Shinny Season Approaches

[quinning]

DEAR JUNIOR FIGHT CLUB,

Congratulations! You are cordially invited to join the Lake Gooseberry Shinny, or "LGS," Gooseberry's very own pick-up hockey league. Beginning its second year this December, 2013, these shinny games are casual, fun, no-strings hockey matches with randomized teams.

Lake Gooseberry Shinny is a staff-sanctioned method to get your frustration out in a way that won't contribute to the House Mug or get you detention. Yes, I understand that may be a novel concept to you right now.

Sign-up sheets will be available in the atrium at first snowfall. The first match will take place one week after the lake freezes over, which usually happens in December.

We hope to see you there.

Sincerely,
Quinn Cunningham
Organizer

P.S. Goalies need not apply.

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Shinny invitations are not exclusive to Junior Fight Club participants and are open to all Gooseberry High students.

The rules needed some revisions after last year and they'll be posted with the sign-up sheets. Revisions include: mandatory helmets, a staff-approved list of "Acceptable Forms of Contact," and colour-coded badges to denote acceptable levels of violence contact per player.

[Added after, warded to Azurcrests]

CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP

We leave you for one evening???

Comments

[threatens]

I'm in.

[quinning]

I'm shocked!

[threatens]

Gotta get my play time in before Vector decides to ban me from this too.

Don't worry, Cunningham. I'll be nice.

Quinn

[thecourtier.insanejournal.com]

I'm out. Good luck though.

Quinn/Dom

[quinning]

What? No, you're not.

Re: Quinn/Dom

[thecourtier.insanejournal.com]

Yeah I am.

If Sy is in, I am out. It's not a risk I am willing to take right now.

[casperkim]

Acceptable levels of contact per player? What kind of person goes into hockey expecting love taps, anyway?

[Warded to Quinn]

So. What's the learning curve on skating? I've never actually Think I can get up to speed?

[quinning]

Shinny usually has no-contact rules but that's stupid not how we wanted to play last year. We might have taken it a bit too far, though.

[Casper/Quinn]

It depends on how good you are on your feet, but I've seen you in Quidditch and between that and the duelling club I think you'll be fine. I can help you out once the lake starts to freeze over.

[casperkim]

Well. That sounds incredibly boring. So long as you don't take it that far, though, I'm in.

[Casper/Quinn]

Okay. [...] Thanks.

[riledup]

ok but i don't actually know how to play hockey i just know how to fight my brothers on ice.

is this basically the same thing.

[quinning]

You were born ready, Stamper.

[cecaelian]

Consider my interest piqued. I already know how to skate, but it's the hockey part I'm not so clear on.

[quinning]

We put a stick in your hands and you push a black, circular snitch across the ice. It's pretty easy.

[bambae]

Fucking finally.

[quinning]

And not a minute too late.

... Well.

It will be five weeks too late but nobody can say I didn't try.

CHRIS

[quinning]

[after this exchange Quinn flips back a couple of pages in her journal]

Is that why you've been such an ass lately??

Azurcrests

[indiefolk]

Without you, Cecil and Jesse, we all know the house would fall apart.

But I mean, at least Azurcrest didn't host the disaster this time?

Azurcrests

[magitechnically]

[...] It was really exciting to watch!!! The boys at OUR parties don't take off their SHIRTS.

Azurcrests

[quinning]

Oh god... We graduate this year. As soon as we're gone, the cabins are burning to the ground, aren't they?

[ninjaleo]

Interested.

[quinning]

Pleased.

[sylla]

I think I should like to try, actually.

[quinning]

That's the spirit! You're here for a cultural exchange, after all, and if you spend the entire time listening to whiny Californians talk about surfing, or brotastic New Englanders boast about their yachts, you're still only getting part of the experience. It's time to find how they do it north of 49.

[noblewon]

I know literally none of the rules but I'm in

[quinning]

Minimal rules, maximum benefits!