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]

I mean, I've been in a school before and it didn't go... that much well. Rather, it went rather horribly, but that's a long story.

[ Not sure if she should confide in a stranger like this. ]

[greatcleavage]

Are we talking 'total social ostracism' horribly, or are we talking 'it turned out the school was home to a den of Necronomicon-level evil' horribly?

Because if it's the latter, I'm not surprised. And if it's the former, woefully familiar.

[idolizer]

I don't think it was ostracism, per se... er, and I don't understand the latter option, to be honest.

[greatcleavage]

I'm just trying to understand the level of intervention we might need. Let's put it another way -- where on the scale of 'catastrophe size' does your worry fall, if one end is 'you personally' and the other is 'all existence everywhere'?

[idolizer]

Oh... that makes more sense. [ s...ort of. ]

I guess I could say my worries lie more on the suspicion that we're all being brought here as a means of an experiment.

[greatcleavage]

Gather up a variety of different people from different world and see how they handle magic, huh?

It would provide an explanation for why we were literally forced to enroll. Besides 'it's a railroad'.

[idolizer]

That would explain it. I just hope it's nothing serious, but having gone through something similar... I can't trust whoever kidnapped us.

[greatcleavage]

Considering I just got out of gladiatorial enslavement, I'm not exactly feeling charitable either. If I thought there were a way to mount an effective resistance...

[idolizer]

Er... I think it's too soon to plan anything like that, especially when we don't know who we're dealing with. I think it's best to wait and see.

[greatcleavage]

[Roy sighs. He can't help but acknowledge that just maybe he's letting recent events guide his thought processes a little more than is wise.]

Yeah, you're probably right. This is just a theme that's getting old. We definitely need more information.

[idolizer]

That's what I'm planning to do, anyway, and I'm going to explore this place a little, maybe ask around for some information. [ Being the assistant of some improvised, unfortunate detective was a short-lived experience, but she has to admit it could be a little fun. ]

[greatcleavage]

I'd be lying if I said I stacked ranks in social skills, but I'm as familiar with looking up information in the library as any --

[Roy abruptly remembers just how familiar his fellow students had been with the library back in fighter college.]

I'm familiar with a library. Very. Painfully probably. So if there's information to be had there I intend to find it.

[idolizer]

There must be a library around here, is there? [ If there wasn't one, then this isn't a school and they're not wizards. ]

Do you perhaps know where it is?

[greatcleavage]

[Roy nods, in complete agreement with her for exactly the same reasons.]

I've been just as much a prisoner to this schedule as you have, but as soon as I get a chance to look...

[idolizer]

Hmmm... should we look for it together? I might do that just now.

[greatcleavage]

Well, this IS supposed to be a time when we get acquainted with the places we'll be eating, sleeping, and living for our time here... so I agree, this is the perfect time to find the library.

[idolizer]

Right, right! Let's go then. [ She motions with her hand. ] Off to the adventure, I guess!

[greatcleavage]

What? Oh, wow. [Roy grins with fond nostalgia.] I think my first adventure might actually have been getting to the library at my old school. At least I'm pretty sure I got experience for managing it.

That crowd of upperclassmen was not an appropriately-balanced challenge for a solo character of my level.

[idolizer]

Really? It's funny how I brought up such a deja-vu.

[ So, she'll start walking her way towards the school grounds. ]

[greatcleavage]

It's not so surprising.

[Roy falls into easy step alongside.]

After all, I went to school to learn to be a fighter. Now that I'm stuck in school to be a sorcerer, no doubt more parallels will emerge.

[idolizer]

I suppose you're from a world different than mine. We don't have fighters or sorcerers. I mean, we have the military, but no magic at all.

[greatcleavage]

You had to have had some magic -- I'm fairly certain summoning or transportation spells can't take someone from an antimagic environment. That isn't to say you had wizards or sorcerers available to use it... as strange as that sounds.

[idolizer]

Well... if there was magic in my world, I surely never saw it with my own eyes. I mean, there are magic shows back home - but it's not real magic, it's more like a series tricks to impress people.

[greatcleavage]

Prestidigitation, I understand. So your world lacks both an organized study of magic and inborn talent with it --

No, that's impossible. If magic exists in any form, someone has to have studied it. A significantly lower ratio of draconic interbreeding or whatever claim sorcerers make to justify their power, I can believe -- although I've picked up a level in it and my family tree is strictly homo sapiens -- but human nature doesn't allow for the potential to exist and NOT be explored...

[idolizer]

[ ... she's starting to think he's probably played too many RPGs. ]

Like I said, if there's magic, I never witnessed it. I can't know everything about my world, though.