Official Mage Roleplay (Take 2)

Omni was sleeping in that day. She had woken up nearly an hour earlier, but she felt like sleeping in, just laying still with her legs, wings, and tail hanging. Omni lived the forest. It was quiet, peaceful, and full of wild critters that she could catch for breakfast. She slept up in a tree, on a particularly nice branch that was not too big, not too small, high enough that she could see far, and close enough to the lower branches that she could jump up to it easily. She lie on the branch, eyes gently closed, feeling the morning sun warming her, the breeze gently rippling her fur, hearing leaves rustling, Weewoos chirping, and a sudden 'pop'.

Omni stirred, wondering what the noise could have been. She opened her eyes and saw an envelope caught in between two small branches in front of her. How did that get there? she thought. She got up, stretched, and walked forward. Once she got close enough to the letter, she gently pulled it loose. She realized it was for her when she saw the address:



She found it odd that the address included the place where she slept, but nonetheless turned the letter over. It was sealed with a blue wax seal; a square within a four-sided diamond with a fancy 'M' in the center. She carefully undid the seal, opened the envelope, and began to read the letter.



Omni's eyes widened. Ikkin had invited her to the new Mage Guild! Omni knew she had magical abilities, but she sometimes wondered what more she could do if she tried. This gave her not only a chance to find out, but it meant she would even go to a school dedicated to learning and practicing magic!

Feeling into to the envelope, she pulled out the postcard, which read:

I accept your invitation:
[ ] Yes
[ ] No

Omni didn't have a pen handy, so she just used her index claw to carefully mark an 'X' into the 'yes' box. She then found a Weewoo and gave it the card. The Weewoo flew off with her reply. Excited, Omni glided to the ground, caught and ate breakfast, and then headed off to a new adventure in magic.

Ikkin was sitting next to a window in Mage Manor waiting for replies to her invitations when two Weewoos began pecking at the window, each carrying a message in its beak, nearly at the same moment. She was a bit startled at first - the mail delivery charm was new, and she wasn't quite used to the mail being carried by Weewoos yet. She opened up the window, and took the messages from the two white birds, each of which disappeared in a puff of smoke as she took its message. They weren't real Weewoos, just part of the mail-delivery charm, but it still made Ikkin a bit sad to see them vanish like that.

She looked at the two invitations that she held in her hands. Kat and Omni, she thought with a smile. Why am I not surprised that these two would be the first to respond? She began walking through the manor and into the Archmage's office, which she had been using while the guild was still in the process of being set up. The Archmage's office held the teleporter, and that was just what she needed right now.

The teleporter itself didn't look like much, a large black box vaguely in the size and shape of a copying machine set next to a small room that was so magically powerful that even non-mages could sense that it was magical from across the room. It gave off a low hum, and the inside of the room seemed to shimmer as if it were a mirage. Ikkin fed the two invitations into the machine, and it stirred to life, glowing with the magic that it was created to use. The inside of the room began to change, two different magical auras appearing as the charm took its effect.

Ikkin knew it shouldn't take long now - the magic was just sensing the intent of the two members who it had been ordered to teleport. As soon as Omni and Kat allowed it to, they would be transported to the small room in a flash, and she would no longer be alone in Mage Manor.

Ikkin smiled as she saw Omni appear in the teleporter room. The teleporter continued to glow and hum, waiting for its second target to allow it to transport her, as well.

"Hi, Omni," she said. "Nice to see you here. You might want to get out of that room, though... the spell's a bit weird, and I'd heard someone accidentally got their magical signature scrambled because someone else was teleported on top of them." There was a bit of a purple glow in the teleporter room as she said this, and Ikkin hoped that nothing bad would come of that. She really needed to find a mage who could put a more reliable spell on the teleporter.

"Oh, hi, Salah," Ikkin said as she turned around with a start. "I wasn't expecting to see you here so soon. Good to see the spells protecting this place let you through in one piece; commercial spells seem to be really glitchy these days..."

The teleporter behind Ikkin continued humming, waiting for Kat to accept its call. Ikkin decided that it might be best to show her current guests around; Kat could probably find them in the castle anyway, and she didn't want Salah or Omni to get bored.

"I'll show you two to the training room if you want," she said. "I've got a presentation on magic that I could call up for you if you want something to do while we're waiting for the others to show up. You might already know some of it, but it's pretty good for learning how to convert magical knowledge from other styles into something that you can use - different systems of magic work for different people, you know."

She looked back towards the still-humming teleporter one more time before leaving, then decided it would be best if she told it to summon all the people that she had invited at once. Those who didn't want to come could always refuse, after all. Ikkin let a little bit of her magical energy flow into the teleporter, telling it what to do and who to invite.

"We can go to the training room now," she said. "The others should be here shortly."

Dan hadn't actually been invited to the Manor. So it was with a twinge of worry that he followed his wife up the path to the castle on the hill. He was wary of living under the same roof as so many mages with who-knows-what powers, and had made this clear to Ginz before they had set off for the manor.

"Oh, relax, dear," she had replied with a grin. "They all know you, they won't hurt you."

"But," Dan sputtered without really having an argument to back it up. "But I won't have any defenses if they do. I'm just...just a regular guy," he said with a hint of shame.

"You know that's not true," his wife had said. "And it's all the more reason to go to the manor. What better place to learn how to defend yourself?"

Begrudgingly, he had nodded his approval and with a few flicks of Ginz's wand, they were off. Dan dragged Ginz's trunk as well as his bag of belongings while his wife forged forward, dress pulled off the ground so as not to gather dirt on the hem.

The ornate door to the manor was ajar, and the couple cautiously stepped over the threshold to their new home and life.

The morning was grey and promised rain. Running down a deserted hallway a young woman of perhaps seventeen years stumbled and fell. Clumsy, she cursed herself. Standing up and dusting off, she pulled out a piece of parchment out from a previously empty pocket. Now, how did this get here? she mused. Flipping over the parchment she read the front quickly:



Her heart jumped with joy. It had finally arrived! The long awaited letter of invitation to the Mages Manor. Breaking open the wax seal on the back she walked and read heading towards the staircase.

Absorbed in the letter, Lady Genevieve of the South, known to all merely as Gen, fell clumsily down the flight of ill-lit stairs. Head over heels she cursed the architect of the ancient house into another dimension. Landing in a pile at the bottom Gen swore again and reminded herself to get those wretched stairs fixed.

Reaching for a nearby quill Gen quickly scribbled a reply to the invitation and then went outside to find a willing Weewoo to carry her reply:



It was at this point that the sky decided to rain. With a shudder Gen decided that the day could only get better from there.

Heading back inside she gathered her prized belongings and then clicked her fingers twice. The world spun fast around her and she vanished with a fizz, her mind concentrating hard on Mages Manor. She had heard that the Mages Manor had a state-of-the-art teleportation system and she intended to make the most of it...

Ikkin turned around as she heard Kat's voice. "No, you're not late, Kat" she said. "I was just going to show Omni and Salah to the training room, but now I can take you along, too."

Just then, the teleporter hummed a bit louder as Gen appeared in the little room. "Oh, hey, Gen," Ikkin said. "We were just about to go to the training room, do you want to come with us?"

Before Gen could reply, however, Ikkin noticed several new magical signatures near the front door of the Manor, and modified her statement. "Actually, it seems some other mages have arrived as well... I think one of them is Ginz, but I don't recognize the second one's magic. Why don't we all go meet them, and then start our training together?" she asked the others.