Market Streets

"I-I am fine" the woman said from her new found position on the ground, quite content to just lie there for a few seconds before she meeped when she realized the fall had knocked her hood down enough for her to be seen, which quickly changed her initiative.... rapidly getting back up to pull her hood back down and brushing herself off.

"U-Ummm, you didn't see did you? .... Who am I kidding of course you did" She trailed off after asking.

edited 29th Apr '18 2:48:57 AM by Imca

market street

Erin sighed. No one seemed to be acknowlaging her existence. Even before the dragon showed up. She decided to get something to eat.

"Um, excuse me? Where can I get some food around here?"

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Shopping District

Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it, cursed Alvurac mentally as he found himself rushing around after the chickens like a... well, headless chicken.

What the hell was he doing? Why was he bothering? Why didn't he just think to put up a barrier around a few of them- oh.

“Damn it,” he cursed audibly this time, skidding to a halt and raising his hand towards the closest chicken. Immediately, a translucent blue field appeared around it, which it promptly crashed into with a high pitched ringing sound more fitting to that of an pinball machine that didn't exist yet.

Panickingly, it tried to rush the barrier again, smacking its head against the glassy surface and sending ripples throughout it. Despite this, it held strong, and once it seemed too fatigued to rush off again Alvurac dissipated the field and picked it up.

“One down... wait, what am I supposed to do with it now... ah crap it's waking up... and now its scratching me...”

All things considered, not a good day for him.

edited 29th Apr '18 4:49:35 AM by Enirboreh

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Kiri, Machina and Temple, Market District

The woman heard the winds blow harder and the sound of flapping wings, making her immediately look upwards and gasped in awe.

"What the hell? Is that a drag-It just got through the barrier and it's entering the city? How?" Her finger twitched as she thought for a brief second on how a goddamn huge flying monster entered the city, noticing that there was not much reaction to it, she came to a revelation and spoke.

"Oh, it's blue, I get it now" She took her eyes back to the strange man speaking with a skull, she blinked and looked back at Kiri, still clearly confused about the Necromancer's behaviour, she poked her left cheek and spoke.

"Hey you think he's gonna be okay? Maybe he's lonely and that skull's his only friend, Maybe we should… I dunno talk to him, maybe he needs help?"

edited 29th Apr '18 7:45:17 AM by LiorVal

Shopping District

Elodie stumped herself when she was deciding between joining the busybodies in chasing down the chickens or just stay around one of them and focus on turning the chickens back into coins. Her train of thought was soon derailed when Alvurac managed to pick up the chicken. It's scratching him right now, tho, and it made Elodie feel really bad if she let it drag on for longer than necessary.

"Thank you, my good man," she said briefly while she wrapped her hands around the chicken's neck. "Now lemme work my magic..."

As the chicken transformed, tho, Elodie realized one thing. "Wait, shit, how do you turn animals into metals again-" she muttered mostly to herself before the chicken completed its transformation. It's not a silver coin. Its a bunch of nicely cut up chicken parts that's now overflowing onto the floor.

"Shit, shit!" she exclaimed "My bad, errrr... At least it ain't moving."

she placed her bag down and took out her transmutation textbook, hoping to find something on animal-to-metal transmutation while she chased after Harry to help him with the chickens.

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Market District: Kiri and Machina

Kiri barely reacted at all to Mireena's morning flight as she passed over them. After all, that was how she left him after they met during the early morning. But he was momentarily distracted by his cursory glance toward the goddess, and the young woman's question was almost lost to his ears. After a moment registering it, he blinked and looked up at her with a mildly incredulous look. "Talk to a necromancer?"

edited 29th Apr '18 8:49:46 AM by Insano

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Machina, Kiri, Temple, Market District

Machina stayed in her lax position as again, she squinted and looked towards Temple, trying to inspect him from afar, she nodded and spoke as she kept looking at him and not at her nearby friend.

"Hmm, yeah, usually I'd agree, but look at him, he's harmless, plus, he's a student, and you're gonna have a whole class of Necromancers in school man, what are you gonna be scared of them for the rest of your student life? Ya can't be a scaredycat for all that time, might as well start it right" The woman waved at Temple, as she shouted and gestured for him to come near them.

"HEY, YOU, YOU'RE AN ENROLLING FIRST YEAR RIGHT?"

Shopping District, Academic City of Màna - Elysius Region, Kingdom of Allurand: 5th Day of Keystone, Year 8745, Feastday, the ninth hour

Harry's arms were now full of complaining fowl, feathers flying everywhere as they attempted to get free. Some of them even got into his mouth. So caught up was he in his civic-mindedness, he didn't even look up to see Mireena flying overhead.

"I'm sorry!" Harry apologized, now trying to herd the remaining chickens with his legs and some body blocking. "I should have caught the spell building up. Or at least had a dispel ready. I apologize as a Mage of the Abjuration school."

edited 29th Apr '18 11:57:48 AM by KR_Vandal

Shopping District

“Yeah, no problem,” Alvurac muttered absently as the cook took the chicken away from him, to which he promptly scanned his body for any scratches. A few small nicks here and there, and a few pink lines across his arms, but nothing major-

Wait, why didn't he use his barrier again?

He palmed his face and groaned at his own stupidity, before peeking at the other guy who had decided to help out with the chicken conundrum.

At this point, he kind of looked half-chicken himself.

“Huh? You're in Abjuration too? Cool, I guess. I'm Alvurac Roooooo...” he yawned, smacking his lips briefly before shaking his sleepiness off. “Ugh. Sorry. At least I'll know one person then. That's one person more time to sleep through in roll call.”

Whether this was an attempt at a joke or just a really poorly thought out plan on his part wasn't clear due to his flat voice.

edited 29th Apr '18 11:35:52 AM by Enirboreh

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Elodie's Stall

"Nice try!" The hilt of a sword emerged from the crowd and bashed straight into Elodie's former customer, catching him square in the chest and knocking him to the floor. "Fortune has not smiled on you this day."

Without even fully drawing her sword, a Squire of Mireena emerged from the crowd and planted one muscled leg directly on the downed man's chest. Kendrix Cassan, a dark skinned beastfolk with the ears of some feline variant—probably a tiger. Her shamefully pristine cape fluttered around her and she slid her sword back into its sheath the rest of the way. She saluted Mireena smartly as she flew overhead; clearly this was a sign of good fortune, to have apprehended a magical miscreant and so soon after see her patron in the flesh!

"Hail there!" She turned her attention to the conjurer's victims and swung her saluting hand down into a bow. "If one of you could retrieve this scumbag here I would greatly appreciate it!"

Going against his normally dickish behavior but never one to avoid a dramatic moment, Kendrix's dear familiar Thurtston alighted next to the guy's head and eyed him hungrily. Thurston was average for a bearded vulture but therefore huge for a bird at 115 cm tall. His bright red plumage cut a strong contrast to the blue dragon overhead.

"Best to hurry up." Kendrix commented, winking at her bird for the assist. "Thurston here's hungry."

May Hamford - Rooftops

May used her hand to shield her eyes from the glare of the sun as she saw the approaching figure in the sky... at first thinking it to be a bird of some sort... However, the closer it got, the more her eyes filled with wonder... then fear, and then wonder once again as she saw the magnificent figure of the fantastic dragon flying high above...

She had heard many rumors of the Goddess... of the one leading the Academy. Many she thought were great exaggerations... but now, standing here in a city as wondrous as this was and gazing at a dragon flying high above... going to the Academy...

It simply made it seem like she was in a place where all dreams could come true... where anything was possible. And she was about to be a part of it.

Filled with resolve, May can't help her heart from soaring high as she begins to run up on the rooftops... jumping faster and more boldly from rooftop to rooftop as she resolved to quickly get past the market place... she would get off the rooftops then, and make her way to the Academy. She didn't care if she would just stand in place waiting for the appointed time... she was fired up for it all to begin now!

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

Market Place

Gosh, that was exhausting. Just squeezing through a massive pile of moving, smelly bodies was one thing- competing for supplies was an entirely different thing! Concettina let out out a puff as she leaned on a wall- hopefully away from the massive crowd- just to catch her breath for a moment. "Gods above, traffic laws are awful here..."

After a moment's rest, she stood back up, got her wits collected, gave a little bit of a fixing to her dress...

"... Haaagh!"

And back into the crowd she went.

And then there was silence

rooftops

Erin saw a halfling jumping across the rooftops with incredible grace.

"Well, it is decidedly less crowded up there. I think I'll stretch my wings a bit."

erin spread her wings and flew silently up onto thw rooftops.

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SHOPPING DISTRICT

Temple looked up at the screaming girl, he smiled and waved back "YES. I AM. ARE YOU ALSO ENROLLING? WHAT'S YOUR NAME?" He asked, adjusting the bag of bones he held over his shoulder, an awkward clacking noise coming from it as he approached her.

"Remember Tom, be nice." he told the skull.

Good to be back

Shopping Street

Asher stood there for a moment, a bit still before he began to laugh a bit. "Oooooooh boy... Right, been a since a mistake like that was made..." He went over to say hi to the new comer that Eura was talking to. "Are you alright? Any bruises or scratches? I have a few potions that could help if you need them."

Looking away for a moment, he turned towards Eura. "By the by, I feel like i should dismiss this notion now. It's not 'miss' Asher. I am decidedly male."

City Streets

Nala looked back to find most of the group meandering around. She quickly walked back a ways to find out what was happening.

"Is something wrong? I only ask because sometimes Jerry gets angry if he's doing his job and-" The elf cut herself off as her eyes landed on the new, hooded arrival. "Oh, that's why, hello new person. Tell me are you joining our merry little coffee shop adventure Miss?" She asked politely

This is starting to reach the bounds of what I can pay for by myself though. Nala thought to herself, quietly exasperated.

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Marketing 101

Upon laying eyes on the dragon flying above Mana, Cormac took a moment to swallow his instinctual fear of such a behemoth being so close to a large population centre as he noticed that no one was really reacting to the thing negatively. As the dragon disappeared, Cormac cleared his throat and asked "So, I dinnae suppose you get dragons 'round these parts often?"

May Hamford - Beyond the Shopping District

As May spotted a neat storm drain to slide down back onto the street level once she was past the shopping district, the young student was quite proud that it seemed like nobody had caught her little indiscretion and reckless jumping. She had been opening up her pack to slide her shoes back on when a winged girl came right after her from above... Well so much for that...

"Ah, hello there..." she tries, sliding her shoes on a bit faster, trying to pretend like nothing had happened.

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

Màna Shopping District

Eura frowned as the dragonborn girl quickly flipped her hood up. "Is, um, something wrong, miss? We're not judgin y'all or anythin like that. I know dragonborn have it tough, but we're all friendly here I reckon..."

And then Asher spoke and once more Eura's face did a tomato impression. Oh. Oh.

Gulping, Eura tried to apologize. "I...I'm so sorry! I beg your pardon! Forgive me!" she squeaked.

Mortified at herself, Eura tried to save face by answering Cormac's question.

"A-ah, well, we just know that particular dragon very well. That's Lady Mireena, our goddess."

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Màna, with Dia, Kiri and Temple

The three were standing in front of a stone two storey shop, the front open, showing off various tools and workstations as well as an ominously bubbling cauldron in the corner.

A sign was put up on the side: "Magical Items - Buy and Sell, Crafts and Commissions Available."

Someone yelled from inside "Chelsea, ask what they want!".

The shuffling of footsteps, and then someone was tapping Machina's shoulder.

"Hello?"

The speaker was a cat beastkin, a young woman who looked to be in her early twenties. She had pitch black hair, matching cat ears, and dark red-violet eyes. Her face was quite pretty, although they were currently covered in soot. She wore simple work clothes under a heavy apron.

"I'm sorry, but you're sort of blocking our storefront? If you want to shop, please go inside and we'll be happy to help. If not, um, would it be okay if you moved to the side a bit?"

"Old Tom" who seemed to have been completely ignoring the half-elf imbecile (Which he was, even if the alligator had grown quite fond of him...in a way.) finally perked up.

"Why didn't you tell me we were in front of a magic item store? There might be rare body paaarttssss in thereeee."

edited 29th Apr '18 9:14:42 PM by GrimHelm

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

Shopping District Shenanigans

"It's fine," he responded in a neutral tone as he got up. "Should’ve been more careful."

To be frank, he was still irritated by her remarks. He knew it was his fault, but at the same time, he wasn’t fond of being yelled at over an accident. In addition, this wasn’t the first time someone said something carelessly insensitive like that, and each time he still found it stinging more than he’d prefer. But at the same time, he knew today was going to be stressful the second he had to head to that shop, and besides, he’d rather not escalate matters with someone who already apologized. Especially since it was more than likely they’d have to share a class.

Speaking of which, you should probably introduce yourself.

“Name’s Nyxus Astor,” he said, reaching out for a handshake (he didn’t hear her walking away, so he assumed she still had to be in front of him). “And you are?”

edited 29th Apr '18 9:10:38 PM by Aquatica1000

Market District, Dia, Kiri, Temple & Chelsea

The woman grinned at Kiri as she saw Temple's reaction patted herself on the shoulder.

"Hey I was right, see? He's friendly, so come on scaredycat" As the necromancer approached the woman stretched her left hand forward, her palm closed to a fist.

"My name's Dia Maxwell Machina, Conjuration and Transmutation major, and this here is eh... is... Scaredycat."

Machina shrugged, feeling a tap on her shoulder she moved a step forward and turned around to face whoever gave it to her, noticing she was friendly she waved to her and smiled before looking inquisitively at the store behind her.

"Wait, is there? Didn't notice this one" Dia turned around and gestured for the other two to come.

"I'm going inside, you two coming right?" Not even waiting for answer, the girl walked towards the door to the shop and entered.

edited 29th Apr '18 9:43:28 PM by LiorVal

Market Street

Asher laughed again, a hearty, happy laugh. "Don't worry about. I tend to confuse most people. I guess its just the price I to pay for being this good looking." His boast was well framed by a simple shrug of the shoulders, just rather driving home the ego on this one, when he got his legs taken out from under him by an object running full force at about 20 miles an hour, coming to a sudden stop under Asher's now up in the air feet.

It was... Weirdly enough... a treasure chest. With legs. Teeth jutted out from within the open chest, and a large tongue lolled out from within as the thing panted heavily.

"Oh. There ya are, Koko. Good to see you're alright." The witch got up and dusted off the back of his skirt and the rest of his clothes. "So that was the great goddess Mireena, huh? I'm looking forward to meeting her in person."

In Front of the Shop

Kiri sort of instinctively turned away as the novice necromancer approached, a little indignant when he was referred to as "Scaredycat." But then he looked up at the feline beastkin who had approached to remind them where they were located. He stepped to the side in silent apology, but when the young woman who had first approached him entered the beastkin's store, Kiri found himself stepping inside as well. "Don't call me that again."

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TEMPLE, MACHINA AND KIRI

Temple took a moment, flipping his shovel and shoving it into the dirt road and stuck out his hand, giving his hand to Kiri. "Nice to mee you, I'm Temple. It's nice t-" HE turned when the Alligator Skull stopped talking.

"Come on Tom, remember?" He held up the black burlap sack, giving it a few shakes, causing the rattle of bones to come through. "Remember? We got a few skeletons, and it's too early to check out their graveyards." He turned to Kiri, "This is Tahmeldam, The River's End. You can call him Ol' Tom, he's my tutor." He pat the skull on the head.

"So, what do you study?" He asked as he picked up the shovel and walked after Machina.

edited 29th Apr '18 11:13:11 PM by TroyandHawk

Good to be back

Beyond the market

"Oh, hi. Finally someone notices me. I was just getting away from the crowd."

Erin paced up and down. Her stomach growled.

"Oh, I'm hungry. Do you know any good food places around here?"

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