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driftfleet2016-03-14 07:11 pm
misterprongs) wrote in driftfleet2016-03-14 07:11 pm
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Who: James Potter [misterprongs] and YOU.
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: The Paisley.
When: Now!
Ahem.
[ with a modest clearing of the throat and bright eyes, james potter looks like everything is Alright. everything is, in fact, not alright, and his closer friends may be able to tell -- but for all the world, james looks like the enthralled young man he usually is, ready to make a grand announcement. ]
As some of you may know, my birthday is at the tail-end of the very esteemed month of March, and while I normally don't request gifts, I do have a slight idea if anyone is so inclined to celebrate the day of my birth. Or I can pay you for it, whichever your heart desires.
[ PAUSE FOR DRAMATIC EFFECT as james allows his somewhat weathered golden snitch to flutter into view, and he snatches it out of the air without looking at it, offering a grin. ]
I would like a broomstick. A proper one, that flies, and allows for death-defying leaps, drops, loops, stunts, and otherwise perfectly suited to play Quidditch, and before any of the ill-informed ask me what Quidditch is, allow me to explain the rules of the best game in the history of wizarding kind. I'm told it's a bit like rugby and football, but in the air -- teams of seven, and three types of balls. There's the quaffle, which is handled by the Chasers, of which there are three, and each time the quaffle is thrown through the hoops on the pitch, it scores ten points! There's also two bludgers, which are two balls made out of iron that whip around trying to knock folks off of their broomsticks, and the two Beaters have got clubs to knock them around at other players, and to protect their own players. And there's the Keeper, their job is to block shots by he Chasers and protect the goal posts -- and then there's the Seeker, whose job it is to catch the Golden Snitch, which -- this.
[ as james holds up said golden snitch, which is struggling between his fingers. dealwithit.jpeg ]
Catching it ends the game, and grants the team who catches it a hundred and fifty points. Which usually means you win the game, but there're've been instances throughout history where the bloke catches the Snitch, but you lose anyway, 'cause some people don't know how to do math properly, which I imagine happens if you've been hit in the head one too many times by a rogue bludger, and I think the last time it happened was in the early eighteen hundreds -- oi, Moony!
[ but it seems someone (and judging from james' indignation, remus) has grabbed at james' communicator, and there's a faint muttered no one cares, prongs, shut up before the feed is disconnected.
rude. ]
misterprongs] and YOU.Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: The Paisley.
When: Now!
Ahem.
[ with a modest clearing of the throat and bright eyes, james potter looks like everything is Alright. everything is, in fact, not alright, and his closer friends may be able to tell -- but for all the world, james looks like the enthralled young man he usually is, ready to make a grand announcement. ]
As some of you may know, my birthday is at the tail-end of the very esteemed month of March, and while I normally don't request gifts, I do have a slight idea if anyone is so inclined to celebrate the day of my birth. Or I can pay you for it, whichever your heart desires.
[ PAUSE FOR DRAMATIC EFFECT as james allows his somewhat weathered golden snitch to flutter into view, and he snatches it out of the air without looking at it, offering a grin. ]
I would like a broomstick. A proper one, that flies, and allows for death-defying leaps, drops, loops, stunts, and otherwise perfectly suited to play Quidditch, and before any of the ill-informed ask me what Quidditch is, allow me to explain the rules of the best game in the history of wizarding kind. I'm told it's a bit like rugby and football, but in the air -- teams of seven, and three types of balls. There's the quaffle, which is handled by the Chasers, of which there are three, and each time the quaffle is thrown through the hoops on the pitch, it scores ten points! There's also two bludgers, which are two balls made out of iron that whip around trying to knock folks off of their broomsticks, and the two Beaters have got clubs to knock them around at other players, and to protect their own players. And there's the Keeper, their job is to block shots by he Chasers and protect the goal posts -- and then there's the Seeker, whose job it is to catch the Golden Snitch, which -- this.
[ as james holds up said golden snitch, which is struggling between his fingers. dealwithit.jpeg ]
Catching it ends the game, and grants the team who catches it a hundred and fifty points. Which usually means you win the game, but there're've been instances throughout history where the bloke catches the Snitch, but you lose anyway, 'cause some people don't know how to do math properly, which I imagine happens if you've been hit in the head one too many times by a rogue bludger, and I think the last time it happened was in the early eighteen hundreds -- oi, Moony!
[ but it seems someone (and judging from james' indignation, remus) has grabbed at james' communicator, and there's a faint muttered no one cares, prongs, shut up before the feed is disconnected.
rude. ]
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1. The game relies on a tournament system, which relies heavily on points. So the amount of points you win or lose by in the game matters, a lot. You could catch the Snitch in every game but still lose the tournament, and still miss out on the Cup if you completely ignore the rest of your team.
2. Catching the Snitch is horrendously difficult, as it moves about lightning fast and is hard to see. It takes time to catch it, which gives the rest of the team the ability to wrack up as much points as possible. The game doesn't necessarily hinge on the Seeker -- it only ends when the Seeker catches the ball.
3. I am not a Seeker, I play as the head Chaser, and I'm also the Captain.
4. Didn't your mum teach you "if you haven't got anything nice to say, don't say it at all", or was that just mine?
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1. Makes more sense in a grand scheme, still seems ridiculously biased when you're actually in the game itself. Since in the game, unless you've managed to wrack up 150 points more than the opposition, whoever gets that Snitch wins.
2. Having caught lightning, seems less a big deal. And again with the disproportionate amount of points thing.
3. Fine, I got that one wrong.
4. No. She also died when I was still a pup.
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2. Good for you for catching lightning, it still doesn't change the fact that catching the Snitch is hard.
3. Thanks for admitting it.
4. My genuine condolences for your loss. Did you have friends to teach you manners, instead?
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2.I'll take your word for it.
3. No skin off my nose. I'm not always right.
4. I'm a couple of thousand years old. I'm not changing now. I say what I think.