The Avalon Chronicles

Game Master lynora

Spin wrote:

As Asch steps out of the door, he hears his own voice from inside the room, "I'll probably end up here again before the days over." When he turns around, the new kid is grinning at him.

Nasima giggles at Spin's antics and leans in to whisper conspiratorially to Ephebe: ** spoiler omitted **

Whispers back.

When they arrive back at the cafeteria, the cooks look nervous as Ephebe approaches the line. They point her to a table already piled high with food and she sits down to eat....at a downright alarming rate. It quickly becomes apparent that the entire table of food was intended as a single serving just for her.

BTW, I didn't have a specific agenda at the Headmaster's - other than an introduction. If you want to roleplay it, awesome. If you want to handwaive the meeting, that works, too.

*watches Ephebe eat*
*blink blink*

"Wwwwwoooooooowwwwwww!! You weren't kidding!" 'Sima is honestly impressed. She's not sure she's ever seen that much food in one place before, much less see people eating it, much less see just one person eating it, much less see one teenage girl eating it.

Ephebe blushes.

"ummmmm....this is just a light lunch...."

She downs a pizza, a dozen doughnuts, six hamburgers and a pitcher of lemonade in about a minute flat as she continues to work her way through the food on the table.

Sees the table with the large spread on it and his stomach grumbles. He looks to H'Tor and blasts him with a ball of black energy, seeming to "feed" him. He heads into the cafeteria leaving H'Tor outside, and goes over to the line to get food, gets a generous helping (for a kobold) and then heads over to the table to sit with everyone.
"Smells good"
He bows his head and is silent for a sec, kisses the medallion on his necklace, then begins to politely eat his food

BTW, I didn't have a specific agenda at the Headmaster's - other than an introduction. If you want to roleplay it, awesome. If you want to handwaive the meeting, that works, too.

Your call. If you don't have anything specific you want to do or say then we can just say you got your schedule and room assignment and are free to go on your way.

Now seems a decent time for Vakkler to show up.
The door to the office opens, and Mr. Relkav pokes his head in. "Headmaster, we're going to need some fresh meat for the stables. We've only got about a day's worth left, and you know how the animals get when we give them vegetables."

*boggle*

"Haha, well I still think it's amazing." She looks over at the kobold mage. "So, Krays, you're a spellcaster of some kind? And who is your friend exactly, anyway, the one who never talks? Is he nice?"

Any time is Vakkler time. :)

Any time is Vakkler time. :)

Well, given the delay, it would have seemed odd if Vakkler arrived at the same time as people who left before him. Plus, it'd look like a lame effort to stick my character into the plot. :P

Plot? There's a plot?! Why didn't I get the memo?

Finishes chewing
"I am a sorceror of sorts. H'Tor is my friend's name, his spirit...lives in...strengthened kobold...bones? no, skeleton. He is also my guardian, very loyal. We are bound, in a sense."
He says all this without any idea that it could possibly be considered wrong to be such and without care to who might hear
"What do you...do?"

Plot? There's a plot?! Why didn't I get the memo?

Plot happens as we go. There is no grand plan...at least I don't have one....I wasn't supposed to was I? ;P

Plots are soooooooo 2E. ;P

"'Guardian', huh? That sounds neat. I have Khoda, I guess, but he's not so much a guardian as a rude guest that shows up at the worst time and in the worst way and then does the worst things."

*sighs*

"What do I do? I...I dunno, I...live, I guess? I don't have a job or a title like 'gunmage' or 'wizard' or...or 'custodian with death-mop' or anything...I'm just..." she shrugs, "I'm just me, y'know? It's why I feel pretty weird being here, to be honest. In fact if it wasn't for Khoda, I'm sure I wouldn't be here. I don't have...uh...talents, I guess? like you guys do."

'Sima states this not in a self-deprecating way, but simply as a fact.

Actually stops eating for a minute. Take note of this rare occurance. :P

"'Sima, that is the craziest thing I've heard all day. You talk to wind. You can summon up a mist like it's nothing. I'm betting there's all kinds of things you can do. AND you're really brave. Most people ran away screaming in case you missed that part. Don't sell yourself short."

"So what should we do now?" I know what The Boss, the headmaster, and Aananda told us. But I personally don't like waiting for people to attack me." Asch says with a mischievous smile. "Now I'm not so crazy as to try and pick a fight with anyone quite yet. But we could easily use some divination spells to search if we can get our hands on that coin. Amada is a diviner as well as a gunmage."

"Don't compare your self to me. I'm crazy..or at least I seem so to most." He says serious for the first time so far.

"So what should we do now?" I know what The Boss, the headmaster, and Aananda told us. But I personally don't like waiting for people to attack me." Asch says with a mischievous smile. "Now I'm not so crazy as to try and pick a fight with anyone quite yet. But we could easily use some divination spells to search if we can get our hands on that coin. Amada is a diviner as well as a gunmage."

"If I had to guess, I'd say that Un....I mean, the Headmaster is going to give that coin to Grandma and see if she can find anything. Or try to divine it himself. It's kinda both of their specialties in different ways. We'll just have to find some other way to trace this guy. Ummm....do you think she might be willing to er, tutor me? I have..problems with divination....too many possible futures...."

"Master Asch I found you I didn't think I could I mean I knew I would eventually but I didn't think it would take this long. Where were you?" A silvery green dragon with butterfly like wings says as it appears on the table. "Mistress Amada wishes to tell you she is stuck in the room for the moment she is working on a new spell."

"Thank you, at least that explains where she has been during all this." He replies back to the small dragon.

"Oh who are these people? I go by Quicksilver or just silver if you want. I'm Mistress Amada's familiar. Mistress Amada and Master Asch would be absolutely lost with out me." He says as he bends his serpentine neck and extends one clawed foot in a bow.

"Wow! You're sparkly! And gorgeous! Hello Quicksilver. I'm Ephebe. And I'll have to introduce you to my brother's psicrystal sometime. We'd be lost without him, too," she said with a smile.

"At least if you ask him we'd be lost with out him."

"Why thank you for your kind words." He says as he seems to puff out his small chest. "Wait what are you trying to say Master Asch? Who was it who single clawidly defeated those orcs that had attacked you and the Mistress?"

"Um are you remembering that correctly?"

"Ok so you helped...a little. Oh are you all eating? Do you have any of those amazing jerky strips?"
He says suddenly distracted by the food around him and zips off his wings a silvery blur as he flits towards the food.

Ephebe giggled. "Well, I like Amada's familiar anyway. I really can't wait to meet her now."

Looks at the fae drake with clinical amusement

The small Faerie dragon zips back to Asch's table with a large plate of meat floating behind hind him. "Mmm this place's food is much better than that stuff Master Asch makes on the road, though it doesn't compare to Mistress Amada's cooking." He says telepathicly to everyone there since his mouth was to busy gulping down pieces of jerky whole.

Ephebe looks around at the empty plates around her, looking for any that might still have food on them. She looks up as the little fae dragon comments on the food and grinned.

"Yep the food is delicious. They have extra cooks here and they always make enough to feed several armies for every meal. After all, they have to feed all the students plus me, my two brothers, and my mom. I'm gonna go see if they have any dessert. I think a couple gallons of ice cream would be good about now."

"Di..did you just say ICE CREAM!!" Silver says as he does aerial acrobatics in an attempt to get some.

Asch simply sits glad that the small dragon isn't trying to talk his ear of for once and wondering what was taking Amada so long.

Actually stops eating for a minute. Take note of this rare occurance. :P

"'Sima, that is the craziest thing I've heard all day. You talk to wind. You can summon up a mist like it's nothing. I'm betting there's all kinds of things you can do. AND you're really brave. Most people ran away screaming in case you missed that part. Don't sell yourself short."

Nasima does her little "aw shucks" head-ducking thing blushes mightily once again, roses and purples this time. "Thanks Ephebe, I...thanks. See, the thing is, though, I'm not trying to run myself down; all sylphs can do what I can do in terms of talking to the wind and making weather and things like that. It's just part of what we are as children of the plane of air. It's...it's Khoda that makes me unique, even among my kind. Whatever the strange transference or connection or whatever it is I have with him is called, that's what's special, and that's why mom and dad sent me here."

She looks at Ephebe and Asch, both of them dripping with weapons and martial expertise, and Krays with his spell components. "In all these fighting classes and things, I'm gonna get killed. You guys...you guys are like walking weapons, I'm a child of the air. Khoda...Khoda is death. Destruction, power, war, violence. He's unstoppable. But I have to call him to be all those things, and then I'm...I'm not really me when I'm him."

oh god that is the dumbest thing anyone has ever said HELLO MISS OBVIOUS

"Heh. I mean, I mean like you guys can be dangerous and powerful and deadly and all those things just when you're yourselves, walking around. I'm just a regular sylph until I call Him, and...well I can kind of control him sometimes because he can't...be...here, on this plane, without me, I guess? But not really. I...I don't know how it works. Which, well, again, that's why I'm here, to control it. Because my dad...my dad wants me to fight. Ever since he saw..."

The teen swallows hard and tears up a little. "I was on my dad's plane, in his castle, when the Efreeti attacked. Dad got hurt, and so did some of my friends, and...Khoda came, and he...he killed all the Efreeti. And the ones he didn't kill he followed. You guys he followed them and he...I mean, I, because he is me when he comes to this plane so I may as well just say it, I got all huge, like, huger than huge and I...I took their...I did...it..."

laughter or thunder dopplers around the horizon in the distance

ha. ha. ha. ha. haaahhhhhhhh.

"No, no crying I don't like crying. I mean look at all this amazing food. See look it even performs for you." He says as he makes a small stage with magic and starts to make a chicken dance the wb frog dance and song.

Silent image for the stage, mage hand for the dancing chickens, and ghost sound.

Nasima closes her eyes and breathes deeply for a few seconds. When she opens her eyes again, they are moist with tears, but she is not quite crying. She sniffles and giggles at the stage show Asch has arranged, and favors the Dhampir with a smile. She mouths the word "thanks."

"You guys...I...I crushed their world. Not just a building or a big piece of land. Not just a...a...I dunno, a 'big area.' I crushed the whole planet. I mashed it into a wad of ruined matter and energy, like you'd crumple up some paper. Gods from one hundred and one other realms had to come to subdue me. Him. Me."

She pauses again.

"I came to in the clouds, at mom's castle. Mom and Dad were arguing. Dad wanted me back right away, mom wouldn't let him take me. Dad wanted...he...they agreed on sending me here to learn to control Khoda, but I don't think they realize that they're doing it for different reasons. You see, mom just wants me to be able to keep Khoda at bay. Honestly I think she hopes he can be...I dunno, exorcised or something wthch of course is TOTALLY stupid, but...but anyway DAD. My dad. He wants me to be able to unleash Khoda at will, because I found out later that the reason all those gods came to stop me was... Guys. I didn't stop at the planet. Khoda wasn't done.

The gods came because I...I had started destroying the Efreeti's entire dimension.

Vakkler is closing the door when he hears the thunder.
"She's the poster child for this school," he mutters. "Mind of a child, power of a froghemoth."

"It's okay, 'Sima. I understand. I mean, obviously not exactly. But..."

"I don't think any less of you because of what happened. I can imagine how traumatic that must have been. But that is why you're here. To learn to control it. And the more you train yourself to be able to handle things the less you'll need to call on Khoda, whatever he is, cause it sounds like that's more of an emergency kind of thing..."

"And if there are accidents....well, I've been fixing things for a long time now. That's pretty much my whole purpose in life," she said with a grimace. "I fix things. Rewind, patch up, go forward, and if I did it right nobody even knows I did it. I mean, I've never had to subdue a god before, but I'm sure it can be done....if I make it so he never came out in the first place....I hope."

Oh heck, you only get to make a first impression on the Headmaster once, right? So, in the Headmasters Office...

As the door closes, Spin takes a slow spin, looking at all the room's decorations before he realizes he's alone with the Headmaster.

"Oh, hello, sir. So I'm Despin, but I guess you knew that." He pulls the folded paper ot of a surprisingly large front pant pocket and hands it to the older man. As the Headmaster breaks the seal and begins reading, Spin once again gets lost in the room's surroundings. After a second, his head starts bobbing, then his fingers begin hammering a furious staccato beat on the desk.

Still looking around - and still drumming - Spin asks the first question that pops into his brain. "So, mom said this was a special school. She said I'd like it here, but she didn't say why. I met a dragon professor, and Mr. S seems nice. So what kind of school is it? What do you teach?"

*smiles at Ephebe*

"I sure wish I knew you back when that happened. I coulda used a rewind that day, for sure."

*sighs*

"Dad thinks I'll be able to just...sort of 'tap' Khoda's power. So, like, use some of it without having to let him come through all the way. I think dad's nuts. But he wants them -- someone -- here to teach me to do that. I don't even know why I'd want to, but...but anyway. Heh. So yeah."

Nasima looks at Krays. "Gosh, I'm sorry. You just asked what I do and you -- well, all you guys -- had to listen to all that. Ugh."

"Just because you don't destroy things doesn't mean you can't help. You can help protect people. Just focus on defensive abilities I mean that's what you did earlier." Asch says speaking up for the first time since the story started. Silver is still trying to get everyone's attention with his song and dance chicken routine.

Mr. Sinh with the ASSIST to Asch in the open lane...

Why thank you sir for the assist.

Nasima looks at Krays. "Gosh, I'm sorry. You just asked what I do and you -- well, all you guys -- had to listen to all that. Ugh."

"Hey, you guys all had my problems dumped on you earlier. So it's no big. And Asch is right. Focus on your defensive abilities. It should help you keep things under control."

Nods
"We all have our strong and weak spots. Nothing to be ashamed of."

Silver blinks his reptilian eyes. "Ok fine if no one is going to go geyt me ice cream I'll go get it my self." He says as he zips off into the kitchen. Soon after you hear the sounds of metal crashing and cursing as he comes zipping out with a pint of vanilla ice cream clutched in his claws. With spoons being thrown at him. "And stay out!" The cook yells at him.

"All I wanted was ice cream if he hadn't been so rude I wouldn't have had to look for it my self and make a mess. Its really his own fault." He says as he begins to calmly lap up the ice cream with his tongue.

In Headmaster's office

The note, when handed to the Headmaster, has the name Despin'lashahzman'Slisterbahn written across the front in a flowing script.

The note...

Ephebe chuckled as she plopped 5 gallon tub of ice cream on the table and started to eat.

"Don't worry about it Quicksilver. The cooks are a little cranky around here."

While Silver is Amada's familiar we will both use him from time to time because he is just to entertaining not to play around with.

"Hmph he's just lucky I'm in a good mood. Or I'd have really let him have it. Did you know he called me a rat with wings? Do I look like a rat to you? Doh brain freeze."

"Grmphlmph!" she nodded in agreement after having shoveled a pint of ice cream into her mouth in one spoonful.

"You know if your going to talk with your mouth full you should really do it like this it is the only proper way." He says the last part of that is heard mentally as he eats his ice cream.

As the teens head off for the cafeteria to eat, the Sunwake parents start walking back to the teacher offices. A small light starts to flash on one of Tamrin's bracers.

"Hmmm," he mutters as he presses a button and brings up a small holoscreen over his arm.

"Seriously?" he says with a sour look on his face. "Great. So much for a quiet lunch."

"You know if your going to talk with your mouth full you should really do it like this it is the only proper way." He says the last part of that is heard mentally as he eats his ice cream.

::Oh. I didn't realize you were okay with telepathy. It freaks a lot of people out.::

As the teens head off for the cafeteria to eat, the Sunwake parents start walking back to the teacher offices. A small light starts to flash on one of Tamrin's bracers.

"Hmmm," he mutters as he presses a button and brings up a small holoscreen over his arm.

"Seriously?" he says with a sour look on his face. "Great. So much for a quiet lunch."

"A quiet lunch? What's that," she teased.