[X] Try to talk to the boy: He looks pretty tired, but he appears determined to not fall asleep... He could need a little hand on that prospect, if you are honest. [X] ...The student with gray hair: Well, this is awkward. She is over there, frozen by your arrival, and at her side is a cat eating her food.
That fading into background trait would be pretty useful for becoming an eminence in shadow
[X] Try to talk to the boy: He looks pretty tired, but he appears determined to not fall asleep... He could need a little hand on that prospect, if you are honest. [X] ...The student with gray hair: Well, this is awkward. She is over there, frozen by your arrival, and at her side is a cat eating her food.
Scheduled vote count started by UNKNOWN01 on Aug 11, 2021 at 12:14 PM, finished with 34 posts and 10 votes.
[X] Try to talk to the girl: You... aren't sure about either of them, so you will go for the one that doesn't look like it's about to fall asleep at the slightest push.
[X] ...The student with green hair: He appeared to be relaxing up here before you came, but he doesn't appear annoyed by your presence, he is actually offering you to sit beside him.
[X] Try to talk to the boy: He looks pretty tired, but he appears determined to not fall asleep... He could need a little hand on that prospect, if you are honest.
Scheduled vote count started by UNKNOWN01 on Aug 11, 2021 at 12:14 PM, finished with 34 posts and 10 votes.
[X] Try to talk to the girl: You... aren't sure about either of them, so you will go for the one that doesn't look like it's about to fall asleep at the slightest push.
[X] ...The student with green hair: He appeared to be relaxing up here before you came, but he doesn't appear annoyed by your presence, he is actually offering you to sit beside him.
[X] Try to talk to the boy: He looks pretty tired, but he appears determined to not fall asleep... He could need a little hand on that prospect, if you are honest.
Yup. Once I know that adorable murder kitty's name, I'll never stop fussing over them. You'll all have to suffer thru cute Omake after cute Omake of the Kitty.
Yup. Once I know that adorable murder kitty's name, I'll never stop fussing over them. You'll all have to suffer thru cute Omake after cute Omake of the Kitty.
After a moment of deliberation, you decide to not bother the male student, he seem to be really tired, and he will probably fall asleep on his own in a few moments, so you decide to focus on the female student.
You manage to sneak up past that male student (rather easily, though to be fair, he is mostly asleep at this point), and start walking towards the table in the background.
As you grow closer, you are able to notice more details about the girl; her hair and eyes are almost the same tone as the male student (maybe related?), she seems to be humming a melody as she reads, and the book she is reading is... Wait, no, that's a manga.
You cough as you reach the table in order to gain her attention, which makes her perk up at your presence.
She gives you a curious look, "Yes...? Can I help you?"
"Um... I am the new transfer student, I was supposed to get here yesterday, but..." But you were almost killed by a monster and you became some sort of mage.
She nods at that, "Ah, so you are the new guy who is going to live here? Alright," She gets up from her seat, putting the manga she had been reading until now down, "I am Miyu Shiirane, it is a pleasure to meet you."
You introduce as well, "Asuka Iwamoto, likewise."
She looks at you, still curious, "So," She begins looking around, "Have you seen...?" Her gaze falls on the male student on the reception, "Ah, right, makes sense." she goes to the male student, and she, to your surprise, manages to lift him up from behind the desk and to carry him on her back.
"Wow..."
"According to the orders of Ms. Asami, he should have been the first guy to receive you on this place, but since that is out of the way," She points at him, "This is Tatsumi, my brother, and if he were awake, he would probably say that is nice to meet you, or something like that."
You see the guy still sleeping soundly, despite being carried like luggage by his sister, and you can't help but nod dumbly at such a bizarre spectacle.
Miyu notices your reaction "Hey, you fine there? This isn't that weird, you are an Awakened, right...?"
"Just for the last," You think for a moment, "24 hours, or something, and during most of those hours I was unconscious."
"Ah, I see," She nods in understanding at your situation, "Well, if you need a guide or something, you can always call to me, you hear?" Miyu offers with a smile.
She then starts moving towards the stairways, "I need to put this guy on his bed, but you need to tell me sometime how did you Awakened!" As she says this, she starts going up through up.
"Oh, one more thing!" She calls to you, "Everyone who lives here is an Awakened, so don't worry about that!" And with that, she's gone.
"...Well," You start going up to your new bedroom. "At least she's nice."
You stare at the girl with gray hair.
She stares back at you.
You keep staring, with your hand still on the pommel of thee door.
She keeps staring, her hand still feeding the black cat at her side.
Neither of you move for what it seems to be an eternity.
Then the cat, who appears to have gotten bored of this situation, gets in between each other's eye contact with a loud hiss.
"MEW!" That is enough to break the standstill eye-to-eye combat you both were in, which apparently makes the cat happy.
The Beast retreats to her... Owner's(?) lap, and starts eating the food she brought.
With your eye combat finished, you are now capable of talk and thought once more, and she is, In Theory, capable of at least one of those two things.
Thus, you decide to be the first in initiate the social advances, and start a conversation.
"Um... Hi?" That sounded better in your head.
The girl looks at you, "Hi." her voice is as plain as it could be.
You decide to take a seat on some place on the rest of the roof, and continue to eat.
The minutes pass without any of you talking to each other, and it's honestly making the atmosphere rather awkward, for you at least.
"So, my name is-" You attempt to introduce yourself before being interrupted.
"Aoi." She says, and after noticing that you have no idea what she's talking about, she points at herself and adds for context "Aoi Aizawa, that's me."
"Ah, Asuka Iwamoto, it's a pleasure." Well, at least that's something.
The lunch goes on, this time less awkward on your part, thankfully.
At the same time, you can't help but notice the cat resting on her lap, much less so as she keeps petting and feeding it.
"So, how did you managed to get your cat here? Isn't it against the rules?" You are actually curious, is that cat even allowed here?
Aoi looks at the cat on her lap.
She then looks at you.
Then at the cat.
Rinse and repeat a few times.
"...Shiro isn't a cat," She then lifts the cat on her arms, cuddling it like a baby, "He's a White Tiger!" And with that bold statement, you can feel a massive amount of smugness coming from her.
'No, wait...' You narrow your eyes, desperately searching the source of the sudden smugness, until you finally realize it's origin.
'Does that cat..?' Against logic (But what use has logic had since you arrived, in all honesty?), you can actually see a massivelysmuggrin on the face of the cat, Shiro, despite the obvious logical and biological problems with that.
Disturbed, you stop talking to both of them until the end of the lunch.
Finally, the day's over.
You can hear Mr. Yonaka's voice as he tells thee student's to return safely to their homees, and to not wander around.
You are busy packing up your things to care much about that, wanting nothing more than to rest in your bed 'till the next day.
Of course, that isn't what happens.
Instead, you found yourself following Mr. Yonaka through the school, as he asked of you.
'It's something important' were his words.
And so, you found yourself inside of the library, with no idea as to why.
"Asuka, come heree for a second," Mr. Yonaka's voice calls you from the other side of the library, "You will need to see this."
As you reach from where his voice is coming, you suddenly feel as iif you had just crossed a barrier, an umbral onto somewhere else.
"Yeah, that should be enough." You hear Yonaka's voice coming from rightbside you, which admittedly makes you jump out of surprise.
"What? I'm not that scary, am I?" As you expected, he is, indeed, right besides you.
You glare at his figure, you have a feeling that he does enjoy doing this, and being scary.
"Alright, Asuka, look closely at this..." You begrudgingly do so, and witness how he puts one of his hands on the bookshelve, revealing a series of lines that divide it from thee rst of the library.
"Is that..?" You are starting to get an idea of what's happening.
"Runes? Yes, they are." And with that, Mr. Yonaka retracts his hand from th bookshelve, letting the runes dissapear... No, rather, he allows them to hide once more, "This place is detached from the rest of the library, here are all the magic tomes and a gate to the training grounds, all what you need to become capable of fighting." As he says that, he throws one of the tomes at you.
You manage to caught the tome before it hits the ground and start reading th title 'Basic of Magic...? Well, at least they call it that.'
"This one is good for you as a beginner, it explains things in a simple way," He keeps walking down the corridor of the... Technically still the library.
He stops in front of a... Crest, of sorts, carved on the wall.
"Alright, now touch this thing." He points to the crest.
Reluctanly, you do so.
And in less than a second, you feel your entire body disintegrating, being reformed, and appearing in other place; all in less than what it takes for you to blink.
"#˜$%3(), !@'4% ¬ere..." You can hear Mr. Yonaka saying something, but you feel way too... everything to understand exactly what.
You can feel someone holding you before you fall to the ground,"Hey, don't worry, it happens to all of us in their first time using that."
You stay a few minutes like that, attempting to decide on one emotion or feeling after going through... that.
After a few minutes, you finally have an idea of what to say.
"I'm never doing that again."
The smile on Mr. Yonaka's face doesn't give you any sort of comfort, "You will have to, sorry."
You let him know of your opinion with a groan. ARC Training: 11!
You are have a rather decent time understanding what it says on the tome.
First, Magic comes from the human, but it is needed a way to be able to give it a form and be able to use it.
That's where Catalysts come in hand.
These objects must have a deep emotional connection with the user in order to obtain a bond with a Concept of Existence and become Catalysts for their use.
Each Catalyst gives an special type of magic to the user, but due to the fact that Magic depends on both the concept it is related, and the user's own imagination, it is rather normal to see Magic that is very similar to each other, if not outright the same.
There are enough of those that Magic has been categorized in many forms, or rather 'Disciplines'.
As the week goes on, you manage to get a grasp of how magic works, and the basic idea of it.
"Ugh!" You let out a scream as you felt you weapon slipping out of your hand.
"Asuka! Are you fine, kid!?" Mr. Yonaka, who decided that you would need a teacher to make sure you wouldn't blow your hand or head off and decided to appoint himself to the task, worried the moment he saw you fail at hitting many of the targets, and worried even more now that you managed to lose your gun in such a way.
"Um... Yeah, it's just a bruise." In all honestly, you felt your ego being the one truly injured after this.
"Alright, if you say so..." Mr. Yonaka sighed, you weren't having a good time during the practice.
"I suppose I do better when my opponent is just extremely close, huh..." You were actually sulking this time, to be honest.
"You'll get the hang of this soon, believe me, I have seen worse." You kinda doubt that.
Reward: Your Gunslinger Skill has become (Incompetent).
So... That was it.
Hopefully, I was ablee to make all the characters here feel interesting.
And yep, your rolls with the Pistol kinda sucked, but at least your ARC roll was good!
Also, after a while of deliberation, I decided to take advantage of the fact that we havn't enterd any combat or obtained any skill up until now to change a little of the Skill stuff, to make sure it's a little more clear (and somewhat balanced).
Anyways, the next update should come in a day or two, typos and feedback are appreciated as always!
Well at least we... didn't shoot ourselves? Nothing that can be done about a bad roll, I guess. Otherwise we had an okay time with magic, cat lady seems decent enough and Miyu was nice as well. All in all, nice chapter, OP.
As it happens, your first week in Soyokaze came and went away faster than you thought it would, considering.... everything that happened before you even reached the gates of this place.
The fact that you discovered that you are a wizard of sorts, that your first contact with supernatural creatures ended with you almost dying, that you were informed that you would be hunted for the rest of your life by a bunch of monsters, and that if you didn't learned how to fight your family and others who were involved with you would be also targeted by those same monsters.
All in all, you expected the first week to go at a slug's pace for you... and, to be honest, it kinda did.
Now, some parts of it were actually pretty helpful in making you at ease with your new situation, some of those made you meet new people!
...But, if you are being honest, you spend most of the week feeling just as nervous and on the edge as you were when you first came inside these walls.
Still, you really weren't in a good position to complain; so far, you were having a decent time adapting to your situation, while you haven't actually interacted with the rest of your co-habitants on the dorms outside of Miyu and Aoi, you have noticed that they were the same people that you had taken notice before.
It was a nice coincidence, you think.
Regardless, there weren't any particular events during this week... outside of the ones that had already happened, of course.
And so, your first week at Soyokaze came to an end... BANG!
You watch in annoyance as your shot misses it's target... again.
'Goddamnit...' You sigh as you return your pistol to it's holster.
You are right now inside the training grounds, as one might expect, facing towards a shooting range, watching as you manage to miss most of your targets, and feeling extremely annoyed by this whole situation.
At first, it wasn't something you cared about, you just thought that it would get better in a few days, but soon, it became an issue of pride, seeing as the week went on and you kept missing.
It is becoming a true issue, if you would say so yourself, considering how even when you do hit, it's by gracing the target.
You aren't amused by this.
Not at all.
'Inhale... Exhale...' You breathe, attempting to ignore your frustration with this whole issue.
You think that it is helping, but you're not really sure...
"Still having issues?" You let out a yelp at being brought out of your thoughts by the voice who, apparently, materialized out of thin air behind you.
You turn around to see Mr. Yonaka chuckling at your reaction.
You think that he is taking way too much joy from that.
"So," He starts, taking a look at your... work with your gun, more specifically, at the wall filled with bullet holes behind you, "That bad?"
You sigh, "Yes, and it's... Frustrating" You take a last look at the shooting range, "...and annoying. Very annoying." You conclude.
You feel him putting a hand on your shoulder, "Can see..." You turn to look at him, his gaze still lingering on your work, "Still, I recommend you to take a break," He lets go of you, "You will only keep missing if you go on like this; frustrated and without a rest."
You can see his logic, "But I don't have time," you rebuke, "I only have... Three? Four weeks before I go back home?" You aren't sure if you will, but it does sound like a better idea than staying here. Maybe. Probably.
Mr. Yonaka, for his part, only offers a noncommittal 'Hmm' as an answer, "Anyways, we should be going back to the school." And with that, he turns his back on you, and goes straight to the entrance.
You grimace at the thought of using that... Gate, as you hear it is called, again, "Whoever made that thing," You remember how it feels to go through that experience, "Was a sadist." You still feel sick every time you go through that.
"You get used to it," Amazing, even when you can't see his face, you can still picture him with a grin, "Believe me, we all had to..." You can hear a hint of empathy on his voice.
You think that this is some kind of initiation ritual for him.
As both of you walk towards the entrance, you can't help but notice you two are the only one's here, apparently, due to the fact that you are forbidden to enter during the hours than the rest of students who apparently volunteered as hunters for the Shadows.
You will admit that it is annoying, but you can somewhat understand the motivations behind it.
"Alright," Mr. Yonaka calls to you, snapping you out of your thoughts, "Here it is, do you want to go first or last?" At the very least he wasn't smiling at you right now.
You glare at the crest engraved into the wall, as if attempting to burn it with you gaze.
Which, admittedly, would have been great.
You touch the thing once more, and, as always, you go through the experience of feeling your body ceasing to exist for a second and being reconstructed, and as always, once you reach the other side, struggle to keep your body on it's feet after you feel the wave of sensations coming back to you.
'At least' You think, 'I'm not puking this time', you think as you hold onto the bookshelves for support to your body.
"Well," You can hear Mr. Yonaka's voice appearing behind you "It seems you are adapting".
You shot him a look, "This is adapting?" You say, as you still struggle to walk.
"Yep."
"Isn't another way to move around than with this?"
"If there was one, do you think that I would be using this?"
"...Good point."
You take a few minutes to fully regain control of your senses before both of you get out of the library.
The sun has already set, which means that the school is totally empty of life outside of you two.
There's a rather... odd silence between you and Mr. Yonaka, as you two walk through the corridors.
"So, how are you doing so far? Have you already settled into routine here?" Well, he seems to have realized the silence.
You shrug, "I'm fine." You honestly don't have much to say about this whole place so far; nothing that you hadn't said before, at least.
"I see... And what about your parents? How they reacted when you told them about..." He points at your surroundings, "All of this?"
You grimace at that, "I... haven't called them yet." You honestly were attempting to not think about that for the moment.
"Ah." It his only answer at that.
After that, neither of you say anything until you get outside.
You both say your goodbyes for the night to each other, and you start walking towards your dormitory.
You have to admit, you feel oddly calm like this; walking alone in the night, with only your thoughts and you, feeling the chilly night breeze... It's pretty satisfying.
It is of great help when you need to collect your thoughts, or maybe just unwind yourself from all the things that happen in the day, it helps you to relax.
Alas, you eventually reach your dorms.
You open the door to the inside, and are received to an empty lobby.
'Huh, it must be later than I thought...' Besides, tomorrow is Monday, you suppose.
With that in mind, you walk through the reception and up the stairs to the second floor, and to your own room.
Once inside, you leave your things on a nearby table, take a shower and dive head-first into your bed, tired from today's work.
You can feel your eyelid growing heavier with every second.
In the end, you formulate only one thought before feeling your consciousness leaving your body.
'Tomorrow's a new day...' And then you knew nothing but darkness once more...
You have 4 AP to use.
Vote by plan.
[] Go explore the town: Alright, last time, it was bad, but you doubt that anything like that will happen again... For now. -[] Go to the Commercial Area: You think that seeing what this place has to offer might be fun! -[] Go on to explore the Outskirts: That memory... maybe, there's something over there... -[] Go explore the Park: You just need to think in peace for a moment. -[] Go explore the Residential Area: You used to live here, maybe a stroll around this place would help you think things through. -[] Wander Around: You just need to take a moment to think after... all of this. (Random result, 1D100)
[] Well, you suppose that this was bound to happen sooner or later; a red-headed student has just entered the training grounds while you were here... This is kind of awkward.
[] You found a black cat running around the school grounds, and nobody seems to be paying attention to it... Well, you think you have an idea who this guy is, now if only he could stop hissing at you...
[] It is probably a bad sign when you found a path of death nature around the outskirts, and it probably says something about you when you decide to follow said path...
[] Taking your time to relax around the dorm seemed like a good idea, sadly, you were around when two siblings had a discussion, and you somehow managed to get yourself roped into it...
[] Well, one of your other co-habitants is around the dorms in this precise moment, you might as well and say hello to this girl... Or attempt to, she seem kinda focused on her notebook.
[] As you trained, you decide to talk a little with Mr. Yonaka, considering that you don't really have an idea about him outiside of your classes.
[] Now, the school nurse, Naomi Tsunagi, offered you that her door was open if you needed to talk; might as well take that offer now...
[] Visit the Training Grounds: Well, you have a place to train, and limited time to do so... -[] Daggerfall: You know nothing about how to fight with a dagger. Maybe you should learn. (DC 5/15) -[]Gunslinger: Alright, you have realized that you are terrible with a pistol, but you still have to try and fix it... Besides, it has become an issue of pride to you. (D20 00/80) -[]PWR and Strength: You needed to become stronger...(D20, 00/50) -[]DEXterity and Skill: You need to become quicker... (D20, 00/80) -[] KNWledge is Power: Despite all the madness, this was, still, a school. Tests included. (D20, 00/40) -[] CHArismatic Fellow: Attempting to be good when it comes to talking with people... This might take a while... (D20, 00/40) -[] ARCane Knowledge: You have learned a little more about it, but you still have yet to know how to even use it... You will learn, you suppose. (D20, 01/10)
[] Call your Parents: 'Hey, mom and dad, I accidentally managed to become a mage and now I'm being hunted by monsters, you also might be at risk' Yep, no way this can go wrong ever.
So... This came out way later than I intended.
I had a rather long week, so sorry for not being able to post until now.
Eh, you're doing this for free out of your own volition, OP. I don't think it would be fair to you for us to expect you to not have anything else going on with your life. It happens. Don't sweat it.
[X] Plan: Keep calm and trust the authorities (but not your aim) -[X]Now, the school nurse, Naomi Tsunagi, offered you that her door was open if you needed to talk; might as well take that offer now... --[X] How and how much should you tell your parents? -[X] Visit the Training Grounds: Well, you have a place to train, and limited time to do so... --[X]Gunslinger: Alright, you have realized that you are terrible with a pistol, but you still have to try and fix it... Besides, it has become an issue of pride to you. -[X] You found a black cat running around the school grounds, and nobody seems to be paying attention to it... Well, you think you have an idea who this guy is, now if only he could stop hissing at you... -[X] Call your Parents (?): Depends on what the nurse tells us.
[X] Plan Explore the various options
-[X] Go explore the town: Alright, last time, it was bad, but you doubt that anything like that will happen again... For now.
--[X] Go on to explore the Outskirts: That memory... maybe, there's something over there...
-[X] Well, you suppose that this was bound to happen sooner or later; a red-headed student has just entered the training grounds while you were here... This is kind of awkward.
-[X] Visit the Training Grounds: Well, you have a place to train, and limited time to do so...
--[X] Daggerfall: You know nothing about how to fight with a dagger. Maybe you should learn. (DC 5/15)
-[X] Call your Parents: 'Hey, mom and dad, I accidentally managed to become a mage and now I'm being hunted by monsters, you also might be at risk' Yep, no way this can go wrong ever.
[X] Plan Social Shadow
-[X] You found a black cat running around the school grounds, and nobody seems to be paying attention to it... Well, you think you have an idea who this guy is, now if only he could stop hissing at you...
-[X] Well, one of your other co-habitants is around the dorms in this precise moment, you might as well and say hello to this girl... Or attempt to, she seem kinda focused on her notebook.
-[X] Visit the Training Grounds: Well, you have a place to train, and limited time to do so...
--[X] Daggerfall: You know nothing about how to fight with a dagger. Maybe you should learn. (DC 5/15)
-[X] Call your Parents: 'Hey, mom and dad, I accidentally managed to become a mage and now I'm being hunted by monsters, you also might be at risk' Yep, no way this can go wrong ever.
