Magical Teacher Professor Landry! - Discussion 2: This School is Weird!

[Teal Mage]

Oh look, a GM post.

Isn't it nice?

In spite of what I said before about being patient, I hope the long delays between posts aren't too off-putting a thing. Hopefully the pace will pick up when Professor Landry isn't standing at the front of the class room talking non-stop. Hopefully!

In regards to this post, I'd like to point out that players don't need to reply to Professor Landry herself. You can react silently, or shout out something during her long, long, speech - just remember that she wouldn't have stopped talking, so keep that in mind if you do decide to react (out loud) to a specific part in the middle of her talking storm.

'course, you can always strike up a conversation in whispers to someone sitting next to you. Might be simpler!

Editing an updated map in as we speak, in case people aren't sure who's where.

Edit:

Here's a map! And the key. Used different colors than Meneraker did, they're aimed more toward matching Auras than anything else.

Oh, he also put the door on the wrong side, so I just flipped the arrangement. Doesn't really change anything though.

Jay Miles (Overcast), does not like the Scots!
Jackson Hall (Dracorion), wishes he was a better wizard.
Dalbhach Nuada (Krylo), sentenced to High School.
Dean William Hunter (krogothwolf), hates love.
Astarte Whitewrap (Armored Bishoujo), made a Mummy by her Mommy.
Sean Castevet (BardTheFifthLightWarrior), has a heart condition.
Johanna Imirsdotter (Arhra), is basically a giant snowcone.
Diana Tear (Steel Shadow), carries a camera everywhere!
Sao Opallios (Riin Whitewind), has competition!
Mysterious Girl (NPC), not named Ms. Sue.

(Blackboard)
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(Back-wall)

However!

I realized that I'm not totally sure where Jay, Sao and Dal are sitting, since the door on Menarker's map was placed by the second row, instead of in front of the first one, so while Andy (according to Dante's post) would be in the first row, Sao might either be in the second or third row, depending on Riin's preference. And since Overcast didn't specify where in the first row he was sitting, I'm not totally sure which seat he picked - which makes it a little tricky to place Dal.

Anyway, the map is my best approximation of where you guys are sitting right now. Correct me if I'm wrong, kay?

[DanteFalcon]

Presuming that is the desk closest to the door then yes. Andy is in the right spot.

[Astral Harmony]

Damn, we don't have bingo yet.

Are you sure our NPCs shouldn't have the same homeroom as us? The class looks a little empty.

Actually, in hindsight, not having them here is probably for the best. I'm sure our posts are long enough as is.

[Menarker]

I intended to be on the fourth row and second column.

That and my character name was meant to be Jin Ifrit, not Ifirt.

[IHateMakingNames]

AB, it's just that the other NPCs in the room don't have any time to talk. PCs always override NPCs.

Plus there'd be one more seat taken had Michael gone to class.

[Teal Mage]

Well, officially, there are two more NPCs who are absent.

There might be a larger influx of NPCs added to the class after the game's first battle level, but I'll decide that later on. Plus it'll probably be a least a month before we actually cross that bridge, so don't expect new characters to join the class any time soon.

Moved Jin and Dean to the other side of the room, since they're supposed to be together.

[Menarker]

Hehe, we now got a Bingo! (2nd Column)

[Girasol of Chaos]

Sorry for being a bit late. I hope this profile is alright, and I'm looking forward to joining.

Placed here since this is more active and more likely to be noticed/edited as such, etc.

Name: Shinobu Meguro

Gender: Female

Aura: Deep Orange

Appearance: Towering at 6'2", Shinobu, or Shin, is extremely tall and well-built for a girl of 17. Having more muscle than not, Shin is strong and carries herself just as expected - proudly. Her black hair is often disheveled, having only enough care to style her somewhat tall mohawk in the morning. The remaining strands don't reach past her neck and cut unevenly. Shinobu's irises are bright red with dark blue creeping up from the pupils, but hardly noticable. Her grin reveals two semi-prominent lower tusks tucked behind her lips. She has semi-fair complexion, with only a hint of any asian appearance.

Shin is often seen wearing light grey pants and a matching sleeveless top. Her favorite shirt has a bold yellow stripe down the right side. On colder days she will add a khakhi jacket, mostly dark grey with a faint orange tone to it. Her black tennis shoes have grey trimming and have seen quite some use.

In natural form Shin remains the same height, but her ogre features are prominent. Shinobu's skin is a cool red, while her eyes are ultramarine. Well above her eyes two black horns jut outwards with a slight downwards curve. Her ears are large and pointed; the unelegant cousins of elf ears. Curved tusks are clearly shown even with her mouth closed, and her jaw is boxed in the manner that would suggest her bite could rival a bulldog's. Musculature in her natural form is more pronounced, being only a little slimmer than what could be labeled as a she-hulk. Her hair is more wild as well, being extremely bushy in the mohawk area and the loose strands able to reach her shoulder line. The actual 'hawk ends somewhere between her shoulder plates. Her nails are also a little sharper, but not claws.

On rare occassions will Shin's skin and eye color reverse to align with another personality. All other appearances in this form remain the same, though this one is less likely to grin madly.


Race: Oni

Abilities: Strength Boost: Shinobu has incredible strength, enough to scare almost any human she decides to demonstrate this with. There are times she can use her muscles to, say, break a wall, but such displays are frowned upon and often will make her feel weak afterwards. She will fully recover after a brief period of rest.

Oni club: In an emergency, where her hands or ready objects fail her, Shin always has her club. The club is summonable and appears out of a quickly created cloud of condensation. The more aggressive she feels, and occassionally there will be some small strands of electricity in this makeshift cloud. They aren't very harmful, though.

Human disguise: Oni learn early on to decieve humans, and the best way to do this is through acting as one of them. Her human form appears as above and can be used at will, except for times of extreme exhaustion.

Background: Being practically kicked out of the house by her parents, Shin was enrolled in Amaranth Institute in hopes someone would teach her a lesson, hopefully while she was being educated. A rather crude and competitive girl, she enjoys being on top of the food chain, and will assert herself loudly and if brute force when she feels it is needed. Her grades are often barely passing, as she uses school more of a training ground for her athletics with some socialization mixed in. It seems she has almost always been a bit of a bully, flaunting her strength since intelligence tends to fail her. Although she has been taught that humans are not tasty snacks, on occassion an irritating individual almost transforms in her mind into a talking steak.

Her history shows that she has transferred schools many times and was sent to Amaranth as a final attempt. As such, she is not quickly attatched to anything that is not food, a method of strengthening herself or something to hurt.

Clubs: Track and field- shot put.
Wrestling

Notes: Shinobu has Multiple personality disorder, with a single personality, named Chou.

Chou is unnoticable visually unless in her natural state. Unlike Shin she is a quiet intellectual, but will not readily talk to anyone. She's also noticably more mature, and feels a couple years past her actual age. There's nothing Chou would like more than to curl up in the libary of the school and read her days away, absorbing new information. Very few lapses are made to reveal Chou. Although neither of them will talk about it, Shin's strong upbringing hints at physical abuse as a small oni, with one prominent event resulting in the split.

Both personalities are strictly carnivore. Normal food is not harmful, but just tastes bad. They both have deep hatred for soy products.


Relationships: Shinobu has a bit of trouble making close friends, being somewhat of a jerk and all. The few individuals she converses with are on track or wrestling, mostly concerning how to improve her technique. Most other conversations with her peers revolve around social events, how terrible something is or who should get hurt. None are important enough for her to even stick her neck out for. Very happy to socialize, not ready to be considerate towards others. She is more than happy to punch whoever she feels like in the face, though.

Offering her food is one way to quickly become her friend. Just make sure it isn't your finger.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by OC

Without anyone else on the team someone was sure to die between them, and the only teamwork he'd have is that they'd be working together to make the Scot's body decompose, with Jay prodding his rotting corpse in the bathtub full of acid.

You assume this isn't exactly what will happen with all three of us on the team.

Pro-tip, look up Irish mythology surrounding the Tautha, and then ponder that the Scot and the Irish have a comman gaelic ancestory.

[Overcast]

I figure their ancestral heritage isn't really all that great since their family history includes the fae doing any number of terrible things to the humans of the Gael over their history together. Some good yeah, but it is always difficult to rule out the Redcap and similar creatures.