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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rootbeergnome" data-source="post: 1163656" data-attributes="member: 3462">(This was a handout given to the players to detail the school and some of the professors.)Back to SchoolAll of you have been attending Marquette’s School for the Magically Gifted for a few years.  You have just completed your apprentice programs in your respective fields of study.  Marquette Mana-Burn, the school’s Headmaster, has just given you all your journeyman’s diplomas.  He has also hired you an adventuring agent in RiverBend who will help you to find jobs that fit your area of expertise.  You have been classmates and close friends for years, and now that you are all graduating to Journeymen on the same year, you are being assigned together into a team.  Marquette’s Journeyman program works like this; you are assigned different real world tasks to complete using your special gifts and talents.  Upon completion of your tasks, you are to report back to Marquette and you are then graded on your accomplishments.  Marquette’s core teaching ethic is to train people who will help better the world.  He believes there is no better way to learn than through experience.Marquette Mana-Burn:  Marquette is an old man with a gleam in eye of magic and knowledge.  He has shaggy thinning graying brown hair that is disheveled but well kept.  He wears small round-rimmed reading glasses that he is constantly readjusting on his large pointy nose.  He has an air of knowledge about him and though he appears old, he seems to get around very well.  He is always energetic and excited about teaching and learning.  He likes to play jokes now and again on the students, but never at the expense of another’s feelings.  He is kind and considerate, but somewhat unpredictable.  He has a special fondness for each of you, his “prize pupils.”  He is the Professor of Magical Studies and Arcane Theory.  He is also the Headmaster of the School.Yotir Korixca: Rarely seen at the school, this elusive Verrik woman teaches the art of witchery.  She is very aloof and some say she is the meanest teacher in the entire school.  The only people who even interact with her are the very few witches who she takes under her wing as her apprentices.  She is a thirty-something Verrik woman with wine colored skin, and stark white hair.  She is always dressing in lavish robes, often cut to make the male students gawk as she passes.  She once made a young student forget who he was for a month because she caught him peeking at her through her window, or at least, that’s the story.  There are countless stories about Miss Korixca.    Jo-Than: Jo-than is the professor of Akashic Studies at the school.  He is a plump Giant with a bald spot in the middle-top of his head that leaves him with horseshoe shaped hair on the top of his head.  He often dresses in simple brown robes and speaks philosophically almost always.  He is also the school Counselor, and any student who is having problems knows they may come and speak with professor at any time.  He is a very kind and understanding sort of fellow, who is always patient with students.  He often hums quietly to himself.      Kur-Tang and Shirathanon: Kur-Tang and Shirathanon are the school’s professors of Self-Defense.  Kur-Tang is a Male Giant with a shaved head.  He often teaches unarmed combat, but does also teach some of the more exotic weapons as well.  He is always calm, yet has a commanding boom of a voice.  He is always very serious, and will never hesitate to stop horseplay among students.  Kur-Tang is also the Disciplinary at the school, and steps in to stop fights, and assign appropriate punishments.  Shirathanon is a female Sibeccai.  She is a retired officer of the nation’s army.  Though somewhat old, she knows how to use almost every weapon that has ever been created.  She is a masterful fighter, and is somewhat aggressive.  She would never really hurt one of her students, however.  She often dresses in leather armor for class, but wears simple clothing anywhere else.  She always has a sword at her side, even at dinner.  Kur-Tang is her best friend, and they are always seen together, either sparring or just walking around the schoolyards.          Gor-Haim The Professor of Wildlife, Geography and Green Studies, Professor Gor-Haim teaches class outside, or in the greenhouse during bad weather and the winter.  He also teaches a course on Wilderness Survival.  He is rather portly and short for a giant.  He has graying hair on his balding head, and often whistles while working with the plants.  He is a fun professor, who often takes his classes on field trips to study animals and plants and overnight camping trips as well.  He loves the outdoors, and is a very kind and enthusiastic teacher.  His class pet is a tamed Displacer Beast named “Stubby”, whose tentacles were removed by poachers.  Stubby has never attacked anyone at the school, and seems tame as a kitten.  He can always be found near Gor-Haim.        Ichabod Smith:  The son of the local blacksmith, Professor Ichabod never followed his father’s craft, and instead studied books and the arcane.  Ichabod is the Professor of Runic Studies, Ancient Languages and History.  He is a small skinny man in his early thirties, with curly short brown hair, and a big nose.  He often wears spectacles, as his eyesight is not very much useful unless he is close to things.  Professor Smith is very serious, and often speaks in a monotone voice.  He is notorious for putting students to sleep with many of his speeches on the ancient world.Dorinaran the Builder:  The professor of Architecture and Engineering teaches students geometry, math, and building skills.  Professor Dorinaran is a Male Sibeccai who also works part time making blueprints for many of River Bend’s buildings.  He is rather serious and thinks highly of himself.  His math classes are notoriously difficult.     Jermyn NewTongue:  Professor NewTongue is the professor of Language Studies at the school.  A male Loresong Faen, he knows several languages and teaches all of the ones he is most fluent in.  He is notorious for giving lots of homework and being a lenient teacher, he will often take assignments late if the student asks.  He is kind and patient, and can often be found hanging out with Ichabod and Gor-Haim, smoking his pipe laughing with them between classes.        Places of Interest in the SchoolDormitories:  This is your basic well-maintained roommate necessary rooms for students.  Each room has two beds, two footlockers, a small closet, one or more windows, shelves and reading lamps.  The Dormitories are well maintained by crazy Jim, the mumbly old Janitor who cleans these halls.  He never says much, mostly just mumbles to himself.  Often there is a winged cat seen walking around the halls or sleeping on the floor in front of a window in a patch of sunlight quietly swishing his tail.   He is also seen near the cafeteria, begging food scraps from the students.  Cafeteria:  This large room is filled with long tables and benches.  There are lanterns hanging from the ceiling as well as a large hearth on either end of the room.  The cook, a Mojh named Scales, cooks the food with the help of his kobolds.  They do not take kindly to bad comments about their food.  The food is bad sometimes, bland most of the time, and very good rarely.  However, the food is free with tuition, so who can really complain?Well:  All the water at the school comes from the Wells in the Central Courtyard and the one near the Greenhouse.  Strangely enough, even during times of drought, the well seems to usually remain wet.Library:  The librarian is a Ghost who looks like an old woman.  If a student re-shelves books in the wrong place or neglects to return a book, then he may receive an unwelcome visit from Miss Ghost (no one knows her real name) She glides around the huge library, helping students find books and information.  She either cannot, or chooses not to speak.  It is rumored that the library contains secret passages to strange places.Laboratories:  There are several laboratories where experiments are performed, located throughout the school.  Each is stocked with appropriate apparatus and materials for it’s subject of study.  There are telescopes in the Astronomy lab, Beakers and chemicals in the Chemistry Lab, and so on.  Aviary:  This is an old fenced in area located out behind the greenhouse, next to the stables.  It is a project that Professor Gor-Haim has recently started.  Here he is rearing a flock of griffons that lost their mother to poachers or adventurers (he is not sure which, he merely found the nest).  He hopes to have them ready for release within a year.Baths:  These are two separate rooms, one for boys and one for girls, with a large pool in each.  The pools are heated from below by bound fire elementals.  This is where the students come to clean themselves and is a very luxuriant addition to the school.Greenhouse:  In this series of buildings, one can find all manner of plants and strange plant like creatures.  There are giant fly-traps, and even a Tendriculous in an enclosed pit.  There are also caverns located beneath the Greenhouse where Gor-Haim maintains a subterranean ecosystem of Giant mushrooms and underground plants and small animals.  As a side note, Marquette is always taking suggestions for new additions to his school.</blockquote>

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