Ebonfamily Quidditch Last Supper

[ninjaleo]

EBONFAMILY QUIDDITCH LAST SUPPER

This weekend, for better or worse, Ebonhide's playing Azurcrest. And then that's it. The season will be over. Even if some of them will be facing Hogwarts on the Gooseberry team, the fact remains that this is the last time they're all going to be playing together, ever. Leo wants to gather them all once more for a final goodbye, before the game that will determine the winners of the cup.

They've had mandatory family dinners so that they can bond as a unit at least once a week for a while now. It's a common sight on Friday nights for nine chairs to stubbornly be squeezed in to an eight-chair table. Tonight, it's just like that, on the surface. There isn't any special menu, no agenda. There's a final meeting to talk about what they're going to be doing on Sunday ahead of time, before other students file in to eat. Once enough possible enemy spies are in the vicinity, though, the playbooks go down and it's all about eating and appreciating each other, one last time.

So basically this IC/OOC is just here so a bunch of mushy teammates can get together and talk over dinner. Enjoy it or stare at them, they don't mind.

HOW THIS WORKS

• The team has commandeered just one table at dinnertime, in the corner of the cafeteria where they can be at least a little alone


• If you are a member or reserve of the Ebonhide Quidditch team, this is MANDATORY unless you really have a good excuse!


• This is also mostly a closed party, but they're in a public place, so droppers-by could happen!

» BEFORE DINNER TEAM MEETING: As always, before Leo lets his team relax, it's all about business. They spend a hushed hour in their corner of the cafeteria discussing strategies to use on Sunday. Any listening ears will be shooed away :|
» FINAL FAMILY DINNER: Eat. Plan. Be Family. Make toasts. Reminisce about your favorite drills?

» AFTER DINNER?: Leo will not allow any alcoholic after-parties, but if they end up hanging out, that's cool. (Just remember, you still have Saturday 8am practice!)

» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

Comments

Strategy Time

[destructobot]

"Definitely not worth the risk," Wilde agrees, from where he's been scribbling in his journal. "Delgado and Hobbs went straight for Wainwright their last game, once the point differential was small enough. Etta's really good at dodging that shit, too, so you can't even count on trying to stay close to her and making them too nervous to fire."

Strategy Time

[neattrick]

"You guys should definitely take out Etta," Clem says in the general direction of Casper and Leo. "She's way too tall for her own good. So's Micah but we could use those few inches of advantage." Clem's trying not to rag on Dahlia too hard, because, like? She has no room to talk about being short. But come on, Dahls. You've only caught one snitch this year. You're killing her.

Strategy Time

[dollywould]

Dahlia knows her stats aren’t exactly great this year, and she’s totally trying to act like it doesn’t bother her. She doesn’t care that much about Quidditch, but going into her final game, with the Cup on the line, she might be a little anxious about her performance. She can only fly so fast, and her arms are only so long, she can’t really rely on good old fashioned luck or Niffler interference here.

“I could outfly Micah with my eyes closed,” she says, with some fake confidence in there for good measure. “But I'm important for like two minutes out of every game. What about the Chasers? You guys,” she nods to Clem and Leo, “play with two of ‘em. What’s their backbone and how do you break it?”

Re: Strategy Time

[theniceboy]

"Jeffy's more excited to play than he is to win," Solomon offers. He didn't exactly have a lot of room to talk, since he was also pretty content, regardless of whether they won or not. But this was their last game, It felt heavier than usual. This was their last strategy dinner with Dahlia, Kazim and Leo. Next year, somebody else would be asking for strategy, and it would probably never be the same. "Hitting bludgers at Jeffy throws him off his game more than it does the other two. It turns him into a liability for the rest of his team. Levi is a showoff, and sacrifices strategy sometimes for stunts, but he's good at dodging bludgers. Giving him the opportunity to perform stunts in his last Azurcrest game could cost Azurcrest a couple goals. Castillo has gotten hit by a bludger in nearly every game this year, but he also scores a lot and assists goals a lot with Levi; they make a good team. But he also doesn't sub out for his injuries, I think he has a fear of underperforming and letting his team down."

Solomon wasn't awesome at strategizing. All he could do was observe and create his own solutions from that. "If we lower Castillo's morale, his performance will probably deteriorate. We don't have to physically take any of them out with bludgers. They all play specific archetypes, and if we just amplify their archetypes, they'll take themselves out."

Strategy Time

[ninjaleo]

Leo just nods through all of this, happy to let his team figure out pointers. He rewards Solomon, the youngest player on the team, with a grin. He'd been listening this year, it seemed. That's paying off. "We're gonna try to hit Gray as long as it doesn't look like we'd also hit Dahlia. Without fouling." He clarifies, but he doesn't really think he needs to tell Casper that.

"As far as the Chasers. You're right. Let them play as many tricks as they want. When they get caught up in the showmanship or distracted, be there, as a cohesive unit, to take the Quaffle away. Think that's the advantage you have, but you have to keep it. If they do have to sub someone in, don't relax. St. Clair's been practicing, and Quinn would try to fly you out of the air no matter what position she's in." That's absolutely a compliment.

Strategy Time

[ulixes]

"'Course you could," Ulysses cuts in with the casual simplicity of someone who knows they're speaking the absolute truth. He's not being flattering; he genuinely thinks Dahlia is the best. Him, pedestalize his team? Never.

Ulysses is distractedly thumbing through Leo's playbook instead of listening — turning the pages back and forth and back and forth, as though there were occult secrets hidden somewhere between the pages. Shit, maybe he ought to pay attention.