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Who: Yugi

puzzlers & Professor Dumar Loshakle.
When: In the midst of all of the shenanigans, probably!
Where: Professor Loshakle's office!
What: The Experiment Adventure Part 2: Electric Boogaloo.

[ as soon as that stupid spell that had cast on them wears off and he’s able to talk about what both he and lena had experienced the two of them talk and then go their separate ways. he’s not going to squander this opportunity, especially not when they hadn’t been able to before. he rushes to professor loshakle’s office, since he likes to think he had been making a good impression on him over the past couple of months. n- not to mention he’s made his hatred of sundering more than a little apparent, so if anybody is going to be able to do something about what happened it’s him. ]

[ knock knock knock! ]

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Enter!

[Professor Loshakle sounds both irritated and exasperated. In other words, just a normal day for him.]

[Perhaps to Yugi's despair, the professor is in the midst of grading essays, papers floating in midair around him which he dismisses into two stacks as the boy comes in.]

[ professor loshakle's minuscule patience is something that he's grown accustomed to, since it's such a constant, but that doesn't mean he's not mindful when he enters. he's not here to test its limits after all, and he's sure what he has to share isn't going to help his mood. ] I need to discuss something important with you, Professor.

[ might as well just jump right into it... ] I saw a group of students summon that sundered beast that had been stomping around campus. [ he doesn't know anything about the dragon, but that seems to have come to help out, so he's not? really?? too concerned??? ]

I hadn't been able to say anything until now, because of a spell they case on both myself and Lena, preventing us from doing so. But we found where they congregate and I wanted to bring it to your attention, because maybe you could do something to stop this from happening again.

[The Professor's scowling mien becomes even darker as Yugi spills out his recitation. He cuts off the final words with a stroke of his hand, pointing curtly to the chair on the other side of his desk.]

Wait. Be silent.

[The Professor then shuts his eyes tightly, the lines of his face straining as he subvocalizes words.]

... [ o- oh. he had kind of expected something like this, but having to bear witness to it is certainly something else. still, he doesn't wave in the slightest, because he really couldn't think of anybody better to tell. the headmaster was a possibility, but... h- hmmmm. ]

[ yugi takes the seat, biting his lower lip as he sets both of his hands into his lap to wait for the professor to say or do anything more. ]

[Of course, the Intimation spell reveals the boy speaks truly. How did he know... Damn these Sundered and all the grief they'd brought to the school. Things had been so peaceful!]

And you involved me, why? [Slapping his his hands down on the desk, Loshakle pushes himself upright with no small amount of grunting.] Professor King would've been the first choice. Unless you suspect her, of course.

[Rather than judgment, the Professor seems mollified by the thought.]

[ he's thankful the spell is able to show professor loshakle that he's not full of it. he's sure all of this sounds crazy and convenient, but being fingered as having a hand in what happened is not something he wanted to come of his opening up and telling him. ]

...!

[ he startles at the slam, but doesn't move and, in fact, he sits up straighter. ] I don't suspect her, but she's not as seasoned as you, and though she teaches Sundering I could think of no one better to help put an end to people abusing a magic we're all still doing our best to understand.

[Such flattery earns a side-eye, but then the Professor snorts.] I can't argue that much. At least you've put some scrap of attention into learning a thing or two.

[Blasted Sundered. Things would be much easier if they'd simply be slackers and useless.]

Take me as close as you can to this place. Likely the beast destroyed it, but I may have hope of learning something anyway.

[ yugi’s being sincere! and though professor king probably should have been his first choice… nope! ] I like to think a little more than a scrap… [ he gives him a small, if but lopsided smile accompanied by a chuckle. he’s doing his best, ok! ]

Of course. [ he gets up from the chair and heads to the door, waiting for the professor. he’ll bring him to the approximate location, explaining that he’d seen a student donning a cloak walk right through the wall, which is, like he said, probably gone at this point… d- darn. ]

[The wall is not gone. To the contrary, magic has mended the shattered building. Too perfectly, it seems, for a brief investigation reveals no door here at all.]

[Undeterred, Professor Loshakle brushes aside the wall with a wave of his hand, revealing the rubble-choked passage behind it.]

This, then?

[ ohthankgoodness. ]

[ he had been kind of afraid that they wouldn't find anything. he didn't want the professor to think he was a liar, especially when he really did appreciate him taking what he said to heart, and even coming along to investigate. ]

Yes! This is it!

An entrance to the caverns. The campus is riddled with them. I hardly think we'll ever find them all.

[Sniffing, the Professor motions the choking debris away with one hand, while his other traces through a remarkably complex series of gestures.]

Visible Revelation Display Fifteenth Degree Filtered.

[On speaking the name of the spell, the revealed passage begins to -- not quite glow, but the opposite, taking on a sort of tenebrous darkness that clings to the walls like writhing jelly. Loshakle sucks in a breath through his teeth.]

Damn.

[ it doesn't help that the campus is huge, but knowing that there are potentially dozens of these passages has yugi worried. ]

[ he watches the professor utter the small, awed by the gestures made, because he's never seen anything quite like that here! he must be casting a high level spell to- hm. he gets the feeling that this wasn't supposed to happen. ]

What is this? [ don't mind him gingerly reaching out to touch one of the walls. ]

[Wavering between irritation that the boy does not understand something so obvious and alarm that such a residue shows, the Professor answers in clipped tones. At least Yugi is not the prime target of his antagonism.]

Of course you're aware of the Visible Revelation spell series. Fifteenth Degree reveals magical traces in minute quantities for some time previous. Filtration separates out the traces. What you see, in greater purity than anywhere, is the presence of Sundering magic.

It supports your claims. [Damned that it does, too. He'd far prefer disciplining a student telling tales to investigating this nonsense.] Couldn't have picked someone younger, could you.

[Protests aside, Loshakle knows his duty. He begins trundling down the passageway. One finger trails a line of light through the air, which he then grasps as it solidifies into a wand. Evidently he'll take no chances.]

[ he shrinks away a bit at how aggravated he sounds, but between what they're uncovering and yugi's lack of knowledge on some of the higher level spells he can't really blame him? though, he's thankful there's something here to support his claims, because he'd honestly been afraid they might have taken precautions to hide this sort of stuff. apparently not! but they were only students tampering with something they shouldn't have and not criminal masterminds... yet. ]

[ he nods, committing what he'd seen to memory. maybe he can try out the spell later. he'd ask, but right now doesn't seem like the best time to go into tutoring. ]

[ yugi swallows, giving him a small, if but lopsided smile in response, keeping to himself as he follows the professor down the hall. yugi has his wand out too and has cast a protection spell behind them in case the people behind this try to pull the same stunt again and get the jump on them. it'll, at the very least, rebound one spell in time for him to realize they're being attacked. ] It shouldn't be much further...

[As 'aggravated' describes Professor Loshakle on a good day, Yugi need not worry too much; the man has yet to deal out extra homework or detention or the like. Instead he leads the way with no particular speed, old joints protesting this abuse.]

[They do not reach the familiar cavern Yugi expects to see, however. Beyond a certain point the passage opens into a vast cavern that has clearly been recently enlarged, likely by a horrible slimelike monster erupting out of a portal. The air beyond is so thick with Sundering residue that it pulses and thrums.]

[Professor Loshakle speaks an oath that he probably should not have said around a student.]

[ very true. yugi doesn't think he's ever seen him not some degree of aggravated, so he should probably count his blessings that his mood isn't significantly worse given the adventure they're on. ]

[ yugi freezes at the mouth of the cavern as he's instantly reminded of what both him and lena had gone through following their capture. he swallows and sucks in a breath, forcing the thoughts aside as he moves closer to the portal until-

-professor loshakle starts speaking the oath. he stills once again, looking to him and listening carefully. this sounds important. like really important. he keeps his mouth shut throughout the entire thing, occasionally looking behind them or scanning the room to see just what the oath is doing. ]

Now I will be the first to say. [The Professor peers down at Yugi, as if daring him to challenge the statement.] That my knowledge of Sundering is poor. Unlike some wizards, I respected that it was forbidden.

But you do not need to be a master of the Curriculum to see how bad this is! What has been done here resembles nothing I have seen. I see no choice but to...

[Swallowing down something of his bile, Professor Loshakle takes this chance to brace himself, and speak words he dreads to speak.]

Involve the Headmaster.

[ he's not going to say anything! maybe. ] ... [ he almost wants to say something because though it might have been forbidden it must have been added to the curriculum for a reason. it's got to be capable in its own right, and though destructive, well, the headmaster must have been something it it. ]

I think that might have to do with these students not fully understanding it. Anything is dangerous if not enough care is taken. [ even the magic you prefer, professor. ] But this is certainly... bad... [ really bad. ]

Do you want me to send my familiar [ along with a note, of course. ] to lead her here? so she can see all this? Or would you prefer just to tell her about it?

I'll speak with her myself. You -- [He turns the full specter of his narrowed gaze on the boy.] -- are out of your depth. Showing me this was the right choice, but now we shall handle it.

[ yugi doesn't flinch this time, but instead stands his ground. ] That may be true, but I'm coming with.

[Ah.]

[Wearily, the Professor envisions the entire upcoming scene in his head: he, wise with experience and knowledge, making the eminently reasonable point that this entire mess requires a level of ability this boy may not attain with decades of work and effort, and Yugi insisting because he is young and stubborn and feels entitled.]

[There is a time for conflict and a time for legerdemain. This is the latter.]

Not quite. You will fetch the other student you said had been with you, and bring her to my office to meet with the Headmaster and myself. It would be foolish to leave her out.

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