[ Session start! Exposition incoming! ] [ You're all in one of the School for Adventurous Types' many classrooms. It's a school, so it's gotta have those. Right now, you're in the room assigned to Professor Katsuragi, your homeroom teacher. As is the custom before a group goes on an adventure for summer break, you're going to have to sit through an instructional movie, and then get through a series of meaningless-seeming tasks in the Gym of Testing. ] [ IC, you don't know why you have to put up with this each time. It's like being stuck in one of the Hells of Baator for an hour out of every year. But OOC, this will go over many things that the newer players need to know/remember. ] ( If brute force isn't solving all your problems, you're not using enough. ) * Vall tries to stay awake during the lecture. * HKenji sits and watches attentively, even though he's been through this before. [ Professor Katsuragi walks in just then with the movie... an old reel- to-reel job built into it's projector. This should be interesting. Go! ] * Patrick leans back and acts un-interested, although he still has half-an-eye open. * Tia is already stamping her paws eagerly. "A movie! We get to watch a movie?" * Seylin barely stops herself from rolling her eyes. She side-glances over at Patrick. * Tia glances at both Patrick and Seylin and grins. * Patrick shrugs, then looks over at Tia and tries to silently get her to settle down. (Descriptions?) "Easy, Tia. I'm sure we'll enjoy the movie." [ "Yeup," says the professor. "Lucky you. An' this one's so good, I'm not gonna sit around for it. Don't wanna spoil the fond memories I have." ] [ And yes, descriptions would be nice. ] ( What, of people? That might help, since some of us have only just met. ^_^; ) * Istvan walks in right after the Prof. You've probably seen him around before... hard not to, because he's 6'3, 240. But he never really speaks up much in classes, so despite his bulk, he manages to kind of fade into the background. * Vall is a rather small elf (5' 1", 95 lbs) with a very dark tan and silver hair, hinting at a bit of drow heritage. * Seylin sighs, leaning her head on her hands. Her auburn hair falls forward to hide most of her face. She's a pretty girl, fairly tall, with lightly tanned skin and grey eyes. Oh, and wings. Did we mention the wings? They're white, feathered, and right now tightly folded against her back. * Istvan is rather obviously human, if somewhat built like an orc linebacker. Tannish skin, short spiky black hair, dark olive eyes... pretty good looking, but nothing spectacular. * HKenji is a young man of the oriental type. He ain't from around here, and boy does it show. He's dressed in an immaculately clean kimono in light brown and yellow, with two different stylized lion symbols on. His hair is done up in an elaborate topknot which drapes down to cover his shaven pate. Nowhere in evidence is his school pack, but then, few things are ever in evidence about them until he wishes them to be seen. [ Istvan is, you remember, one of the people living with the rest of you in the Flying Couches home. He's just not very... social. ] * Patrick is fairly tall as well, and would stand at around 6'2" if he stood up. His frame is in the medium range, despite him having a decent amount of muscle mass. His hair is black and short, and his eyes are a neutral-grey. Clearly human, he's also fairly tanned from being outside a bit. He's constantly smirking. Even now. * Seylin is currently wearing a gray undertunic, dark blue overtunic, dark grey leggings and brown boots. * HKenji prepares a piece of paper and a brush so that he may take notes on this instructional film. * Patrick is wearing a dark-yellow long-sleeve with a thin horizontal red stripe, jeans with a hole ripped in the right knee, and white sneakers. Clearly one who takes advantage of technology. He yawns. * Seylin looks up when Istvan comes in, then waves and smiles at him. She has a *very* nice smile. * Vall is currently wearing a simple tunic and breeches, with a cloak draped over it, and sturdy boots. A signet ring is evident on his right hand, and a simple gold band on the other. ( 'built like an orc linebacker'... I like that. *adds that to description on char sheet* ) * Patrick smirks and waves over at Istvan. His smile is more of a 'I know something about you and there's nothing you can do about it' smile. ( A hawk sits on Vall's shoulder. ) * Istvan is wearing generic casual clothes, earthtones all. He waves politely back to Patrick, but doesn't continue the interaction much beyond that. * HKenji looks around as he waits patiently for the film to start. * Istvan shifts uncomfortably at his desk, trying to find a comfortable position in a seat not really designed for someone his size. * Patrick has his school pack lying unused on the floor by his chair. He also has a quiver around the back of his chair, although what he'd do without a bow for it is pretty confusing. * Tia is probably the most noticeable of all. Besides her tendency to knock over furniture and people wherever she goes, she stands at 7'3" and is Very Large. From waist up, she looks to be a muscular young human woman with pointed, draconine ears, bright green eyes, fair skin, and long, reddish blonde hair tied in a waistlength braid. * Seylin sighs softly and *tries* not to fidget. She reaches for her school bag, and starts to pull out a piece of parchment, then changes her mind. * Vall is leaning forward, looking utterly bored right now, but the hawk on his shoulder is looking at everyone with rapt attention. He starts to move his fingers in the gestures needed to cast a spell, but stops halfway through it, as spellcasting in a classroom, even for a spell as harmless as dancing lights, is probably forbidden. * Tia is, however, a silver-blue dragon from waist down. Dressed in an adamantine breastplate and matching winged helmet, she carries a huge double- edged greataxe over her shoulder and an extra large bookbag on the back of her lower body. ( She's a Valkrye and mount, all in one! ) (Hehe!) ( Wow, you had to have paid a fortune for a large size non-standard shape adamantine breastplate. ) * Tia doesn't fit in any of the chairs, so she sits back on her hindquarters. ( You have no idea, ND. ) [ Professor Katsuragi is trying to get the film to work. It's had a few false starts, but after blowing large amounts of dust out of the reel and hitting the projector several times, it starts up! Slowly. The opening music is a bit distorted at first, but eventually speeds up to normal frequencies. It is, much to your collective horror, old enough to be in black and white. ] * Tia is watching with rapt attention. * HKenji pulls his brush to the ready and marvels once more, just a bit, at the things these gaijin have come up wtih. * Seylin looks out the window. Such a nice day. Why, oh why, must the gods be punishing her so by making her stay in here? * Tia wags her tail cheerfully. * Istvan bangs his head against a nearby wall lightly, then grudgingly starts paying attention. * Patrick glances out the window, then around the room. He's not paying so much attention to the movie, but more to the other PC's. ( If a caterpillar has wings, run. ) [ As the movie gets going, it promptly kicks the fourth wall over by declaring it's title to be -- and the narrator confirms it -- "D20 and You." ] (Hahahaha) ( Damn it, we're gonna need the This Old RPG crew to repair this. ) ( *GROAN* I smell FF7-esque training instructions coming ) ( You are perspicatious, sir. ) ( Your sense of smell is impressive. ) (This oughta be fun...) [ The image starts with a young man ineffectually swinging a large prop with 'SWORD' written on it. Soon, he is joined by a tall, wizened mage-looking type dressed predominantly in red. This newcomer asks, "Why, hello, Billy. What're you doing?" ] * Tia giggles. "SWORD. I can read that!" (How can we tell he's dressed in red if it's in black and white?) ( It says "red" on it. ) ( Exactly. ) (Oh. ^^;) * Seylin looks over at Patrick and mouths the words, "Shoot me now." [Billy grins from ear to ear. "I wanna be an ADVENTURER!"] * Patrick sighs, then looks over at Seylin. He points his finger in a gun-shape and lowers his thumb, mouthing the words. "Bang." Me too! * Istvan contemplates how stealthily he can make a break for the door. He looks down at himself, and concludes: not very. * Tia jumps up, her tail swinging energetically from side to side. [ Professor Katsuragi makes a face and walks out of the room, pulling a trusty flask from her hip pocket. ] * Vall yawns loudly * Seylin slumps briefly over her desk. Then she sits back up and grins at Patrick, while motioning at Tia. * Patrick notices the Prof walk off. Is any other instructor in the room? [ Meanwhile, the Mage labeled Red asks, "Oh, well that's good, Billy! How's it coming so far?" ] * HKenji blinks. * Tia is (unconsciously) slowly inching toward the screen. * HKenji blinks again. * HKenji puts away his paper and brush, slipping them silently into the sleeves of his kimono. [Billy frowns now, coming close to tears. "I'm real lousy, you bet!"] * Tia glances back at Patrick and Seylin. "Why's he crying?" Because he needs help, Tia. He's just starting his training. (Is there a professor in the room?) Because he's in black and white. * Tia scratches her head. "I don't understand." * Istvan then eyes Tia, and wonders if his conscience could take it he framed her for knocking a chair into the projector. He then sighs and slumps back in his chair when he realizes he can't. =P * Vall mutters "This movie is lousy," loud enough yet soft enough for everyone to hear. [ "Well, Billy, that's okay. I can help you!" And she sure isn't. She left. She's the smart one, see. ] * Tia turns her attention back to the movie. It's okay, Tia. In a little while, this will all be over, and then we can go outside. Where I can fly instead of being stuck in this stupid classroom all day. * Patrick looks at the projector, looking to see if there's any way to 'accidently' set the film on fire. (I suppose we can't really break the projector, since this is supposed to be OOC help...) [Billy brightens. "Really? Gee, that's awful swell of ya!"] Please refrain from disabling the device, Patrick. (The projector probably has some sort of protection. ;p) ( Oh, you could! But then there'd be another to replace it. ) Oh, okay! I'll go with you! * HKenji doesn't look back at Patrick as he says that. * Patrick smirks. * Tia turns back to the movie. * Istvan grumbles. "Quiet down. I wanna hear th- no, wait. I don't. Talk away." * Seylin sighs and rests her head on her hands again. Her left wing twitches slightly. * Tia sits back on her haunches again. ( Boy, it's a good thing I took "The Patience of Tides" with THIS group. ^_^; ) ("The Patience of Tides"?) * Patrick doodles silently on a piece of paper. ( It's a technique feat. ^_^ ) (we have a dracotaur with ADD... any sliver of patience is a good thing. :) ( Is that like the Prince of Tides? Can you summon Barbara Streisand to engage your foes in mortal combat? ) [ "Heh heh. Of course it is, Billy. See, what you don't know -- what I'm about to teach you -- is the most important knowledge you can have as an adventurer." He gestures with his hand, and a mysterious object with twenty numbered sides appears, floating above it! You might think this magic, except you can see that the object is suspended by a string, and Billy isn't standing where he was before. ] * Tia fidgets and starts looking out the window. (Is there a window?) This is *so* lame... [ There is one window. It is small. You'd have to be a halfling to get through. ] ( ISty: Don't make me summon Vanilla Ice. :P ) (Hahaha!) ( I think it'd be better for them to make us watch Labyrinth, though. ) * Tia sniffs around the room, hoping that Professor Katsuragi might have left some popcorn behind. ( It's a textbook of everything an adventurer can do wrong. ) ( I love that movie!) * Vall yawns again, then slips into a meditative trance. ["Geepers! What's THAT!"] [ "That's a d20, Billy. Everything in the universe is governed by millions if tiny objects like these. They're too small to see, now, so don't go looking for any, but the d20, more than the gods, more than magic, is what makes things happen!" ] * Tia sits back, disappointed that she didn't find any popcorn. {Billy looks at his hand in wonder.] What's he looking at? * Patrick finishes his doodle and passes it to Seylin. It's a sloppy drawing of a well-known lame arcane archer named Chomei Allsbane with blue hair, with a question mark between him and another drawing of a screen. On it is written: "Lamer than Chomei Allsbane? You decide." (*cracks up*) * Tia fidgets restlessly. When are they going to start fighting? When the movie's over. * Tia looks confused. [ The screen cuts to a close-up of the d20, with the voice of the narrator saying, "Yes, the d20! This little wonder governs; *Skill rolls! *Attack rolls! *Saving rolls! *Pizza-eating rolls! *And many more!" ] Pizza! Do we get pizza for lunch today? Now I feel like I'm watching an infomercial. pizza... eating... rolls? * Seylin pulls her pen out of her school bag and scribbles a bit more onto the paper. She passes it back to Patrick. It now reads, "There is *nothing* lamer than Chomei Allsbane. You know that. But this comes really close." * Istvan blinks again at Tia, and mutters. "Now I remember why I don't go out much..." * Tia 's massive stomach growls. It sounds disturbingly like a rabid poodle. [ Billy frowns again. "Gee, that's really swell, but what's that got to do with me wanting to be an adventurer?" ] * Patrick takes it back and snickers. * Seylin looks up at the screen. "Yes, the universe really cares how we eat pizza. Can we get *on* with things?" It has to do with me kicking your ass, Billy. * Tia grins at Patrick. "Oh, can I help?" [ "Why, everything! You see, Billy, if you want to make it as an adventurer, you have to know how to make the most of chance. This means learning how to make the d20 work for *you*." ] * Tia is having trouble staying still. Her fidgeting has already tipped over a number of desks and chairs. [ "And how do I do that?" ] I'm thirsty. * Tia starts watching an ant crawling on the floor. * Patrick blinks and jumps out of his chair as Tia's tail comes around and knocks his over. "I bet there's a fountain out there somewhere, Tia." He grins. You want me to get you some water? ^_^ Oh, yeah! Thanks, Patrick! * Seylin does pull a piece of paper out of her bag this time, and begins drawing a stick-figure battle between Chomei Allsbane and his nemesis, the famed cleric/fighter Chie of the Spirit Blade. Guess who's winning? ^_~ * Tia grins. "Can I go with you?" [ "Well, Billy, first you need to know your stats. See, your stats determine--" and then there's a popping noise as the projector's light source burns through the film and the sound is magnified by the sound system. ] * Istvan nods his head emphatically, as if to will Patrick to say yes. * HKenji jumps a little. Patrick, I trust that this wasn't your doing? * Seylin looks up from her drawing. "I didn't do that. Did one of you guys do that?" * Patrick starts. "Hey, if it was, the thing would have exploded." Wow! That was cool! Wasn't me, I swear! * HKenji stands up. "I shall notify the professor." * Tia looks at Patrick. "How did you do that?" [ The professor comes in. "Not another one? Godsdammitaldafrickin..." she sighs. "Okay. I guess we can move on to the hands-on part. I'll add in some of the important stuff you missed, just in case it comes up. C'mon, this way." And she leads out! ] * Seylin looks pleadingly at Kenji. "Must you?" Okay! ... I knew that donation to Karr's church would pay off. * Tia prances out happily. * Seylin stands up. "Finally!" * HKenji nods happily and follows the professor. * Tia has forgotten completely about her earlier thirst, apparently. * Seylin waits for Patrick. "That really *wasn't* you, was it?" Thank the spirits, that was worse than last year's film. * Istvan follows. * Patrick smirks, as if he did have something to do with it. He picks up his backpack and quiver, and follows. * Seylin giggles and walks out with him. What are we doing, Professor? Is it fun? How come they never did any fighting in the movie? I was waiting for the fighting to start! Because they were lame. I don't think it got that far, Tia. * Istvan grabs his stuff and follows along. [ The professor leads you all to one of the gyms, filling a cup with water on the way. Upon arrival, she inserts a few tokens into a vending machine marked 'teachers only', and pulls out a small package. She opens the package, sets it on the floor, and pours the water in. There's a sooty explosion, and when the smoke clears, a very confused-looking goblin is standing where the package was. "...gwah?" ] Where are we going? * Tia giggles. "Oh, look, a goblin! I like goblins!" Powdered instant goblin? * HKenji blinks. * Tia runs up to the goblin. "Hi!" I wonder if its a paladin. I'd heard of them. * Patrick chuckles. * Istvan looks down at the goblin, and rolls his eyes. [ "Right. You all know what this... right. Tia knows, so you ALL know." The goblin looks up at Tia in abject horror. ] Reminds me of instant martians. * Tia smiles engagingly at the goblin...though smiling like that exposes her sharp canines. * Patrick grins. Instant what? Are instant martians like instant cocoa? You wouldn't get the pop-culture reference. * Seylin giggles. She did. But that's probably not surprising. * Patrick grins. * Istvan grins slightly. [ "Anyway. I'm gonna give you your combat training now. Hmmm. Who all has their weapon with 'em?" ] * Tia 's hand shoots up. "ME!" * Tia looks every part the eager student. A samurai is always armed. Sure, but I don't want to waste an arrow on a goblin. * Vall pulls his bow out of his quiver and strings it. "I'm ready." Oh, I'm good to go! [ The poor little goblin quivers. ] [ "...besides you, Tia. The lession needs to be longer and make less of a mess... alright, you can go, Seylin. Draw steel, assume the proper offensive stance, blah blah." ] (Dobby only wants to serve!) * Patrick puts a glove on his right hand, snapping the fingers, making his bow of badass appear out of nowhere instantly. * Tia puts down her hand disappointedly, but she nods. "Okay. Go Seylin!" (( bow of badass? )) All right! Here I go! * Istvan pats his pockets. "Oh darn. I seem to have left my halberd in my other pants." * Tia cheers loudly. * Patrick chuckles. (*snicker*) * Seylin reaches into her haversack and pulls out a halberd. "Well, you can't borrow mine." She goes into an offensive stance. * Vall snickers. * Patrick grins. "You need to borrow a sword, Istvan?" (I'm assuming I've got *the* haversack with me, correct?) * Vall pulls his sword scabbard and club out of the haversack, and then his armor, and suits up. * Tia offers her huge axe to Istvan. "Wanna borrow mine?" * Istvan eyes Patrick. "Nah. If we get to actual combat training, I can go get it." * Patrick shrugs and smiles. "Suit yourself." He's still not carrying a sword, anyways. * Istvan looks up at Tia, obviously unaccustomed to having to look up at people. "Again, nah. I'll be okay." * Tia nods and smiles. "Okay!" * Tia returns to cheering for Seylin. * HKenji steps back a way from Tia. * Tia 's jumping up and down is making the floor shake. * Patrick keeps his wits about him, espically since he's near Tia. Geeze, I really am her keeper. [ "Okay. Now, this gobbo's wearin' a chain shirt he found somewhere, lucky him, so that'll make it harder to hurt him. How hard it is to strike a blow what does damage is called his 'armor class'," says Professor Katsuragi, ensuring that the fourth wall stays down. ] * Seylin twirls her halberd idly. She doesn't seem to have any problems with handling it. * HKenji looks sadly at the broken, beaten corpse of the fourth wall. [ "He also gets a one-point bonus to armor class since he's so small," she idly says, kicking the goblin in it's butt, "And I'd guess another one from his Dexterity modifier." ] [ The goblin hops forward and rubs its rump, letting out a yelp. ] * Patrick hears the 4th wall crashing down. [ She looks Seylin up and down. "Alright. Seylin's not much on real combat training, so her base attack bonus, or B.A.B., is only three. But she's a tough little girl, so when she's swinging a melee weapon like that halberd there, she gets another +4 from her Strength modifier. Since the halberd has a light enchantment on it, that's another +1. Everyone with me so far?" ] * Vall nods slowly. * Tia nods emphatically. * Seylin nods. "Yep, gotcha!" * Patrick yawns and nods. * HKenji nods a little and backs up further to the back of the group. Yup. [ "Greeat. Okay, so when Seylin goes to attack this poor clueless gobbo here, it'll be her attack bonus - which is a total of eight - versus the gobbie's armor class, which is a total of sixteen. Normally, of course, this would make it impossible for Seyling to hurt the goblin, but as you and I know, goblins die all the time. That's where the d20 comes in." ] [ She pulls out an orange d20. The 4th wall splits in half, still lying on the ground. "Right. This is a d20. It's a die, like the six-sided ones you use to play craps an' all that crap, but with more sides, obviously." ] * Seylin does not mutter, "Not the d20 again." But she comes close. Probability is Power, o winged one. * Seylin nods idly. Dumb luck can overcome strength, numbers, and even tactics. [ "See, when Seylin attacks, one of these things'll roll. We're not sure where, but there's a lot of mages looking for the Elemental Plane of Dice. Whatever the result of the roll is, it'll be added to Seylin's attack bonus, and that number - her attack roll - has to beat the gobbo's armor class to hit it. Seylin, go ahead." ] And I find that the more I practice, the luckier I get. *** Will has joined #canyonhome * Istvan shakes his head. "Dependin' on Lady Luck to be a lady is a good way to get killed, though." * Seylin swings at the goblin with the blade part of her halberd. "Ha!" d20+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Seylin (d20+8) and gets 16. *** Ariake has joined #Canyonhome [ Suddenly, the d20 in Professor Katsuragi's hand rolls itself! Holy CRAP! The result is eight, which makes a total of sixteen in Katsuragi's estimate of Seylin's combat skill was correct -- which it seems to me, as the halberd goes 'ching' ineffectually against the cowering gobbo's armor. ] Go Seylin! You can do it! Darnit! [ The gobbo shrieks in fear! ]] [ "Right. See, Seylin's roll wasn't quite good enough. But since I'm so nice, she's getting another chance. Go for it, Sey." ] ( Ano... Yu... she hit. ) [ Eh? *looks* ] ( I quote: "If the attack roll result equals or exceeds the target's AC, the attack is successful," ) [ Right. See, this is why I'm actually *glad* to have a rules lawyer around. ;P ] ( If we're gonna teach someone new, might as well teach 'em right. ^_^ ) [ Anyway. That's what WOULD have happened if Seylin's roll was one less. ] * Tia cheers. [ Y'know, like the alternate endings of Clue? Anyway. What actually happened was that Seylin's halberd sunk into the poor gobbo's chest... and then nothing else happens. Common sense says the gobbo's supposed to bleed a lot and maybe die, but... ] [ The goblin looks down at itself with a distressed look on its face. ] Withdraw the weapon please, Seylin. Yeah! Uh. *That* doesn't usually happen. You'll give the poor thing a heart attack. [ "Good job, ya hit 'im. Barely, but barely's enough to work with. Now you have to roll damage. You don't do that with a d20, tho - what the damage dice are depends on your weapon, or on what spell you used to blast some poor bastard. ] * Tia stops cheering for a moment and looks down at the goblin. "Are you okay?" She looks concerned. * Patrick rolls his neck boredly. His bow of badass vanishes again. * Seylin yanks on her halberd, but it's not moving. [ "... no! Sword bad!" ] And it's not even a sword. [ "Like I said, y'gotta roll. Since you're using a halberd, you roll a d10, plus one for it's magical enhancement, plus 6 for one and one-half your strength bonus, 'cause it's a two-handed weapon. Go fer it." ] Yeah, really. * HKenji waves goodbye to the poor goblin. * Tia looks sympathetic. "I'm sorry." 1d10+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Seylin (1d10+7) and gets 11. [ The goblin spurts blood from its chest, about three feet into the air! The goblin twitches and flails, staggers three feet to the right, falls over, gets up again and staggers seven feet to the left, does a somersault, wanders over back to Seylin, gagging and bleeding all the way, and finally does a perfect piroutte and falls over. His legs twitch exactly three times. ] Well. That was needlessly dramatic. Someone call an eta to clean this up. ... * Tia looks at Seylin, then looks back at the goblin, teary-eyed. * Patrick grins. Poor, poor, goblin. Alas, poor Gobbo. I knew him... a goblin of infinite jest. You were going to rip it apart with your bear hands, Tia. [ "Good job, ya killed a goblin. An' the janitors'll get it soon enough, don't worry." ] * Seylin just shakes her head. Go me. * Tia glances at Patrick. "I didn't know he would die." It's just an instant goblin, anyways. * Tia wipes her eyes on the back of a large hand. s'usually what happens when you shove a sharp piece of metal through something's chest. [ "I'll note real quick that ranged attacks, like Pattie here and his pretty little bow, would use the attacker's Dexterity bonus instead of his Strength bonus. Any questions?" ] No, ma'am. None here. Nope. * Seylin hefts her halberd. "No, I think I got it. *Really* got it." Gotcha. * Tia shakes her head, still sniffling a little. [ "Righto. On to skills, then." She walks over to a wall with a door in it, standing by itself in an open area of the gym. "Okay. Seylin, I know you're sneaky sort. Can ya pick locks?" ] * HKenji ponders for a moment getting Tia a pet goblin for her birthday. * Patrick ponders for a moment blowing up a pet goblin. * Seylin cleans off her halberd. Then her expression brightens. "You betcha! Now *that's* more like it!" * Seylin does not skip over to the door. That would be undignified. Oh, who are we kidding here? She skips. ;p * Tia follows. [ "Sure. Now, this is a pretty easy lock. I got it from Professor Asinine's locker, but don't tell 'er that. It's got a Difficulty Class, or D.C., of 20." ] * Seylin nods, and produces a set of lockpicks from inside her overtunic. [ "Again, skills are rolled on a d20, just like attacks, which we just did, and saves, which we'll do next. The modifier for Seylin's roll will be her amount of training.... eh, give 'er a four, plus her Dexterity modifier, since this is a skill of manual prestidigitation. Not the spell, mind ya. She gets another +1 from wearin' her school seal - you all got yours, right? Good. She prolly has other odd-and-end bonuses that I dunno 'bout, too. Seylin? If ya would?" ] No problem! * Seylin gets to work. d20+13 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Seylin (d20+13) and gets 19. ...okay, minor problem. [ Seylin FAILS. ...really, this time. ] I can do this! Really! Let me try again? (Mention taking ten and twenty, Yu?) [ "Eh, don't worry 'bout it. This lets me tell you kids about something else, anyway. Seylin, this time take ten." ] ( Yup. ) [ "See, since this is a skill check, Seylin can just spend some more time and concentration to do it sort of 'by the book'. Now, doin' this, she can't ever do her best, but she *can* make sure she doesn't do her worst. The end result is that, when taking ten, you always treat the result as if you'd rolled a ten on your d20 - hence the name." ] * Istvan rubs his temples, turns, and walks out of the room. * Tia waves. * Seylin tries again. This time she works on it a bit longer, and the lock pops open. [ Istvan is a poo-face. ;_; ] * Patrick waves. *** Istvan has quit IRC (Quit: I sleep the sleep of the things what sleep... while sleeping... in their sleep... sleepety sleep sleep. Narf. ) * Patrick grins, too. [ The Final Fantasy Victory Tune comes out of nowhere. "Good job. Now, through the door, if you would. Just you, Seylin." ] * Patrick shrugs. * Seylin motions to the now-open door and smiles at the group at large. Oh, okay. I'll be right back! * Seylin walks through the door. * Tia grins at Seylin and stays put. Take your time * Patrick puts his hands in his pockets. * Vall casts Dancing Lights to pass the time, sending them over in Tia's direction, right past her nose. * Tia turns around quickly, overturning...whatever there is in the gym to overturn. o_0 What was that? * Tia has evidently forgotten about the goblin already. * Vall makes the dancing lights come back, hovering around her head [ "Now," says Professor Katsuragi, "After Seylin walks through the doorway, she's going to need a Reflex save. These are rolled on d20s, too. She gets a bonus from her training - three - a bonus fro her nimbleness - four- and one more from her school seal. Let's see what happens." ] * HKenji quickly hops over Tia's tail as it sweeps past. * Tia wheels around to look at the lights and reaches out a hand to grab at them. * Vall teases her by making the lights back off slightly as she reaches for them Hey! Come back here! [ Roll dem bones, Seylin. ^_~ ] * Tia jumps up, swiping at the lights. d20+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Seylin (d20+8) and gets 26. ( Evasion! w00t! ) ( good save! ) * Vall has the lights circle the room ( near the ceiling ) [ Seylin leaps out of the way as a bucket of water comes splashing down from above the door! "Good job, Seylin. Everyone give 'er a round of applause."] * HKenji applauds politely. * Tia skips along the edge of the room, following the lights. She giggles delightedly. * Vall dispells the spell and applauds politely * Patrick claps and grins. * Seylin grins and walks back through the door. She curtseys to the group. "Thank you. You're all too kind!" * Tia stops, realizes that everyone else is clapping and does the same. [ "Alright. Anyone have questions?" ] * Tia runs back to rejoin the group. Nope. * Tia grins at the professor. None here. Can we repair the fourth wall, now? No, ma'am. * Tia raises her hand. [ "Right. Tomorrow, we'll go on to bang-spells and you. After your physicals, anyway. Oh, and sure. It's had enough abuse for the day." ] [ Session End! ]