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ShannonShannon dangled her legs from the Aspen as she hurriedly finished her breakfast. Once again, there had been no chairs and Shannon hadn't been able to resist the tree. Luckily, there was a lot happening on the ground so she was able to instrest herself with all the students enough to slither out of the tree.Shannon glanced at the schedule she had recieved earlier that day. Science, biology, and astronomy were all classes she was taking and they were all during first peroid. After a moment of thought, she decided she'd go with astronomy today. Maybe I can do alternate classes, she thought.As she was walking down the long stone corridors, Shannnon began to hear mumurings. She knew almost immediately they were coming from the more magical plants of the castle. Ordinary plants were far to sleepy to ever do anything except snore. But magical plants sometimes muttered things in their dreams. And Shannon had found that their dreams seemed to be of the real world. And sometimes, in here expierence, the dreams they had seemed to be slightly ahead of the things going on in the real world. Shannon had only ever seen and heard one magical plant before she came to Petrichor. Shannon had guessed that the reason a plant was magical couldn't have anything to do with the person who owned the plant, since the person who owned this plant was a realator and knew nothing whatsoever about magic. She had heard the faint whisperings before, but now that she was growning accustomed to being in the academy, she was hearing more, understanding more.But at the moment she wasn't really interested in talking plants. She wanted to be on time for class. Besides, the more she tried to really listen to a plant, the more the words it muttered seemed to fade. That was probablyt because she was distracted. If she had been really paying attention, she might have heard quite a lot.Infatct, she might've heard the warning. -
First class of the day: alchemy. The teacher, who is wearing a gray dress that has ash on it and that matches her hair (also gray with ash on it) is standing over a cauldron that’s sitting on a small fire that hasn’t burned the floor but isn’t in a fireplace. “Good morning,” the teacher says in a raspy voice. “Good morning,” the entire class echoes. “Hello. My name is Professor Saoirse Ni Hennig, and we will together be learning alchemy,” says the teacher. “Now which of you can tell me about the Philosopher’s Stone?” She is extremely gray, all over, even in the skin, fingernails, eyes, and mouth. A girl wearing all green raises her hand. “It’s the substance that alchemists believe will allow them to make gold and achieve eternal life!” she says wildly. “Yes,” says the teacher. “Here you will learn to make it. It is simple. One must simply combine salt, ash, water, soil, yeast, sugar, and phosphorus and boil it. See?” Professor Ni Hennig waves at the cauldron. “Of course, one must learn to use one’s intention. And, for turning the base metals into gold, one must have a ridiculous amount of absolutely pure metal. Eternal life will allow one to live to the age of nine hundred and ninety-nine, but it will require eating of the Philosopher’s Stone every day and total depletion of one’s vitality and magic.” The stuff in the cauldron is taking up most of my attention: The magic of it feels like a flashing lighthouse in my mind. “Now pick a cauldron and let’s get started.”
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Thinking: Professor NH is a fire spirit of some type??? If anyone wants to RP as her they’re welcome to, I might (maybe)-
i'm assuming that the girl in green is me 😀
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i grab a dark gray cauldron, and everyone does the same.
"now, pour the water and ash into your cauldrons. At the same time, please. there should be equal amounts of each. stir the mixture until it's a thick goop." Professor Ni Hennig says.
"once you've done that, put in the salt and soil. not too much, or the finishing mixture will get gritty. let that sit, and while you're waiting, mix together the sugar and yeast in water."
we waited. Flamarestii eyed the small jar of phosphorous on her desk with intrest. finally, Professer Ni Hennig said, "and now, put in the yeast mixture and stir it around. open the phosphorous and pour in a very little bit. stir, and put the cauldron over the fire."
something moved in the corner of my vision. I turned, and someone was rifling through their bag. she turned and looked at me. something was going on. they had purple-and-white hair, aqua eyes, and was wearing black clothes and a purple necklace. I didn't know her, though. I averted my gaze, trying not to look interested, and focused on my cauldron.
whovever she was, they seemed to be putting something in their bag. books, maybe? I decided not to look into it, in case the mindreading student was near by.
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Also, I have no idea what happened with all of that information that started with "Normal". @Admins can you please remove it or something?
I think I fixed it, and I think it happened because you copied from some incompatible application and pasted into your Chatterbox comment. To fix it on my iMac, I copied and pasted the text into TextEdit, selected Make Plain Text, then copied and pasted the Plain Text file back into Chatterbox. You might try something like that next time.
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Erin~
I quickly finish breakfast and run down the hall, not wanting to be late for class. The astronomy classroom is in the tallest tower on campus, at the very top. I take the stone steps two at a time and I'm out of breath when I reach their end at a purple door with a moon-shaped handle. I open it and walk into a circular room, letting out a gasp as I look up. There is no roof, but a tall glass dome above me where I can see the clear blue sky dotted with fluffy clouds. Instead of desks the floor is covered with patterned blankets and pillows. Some of my classmates are already there, as well as an unfamiliar man with curly golden hair and dark skin, dressed in a purple robe decorated with stars. He turns to me as I enter. "Welcome!" he says with a smile. "My name is Professor Solaris. And who might you be?"
"Oh, I'm Erin," I answer.
"It's nice to meet you, Erin! Please take a seat wherever you like."
I notice Drius nearby, so I sit down next to them. Professor Solaris begins telling us about astronomy, and the difference between it and astrology. "We'll do a bit of both in this class," he says. "But mostly focus on the stars and planets themselves, not nessecarily what they might mean. Does anyone know any of the constellations?"
A small, blue-eyed girl raises her hand. "There are a lot, right? I know how to find Orion and Ursa Major."
"And then there's the zodiac," a girl with short, curly hair adds. "They're what astrology is based on. There are others too, like Hercules, Pegasus, and Cassiopeia. Most are inspired by Greek mythology."
"Good!" Professor Solaris exclaims. He talks more about constellations and how we'll learn to locate them. He mentions having night classes to watch a meteor shower later this year, which makes me excited.
When class ends I walk down the stairs with the curly-haired girl. "You know a lot about constellations and stuff," I remark.
She smiles. "Thanks! It's one of the things I like to learn about."
"That's cool! I'm Erin, by the way."
My name's Aisling," she responds.
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Shannon trugded down the steps from the astronomy class, her bag of school supplies slung over her shoulder. She hadn't been paying too much attention during class, mostly because the plants kept trying to speak to her. She had mananged to jot down a few notes.But now she was bothered. The plants loud murmuring had no dulled down to quiet, near-silent whispers. Like they had given up talking to Shannon. It bothered her, which was silly since she had been bothered when they were still trying to talk to her. She tried to push away the nagging worry, but still it was there. It was as though she had forgotten something important.Suddenly, Shannon's foot slipped and a scream caught in her throat. She stumbled forward, falling towards the stairs. She felt a jerk on the back of her shirt and someone yanked her upright. She gasped with relief. "Thanks," she said to the stranger. He had brown skin and black hair that had been dyed green in places. He was a lot taller than her. He must be sixteen at least. He glared nervously at her."Be careful!" he warned. "You could've fallen and broken all the bones in your body!" -
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After thanking the tall boy and hurrying down the long winding staircase that led to the astronomy tower, Shannon consulted her timetable. Magical creatures and cultures next, Shannon saw. She hurried down a long wooden hallway lined with pictures of various things including a dragon, a banshee, a staff, a tea set, a garden party and many other things.At the end of the corridor there were two rooms, one on either side of the hallway. One was arched with stones all around the arch, the actual door was wooden. That one was on the left. The one on the right was made mostly of blue glass and intricate ironwork. It was in a rectangle and was taller than the other door.Shannon, without stopping to really think about it, breezed through the right door, the glass one. She was busy studying her timetable and hadn't really been thinking about where she was going. She looked up and gave a small gasp of surprise. There were no windows in this room. It was all dark stone walls and dark stone floors. In the center of the room there were a bunch of large, long rectangular blue-glass plant boxes. Inside the boxes, weeds and soft purple pink and white flowers surrounded a statue that stood in the center of the box. Vines climbed over it, clinging gently. One of the statues was a graceful looking woman with long hair that fell in tangles to her waist. There was a cord around her waist, as a sort of makeshift sash for her dress. One of her arms was raised above her head, fingers spread wide. Another statue was of a young man. He wore a jacket with buttons and fancy looking shoes. His head was turned to the left. He clutched a spyglass close to his chest with one hand. Another statue was a of a samll girl. She was on the ground, in a sleeping position. Her pigtailed hair behind her. She was wearing a skirt, and a shirt .There were twelve boxes in rows of three across and four long ways. Each one had a statue in it. They were spaced about five feet apart from the other statues. There was a door in the far right corner of the room. As Shannon walked slowly farther into the room, she realized that the wall of the room jutted out, hiding her view on the right of what lay beyound. There was a small alcove with a three steps leading up to a blue glass table, which had several instruments on it. Shannon studied the instruments with interest. There was a thing that looked like pincers, one that looked vaguely like a hammer, and two that looked like candle snuffers, except one was abnormally large and the other strangely small. Shannon didn't know how to describe the others very well, except that they looked like doctors tools.A note tucked slightly beneath one of the tools caught Shannon's eye. She carefully pulled it out and started reading. So you've finally got here! the note began. Chills crept up Shannon's spine, but she read on. You've found the Frozen Guardians and the tools you'll need are on this table. More people will arrive shortly. There should be four others coming, I believe. You'll each need all the courage, strength and dexterity you possess, so find it quick, then move on to the next door. With any luck, you'll have five Guardians to help you by then. This is extremely important: DO NOT MOVE ON UNTIL AT LEAST FIVE GUARDIANS ARE RELEASED!!! All the best,-G.F.P.S. You'd better hope the others get here soon. Look, the waters already rising! Best of luck! G.F.Shannon turned away from the creepy note, fear flooding her. She looked down on the floor and saw a trickle of water was coming out from under the last stair of the raised dais thing-y. Shannon cowered next to the table and let out a small whimiper. -
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Hi there everyone! I have had a bit of an idea shortage lately, and now I'm going on this 3-week trip, so I won't be here for a while, but I'm coming back in a bit, hopefully with a few ideas. Bye!!
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I ran down the hallway, trying to get away.
Ten minutes earlier, I was thinking about the rune-magic exam while walking to math, when I heard a voice. The next thing I knew was lying on the ground, feeling slightly woozy, and very confused. Then I began to run.
The hallway had come to an end, and there was a large wooden door. I turned the handle and went through. Why was it unlocked? I think it led to the woods outside the school. Exploring the area, I came to a deep, mossy ravine, which looked eerily familiar.
I turned around, and I could see the door when I heard strange voices. I walked closer, hoping to hear more. I heard the voice that I heard before I went unconscious. Running away, I kept my eyes on the trees ahead of me. My foot caught a root, and I fell into the ravine. Before falling, though, someone had caught me. I didn't know who. I'd scrambled down and out, and ran towards the school before seeing them, despite their calls for me to wait.
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Sorry for not posting a part in a while!
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