JANUARY IN-SERVICE

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JANUARY IN-SERVICE
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A year has passed, and in the tradition of gratitude for the faculty and the graduate students who volunteer their time as teaching assistants, the administrations bring in a long luxurious french tradition for this first month: Truffles.

A truffle-infused gruyere fondue pot was placed within the center with a few types of bread (anyone who loses a piece in the fondue must serve everyone drinks), risotto with white truffles, Aracini stuffed with ricotta and white truffles. Even the desserts are truffle-themed - from the traditional Chocolate Truffles (that do not have actual truffles) to Panna Cotta with black truffle shavings and Black truffle Sabayon (a kind of frothy custard). Champagne, French-style Lattes and Hot Chocolate are offered.

There is Confit de Canard, Pain au Chocolat and Fondue Savoyarde for those who are allergic to the luxury ingredient.


( Student players may tag top levels to try to infiltrate the meeting if they wish. While students ICly will not be aware of the missions until around the 1st of January, they may still discuss OOCly in the post here.

The following open events are available for the month of February. )

Feast of St Valentine’s
Once again, it’s time for Daybreak’s annual Valentine’s celebration. With no daemons predicted to be crashing the party - unlike last year - the school administration calls upon the current student council to organize themes, food and entertainment as they see fit for the upcoming Valentine’s Day ball.

The Last Bastions
As construction of the Bowman Bastion is nearing completion, the US Government has requested a large shipment of Mythril and Orihalcum from the Outlands to finish the shell. Daybreak views this as a perfect opportunity for some of the student body to view the efforts to defend humanity as Nightfall approaches, and for faculty and more experienced students alike to add some extra fortification that the government may have missed. This event will be open to all students and faculty who wish to attend.

Paranormal Investigations
For those students and staff uninterested in construction work or normal classes, several locations around the world have reported paranormal outbreaks that have seen particular interest from self-professed ghost hunters. Students and faculty will be granted permission to visit those locations and serve various roles, whether as experts, witnesses, or fellow ghost hunters, with the express goal of keeping such people away from any real danger and metaphorically in the dark.

Or, well, scaring or pranking them so badly that they never want to trifle with such things again...but nobody would do that, right?


The faculty will also be discussing the prevalent vision that has been creeping into Seers's dreams.

code bases by tricklet

Comments

[arcadianvampire]

I am sure you would find some method to cope, Lady Cromwell.

Though I cannot deny that your skills would be quite perfect for this job. ...And particularly amusing, at that.

[Oh, the ways someone like her could mess with people.]

But it is rather rude of me to hog my professional hobby and duties, isn't it? To think I would be surrounded by so many like-minded people in a place like this? It does my daemonic heart good.

[imyoubut]

[Oh, the ways she has. She'll have to share them with Val sometime.]

It's nice to see you agree. Likewise I'm sure you and the others would be more than capable of performing this task splendidly. But that in turn begs the question: who would perform the task better than the others?

[arcadianvampire]

That's a difficult question to truly measure, as we are fettered by certain regulations, which, for good or for ill, prevent us from showing off the truth of our capabilities. ...Though I suppose improvisation and adaptation to adversity is another measure of skill in the craft.

[He shook his head, though. Part of him was piqued by the idea of a little friendly competition but the professional in him had a point to disagree.]

Frankly, I do not see much need to compete in this sort of endeavor.

[imyoubut]

Limitations do make for surprising amounts of creativity. Though if the "King of Fear" refuses to participate, it makes the entire ordeal null and void in the end. Much like a tournament with no grand finals.

[Despite her disappointment in his answer, Urtz keeps up her smile.]

But I must ask why. Do you feel no need to prove yourself to anyone? Or is the potential for innocents to get injured or worse too much of a deterrent? Or, perhaps, some other reason?

[arcadianvampire]

To be truthful, there are a few reasons I believe that, and two of your guesses are spot-on.

You are right. I do not particularly feel reason to prove myself to anyone. I am more than confident in my abilities and would prefer to let them speak for themselves when the time calls for it.

[What he did to the Galrans a few weeks ago might've helped speak to that.]

And yes, part of our professional responsibilities is to keep collateral damage and risk to the veil to a minimum. Knowing how... competitive, we all can be, I think the risk would be irresponsible and therefore professionally unacceptable, even if it might be fun.

[He'll acknowledge that even he knows such an idea could be greatly entertaining, and would love for a chance to go wild. Such a thing was in his nature as a daemon, and was part of his old goals many a year ago.]

And besides that, I see a good opportunity in cooperation as comrades to find synergies for our collective abilities that we have not yet discovered. It could make for quite an enlightening team building exercise, the more I think on it.

[imyoubut]

All valid points. I even share your opinion in regards to seeing little need to prove myself. Though I won't deny that I do enjoy "flexing" on others, as it were.

[Between Jail and some of her students, she's picked up on more than a few words of modern slang. Not really her thing normally, but she likes to pepper her speech with them on occasion because it's funny and catches people off guard.

Which makes it even funnier.]

But if I may be so bold, it seems you would not be unopposed to the prospect if our targets were more...deserving of our full capabilities? I've done a bit of research regarding past events in the school's history and it would not be unreasonable to assume such an event could happen. Or, to be more blunt, could happen again.

[arcadianvampire]

If, or perhaps more accurately when, such a target were to show their faces, I would be much more predisposed to enjoy that suggestion. ...So long as it did not breed recklessness, of course.

[...Recklessness could be fun, but.... better that all of his coworkers survive than potentially get hurt or killed on a competition.]