April 13th, 2013:It's a cold spring day in the city of Niagara Falls, with temperature hovering five degrees above freezing. A light drizzle accompanies the chilly weather, giving one last taste of winter to those out in the streets. With the tourist season beginning soon those involved are worried that the recent troubles will drive away tourists from visiting the world-famous falls and the city's less famous attractions. But for most people life tries to go on as usual. Now that magic has returned, accompanied by a rise in crime, vigilantism and other social ills, many are certain about their future and their places in it. Except for those interested in magic and the wonders it can do, especially the people who answered a suspicious advertisement in the local newspapers and are now arriving at the orientation session.
The session takes place in the conference room of the Victoria Avenue Public Library. Whoever planned this session was too optimistic about the number of people who'll show up fo trhe smattering of interested people just barely breaks into double digits, while enough seating has been set out for at least one hundred. At least this means that there's enough snacks and refreshments to go around, as promised in the advertisement. A table sits in the back of the room, loaded with Timmies, doughnuts, timbits, coffee, tea and the like, as well as fruit and vegetable slices for those who don't want such unhealthy junkfood. At the front of the room the presenter fiddles with a projector.
"I'm just having a few technical difficulties here," he confesses with a good-natured smile,
"It'll be a few moments. Why don't you grab something to eat and drink while you're waiting?" The presenter doesn't look very impressive or professional in his plaid shirt and beige pants. With his balding hair, kind blue eyes and developing pot belly, he looks like the least likely person to be involved with the supernatural. He seems more like a grade-school teacher who winces whenever someone says a swear harder than 'damn'.
Despite this obvious problem the session still has the chance to be quite interesting and instructive. At the front of the room sits a table covered with bottles, wands and other items of obvious magical functionality. Yet the odd character sitting sitting patiently in a back corner of the room offers the greatest argument for staying. One half of him is stark white while the other is a all-consuming black, the division in skin-tone mirrored by the fancy suit he's wearing. His unusual appearance is explained when suddenly the two halves separate from each other, walking about as if nothing unusual has occurred. One half of this creature retrieves a doughnut from the snack table while the other confers quietly with the presenter for a few moments, presumably asking about when he's going to start, before both halves return to their seat and casually rejoin. One does not have to be sensitive to magic to realize that this is no ordinary human being, but perhaps a demon or some other supernatural creature.
OOC ThreadIf your name isn't in the second post of the OOC thread, then you shouldn't be posting here. Otherwise you guys have a few days to RP and talk among yourselves before we move on. We're mostly waiting for a few sheets to be finalized before we'll launch straight into things. I don't want to dump a ton of exposition at the very start of the thread.
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