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Post by Zea Winters on Nov 18, 2007 12:21:07 GMT -5
At the moment, we have currently one student registered and active in this course:
Arcturus MacDougal (3rd year)
In Real Time, this class runs from Sunday at Noon until Thursday at 1:00 pm. If you do not announce your attendance by Tuesday at noon, you are considered late. In Game Time, this class is on Tuesday mornings.
It was the second day of classes, and Zea was in a decidedly peppy mood. She set up a rather fantastic display of interesting artefacts early in the morning, and when class time approached, made herself a cup of tea and leaned back in her chair, her feet up on the desk. Bandersnatch lay snoozing on a windowsill.
She sipped her tea and waited for her students to show up.
"Sure is going to be a great one today, isn't it, Bandy?"
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Post by Zea Winters on Nov 20, 2007 18:27:04 GMT -5
[Welp, it appears my one student is late. Or perhaps missing. -5 points to Ravenclaw, then...]
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Post by Arcturus MacDougal on Nov 21, 2007 23:07:01 GMT -5
Arcturus slunk into class late. "I'm sorry, Professor, it won't happen again." he said as he walked to his seat in shame. Arcturus prided himself on not ever being late, but today...he wasn't even going to start. He was definitely going to need to take a nap today if he didn't want to faint while walking down the corridor.
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Post by Zea Winters on Nov 23, 2007 17:48:09 GMT -5
[[This class is technically already over, but I'm going to keep this thread open until Sunday, as it didn't go anywhere and I sort of want it to.]]
Zea glanced up as Arcturus wandered into class, more than halfway through the period.
"Glad you decided to grace us with your presence, young man. Because you're late and there's no more of those cherished good seats in the back of the room, you win the Grand Prize of sitting right up front where I can see everything you're doing. And where I can pick on you. And believe me, I'm going to." She smirked. "Now, back to what I was saying. I've already told you what you need to bring, and considering I already scrawled it on the board for you, there should be no excuses for next class," Zea grinned.
"This year, we're going to be learning the fundamentals of runes. Now, what are runes? Runes are alphabets generally known to have magical properties. Just about every alphabet can be used as runes, it just depends on exactly what you're trying to achieve. We're going to discuss the different alphabets, and learn a little bit about each one and how it's used."
"I know that sounds boring as piss, but I promise it won't be. We're going to do a little bit of field research in a true archaeological fashion, but as I've not permission to do the really fun stuff with you until Seventh year, we'll have to settle for simply re-discovering what we already know."
"Any questions? Arcturus? Yes, I'm picking on you. If you don't have one, make one up. It can be about the class, about me, about anything, as long as it's neither about my love life nor Star Trek."
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Post by Arcturus MacDougal on Nov 24, 2007 21:57:26 GMT -5
Arcturus froze. He liked and really hated this teacher in about equal measures. His mind churned for a couple of seconds while he felt the eyes of all the other students on him. He quickly made something up. "Uh...which alphabets are considered 'magical'? You said runes are alphabets generally considered to be magical. And...just for the record...what's your favorite movie? Clearly it isn't Star Trek." Arcturus thought this class would be pretty exciting. He thought the teacher was pretty cool...he'd just have to remember not to be late from now on.
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Post by Zea Winters on Nov 25, 2007 9:56:27 GMT -5
"All alphabets can be used as runes. It all depends on the intent of the user, and the magic they are being used for. The Mirror of Erised, for example - the runes inscribed on it are merely the Roman alphabet, backwards."
"However, you can't use a language you don't understand to do runic magic. That's where this class comes in."
"As for my favourite movie, it's Indiana Jones. And five points to Ravenclaw for asking that question, I love talking about Indiana Jones."
"Now, that concludes today's class, I'm letting you go early so all of you can go order your supplies, please have everything you need by next class! If you have any questions or concerns, please stop by my office!"
[[This thread is now LOCKED, as we'll be starting next weeks' shortly!]]
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