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Iris Ascendis

Oh nice, you drew that?

Children of the Otherworld - An Isekai Story

@Archangel89 A good amount of the weebs I knew from Anime Club in university were regulars at the gym or dojos. Gotta get the right build for cosplay n all.

Children of the Otherworld - An Isekai Story

Bro should've researched how to hit the gym kekeke.

Iris Ascendis

He's just salty over not being auto-selected into the Ascendis Dorms. ;3

Iris Ascendis

Alas, he's too busy scheming about how he's going to purposefully fuck up whatever Raja wants to do with Gulliver, just to see how she would respond and what role he was going to play.

Iris Ascendis

_@Nanaya

It brought a host of questions and only a few answers, but it was a satisfying discovery all the same. He couldn't read the essence that must have flowed through the flame nor the magic that scarred Gulliver through the recording, but that just gave him more reason to ask the gnome himself. He already understood that Gulliver was exceptional, possessing an Ethos that seemed uniquely valuable to the faculty at Wingram, and he had a sense that his twin was more of a homunculus or a construct. Now, however, with the transcription he had of Raja and the gnome's conversation?

March 8th. Avoid rebound, or damage will be dealt to the prime essence. He was a necessary part of their plan, whatever that may be. And it was a plan with a short enough deadline for them to be concerned. And then there was that incantation. Invoke Corda. Ethos? Or a spell that he had yet to discover himself? Otis glanced down at the paper, at his sketch of the runes that had been engraved upon Gulliver's body. Arcane magic utilized runes as well, but this, mayhaps, was rooted more in primal or occult-ish disciplines, branding with searing flame the symbols and patterns of dead languages and cultures. So many things to puzzle out, and that wasn't even accounting for the truth behind the Foreteller too.

March 8th though. Just a week. If Otis were Raja, if Gulliver avoiding rebound was the most important thing, he would go and simply imprison that narcissist for the duration of the week. Call it a punishment for going out of bounds during the entrance examination. And if she deposited him into the Iris Record, well, that would mean there would be no legal way for Otis to encounter him either. Which was a shame. He would take extralegal methods then, in order to sate his curiousity. What would happen indeed, if rebound was triggered? If the prime essence was damaged? He chewed on his thoughts as he chewed on another block of dried meat.

It shouldn't be hard to provoke the Gulliver he knew. It would simply be a matter of first locating his fellow classmate, and second avoiding interference from the Principal herself.

Amber eyes glowed in amber light. There was a squirming little worm of a thought in his mind, wondering whether or not he really ought to pursue such a path. But a worm was a worm, and he swallowed that thought up without hesitation. There was something else that Wingram Academy desired, something else that the Principal desired. Something that she was hiding from the students. Something that she was hiding from him. Perhaps she would eventually speak of it, perhaps it would be kinder of him to simply ask about it. But it was the Principal who started with subterfuge, with alleyway portals and policies that encouraged division and conflict. Did she truly think that she was the exception to the Golden Rule?

She was not.

The door creaked open. Davil emerged, returning well into the night, his own blabbering charming with regards to the speed of delivery. "I was studying," he replied, head twisting 180 degrees from his desk in order to look at his roommate head-on. "Hale's character is designed to be divisive though. Removed from the words he says and the expressions he makes, his actions make him an exemplar of sportsmanship. The mismatch, the gap, if you will, is simply what he constructs for the purposes of getting eyes on himself, and no other. And also, remember. Your Ethos is mine for study, starting from tomorrow."

Well, the snoring indicated that Davil didn't catch that last part, but that was fine. Otis would just wake him up in the morning, and they can get the first round of testing done before breakfast was available.

Iris Ascendis

An essence with the concept of 'calm', slowly but surely overtaking the entire room

*Otis, underneath the bed, pushing his agenda*

Children of the Otherworld - An Isekai Story

Pray for the weekend, one must.

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

@ZerothEyo, planning on doing a buncha things that'll probably still be dependent on what the harpy does while Esfir's doing those things. Wanna do a collab? Or would it work out if I just PM you things piecemeal?

Expedition to Isekai

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//Night 1 | Location: Nameless Forest - Lakeside
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As the Awakened students said their own individual pieces, most of the others’ attention was naturally drawn towards the near-manic ramblings that Ayana was spewing out. It must be the general insanity of their situation though, that prevented anyone from simply dismissing what she had to say. After all, there were three people who could attest to Asahi’s healing powers, and almost everyone had seen the projected lines coming out from Rin’s fingertips, slicing through trees as if they were paper. At this point, everyone knew that literal magical powers were becoming a reality, and everyone similarly had different opinions on their usage.

Maki, freshly restored and feeling just a slight bit vengeful towards the monsters, clenched her fist, smacking it against her knee as she sat cross-legged before the smouldering firepit. “Shun’s the only one making sense here,” she said, nodding towards the scooter-girl. “Solves all our problems, right? We get more meat, more weapons, and make the area around us safer too. Reduces the emergencies!”

“It isn’t something we can all do though.” Hana responded, affixing her neutral gaze upon Maki. “These monsters hunt in groups, but we can’t split up like they can.”

“Which is why we need proper weapons! I could get the drop on them, at least the normal-sized ones! And, Kunio, you did that thing, right?” Maki gesticulated, energetically stabbing at an invisible monster. “With more of them, we can all do that!”

Kunio shrugged. Then, in a typically unashamed tone, he said, “No you can’t. That’s just me.”

Which was fair enough, but was the spark that would’ve ignited a wholly pointless argument, if Daisuke didn’t set a heavy hand on Maki’s head. “Alright, moving on here!” His voice carried well enough. “More than one person on night watch sounds good, but I’m going to be honest here: not all of us are gonna be all that good for watching things at night. I’d say doing it in pairs or threes should be enough, yeah? Just need people facing opposite directions. The rest of us can just rest up better and work harder in the morning.”

“I can cover the first watch,” Sohei volunteered. “With Rin.”

“Oh,” Ayano grinned. Boys were so cute when they were obvious with it. “Well, I’m not doing it at all, especially not tonight. Didn’t get a wink of sleep last night, and there’s no way I’m going to do that again!”

Haruko shook her head. She got along well enough with Ayano, but the girl could really be self-centered at the most inappropriate times. “I can help with the second watch with Duncan then.”

Ayano’s grin grew wider. “Ah, the moon hasn’t even risen yet! Make sure yo-”

“Back on track,” Hiroshi drawled, clapping his hands together. “Asahi brought up a good point. We need to get our bearings properly. Obviously, it’s important to get an idea of other resources nearby, and I don’t think it’d be too hard for our stronger classmates to climb up on one of the trees, but we do need a higher vantage point than that. Think about it. This is another world, but whose to say that there aren’t other people in this world?” His teeth flashed, a flicker of mania. “Whose to say there isn’t civilization?”

“The mountain,” Juro pointed, towards the landmark whose jagged peaks scraped the heavens. But his voice was quiet and even, compared to Rin, who was also even-voiced but definitely not quiet, as she said, “I can build a catapult. We can launch Shun up.”

“Uh…” Kumi raised her hand, feeling a bit sheepish. “Sorry about talking about food again, ehehehe…but Kogen went off today and did some hunting himself. I think that if it’s just, uh, the special students here, maybe just one or two or three of them could go out and do that monster fighting thing?”

“Are we even sure that the monsters will come back?” Mayumi spoke up. “There’s an argument for their intelligence, so now that we’ve proven that we could harm them without them…” She paused, catching Tsubasa’s warning glance. “…well, basically, what I’m saying is that if they’re hunters, we’ve proven that we’re more trouble that we’re worth. We, what, killed four of their pack?”

Sasuke, ever so serene, brought up the counterpoint. “Injury inspires retaliation, even when such injury was a consequence of their offence.”

The pale-skinned treasurer raised a brow. “You think they’re that intelligent? That they become stupid again?”

“We’ve been calling them monsters the entire time. Why treat them like animals?”

Hiroshi’s mouth opened, a silent ‘yo damnnnn’ flashing over his perpetually shit-stirring expression.

Gradually the rest of the students began discussing amongst themselves as well, going over the points for and against any of the proposals that were brought up. The hubbub continued for a good while, never reaching the fever-pitch of thrown hands and hysteric voices, but still, there was an elephant remaining that none of them were addressing.

“Fine, fine,” Akito sneered. “I’ll be the asshole.”

His eyes turned towards Ayana.

“Right, dunno what your damage is here, but this cultist shit is real fucking weird. We’re all in the same boat here, so if you know what’s safe and all, Ayana? Just tell us. I’ll ‘embrace the truth’ once its actuall proven to be a real thing. Got it?”