WINTER TERM OPENING CEREMONY AND CLASS START

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WINTER TERM OPENING CEREMONY AND CLASS START
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The snowfall has only intensified as Daybreak moves into the first day of Winter Term classes. A school-wide orientation will be held in the auditorium, followed by an open period where tours will be given to new students by student volunteers. After a noon lunch in the main hall, short introduction classes will be held where the syllabi will be distributed and professors can give a brief overview of what they’ll be covering over the term.

A. ORIENTATION ASSEMBLY

With a new school year comes a fresh address. The orientation assembly is one of the few times that the Headmistress and High Seer, Mila Duchene, speaks to the gathered faculty and students about their purpose and why they’ve been found and gathered here. About how Nightfall looms ever closer, and how together they will be the flames who light the coming darkness.

It is, in the manner of many orientation speeches, fairly long-winded. Those who have been here for more than a year have likely heard this speech before, though it’s slightly more urgent this time. Maybe it’s a good time to get to know the people on either side of you a little better while the Headmistress talks, because you’ll be here for a while. Or maybe you’ve planned ahead, and you have something to entertain you at orientation - much to the shared entertainment or dismay of others in your vicinity, perhaps.

Or you could actually be listening to the speech. It’s up to you.


B. SCHOOL TOUR

For students fresh to the academy, the sprawling nature and architecture of Daybeak Academy can be quite intimidating. Fortunately, helpful student volunteers have been tapped to help escort the new students around and give them a feel for campus. Student volunteers are typically chosen for both their experience on campus and helpful nature. While some scripts are provided, students are encouraged to ad-lib and put their own spin on campus and what they like about it. New students are, of course, encouraged to ask as many questions as they can to make sure they fully understand and familiarize themselves with the campus as quickly as possible.

C. SNACK STATION

During the first three days after the Holiday break, throughout the campus grounds are small stations manned by the kitchen staff and volunteers, the smell of hot chocolate, cider, and frying bread fills the air, stirring the appetite and promising warmth on this cold winter’s day.

Every booth has hot chocolate, some spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, others rich and creamy, but always with an option for marshmallows, peppermint bark or caramel drizzles - with non-alcoholic hot cider for those with an allergy to chocolate. For food options, naturally being France there are crepes of all types and beignets on offer, with jam- or custard-filled berliners, while those looking for a more savory fare will be treated to rissoles - a fried bread stuffed with minced meat or bechamel sauce and cod.

While the drinks are on tap and readily available, it may take a few moments to get the treats out, so might as well make conversation while a fresh batch is made.

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Comments

[made_up_names]

Oh shit, Fakir said the magic word.

"You have a sword?" he says, instantly impressed. "Dude, that is badass." He leans over, craning his neck to see the phone. Is that Fakir? And his sword? He's so curious, dammit, he has to know.

[schwanenritter]

"...Well Yes." He answers with a touch of bafflement at Peter's reaction, taking a step back. Another glimpse at the phone shows that alas the background is a painting, probably clipped out of a fantasy novel's cover or a game book.

"Swords are pretty common weapons for a lot of hunters,"

[made_up_names]

Dang. That would would have been pretty cool too.

"Dude, you're the first one I've met that uses a literal sword," he says, still delighted. "Did you bring it with you?"

[schwanenritter]

"No, and take a step back!" Fakir snapped, feeling his patience run thin. "You're getting too close!"

[made_up_names]

Oh. Sorry, Fakir, his bad. He steps back, hands up in surrender.

"Sorry, sorry," he says, with a wince. "I just think it's cool how many different kinds of people are here."

[schwanenritter]

He gave a noise that's half-grumble and half-sigh, wondering if all Americans are like this. "I guess."

Normally he would quickly pack up and leave, but he can just hear Karon scold him and there was something Peter had mentioned that did catch his attention. "You mention you knew of a Hunter group?"

[made_up_names]

Just the really nosy ones probably.

He stays back a few paces, just. Very careful to give him space. "Oh, yeah. I joined one. Or they sort of blackmailed me into joining?" Maybe he shouldn't have said that, oops. "They're called the Avengers."

If Fakir's heard of them - and that's a big if - it's probably not the best reputation? They're new and eclectic, to say the least.

[schwanenritter]

He blinks, there were many Hunter organizations that have Avenger in their name, but generally they were straddled with long and florid titles. But the ones Peter mention.

"I heard about them... the older groups don't really care for them." While they got nothing on Mages, Hunters can be pretty hidebound in their own way.

[made_up_names]

Peter brightens at that. "Oh yeah, they mentioned that to me," he says. Fakir knows his group! That's so exciting!! "I guess we've got too much of a mix for the old snobby types."

Or they're just a little too loud and American for their own good, but. Either way.

[schwanenritter]

There's a the smallest twitch of his lips, a smirk probably? "Some of the oldest organizations are just as hidebound as the mages, though I believe the specific complaints are that they're 'too flashy'."

[made_up_names]

That. Is completely fair, honestly. Peter doesn't even really have a defense.

"We kinda have to be, right?" he says with a guilty little shrug. "I mean, why have these powers if you're not gonna help normal people too?"

Because of the goddamn veil of secrecy that's why, Parker.