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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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Bonus round +

lady_dragon
2017-10-02 03:36 am UTC (link)

Per Meaghan's critique. A bonus round for this drill will created -- perhaps even as a bridge to Drill #2 -- in which the player has to protect an object (fake dragon egg used for later, because themes here) while 3 people are trying to steal it and everyone else is on bludger aiming duty.

I imagining a mix of Jedi, Clothespin Ninja, and Smog's Jewels here in this task. (Also I am apparently a very big experiential education nerd.)

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	Re: Bonus round + mmmcc 2017-10-02 05:29 am UTC (link)
	I LIKE it. Though I'm not sure I found the right Jedi game, I guess it doesn't matter since those are just inspiration. Not sure if this is just a Meaghan-as-keeper round or if everyone gets a chance? If the latter, she still wants first stab. Are the beaters trying to hit the keeper, the other three, or everyone? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Bonus round + lady_dragon 2017-10-02 10:57 pm UTC (link)
	Yes this drill is for everyone as Meaghan brought up a good point. Limited space matters. Beaters would be trying to hit everyone, but more so the keeper/protector. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Bonus round + joyandpride 2017-10-03 06:06 am UTC (link)
	Joy is pretty bad at this; she's a lot better at focus than she is at broad awareness and keeping an eye out in every direction. As she starts getting flustered about it, and then laughing at herself, she gets even worse. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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