"Damn it!! I can't get the door unlocked." Asch says as he manages to break one of the anchors of his lockpicks.
"Damn it!! I can't get the door unlocked." Asch says as he manages to break one of the anchors of his lockpicks.
"And they've lined the wall with lead so I can't just go through it. So how do we get in? Maybe we can break down the door?"
"Hey, Teach, who's the new kid?" Ta'Su asks as he skates up the wall to avoid a boulder. "He looks like he's about to pass out."
Asch attempts to form with the surrounding shadows and slip through the door.
"Allow me to test it."
Solivala slams the door with his fist.
"Oh, that's Michael Dacamara. He's a first year. He'll be fine. He's been getting into fights lately, so I insisted he switch to this class so he could at least learn how."
"Ha! Throwing him the deep end of the pool to teach him how to swim, eh?" Ta'Su laughs. "You should have thrown in a Hunt!"
"Oh, that's Michael Dacamara. He's a first year. He'll be fine. He's been getting into fights lately, so I insisted he switch to this class so he could at least learn how."
"Ha! Throwing him the deep end of the pool to teach him how to swim, eh?" Ta'Su laughs. "You should have thrown in a Hunt!"
"Don't think I didn't consider it," she chuckled. "Besides, he's doing pretty well. We're three whole minutes in and he doesn't have any broken bones yet."
"His own or others?"
With another laugh, Ta'Su ducks under another boulder and takes off across the room.
"The door is made of adamantine."
He cast a spell, his body turns into gas as he worms his way thru the door.
Asch attempts to form with the surrounding shadows and slip through the door.
"I'm afraid if I stop I'm going to collapse!" Michael tells Kitty. Turning in a vain search for a safe place to hide, he sees a boulder filling most of his field of vision. Two years of running from bullies made his instinct take over. He grabs a hold of Kitty's hand and pulls her out of the way as he jumps, nudging the boulder the other way.
"This is worse than some of the bullies." He gasps, forgetting for a moment to let go of Kitty's hand. When he realizes he's still holding it, he's glad his face is already red from all the "not-dying" and he let's go.
"I suppose this is not the time to mention that it gets worse when the floor starts moving?"
"Oh goody, vertigo!" He says with exaggerated and completely sarcastic joy. "At least I've got a warning. Thanks Kitty." He says as the floor starts to lurch.
At first the floor moves gently, like waves, but then columns start shooting up at unpredictable intervals and other parts of the floor crack leaving wide chasms that open and close, although they never close on a student if someone falls in.
"Okay, all the rumors were true." Michael thinks as he's forced to jump to a pillar rising up next to his. He misjudges the distance and ends up hanging off the side and trying to claw his way onto the pillar. He growls, gritting his teeth as Ta'Su appears at the top and grins at him before getting back on the move.
"Okay, all the rumors were true." Michael thinks as he's forced to jump to a pillar rising up next to his. He misjudges the distance and ends up hanging off the side and trying to claw his way onto the pillar.
"I'm not going to want extra credit." He wheezes as he looks for Kitty and jumps down in order to make his way to her, dodging boulders that come close enough to tug on his shirt as they pass.
Kitty meanwhile had gotten separated from Michael by a chasm and had been trying to make her way back to him. It was hard to keep track of her movements because half the time it seemed like she wasn't even there.
"So that's how she can be so calm about this class. Boulders can't get aimed at her if she can't been seen!" Michael thinks as he skids to a stop just as a chasm opens up in front of him.
"Careful!" He hears a moment before he's pushed into the chasm. He twists in mid-fall to shout something, but see a boulder fly overhead. Whoever pushed him just saved him an urgent trip to the infirmary.
It almost felt like a blessing that the chasm was too deep for him to climb out of.
"This is the first time being a few inches shorter ever helped me."
Michael sighs.
"It's safer in here though." He says as he grabs her hand and scrambles up out of the chasm. "Are there going to be anymore surprises, like columns shooting out of the walls or spikes falling from the ceiling?"
Once Solivala reforms on the other side he opens the door for the others. While sending a pair of orbs to grab the item.
"Can we be on our way now."
The logistics of schedule changing, while normally handled quite efficiently by the adminstrative office, had a bit of a hiccup with Fei.
The rather abundant adjustments made to the school schedules - and parts of the school itself - by the new construct mage student caused more than a few emergency meetings to stay caught up with what was going on...and Fei's reassignment took almost two weeks to get cleared as a result. Coupled with the large influx of supplies and raw materials to be sorted, the young martial artist almost had no time for his classes.
Things have finally settled back down and sorted themselves out, and Fei has at last made it to his first Advanced Physical Education class. He does his best to avoid the boulders careening across the gymnasium while navigating the constantly changing ground under his feet.
He knows he has to avoid contact with the massive rocks for as long as possible....at least until his tutoring session later in the afternoon with Professor Sunwake, when they will start working on his 'problem talent'.
Turns ethereal
"Wait for me! Oh, here Ephebe"
Casts gaseous form on Ephebe
She blinked.
"She blinked. Is that a good sign?" Michael wonders.
"How did you know? Yeah, um, Aananda-sensei likes to keep us on our toes. Kind of on the theory that if you can handle this you can handle anything. Watch out!" she said, shoving him out of the way of a boulder as the spot she was standing on suddenly shot upwards. She flattened herself against the stone and just barely missed being squashed flat against the ceiling. She rolled off the pillar and landed near Michael again. "It's not so bad once you've practiced a bit," she added, starting to sound just a little out of breath.
"It's amazing how little the fact that you are only just now starting to breath a little harder inspires confidence in my own ability in dodging two-ton rocks, sporadic pillars, columns shooting from the walls, and spikes." Michael says with a slight grin. Then his eyes go wide. "I must be going crazy. I'm starting to think this is fun!"
"It's amazing how little the fact that you are only just now starting to breath a little harder inspires confidence in my own ability in dodging two-ton rocks, sporadic pillars, columns shooting from the walls, and spikes." Michael says with a slight grin. Then his eyes go wide. "I must be going crazy. I'm starting to think this is fun!"
Kitty giggled as she pulled him out of the way of a column of rock coming out from the wall and ducked another boulder.
"It is fun! This is my favorite class of the whole day. The teacher even remembers me some of the time."
Within a crystal case in the center of the room sits a ruby the size of a fist beautifully carved into the shape of a heart. It is attached to a thick gold byzantine chain. Light sparkles off of it continuously even when there is no light present. As the orbs reach for the case there is an ominous clanking sound as two large adamantine golems stand and prepare to defend the treasure.
Solivala eyes one golem.
"Destroy him."
He motions towards the other golem. Then sends the orbs to look over the case.
For anything having to do with the protection of the heart.
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Kitty giggled as she pulled him out of the way of a column of rock coming out from the wall and ducked another boulder.
"It is fun! This is my favorite class of the whole day. The teacher even remembers me some of the time."
"You've been making quite an impression on me so far." Michael says a split second before a column snags on his gym shirt and, with a ripping sound, spins him around and causes him to fall to the ground. "Okay, less fun now that I'm dizzy and all achy from my sudden meeting with the floor."
He scrambles back to his feet and out of the way of a falling spike, wondering just how much longer he could hold out before getting crushed, slammed, or skewered.
"You've been making quite an impression on me so far." Michael says a split second before a column snags on his gym shirt and, with a ripping sound, spins him around and causes him to fall to the ground. "Okay, less fun now that I'm dizzy and all achy from my sudden meeting with the floor."
He scrambles back to his feet and out of the way of a falling spike, wondering just how much longer he could hold out before getting crushed, slammed, or skewered.
Kitty blushes and smiles. "I'm just happy that you remembered me. Even if you forget again by tomorrow it makes me really happy that you remembered me at all." She doesn't quite dodge out of the way of a rock column coming out of the wall and gets sent tumbling.
"'S okay," she said, a little out of breath as she tried to get up and dodge the flying rocks.
"Huh. I made someone happy and didn't have to get stuck in a locker to do it. Not a bad way to start the day. I hope I can keep on not forgetting." He says as he helps her up and out of the way. "Is there any special goal to this exercise other than agility? I'm getting tired of just dodging."
"Huh. I made someone happy and didn't have to get stuck in a locker to do it. Not a bad way to start the day. I hope I can keep on not forgetting." He says as he helps her up and out of the way. "Is there any special goal to this exercise other than agility? I'm getting tired of just dodging."
She grinned. "Haven't you been watching the others? If you don't want to just dodge then find a way to destroy the rocks. I can't, but it doesn't matter. The fight goes to the one who dodges best more often than not. You just have to let your opponent tire themselves out." She spoke calmly even though she was jumping, ducking, and rolling to avoid being crushed by any of the flying rocks, rock columns, or rock spikes.
As the golems fight each other, and in this small space staying out of the way of that is no small feat, the orbs make their way towards the pedestal, which is soon covered with small chittering creatures as a swarm of something comes up from the floor and covers the entire pedestal...It looks like a lot of small lizards...
Solivala ignores the lizards considering them no threat and reaches for the item.
Asch raises both fists with his guns gripped tightly and releases a stream of bullets aiming for the swarm of lizards.
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She grinned. "Haven't you been watching the others? If you don't want to just dodge then find a way to destroy the rocks. I can't, but it doesn't matter. The fight goes to the one who dodges best more often than not. You just have to let your opponent tire themselves out." She spoke calmly even though she was jumping, ducking, and rolling to avoid being crushed by any of the flying rocks, rock columns, or rock spikes.
"I've got no way to break them though." Michael says to himself as he decides to keep dodging. It seems safer than trying to break the things flying at him. He thought about several things that could help him, but none of them seemed like they would work out.
He probably shouldn't have been thinking while trying to dodge boulders. One slammed into his arm and he felt it go numb. It didn't look like it was broken, and he was rather busy paying more attention now, so he didn't give it any further thought.