Re: Game Start! (At the summoning library)
The young runemage looked more than a little frazzled, as usual, as the master gave out instructions. Her shirt haphazardly buttoned up wrong, and mostly held together by the sweater she wore over it. If she wasn't such a prodigy of creating runes out of standard spells, she would have never made it this far.
She wasn't entirely sure what to say to the master as he made the announcement, they'd been together for a while, all of the students had been. When he left, it felt less like a gracious act, and more like a test that was about to get underway... 'Thank you master, for... dropping this test on us to see who casts the most ugly thing to wipe out our fellow classmates first.' she thought playfully to herself, actually giggling aloud for several moments as she pranced up to the bookshelves, her false cat-aspects swaying happily. She'd become far less clumsy after having created them for herself, often catching her balance by her tail, or hearing people with those pointed ears before she stumbled face first into them... it was hardly an advantage, barely keeping her on par with the other students. Neither she, nor, she hoped, the master or her classmates, even considered it magic anymore, it was simply a part of the ditzy girl.
Lilly watched the other students passively as she began to rifle through the central tomes, spending a moment exploring the bookshelves, each one in turn (do we search them all, or have to search each square independently?).
"So... Who's up for a trip to the lounge for some casual studying? Or we could head to the dining hall for some light snacking while we work..." she began to offer, unsure if the others would take her up on her suggestion or not... this was a competition after all, but she quietly hoped that if even a couple of them worked together, they might put themselves at an advantage to the others who're more inclined to study on their own in private.
Though each of the students was headstrong and firm willed, they had mostly learned to work around one another, even help each other when required, or so she hoped. 'Whoever declines the offer is hurting themselves more than hurting the rest of us... which means this whole thing may come down to dirty tactics around the study group we form...'