Official Mage Roleplay (Take 2)

[Ikkin]

I think this time, we should play the RP as if we know each other's names and such, but we don't really know each others' hidden histories. It's going to be a different continuity from the other RP. Just to make it different this time around. ^_^

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This was going to be great, Ikkin thought as she flipped through stacks of invitations for Mage Manor. She had finally gotten the necessary permission from the authorities of both the NTWF and Neopia to use the abandoned manor on a small island on the border of the two lands as headquarters for a guild, and she hoped it would attract the attention of the best mages from both worlds.

She fiddled with the magical lock on the door, testing it out to make sure that it would scan people's magical signatures like she wanted, only letting in those who had been invited to the guild. Ikkin had heard that other guilds were sprouting up, and there appeared to be signs of tension, and she wanted to make sure the manor would be safe for all who chose to accept her invitation. She hoped that the manor would be a place where each mage could contribute and learn their magic peacefully, without the unnecessary conflict that the pirates and the ninja seemed to get into at times.

Yes, that's right, she thought as she put her hand over the testing box and the device stayed silent. The guild should be protected, just as I planned. After all, one could never be too careful with so many other competing guilds around.

Confident that her alarm system would protect the manor, Ikkin walked to the front hall, put her invitations into the mailbox near the front door, and put the flag up. Seconds later, the flag lowered again with a chime, and the mail was gone. The invitations had been sent. Now, all she had to do was wait for her fellow mages to join her, and the lessons could begin.

[Omni]

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:

Omniscia
The Third Lowest Branch
The Fourth Biggest Oak Tree
NTWF Forest

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.

Mage Manor School
and Guild of Magic
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Dear Omniscia

I am glad to inform you that
you have been invited to The
Mage Manor School and Guild
of Magic. Enclosed are directions
to the Manor and a self-addressed
postcard. Please mark your choice
on the card and give it to the
nearest Weewoo. We await your
reply and, hopefully, your arrival.

If you accept, please come by the
end of the month. You may bring
whatever magic-related items you
already have.

Yours sincerely, Ikkin

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.

[Kat]

Miss Kalianne Triss Lunara
Castle Lunara
Fief Lunara
NTWF

It was the address on the back of the envelope the white Weewoo clutched in its beak. The Weewoo hopped around in the windowsill of a workshop on the first landing of a small castle, trying to see what it could dig up in the dirt box. There was not much planted in it except a few stray sprigs of rosemary and dill, and it gave up rather quickly.

The little petpet started rapping hard on the glass window with its beak, focusing on a girl seated in a desk beside the opposite wall. It shifted the parchment envelope a bit so it didn't accidentally bite into the wax seal.

The girl seemed to have heard, and she stood up, pushing her chair away by simply holding her hand over it. Her purple robes and blue cape swept the marble floors as she loomed closer. The Weewoo hopped rather impatiently as she reached out and opened the window, admitting her visitor in.

"What do we have here?" she asked in a cheerful voice, watching the Weewoo intently with curious brown eyes. She tossed back her long black hair, letting it ripple ever so slightly in the tame breeze. The girl was wearing a long purple robe over a blouse of a lighter violet shade, and a blue skirt. On the right side of her robe was a winged cross with a serpent entwined around it and a golden star in the upper-right corner - the mark of a Mage of the Second Order of Flamel.

Her matching boots plodded softly on the floor as she crushed the wax seal and unfolded the letter, mouthing the words to herself as she read. When she was done, she called the messenger over and rewarded it with a shower of seed out of nowhere.

"Mage guild," Kalianne Triss, alias Kat, muttered to herself, nodding and feeling her gold star earrings jangling. "This should be fun...but first, I have to pack." She looked at the postcard again, and pointed with a finger. A purple 'X' scratched itself into the box beside 'YES'.

The Weewoo took off again with Kat's reply.

[Ikkin]

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.

[Omni]

Omni could feel it, the feeling of something calling to her, asking her if she was ready to go. The Manor was calling, that's what it had to be. Once she had actually read how she would get to the Manor, she decided to talk to one of her friends as she waited. She was ready, so she excused herself, gave a quick goodbye hug, and walked away. Once she was sure she was out of eyesight, she sat down and closed her eyes. Alright, I'm ready, she thought, trying to 'talk' to the feeling. You can take me away now, I don't have anything I need to do.

Another feeling came over her, the feeling that she was being taken somewhere else. It came suddenly and left just as quickly. She was now in a magical place, she could feel it. She opened her eyes, in front of her was a woman with fox ears and a tail, Ikkin, who saw Omni and smiled warmly.

[Ikkin]

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.

[Salah~]

Salah knocked on the front door of Mage Manor, wondering as she did it if there was any point in the action. In a place this big, she reasoned, it would be kind of hard to hear a knock unless you were nearby. Wait, was there a bell you were supposed to ring? Suddenly feeling very stupid, Salah searched quickly for anything of the kind. Nope, nothing.

"Hello?" she yelled, her voice feeling both too quiet and too loud at the same time. When there was no reply, or sound of movement from indoors after a few seconds, she hesitated, then opened the door with her right hand. With the other hand, she reached into her pocket to pull out the postcard. I, Salamander Alarra Asule, accept this invitation to Mage Manor. The 'yes' box was filled in with pencil.

Walking into the Manor, Salah automatically clutched the silver spiderweb that hung on a leather thong around her neck. The unused entrance hallway was dim, much to the light mage's displeasure. Hopefully the whole manor wouldn't be this badly lit. She needed light readily available to feel comfortable.

Easily locating the auras of magic gathered in one room, she pushed open the door and walked in. She stopped suddenly, seeing the obvious user-friendly magical teleporter, as well as the two standing next to it. I walked two and a half miles to get here, and I could have just teleported? Suddenly, her legs felt twice as tired as before.

Walking up to Ikkin, the girl with animal ears and a tail, she held out her filled-out postcard. "I thought I should just bring this here, since it would take longer to send anyway..." Especially if they'd told me there was a teleporter, she added silently.

[Ikkin]

"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."

[Ginz ❤]

Ginz was surprised when she looked through outside and saw a small white weewoo carrying a letter. She got to her feet and ran to open the window, which the weewoo had been tapping with its beak.

Ginz examined the envelope carefully when she finally got it in her hands. She hadn't been sent a magical letter in a very long time, but this was clearly adressed to her. She opened it carelessly, unable to contain her curiosity any longer.

She read it, and re-read it. She couldn't believe it.

Wow, an invitation to the Mage Manor!

There was no other place she would rather go. Or was there? The TV was turned on in the living room, she could hear it faintly. She was thinking about Dan. If the Mage Manor was anything like Hogwarts, she didn't want to leave him. And even if it wasn't, she was sure her guildmates would ask her to keep certain things a secret from everyone, even Dan, and she didn't want that either.

She hid the letter in her pocket and walked slowly to join Dan, thinking of the best way to explain what had just happened, and what was going on in her mind.

[Dan]

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.

[Ginz ❤]

((OC: Dan, if we had planned to post at the same time, we wouldn't have been able to pull it off so well! XDD

So... you people can imagine Dan and I talked and I poked him to go with me until he finally agreed, right? And here we are. >.>))

[troublems03]

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:

Lady Genevieve of the South
Top of the Staircase
Highest Tower
NTWF

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:

I accept your invitation:
[X] Yes
[ ] No

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...

[Kat]

Kat was about to go back to rewriting the history of Fief Lunara on fresh new parchment after the Weewoo flew away the way it came, when she felt something tug at her side. There was no mistaking the strong aura of magical intervention as it poked her rather persistently.

At first, she was hesitant. Kat was no stranger to magical intervention, but she couldn't be sure if this was the good kind.

Then the mage remembered the reply she had sent off. They must be summoning me over to Mage Manor...already?

She looked at the rather large bag beside her desk. Maybe she could just take her paperwork with her, along with a few things. Drawing a small black rod from her sash, she whispered a few words and watched the gold star on top start glow with a strange mix of purple and gold.

In no time at all, her closet flew open, several pieces of clothing and other random whatnots zoomed out and stashed themselves into the black bag, many of the clothes folding themselves neatly away. The parchment, ink and quills from her desk followed, making their home in a slightly smaller compartment inside. Lastly, a sheathed longsword, scabbard and all, detached itself from the wall and thrust itself into a strap on the side of the bag. Another strap made room for a long, iron staff with gold ends that looked like flames.

The fief had always managed to keep itself running without her, Kat knew. With a snap of her finger, she commanded a remaining quill to scribble out a note on a scrap of paper, in vivid violet ink.

Thalia,

Off to the Mage Guild. Write to me about whatever happens here. You shouldn't have much trouble with the paperwork - you are my parents' secretary, anyway. And besides, I have the history covered. Those old scrolls are becoming more like dust bunnies every day.

Lady K.T. Lunara
Second Order of Flamel, First Master of Fire, First Master of Light, Second Master of Wind, Third Master of Healing

Even before the quill finished writing, Kat stood tall and waited for that twinge of magic again. And this time, when it came, she - somehow - let herself go with it, riding the wave of teleporting magic. If she got attacked, she was armed. Even the bag would hurt if she hit it over someone's head.

Before she knew it she stood in another room, very different from her own office back at the fief. It looked like an office though, albeit a better-furnished one, and definitely more organized. The mage chuckled to herself, knowing how many times Thalia had scolded her for slacking off on cleaning duty.

And this one had people too - about to head out the door of the office.

"Ikkin!" she called out. "Omni! Salah! Am I late?"

[Ikkin]

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.

[Omni]

"That's fine with me," Omni said. "The more the merrier, right?"