Having caught Erika's eye, Prita withdrew from the center of the pavilion. It seemed that at least some people had a basic sense of strategy. She also nodded approvingly that a line seemed to be forming in the bushes to her left. Not as good as it could have been, but at least better than nothing. Shouting her thanks to Erika, she said, "You might want to do something about that bozo in the western pavilion!"

Prita moved to the lawn behind the bushes, hoping that they would get in the way of any long-range attacks on her. She caught her breath, and screwed up her courage for the next task, her least favorite part of being a magical girl. She wished she could just let the idiots who ran into battle suffer for their actions...but that would look bad on her evaluations from her instructors. Still, she wasn't going to risk too much of her life to save theirs.

As she smarted in pain, healing rays emanated from her body. Yellow bursts of light flew from her to surround Alexis, and green currents went from her to Giz.

Prita to 09.10. Sacrifices 2 life to heal Alexis for 2. Buffs Giz at 10.10

edited 25th Apr '13 4:42:53 PM by BokhuraBurnes

— Takano Akane —

Hajimatta ka?

Akane moved forward, placing the enemies within range.

"All flights, please begin your attack runs. Targets are nearest enemy ground forces. Repeat, targets are nearest hostile units. Begin attack as soon as you are ready."

As Akane spoke the planes above her formed up into groups of three and started veering off towards the enemy formation.

Akane to 15.08, attacks 12.08 unless already finished, in which case attack on 13.08

A girl with really short hair Erica did not recognize motioned for her to take her place. "You might want to do something about that bozo in the western pavilion!" she said.

"Gotcha!" Erica shouted, then winced as a shot grazed her arm. It did not really hurt, but there was a certain numbness in her limb now. Fortunately that her left arm. She didn't need that to shoot people with.

"Okay, now I'm mad!"

Forgetting Prita's advice she ran forward, charging at the nearest enemy monster she saw (which happened to be north) until she could see the white of his eyes. Actually she couldn't on account of it not having eyes, but if it did then she most certainly would have seen the white of them. With her cannon held out in front of her, Erica let out a savage cry and let go a burst of magic energy.

This totally missed the monster she was aiming for. Fortunately, there was another one right behind it. Magic cannon blasts did not discriminate and continued right on towards its unintended target.

Erica to 12.10. Attack Enemy at 13.08

Haley to 11.08. Attacks Enemy at 9.07

Hope to 11.09. Attacks Enemy at 11.10

Combat

Hannah remains in position

• Hannah attacks Enemy 6 (12.08)
• Rolls 6: 4 Damage
• Overland: +1 Damage
• Fort Bonus: +1
• Enemy 3 takes 6 damage
• Enemy 6 DEFEATED!

Julia moves to 15.12

Georgia remains in position

• Georgia attacks Enemy 3 (12.09)
• Rolls 5: 3 Damage
• Fort Bonus: -1 Damage
• Enemy 3 takes 2 Damage

Alexis remains in position

• Alexis attacks Enemy 1 (9.07)
• Rolls 5: 3 Damage
• Melee Bonus: +1
• Weapon Type Bonus: -1
• Enemy 1 takes 3 Damage

Viorrey moves to 14.08

• Viorrey attacks Enemy 4 (13.08)
• Rolls 1: Counter
• Viorrey takes 2 Damage
• Viorrey moves to 13.10

Magda remains in position

• Magda attacks Enemy 5 (10.09)
• Rolls 2: Miss
• Enemy 5 takes 0 Damage

Giselle moves to 10.10

• Giselle attacks Enemy 5 (10.09)
• Rolls 5: 3 Damage
• Melee Bonus: +1
• Weapon Type Bonus: -1
• Forest Bonus: -1
• Enemy 5 takes 2 Damage

Lyn moves to 11.11

• Supply Chain: Hope gains 1 HP (2). Erica gains 1 HP (6)
• Lyn attacks Enemy 2 (11.10)
• Rolls 4: 2 Damage
• Weapon Type Bonus: -1
• Fort Bonus: -2
• Enemy 2 takes 0 Damage

Maya moves to 13.07

• Maya attacks Enemy 6 (12.08)
• Enemy 6 ALREADY DEFEATED.
• Attack rerouted to Enemy 4 (13.08)
• Rolls 5: 3 Damage
• Melee Bonus: +1
• Weapon Type Bonus: -1
• Enemy 4 takes 3 Damage

Prita moves to 09.10

• Right Effort: Prita takes 2 Damage, Alexis gains 2 HP
• Right Inention: -1 to attack on Giz

Akane moves to 15.08

• Akane attacks Enemy 4 (13.08)
• Rolls 3: 2 Damage
• Weapon Type Bonus: +1
• Enemy 4 takes 3 damage
• Enemy 4 DEFEATED

Erica moves to 12.10.

• Erica attacks Enemy 4 (13.08)
• Enemy 4 ALREADY DEFEATED
• Attack rerouted to 5 (10.09)
• Rolls 4: 2 Damage
• Weapon Type Bonus: +1
• Fortress Bonus: +1
• Forest Bonus: -1
• Enemy 5 takes 3 Damage

Haley moves to 11.08.

• Haley attacks Enemy 1 (9.07)
• Rolls 6: 4 Damage
• Weapon Type Bonus: +1
• Enemy 1 takes 5 Damage
• Enemy 1 DEFEATED

Hope moves to 11.09

• Hope attacks Enemy 2 (11.10)
• Rolls 5: 3 Damage
• Melee Bonus: +1
• Joust: +1
• Weapon Type Bonus: -1
• Fort Bonus: -2
• Enemy 2 takes 2 Damage

Enemy Phase

Enemy 2 (11.10) stays in position

• Enemy 2 attacks Hope
• Rolls 2: Miss
• Weapon Type Bonus: +1
• Hope takes 1 Damage

Enemy 3 (12.09) stays in position

• Enemy 3 attacks Viorrey
• Rolls 5: 3 Damage
• Weapon Type Bonus: +1
• Fort Bonus: -2
• Viorrey takes 2 Damage

Enemy 5 (10.09) stays in position

• Enemy 5 attacks Prita
• Rolls 1: Counter
• Enemy 5 takes 2 damage
• Enemy 5 DEFEATED

Enemy 7 (11.07) moves to 10.09

• Enemy 7 attacks Prita
• Rolls 2: Miss
• Weapon Type Bonus: +1
• Prita takes 1 Damage

Enemy 8 (10.08) stays in position

• Enemy 8 attacks Alexis
• Rolls 6: 4 Damage
• Weapon Bonus: +1
• Forest Bonus: -1
• Alexis takes 4 Damage
• Alexis DEFEATED

The world suddenly melted before Alexis' eyes, everything collapsing in on itself. The monsters, her fellow magical girls, the tables and ponds, everything. Like the shattering of glass it all fell out of her sight until nothing but a black void remained. She fell into the void, descending into the bottomless abyss until the darkness engulfed her.

And then the roar of lighting from outside woke her up. Alexis would open her eyes to see she was in her room, on her bed, wearing whatever it was that she wore to sleep. On the other bunk her roommate was still sleeping, unperturbed by the storm outside.

A faint glow from above. Alexis' Wisp floated over her head making that small jingling noise they all made to express themselves. It's tiny eyes looked at the magical girl with what seemed to be concern.

Enemy 9 (10.07) moves to 11.07

• Enemy 9 attacks Maya
• Rolls 2: Miss
• Weapon Type Bonus: +1
• Maya takes 1 Damage

Enemy 10 (9.06) moves to 9.08

• Enemy 10 attacks Hope
• Rolls 6: 4
• Weapon Type Bonus: +1
• Hammer and Anvil -1
• Fort Bonus: -2
• Hope takes 2 Damage
• Hope DEFEATED

Hope shot up from her sleep with a shout. She was not dead? The magical girl look around, seeing very little in the dim light of the late night but enough to tell that she was in her room. Above her, in the bunk Erica was sleeping on, she thought she could hear the younger girl mumbling in her sleep. Something like, "Damn the lunch tables..." before returning to silent sleep.

A small living night light winked into existence. Hope's Wisp floated around her head like a firefly, confused over why she had woken up so late.

"You and me both, little guy." she said quietly to her magic companion.

The Sleeping War - Turn 4

Objective: Defeat All Enemies

Map◊

Magical Girls: 12

Hannah Barca

• Lv: 3
• HP: 6
• Mov: 6

Julia Caesar

• Lv: 3
• HP: 5
• Mov: 6

Erica Farragut

• Lv: 3
• HP: 6
• Mov: 5 (Water 8)

Giselle Furst

• Lv: 3
• HP: 6
• Mov: 6

Maya Hattori

• Lv: 3
• HP: 5
• Mov: 6

Prita Maurya

• Lv: 3
• HP: 4
• Mov: 6

Magda von Richthofen

• Lv: 3
• HP: 5
• Mov: 7

Akane Takano

• Lv: 3
• HP: 6
• Mov: 5 (Water 8)

Voirrey Torriques

• Lv: 3
• HP: 2
• Mov: 6

Georgia Washington

• Lv: 3
• HP: 6
• Mov: 6

Haley Williams

• Lv: 3
• HP: 6
• Mov: 5 (Water 8)

Lyn Zheng

• Lv: 3
• HP: 6
• Mov: 6

Enemies: 6

Enemy 2

• Lv: 3
• HP: 4
• Mov: 6

Enemy 3

• Lv: 3
• HP: 4
• Mov: 6

Enemy 7

• Lv: 3
• HP: 6
• Mov: 6

Enemy 8

• Lv: 3
• HP: 6
• Mov: 6

Enemy 9

• Lv: 3
• HP: 6
• Mov: 6

Enemy 10

• Lv: 3
• HP: 6
• Mov: 6

edited 27th Apr '13 1:33:17 PM by Parable

"Kaoc'h," Voirrey shouted as she was wounded in her clumsy assault, "Medic!"

Korrig, her wisp, appeared from the dim red glow that followed her to hiss at her foe.

edited 27th Apr '13 11:06:45 AM by Fauxlosophe

"HA!", said Prita, watching with satisfaction as the enemy who had just tried to shoot her went down from a counterattack with her lance. She had been worried when two enemies had targeted her, but she had managed to dodge one bullet and only be grazed by the other one. I didn't think I had it in me, she thought. I hope the examining committee takes good notice.

A shame about Alexis, though — even with Prita's healing, she had gone down to a mighty hit, therefore preventing Prita from taking the credit for saving her. Still, given the precarious position she had been in last round, nobody could fault her for not using more of her life force for healing.

Right now, however, Prita needed to take cover in her weakened state. She therefore moved behind one of the benches of the pavilion and began to plot her next move. She knew her roommate Lyn was another healing type — perhaps she could help her out.

Prita to 12.11, will wait for other movements before taking offensive or defensive action.

edited 27th Apr '13 3:13:07 PM by BokhuraBurnes

Giz growled as another bourgeoisie blob advanced to take the place of the one she'd just faced down, but at least the line had held here, despite Alexis's death. The sound of weapon fire behind her made her turn to see that the blob that had already entered the pavilion was still there, now perched atop a lunch table firing at the girls in the back row.

"I said take him out, you nitwits!" she shouted, and dropped into a defensive posture with her shield held high. Her spear wasn't very effective against gunners, so for now it was better that she make herself a living wall to stop more of those stupid things from getting into the pavilion or at her weaker troops.

"Artillery, get it in gear!" she called out, frustrated that what should have been a simple killzone maneuver had turned into this bogged down slugmatch.

Giz Defends.

Julia didn't really know what was going on, so she decided to shuffle a little closer to the Pavilion. She didn't have much to say, so she just went to maybe put some defense in the back.

Julia to 13.12.

Magda attacks 11.10. If it's KO'd before that then she'll just defend. I'll put in RP stuff after I know the result.

As Prita observed the formations changing, she stared down an enemy on the other side of the pavilion. She was far enough back that defense wasn't the major priority — instead she had to flush the rats out of the makeshift fortification. Yelling a war cry, she let loose one of her lances — perhaps it would give her a second kill.

Prita attacks the enemy at 12.09. If the enemy is previously killed, Prita attacks any enemy emerging at 11.09. If this does not happen, Prita buffs Erika.

edited 28th Apr '13 3:21:36 PM by BokhuraBurnes

"Look out!" Hannah shouted, dashing forward to stand in front of a few of the blob things that she thought were going to follow the one that already got through. She saw one that could dart away, and one that was already really close. She spun around as she swung her sling, deciding who to hit.

Hannah to 11.09, attacking 11.10 if it's still alive. Otherwise 11.07.

Lyn retreated a few steps when she saw that her attack had failed, and backed away even more as she saw two of her allies fall. However, she had no time to dwell on their disadvantages, she had allies to heal.

Lyn made her way through 12.11, 13.10, 13.09, 13.08, and 13.07 before stopping at 12.08. With her movement exhausted, she gave a punch with everything she had.

Attack 12.09. Secondary option is Attack 11.07

— Takano Akane —

Akane heard Giz's remark, but blocked it from her mind almost immediately. Now was not the time to pay attention to such emotions.

Akane moved foward, intending to clear out the enemy breakthrough as much as possible, "Haley, Ms. Farragut, I'll make sure the units that have broken through are polished off; you two work on the main body."

Akane to 14.09, Attacking targets 11.10, 12.09 or 11.07 in priority order.

edited 28th Apr '13 1:03:08 PM by zzzdragon

"One last go," Voirrey shouted as she saw the hills moving towards her, she charged out from the pavillion and lunged at her foe before falling back to cover.

11.11, stab 11.10, move 12.13. If dead, move to 13.13.

edited 28th Apr '13 3:34:56 PM by Fauxlosophe

"Keep firin'! We just got to take the pavilion!" Georgia called out. She sighted down her rifle and opened fire on the soldier located at 12.09 once more. Should 12.09 be destroyed, she would instead move to 13.11 and fire on 11.10 from there.

"Stop telling me what to do!" Erica shouted at one, two, three, no, four older girls who were all yelling orders. Yes, she was counting Hannah's warning. And Akane, even though her fellow Water Magical Girl was not shouting. Despite her balking at the orders being given, Erica followed Akane's words after climbing atop a lunch table for a better view, aimed and fired a blast at the enemy still advancing.

Attack 11.07

Haley to 11.10. Attack 12.09

Maya to 12.07. Attack 11.07

Prita moves to 12.11

• End Phase One

Giz stays in position

• Giz Defends

Julia moves to 13.12

Magda stays in position

• Magda attacks Enemy 2 (11.10)
• Rolls 3: 2 Damage
• Fort Bonus: -2
• Enemy 2 takes 0 Damage

Prita attacks Enemy 3 (12.09)

• Rolls 1: Counter
• Prita takes 2 Damage

Hannah moves to 11.09

• Hannah attacks Enemy 2 (11.10)
• Rolls: 6: 4 Damage
• Fort Bonus: +1
• Fort Bonus: -2
• Enemy 2 takes 3 Damage

Lyn moves to 12.08

• Supply Chain: +1 HP to Prita, Viorrey, Maya
• Lyn attacks Enemy 3 (12.09)
• Rolls 1: Counter
• Lyn takes 2 damage

Akane moves to 14.09

• Akane attacks Enemy 2 (11.10)
• Rolls 3: 2 Damage
• Weapon Type Bonus: +1
• Fort Bonus: -2
• Enemy 2 takes 1 Damage
• Enemy 2 DEFEATED

Viorrey moves to 11.11

Georgia stays in position

• Georgia attacks Enemy 3 (12.09)
• Rolls 3: 2 Damage
• Fort Bonus: -2
• Enemy 3 takes 0 Damage

Erica stays in position.

• Erica attacks Enemy 9 (11.07)
• Rolls 4: 2 Damage
• Weapon Type Bonus: +1
• Fort Bonus: +1
• Enemy 9 takes 4 Damage

Haley moves to 11.10

• Haley attacks Enemy 3 (12.09)
• Rolls 6: 4 Damage
• Weapon Type Bonus: +1
• Fort Bonus: + 1
• Fort Bonus: -2
• Enemy 3 takes 4 Damage
• Enemy 3 DEFEATED

Maya moves to 12.07

• Maya attacks Enemy 9 (11.07)
• Rolls 5: 3 Damage
• Weapon Type Bonus: -1
• Enemy 9 takes 2 Damage
• Enemy 9 DEFEATED

Map◊

One more monster was slain by Maya, bringing the total enemy count to three. The remaining monsters showed no hesitation however, and continued their mad charge into the student's defense zone. Magic and magic enhanced weapons lashed out at the faceless creatures, but like their comrades they shrugged off the pain, if they even felt it.

Erica swore as another shot went over the head of the nearest monster. She tried to steady her arm-cannon as she aimed again, the constant use was giving her the shakes. With a defiant yell Erica let loose another blue blast of magic. She winced as the recoil nearly forced her off the table but whooped with triumph as the projectile finally hit it's target. The monster stumbled, hit the ground, and lay still. Then it began glowing. The whole body at once was shining bright as the sun, causing everyone to look away. Then it exploded.

Erica did not even have time to shout before the blast from the self-destructing monster swallowed her, overcoming her senses with blinding light and deafening roar.

...

Except her vision returned almost immediately and the roar faded into distant rumbling a few seconds later. Turned out Erica had plenty of time to scream, something she became aware she was doing only after a certain startled, blue creature winked into existence and began dancing about in front of her with alarm. Erica promptly silenced herself when she realized she was in her dorm room, the flash and roar were from the the storm outside, and there was not a single exploding monster in sight.

Saturday, April 8, 2019
Atlantis High, off the coast of California

The spring storm passed and broke before the night was over, but not before a number of girls woke up from strange dreams with strange monsters. By sunrise though, most had dismissed them as the result of too much sugar while watching too many late night movies. It was the weekend, no need to waste the day pondering over nightmares.

Around 7 o'clock most of the 704 students of Atlantis High were already out of bed, the rising sun rousing most everyone with the morning glow from the east. The girls sped through their morning routines, ready for breakfast and their day off. Outside the dorms and in the center of Atlantis, puddles left over from the rain spotted the walkways and moist grass tickled the feet of sandal-footed students. Like most every morning even without rain, the school was humid. One look from the windows of the sloped buildings that walled the complex or the open eastern dock would show why; the entire school was built on a platform above the ocean. The west coast of the United States was clearly visible on the horizon.

Today, school was mostly irrelevant though. Military run it might have been, combat oriented it may be, specially created for for special students it certainly was, kids were kids, someone whose job it was to make these decisions had reasoned, and they still deserved their weekend. So it was that the girls of Atlantis High crowded the school's central yard, heading towards the outdoor sporting or recreation areas, going towards the pavilion where breakfast was being consumed, on their way to the ship heading for the mainland, or just cutting across the open center of the Colosseum shaped school to get to the other end where something or another had caught their interest.

Listening to the conversations as people passed by, one might mistake the facility for a normal high school. Every few passing sentences, however, indicated there was certainly something different about the students.

"She still hasn't given back my hairdryer! Or my hair clip! Or my hair brush! Does she have any idea what this weather does to my hair!?"

"I've been trying to think up a way to say about how I like my friends shirt when it just hit me; I don’t like the shirt."

“Take off the top button on your regular uniform and sew it back on the middle of your dress uniform. You never use the top one anyway.”

"The maintenance gig wasn't enough to pay for my video games."

"“Why are you comparing Patton and Montgomery? Because if this is volleyball then they're on a totally different level.”

"I totally aced my Chemistry finals!"

"And he said to my dad, 'You know, you'd make a great father-in-law.'"

"How do you fail a test on the Napoleonic Wars? You have Napoleon inside your head!"

"Everything you say is dumb, but you look better now, so it's okay."

"Well I was going to go the field trip to Yosemite but then that stupid pink haired chick with the magic bow shot me right in the knee and now I can't hike!"

Within this school, the weekend had begun. Unknown to the student populous, something that would change their lines forever had also begun as well.

edited 30th Apr '13 3:50:27 PM by Parable

Giselle Furst rolled out of bed around noon, slightly more literally than she had intended.

Picking herself up off the floor, she gathered up her tangled black sheets and tossed them back onto her bed, topped by the plushie raven that she cuddled in her sleep. She unleashed a big yawn and lazily stretched out. The half-empty bag of Doritos she'd been munching before falling asleep were still on the floor beside her bed, albeit they'd been crushed into shrapnel by her landing. She tossed the bag into the trash with a half-conscious grumble. The door to the joint bathroom was open, and she stumbled toward it on automatic pilot for a shower.

"Hi roomie," Hannah cheerfully said as her roommate appeared in the door, looking through the shower door as she shampooed her hair. Her hands were behind her ears as she tried to get some dirt out. Well, at least she thought there was dirt. Yesterday hadn't really happened, so she was probably pretty clean, but it had been real enough that she had still felt like taking a shower to breathe in the blood of her enemies as she washed away the filth of Roman entrails upon her flesh - whoa, where did that come from? And she was pretty sure the foam smelled like bananas, not blood.

"You know, I had the weirdest dream last night - you were in it, too, and it was pretty realistic," she teasingly added as she winked at Giz.

Giz blinked sleepily, only registering about half her roommate's words. The other half of her foggy brain was busy comprehending the fact that the shower wasn't available, with only marginally more success than the first half. She stuck her head in the shower to confirm that the space was indeed occupied by Hannah's body, and not merely a floating disembodied head. Drops of water spattered across her face, making her bangs cling to her forehead and bringing her marginally closer to complete consciousness.

What had Hannah said? Something about strange dreams and her being there.

"Was I the east witch or the west witch?" she said, stepping back and plopping herself down on the floor with her back to the sink counter. Water dripped off her chin onto the black men's undershirt and boxers with bats on them that she slept in.

edited 30th Apr '13 12:41:18 PM by Wryte

"Hmmm," Hannah thought for a moment, taking a deep breath that smelled like bananas. "You were the one shouting at us to stab the little gray guys... so... North. Or was it south? Hey, you know, Glinda - Giselle - I bet we could rearrange some letters there and get you some red high heels, and you'd be the most powerful girl at school. But I'd want to be the tin man, because he's made out of metal. If I were made of metal that would be so awesome. I could probably kung-fu-chop a tank."

Giz made a face. "Bleh, good witches are such losers. What's the point of being a witch if you're gonna dress like a fairy princess and send people on a wild goose chase instead of just using your sicky-sweet magic to get snit done."

She picked absently at a bit of gunk under her fingernail. "I had a battle dream, too. Don't remember who we were fighting, but everyone was too stupid to follow orders."

Georgia Washington slapped her alarm clock with practiced precision, promptly at 0730 Hours. She leapt out of bed promptly, reading and eager to get things done today. "Up an' at 'em, Alexis! Y'all're gonna waste yer day! Come on, come on!" Georgia smacked the frame of her roomate's bed rapidly, hands drumming like the drums of Washington's troops. She then ran over to her dresser and began searching through her clothes. "C'mon, we gotta go get breakfast 'fore it's all gone!"

edited 30th Apr '13 5:57:18 PM by Taco

Magda rubbed her eyes tiredly as she stepped down the ladder from her top bunk. 'Note to self,' she thought. 'Next movie night we're watching Monty Python. Or Ghibli. Or something that won't make me dream about fighting with teammates who try to psychoanalyze the monsters.'

She pulled on her clothes quickly. "Maya? Are you awake yet?" she asked. "I wanted to go to the mainland - my sister's birthday's coming up and I want to find something good." She glanced at her roommate's bed.

edited 30th Apr '13 10:45:20 AM by KarrinBlue

((Oh No! Where the hell is Julia?))

Julia got up at dawn (roughly 6 o clock) so she could open up her window, and smell the cool ocean breeze. She felt that if she darted around rather stealthily, she could get out of the room without waking her roommate.. Then she tripped on her purse. "God damnit," she muttered under her breath. The loud crash managed to somehow stay contained, not waking up anyone on this floor.

After her fall, she decided to eat some breakfast, which was banana/mango juice, oatmeal, and some toast. Maybe a little bacon. Don't judge. Unfortunately: Her Juice spilled. Fortunately: It made a nice banana smell wander through the dorms. She felt slightly sick after the night before, so she took a Tums and headed to the courtyard. (Her mother always taught her to carry Over The Counter Medicine, just in case.)

When Julia got into the courtyard, she said hi to a few friends who were also up, and sat down in the pavilion at the only table where no one was eating, and she rested her head in her arms. She pretended to have a chat with her wisp, a feisty little fellow she had taken to calling Nero. Their conversation was trivial, but Julia enjoyed it. And then she fell asleep at the table.

Prita woke up mad with herself. How could she have let that monster get in a counter on her? It would most likely take away any bonus marks she had obtained from her previous maneuver.

Beside her, her wisp rotated swiftly, drawing her into a vision.

A young warrior leads his chariot into battle triumphantly. His lances fall like rain upon his opponents, and they are unable to escape his blows. The populace acclaims him as a mighty warrior and a hero, and he basks in the adulation.

The young warrior's youth. He is engaged in constant training, as is expected of a noble. The best masters-at-arms are sent to tutor him. His family employs skilled weaponsmiths who obtain the sturdiest of materials from far-off lands.

The life of his foes. Poor men, pressed into hopeless service to meet the debts they owe their feudal lords, who do not know or care about the intricacies of battle. Men who are stunted from a lifetime of poor nutrition, whose reflexes are dulled by the alcohol they drink to ease their pain.

Merit is an illusion. The laws of cause and effect govern all things. Seek enlightenment from the cycle of death and rebirth.

"God, he's so preachy," Prita thought to herself. "Why couldn't I have gotten a general who actually cared about making me a better warrior?" Still, when she considered her overall performance, she was forced to admit she hadn't done half badly — as opposed to about half of her schoolmates, she had at least stuck to the bare outline of the plan. That should be enough at least to distinguish herself, despite the final slip-up.

Taking care not to disturb her roomate, the still-sleeping Lyn, Prita showered, dressed, and went down to get breakfast. No matter what, she was going to get that hat today.

edited 30th Apr '13 9:52:54 AM by BokhuraBurnes

Yesterday.

Maya woke with a start, gasping before noticing where she was. So it all was a dream, huh? She looked at her watch. 0400 hours? Some time to wake up at. Changing into her pyjamas, she walked to her bed and lied down, staring at her mask-like Wisp until she fell asleep.

Having wakened by the sunrise (Maya never closed the blinds), Maya was up and running long before Magda woke up.
"Mornin', King of the Dark World," she replied, inventing yet another nickname for her roommate. "Say, did you have a weird dream? I did. You were there. We fought those grey-weird-things." Her English was heavily accented, but what was the accent was a mystery to all; Maya said that someone once told her it contained traces of Received Pronunciation, Scottish, South African and German accents, which was pretty weird considering that Maya herself was Israeli.

edited 30th Apr '13 1:00:50 PM by desdendelle