Welcome to Cascade High! (A magic school RP- Open, Started!)(Week One: The Student Club Festival)

[Fragrance of Mtn Dew]

It was nearly 11 by the time Sofia managed to roll out of bed. Mornings were definitely not her thing, but she managed on school days. Weekends were her favorite because she could usually sleep as late as she wanted. Having gotten a decent amount of rest, she showered threw on a pair of jeans and a purple t-shirt and grabbed a pop tart before heading out for the day. It was the club festival apparently and Sofia wasn't sure if she was quite ready for something like that yet but she didn't want to miss out on it all the same.

She decided to start with the non-magical clubs first to sort of ease herself into it, but even there she was overwhelmed by the massive amount of people attending this school. As she browsed the many booths, it was no surprise that the one that caught her eye was the soccer team. She had had a good time playing soccer in middle school and made a lot of friends. Well, at least I thought they were my friends.... I guess I can give it a shot though. If I don't like it anymore I can always quit right? Sofia thought as she approached the booth and put her name down on the list of people who were interested. "I'm not 100% decided though... So don't be too surprised if I don't show up." She told the girl running the booth before moving on.

She headed to the gym where most of the magical club booths were. She probably wouldn't be joining any of them, but it was at least worth checking out. As she approached the gym, she immediately recognized the MEC table by the spell Damien had shown her the other dayand couldn't help but smile. Well, I don't think I'm MEC material but I might as well say hi. Sofia walked up to Damien at the table and gave a small wave. "Wow... That's the one you were talking about in the library, right? It's impressive... Bet that'll get you a lot of new recruits huh?"

 

[ThreeWords]

Will awoke slowly, surrounded by papers. He had fallen asleep at his desk, which was not unusual, but less expected was the woman who was sitting on his bed, smiling at him curiously. This seemed slightly odd, but as he struggled towards wakefulness, she began to fade away, her expression dreamy.

Dreamily, thought Will, then tried his hardest to work out what was bugging him. As he fought for focus, she flickered alarmingly, and gave him a little wave.

Suddenly, an idea formed, and he backed away from thought, trying to clear his head and let his mind wander. The girl grew more substantial, and he realized that her exact appearance was almost impossible to grasp, let alone remember.

Then, as he tried to work out exactly what she looked like, she vanished, and he was awake.

It could have just been a weird dream, of course, except for the dents on the bed, on which Will had not slept.

Spoiler: OOC

Yes, I am making crap up. Yes, I do have a plan. Yes, I will get to the actual story soon enough.

Does that answer your questions?

 

[Xero Scythe]

Damien shook his head as Katie left the table. "Thhaaaattt's right *****, you start running." Damien nodded gratefully as Sam appeared, giving him the newly reconfigured mines and gently placed them in his bag. Then Sophia appeared and caused Damien to remember the look on Katie's face, making his smile stretch from ear to ear. "I hope so. With any luck I'll be able to get some new recruits, and then Katie won't be able to dismiss my claims for a larger budget- or even a budget at all. Hell, she wouldn't even let me have a table here! In all honesty, I think the MP spent was more than worth it to see the look on her face!" Damien laughed, shaking his head gleefully. "The student rep's had it out for me ever since I dumped her. I think I was the first guy to do that to her, but you know what? I still don't regret it, even to this day." Damien shrugged before sliding over a clipboard and pen to the front of the stand. "So, either of you guys planning to sign up for the Magic Executive Committee? I could sure use a few hands, even if you don't feel like being on the response team. Hell, you get Magic Points just for filling out reports."

 

[Fragrance of Mtn Dew]

Sofia wasn't quite sure how to react to Damien asking her to join the MEC. It seemed like a tough job since you had to be at least more skilled than the students you were supposed to keep in line. Of course, the Magic Points would be a welcome bonus as well since Sofia didn't really see herself getting too many otherwise. "Um... Do you really think I'm good enough to join? I mean, I guess my Shadow Bind could be useful but I just started here after all!" Sofia finally said. "If you really need the help that badly, then I'm sure I'll have time. Just don't expect too much out of me, OK?"

 

[Korten12]

Gavren---

His eyes opened slowly, rays of light illuminated the room from the window. He began to rub his eyes, too tired to think. He hated getting up in the morning; he loved to sleep in as long as possible. Sleep to him is one of his favorite activities of the day, second to playing Video Games of course. Up and out of bed, he went and put on fresh clothes, a similar outfit to what he had worn the previous day.

He decided it would be best to go get launch, he was hungry and wouldn?t be able to function through the day starving.

Spoiler

We do get breakfast in the morning here?

 

[Kasten]

Sam frowned "You dumped her? I did tooo... Just as a point, when were you with her?" Sam's tone sounded suspicious as he filled out the recruitment forum

This added up. Damien and he were in the same grade, as well as Katie, and during the smear campaign against him he'd been able to use simple reasoning to figure out the poor saps she was using, but not necassarily HAD used, and thinking back the smear campagin against Damien and his allies had gone on at a similar time. The only reason Sam came out okay was that nobody could find him or remember him half the time to actually smear him, and the ones that could came back emotionally damaged from laser guided sarcasm. And Sam also actually enjoyed the berth he suddenly gained. Perhaps so much, he now considered, that he lost his touch for a little while. Katie hated both Sam and Damien, had run parallel smear runs on them, in much the same fashion. Both were different from the politics she ran, more personal. Sam knew she had been... non-exclusive in order to keep her position through the politics war. It made a good deal of sense, then, under these conditions that she would have tried to smear them both for dumping her to cover up the possible shame of not being perfect in the imbecilic eyes of her pathetic drones

 

[Voidrunner]

James easily became lost amongst the stalls of the gym, there were shouts and signs and flagrant use of magic all grabbing his attention. He eventually emerged somewhere the entrance and did a double take as he spotted the amazing MEC stall.

"I swear I didn't see that when I came in... Eh, magic." Spotting Damien behind the table made James remember sticking that note to the wall last night and he laughed loudly, attracting questioning looks from the people around him. Realising he was making a fool of himself, James quickly darted closer to the nearest stall and pretended to be immensely interested in the club it was advertising.

"Ah yes, this stuff looks absolutely thrilling! What does that thing do?" The stall was like some mad chemistry lab and the exasperated girl behind the counter had to stop him from touching anything important. James picked up one particular potion and shook it in front of his face.

"This looks cool! Is it safe to drink?"

"Not unless you enjoy sudden painful death, that stuff is like superglue the moment it's poured out of the bottle."

The reference to glue made James laugh uncontrollably, he found gluing objects to walls vastly amusing. James didn't realise there were so many forms of magic that didn't require spells so he quickly signed up and moved away from the table, taking a free sample as he did so. Without even asking what it did he drained the vial in one gulp and put it back down.

For a moment it seemed like nothing happened then James suddenly experienced what felt like a nasty combo of acid reflux and heart burn and smoke poured out of his ears and nose before he started coughing out brightly coloured sparks. Rather than be disturbed by this, James just laughed again. If the events of the previous day hadn't made it obvious how magical this school was, standing here in the middle of gym coughing up sparks was all the proof necessary.

 

[Kasten]

Sam was in his internal dialogue mode when some freshmaan coughing sparks, rolling his eyes Sam tossed a nullification rune over as a wad of paper "I usually keep those around to control any inventions that get out of hand, but if he can't figure out how to use it then he should keep away from experiment and theory-based magicks" Sam turned back to Damien, awaiting an answer to his question

 

[Voidrunner]

The spark coughing fit wore off, as did James' merriment as a wad of paper struck him in the head.

"What's this then eh?" James bent over and looked at the paper on the floor before shaking his head and kicking the paper out of his way. "A school of magic and this is the best attack my enemy has?" James' eyes narrowed and he walked up to the MEC stall where he was fairly sure the paper had come from.

"So I suppose one of you is the assailant that attacked me in the library yesterday? The spell you sent at me then was much more impressive than this latest attempt. I mean, try to be more consistent, yesterday it was a finely crafted illusion and today a wad of paper? I could do better." James scoffed and looked like he was going to continue the rant when he realised who he was talking too.

"Er, not that I would be involved in any sort of magical attack, that isn't me at all." It probably wasn't wise to march up the MEC stall and start raging about magical attacks.

 

[Kasten]

Sam was already irritated, and the poor freshman happened to make himself a target now

"Actually, THAT was a nullification Rune. It can cancel out or vastly weaken spells and energies. So, you could have used it to stop that little misadventure, although now you WILL be known as flint throat for the rest of your time here, most likely, but honestly that's too much of a compliment. That implies you're intellectually capable of such a thing, no chemical reactions should be left to the big boys, but don't worry, you can stay. Instead of doing chemical reactions, everybody will simply test them on you, thus restoring the balance of nature. Or perhaps you'll not succeed there because you probably walked into a lava pit of your own conjuration, I suppose that's the most complicated thing you might accomplish, and basics like that are what fuel the rest. On a side note, you're obviously new. Avoid Katherine Doneer, Better known as Katie, she's less intelligent than a rock, gets around more than a rabbit on aphrodisiacs, and she's half as cute when you actually have to talk to her. Here, join MEC. You don't have to chase people, you get points just for filling out paperwork" Sam seemed to become much nicer after his initial sarcastic response

"Also, about what I said earlier, don't drink any more chemicals like that, because now people will be trying to fool you into drinking things."

Pause

"And sorry, I thought you were one of Katherine's irritating worthless concubine minions."

 

[ThreeWords]

"...concubine minions"

"Sounds like my cue!" announced Will, appearing at Sam's elbow, "I do hope you're listing the MEC perks..."

 

[Voidrunner]

James just stared at him in shock for several seconds, his mouth opened and closed several times before he could finally for any sort of response to that.

"Er, yes, a nullification rune you say? My apologies I assumed it was an attack, some insidious villain launced one against me yesterday in the library, whoever they were was a genius, the illusion they created was perfect." James quickly ran over to where he had kicked the rune and brought it back to Sam.

"Here's your rune back, I don't think I would have needed though, that potion was only a free sample. You should try some, it's really good for clearing out your sinuses, I'll have to ask about it some time." James wondered for a moment if that might not have been a free sample and he just nearly poisoned himself. No, surely someone from the stall would have stopped him, wouldn't they?

"Oh and I've never so much as heard of this Katherine character let alone become one of her minions, you probably don't need to worry about that happening anywhere in the near future, she probably isn't interested in incompetent freshman such as myself." James turned to look questioningly at Damien.

"Could I really join up? I'd really like to but I understand if I'm not the kind of the person the MEC needs."

 

[Xero Scythe]

Damien shook his head as Will appeared at the most (in)opportune moment. "Will, if that was one of the perks, I would have to beat off the applicants with a stick. The only benifits you get from the MEC are Magic Points. You also get a nice feeling after helping someone." Damien chuckled to himself. Damien nodded and slid the sign-up sheet to James. "Feel free to sign up, but realize you'll be on pencil pushing or some other currently theoretical arm of the MEC. I can't and won't put you on the attack team until I'm sure you're strong enough to manage it. You'll technically be a volunteer, but I'll make sure you still get MP. Oh, and by the way, that was a Slaker potion. They're used for fireworks displays, not sinus cleaning. Please, ask Cory. Before you wind up drinking the Juliet potion or something lethal."

Damien smiled at Sophia kindly. "Every hand helps. Hell, every hand means your beloved teacher goes to bed a little bit earlier. Get enough people and I might be able to fall asleep before midnight!" Damien shook his head, laughing at himself. The MEC was not meant to be run by a single person. Nothing but Damien's sheer stamina and willpower made it even possible. His attention then turned to Sam's question. "When did I go out with Katie... I think it was about the third quarter of last year, just around the time I made it to Branch Chief. Why?"

Spoiler: OOC-@Korten12

Yeah, you can. The school is fully equipped to support student life (Damien is included in this medley)

Most students chose to eat somewhere else, however.

 

[Voidrunner]

"Oh fireworks?" James seemed to go a bit green at the thought that had the potion been stronger he might have been splattered across the room. "In that case I'll watch out in future, lest I do a bit more than clear out my sinuses." James quickly pulled every one of his pens and tried to remember which one was the only normal pen he possessed. He eventually gave up the idea and just used the pen in the stall to write his name on the form.

"Thanks, I need something to do with my time other than drinking toxic substances. Oh and I didn't want to disturb you last night so I just left a note, I trust it was easy to find?" James noticed both Will and Sofia had turned up at the table.

"What's this? Is our whole class signing up now? That would be cool."

 

[Kasten]

Sam nodded "Makes sense. We went out with the same girl, at the same time, dumped her within the same week, and then proceeded to come under her fire. I guess we have something in common. Also, you should probably prevent me from being alone with her, I think I'd stick explosive runes on her assets and then let her bleed out from the result... in public. She's using my Table as a cheerleading stand. And they aren't even using it, she took it solely because she knew it's where I've set up perfect magic studying conditions. I wish my ex had never told me about her. Then again, it was bad times. I'd be surprised if my ex is still alive... Anyway, ignoring that... Katie just wanted to be with me in the hopes I'd do her schoolwork, what was she using you for?" Sam set down his filled out forms for field work, and desk work, and emergency work for MEC All the home address and information. Next of Kin was completely blank, and any family or personal information besides that was N/A

 

[Fragrance of Mtn Dew]

Sofia tried not to eavesdrop as she was filling out the forms but Damien and the other guy weren't making any secrets about their disdain for their ex. I guess I can see how they wouldn't be too fond of someone like that but aren't they being a little too harsh? I don't think anyone deserves to be talked about that.... It was hitting a little too close to home for her liking but she knew better than to say anything about it. Instead she just quietly filled out her paperwork.


"Well, if it'll help you get to bed at a reasonable hour, I guess I can help out with whatever you need." Sofia said with a small smile. She didn't know exactly what she'd be doing yet, but from what Damien had said she'd probably be doing desk work. It sounded like a pretty good deal to her. "Alright, here you go. Just tell me what you need done and I'll do my best." She said as she handed him the finished forms.

 

[Kasten]

*MEANWHILE-KATHERINE'S TABLE*

There are pamphlets and school newspapers and even board signs about how terrible Damien is, blaming him for things her people did using the loosest of logics, and Sam is just mentioned as a rapist/violent delinquent who forced her to be with him and then dumped her after a month or so of abuse, meanwhile Katie sits over another location with a charity table (which anyone paying attention would notice the lack of certified seals on any of the boxes-they were fake) talking about how she didn't want to put those signs up,and humiliate Damien and Sam, but that her supporters insisted she be protected

-BACK WITH SAM-

Sam was eating a cinnamon roll from the baking club table that was next to Damien's Damien has really good sense of location... I wonder if he could give me a research budget if he gets enough members...

 

[Xero Scythe]

Damien's left eye twitched slightly as his left fist clenched. He stared bullets into Katie, while planning to do much more than just stare them. "Hmm... How far away is she, one hundred yards? Yeah, I could hit her." Damien's wallet fell out of his pocket while he planned trajectories, the badge hitting the ground with a loud clink, startling Damien back into sense. "Damn. Nevermind, I can't hit her. I can't stoop to that level 'n prove her right." Damien then answered Sam's question with a shrug. "Hell, before I dumped Katie I was one of the most popular kids in the school 'cause of boxing. I can still draw a sizable crowd during a match, but now..." Damien shook his head. "Go to the cheerleading table and see for yourself, I suppose." Damien turned back to matters in front of him and took the registration forms from Sophia. "Thanks for your help. Don't worry, I'll give you guys the option about how you want to work for the most part. Oh, and don't forget to come to the charity match later today! Five dollars entry to see the boxing team captain and wrestling team captain in the ring together. All proceeds go toward student run clubs."

 

[Voidrunner]

James finally got through filling out the details on his form, it was hard to read or write anything when he refused to remove his dark sunglasses despite being inside.

"Done, and I'm pretty sure it's at least legible this time!" James passed his form over to Damien. "Thanks again for letting me join up, most people don't want me near anything important," James laughed loudly at the memory of things going terribly wrong when he was left in charge of them.

"I'll be taking my leave, so many things I still have to see in here." James tipped his hat to the people at the stand and strolled back over to the place he got the potion from, probably asking whether there were any nasty side effects from drinking Slaker.

 

[revolverwolf]

Kelsey was reluctant to leave the dorm today. Today of all days was when people would be looking at clubs and deciding which to join, and it had started, oh, about an hour and half ago.

She could just imagine the library stall right now; bare and alone amongst the other non-magic clubs. Anyone who went to check would find it unmanned and utterly blank. But who would check it? Almost no-one goes to check out the non-magic stalls in a school based around magic, and if they do they don't really expect much. Of course you'd get the ones that would always attract people, like cheer-leading, ugh... And the fan club that showed up each year, for some student who ends up being worshipped throughout the whole year for God knows whatever reason.

Plus she was expected to make an effort to appear more magical and interesting, so there was the big hat and cloak to deal with too... No. Just no. She groaned loudly and hid under the blanket, hoping to be able to stay there for longer. She didn't want to wear those, especially not today. It was bad enough having to go out and tell people to come to the library to ruin her peace and quiet as if she was supposed to be pleased when they interrupted her. But the hat and cloak? In blistering sunshine? They must have been insane.

Of course, this was all wordless thoughts she would never give any real thought to. She was too afraid of possible repercussions and consequences to vocalise these, so she simply laid in the confines of her blanket, nervously fighting the urge to get out of bed and hoping that she wouldn't get in any trouble.

After another half hour of her silent rebellion came to a close; her worry about getting in trouble now far outweighed her disdain at being forced to have a stall. She rolled her blanket away and got out of bed, cursing herself for her own insubordination and inability to follow through and indecision. She ended up wearing the stupid, raggedy hat and cloak over her regular clothing too. Wearing them meant she could get away with looking less presentable than usual, at the very least. She tried in vain to straighten the hat's brim in the mirror, picked up her bag and then set off for the stalls.

Why could she not just go to the library...?