(very much under construction)

Chapter One: Past, Present and Death

 Opening Theme : Amy McDonald - Youth of Today
 Ending Theme : Foo Fighters - The Pretender

1st Game Session: Prologue

The One Where They All Meet And Head To The College

Off-Game -stuff: Character creation. Initial Flashbacks of every character.

The Session:

“It hits you! Well, technically, it bites you. It being a squirrel and all.“

- The GM

That’s pretty much how the story begins, but is rewound a bit to explain where we were.

The characters arrive one by one at an inn in Bay’s End, the colony capital. Before each one arrives, bit of their past is revealed.

Marcus - Living his life in a small frontier village of Dusk Mountain with his brother. They jest around, talk about women, wrestle. A magister (Ming Kahr) rides to town and organizes formal entrance exams. His brother and a couple of other people from the nearby villages are asked to participate. He thinks his entrance exam doesn’t go so well, but decides to hang around until the magister makes his decision.

After a long, painful wait, the magister tells Marcus that not only has he been accepted to a school, he has been selected for the College of War. Of all places. Marcus is happy to the core and rushes to the local community hall where his brother and his friends are partying.

Lovejoy - Lovejoy’s acceptance-story is a bit more common. He is of the age, lives in a big city, time for his entrance exams comes up, he goes to the drafting station, waits in line. Eventually he is called to meet the local magister (Liz), who takes a look at Lovejoy, a look at something hidden behind her desk, asks Lovejoy a few questions and informs he has been accepted to the College of War.

Roland Petitjean - The Fieon noble happens to be in a town when a magister arrives, and is most politely asked to attend to the meeting. The magister (Jacob McAurel), asks if those participating could do stuff like sing and dance and express themselves. Midway the charade, he pulls Roland aside and tells him that there is something quite extraordinary about Roland that they will have to discuss the moment he gets to the College of War, indicating that Roland has been accepted to the school.

Ninga - Unlike the others, the aboriginal girl is simply interrupted by a magister (Kristoff), who gave her a letter of admission and told her that she had to go to the College as a student. She nodded and started heading East.

One by one, they arrive at the inn. Marcus looks like a brash young guy used to living in the wild, Lovejoy might appear a bit arrogant, Roland being somewhat uneasy with everything, and Ninga just seems to be completely oblivious to anything civilized.

Once they have all arrived, they are followed by a bit of a tomboyish elven girl, dressed in the uniform of the College of War, wearing a blue-and-gray vest, carrying an ornate knife on her side. She introduces herself as Iiain As, and tells that she has been assigned as a tutor for the four of them for their first school year.

She asks if the characters want to stay at the inn for a bit more or if they are okay with heading out. The troupe wants to get the journey done as soon as possible, so they head out of the city. The journey is long, and they have a chance to ask about this and that. It is revealed, for example, that Jacob, the magister who recruited Roland, had died a while ago, incinerated. And that there are strange creatures, infused with elemental and other powers.

After a few days of traveling, during a dark night’s sleep, Lovejoy is attacked by a squirrel with red eyes. They bravely fend the creature to the woods, but it left deep scars to the emotions of Lovejoy, or so it appears.

A couple of days more and they gaze on a sight they had never thought they’d see - The College of War.