The Hawk's Nest - For the readers of the Hawk Diary!

[namjoon.]

I laughed at Downball xD

I call it Handball. It kinda is a sport, but Idk.

Anyways, lemme sort it out for ya if you don't know ^^ ~

Straight in ( Or straight ) ~ A person hits the ball in the other person's square without it hitting theirs - Making it a straight in.
Liner ~ The ball hits the line separating the player/s. The player it was sent to can play it.
Slam ~ A hit so low, that it's not very likely to actually hit it back, so the player it was slammed to, is out (Unless it's played).
Titanium slam ~ A slam - Just IMPOSSIBLE to play.
High Shot ~ A high shot.
Improps ~ An improper serve - Eg; serving when a player isn't ready.
Serve ~ To start/pass.
Black hole and Black Hole release( I don't know if you people have this, but my school does) ~ To save a spot. Black Hole release is to unsave it.
Outline ~ When the ball hits the outline of the square/rectangle.
Made ~ A hit you HAVE to keep an eye on. It's a hit that made it into the other players' square, but quite hard see, so most of the time not played. But if it is, the game keeps going.
Practice ~ When there are 4 players, but 2 are black hole, so they practice against each other.
EDITS: Into ~ When someone/thing touches the ball.
2D ~ When someone goes into the game, but doesn't touch the ball.
3D ~ Like 2D, but touches the ball.

OKIE!! Now onto the placements!

King ~ The one who serves first (Unless practice or black hole ). If killed, they go to the back of the line or either go to Slave's place.
Queen ~ The one before King - When King is killed, they take place. If killed, they go to the back of the line or either go to Slave's place.
Knight ~ The one before Queen - When Queen is killed, they take place. If killed, they go to the back of the line or either go to Slave's place.
Slave ~ The last place. If Knight is killed, they take place. If killed, they go to the back of the line or stay in the same spot.

Sorry if I sound like a smart cookie, I just couldn't resist telling! >.<

[20lait1]

Whoa, that's a lot of information! We call it Downball here - it's basically what you said except simpler. Thanks for the info, anyways!

[Toy Dragon]

Wow...in Australai, we call it 2 square (2 players), 4 square (4 players) and my friends made up '6 square and 8 square' yeah...but we also call it Handball too. I can't be bothered explaining the rules, but we have fouls, liners, serves, everready, cheats, rebounds, freestyle, play on and stuff. Some are just different terms for the things that Xx~Tardis~xX said before. Some are different, but cheats are where you can foul of play on and grab the ball, but you have to say a word for it. Like 'Monkeygrip' for if you want to hold the ball; the king gets to say what's on/off and yeah. We have the positions as:King, Queen, Jack, Dunce but if there are more players, we make some up. I am a real nerd. I play this at school like every day.

[starsailor]

Wow...in Australai, we call it 2 square (2 players), 4 square (4 players) and my friends made up '6 square and 8 square' yeah...but we also call it Handball too. I can't be bothered explaining the rules, but we have fouls, liners, serves, everready, cheats, rebounds, freestyle, play on and stuff. Some are just different terms for the things that Xx~Tardis~xX said before. Some are different, but cheats are where you can foul of play on and grab the ball, but you have to say a word for it. Like 'Monkeygrip' for if you want to hold the ball; the king gets to say what's on/off and yeah. We have the positions as:King, Queen, Jack, Dunce but if there are more players, we make some up. I am a real nerd. I play this at school like every day.

I played 2/4/6/8 square AND downball. Our downball has a wall, everyone hits ball to wall to bounce off one by one. (#1 hits ball, bounce off, #2 hits ball, bounce off and so on) If somebody makes a mistake, they go 'on' (in front) the wall and avoid the ball while it's hitting the ball. Honestly, I haven't played downball for a long time. Many mistakes.

[Toy Dragon]

Wow...in Australai, we call it 2 square (2 players), 4 square (4 players) and my friends made up '6 square and 8 square' yeah...but we also call it Handball too. I can't be bothered explaining the rules, but we have fouls, liners, serves, everready, cheats, rebounds, freestyle, play on and stuff. Some are just different terms for the things that Xx~Tardis~xX said before. Some are different, but cheats are where you can foul of play on and grab the ball, but you have to say a word for it. Like 'Monkeygrip' for if you want to hold the ball; the king gets to say what's on/off and yeah. We have the positions as:King, Queen, Jack, Dunce but if there are more players, we make some up. I am a real nerd. I play this at school like every day.

I played 2/4/6/8 square AND downball. Our downball has a wall, everyone hits ball to wall to bounce off one by one. (#1 hits ball, bounce off, #2 hits ball, bounce off and so on) If somebody makes a mistake, they go 'on' (in front) the wall and avoid the ball while it's hitting the ball. Honestly, I haven't played downball for a long time. Many mistakes.

Yeah, I think it just depends on where in the world you are. I call Downball 'Wall Ball' because the name just explains itself.

[CoolComrade]

I've called it foursquare my entire life. I didn't know that there were other names for it. >.< I feel so uneducated.

Its many names are handball, downball, foursquare, squareball, blockball, boxball, champ square, and king's square. According to Google.

[20lait1]

Wow, there's a lot of information going on about... *cough cough* handball/downball/foursquare/squareball/blockball/boxball, champ square/king's square game. Well, that's a lot. Anyways, I've got something to ask of my amazing readers.

I was wondering if anyone would like a 'character clean out'. Some people just put in their characters and never actually read the Hawk, and I feel it's kind of useless for me to be writing about their characters when they don't even care.

I'll ask everybody (not sure when) if they want to keep their characters or not. They can choose to not keep them and send them 'to another school' so they can create new characters. If they don't reply within a time limit, I'll assume they don't check the Hawk or the fanclub and will remove them, so I'll have less characters to worry about and I can open up character slots again. Does anyone agree with this?

I want to open up new character slots, but there's too many characters to worry about for the moment. I'll put up a poll on the main thread and you can vote!

[namjoon.]

Hehe, sorry for the [insert something here] Ball talk! xD I had the urge to do that. xP

Also, you can remove Kolli (I think it was. I can't remember). I just made her for the sake of it. I'm going to take some items off her anyways... xD

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If you have plans, or just want to keep her, that's fine-a-rooney! Just PM me so I know. xD

[rocoboq]

>> Smart idea! I would like to keep Rose.

[CoolComrade]

I'd like to keep both of my characters. They're my babies! (You are too cool)