[IC] The Schools of Magic (Needs more Players to Stay Alive!!!)

[AlicePleasanceLiddell]

~Ruby~

. Ruby looked around as she suddenly found herself to be alone. After she lit her cigarette she took one big sip and placed her free arm in her pocket, when she heard her key jingling. Its time to meet her room. She walked through the long corridor with the high roof and the candles on each side, that gave some light to the old building. After a while she found her door with the number 202 on it. She placed the key in the keyhole and turned it to the left.
She was amazed by the beauty of her room, it fitted precicely her tastes. Old fashioned, with wooden surfaces and floor and a wonderful wooden bookcase. She soon noticed the open window. She got curious at first, and then cautious. Looking around, she looked for the intruder, soon to realise a black cat behind the bed. Ruby got closer, and stroked her head.
"Where did you come from? You must be someone's, you're too clean to be a stray cat." She lifted the cat and sat on the bed, having the cat on her legs, she kept stroking her, and sang her a song, quietly.

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@AlicePleasanceLiddell Slieb the shapeshifter sat contently on the lap of the girl. She decided to stay in the role of a cat to prevent any problems. If the girl puts her down she will leave but for now she is more than content. She purrs quietly.

[AlicePleasanceLiddell]

~Ruby~

Ruby felt very tired. she soon rested her back on the bed ,still stroking the cat, untill se eventually fell asleep. It was a peacefull sleep, with no nightmares nor dream intruders. She had left the window open though, and the cold breeze didn't fail to chill her skin.

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Slieb hearing her asleep carefully exited from her grip and jumped out the window running along the ornate window sills getting back to her open dorm window where he changed into a human form and he closed the window then laid down in bed for the night. Silently purring in his sleep, a side effect of him being in cat form for too long.

(Cue everybody starting to fall asleep/be in there dorms. If you don't go soon I will assume you are there and continue to the next day.)

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The school fell into a quiet as people started to sleep. Sighing in relief of the numbers that had arrived the Headteacher laid down in bed and closed his eyes, the world falling away.

MORNING

Some people wake up early, others lay in but for all the students it would be an exciting day. The day where they pick which type of magic they would like to dabble their hands in. When the students wake up they will find their door locked and in front of it a table with a piece of paper and a pen on it. On the paper there was each school that teaches in the school next to a tickbox above a description of the schools which also contains an essence of the energy of the school to give a deeper feel of it. When they tick a box the paper, pen and table will disappear and the door will unlock.

[Alina13]

Savannah rubbed her eyes and laid in her half way made bed for a little while before deciding to get up. As she looked around the room, everything seemed normal; well at least as normal as it could be. Then she gazed upon the table randomly placed in front of her door in confusion. Did she put that there to prevent people from possibly breaking in? No, she is too trusting for that. As her tired eyes fell upon the paper, she saw boxes to check.
"Boxes. Always boxes to check," she muttered with annoyance.
Her being the only smart individual in her high school class, she had gotten used to checking boxes no one else had to check. Between financial aid for college, extracurricular activities and scholarships, she had checked enough boxes to put the post office delivery to shame. As she looked at her options, she saw her school. Diviner. This school had always piqued her interest and she was so glad she had gotten accepted. As she checked the box she belonged in, the table, pen and paper disappeared and she heard the tumblers turn and the click of the lock as her door slowly opened. She had not gotten dressed yet so she closed it with satisfaction knowing that she would soon open it again and walk out towards her new school.

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

Bobby slowly opened his eyes as his body went through its morning boot-up process. For a moment he didn't know where he was, but that was all right. He never really did. He sat up in his small bed and looked around the room, the memory of yesterday seeping into his mind.

Magic School, it reminded him. He reached over onto the little side table and picked up the key he'd gotten after the initial tour and looking at it. That thing had done exactly what the professor something-or-other had said it would do. It brought him here. To this room. He'd really tested it last night, going on a long walk about while waiting for that one guy to quit yelling. A real wander like when he was a little kid. This key though? It brought him right back to this room. If he had this he would never be lost. If everyone had this no one would ever be lost.

Magic had lead him back here.

Magic had lead him to a good school like his parent dreamed for him.

Magic. Convenient.

He got up and tucked the key into his pocket before the new thing in the room caught his attention. He looked down the list of options on the table, one in particular catching his eye. Myth. Power of imagination and all that. Power of the mind. A class about remembering things? How much better would it be, he thought, if he could better remember things. If this class going to force that he may as well take it.

School was about getting better at things, wasn't it?

He checked the box and suddenly, where there had been a desk and everything, there wasn't anymore. He looked down at his hand as the tumbled in the doors lock, disappointed. "I don't get to keep the pen?" he asked aloud. Then he shrugged and stepped outside.

[AlicePleasanceLiddell]

~Ruby and Adam~

Ruby was asleep on her bed, at the position she was when she layed with the cat. She found her body cold when she woke up, as the window was still open. She opened her eyes slowly and and blinked two or three times. She normally would curl her body under the blanket, but the excitement of the new place wouldn't let her.
She stood up and closed the window, rubbing her arms as she made her way to the bathroom. She brushed her teeth and tied her hair with a beautiful burgund red long ribbon. Heading to the door she stumbled on the small table with the pen and the paper on. After reading all the titles, stumbling on some for she liked many, she ticked the elementals field. Before she would change her mind the new things vanished before her, and the door knob turned to the right, as a clinging sound echoed.

Adam woke up while it was too early. Before opening his eyes he reached his hand out to find his cigarettes. As his hand travelled on the bedsheets it stumbled on something else. He opened his eyes instictively just to find the same wooden table with the pen and paper. He looked at it briefly and then took a cigarette that he put in his mouth, and lit it right after. Taking a big sip first, and letting the smoke come out in rings right after, he gave himself a minute to wake up and breath in all the nicotin that his body was lacking during his night sleep. He then proceeded in reading the paper. He needn't much time though. He quickly ticked the "Adept" box and just like it happened with everyone else, the table vanished, along with the piece of paper and pen. Adam wore his pants and put on his shirt, without bothering to button it and he went off, to find some breakfast or something.
Getting out of the door he saw Ruby walking by.
"Morning sunshine." He said in a rather moody tone with a raspy voice since he had just woke up, and hugged her playfully.
"Your bare chest is not the first thing people would like to see when they wake up." Ruby said and hugged him back. "Where to?"
Adam scratched his head and took another sip of his cigarette. "I don't know. The Zoo?"
Ruby punched him on the arm playfully. "How about some breakfast?"
"Breakfast it is then!" He added with a pinch of joy. "So, it's guessing time Ruby girl. Adept? Life Mage?"
Ruby smirked. "Elementals. You should know that."
He snapped his fingers and grinned. "Damn! You got me."
She gave him a little smile, still looking forward. "Adept, Beast Speaker."
"That's called cheating. You should've been an oracle or something."

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

The first a foremost thing on Bobby's mind as he wandered out of the dorm area was breakfast, and whether or not he would be able to find it. Or pay for it. On the first day it had been complimentary but maybe that was just a first day deal. He had a couple hundred dollar of spending money in his wallet, an allowance in case of emergencies, but magic food would be more expensive wouldn't it? Or would it be less? They'd taken the pen back, so maybe this place was run by cheapskates.

As he took a step out of the dorm complex his attention was torn away from his hunger situation to a cloak hanging in midair, a light breeze rustling the fabric. That reminded him: he didn't have any other clothes. Everything was still packed in his suitcase back at the hotel. He stopped to think about this as the garment floated there. Maybe he could have mom and dad send it over? He could call on his cell, but he didn't want to waste the minutes or power on something that wasn't urgent. He looked back at the cloak. "Do you know where I could find a phone?"

Suddenly information flooded into his mind, pushing past the conscious and into the subconscious. He knew now, on some deep instinctual level, where he was expected to be right now and most expedient way to get there. It felt weird, like when he's been drawn here in the first. He shook his head to get the weirdness off. "Professor Smith. Thanks."

With a wave to the cloak he set off to meet his teacher and, mayhap, find a land line.

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PERIOD 1 STARTS!
The professors who had been preparing since early in the morning finished any last minute arrangements for their new students. Some had sent their older students to study whilst others had kept them in to help them.
The new students started arriving...

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

There was a lot of people moving around. A lot of people moving around with purpose? He wondered why they'd decided to come here. Follow the direction in their heads to come to this place. There were more than a few that looked super foreign, who must have had come an awfully long way. It seemed strange, to him, for any ordinary person to travel so far for a feeling in your head.

He'd done it too of course, but he'd follow the directions of any random sign, pointed arrow, or interesting rock formation. They didn't have an excuse.

It was while thinking on this that he stumbled upon where he needed to be.

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As the boy (@Gentlemanvaultboy) walks up to the school he will find about 39 others joining him. All of them approaching the same bright orange building that looked like a medieval castle with gargoyle statues lining the roof, writing flowing around the stone and two minotaur statues either side of the entrance. Yet they seemed more real than statues. Almost as if they were breathing. When the first student got within 5 steps of the building the foors opened revealing a brightly lit corridor leading to 'Grand Hall' sort of area with individual desks either side of the main table and a man with a rather long nose and disdainful look apon his face ar the far end sitting behind a desk in Yellow robes.

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

Bobby, by dint of having nothing better to do this morning than set out, was among the first to approach the large orange building. He was possibly also the only one that didn't stop, or hesitate just a bit, when the door began to open. After all, automatic doors were just convenient. They had those at the supermarket, why wouldn't they be at a fancy place like this? For whatever reason, the boy who was usually last to arrive at anything was the one leading the pack.

His immediate concern once he entered was weather or not there was assigned seating. He looked around the room to see whether there were little cards with names on the desks like they'd done in elementary school. Seeing none, and thus having no direction whatsoever, he went to find a desk on the right side because that was closest.

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@GentlemanvaultboyThe professor sniffed with approval of the boys seating. After all in his classroom it was boys on the right and girls on the left. Everyone should know that in his opinion. If one sat on the wrong side he was tempted to leave them there and count them as that gender but decided against it. Instead a massive cyclops would a appear out of nowhere and carry the pupil to the right side. The school year hadnt REALLY started for them this year (next day it does) but he wanted them to learn quickly. Hed sent Demetrius away to study some books of names for the day. He sat there in silence analysing the class with a certain look of disgust on his face.

[Zeeb Blade]

"Get away! Stop Whispering at me!" I yell, swinging my walking staff around at what can only be described as ghosts or spirits.

[Alina13]

After making sure she was dressed appropriately for the slightly chilly weather outside, Savannah made her way around the hallways confusedly. When she finally found a door the led to outside, she saw a few other people walking around outside. She was thankful that they looked just as confused as she was. She didn't really know where to go and that made her worry. She had always had a very good sense of direction but this environment was so unfamiliar. She had never even seen the kinds of trees that were around here.
Well now what? Savannah thought. She saw a bench off to the side underneath a tree that she decided to take a seat under. She loved to people watch. People do the weirdest things when they think people aren't looking. She saw one group of younger kids doing summersaults in the grass and when they bumped heads they fell back and laughed. They looked so happy. She hoped she could be that happy one day.
Suddenly, she saw a black figure come into view from a distance away. Her eyesight had never been very good but she knew one thing for sure. Whatever this was floating towards her, didn't have legs.
Someone mastered their levitating powers already? Whoever that is must be too good for this place. . .
The thing got closer to her. But no matter how close it got, she couldn't tell what it was. It stopped in front of her and then turned around to go back the way it came. She had come across weirder things in her lifetime. So she decided to follow it.

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@Alina13The apparition took her to a building that looked like a giant temple, or was it a lab or a library? Nobody could tell as it seemed to keep changing. A smiling man flew open the door and shouted to the students "WELCOME TO THE SCHOOL OF DIVINTION! COME IN! COME IN! LET THE KNOWLEDGE SWEEP YOU AWAY!" As he said this the students may of noticed that his head seemed to be surrounded by a semi see through shape of a long necked bird. The professor suddenly vanished and the halls were open for anyone to come and go from the school and wherever in the school. It contained libraries, labs, halls and more!

[Alina13]

Savannah decided to wander. She had found over the years that purposely getting yourself lost when you're in a new area works very well. If she wanted to know her way around this place, she would need to get herself good and lost. She started wandering up and down random hallways that she didn't know where they went and exiting through random doors that led to more hallways and eventually she was so lost that she couldn't even make her way back to where she came. She stumbled upon a locked computer lab and found herself wanting to use her earring to pick the lock and investigate.
Don't get yourself expelled on the first day. . . Savannah thought. She had always been a computer nerd. Whenever any of the computers at her school would shut down or malfunction the teachers would call her out of class to come fix them. Looking through the window, she saw the computers were state of the art, smart screens and the most shiny keyboards she had ever seen.
Suddenly she heard people coming down the hallway behind her. Because she wasn't sure if she was even supposed to be here, she looked around panicked for someplace to hide. She heard laughter coming closer to her. Running further down the hallway, the only place she could see to hide was behind a brick pillar sticking out from the wall. The voices stopped. She wondered who those people were. . .

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@Alina13 Ingrid was walking along the corridor going to the Ceeing room at the far end accompanied by a Magic Mirror Avatar (the mirror comes to life and looks exactly like you) who was answering questions for her. Her eyes were glowing purple as usual as the sheer energy of divination coursed through her veins (all students will end up like this soon), something glowed behind a solid stone pillar she held up her hand stopping the Avatar speaking. The thing definitely had magic, although it was pure untainted magic that seemed to be stuck inside. It also was definitely living as well. She held out her hand and words swirled around it forming a weak but still useful Blade Of Knowledge. She left the Avatar and walked silently and slowly forward and swung round at the last second into view of the person who she could now see was a human girl (or at least looked like one) and looked quite frightened. Nonetheless she raised the Blade up to the girls neck.

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

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Bobby sat in an equal amount of silence, but his was more confused. Was anything supposed to happen? Maybe everyone wasn't here yet? He stood up for a moment and angled himself to get a better look at the door. No one else seemed to be coming in. He plopped back down, then stood back up to get a second look.

Same as before. No one coming in. He sat down.

He stood again and looked round the room for a whiteboard or something. If there was something to be done it was usually on a whiteboard, or a little poster.

Nope. He sat down.

Bereft of direction he just looked at the stern man. It wasn't really a stare down, he just wanted to see if he could go longer than him without blinking.