A Flurry of Blue! (Ravenclaw)

[Matthew Dorm R3]

{Everyone remember, two practice posts counts towards one in game post towards your Xp points. So be sure to post as much as you can! As we won't be rolling any dice for this match, the seeker can decide when he catches the snitch, and the beaters can decide when they hit someone. Try to be fair and not be successful with all of your attempts. The same counts for August and myself, he can decide whether the goal is scored, etc.}

Roger woke that morning, squinting at the sun's rays that flickered through the wispy, white clouds and spilled its warmth into the Ravenclaw common room. "Sun and fluffy white stuff on the ground?" he thought to himself, as he tried to sort out this unusual sequence of events. Perhaps it would start getting warm again soon, or perhaps it was just a one off. The past month had been cold and frozen, and despite the occasional days in which Roger had followed Matthew outside the castle to play happily in the snow with him, the majority of the Christmas holidays had been spent, for himself at least, curled up comfortably on the large squashy armchairs that surrounded the roaring, flickering fireplace in the common room. Whatever the case, the sun had woken him from his peaceful slumber, and now that he was awake he would most certainly not be able to sleep again, mainly because of the bright light that now filled the room and also because of the smell of freshly cooked food that met his nose from somewhere in the castle. "Breakfast!" he thought, as he jumped off the couch he has been sleeping on, and carried his tiny body upstairs to the dormitory in which Matthew slept.

"Oh come on!" he thought to himself, as he bounced up and down on Matthew's bed, trying but failing to wake him up. So far all he had received was a long and confused yawn, before he had rolled over and the loud snores started to get up again. "So I get woken from my amazing dream of kippers and warm fires by the dratted sun in my face, and you get to stay in your bed?" no, this was most definitely not fair. Action would have to be taken.

"OW!" Matthew woke that morning with a sharp pain rising in his ear. Roger had decided to wake him, yet again. "Next time can't you just wake me up by bouncing on the bed or something Roger, honestly, I don't know why you have to scratch my ear to wake me every morning" He rose from his bed, pulling on trousers, socks, shirt and jumper before he located his Quidditch robes and broom and set around the dormitory attempting to locate his shoes. Today was Quidditch practice, and like any responsible Vice Captain, he had spent the entire of last night finishing and perfecting his plans for the session today. At last locating his shoes deep underneath his bed, Matthew lifted himself up and walked out the room, calling Roger after him.

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"Alright everyone listen up!" Matthew called, standing next to their captain, August, they both stood in front of the other three players. "Now, we only have five players on our team, so listen up! The next match could be either us or Slytherin, so we need to be prepared. We don't have a full team, but that is no reason not to train. We've got to focus hard on getting as good as we can get, and leave the recruitment of new players to August and myself!" He hoped they would listen, he was an incredibly young vice after all. "Now, I've created some exercises we can practice today, it has been specially adapted to suit the five of us, but it will still test and strengthen the skills that we need. At this, he held out the team's roster which he had acquired from August.

Chaser - Empty.
Chaser – Matthew Dorm R3
Chaser - Empty.
Beater – Ephraim Eades R7
Beater – Celes Sorrenson R5
Seeker – Williard Thoth R3
Keeper – August Reid R6

After he was sure the team has all understood the new lineup, he moved onto explain the exercises they would be doing today. "The first exercise today will allow us to practice how quickly our seeker," he smiled at Williard, "can locate the snitch, and how many goals I can attempt to score withing this time. We will have one chaser, myself, attempting to get goals past our keeper August. Ephraim, our beater, will keep the pressure on me with one of the bludgers and try and stop me from scoring as many as goals as I can. At the same time, we will have our seeker, Williard, try and locate the snitch whilst our other beater, Celes, keeps the pressure on him with the other bludger. Once the snitch is caught, the amount of goals scored will be recorded and this our target to beat next session. Our second exercise today will test our seekers skill under pressure, allow our beaters to work and coordinate together, and August and myself to practice one on ones and passing. We will have August and myself practicing one on ones, whilst our seeker attempts to locate and catch the snitch and both beaters keep the pressure on them with both quaffles. As we only have one chaser at this moment in time, after August and myself feel we have practiced enough one on ones, he will switch to chaser and allow me to practice passing sequences."

Matthew, looked around at the team, making sure they understood, and glanced at August, wondering if he approved. "Right then, let's do this everyone, and beaters we don't want anyone injured, so be careful, exercise one first!" With that, the brooms were mounted, everyone flew to their positions and Matthew yelled to initiate the start of the practice. Heading towards the large hoops with the quaffle firmly grasped is his hand, he shot forwards, keeping a wary mind out for the bludger that was no doubt flying towards him.

((OOC: For a reference to see how many posts you need look here.))

[Williard Thoth R4]

Williard sat up straight in his bed, still comfortably under his warm covers. Jeremy was in his lap, and he had been playing with him for the past ten minutes. He had pushed the cat around as it layed on its back, and in return, Jeremy softly scratched and nibbled on Williard's fingers. He had Quidditch Practice today, and to be quite honest, Williard wasn't feeling to up to it. But, he wasn't one to complain; if he had signed up for something, then he would make sure that he stuck to it. Williard peered out of the brilliant blue curtain that surrounded his four poster bed when he heard his house mate Matthew somewhat yell at his cat. Matthew was also Ravenclaw's Quidditch Team Vice Captain, and for some reason, Williard didn't think he had ever even spoken to him. But, of course, these days, Williard wasn't very social. Matthew seemed like a nice person, Williard just really wasn't in the right frame of mind to make a new friend. He layed back, resting his head against his pillow, and Jeremy hopped up and layed across Willard's face, his plump, warm belly lightly suffocating him. Williard laughed and raised the cat up. "Okay Jeremy," he said opening his curtain and placing his cat on the floor. He got up, and got ready for the day.

About an hour and a half later, Williard was on the Quidditch field, listening to the Vice Captain's orders and instructions for today's practice. It sounded simple and easy enough. All Williard had to do was try and capture the Snitch as fast as he could while avoiding Bludgers. Even though Williard had finally gotten to a place where he was comfortable, he of all people believed practice definitely made perfect. And like Matthew had said, their next game was against Slytherin, so if Williard expected to get better or improve in any way, then today and every day until the game he would have to make that happen. Everyone mounted their brooms, and when the signal was given, they took off. Williard immediately set to work determined.

((Snitch searching, Dodging Bludgers/OOC: I feel like I should know this lol but I am assuming we are posting the same way as we do in actual Quidditch matches, right?))

@williard.
Yes, we will post like a normal Quidditch match, but there will be no dice rolls. See the top of the post as to an explanation of how it will all work. Thanks for posting!

@matthew
Sorry about that dude lol I kind of sped read your post because I had been meaning to reply to this since you put it up [Will could use some extra stat points] and I guess in my haste, my reading went over my head.