"I have heard rumors about those playmaker rings and always wondered why you hadn't sold them in bulk but it seems you had your eyes much higher than that!" Florian said while admiring the craftsmanship of the table. "I admit I had thought about selling the playmaker rings on a larger scale but the time such an effort would demand is simply not worth it at the moment." Nick said honestly. The wizarding world is rather odd in that the prices of items have less of a set price in most cases and rather a personally set price.-
Obviously commercially sold things like ingredients and textbooks are different as they have set prices but for things created one by one like Nick's playmaker rings it was whatever he chose to charge for them. Sure he could charge an arm and a leg for anything he made due to things like rarity or even personal bias but he chose a simpler method. Form , function and effort were what he used to determine the price of his works. Form referred to the materials used and the complexity of the design the ring had. Function was all about what the enchantment did and Effort was how hard it was for him to create the ring.-
Things had escalated drastically after he got the Celebrimbor style as he had trouble objectively gauging what to charge for his works as what was easy for him to achieve was much much harder for normal enchanters. This left Nick with no real choice but to try and figure out how much lower the price for his works are compared to normal enchanters. "Anyways I created this table specifically for when I have guests over and not to sell." Nick added while dismissing his introspection. -
"How many people can play at once?" Harry asked curiously as he looked over the table. "One person for each player on a team so fourteen total." Nick said with a grin. "But there's sixteen people here." Hermione said with a frown. "I myself won't be playing and so there is only one person left out in truth." Nick said with a shrug. "I also won't be participating since I am not one for the sport either." Percy said honestly. "Well that pretty much solves that problem now doesn't it? The way to use the table is fairly simple as you merely need to place your hand on one of the fourteen gems studded along the side and it will do the rest" Nick explained with a smile.-
Everyone except him and Percy eagerly approached the table and placed their hands on the gems that lit up immediately. Seven miniature versions of each person appeared in midair above the table on broomsticks with a letter above their heads specifying which position they were playing. Nick hadn't explained that the gem chosen determined who played what position so even the actual quidditch players were in a position they weren't used to.-
For example the twins that were the beaters of the Gryffindor team were both chasers while Harry was the keeper instead of his usual seeker position. Interestingly the teams were almost perfectly split between adults and children with the children minus Ginny on one side and the adults on the other with Ginny as the odd man out. Thankfully though she was a chaser and thus not all that important compared to the keeper and seeker positions. "Bloody hell! It looks like I am actually playing quidditch!" Ron said in amazement.-
"Of course it does the avatars are based after whoever is playing them at the time and much like the original enchantment you merely need to use your mind to control your avatar , try it." Nick said helpfully. It was rather funny to see each of the avatars do twirls or barrel rolls all at once. "Once everyone is comfortable with controlling the avatars let me know so I can start the game." Nick said and got a few immediate confirmations on how handling the game. It was no surprise that the actually players were amongst that number considering they had experience from the rings that every member of the Gryffindor and Slytherin teams had.-
After about five minutes the rest were also comfortable with how to use their avatars And Nick pressed in the center of the table that was also the center of the quidditch field and the game started immediately. First the Quaffle and bludgers were released and there was a scramble as both sides tried to get possession of the scoring ball while avoiding the flying dangers that were the bludgers. The seekers of both sides on the other hand that was Sirius and Daphne flew above the rest of the players as they scanned the field for the snitch.
A hidden feature that Nick added however made sure the minimum length of a game possible was ten minutes as the snitch wouldn't appear until that time. This was to allow the other players to really enjoy the game without having to worry about it being cut short. Thanks to the way the game was played you didn't actually need any skill on a broom to win in this version of quidditch which let people like Ron with a lot of theoretical knowledge on the sport shine despite his lacking broom skills.-
It showed too as Ron playing as a beater was proving to be a menace as he zipped about the field redirecting the bludgers towards the other teams chasers. The most impressive thing though was how he was able to pull off advanced maneuvers like launching boom and even splitters. A splitter in Quidditch was a dangerous move that involved accelerating towards another player but jumping off the broom before impact causing the broom and person doing it to miss the other player before landing on the broom and continuing to play. This maneuver was most often used when a bludger was on course to hit the person who did it and they wanted to pass it off onto the opposing teams player.-
None of the adults were stupid though and only fell for this trick a single time before wising up and keeping Ron at bay. Still by the time the snitch appeared on the field in the form of a very small version of the normal one both teams had gained and lost points from scores and fouls. Daphne was clearly a better seeker than Sirius as she found the snitch first and shot after it with the old dog chasing her nearly immediately afterwards.-
'Ah so that's what he's playing at , how clever.' Nick thought as he saw what Sirius was doing. The man had apparently decided that he wasn't going after the snitch but was rather going to play interference to stop Daphne from getting it. This was a fairly popular strategy if a seeker wasn't confident in testing their skills against another seeker but tricky to pull off. The reason for that was because once the chase for the snitch started and the other team notices this set of actions the beaters start ignoring all other players on the other team and focusing on the interfering seeker.-
This caused the game to escalate into a dangerous match of trading bludgers which tends to stop the rest of both teams from scoring as the bludger start moving in dangerous unpredictable wide arcs. Despite being virtual characters the avatars only get two "lives" if the avatar gets damaged in a manner that would take them out of a game normally. This meant that each person still needed to play smart and cautious to prevent getting taken out of the game entirely. Sirius was actually doing really well despite this as he was using feints and well timed dodges to avoid the bludgers.-
The clever thing that Nick noticed was that he was using dueling movements to achieve this which was an interesting way to play. Daphne was no slouch either and kept a perilous but firm flight pattern towards the snitch that forced Sirius to limit himself lest he gets too far away from her to intercept her. It should be mentioned that all the avatars were using brooms with identical stats so equipment played little part in the gameplay. This game lasted a total of an hour before Daphne pulled a sneaky move and slipped away from Sirius enough to snatch the snitch and end the game at one hundred seventy to sixty eight.-
"Blast! We were actually almost caught up when you caught the snitch!" Sirius complained to Daphne. "Maybe you should have focused on catching the snitch instead of on me then." She said smugly. "Ugh! Rematch!" Sirius demanded like a sore loser. "Afraid I'll have to pass on that idea." Florian said and the rest of the adults agreed with him. "How am I supposed to play without a full team though?" Sirius asked in dismay.-
"You can just use the default players that are part of the game , you will even be at both an advantage and disadvantage since you can take control of any position on the team at any given time like this." Nick explained and Sirius grinned "You're the best kid!" he said with a wide grin. "You all may want to hold off on any more games though until I show you the other stuff i have set up." Nick said and the entire group looked interested.
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