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Ellie is supposed to be grown now (lady_dragon) wrote in neeps,
@ 2018-02-03 15:02:00

Entry tags:

! ic/ooc, # portree, ainsley galbraith, amir khoury, bart roberts, chidera okeke, david urquhart, elspeth macfusty, lorna macfarlane, madeline savage, maggie macdougal, meaghan mccormack, owen macfarlane, sara scrimgeour, terry boot

Who: Pride of Portree Players & Staff
What: Hell Week -- to challenge and test the endurance of the team because did you see the Falcon v. United match? 20 hours! Also with the Golden Neep and Post Season, they are going to be busy. (Use this as planning or threading fun!)
When: 1 February - 9 February
Where: Pride training grounds, MacFusty Reserve

Welcome to Hell Week! (and many gifs)

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PRIDE OF PORTREE: HELL WEEK

It's going to be fun!

CODE BY TESSISAMESS

GENERAL SCHEDULE

6a-9a »» Captain’s Sessions
A mix of running, strength training, and agility drills with Lorna and Alasdair at the helm. Other staff members are at the pitch to oversee and be available as resources if needed because Ellie won’t be there.

9a-12p »» Break!
Nothing official planned. Nap if you need it. (Please nap!) Time for one-on-ones if needed.

12p-2p »» Strategy Sessions
Lunch strategy meetings. Menu by Maggie. Reviewing old matches. Focusing on styles of other teams, with a bit more focus on Montrose. One day might even be media training/PR stuff, just to cover all bases here.

2pm onward »» Coach’s sessions
Lots of scrimmages in weird variations. They will be playing down, she might challenge players to play as if they have an injury, not using an arm, or any other weird thing you might think of. Most days players will be out by 5pm.

Exceptions:
Saturday, 3 February, training 7am-1pm
Sunday, 4 February a day of rest. (you're welcome)
Thursday, 8 February team will be dismissed just after 9am.
Friday, 9 February is the day at the Dragon Reserve.

Subthreads to Watch

+ General Status
+ Late Night Junior
+ Late Late Night
+ Thursday Morning Session
+ Dragon Day

+ Monday; Ainsley & the Death Wish: Announcement
+ Monday: Bart, Ellie & Maddie all sit down to talk about seekers.
+ Monday: Ellie checks in with Amir at how things are going.

+ Tuesday: A sleepy and not up to full speed Ainsley appears.
+ Tuesday: Seeker Update, Pip edition with Ellie & Bart.

+ Wednesday: Terry & Ellie anticipate how the long day will go.
+ Wednesday: Maggie has feelings about Cotton and the Arrows.
+ Wednesday: David is having none of Ellie’s more extreme methods.
+ Wednesday: Lorna and Alasdair check in on each other and watch over the team.
+ Wendesday: Maggie provides Ellie with snacks of friendship...or at least agreement.
+ Wednesday: Amir nearly falls asleep on his broom, Maddie to the rescue!
+ Wednesday: Lorna & Owen may mix just a little pleasure with business.

+ Thursday: Ellie wakes up the tiny rage dragon.

+ Friday: Ellie & Lorna reflect on how things went ahead of Dragon Day.

+ Friday: Owen commits the ultimate party foul and delivers some bad (but probably not unexpected) news.

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lady_dragon
2018-02-05 04:14 am UTC (link)

Ellie wasn't sure she deserved the hug, but she accepted it. Otherwise it would have been easy to resort to form. To throw a punch or push Lorna back, resort to form. But she was exhausted. And still moving too slowly.

More so that quiet but growing louder voice reminded her she needed Lorna. That she shouldn't have tried to do any of it without her sister. Even if that was part of the problem.

"And I hate the Luag isn't playing right now, but it's also a huge relief."

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mrs_dragon
2018-02-05 04:43 am UTC (link)

Lorna kept hugging her sister because that was really the only thing she could do at the moment. She couldn't magically make her sister be able to play again (what was magic good for again?)

"Luag can always go back to playing again. He's helping in his own way now. I'm helping you by being on the pitch," she said and pulled back. "Over the break... I had a talk with Scrimmy. We had a beater practice so I could show her some moves."

"And after we were done... she asked me some questions. She wanted to know if it was okay to settle for doing something you're really good at even if you only liked it, if you couldn't do what you love," Lorna explained. Now she could have turned this all on Ellie about her coaching but she went in another direction. "I loved it when we got to be beaters together. I miss it, I promise I do. But even if it's not what we always wanted, this coaching and captaining this... we're good at this too."

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lady_dragon
2018-02-05 04:58 am UTC (link)

"I don't know if I could settle." And wasn't that the big looming question for the rest of this season. Peggy had asked her as much on Boxing Day. Ellie no more had an answer then as she did now.

The past six months since she signed on to coach Pride was a whirlwind and a phase shift. Multiple shifts really. And like she asked Tor, not all of them were bad.

"But right now? I'll take making it through the rest of the season without being written off as a right nugget."

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	mrs_dragon 2018-02-05 05:03 am UTC (link)
	Lorna could understand that. She pulled back from the hug but still held onto her sister's hand. "We're going to get through it, the season. And we'll get through this week too." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lady_dragon 2018-02-05 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	"Fuck Lorna." Ellie wipes at her eyes, knowing she is going to need to pull herself together and be ready for everyone arriving soon. "I'd like to maybe win a few, maintain our rankings. Actually mean something positive to Pride." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mrs_dragon 2018-02-06 01:01 am UTC (link)
	They still had plenty of time of Ellie to pull herself together. "We'll win more than a few," Lorna assured Ellie. She was confident in that... even with the team changing up again. "We're definitely going to need to work hard... but I think you're doing something positive." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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