GRAND OPENING: MINGLE POST!

[rukhmods]

Welcome to Magnoshutatt!

The game is officially OPEN! Feel free to make your own posts in the community and get the ball rolling. To commemorate the game's opening, we've set up this intro mingle post to help you guys get settled in. NPCs might even pop in from time to time to guide your characters along or make their school life harder. Even so, we hope you have fun and enjoy!

Please don't forget to add the date when the thread is taking place (e.g. "5th day of the 1st term", "term 1, day 5") in the subject line! December 1 is the 1st day of the 1st term, December 2 is the 2nd... you get the idea.

Dungeon Entrance
Kodor Exam
Dormitories
Body strengthening maref
Basic magic maref
Lunch break
Library
Other

Comments

[idolizer]

... Who?

[ Ok, she's lucid enough to be convinced that this is a load of bull. ]

Sorry, but no such god exists where I live.

[greatcleavage]

Oh, that would have made my father happy. But I wanted to learn to be a fighter.

[greatcleavage]

Yeah, it wasn't the most convenient state of affairs. Especially considering my corpse got turned into a bone golem at one point.

[greatcleavage]

[Roy hesitates, then admits something that's been quietly bothering him for some time.]

No. This is all a lot like sorcery, but the actual mechanics don't appear to relate.

[fearlessherosheart]

I am surprised your gods permitted your soul to return after such a time. And the magic to anchor a soul to a body without any sign of undeath... well, I have not heard of such a spell before.

[idolizer]

Does a fighter have different skills than magic?

[greatcleavage]

Well, it did take a Resurrection spell instead of ordinary Raise Dead, so that did complicate things. But wait... they don't have magic like that on your plane?

[greatcleavage]

Uh... fighting. Fighters develop skill and tactical strategy on the battlefield to defeat their opponents.

[fearlessherosheart]

Some scholars are approaching the problem of magical healing after the heart has ceased, but before the soul has started on its journey. But the state of the soul once it has entered the Paths of the Dead is supposed to prevent it from returning to a living body outside of rebirth.

[hellebarde]

That's... um... [... this has to be a dream, then...]

I'm only getting more confused...

[hellebarde]

Well, Japan is where I grew up... ehehe, to be honest, my life wasn't really all that interesting. But America...! It was all really strange and new to me. I was staying in Death City, and even though it could be pretty dangerous at times, I think it was fun.

[greatcleavage]

Wait, your upper planes imprison the soul?

[Roy is much closer to horrified than anything else. Not quite there yet, but that's so antithetical to both his theology and his personal experience...]

[fearlessherosheart]

It is not imprisonment, merely an effect of the Paths. No one living can leave the Paths of the Dead -- only the undead, and those souls bound for a new incarnation.

Well, there was one exception, but she was the Empress and had the the Imperial Orb to protect her.

[greatcleavage]

There's a pretty fine line between "souls can't come back because they're imprisoned" and "souls can't come back because they're stuck there involuntarily", especially if it takes artifact-level intervention just to plane shift out.

[fearlessherosheart]

I nearly think you are insulting our afterlife, sir.

[and someone has to remember that she doesn't have her sword with her, but that was definitely a twitch of her sword hand]

[idolizer]

That makes the two of us.

[ It's because her mind is boggled in total confusion that she's practically emotionless right now. ]

[idolizer]

Just fighting with weapons? I expected something more... uhm, showy.

[hellebarde]

I-I'm sorry I can't be of any help...

[idolizer]

... It's okay.

[ At least she can still be a little bit sensitive. She then turns around. ]

I'm off. Maybe I can find someone that can tell me what's going on. [ Except she might scare them off with that appearance. ]

[greatcleavage]

[Whereas Roy very much does had his sword with him... not that that will stop her.]

Whoa, whoa, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be offensive. It's just totally different than what I'm accustomed to -- and the undead thing, I'm kind of sensitive about.

[greatcleavage]

If you're talking about 'showy' in terms of 'I speak a few words, wave my hands, and things explode without any significant effort on my part,' then no, it's not showy. The kind of flash and glamor that fighters have is charging into the fray, and with an astounding display of skill, determination, grit, and technical prowess, defeating the foe.

[idolizer]

Well, that kind of "showy" works as well. If you put it that way, that is...

[hellebarde]

Alright... [maybe she should wish her good luck, but. ahh, she's already nervous enough as it is. Tsugumi will be on her way as well.]

[fearlessherosheart]

[oh, well, dang]

Ah, well, then you are forgiven.

[greatcleavage]

Of course! I was practically raised on the stories of my fighter grandfather! He singlehandedly slew the red dragons of Reddragonsville and rescued the fair Princess Damsel!