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Ellie is supposed to be grown now (lady_dragon) wrote in neeps,
@ 2017-10-01 12:23:00

Entry tags:

! ic/ooc, # portree, alasdair buchanan, elspeth macfusty, meaghan mccormack, sara scrimgeour, x-joy willison

IC/OOC: Unconventional training session
Who: Pride players (Ellie assumes Tor is invited, and last minute invites Cav)
Where: MacFusty Dragon Reserve
What: Agility drills with dragons. Lots of dodging unexpected things. Bonfire and social at the end of the night.
When: Sunday, 1 October noon and onward

The team had been instructed to arrive at the Reserve between noon and 12:30. Ellie and her sister Davina will be there to great them and direct them to where they are meeting. Their meeting location is actually the starting line for Winter Solstice Broom Race (that goes from the Reserve to Montrose -- more thoughts on this later), so there is place to set up. Also it is a reasonable area for people to be flying brooms through with managed risk.

As people are arriving, other members of the MacFusty clan are about keen to give people tours. Ellie will very happily direct people to where the young dragons nest.

At 12:30 there will be a brief team meeting going over the goals for the day before everyone takes to their brooms. Of note, neither of the seekers are present. If prompted Ellie will say they have been excused ahead of an intensive seeker training tomorrow.

At 1pm, people will take to their brooms for an afternoon of weird training drills. More about these drills below. Also please feel free to add your own.

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Re: Drill #3

joyandpride
2017-10-02 02:41 am UTC (link)

As already established, Joy is a terrible Beater. She will give it a go when that's the position available to her, but it will basically be comedy. (Bonus comedy if her inept flailings actually result in a wild shot that knocks someone off their broom.)

(Q: is Seeker included in the options, given the Seekers aren't here and the Seeker isn't really involved in the general run of play? I feel like Joy might actually be a decent Seeker in terms of moves, but she lacks the concentration discipline and she'd be too distracted by the game to spot the Snitch.)

Otherwise, she's just having fun getting whackier with her Chaser moves.

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	lady_dragon 2017-10-02 02:48 am UTC (link)
	Good clarification. I meant to put this above. No seeker position in their scrimmages. And maybe a few rounds with no keepers, but extra beaters. Just to be tricky. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	joyandpride 2017-10-02 02:51 am UTC (link)
	omg I totally forgot about Keeper, don't tell Meaghan. I suspect Joy would be not too shabby at Keeping - good hands and reflexes and all - right up until she gets distracted at the wrong moment and tries to catch a Bludger thinking it's a Quaffle... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lady_dragon 2017-10-02 03:01 am UTC (link)
	Yes. Catching bludgers in air. Excellent. (And hopefully not too injury related...) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	joyandpride 2017-10-02 04:26 am UTC (link)
	Let's say some bruises, primarily hand/arm related, and some muscle strain from nearly falling off her broom? Plus the endless derision from Meaghan. ;) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mmmcc 2017-10-03 05:58 am UTC (link)
	Meaghan laughs so hard she nearly falls off HER broom, and just hangs there upside down for a while until she can breathe enough to swing herself back up. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mmmcc 2017-10-03 05:55 am UTC (link)
	HDU (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Drill #3 wannabeat 2017-10-02 04:04 am UTC (link)
	During Joy's beater times, Scrimmy is shouting advice from whatever position she's in. Lots of "No hold the bat higher this isn't cricket!" "FOLLOW THROUGH FOLLOW THROUGH!" "AIM FOR THE MIDDLE, IF YE MISS YOU STILL MIGHT NAB THEIR HEAD!!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Drill #3 joyandpride 2017-10-02 04:20 am UTC (link)
	There will be lots of shouting back, mostly on the theme of "I'M TRYING, I'M TRYING" and also a lot of swearing. Joy is mostly good-humoured about how bad she is, and she does try, but she will definitely be getting more than a little frustrated after a while and it starts to show. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Drill #3 wannabeat 2017-10-02 04:22 am UTC (link)
	If there's no progress at one point Scrimmy will just try to helpfully shout "JUST SWING WILDLY, THE UNPREDICTABILITY WILL SCARE THEM MORE THAN YOU TRYING AND IT'LL WORK BETTER!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Drill #3 joyandpride 2017-10-02 04:28 am UTC (link)
	There is no progress. (THIS IS A STUPID WAY TO INTERACT WITH BALLS I HAVE HANDS FOR A REASON UGH!) At least Scrim's new advice makes Joy laugh again. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Drill #3 mmmcc 2017-10-03 05:59 am UTC (link)
	YEAH to BLOCK BLUDGERS with apparently (Reply to this) (Parent)

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