[Background Information] Duelling Club

The following rules apply for a possible tournament. Please, make sure you read and understood them before entering.

As for the practices / lessons, consider them as something between a fun roleplay topic and a regular Hogwarts class. So please sign up, post there and enjoy!

General Rules

• You may only participate if you sign up before the tournament starts.
• Please don't center your post, write in colors, all bold, all italics, glows, or anything else. This doesn't apply to general BBC like thinking or shouting.
• Follow the general forum rules for MH in this club.
• Please reread what you've written before you post it and use the spell check function and we won't shoot you if you double check the grammar as well.
• Your posts should contain no less than 150 words and no more than 400.

Duelling Rules

• Using forbidden spells will be punished with immediate disqualification and deduction of points.
• You may only post in your own duels. There's a spectator thread in case you want to comment on other duels.
• There are precautions made so that no spell hits the spectators. Please keep that in mind while writing your post.
• Please use the spells realistically. A first year won't be able to cast a spell taught in 3rd year and so on. There is a list with all spells that can be used on a certain skill-level. Please abide by this guideline.
• If you don't answer within 48 hours, your character will get hit by his opponent's spell and it will be your partner's turn again.
• You're not allowed to let your character defend himself and cast an offensive spell in the same post.
• Please pay attention to what your duel partner does and react accordingly. If you don't, your character will get hit and it will influence your score for the duel negatively.
• There are three possibilities how a duel may end:
  
  • 5 posts each
  • Disarming
  • K.O.
  • Disqualification

Judging

• As soon as a duel is over, a jury will choose the winner. The jury consists of different professors (of all houses) and the four house captains.
• To guarantee the fairness of the decision the duel will be judged by the four professors and only those house captains who are not in the same houses as the participants.

• Every judge will give a score between 0 and 5 points for each duelist in all of the following categories:
  
  • OOC:
    
    • Grammar
    • Realism
    • Flow of reading
  • IC:
    
    • Creativity
    • Used Spells
    • Quality of the reaction to your opponents actions
• The student with more points will be the winner.
• At the end of the tournament we'll detect which house got the most points and the winning team will get house points. Moreover the student with the most points in an age group will get a special prize as well.

Beginner (1st - 2nd) ~ Intermediate (3rd - 5th) ~ Advanced (6th - 7th)

Name	Effect	Incantation
Disarming Charm	Causes the victim's wand to fly out of reach	Expelliarmus
Bluebell Flames	Sends bright blue flames soaring towards an opponent, which is good for distraction	Belleflamos Azures
Dancing Charm	Causes the victim to dance uncontrollably, distracting them from reacting	Tarantallegra
Leg Locking Jinx	Locks the legs together, preventing the victim from moving the legs in any fashion	Locomotor Mortis
Tickling Charm	The subject experiences the sensation of being tickled	Rictusempra
Adicio	To direct a specified object in a certain direction (Can be used e.g. after Serpensortia)	Adicio
Amnis Aqualis	To produce a stream of water.	Amnis Aqualis
Arrows, wand	Arrows spring from the tip of wand	Surculus Telem
Babbling Curse	Causes the victim to babble uncontrollably	Garrio
Feather light Charm	Causes the victim to become weightless, less mobile, and altogether easier to beat	Non Gravitas
Iacere	To throw something specified in the direction of a specified location.	Iacere
Ligare	To tie a specified part of the body with a small rope	Ligare
Serpensortia	Summons snakes	Serpensortia
Slug Vomiting Hex	Makes the victim vomit slugs	Eat Slugs
Obscuro	Causes a blindfold to appear on someone	Obscuro
Armor Bewitching Charm	Causes the victims armor, or clothing, to attack them	Protidor Armatu
Hurling Hex	Causes an object to buck and toss	Fluctuor + concetration
Impediment Curse/Jinx	This powerful spell is capable of tripping, freezing, binding, knocking back and generally impeding the target's progress towards the caster	Impedimenta
Full body bind	Used to temporarily bind the victim's body	Petrificulus Totalus
Stinging Hex	Creates a stinging sensation all over the target	Adflictatio Apis
Conjunctivitis Curse	The Conjunctivitis Curse is a curse that causes irritation in the target's eyes, causing them to swell shut like the infection conjunctivitis, commonly known as "pink eye."	Conjunctivio
Jelly Legs Jinx	Renders the victim's legs temporarily useless, leaving him to wobble around helplessly	Gela Sura
Stunning Charm	Puts the victim in an unconcious state (Manifests in a jet of red light)	Stupefy
Confundus Charm	Causes the victim to become confused and befuddled	Confundo
Bat Bogey Hex	Causes the target's snot to take wings and attack them	Mucus Bellicus
Chains, Magical	Produces chains from the tip of wand	Catenae
Lightning Charm	Sends minor bolts of lightening from tip of wand	Electos
Freezing Charm	A cooling charm, most common used to cool hot potions by forming a coat of ice over the vial. In combat, it can be used to freeze target's specified body part	Gelo
Inanimatus Conjurus	Conjures inanimate objects	Inanimatus Conjurus
Incarcerous	Sprouts thick ropes around target.	Incarcerous
Insect Jinx	Makes the target sprout feelers, lose the ability to talk, and act like a bug	Insectus Impersonatus
Ropes, Magical	Conjures ropes from the end of a wand	Conjurus Copula
Bewitching Sleep	Causes the target to sleep until the curse is broken	Consorpia eternal
Leak Jinx	Causes water to leak from the target's ears	Aqueous Lobe
Levicorpus	Dangles target mid air upside down by the ankles	nonverbal
Oppugno	Causes conjured creatures under the control of the caster to attack target	Oppugno
Cutting hex	Cuts target	Sectumsempra
Ferilis	Robs target of human behavior rendering the target totally animalistic in action and thought	Ferilis
Duro	Turns the object into stone	Duro
Avis	Summons a flock of birds. It can be followed up with Oppugno, which causes the birds to attack	Avis

Beginner (1st - 2nd) ~ Intermediate (3rd - 5th) ~ Advanced (6th - 7th)

Name	Effect	Incantation
Shield Charm	Protects from minor curses & hexes	Protego
Blocking charm	To block a specified part of the body for a short period of time	Caudex specification
Braking Charm	Stops an object in mid-motion	Conquiesco
Hex Deflection	Deflects a hex into another direction	Julaudico
Shielding Charm	A powerful shielding charm	Protego Totalum
Slowing Charm	Used to slow down an object or being that is moving	Aresto Momentum
Flame Freezing Spell	Makes the heat of a fire no worse than a warm breeze	nonverbal
Liberacorpus	Counter for Levicorpus	Liberacorpus
Finite Incantatem	Stops spells in the vicinity	Finite Incantatem
Shielding Charm	A very powerful shielding charm that can cover a very large area	Protego Horribilis
Exstinguishing Spell	Extinguishes a fire	Centonis

Beginner (1st - 2nd) ~ Intermediate (3rd - 5th) ~ Advanced (6th - 7th)

Name	Effect	Incantation
Wand Sparks	Acts as a distraction, or as a fun party confetti	Mico
Antler Jinx	Target sprouts antlers	Cresce Cornua
Horn Tongue	Hardens the tongue of the target	Adamas Infans
Silencing Charm	Silences something immediately	Silencio
Supersensory Charm	Allows users to see or sense objects outside of their normal field of vision	Supersensus
Cheering Charm	Causes the person upon whom the spell was cast to become happy and contented, though heavy-handedness with the spell may cause the person to break into an uncontrollable laughing fit	Risus Iuge
Teeth growing hex	Causes the victims teeth to grow incredibly large	Densaugeo
Boil growing charm	Causes boils to take form on the skin	Furnunculus
Hair Growing Charm	Causes the victim's hair to grow incredibly fast	Hispidus
Fur Spell	Causes the target to grow profuse fur	Pellio

Name	Effect	Incantation
Blasting spell	Causes the spell's target to explode. If it misses, whatever it touches blows up	Confringo
Gouging charm	Creates deep cuts and gouges	Defodio
Deprimo	This spell places immense downward pressure upon its target	Deprimo
Cruciatus Curse	Inflicts unbearable pain on the recipient of the curse	Crucio
Imperius Curse	Causes the victim of the curse to obey the spoken and unspoken commands of the caster	Imperio
Killing Curse	Kills the subject immediately with a flash of green light	Avada Kedavra
Cutting hex	Cuts target	Sectumsempra
Fiendfyre Curse	Cursed fire that takes the form of various creatures, burning everything in its path	Incendium facere
Knee Reversing Hex	Causes the victim's knees to appear on the opposite side of his/her legs	Genu Calamitas