[OOC] St. Fortuna's Academy for the Higher Arts

[TheHangedMan]

Nothing better than being woken up early in the morning then accidentally walking into a morgue

[Sorrelmyst]

I gotta get Kyra to the academy, don't I? X_X I'll get that by nine (with all likelihood)

[Holy Grail]

@Invader Len I am....actually thinking of dropping this RP. As of a couple of recent developments on my end, since the time of my last post here yesterday, i am afraid i am going to be over-extending myself and feel i need to drop something to help keep things in check.

I have very much appreciated you and the co-GM's kindness, as well as your great flexibility and accommodations to help me get involved in the roleplay. Though as this is within the dropping point before bonds and pairs are formally made in-RP, as you noted before, i think this would be a good time to drop this RP just to be safe about the matter without messing up everyone in the process.

Best wishes to you all! :)

-Holy Grail

[Invader Len]

@Holy Grail
I'm sorry to see you go, but I'm very grateful you told us, and I wish you luck on your future RPs. I hope life gets easier for you from here on out. Thank you for being so cooperative with us. :)

[onenote]

Hey @Sorrelmyst your character count is a bit under our minumum of a 1000 characters and yours is around 600 characters. Do you think you can add a bit more to the post to get it to the character limit?

[Natsu]

Hey @Sorrelmyst your character count is a bit under our minumum of a 1000 characters and yours is around 600 characters. Do you think you can add a bit more to the post to get it to the character limit?

@onenote

I know I've been towing it too, so I'm gonna be trying to beef up my posts in the future.

[Ryik]

As much as I'd love to stay, I think I should also drop for much the same reasons as Holy Grail.

I tend to split my time for many interests every day and I can see this RP becoming a chore if things stagnate, as I'm not very experienced with slice of life-type RPs. I'm going to be taking up very time-consuming responsibilities pretty soon, so it's probably best I not get in the way by leaving altogether.

[Invader Len]

@Ryik
Thank you for telling us, and good luck with your future responsibilities and RPs.

In other news, we're still on schedule for the scene change, and people who've had their partners drop will be reassigned soon. So worry not!

[Invader Len]

Announcements!

Due to their behavior, @Sailorsadie has been kicked from this RP. Their character will be removed from the OOC post, and they are no longer welcome to post IC or OOC.

@General Scales, @Avanhelsing, as you’re now both short a partner, we’ve decided you will be paired together. I hope you’ll both find this arrangement more preferable to your previous ones.

In addition, due to their overall absence from the site, @GummyCat will be moved down to the waiting list. This is because they’ve been absent for several days, and frankly we don’t know their status or where they are. They are not being kicked. If/When they return, we will be happy to remove them from the waiting list and welcome them back into the RP.

With that being said, @HeartlessNobody, Congratulations! Your magic type is fire! You control the element of flames, scorching heat and destructive blaze! Fire is one of the only magic types that can come from nothing, requiring only a dry environment with lots of air to be summoned! Currently, you only know Summon, so you can summon fire, but can’t do much else with it. With the power of a Familiar and enough practice, however, you can learn to control your magic, make new shapes, hotter blazes, and fire that long lasts its natural counterparts! Careful not to get burned, though!
In addition, your familiar is Ruby Doer, controlled by @onenote!

And lastly, @Republic, don’t worry, just because you lack a partner doesn’t mean you’re being put on the waiting list. We’re in the process of discussing a possible arrangement for you until a mage is accepted for you, and we’ve bumped the Interest Check to hopefully attract new players. We’re hoping to give you as much time as possible before the Ceremony, in hopes a new mage will join the group. If one does not, worry not, we do have contingency plans in place to help you so that you don’t fall behind in the story or get placed back on the waiting list. :)

With that, these announcements are done! The scene change begins in 3 hours time! Hope y’all are excited!

[Natsu]

Maybe due to KlayKids absense, I Could take Republic's familiar?

[Invader Len]

Maybe due to KlayKids absense, I Could take Republic's familiar?

@Natsu

Well Klaykid is coming back within the next few days, and the scene change will be staggered in a way that gives the people designated last more time to come back or find new partners. However, if a new person doesn't apply within the next 24-48 hours, we may take you up on that offer. We're going over a plethora of possibilities right now, and if our attempts to recruit a new person fail, we may host a sort of raffle for players interested in having a second character. But thank you for your offer! We will be considering it!

[Avanhelsing]

@Invader Len
Of course! I am still here just insanely busy.

[Natsu]

Also, even though I know it's none of my business? I'm curious, what did sailor do?

[Invader Len]

@Natsu
I won't go into the specifics of what happened. However, as a lesson to take away from this, if I ever PM one of you about an important issue, the proper thing to do is NOT to ignore me and post elsewhere instead. :)

[Natsu]

@Natsu
I won't go into the specifics of what happened. However, as a lesson to take away from this, if I ever PM one of you about an important issue, the proper thing to do is NOT to ignore me and post elsewhere instead. :)

@Invader Len

Noted Captain.

[Invader Len]

Announcement!

Our scene change has begun! Your characters are all in the Sun Room, a large ceremonial room usually only open for special events! From here, your characters will be partnered with each other! To explain what happens during and after this ceremony, I’ll break it up into three pieces.

1. Your characters will approach the podium, and will hold out their hands to each other. The two Druids will take your character’s hands, say some fancy words, and a magical seal will appear on your right hands. If you’re curious, the seal will look something like this.

Sacramentum Seal

The seal is normal and will be there as long as the sacramentum is in place. It will not hurt getting it, though you may feel a slight tingling as you get it. The seal is red in color, and very faint when the mage is not using magic. Once they begin using magic, however, the seal will glow and continue to do so until mana has stopped being channeled.

2. After your characters have made the bond, a volunteer (maybe two, if you have a lot of luggage) will show you and your partner to your dorms. The volunteers are seniors at the academy, so if you want to write in a little NPC chatter with them, feel free. Once you get to your dorms, you can unpack. Errorist, being the lovely bat-frog-fish thing they are, drew the layout of the dorms here.

Dorm Floorplan

3. Before the volunteers depart, they will give you paperwork to fill out your desired electives classes. If your character wants to take the Monster Hunting class, now is the time for them to convince their partner to take it too. After filling out this paperwork, you can return it to the volunteers, who will disappear back to their NPC duties. You may then spend time in your room, socialize with your partner, or meander around the school grounds. You may not return to the Sun Room or enter the classrooms, but you are allowed to go to the dining hall, the gardens, the library, the courtyard, the various school grounds, and down into town, where the ropes will have been removed and life resuming as usual.

In addition, to prevent over crowding of the podium and everyone rushing up at once, we’re gonna stage things in 3 groups. The first group gets to go up to the podium and do their ritual first, before moving on the their dorms. Once everyone from that first group has a chance to post, we’ll do the second group, then the third. This way, players who have been stuck so far have a chance to build up their points, and players who have notified us of their absences have a little more time before they return.
The groups are:
Group 1
Nancy Jones / Nathaniel Zane Elswood @MechonRaptor @onenote
Felicity Goldberg / Korrigan Umbraisis @Raijinslayer [@me lol]
Monty Goldberg / Regis Dimitrios @Discontent @The Errorist
Janine Alyra / Henri Amberhall @General Scales @Avanhelsing

Group 2
Ruby Doer / Loke Blackhardt @onenote @HeartlessNobody
Beatrice Quincy / Kyra Valentina @The Errorist @Sorrelmyst
Talia Nitro / Leo John de Couer @Redmarshmellow @TheHangedMan
Liliac de Blanc / Marth Carter @pkken @Hammerman

Group 3
Richard J. Bateman / Anelise D/Nell @SunsetRoses [@me again lol]
Clyde Lee / Robert Allen @Klaykid @Natsu
Ngiwan Ziajk Liep, Vyvyan Imperial / ???? @Republic

Again, please allow everyone in the first group to post first before we move on to group 2, and then group 3. Once everyone in group 3 have had their sacramentum made, we’ll begin another countdown to the next scene change, where you will have your first day of class.

Speaking of classes, Errorist has also drawn up student schedules for you!

7:00 am to 7:55 am- Breakfast
8:00 am to 8:55 am- History
9:00 am to 9:55 am- Algebra
10:00 am to 10:55 am- Science: Chemistry and potions
11:00 am to 11:55 am- Literature
12:00 pm to 12:55 pm- Lunch
1:00 pm to 1:55 pm- Secondary magic and spells
2:00 pm to 2:55 pm- Ability training
3:00 pm to 3:55 pm- First elective
4:00 pm to 4:55 pm- Second elective
5:00 pm- School ends
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm- Dinner
Curfew is 10:00 pm on weekdays, and 11:00 pm on weekends.

All students will be in the same core classes, so you can interact with your classmates plenty! As for electives, you can pick those and stick them in the Misc. section of your character sheet, if you’re interested in keeping track of them! Both the class schedule and the dorm layout will be added to the first OOC page, so you can check them at any time!

With that said, have fun making your partners! If you want to do a collab with your partner to post, we will give you both points for your work done! Remember to keep track of those points, you’re gonna need them in time!

[TheHangedMan]

Quick question, @Invader Len

If your character wants to take the Monster Hunting class, now is the time for them to convince their partner to take it too.

Does that mean that we need our familiar for the Monster Hunting class? Or is it just a recommended thing?

Also

10:00 pm on weekdays

Aah~ It's just like high-school all over again. It'll feel more like it once someone breaks it to do stupid shit at night and gets caught.

[Invader Len]

@TheHangedMan
If you're a mage taking the Monster Hunter class, then you absolutely need your familiar. Your familiar is now not another person, but a separate extension of yourself. You need them to cast spells that will be of any use in monster hunting. In vice versa, Familiars who want to take the course need their Mages as well, because it's only when their burden of mana is relieved that their Ability is at its peak processing. The other electives you can take independent of your partner, but if you want to take Monster Hunting, you need your partner.

And of course it's like high school, silly. It is a high school. And to some, maybe a curfew is just a suggestion. You don't have to be asleep by 10:00, just in your rooms. Of course, if you're willing to risk detention, you can of course roam the school at night.

[Natsu]

God though, I can't believe some people don't find the bonding horrifying.
I mean, your self is the most personal and private thing about a person, no matter what, you are you. Sharing that with another would be a massive act of trust and probably scary.

[Raijinslayer]

@NatsuI imagine some people do, norm of society though it is. They are probably few and far between given how well ingrained this practice is, but you'll always have outliers.