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Max is now sitting at an otherwise-empty table, chewing on a straw.

She's clearly got something on her mind as she scoots her empty glass from hand to hand, occasionally gesturing as though drawing in the air.

She could probably use a pen and paper, but she's not desperate enough to ask the bar yet, and this isn't that important anyway.

In other words, feel perfectly free to interrupt.

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There is a teenage boy sitting at a nearby table, working on his laptop. Well, Heero had been working on his laptop - a moment or two ago he noticed her movements, and he's now observing her curiously over the top of it.

"Do you mind if I ask what you're doing?" he asks of her, finally, after a short period of silence.

[ooc: *fangirls* First Duo and now Heero too. Fun fun.]

"Hmm?" Startled out of her thoughts, she takes a minute to comprehend his question.

"Oh. I'm planning a game."

She smiles, putting down her straw.

[OOC: *grins* GW fan?]

"Planning a game?"

Heero considers these words, and closes his laptop. She has continued to have a hold on his curiousity, so it would probably be impolite to have that barrier. "What kind of game?"

[ooc: Not as much as I used to be, but it was my first real fandom. I like it when I actually know a thing or two about the characters I'm around.]

She nods.

"I'm trying to figure out how to adapt Quidditch to play for natural fliers, since it was designed for play on broomsticks."

She'd invite him to play, but he doesn't appear to have any way of flying.

He doesn't have a way of flying, no. But he knows somebody who does.

"I don't think I've ever heard of this Quidditch." Nor of playing a game on broomsticks, but if the stories about flying broomsticks are true? He's not, actually, all that surprised.

"But I'm assuming the problem is extra mobility?"

Maybe he assumes wrong.

"Exactly... Normally, one hand is restrained by the broomstick at most times, in order to maintain balance. Also, the feet can't be used for kicking as easily, but that's easy enough to tell people not to do - after all, hands aren't allowed in soccer."

She's got to figure this out... The rest of the flock would surely love such a game.

"What is the objective of this game?" All Heero knows is that it involves flying and broomsticks, so it's a little hard to think of a solution. Surely there has to be a point to it.

And it's possible the solution could be found there, rather than focusing on the broomstick itself.

"It's a lot like football but with some soccer and basketball thrown in, and some other stuff too. Basically, you just have to carry the ball around the field - in the air - and toss it past a goalkeeper into a big hoop. There's other balls you have to dodge, too, that can be thrown at you."

She's forgotten about the snitch for now, but that's just as well; she's also painfully oblivious to the fact that these balls are supposed to be enchanted.

"Is it possible to work with the extra mobility, rather than to try to take it out?" It seemed as if the game was being changed, anyway, so making a few more changes probably wouldn't hurt it. "Maybe if you altered the field setup, it would present more of a challenge."

"Maybe."

She holds up her hands in a few positions, thinking aloud to fill the silence.

"If the ball is this big... and the hoops are supposed to be about this big... You could shrink the hoops... but the goalie has more mobility too... Hmm..."

It may balance itself out anyway.

"That may balance itself out. The goalie is generally only allowed in his or her own area, right?"

So they had an inherent limitation, anyway.

"Er..."

Shoot.

"I don't know. That wasn't covered in the rules that I was told. Hmm... I suppose that'd be reasonable though."

It really would.

"It seems like it'd cause you more problems if you didn't have that limitation."

And possibly invalidate a few other roles, as well.

"It would probably be fine to allow the goalie away if the hoop was bigger, but a bigger hoop greatens the chance to take advantage of him letting down his guard."

"Of course. And to begin with, there's three on each end... They've got a lot of space to cover."

Flying means they can get across the areas quicker then on land.

"How big are you planning on making the field?"

Heero pauses for a moment as a thought occurs to him. "Might it be best to try to sketch it out?"

With actual paper, not just in the air. More visual representation.

"The field's supposed to be about the size of a football field... with unlimited air height."

She nods.

"It would. Be right back, I'll go get some paper."

[OOC: I have to run to the store for about 30 minutes, but I'll be back after that. :D]

"Alright."

Heero stands up and leans against his table as he waits for her; when she gets back, he'll ask if he can move to hers. It'd make this part easier to not talk across tables.

[ooc: No problem. I'll be here.]

She answers his question for him by setting down at his table with her newly aquired pen and paper pad.

"Okay, so..."

It's quite possible that his eyes show momentary amusement at the fact they were both ready to move to the other one's table. But he doesn't mention anything, and just reclaims his seat.

"So it's meant to be the size of a football field. Are there any other landmarks other than the hoops?"

"From my understanding, just a center circle where the players start. It wouldn't be unreasonable to mark off the end sections of the field as the only area the goalkeeper can be in, though it'd be harder to keep track of since they can fly."

She's got the field and a few circles marking the hoops sketched out. She's pretty far off on how big the field actually should be for a full size game, but since she's looking at teams of 4-5 instead of 7, it should be reasonably alright... Hopefully.

"How are you going to take care of keeping track of the game?" Heero queries, as he studies the paper she's been drawing on. "If it's so spread out, it might be impossible to try to see everything that's going on."

"Flying referee?"

She shrugs.

"It's a really popular sport in the Wizarding world, so obviously they manage to keep track of it somehow."

"One referee alone might get overwhelmed by the amount of area to cover, though."

But it was probably also asking for trouble if you employed more than one. Heero ponders this.

"Might you employ a central area just for the referee? Somewhere they can see everything from quite easily."

"Well, in theory, then ref can fly too."

She hopes that'd be true. She counts, making a bit of a face. She'll definitely have to reduce the field when it's just the flock.

"Even so," Heero says. "But with the size of the field, and multiple players scattered across, can you really expect one person to keep track of the entire thing?"