge.
"I have an idea," she hollered back, "Why don't we play a game? Try and pass around the bludgers without getting hit? Then we can work on safe passes and dodging. And if Saul gets here, we could maybe try practicing throwing with an opposing person trying to keep us from making the throw." she suggested with a mild shrug, keeping her eyes and ears out for the evil bludgers that Lizzy said were out there. \n\n
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Saul
February 14, 2007 9:32 PM
I'm here! by Saul
Saul was running late. Everything was going wrong today. First, he'd forgotten to set his alarm, so he didn't wake up until Michael got up for whatever it was that Michael did while normal people had Quidditch practice. Then, Saul hadn't been able to find shoes. While they weren't strictly neccessary for Quidditch, not having them would look weird, weirder than even Saul was comfortable with.Then he tried to find his wand to help him find his shoes, but that was missing, too. Eventually, though, he found them both in the pile of clothes that he'd worn yesterday. By then, he had just enough time to run down to the Cascade Hall and grab something to eat before practice.
That had been a bad idea because in his rush, he left his broom in his room. So then he had to go all the way back out through the gardens, into Pecari Commons, up to his room, get the broom, then run as fast as he could back down the stairs, out of the Commons, and launch up onto his broom and fly back to the Pitch.
By then, the Captains had already started, of course, and Saul spotted Caedence and Lizzy tossing the Quaffle back and forth between them. The folks on the ground with the Captains all seemed to be people who weren't on the team last year and those in the air looked to be returning players, so he headed straight for the other two Chasers.
"Hey, guys!" he called over to them, just before realizing neither was a guy and correcting, "I mean, girls!" He stopped a good passing distance away, and tried to catch his breath from his hurried trip. "What're we doing?"\n\n
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