The Golden Neep IC

( MG )

( Roger, Kal, Ada )

( Alex )

( Ernie )

Who: Georgi Draganov, Ernie Macmillan.
What: Nadezhda has been and gone with updates about the Draganov curse. Now it's time to talk about it, and make plans for moving forward.
When: Wednesday, 11 April 2000, late afternoon.
Where: Around and about the Leannan Boathouse, Dundee.
Warnings: Curse talk, some sadness, some mushiness.

( We’re going to be happy, you and I. )

Who: Georgi Draganov, Ainsley Galbraith
What: Cooking with Friends! (except with non-people ingredients, because cannibalism is bad). Sharing secrets and making connections.
When: Backdated: 4 April 2000, Evening
Where: Leannan Boathouse, Dundee.
Warnings: Nah.

( Bit of a shite club to be in, really. )

( Montrose Players + Staff + Ownership )

( Florrie + Merc + Shona )

( Ainsley )

( Ernie )

Who: Georgi Draganov and Ernie Macmillan; also Nikolay Draganov, Nadezhda Nenova, more Bulgarian folks, and a house elf named Ivo.
What: Georgi needs Ernie's support, and more, when he goes home to face the music.
When: Sunday, 25 March 2000.
Where: The Draganov home, also a wizarding hotel, both in Malkograd, Bulgaria.
Warnings: Potentially upsetting use of unpleasant magic, rhetoric, and language. There is pain and trauma in here.

( Whatever happens, you’re going to be fine. )

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Kenmare Kestrels (7-3-0 0.700) versus Montrose Magpies (10-0-0 1.000)
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Play Started:2000-03-24 at Irish National (Conamara)
Snitch caught in : 7 hours, 18 minutes
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Kenmare Kestrels : 190
Montrose Magpies : 590
Congratulations, Montrose Magpies
( That'll bring the block's average up. It'll bring a lot of the league's averages up... )

( Excerpts from a veritable parliament of owls sent from Bulgaria to Scotland over the last week )

( Ernie )

( MG, Shona, Dani, Alex )

( MG + Shona only )

Who: Family, Friends, Furbabies, Teammates... oh, and probably Ada and Alasdair.
What: ENGAGEMENT PARTY
When: Saturday, 17 March 2000. Evening. backdated
Where: A&A's home on the outskirts of Dunvegan, Skye.
Warnings: Drinking. Language? (Hopefully not the latter)

( time to celebrate these two lovebirds making a move )

Who: Georgi Draganov and Peggy Urquhart
What: The end of a courtship
When: Monday, 19 March, 2000. Afternoon.
Where: A wizarding teahouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Warnings: :(

( It's not that I want to *be married*, it's that I want to marry *you*. )

Who: Georgi Draganov, Miro Nikolov, Ernie Macmillan
What: Having an adventure, Muggle-style. Then having too many adventures for Georgi to deal with. Then… a resolution. (I'm extremely sorry, this is long and hard to summarize.)
When: Monday, 12 March, afternoon. Then late at night.
Where: The London Eye! Then Leannan Boathouse, Dundee.
Warnings: Miro being an unstoppable force. Kissing. Insinuations of an adult nature.

( It's all just math. Everyone will live. )

Who: Georgi Draganov and Miroslav Nikolov
What: Georgi gets some real talk from Miro, who has Opinions about his life choices.
When: Thursday, 15 March, evening.
Where: Leannan Boathouse, Dundee, Scotland.
Warnings: LANGUAGE! Also this is actually after a log that hasn't been posted yet, oops.

( Georgi, magic is cool and all, but how come it makes you people think you live in ******* medieval times? )

Who: Anyone related to Scottish Quid/Affairs/Press/Books in general (so pretty much all of you if you want) and all current and past members of both teams (NPCs welcome!)
What: The release of the Golden Neep companion book
When: March 16th 8pm
Where: Portree and Montrose clubhouses
Warnings: Language maybe? Drinking

( Whizz Hard Books is proud to present... )

Who: 1991 Study Group + Significant Others (or Alternate Guests) + Gina (until bedtime)
What: Pye Day! (AKA Happy Birthday, Augustus!)
When: Wednesday evening, March 14
Where: Charlie, Dani, and Gina's house
Warnings: Likely nothing?

( Kal had dropped off quite a few of the things that morning. )

Who: Lex Yaxley and Georgi Draganov
What: A beater heart-to-heart about family, bravery, and pink.
When: Friday, 9 March, after practice.
Where: Locker room, Montrose training grounds.
Warnings: A little sad.

( And no matter what we choose, we lose something. )

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Montrose Magpies (9-0-0 1.000) versus Wigtown Wanderers (4-5-0 0.444)
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Play Started:2000-03-11 at Scottish National Stadium at The Lamb
Snitch caught in : 6 hours, 0 minutes
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Montrose Magpies : 950
Wigtown Wanderers : 940
Congratulations, Montrose Magpies
( It's always a sad day when they don't let us out of the stadium until after happy hour ends... )

I always feel a bit sorry for Wigtown. When it's a Portree-Montrose match, everyone gets excited about it, but nobody ever takes a Portree-Wigtown or a Montrose-Wigtown match that seriously. It's almost enough to make me think Banchory should come back so they can have a personal rivalry with Wigtown the way Portree and Montrose have instead of them being the third wheel of Scottish quidditch.

Feeling sorry doesn't mean I'm ready for them to beat Montrose, though. I expect a smashing victory tomorrow, Montrose!

[Georgi]

I had a talk with Jason King earlier this week about the Montrose Uplift business. I reckon that's got to be hard for you no matter how you personally feel about it. How are you holding up?

[Montrose +]

Time to take on the last scottish team! We have a bit of experience playing with and against them from the charity match and unfortunately that means the opposite too so they will be a bit more ready for some of our tricks.

This is a mediocre write-off season for them (they’re 4-5), but it’s a rebuilding season for the league. They’ve got a firm grasp on 12th so this isn’t a playoff year for them, but that’s mostly because they haven’t been in any high scoring matches this year. In fact their top score was 350 with the snitch last bloc. Their offense struggles a bit too much with putting big points on the board for this ranking system I’m afraid. So on paper they are deceptively bad. Really, their season numbers look average to bad across the board and if we hadn’t played with them earlier and if you don’t look at the matches on an individual basis, it’s easy to believe that.

Wigtown Notes

Chasers: Better than they are at first glance frankly. Have suffered from some big injuries that seem to have thrown them off, and haven’t really been able to put together the points they need to push themselves up. The chasers alone though have held their own against some big teams and even been ahead before they lost the match on the snitch. You can tell from the fact that none of their matches have seen huge point differences (160 points is the highest final point difference of their season and that was with losing the snitch). Parkin is their big scorer and Maddox their main defense and support type, so hold off whichever of them you can.

Beaters: They had a promising beater in Okeke but alas too promising as Portree poached her a few blocs ago. The remaining ones are respectable but so far haven’t been anything to write home about.

Keeper: Another case of better than she seems on paper. She was knocked out early in one match and her stats have suffered since. Other than that match, for all but one other match she’s been a solid 80-90% keeper.

Seeker: Alright. Blythe suffers from poor timing, as they’ve lost a few matches within their grasp from that snitch. Although she oddly enough has had more success against seekers that were better than her in skill (Mather and Lynch most recently). She’s capable of coming through for them just hasn’t been consistent at all about it.

Lineup:

Chasers: Jason, Roger, Angus
Beaters: Kal and Georgi
Keeper: Ada
Seeker: Kenna

As for the team sporting pink this match:

It should be a surprise to none of you that I’m fully for it.

But this is not something mandatory or enforced, that would ruin the good spirit behind it. I do want to say though that if you are hesitant for any reason, that I hope you consider doing this for this match. At the very least in personal support of those in our Magpie family involved in this wave of pink that’s sweeping the League.

If you want to talk to any of the staff about it still, our doors are open. And if you have concerns about the PR side of things: there’s Alex.

Dani has ordered boots with pink, and there should be a stack of rosettes too. If you’re interested they should be somewhere by her office (or ask her) and will be around on match day in the locker room too.

Jason, I believe Mick and Dani may have something for you soon.

[Gabi]

Between Lorna's birthday just now and Florrie's coming up, I have never seen so much glitter everywhere. It's almost resistant to magic.

Is the night before the match still the big Pão de Queijo making night?

Who: Georgi Draganov.
What: Georgi receives the letter he's been waiting for.
When: The wee hours of Friday morning, 9 March.
Where: Leannan Boathouse, Dundee.
Warnings: Purism, uncomfortable topics.

( Above all, you will spend the remainder of your time in Britain carefully considering the ruinous consequences of impetuous decisions. )

Recovery is going good! I'm trying to get back to some kind of exercise routine. Champ is not a helpful workout partner unless it involves running.

Spell-o-Taped in

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