we've got magic to do, just for...

[arsholes]

[You awake in an unfamiliar bed.

It’s not uncomfortable per say but it’s certainly not yours. In the dim light around you the room strikes a second chord of unfamiliarity. On a far wall there is a wide banner hanging from the wooden ceiling beam, designating the color of your dorm and the dorm name smack in the middle: Evocation, Illusion, Abjuration, or Conjuration. Printed at the top and bottom of each banner is another name: The Thanatos Institute for the Advancement of Sorcery and Spellcraft.

The dormitories all contain 3 sets of bunk beds, blankets color-coded to the appropriate dorm color. Each bunk bed set has a chest at either end to keep your belongings, along with one bookcase per dorm and a clawfoot tub/ shower tucked away behind a door. Each trunk is individually labeled with a name, the name of one of the people in the bunk bed it flanks. The key to each one tucked away on your person when you awaken; inside the trunks you will find two fresh changes of clothes, basic hygiene items and your transmitter. They’re small, easily fitting in the palm of a hand, and are fitted with a glittering gem on top that matches the user’s assigned dormitory. At a glance it seems like a normal compact mirror, but upon first touching the glass it activates, illuminating the apprentice profiles instead of the beholder’s reflection. And that’s just one of the many things it can do.

The hallway outside the dorms is wide and tall, made of cold gray stone. The hall goes on until you reach the stairs that go up to a higher floor and down to a lower one. Whichever way you choose it becomes quickly clear where you are: a tower made of stone and wood and grand in every meaning of the word except quality.

Down in the Entrance Hall there is space for everyone to gather where massive doors stand unguarded but are tragically locked tight. Posted on the wall next to the doors, encased on a poster-sized glass frame and written on slightly yellowed parchment, are a set of rules.

For all intents and purposes it looks like you’re trapped- but at least you’re not alone.]

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Dorm Shenanigans

[seaweedwrap]

[Wu was asleep on the top bunk. Unfortunately, if the odd metal sounds weren't enough to wake him, the shaking of the entire bed as Somnus disentangled himself would ensure that he couldn't sleep through it. In fact, it wakes him with a start, flailing and scrambling to get out of bed as he shouts:] Earthquake! There's an earthqua-- [his yelling cuts off abruptly with a yelp as, in his attempt to scramble out of bed, Wu failed to realize that he was, in fact, in a bunk bed; probably something he's never seen in his life, much less experienced. So here he goes, falling off the side of the bunk bed. Yeet.]

[encelevenemus]

[And now this was happening.]

[He'd just kind of...wait and see if this weird little guy realized there was no earthquake. Or if his bones were broken. Whichever.]

[seaweedwrap]

[Wu may be from a More Serious cartoon, but he's still from a cartoon and sometimes the Rule of Funny still applies. Fortunately for him, this is one of those times. He lands on the stone floor in a pile of limbs with an "oof!" After a moment, in a quiet pained voice, he just says:] Wu down.

[encelevenemus]

[well, at least you're still alive]

I do not think that reaction was strictly necessary.

1/5

[seaweedwrap]

[at that, he's going to start to wiggle himself into sitting up] I'll have you know that after falling like that, such a reaction is extremely ne--

[seaweedwrap]

[oh. guess who untangled himself from his own limbs and and immediately looked over] ness... [he sure is following the length of that armor upwards]

[seaweedwrap]

[and upwards]

[seaweedwrap]

[and even further upwards. At which point he's just staring for a beat...two...]

5/5

[seaweedwrap]

[and then he let's out something like a high pitched 'EEEEEK' and is scrambling backwards across the stone] Spirits, don't eat me!!

[encelevenemus]

[okay so now this is happening]

Calm yourself and cease with such absurdity. I have no interest in eating you.

[seaweedwrap]

[Wu has curled himself into a ball and put his arms over his head--but that that, he lowers his arms slightly, tilting his head to look at this...this...whatever it is with suspicion.] Are you sure. Because I've heard of some ghost stories where some metal bender accidentally imbued life into his creation and then it went around attacking everyone searching for blood. [Wu wtf are you even reading]