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[Mahoroty]

You feel yourself laying on something cold and rough. As you try to make clear of what is blurred within your sight. You found yourself surrounded by the pitch black void. There is no light source anywhere but the glowing floor that exposed the other people in that place. A skeletal person walked up to them, though it is unclear if he had actually walked to them due to the lack of footstep sound. The skeleton greets them.


"Greetings... Fresh meat... Welcome to the 12th circle, Your first time will cause you such feelings so fret not. My name is Xil, if you wish to know more, i suggest you ask this instance."

Spoiler: Players (click to show/hide)

Name: Nor
Background: Female, Fairy, a being about 12 inches tall with white wings on which she floats around. Wears a green dress made from leaves and a cloak of flower petals. Silver hair in a pixie cut and blue eyes.
Specialty: Primal Runes
List of Spells:
Laguz- Water's Growth: Call forth the primordial powers of Water, healer of the sick, lifegiver to the living, destroyer of the old.
Kenaz- Fire's Warmth: Call forth the primordial powers of Fire, the warm heat which drives one to greater heights, the burning which cleanses the dead, power of the living.
Haglaz- Wind's Precipitation: Call forth the primordial powers of Wind, that which transmutes the elements, gives power to that which has none, reaper of power.
Mannaz- Earth's Life: Call forth the primordial powers of Earth, protector of the living, bounty of minerals, destination of life.
Ansuz- Divine Passage: Call upon the primordial energy of ancient times, that which governs magic, rules the world, governs judgement and punishment.

Name: Ray Williams
Background: Male, Human. Short red hair and blue eyes hidden behind shiny glasses. Wears a school uniform under his own assumption that this college requires one. Casts his spells using a rune-covered smartphone with installed SpellApps. Average height and thin build.
Specialty: Summoning
List of spells:
Summon Familiar: Summons an entity that Ray has previously created a contract with. The entity must willingly make the contract (helpfully included as part of this SpellApp) and is not otherwise compelled to follow his commands. After the duration of the spell, the entity returns to its previous location. He currently only has a contract with the giant electric hornet named Dynamo, which is capable of firing lightning from it stinger. Ray uses this power both to defend himself and charge his phone.

Summon Entity from Beyond: AKA the Gacha Spell. This spell finds the location of a completely random person, spirit, monster, robot, or other creature (henceforth shortened to "entity"), determines if it is in a state that it can be forcibly summoned and compelled to follow orders, and then Summons and Binds them if that is indeed the case. If not it goes off to the next random entity. This means that it can rarely summon very powerful entities under Ray's command, if he is lucky enough that the spell finds someone strong who currently has low resistance to his spells (such as entities that are unexpectedly summoned in their sleep). Entities retain their full personality and can take actions without orders. In addition while they are compelled to follow commands, they can resist orders that go against their nature if they have strong willpower. Entities return to their previous location as the duration of the spell ends.

Summon Item from Beyond: AKA the Item Gacha. This works similar to Summon Entity from Beyond, but Ray is capable of determining the function of the summoned item. If he attempts to summon a "weapon" for example, it could find a magic sword, a firearm, a hand grenade, or a laser-spear with all the necessary ammunition to make the weapon work. If he attempts to summon "cover" it could summon a large boulder, a concrete wall, or an unplugged refrigerator. As most items can't resist spells nor do they have to be compelled to follow, the average quality of summon is higher than SEfB, but powerful magical artifacts will sometimes have enough magic resistance to make their summoning unlikely. As will the rest of the summons it returns to its previous location when the duration of the spell ends.

Name: Alfa Bravo
Background: Apparently male, apparently human. Darkly complected, perhaps middle-eastern (though he doesn't know for sure), but wan, as if he isn't a big fan of the sun, and with blue-grey eyes that look just a little wild. Usually outfitted like a slacker goth in slightly oversized, baggy black clothes; his idea of formal-wear is the same general theme but with a lot of superfluous metal bits. Sometimes some of the metal bits appear to be embedded in his skin, but nobody knows how they got there; there aren't any holes normally or anything. Besides his appearance, Alfa Bravo's history is... interesting. Though he doesn't share much about himself, it happens that he was made as a science experiment by a team of scientists (mostly biologists but with plenty of input from other fields, including some you wouldn't normally expect to be involved at all) who didn't know who they were working for, using technology they didn't understand which they didn't know where it was coming from. One member of this team, whom Alfa Bravo came to regard as a sort of parent, was able to work out a little bit about what they were doing by judiciously looking over the shoulders of colleagues, discovering (and passing on to Alfa) that he is actually a clone of himself created through time travel. Reportedly, his DNA is "weird" and "shouldn't work", but no one person was ever allowed to see all of it. Like in any good cloning experiment backstory, when he was a kid, the project was shut down without notice or reason, the facility destroyed, and most of the personnel... liquidated. Bravo himself was supposed to be liquidated as well, but, in the way these things usually go, escaped with the help of his "parent", who was, naturally, mortally wounded in the escape, dying with words which implied there were more secrets yet to be learned.
Specialty: Dreaming.
List of spells:
1) Adjust Appearance: Alfa never quite learned concepts like changing clothes, haircuts, or worse, shaving. (He did eventually come to understand showers after herculean effort.) Luckily, he doesn't need to: after a quick nap, he always wakes up looking like whatever he thinks he needs to, within certain limits: he always looks more or less like himself (though he can look like a disguised version of himself, such as in a mask or costume makeup), he is always roughly the same height (about 5'10") and weight (wiry), and he is always extremely hairy from the midriff down (he has considered that he may actually be a faun).
2) Remote Control: Alfa is always aware and in control of his dreams (though only his own actions, not the setting). Sometimes, though, he dreams that he's somebody else. Sometimes this just happens, although he can usually make it happen with a little effort. When he dreams that he's somebody else... he sees the world through that person's eyes at that moment, and whatever he decides to do, that person does for real. The only major flaw in this ability is that, if the person he dreams he is is asleep, he can't wake that person up without also waking himself up. He CAN, though, use this ability with ability 1 to adjust someone else's appearance. Use of this ability lasts an unpredictable amount of time until his dream randomly changes to something else.
3) Dream Sight: By focusing his mind very intently, Alfa can dream of events in the past, present, and future, and sometimes even remember them after waking up. Unfortunately, dreams can sometimes be distorted in weird symbolic ways. At least that's the excuse he uses when they don't work right.
4) Dream Shape: If he chooses, Alfa can take an object (even multiple objects, though it's harder the more stuff there are) from his dream with him when he wakes up, bringing it into reality in the same position relative to him that it was in the dream. This is very dangerous and should only be used in emergencies, because objects in dreams... don't always come out quite right. Or sometimes they come out right except for coming alive and wanting to eat you. It's sort of a mixed bag with dreams.
5) Sleep: This isn't really a "spell", but an important fundamental ability for Alfa's other skills: He can fall asleep on demand, if given reasonable privacy and comfort. This might actually be the one I wish most that I had.

[Stirk]

Ray's hand instinctively jumps to his smartphone. In addition to protecting him from whatever threats make this college so dangerous, its mundane use as a cellphone means that it can provide a source of illumination in the darkness. Unclear if it needs either function at the moment he simple keeps a hold of his magical device inside his pocket ready for use the instant he needs it.

"Hello...old bones. I'm Ray. Ray Williams. It is a pleasure to meet you. Are you part of the staff here?"

[Maximum Spin]

At the sound of speech, Alfa darts behind Ray, the only nearby obstacle likely to hide him, and appears to be striving to keep as much of himself up away from the floorlight as possible. Ironically, once he sees the speaker and fully processes that it's a skeleton, he relaxes slightly, because this kind of mundane weirdness is nothing he wouldn't have expected. Still, he's not about to trust someone he doesn't know just because it's a skeleton. (At some point it will probably occur to him that Ray is also a person, and he'll have to figure out how to hide from him while hiding behind him, too.) He does, though, feel comfortable enough with skeletons to try talking to one.

"Cou - could you say that again? I don't think I c-caught that name. Was it Chill or tw-Twelve?"

[TricMagic]

Nor wakes up on the stone floor, before listening from there. After the person hides behind Ray, she floats up, light drifting from her wings.

"12th Circle, supposedly a place where one gains much power, if they survive the experience anyway. My name is Nor, and I suppose you are the guide?"

[Mahoroty]

Ray's hand instinctively jumps to his smartphone. In addition to protecting him from whatever threats make this college so dangerous, its mundane use as a cellphone means that it can provide a source of illumination in the darkness. Unclear if it needs either function at the moment he simple keeps a hold of his magical device inside his pocket ready for use the instant he needs it.

"Hello...old bones. I'm Ray. Ray Williams. It is a pleasure to meet you. Are you part of the staff here?"

"I'm not one of the staff unfortunately, i'm just here to welcome newcomers so they don't get lost on their first appearance."

At the sound of speech, Alfa darts behind Ray, the only nearby obstacle likely to hide him, and appears to be striving to keep as much of himself up away from the floorlight as possible. Ironically, once he sees the speaker and fully processes that it's a skeleton, he relaxes slightly, because this kind of mundane weirdness is nothing he wouldn't have expected. Still, he's not about to trust someone he doesn't know just because it's a skeleton. (At some point it will probably occur to him that Ray is also a person, and he'll have to figure out how to hide from him while hiding behind him, too.) He does, though, feel comfortable enough with skeletons to try talking to one.

"Cou - could you say that again? I don't think I c-caught that name. Was it Chill or tw-Twelve?"

"It's X I L, my necromaster named me such. Trying to be in touch with the young ones, so that imbecile named me with obnoxious cryptic latin words... or something similar to that i suppose."

Nor wakes up on the stone floor, before listening from there. After the person hides behind Ray, she floats up, light drifting from her wings.

"12th Circle, supposedly a place where one gains much power, if they survive the experience anyway. My name is Nor, and I suppose you are the guide?"

"Indeed i am. I'll guide you to the first classroom and introduce you with other attendants in this area."

As XIL was about to wrap up his introduction another person materialize from the ground and then tossed out from there.A giant lizard and a female djinn.


"Huh.. that's quite odd, it's not usual that portals open up the second time. Ok, who are you new meats?"


"What the.. Get off of me you insolent..."


"Ha WHA!!? THIS PROVES IT. GOD HAS NOT ABANDONED HIS SERVANT FOR I AM STILL PRESENT!!."


".....
This predicament is not something i would bother with... Listen, why don't 3 of you start explaining to those 2 fresh meat what i had just told you.... Then we can get a move on?"

[Maximum Spin]

Alfa, after first being surprised to learn that the tiny winged bug covered in plant is a people, has a polite go at attempting to pronounce "Xil", but gets it wrong. "C...can I just call you Chill?"

At the point when the newcomers arrive, though, he diverts all attention from the conversation to wide-eyed staring. He particularly can't decide if he wants to hide from the giant lizard or attempt to befriend it so he can ride it around like a horse. He almost completely ignores the skeleton's last request (no pun intended) in the process, but ultimately does manage to force out, without pauses, "H-hi this is ch-Chill the greeter we're following him now."

[TricMagic]

Nor huffs, before floating over to the Djinn.

This, as was explained before you got here, is the entrance area for the 12th Circle. For newcomers I guess. If you have questions, you can ask the skeleton over there, Xil. My name is Nor, nice to meet you.

"The other two seem a bit jumpy. Humans." she mutters.

"Lizard, I would suggest getting off them."

[Stirk]

“Yeah what uh, that guy said” Ray answers pointing to the man behind him with his free thumb. “That is about it. He honestly could have just told you that in the same effort it would have taken to ask us to do it for him. Oh, and I’m Ray by the way. Pixie calls herself Nor.”

[Maximum Spin]

“That is about it. He honestly could have just told you that in the same effort it would have taken to ask us to do it for him. [...]”

(Alfa mutters, "I know right, he says 'explaining' like he even explained anything to begin with")

[Stirk]

Ray whispers back “Maybe he just doesn’t like the pious lizard? Many religions find undead to be abominations, so I’ve heard. It’s possible he wants to limit the aid offered directly to them for that reason.”

[Maximum Spin]

Ray whispers back “Maybe he just doesn’t like the pious lizard? Many religions find undead to be abominations, so I’ve heard. It’s possible he wants to limit the aid offered directly to them for that reason.”

("Interesting. it would make sense if he were being unhelpful on purpose, yes, but, if that is a concern, maybe he should invest in some kind of flesh suit.,.")

[Stirk]

("Interesting. it would make sense if he were being unhelpful on purpose, yes, but, if that is a concern, maybe he should invest in some kind of flesh suit.,.")

"I think that would qualify him as a 'furry'. Same issue but with more religions."

[Maximum Spin]

"I think that would qualify him as a 'furry'. Same issue but with more religions."

("I see. Wow, religion is complicated. I'm glad I don't have one.")

[TricMagic]

Nor glaces at the whispering humans. They don't seem to know anything about magic if one of them would call her a pixie. She doesn't scatter dust everywhere after all.

[Mahoroty]

Nor huffs, before floating over to the Djinn.

This, as was explained before you got here, is the entrance area for the 12th Circle. For newcomers I guess. If you have questions, you can ask the skeleton over there, Xil. My name is Nor, nice to meet you.

Ray whispers back “Maybe he just doesn’t like the pious lizard? Many religions find undead to be abominations, so I’ve heard. It’s possible he wants to limit the aid offered directly to them for that reason.”

"What!? XIL? HERESY!! THAT'S AN UNDEAD!? BY THE LIGHT OF TUHAN, SHALL HE PURGE YOU FROM THIS REALM." Says the lizard man after raising his pendant of religion artifact towards the boney presence... It's not doing anything. The other person noticed other living breathing life form besides her. She then greet and meet with them.


"Ugh... that idiot can't shut his mouth for a second." She grumbles. "Hello, by the way. The name is prom. nice to meet you too... small creature thing..." The female djinn greets back in confusion trying to figure out what kind of creature the small thing is.

After a while, another person soon to appear as the the sound of footstep grew closer towards the fresh meats. A man shrouded in strange looking tattoo and piercings stare at them extremely menacingly. His pupils inside his eyes start to glow. He muttered.

"A new apprentice has arisen from the world, Curious as they seek. No hope shall befall them. Lest they learn the knowledge they seek without knowing true despair." The man start speaking in a bizarre manner.


"Uh.. Vaco, Why are you here? You're supposed to be teaching at this time?" XIL then asked his presence in confusion.


"The time calls for this soul to witness these new apprentices. A similar fate will befall onto these poor wanderer if their soul is not prepared. To spare such tragedy. This method of test shall prove them of their worth." Answers Vaco.

As Vaco raise his fingers A rune circling around the participants neck appears. It materialize some type of collar contraption, even on the small creature. It's completely tight and seem to not have any type of safety feature that allows the participant to normally detach it from their body. The collar is ticking.


"What the.. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!?" Prom shocked from what Vaco did to the rest of the party.


"To prevent the sorrow that will befall upon you. This device shall put one at ease in a swift pain. You will not suffer a more horrid torture than this method. You will prove your worth by disarming the bomb inside the collar." Answers Vaco towards Prom.

After realizing that, the purple fellow panics in shock and hurry herself to remove the death ticking device that stuck itself on her neck. She's sweating but to no avail of detaching it. It's likely that any physical attempt at removing such device would result in failure. Even the blue lizard had no success in his attempt. He then continue to dialogue with Vaco.


"... Fool.. You're bluffing!! There's no way for one to materialize such device. Only god have the power to do such. I will not fall into your scheme." Points blue lizard guy at Vaco.

After trying to remove it, Prom felt as if there's a hole similar to that of a keyhole and something written around the collar device. Prom tries to look at it though unfortunately for her she doesn't know any neck bending spell that would allow her to look at the text that is written on the device.

[Current Objective: Disarm the bomb collar]