Thaumaturgy 101 - Thursday - First Period - 1/08

[brandyforapples.livejournal.com]

She was more than glad to see, as her students streamed in, more than a couple familiar faces and quite a few new ones. After the heavy lecture of the last class, she was rather excited for this one. Oh the plans that she had...

"Well," she said as she stepped away from her desk, her blue corduroy walking dress swishing ever so faintly in the morning sun, "you've come to this class, I should like to hope, to learn the very basics of thaumaturgy. Were you to be interested in pistolry, this would be comparable to learning to build the contraption. Should you have been interested in dance, this is where you would learn the steps.

"Thaumaturgy is a complex art, to be sure, with many schools and branches and ideologies mixed into it but there is, at it's heart, a logic and a methodology, else it should be very hard to teach, don't you think?"

She didn't wait for an answer, but went on.

"I myself hold a doctorate in the subject, but my area of expertise is in forensic sorcery. My schooling was done with many of the Teutonic masters and so I admit that there might be something of a slant; I shall do my best to correct this should it become anything like a problem. For today, however, we shall of course be doing introductions and I will be handing out the syllabus and a small survey."

[ocd is a go!]

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Re: Introductions

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

Dōjima grinned and leaned back in her chair. "Being in your class now makes it less likely I'll get killed doing something stupid later," she said cheerfully, if a bit bluntly. "It's a pleasure to be back, sensei."

Re: Introductions

[brandyforapples.livejournal.com]

"I take that as the highest compliment," she said with similarly cheerful honesty, "though I commend your bravery for entering the profession. Thankfully with eyes open, or I'd have to try and dissuade you."

She shook her head.

"No such trouble, I'm sure."

Re: Introductions

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"I wasn't exactly given a choice," Dōjima said wryly. "My father doesn't leave his decisions open for discussion. But I know what I'm getting in to, and it'll suit me better than some of the other options."

Her grin was completely unrepentant. "Besides, I'd make a terrible Office Girl."

Re: Introductions

[brandyforapples.livejournal.com]

"Most people do. Not much of a 'call' for it, down in the bones," she said with a brief chuckle.

"If you have anything to add, considering, do speak up. I'm well aware I can't know everything there is to know about magic on all worlds."