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

[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.

[greatcleavage]

That's true. We all only have so many skill points for Knowledges, after all.

Still... [He looks at her sidelong as they walk.] Are you doing all right, then? This is a bad situation but I'm at least used to adventures, however inconvenient.

[idolizer]

For now, I'm not expecting any danger to come my way. [ She says that even though that may not be what he meant, but she's that wary after dying by the hands of the one guy she tried to manipulate and kill. Not that she'll find him in this place, right...? ] The more I know about what's going on, the less I'm going to worry about it.

[greatcleavage]

[Well, these two between them have more deaths in their history than most people... but substantially fewer than most adventurers, so maybe they're doing something right.]

I've never found knowledge brings less worry, but I'd rather know as much as possible than not enough. Whatever I might want, I'm sure I can't sit out whatever disaster or crisis is at hand.

[idolizer]

True... ah, this reminds me of that one series of books I used to read when I was little. It was about a magic school that was a bit similar to this one. [ It didn't have magic carpets though. ] I think it's definitely different than our current situation, but it's a funny thought.

[greatcleavage]

[Roy's smirk is distinctly lopsided.] My sister is enrolled in Warthog's right now. Er, Warthog's School of Wizardry and Sorcery. She's the one they wanted for this adventure, I think. I guess I'm just the one with the bad luck.

[idolizer]

[ ... did she bring up a bad memory? ] Ah, I'm sorry about that.

[greatcleavage]

Oh, it's nothing you should blame yourself for. It's just that she wants to learn magic.

[idolizer]

And you didn't? Couldn't you be enrolled as well?

[greatcleavage]

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

[idolizer]

Does a fighter have different skills than magic?

[greatcleavage]

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