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Friendship and Stabbing: an Adventurer's Guide, Thursday

The danger shop was set up to look like a tavern for class today. Just your average tavern in your average town. There was a bard in the corner, strumming out Jock Jams. Because that was a normal fantasy song for one of your teachers.

There was one big ol' table for everyone, though. Because you couldn't learn about adventuring without starting out right.

"Hail and well met, students!" Magnus said, lifting his mug of cider in greeting. It was cider because they were in a school still. "My name is Magnus Burnsides, human fighter and occasional rogue..."

He looked over at Cara expectantly.

"Cara." Beat. Several beats, actually. "Mord'Sith." And if you didn't know what that was, that was your problem.

"You're in a tavern because it's one of the traditional places to meet people," she continued after several more moments.

"Also, quests usually start here," Magnus added. "The kind that end with someone getting an arm chopped off or someone dating death or someone turning into a mannequin."

Cara was just going to let that sit there a little while longer. "Also barfights." And if that wasn't a warning to you, you hadn't been paying attention in any of her previous classes.

It was progress!

Magnus not so covertly covered his mug with his hand. "So, tell us your name, what sort of adventures you've already had and... roll real real good?"

Then the ninjas attacked.

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It's time to roll for initiative! Aren't you happy?

Ahsoka Tano, 12

Peebee, 15

Yang Xiao Long, 16

Summer Smith, 10

Aloy, 14

Uma, 17

Which made sense in the context of an adventure. Honestly.

Maybe they were a bunch of rogue/monk hybrid class?

Either way, you gotta do something. And yes, ducking under the table was an option.

Seriously?

It was a good thing Ahsoka knew how to throw a punch.

Did Yang seriously just cheer and jump on the table to kick a ninja in the face?

You're dang right she did. Fight!

Okay, this was fun, and Peebee (being more or less a rogue herself) might have been taking a bit of fiendish delight in yanking the ninjas off their feet and dangling them in midair -- sometimes upside down -- with her biotics.

No saving throw for you, ninjas! Mwahaha.

Perfect setup for someone to come along and pick them off from there, really.

"BATTER-UP!" Yang, no, don't dive-punch the upside-down floating ninjas in the face.

...three guesses what Yang was gonna do, and the first two don't count.

See, and this was why Summer would never forgive the universe for not letting her be able to pick her own classes until her very last semester.

Summer was on her feet, reaching for the nearest thing as she usually did in these situations, which just so happened to be the chair she'd been sitting in. She swung it into the first approaching ninja's head, then into the shoulder of the one after that, then seemed to have two seconds to smash the chair on the table to give her something a little more streamlined (and splintery!) to bash and poke with.

"How did I wind up here again?" Aloy sighed, grabbing a chunk of wood to function as a makeshift staff.

Fights broke out in the fish and chip shop almost every day back home. Uma didn't know Cara well enough to pick up on her hint, but once the ninjas came diving it, she was right at home.

Missing Harry on her left and Gil on her right, maybe, but still, home.

Funny how no one ever expected to get punched in the face and then whipped with her braids as she turned to fight someone else.

Post-barfight. Have some halos and a Capri Sun.

"I'm Ahsoka." Also not really sure why she was surprised by the ninja-fight.

"Hi, Ahsoka! Did you like the ninjas?" He liked the ninja.

Now Ahsoka was going to feel bad if she said no. "They were...ninjas."

Magnus couldn't help how excited fighting ninjas made him, okay?

"And you kicked their asses! Great job!"

"Hey, I'm Yang," she said, sorting through the Capri Suns. "Hey, do we have any of the blue raspberry ones?"

Look. Priorities. A girl needed to rehyrdate in style after a fight.

"Yang, my dude!" Magnus said, super thrilled to have her in his class again. "I think we have some Ecto-cooler flavored ones?"

"What up, Professor Burnsides," she said, offering him a fistbump. Tai would be horrified she was speaking to a professor like that.

Which made it even better. Respect trained Huntsmen blah blah blah.

"I'm just going to assume Ecto means awesome flavor."

"Hell yeah," he said, answering that fistbump with his own. "Magnus, please. Professor Burnsides was... well, not my father. But someone out there, I'm sure."

Peebee grabbed several Capri Suns, because flinging around that many mass effect fields got a little bit draining after a while.

"That was worth it," she said after finishing off one pouch. And no, still not introducing herself by name. A girl had to at least try and maintain the air of mystery she liked to think surrounded her, okay?

"Are you... are you a tiefling? Or is that offensive? It's probably offensive and I am super sorry." Because he had yet to meet one of them and it would be wicked cool to.

Ran into a ton of aarakocra, though. Mostly in the bonus episodes.

"Eh." Peebee shrugged. "Never heard of them, so I'm going to go with no. I like that name though, so now I'm intrigued."

And now she was going to have to find out about tieflings, and wouldn't that be fun?

"Okay, cool. Cool, cool, cool. There might be books in the library on them? I've never checked." Because he hadn't been to the library before.

Summer glanced at the halos and Capri Suns with a little bit of derision. What were they, seven? But she still picked up one of the tiny little oranges because they were tasty, and she realized that not every fight ended in the devouring of the flesh of one's enemies, and, really, she hadn't done that for, like, nearly four months, anyway. But you tended to pick up habits...

Pizza would have also been acceptable post-fight fare, of course.

"M'Summer," she said, popping a slice into her mouth and introducing herself around it. "I've been waiting way too long to get to take a class like this one."

Unless they were just being jerks and giving them all the good stuff in the beginning to lure them into a false sense of awesomeness.

"Where we punch things and learn about each other, growing as people along the way?" he suggested hopefully. His pitch went up a little higher with each word there, ruining that manly, gruff thing.

"The first part? Definitely," Summer said with a nod. "The second?"

She lifted a hand parallel with the floor and wiggled it a little. "Meh."

Huh. Uma had never gotten food after a fight before. At least, not food she hadn't cooked herself.

Though she was having a lot of trouble getting her straw into the juice...pouch...thing. Why in Hades had someone okayed this stupid design?!

Well, see. Those halos and Capri Sun? That's what leveled you up. Not the battle. So they were super important.

"Those can be tricky," Magnus said, making a little stabbing gesture. Helpfully.

"It doesn't want to go through the stupid hole!"

Seriously, who had engineered these things? Sadists?

"And now my straw's bent!"

She wished she had her sword.

No leveling up for you then. Sorry, we don't make the rules. You get to stay stuck at level 1.

"Want me to help... you... maybe?"

Uma bared her teeth at him, clutching the stupid bag closer to her. This was hers, get your own, Magnus. "I don't need anybody's help!"

She probably wouldn't even like Ecto Cooler anyway.

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"Yeah, but sometimes," he began. "Sometimes it's good to accept help. You know. For the team."

Or cast a buff. The occasional buff, Merle.

They were there for you, after all!

There, and far too amused with themselves.

It's still cold and and I still feel like falling over. Booo, everything. Dayquil, take me away.

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