Dorm Alice

A small giggle came from Nala at Kendrix's introduction. "Please, no need to treat me so formally. My name is Nala Kumori. I'm one of your roommates."

Jerry hooted loudly.

Nala rolled her eyes. "That's Jerry, a bird of little consequence with ideas above his station. You can safely ignore him, he's full of hot air but presents little actual threat."

Jerry leaned in closely to glare at Nala and let out a smaller hoot.

"Yes I do in fact. When you can disprove me I'll happily amend my statement."

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TOM AND THE NECROMANCER

Sensing Kiri's refusal to continuing their discussion (after several attempts to continue the discussion) Temple shrugged, putting his top hat and bag down on his bed before picking up Ol' Tom, slinging the skull and shovel across his shoulder,

"Let's go for an adventure!" He said cheerfully, walking out. "So, do you think we'll meet your dad here?" He asked the skull as he made his way down the hall in a lackadaisical manner. He'd heard powerful mages were here and, assuming that Tom wasn't just a weird spirit, it was likely that he had a daddy and maybe the guy who made him was here! "Maybe you two can both teach me!"

Good to be back

Duelling Club- Arena

Merc had somehow gotten hold of a chair, and he had sat legs crossed and staring intently at the duel. He let out a low whistle at Nyxus's opening and muttered out a "Smart."

Meanwhile in the ring, Gaston's eyes narrowed at the icy beam coming at him, he raised a hand and let out a mumbled incantation...a soft purple glow enveloped his right hand, as Gaston swiped it forward, swatting the beam away and making it hit an obelisk to the side as well.

Nyxus's spell came back, floodimg his mind with insight on Gaston's spell - the Abjurer had opted to use a very simple shielding spell on his arms. With enough effort a spell or weapon could blow through it.

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Dorm Alice

Euranasia sighed, blushing in embarassment. Wasn't even a day in and already disgracing herself. Mother would be ashamed. Shifting the weight of the cat on her shoulders, she couldn't help a smile appearing on her face when Nala entered the room.

Eura blushed harder from quite a different reason than embarassment and managed to call out.

"Ah! Hello, Miss Nala! I reckon we're roommates? I'm...er, just bakin a cake for everyone so..."

Aaaand as if on cue, Eura turned and a loud ding was heard, announcing that the cake was done.

"Let me just get it out of the oven..."

Meanwhile up in the rooms,inside the box that Mireena sent was a neatly folded scarf, bright blue, and knitted with Kiri's name is looping print of yellow thread. Two gloves of matching collor followed, then a cloak at the very bottom, also blue. A soft shimmer seemed to hang over the items - plainly the goddess had knitted them herself. The last objects were a beautiful brass harmonica and a small note.

"Kiri, I'm so proud of you. Make friends, be careful, have fun. I'll always be here. PS: Anile made the harmonica." Written in Mireena's distinctive handwriting.

Meanwhile, Tom let out a long-suffering sigh.

"''Why, yes, masssssteeeer would sssstilll be alive, in a manner of ssssspeaking, but I highly doubt he will be here. He wassss a man of warmer climatessss."

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Dorm Theo

As the half-orc Millie continued to glare at him, Duke shook his head, sighed dramatically (completely ignoring Medaglia right in his face), walked over to Dia.

"By the Lord of Lightning, what a tough crowd. No sense of humor at all! The bomb was a mixture of my own making.. it's a bit hard to explain verballt but how about you swing to my workshop in the dorm later and I can show you, Freshie?"

Now he turned to look at Medaglia. "Honestly, you think I'm an amateur? It disperses automatically after fifteen minutes! Wait a bit and you won't even know that it was there."

He glanced at Gabby. "I don't want to inconvenience my dear aweet underclassmen after all~."

Edited by GrimHelm on Jul 13th 2018 at 2:03:14 AM

Nothing is what it seems. Master of Shipping and Sadism.

Gabrielle, Dorm Theo

Gabrielle offered the dragonborn a sweet and utterly fake smile as she says "That's great to hear... Though I hope your craftsmanship is a lot better than your sense of humor, dear Upperclassman. Wouldn't want the smell to linger like first impressions tend to do" says the pink haired, doll faced Enchantress as she runs a hand through one of her locks... though at least she was glad she wouldn't need to look for a different place to sleep... hell, with some luck she would never need to even catch a bit of that putrid smell. Though that left her with 15 minutes to kill... well, she may as well take a look at the outside of the dorm... check out the backyard and other such areas in the meantime. She got the information she wanted and the jokester handicraft would fade on its own soon enough, so as far as she cared, the guy could vanish into a different plane right about now. Thus, she walked... to check out the outdoors of their dorm.

If I'm sure of something it's that I'm not sure of anything.

Dorm Theo, Concettina, Medagalia & Dia

Dia laughed and showed a small smile before speaking in a relaxed tone to her classmates "Personally I think you guys are taking this way too seriously, I mean it's just a damn stinkbomb it's not like he poisoned our freakin' water or something, it ain't harmin' no one" She looked to Concettina.

"See the dwarf girl has the right idea. Just go for it ya know?" The girl nodded to herself. "Can't get the gold without venturing into the dragon's lair right? Be brave against the horrific stink elemental!" The magi emphasized her words by reaching with her closed fist forward.

Machina looked to her upperclassmen, chuckling with a smug smile on her she shrugged "I say if the audience is too hard to please just ignore 'em. It's what I'd do, long as they don't go to Headmaster Seth the Dick who cares?" As the dragonborn mentioned his own workshop, the Transmuter looked at him curiously, poking her own right cheek with her right forefinger again and spoke.

"Oh it was from your workshop I thought it was like the Transmutation lab, well… Hey, actually, I was gonna use the dorms but you did your thing, there a good place to write here with like some ink and shit too? I wanna do a draft for something and finalize a paper with the ink neatly transmuted into it you know? The headmaster's on my ass for not doing anything or something and I bet he's got a stick up his bum about how assignments look to the tiniest of details."

Maxwell waved to the rest of her dormmates. "I'll get with you guys to the dorm later, thinkin' about it now with you guys there my concentration's not gonna be the best and I can just set my stuff up tomorrow probably, I care more about shoving the parchment to his face ASAP"

Edited by LiorVal on Jul 13th 2018 at 5:09:34 PM

Dorm Alice

In Kiri's humble opinion, while it was great that they were, sometimes the Ladies were way too nice. People who get the gods' attention inevitably get everyone else's attention, from the stories he's read, and sometimes that means crazy stuff happens to them. He doesn't know if he's ready for that.

Still, it's rude to turn down two great gifts, especially when they come from two kind goddesses. So he makes sure to keep the new clothes somewhere where he knows he'll remember to put them on later, and he pockets the harmonica that Anile made for him after a few test plays. He didn't actually know how to play it, but the sounds that came out of it rang so clearly in his room that he couldn't help but tell himself that he would learn everything he could about playing that harmonica.

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TEMPLE AND TOM, THE HALLS

"I suppose, if you were born in a colder...were you born or made...You'd be a polar bear." He shrugged, beginning to balance the shovel on the back of his hand as he walked, Tom's head swaying back and forth.

"Do you remember that necromancer who we argued about necromantic healing in the lounge? What was her name?" Since he was rooming with Asher, Temple decided to seek out the necromancer who'd he'd have a harder time seeking out.

Good to be back

Duel

Nala frowned and turned to look at Nyxus. "<Well, can't say I didn't expect that.>" She said in Kallanite. "<Anything you're planning? I'd rather avoid friendly fire if I can.>"

Dorm Alice

Nala let out a small, pleased chuckle. "I thought that might be your full name, Eure. But I wanted to check." She explained, walking over and giving the other girl a brief, one armed hug. "Who would have guessed that almost punching me in the face would have worked out so well for us?"

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Màna Inner Rim, Dormitory Beatrix, Room 403 Past the 14th Hour

With little else to do in his dorm room, Harry just set about putting his things away. He started with the battered case and dug through his clothes and books, producing a slimmer case and stowing that first.

When that was done, he put on his robe and set about walking the halls. The ex-Magistrate was somewhat curious about who else he would meet. And also who else would be his classmates. Harry ran a hand through his hair and proceeded, the typical almost-march of a lawman.

Dorm Alice main room

Thurston scoffed at the mere thought of Nala debasing herself and speaking natively with her familiar, shaking his head in disappointment. Kendrix for her count straightened up and did the transitive math to figure out that that was, in fact, Nala and Euranasia, from her handout, right.

"Ah, you're my roommate! I'm looking forward to bedding down with you, Ms. Kumori." Kendrix said, trying to throw in some of the soldier slang she'd seen thrown around by other squires. Thurston gave her a beat to realize what she'd said before falling on his back, kicking his legs up, and laughing hysterically. Kendrix turned bright red and the room rose in temperature a few degrees, though her actual face stayed stony. "You'll forgive the misstep in speech there." It was half a request and half an order, she wasn't sure which when it came out.

Dorm Alice

Nala turned and gave Kendrix a wicked smirk, making a show of looking over the squire's body. "If you want." She replied demurely, slowly and deliberately stretching her arms abover her head. As she did so, Jerry took up a position on a high shelf and let out a series of loud hoots at Kendrix's expense.

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Dorm Beatrix

"So, you're more of the silent type? Maybe I should go, I'm starving."

Erin wandered to the kitchen. She came out a little while later with a plate of fish. She sat on a chair in the lounge and began eating it.

I used to plug my deviantart here but turns out the link was too long.

Birb, Dorm Theo

"I reserve my humor for things actually humorous." He replied simply, deciding to not draw consequences from such brazen ignorance of his person. "Luckily your head seems to be on your shoulders, despite the first impression."

Still, it was true that there was no point in just standing there and being offended. "Good luck with the assignment." Parting ways with Machina, Medaglia made his way inside after Gabrielle, taking in the surroundings and the ins and outs of the dorm's outskirts - while trying not to inhale too much.

Edited by FergardStratoavis on Jul 17th 2018 at 6:42:32 PM

How do lizards fly?

Dorm Theo

"Some of us have much better senses of smell then others...." Ren chimed in on the stink bomb shenanigans, now back in her cloak though. "Maybe it is more funny if it isn't quite as strong...."

Dorm Beatrix

As he lounged away in the chair he'd chosen, Cormac almost began to nod off as another student wandered into the dorm's lounge. Sitting up in his seat, Cormac waved at Elesandra, and said "Ah! Hail friend! Good tae see a new an' friendly face up here! Come take a seat, I'm Cormac by the way."

Kitchen Cooking

"My my, sorry to bother you Eura. Just felt a great need to get closer to that wonderful smell." Asher said as he hopped down from her shoulders and once again assumed his humanoid form. It would seem he was able to change his clothes through some means while he was in his feline form as now as he stood there, a few of his clothes had been stowed away, with a top that covered a lot less of his upper torso, and therefore showing off some of his ritualistically burned caramel skin. "Good to see ya, Nala. And you must also be one of our dorm mates, huh?" He asked, turning towards the other in the room. He walked forward, twirling a strand of silky golden hair around his finger before holding out a hand. "A pleasure t'meet ya. Th'name's Asher Welkin."

Dorm Alice

Kendrix just sort of continued dying inside as Thurston squawked with laughter one more time, then took up another position on a shelf across from Nala's owl. Given his size and weight he didn't want to risk sharing a space. Also, like, fuck sharing, there was that.

For lack of anything that wouldn't make her die further, Kendrix shook Asher's hand with determined focus, locking onto Asher's face to dodge Nala. Her face softened as she got into it though, shifting focus to something she knew. "Squire Kendrix Cassan. That's Thurston on the shelf. The pleasure is mine. I see you practice transmutation on the side, unless the necromancers figured out some new blasphemies here. Is that a particular help with your primary discipline? I'm curious."

Dorm Beatrix - Lounge

There was an awkward silence as Elesandra analyzed her apparent dormmate. Young adult, strange manner of speaking, wearing two of the ridiculous symbols denoting college. As for species…

Elesandra visibly looked Cormac up and down. Looked human. She then leaned in closer to sniff Cormac. Smelled human too. Human it was.

Satisfied with her analysis, El gestured to herself.

“Elesandra.”

With nothing better to do, she took Cormac’s suggestion and sat down in the seat next to him, her beaver friend Antionette jumping into her lap and making a chittering noise, which El responded to with a chitter of her own. She glanced over at Cormac.

“Which room?”

Dorm Alice

Nala gave Asher and appreciative look as he walked by. "Hey, there Ash, didn't notice you there. Should a fire starter like you really be helping in the kitchen, I hear baking is a delicate process." She teased

At Kendrix's use of the word "blasphemies" Nala winced but managed to keep from saying anything. Lovely, even my sanctuary has these idiots. She thought to herself. Jerry floated down to land on Nala's shoulder and gently nuzzled her hair, cooing softly as he did.

Edited by guyshane on Jul 18th 2018 at 4:58:48 AM

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Dorm Beatrix lounge

Erin hadn't noticed the other students in the lounge as she had been sitting in the corner with her plate of fish. She finished eating and left to clean up her plate. She returned to the lounge a few minutes later and began reading a book on evocation in what she had now decided was her favourite seat in the corner.

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Dorm Alice Kitchen

Asher finished shaking Kendrix's hand before responding. "No no, not really transmutation. I've always been able t'do it. Guess its just one of the many "wonderful" gifts my tribe bestowed by bein born into it. Though, don't think I can really agree with callin the things necromancers do particularly blasphemous. After all, magic is magic. Depends on how you use it." Asher traced a finger along the lines of one of his tattoos.

"And I'll have you know that I am a wonderful cook, Nala. Ma taught me well. Can't just go full burn all th'time an' all that."

Edited by SolusLupus on Jul 19th 2018 at 5:49:50 AM

"Necromancers do some wild things and I am absolutely willing to say that whatever strange way they could have done what you did would have been a blasphemy." Kendrix said with confidence. This was something she'd absolutely practiced. "It's a joke at the expense of graverobbers and iconoclasts, not on your average practitioner of an art as respectable or subvertable as any. But please, tell me more about this cooking you're doing here."

Duel

"<...Keep him distracted,>" Nyxus responded, somewhat quietly in case his opponent understood Kallian. "<I think I can break that deflection spell with a well-aimed shot, but if he realizes what I'm doing he might dodge.>"

Once he finished talking, he moved farther back, towards the edge of the field. Hopefully, Nala would be able to distract Gaston before he could potentially try to attack him, but just to be safe he kept aware.

Edited by Aquatica1000 on Jul 25th 2018 at 11:50:32 AM

Dorm Theo

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Concettina froze up, her expression noticeably turning to... Absolute Annoyance. "... Excuse me, good ma'am. Do I sincerely look like a dwarf to you? Do I have hair covering my face? Do I look like I could carry an ox while fighting off an army? All-due respect to their kind, they're great, but I am not a dwarf."

she's taking this too seriously, most likely.

And then there was silence

THE KITCHEN

Temple walked in, leaning his shovel and Ol' Tom against the wall as he looked at everyone else.

"Please, don't use the term 'Graverobber'. It's only robbing if it's something of value to the person it belongs to." He corrected, before looking at Asher.

"So...how much does it help?" He asked his 'fellow necromancer'.

Edited by TroyandHawk on Jul 23rd 2018 at 12:11:28 PM

Good to be back