Welcome! And questions?

Just a heads up, work, as usual, has been draining me, and tonight I'm heading right from work to D&D. Good news is I have three days off, but I probably won't get a post out until tomorrow afternoon. It'll be another bigger one leaping us forward into classes a couple of weeks.

I assume that at the beginning, Caroline was too caught up in class work and also wanted to keep a low profile. Now that were a bit settled in, Caroline would want to meet up with Mallory and possibly try to make friends with some Slytherin first years.

Is Bexley the only one wanting to get into the Quidditch team?

From what I understood, his mom was a good/famous-ish Quidditch player, right? And they get along super great? I'm assuming, then, that he probably wants to be part of the team because of her. My mom owns a bakery and I remember that when I was a kid that I had one of these H.E classes, and my teacher knew my mom, and not to brag but she can bake, you know? And I'm like ''Hey, I'm obviously great at it, right? Yeah, I gotta be.'' SO I MEAN, there were some expectations. But yeah, I wasn't, but one of my friends was and I still haven't fully forgiven her for stealing my moment.

ANYWAYS, I'm not saying that Bex's gotta be bad at it, but I was planning on Rafa trying it out as well and I think it's a nice take having some competition that can potentially be just as good if not better, despite her never once having flown before. Especially if it's his braggy friend. They are in different houses, but I bet it would suck if people talked about the other first year that just joined the team, independently of who performed better. Especially because I don't see Rafa particularly caring about Quidditch that much to begin with. She just likes being in the spotlight and stuff. That's all true for Rafa as well if Bex ends up being more talked about than her!

She is probably going for Seeker, though. Considering that Gryffindor's just graduated last year and stuff. Big shoes to fill. 😇

Did McGonagall just threaten Rafa into performing better? x) I confess I giggled.

yep. he wants to be a chaser his mum was a a keeper so he got practice

Sooo... Does Bex skip his turn?

no, Im not sure how our gm wants to handle the tryouts l, i can retool my post if needed. he's kind of overly focused

I would like to have Caroline write a letter home to her family. Would you be okay with me writing it and either sending it to you by PM or posting it somewhere in here so he can reply? I can also do it in iniative order just as part of my regular post but I feel like this is something that might just run on the side outside of initiative

I'm under the impression that we should post something right now, and then aphelion will go from there. If Bex wants to focus on the tryouts, maybe say how he's preparing himself for that?

Yes, I'm waiting for Bex' post before I go

I’m back now, just FYI.

Nice to have you back, 78!

By the way, bowl, how did you think Caroline dealt with the train crew afterward? What would be her attitude to Rafa in the following weeks, for example?

That’s a good question. I would imagine Ava has tried at least once to see how Caroline’s doing.

She would have definitely avoided Rafa since then. She still thinks Rafa is super cool but since she's a Gryffindor, she can't be friends with her. There might have been some awkward moments where they met and Caroline basically ran away from Rafa

She could have stayed friends with the Ravenclaws. I don't know how much time they would have had to interact but she doesn't have any problems with them

Anyone want to play a little side scene, maybe something in the Great Hall at mealtime, or in a class?

Oh, I'm always up for that! Didn't knew that was an option, though.

I figure there's not a particular story thread going right now, and there's lots of "downtime" being glossed over in the main thread. We could fill in some blanks with some casual RP, I'd think.

Well, whatever you decide, 78, I'll follow your lead. Worst case scenario, aphelion will be mad at you. 😋

I'm always up for some free rp. We could make a new thread for it to keep the main one less cluttered, maybe