Necromancers Guide to the Undead, Thursday, Period 1

[deathsmajesty]

Back in the regular classroom for the day, Liliana sipping a cup of coffee and leaning against the front of her desk. "As I'm sure you're all tired of hearing, next week is your final. The main point of this class is to be practical, to use the information I have provided for you in order to protect yourselves and potentially others. Because of this, I have no intention of keeping your final secret: you will be in the Danger Shop and you will be fighting for your lives. You will be dropped into a simulation of plane of Grixis; it will be horrible, so think fast, be adaptable, remain light on your feet. There will be a scenario with several objectives, and the more of those you complete, the higher your overall grade, but your number one goal is to survive. I don't care how you do it, so long as it's within the bounds of the simulation."

So no hacking the computer or just leaving; Liliana appreciated a quality cheat as much as anybody, and possibly more, but cheating here won't help you in the real world.

"Feel free to help each other, but I'll be grading each of you on your survival, not everybody else's. Further more, outside powers will not be recognized within the simulation. This is a test of what you've learned and how you think and respond to your circumstances only, not how well you've learned to master your own powers." Liliana would hate that restriction as a student, but hypocrisy hadn't stopped her yet. "That being said, I recognize that not all of you are fighters. As such, while many of your enemies will respond to brute strength, using what you've learned in class about their strengths, weaknesses, and tactics to deal with them will make your survival much easier. And lastly, there will be some creatures present that we have not learned about. Consider them tests of how well you can apply and adapt knowledge for one topic to another, as well as a reminder that things never go as expected in battle."

She set her coffee down and spread her hands. "So! This is your last chance to ask questions, clarify any confusion, get reminders, or what you think you might need to pass your exam. Any creature we have discussed has the possibility of showing up on Grixis, so make sure you feel comfortable identifying and handling everything."

Comments

[deathsmajesty]

Like you've just been told you're going somewhere horrible even by your creepy necromancer professor's standards.

[what_big_teeth]

Eleanor Zarrin

[stykera]

Stark

[gospel_of_oblivion]

Illyana Rasputin

[wildgalegirl]

Charlie Gale

[napking]

Gray

Listen to the Lecture

[deathsmajesty]

Well, more of an outline of your exam. Have questions about the set-up? Now would be a great time to ask!

Ask Questions

[deathsmajesty]

Last chance to go over your notes and get something clarified! Would suck to die because you were confused by what Sengir vampires were vulnerable to!

Re: Ask Questions

[gospel_of_oblivion]

Yeah, no, Illyana's hand was going up.

"I assume you're relying on us to follow the honor code, since there's no way to 'turn off' my teleporting," she said dryly, and yes, she was a little bitter about that, even as she understood the constraint. And no, she was never letting-on about power inhibitors. "But I am curious why we can't fight necromancy with necromancy?"

Yana knew her greatest asset in this situation was going to be her utterly feral ability to start murdering creatures with her bare hands if needed, but it was good to know strict the parameters were.

Re: Ask Questions

[deathsmajesty]

Liliana would be horrified by the existence of power inhibitors and would consider that a war crime.

"An excellent question," Liliana said because Gaia knew she'd have asked - demanded really - the same thing. "To the first answer - somewhat. I will be in the sim and I will be watching and if you do teleport somewhere and I don't see it, congratulations, you've successfully pulled one over on me. And if you feel like that's a major victory, well..."

She shrugged, but she was smiling. "You wouldn't be the first and it's not like I didn't have similar feelings in college. As for magic in general, it's as I said. I believe any number of you could blast your way through this with no problem, but that wouldn't be demonstrating a mastery of the course material, simply of your powers - which is laudable in and of itself, but not the point of my class. I want to know that you can tell different kinds of ghosts apart due to their affect on the environment. I want to know that you remember how to tell there are skeletons in the dark. I could just give you a written exam about such things, but I also want to make sure you can do these things under pressure. Knowledge is useless if the only place it's exercised is in an ivory tower somewhere. This is why I've made it so that creatures will be easier to kill if you use methods we've discussed in class, rather than just going through on raw strength. It's like most things in life: once you've demonstrated you know the rules, you're free to bend, break, or disregard them. But first, you must know them."

Talk To Liliana

[deathsmajesty]

She's been working on your final for awhile y'all.

Yes that is a threat.

OOC

[deathsmajesty]

Sleeeeepy