Reed nods at the boy, "I see that you too seek to end the needless bloodshed."
Ace arches an eyebrow at the minotaur "Not sure who ya are, but I can talk the talk, cuz I can also walk the walk. Love me or hate me, I am the best thing going today"
Umbri winks back and looks Ace in the eye. "those who claim the right of perfection, would logically have little room to continue their own growth, so their wisdom is best dedicated to helping others discover the personal talents required to reach a similar milestone." "once you have learned beyond what others can teach, it is time for you to teach others." the nymph quoted. "i know i am not as perfect as you claim yourself to be, so i wouldn't wish for a pointless fight, but for you to spread your great wisdom."
"Here's a copy of your schedule. When you want to find your room touch the walls of the school and think about where you want to go and the arrows light up to show you the way. Don't feel bad about using the direction magic. The school tends to rearrange itself periodically. We all have to use the arrows."
Anahita nods, looking at the walls while taking the schedule from Ori. "Many thanks, Professor." She says using the title overheard for Ori.
She pockets her paper after briefly surveying it, then looks around watching people as they wander by or organize themselves.
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"I once knew an Elf like you...he was eaten by a dragon, the village mouned him, once they got done laughing."
Ace flashes his most winning grin at Umbri "Hey, I might be the best, but that doesn't mean I can't keep growing and learning. When one ceases to learn, one might as well give up living. I play to live a long, long time."
Ace turns his attention back to Reed "A dragon you say? I've slain a few of those in my time. Pretty hard kills, but when you can do pretty much everything, not even a mighty wyrm is much of a challenge, when all is said and done"
"He said the same as he headed to fight it bare handed with no protection."
Anahita then peers over at Starlight saying in Sylen, "Greeting Mistress Fey, a pleasure to meet one of the Dream." She smiles brightly, apparently happy at the sight of something she is familiar with.
"Why are you here, curiously? Surely you are better off chasing or playing with the dreams of mortals, aren't you? Or are you here to do just that?"
"true, but without a sufficiently challenging obstacle, the best will have stagnated his growth." Umbri answered. "so to continue learning, one must eventually learn to teach others, so that they may one day, learn a valuable lesson from those they taught."
Ace chuckles "I said I was the best, not stupid. I would never go into a fight, versus a dragon or a horde of goblins, unarmed. Why else do you think I always carry my trusty staff?"
"Ok really that is enough I'm not wearing my boots today and it's getting on my shoes."
Reed drew his head back and rammed it into the other boy's face. "When you learn your place you will find peace."
"i too am here to learn. the only dragons i have heard tales of, were ones from prepackaged handheld simulations from my own homeworld, not that i have personally touched these portable simulations, but people are bound to frequently possess them." Rin brought up. "but the dragons in those simulations are beings of great power who deserve great respect due to the havoc they wreak."
Anahita waves an animated greeting to Reed Plainsong, saying quickly, "Reed! I have courses and am an official student! What of yourself, my large fellow student?"
She looks over at the testosterone filled comments, in her opinion by the Ace fellow, then nods at Umbriere and the young musician's comments.
"I believe everyone here speaks plainly, such attitude is most likely unnecessary in a place of equality and learning that this school of wonders affords us. Are you here to learn some humility, or do you not feel it necessary?"
She then looks mortified at Reed's assault saying, "Reed, what are you doing!?"
'Wow wow wow! Big guy. What are you doing didn't you spark this up to try and stop the blood shed." Dom Jumps in the middle of the two. "This is a school guys. This is not a place to talk with your fists or heads in your case." Glancing toward the minotaur. "Just calm yourselves."
"He needed to learn humiliation."
"If not for yourselves, for this institute at least." She adds, trying to help out Dom's effort, then quickly says to Reed, "That is not your duty as a student, is it?" A part of voice does sound just a hint curious.
Reed nodded a little, "I must admit, my anger did best me that time."
"the word isn't humiliation, but humility. a defeat in combat won't stifle his seemingly excessive confidence whatsoever. it will only get both of you in trouble. how about we all calm down and discuss this matter civilly with a pot of warm Earl Grey?" Umbri offered.
"Depends on the manner in which the leaves were harvested."
"You know what I think? I think this is a job for a teacher....now which one should I get? My Dad and my sister are right over there....or better yet I could get Professor Aananda....or Professor Ryleh. And you can explain to them just how awesome you are Ace. From detention. Do not ever, ever talk about my family like they're monsters to be slain just to show off how 'cool' you are," she snapped, in a rare fit of temper. "And you," she said, whirling on Reed, "should walk away before you end up in detention too. You're lucky that the wards didn't register that as an attack or you'd already be there."
"That sounds like a great idea. Lets go have a calming drink. So this doesn't go any further." Dom slips his way out from between the two. He steps back over to the table he happen getting his schedule at. "Thank you from the help Miss Sunwake. Hope to meet you again."
He stepped toward the other girl. "I'll take you up on your offer."
"That sounds like a great idea. Lets go have a calming drink. So this doesn't go any further." Dom slips his way out from between the two. He steps back over to the table he happen getting his schedule at. "Thank you from the help Miss Sunwake. Hope to meet you again."
"No problem," she said, eyeing the situation with the group he had just walked away from warily. "Hey, what's going on over there anyways?"
"well, i don't know the exact manner in which the leaves were harvested, but according to the container, there were no pesticides used in the raising of the plants, and they were raised by actual traditional tea farmers, and not by modern science." Umbri told Reed as she followed him, Dom and Raelle
"Ah, so, shall we go?"
Ace easily side steps the brutish minotaur. "I'll ya an 'A' for effort there big guy, but you need to be a bit better than that"
Looking over to Raelle he says "Wow, so talking can land you in detention, but attacking a fellow student can not? That's pretty messed up. And who said I was talking about your family? Unless you are related to all dragons, everywhere?? Ya see, where I am from, the dragons, they are nasty, evil, cruel creatures, who prey on those weaker than them. Which is generally everybody. I would really like to think that you aren't related to such vile, horrid creatures."
"That sounds like a great idea. Lets go have a calming drink. So this doesn't go any further." Dom slips his way out from between the two. He steps back over to the table he happen getting his schedule at. "Thank you from the help Miss Sunwake. Hope to meet you again.""No problem," she said, eyeing the situation with the group he had just walked away from warily. "Hey, what's going on over there anyways?"
"Just a couple of hot heads that are needing to cool off. I would rather not say anymore. Again thanks for the help." Picking up his schedule he walks away to join the other students.
The sixteen foot tall minotaur smiled a little, "Lead the way."
Umbri drags Rin and encourages the sylph to follow Dom with her. "i'm not much of a combatant. but there was a fairly heated debate that looked like it may become another unnecessary duel." Umbri told professor Sunwake with a curtsey. "i tried to help another break up an aggressive arguement, which lead to one of the parties involved getting angry at the party i assisted with the act of attempting to stop the argument, which lead to another heated debate, which may soon lead to violence if it already hasn't."
"Ummmm....." "Ace is Scary." Rin responded as Umbri dragged her.
"The young man over there with the overinflated ego is the one who started it," the minotaur said, gesturing to Ace.
Morrivan put an arm around Raelle's shoulders. "Don't. Just don't. He's not worth it. Come on, I think maybe we should just go outside for some fresh air for a few minutes."
Fieri started to walk towards the other group and then stopped as Morrivan walked past her with Raelle in tow.
"Don't. I mean, really, don't, Fieri. Send another professor to deal with it...ummm...the minotaur is probably owed detention too for headbutting another student. He didn't actually hurt him so maybe that's why the wards didn't kick in. But the source of the original argument....yeah, just send another prof preferably who isn't related."
"That bad?"
"No, never mind. You're right. It's better if I don't know. It's not even one of my students. Thanks."
She glared at the minotaur. "No matter the provocation, violence towards other students is not tolerated here. You get a warning this time since you haven't been here long enough to learn the rules. It happens again you'll be in detention before you can blink."
It still felt weird scolding a student, especially one so close in age to her. She flagged down Miss Jones who had just entered the hall and pointed out the group that needed some intervention before going back to working the registration table.
Reed nodded, "It wasn't meant as a strike to harm, more to humiliate, as in Minotaur culture."
Anahita, seeing the conversation between the fellow Ace, and others, plus being ignored after her attempts at wisdom, heads off walking the halls looking about to see who was free, while exploring the school grounds.
>> She said that it reconfigured from time to time.. amazing. Where is this magical place, really? Is it even magical, or something more? I feel compelled to learn more of it. <<
She will wander around, trying to find someone to sit and speak with if they seem free.
Ace turns his attention back to Reed "A dragon you say? I've slain a few of those in my time. Pretty hard kills, but when you can do pretty much everything, not even a mighty wyrm is much of a challenge, when all is said and done"
Starlights pops into being next to ace in the air,
"Ok its really impotent Ace, don't says any thing about Killing Dragons ok, someone, I don't know will say something about Dragons, just trust me"
She smiles then looks around at the faces now looking at her,
"I'm to late arnt I, rats always get the timing wrong"
Anahita walks over to the wall after seeing the majority of people find their way, and gently touches it once with no thought in mind.
Then, she goes through various touches watching the arrows do their job, pointing to and fro.
Eventually, with a playful smile, she attempts a few other touches with what appears light grins, to see no arrows appearing.
With a chuckle at the end of her exploring the mysterious arrows, she follows these to her room.
She views the contents of the room, considers her options and gets somewhat familiar with it's layout and design.
Eventually, however, she leaves it-- touching the nearby wall, and following the arrows along towards the main garden (if such exists).
Walking out into the garden, she finds a quiet spot where she can take a few moments, kneels down and seems to relax, taking in the surroundings in a sort of meditation.
Standing all of her 18' tall Rosa the Imperial Draconic war Android had just displaced in from the SIM Detentions after Rosa's link had pinged, A screen had popped up in the sim, showing the small fracas just after ornamentation meet and greet. With no wards going off she could let it be, but she felt she best pop over and have a little Chat with a student that seem to have far more testosterone than most of the males now head butting on day one, in fact that was doing just that from the image,
I best have a word
Now in the Room Rosa stepped more than walked over the throng, Her voice booms out
She stops and stands by a wall and points to just in front of her, When he comes over, in a lower tone so only Rosa and he can hear, she says to him.
"You will wait here for Miss Jones, just think yourself luck she is in charge of Student Discipline today, when she sees you just pray, she dos not send you to my detention, because I like nothing better than dropping overly aggressive students into a SIM full of blink dogs, advanced hell hounds and hard as they come undead wolfs to see just how fast they can run. do I make myself clear."
At any sign he understands, she will say,
"Good, By the way, I am your PE Teacher, we will be seeing a lot more of each other, keep that fight in you for then ok."
with that she she straitens up and then Displaces back to her SIM, and the two poor students currently there in detention.
Ace laughs at the commentary "Oh please. David is about as much competition for me as a frightened deer is to a skilled hunter. I just find it amusing that he feels it necessary to take several more classes than the rest of us new students, like he's trying to make up for lacking elsewhere."
"there's just so much to learn here, I am constantly seeking to better myself, one thing my mentor always drilled into me before his passing is the importance of continual process improvement, and that no matter how good you are there was always someone better, and so I take the extra classes because of that and because with Skeets I can be in two places at once"
"Do not ever, ever talk about my family like they're monsters to be slain just to show off how 'cool' you are,"
"well, i'm flat as a pancake and scrawny as a twig, and i don't care about it." Umbri answered with a smirk. "if a small framed female such as myself can ignore any desires for compensation, i think David can also accept and ignore his own lacking." "instead of trying to collide with my small frame, i embraced it, accepted it, and augmented it's doll-like cuteness aspect. creating my own form of physical beauty." the nymph continued. "and Ace, instead of indulging in David's one sided rivalry, why don't you help him embrace his own strengths as a mentor figure of sorts? help him to grow into the best he can become. since you are so 'perfect'"
"I don't do everything in a rivalry here, don;t decide for me what my motivation is, I challenge ace because he is stronger than me physically, and one learns more from defeat than they ever will from victory, iron sharpens iron just as one man sharpens another"
Ace easily side steps the brutish minotaur. "I'll ya an 'A' for effort there big guy, but you need to be a bit better than that"
Looking over to Raelle he says "Wow, so talking can land you in detention, but attacking a fellow student can not? That's pretty messed up. And who said I was talking about your family? Unless you are related to all dragons, everywhere?? Ya see, where I am from, the dragons, they are nasty, evil, cruel creatures, who prey on those weaker than them. Which is generally everybody. I would really like to think that you aren't related to such vile, horrid creatures."
"watch it, this isn't where you are from, back on Toril there are many worship dragons, but and wherever backwater waste you come from they are seen as beasts, I myself am one 8th dragon, an Ice linnorm to be specific on my father's side"
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