Day 1

[hotheadwarmheart]

Who: Lea and you. Yes, YOU!
When: The day all the new people arrive, prior to him meeting Xion
Where: Around the Academy
What: Lea is stuck in a new world and generally not a happy camper. Pick your scenario or make one up.
Warnings: Shouldn't be any?
Notes: Lea won't succeed in getting rid of his familiar, here or elsewhere, but have fun watching him try for a bit. X3

Un-familiar

Lea had accepted the box full of stuff that the academy staff had given him reasonably politely; he might not be happy about it, but for the moment at least, he wasn't in a position to refuse their hospitality. They'd given him his dorm assignment and some basic directions on how to get there, as well as a weird magical glass eye that Lea quickly stuck in his pocket after a moment of using it to look at himself; he'd probably find a use for it later, but right now it was super creepy. Not to mention disorienting.

When he picked up his box of stuff and turned to go, though, one of the staff members called out to him. "Wait a moment, Lea," he said. "You're forgetting your familiar."

"My what?", Lea said.

"Your familiar," the man repeated, indicating a rat in a cage that had been sitting on the table. "Your animal companion."

Lea looked at the rat for a moment, then turned his gaze back to the man. "I don't want a pet rat," he said.

"I'm afraid you don't get your choice of familiar," the man said, apparently preparing to launch into an explanation. "Familiars are matched to to their respective wizards through a secret and long standing magical-"

"No, you don't get it," Lea said, interrupting. "It's not that I want a different pet. Or familiar, or whatever you call them. It's that I don't want any pets. You can keep them."

The man looked slightly taken aback. "But it's already been bonded to you, and-"

"Well unbond it and give it to someone else," Lea said, interrupting again. "Maybe someone who actually wants to be here."

By now the small argument may be drawing a bit of attention from those passing by, but Lea didn't much care at the moment. First he gets kidnapped and told he's not only trapped, but will die horribly if he doesn't learn to use their world's magic, then they try to stick him wit a pet he didn't want on top of all the other crap that was going on? No thanks.

Dis-orientation

Lea wandered through the halls of the academy, looking for the Ka dormitory, where he'd apparently been assigned. Despite the basic directions he'd been given, he'd apparently gotten a bit lost, because so far as he knew, he definitely should have been there by now. Maybe he'd made a wrong turn at that last gargoyle or something? "Great," he said sarcastically to no one in particular, readjusting his grip on the box of stuff he'd been given as much as he could; he'd been walking around for awhile now, and it was starting to get heavy, especially with the addition of the rat in a cage on top of everything else. "Just great. Kidnapped, stuck, and now lost; exactly how I felt like spending my day..."

Wild card!

Choose your own scenario!

Comments

Re: Unfamiliar

[gender_neutral]

"None of our powers from home work here, but I am so glad to know that I am speaking with someone who forms life choices and absolute opinions from a sample size of one." Can you taste the sarcasm? Can you? "Chances are is not proof of. And magic is MAGIC. If you haven't noticed, breaking the fundamental laws of how the worlds work is what magic is FOR. I did not decide I no longer am a great and accomplished wizard simply because upon my unfortuitous arrival here my spell slots stopped responding and that I no longer could float as I tranced. No! I have spent lo these past weeks studying and researching and am every single day unlocking secrets bringing me closer to my former master while still adding the the depth and breadth of my magical stores. Though they here call themselves wizards, they do in fact act like some odd hybrid of Wizard and Sorcerer and rather than rail against how unnatural it is to call oneself a wizard and yet not have to prepare spells every night, or scribe every last spell upon a spell book, I did not berate my fellow academics or complain that they fail to conform to my expectation of magic! NO! I embraced the potential to learn new skills that I could apply in my own plane upon my return! IF Sir Greenhilt could learn a new feat while dead I can very well learn a new prestige class while on a side plot!"

"I just simply cannot fathom how you can face the offer of such arcane gifts and snub them so soundly! What class are you that you find to be so superiour that you cannot even consider multiclassing for these obvious benefits? Please enlighten me! Is there some obscure rule that says that you lose class skills and abilities if you multiclass? Is this like how a Paladin loses all of their class abilities if they commit an evil act? What? What could possibly be so important about the status quo of your life that you will blatantly turn your back on the power offered here just so that you can escape the apparent tedium of academic learning?!"

Re: Unfamiliar

[hotheadwarmheart]

Honestly Lea was paying more attention to the sarcasm than the words at that point. Seriously, did this girl ever shut up?

"Oh, I'm the one who's acting superior now?", he said. "I'm not the one basically standing there calling somebody an idiot because they don't want to study magic like I do. Look, I don't want any prestige classes, or multi-classes, or whatever the heck else you're talking about. And frankly? My reasons for doing anything are none of your business."

Which was quite true. It was also true that they were starting to draw a bit of a crowd, and no way was Lea gonna admit that by bringing him here, the local wizards had stripped him of the only three skills he really had going for him in front of everyone like that.

Re: Unfamiliar (I need to know if/when he opens the paper.)

[gender_neutral]

"Yes. You are. And it is rather irritating." Pot, meet Kettle. "And for the record not once did I use the word idiot. If you wish to see that in yourself, far be it from me to sway you from that chosen path. But fine, despite how frustratingly closed minded you seem to be, I will still, for the sake of your familiar, share with you a single spell I have learned that is very useful in arguments such as these." V pulled out a folded sheet of paper, thrust it into his hands then stalked off.

"That spell wouldn't happen to be...."

"Yes. Yes it would," V said, leaving. Smirking.

Re: Unfamiliar (I need to know if/when he opens the paper.)

[hotheadwarmheart]

"No you didn't," Lea said. "And I wish you had, because that would mean that I wouldn't have had to listen to you say fifty-million other words to add up to the same thing!"

Lea was briefly startled when she thrust the paper into his hand, which allowed her to turn to go without him able to get another word in. Having less than no interest in anything she had to offer at this point, he crumpled the paper into a ball, and was about to toss it at the back of her retreating head when the school staff member- likely sensing that an actual fight might well break out if Lea went through with it- stepped forward and rested a hand on Lea's shoulder.

"Alright, alright... that'll be quite enough of that," he said.

He then glanced over the small crowd of students who'd gathered to watch the commotion. "And I imagine that you all have classes to be getting to, don't you?" Taking the hint, they quickly dispersed and went on their way.

"Now then," the staff member said, "before we were interrupted, I believe we were discussing your familiar."

Lea sighed in frustration, but the target of his anger was now well out of sight. He stuffed the crumpled paper into his pocket, planning to throw it in the trash at the earliest possible opportunity.