>I don't even need more than 3 hours of sleep

>>27797888
-LAST TIME IN SALEM-
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/27696383/

You, Natalia Jean-Louis, young witch of Afro-Carribean descent, had a bad first day of school. Everything was going fine until that AWFUL CREATURE, Sophia Dahl, a member of Turtle House, spilled a baldness potion on you and sent you into hysterics. You attacked her, naturally, and were able to get a few good slaps in before you were pulled apart. You were then escorted to the nurse’s office by Danielle, another Turtle House classmate. You didn't actually cry until you got into the nurse's office.

>>27797940
You finally dry your tears after you have made your way back to the dorms from the nurse’s office. Even now you remember his magnified eyes looking closely at your scalp and telling you that it was ‘fortunate’ that the potion didn’t singe off your hair. You fail to feel lucky though, even if he gave you a pass to skip your next class, Flying.

You push yourself up off your bed with your elbows and look at the bottle of hair solution that he gave you. If you were to wash your head with this every night for three nights your hair would be back to its original length. You also remember him telling you not to use too much or too often or you would have the reverse problem: too much hair.

An instinctive hand goes up to your head to play with the hair that is no longer there.

You choke down tears yet again.

Looking at the clock on the wall you realize that you still have some more time before you need to go to dueling class.

You can either sit on your bed and wallow in self pity or:
>Go down to the forges and blow off some steam.
>Try your best to study.
>Plot your revenge. (Suggestions)
>Other

>>27797966
Do some studying while angry. Doing things while being angry at someone is the best way to actually do something.

>>27797966
>>Go down to the forges and blow off some steam.

>>27797966
>Go down to the forges and blow off some steam.

>>27797966
Go to the bathroom, take a long look at ourselves in the mirror, and don't leave until we're sure we won't burst into tears for the rest of the day.

>>27798162
>>27798198
You feel incredibly small as you slink off to the stairs and down to the main hall, hoping that no one would see you. Comforting cool air surrounds you as you descend to the forges and are warmed again once you reach them. Casting a careful glance about you notice that the wide circular room seems to be empty. Makes sense, students have class during this time unless given special permission or have sick notes like you do.

You start practicing on some of the techniques that the older student, Allen, showed you.

>Roll 1d100

Rolled 54

>>27798297
We should think about getting a hat.

Rolled 80

>>27798297
Oh great Hephaestus bless my dice!
SMITHING!

>>27798312
>>27798489
>54

You take a metal rod to the flames to heat it up like you were shown earlier in the day and then attempt to hammer it out. Your strikes hit clumsily, not as firm as they were before, but you were able to coil it a little tighter than before. Not perfect, and you still have quite a bit to work on, but it succeeds in making yourself feel a bit better.

“Not bad.” The voice behind causes you to jump a bit.

Whirling around on your heel you turn to face this person, but soon you see that it is none other than Allen himself. He looks different from when you first saw him before class. He is now clad in a large burlap apron with three large pockets in the front, one of which is filled with his heavy leather gloves which stick up the top. His blond hair is dirtied with ash and is pushed up in a weird angle from his large dark glass goggles that rest on his forehead. You notice that his face is also covered in a thin layer of dirt except for around the eyes.

He gives you a quick look up and down. “Did you get a hair cut?”

>Laugh Nervously and Change Subject (Specify)
>Tell All (1d100 to fight the tears)
>Other

Rolled 57

>>27798516
>Tell All (1d100 to fight the tears)
Oh great Odin give me courage to go through this without crying
TELLING!

>tfw I fell asleep after the first quest and didn't get to follow it
>tfw finding it again
>tfw they used the name I picked for the pc

Rolled 69

>>27798516
>Tell All (1d100 to fight the tears)
Rollan

>>27798545
>>27798605
>57

You confess everything to Allen, desperate to have a caring ear to vent to. You get to the end of the story and have to stop because you can already feel the tears coming on, dissolving your composure into a sniffling mess.

Strong and reassuring hands find themselves on your shoulders. “Rough day.” He mutters before continuing on, “That Sophia girl sounds like a jerk. Don’t let her get to you though. Turtle house kids are just lazy Eel housers that have never had a hard day of work in their life. It will catch up to her.”

You rub at your eyes with your sleeve. Allen seems to pause for a bit, searching for something to say to make you feel better. A light goes on behind his eyes when he finds it and his hands go into his apron's third pocket.

He fishes out two rags but seems displeased with them so he carelessly drops them to the ground before pulling out a third, and significantly cleaner, bandana. He folds it into a large triangle and ties it around your head, tucking the tail into the back.

“See?” Allen flashes you a toothy grin. “Now you just look cool.”

A flush crosses your face as you can’t help but fight a meek smile on your lips. “Thank you.” You say in a hushed voice, unable to muster a louder volume.

You probably have a bit more time before class.
>Ask Allen what he’s been up to.
>Ask Allen to help you more with smithing.

>>27798690
>Ask Allen to help you more with smithing.
Smithing!

>>27798690
>Ask Allen what he’s been up to.
Maybe he also had a bad day, we could return the favor

>>27798690
>Ask Allen what he’s been up to.
That's just common courtesy.

I'm going to Salem on the 25th this month. Looking for things to do.

Wait...what is this shit?

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>>27798855
>>27798967
“How’s the first day of class going for you?” You decide to turn the subject on to him instead of you, still very eager to get your mind off the whole thing.

“Ah, well, pretty good except for I’ve only been to one class.” He seems a little embarrassed by this. “We got out early from enchantments and I’m not a huge fan of divination so when my roommate wanted to work our own little side projects together I really couldn’t resist. Before I knew it I stayed half an hour later than I wanted to so I just decided to skip class.”

“Won’t you get detention though?” You ask, raising an eyebrow.

“Oh yeah I totally am. But,” Allen gives a shrug. “I just kind of got into the groove of everything. I got a ton of work done too so it was worth it.”

He quickly adds on, “But don’t do that! Go always to class.”

You can’t help but laugh a bit.

Speaking of which, time to go to class. How do you say goodbye?
>Hug him real quick.
>Thank him for the bandana and then leave.
>Just leave.

>>27798982
Just uh... watch your back out there, Anon.

>>27799135
>>Hug him real quick.

>>27799135
>Thank him for the bandana and then leave.

>>27799135
>Hug him real quick.
He was nice to us. We are a girl. It is perfectly okay to hug him.

Rolled 34

>>27799135
>Hug him real quick.

>>27799135
>Thank him for the bandana and then leave.

>>27799135
>Hug him real quick.

>>27799159
>>27799188
>>27799192
>>27799340
You throw your arms around his waist, feeling your face warm slightly. Allen pats you firmly on the back in return. Once you let go you give him a smile, which he returns with a thumbs up, before heading up the stairs.

You begin the long walk to the other side of the island, welcoming the solitude but feeling your confidence returning under the safety of Allen’s red bandana.

-ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: SEMPAI-KUN GAVE ME THIS BANDANA!-

Once more you cross the courtyard of the cabin classrooms, now buzzing with activity from students passing from class to class. You duck your head down and pass through it as quickly as possible to avoid any conversation. Though you are feeling better about the whole situation, you still are not eager for a second confrontation with any Turtle House members or especially that AWFUL GIRL, Sophia.

Fortunately, you pass by unnoticed. Everyone seems to be too caught up in their own business to bother with you.

When you pass by the Main House you also see that it is mostly unoccupied and unchanged from the time you were there visiting the nurse moments ago, but you don’t take any closer inspection of it.

You walk along the school grounds and soon see new buildings come into view.

-CONT-

>>27799523
To your left, sitting directly on the other side of the island from your dorm entrance, is a large stone light house. It’s a little too far away to see more detail beyond its’ large glass panels at the top. You can also see a stone dome in the distance as well. However, your destination does not lead you to either places because to your right you see the large sand lot where both dueling at flying are taught. You can already see familiar faces gathering up and you go to them.

Before you can even fully get to the field Angela rushes up to you in an excited flurry.

“Oh-mah-god! That was amazing!” Angela makes a quick swatting motion in the air. “Pow! Right on her face! Her look was priceless!”

>What did I miss in Flying?
>Bask in your small moment of praise/glory?
>It was nothing, I don’t want to talk about it.

Rolled 22

>>27799632
>What did I miss in Flying?

>>27799632
>It was nothing, I don’t want to talk about it.

>>What did I miss in Flying?

>>27799632
>What'd I miss in flying

>>27799632
>>It was nothing, I don’t want to talk about it.

>>27799632
going with this >>27799669

>>27799656
>>27799669
>>27799702
>>27799705
You begin walking back with her to the group of your classmates, ready to leave Potions class behind you and start a new part of your day.

“What did I miss in flying?” You try to change the subject.
“Oh, nothin’ really. Just practicing gettin’ off the ground.” She rolls her eyes. “We’re with the Starfish kids for both that and dueling. Let’s hope they can handle ya’.” She gives you a friendly punch on the shoulder.

Once you reach the group of students you see a familiar, slightly pudgy, shape come into your view. Todd must have seen Angela run out to meet you and has now come over to see you himself. He has a concerned look on his face but it dissolves once he sees that you are in better spirits than you were last time he saw you.

“Hey Todd!” Angela greets. “Gonna say hello to Natalia ‘The Beat-Down’ Jean-Louis?”

-CONT-

>>27799907
“It’s really nothing to make a big deal over.” You start to feel a little uneasy with all this attention. “I really don’t want to talk about it anyways.”

Todd is about to say something before he is interrupted by a loud voice from the front of the group of kids. It is coming from a fierce looking woman with long mahogany hair swept up into a tight pony-tail. You notice a large jagged scar running up the right side of her face and over where her ear used to be.

“Today is your first Dueling class.” She crosses her arms behind her. “I am Ms. Squall and you will be seeing me every other school day for the next seven years. Try not to make a bad impression.”

If there were any distracted kids there were certainly none now. You could feel all of the attention and energy on the field being directed towards her. This seems to please her.

“You’ll learn Accio today.” She informs you as she gestures to three melon sized iron balls. With a quick flick of her wand she sends one of them flying towards her before grabbing it with one hand and then tossing it back.

“Any volunteers?”

Well?
>Volunteer
>Don’t

>>27799938
>>Volunteer

>>27799938
>Volunteer
If we succeed or fail, at least it'll give people something to talk about other than what happened in Potions class.

>>27799938

>Volunteer

>>27799945
>>27799980
>>27800053

Roll 1d100, Please.

Rolled 78

>>27800080

Rolled 100

>>27800080

>>27800114
>Man I'm good

>>27800114
This is a roll high system right?

>>27800114
>98+
-CRITICAL FAILURE-

WRITING.

So far it seems like we've had the worst first day of school ever.

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Rolled 22

>>27800138
>>27800176
>>27800193

>>27800193
>mfw this is a roll low system
>mfw i have no face and i must scream

>>27800176
No, no it would appear not

>>27800193
ou take a deep breath, trying to recall what you read in your dueling book last night. You shoot your hand up quickly, desperate to give your classmates something else to talk about than the potions class ordeal.
Squall gives you a quick nod. “You? Okay come up.”

You go up to the front of the group before the three iron balls. However with everyone now looking at you, you suddenly start to feel your nerves rising. You swish your wand but it doesn’t feel right at all as you mutter an ‘Accio’. Your wand shoots out a dull sputtering sound as the iron balls actually move away from you instead of towards you. A chorus of laughter comes from your fellow classmates behind you. Your heart sinks down deep in your chest, how could you embarrass yourself twice in one day?

Squall gives them a quick glare and they silence. She tosses her head at you to go back into the group so another classmate can give it a try. One by one the students go up and most of them do very well but a few of them can’t seem to get it right. None of them failed as poorly as you did, but they still couldn’t get the balls to move their way.

Squall pulls you and the other three students aside after class. You’ll have to come in tomorrow morning before breakfast to make up the exercise and get extra practice.

It’s now time for lunch and then you have your last class of the day: Magic History.

The idea of being surrounded by your fellow students makes you nauseous.

>Brave out lunch in the main hall.
>Get something small on your way in and hide out in the library.
>Skip lunch, go hide out in the dorms.

>>27800220
THATS NOT FUCKING 8BIT

>>27800449
>>Brave out lunch in the main hall.
suffering time

>>27800449
Get something small, find some place isolated, and try to practice that Accio spell until we get it right?

>>27800449
oh I forgot

-ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: I HATE MONDAYS!-

>>27800548
Huh, does our character read Garfield by any chance?

>>27800529
I mean we're in the practical house right?

That means we solve problems.

And right now problem that we can come closest to solving during lunch, is not sucking at magic.

>>27800449
>Skip lunch, go hide out in the dorms.
We need fate points or something, these rolls are killing us

Rolled 1

>>27800487
>>27800529
>>27800755
Rolling to break tie.

Also Im thinking about a fate-token system, but haven't settled on anything specific yet.
One option is formalizing the -ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED- system.

>>27801031
You decide that you can’t hide from your problems forever and that it’s best to put on a brave face and go to lunch. You hope to slink off with out notice but Angela and Todd are quick to your side which is a slight comfort when you look behind you to see kids still gossiping about what happened in class and making weak impersonations of your attempt at ‘Accio’.

Angela looks over her shoulder and glares at them. “Oh whatever. She could still smack the crap out of you.” She calls out, loud enough for the whole island to hear.

“Are you always so outspoken?” Todd hisses to her immediately.

“Duh!” Angela rolls her eyes. “Violence rocks!”

Normally this would probably make you laugh but you still feel very low about everything that has happened today. The three of you walk back to the Main House in a conversation that is mostly governed by Angela and Todd in an effort to make you think about other things.

They continue this fruitless effort into lunch, but during this time it isn’t your self pity that keeps you distracted. It’s Allen.
He doesn’t seem to notice you as he talks to the other fifth year boys, they seem to be in a deep and interesting conversation but you can’t quite make it out. You push your food on your plate, not actually being hungry at all. There was just something about him.

Suddenly, he looks your way. You quickly look down at your plate in response. How long had you been staring at him?

Soon the older students start filing out of the Main hall to give the first years room for their final class all which has all four houses together: Magic History.

Each house is in their respective side and when you glance over you can’t help but see a still ruffled up Sophia glaring hard at your way.

>Glare back
>Ignore her

>>27801126
>>27801139
But its not.

>>27801248
>>Ignore her

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>>27801248
>They continue this fruitless effort into lunch, but during this time it isn’t your self pity that keeps you distracted. It’s Allen.
>He doesn’t seem to notice you as he talks to the other fifth year boys, they seem to be in a deep and interesting conversation but you can’t quite make it out. You push your food on your plate, not actually being hungry at all. There was just something about him.

>Suddenly, he looks your way. You quickly look down at your plate in response. How long had you been staring at him?

>>27801248
walk up to her and apologize, for hitting her. then say we forgive her.

>>27801248
>Glare back

We're eleven, we've had a bad day, and we lost all our hair.

Being childish is acceptable in cases like this.

>>27800589
Isn't Natalie American? Maybe she found Garfield in the funnies.
Of course, she soon abandoned it when she found the Calvin and Hobbes anthologies in the library.

Rolled 2

>>27801270
>>27801355
Rollin.

>>27801336
You're on opposite sides of the huge auditorium and class is about to start. This is not an option.

>>27801531
You shoot her a good and dirty glare back.

After a while the staring match is interrupted when an old man with a soft limp and dark wooden cane comes out from the staircase. Most of the students are still talking excitedly, taking no notice to the newcomer. He slowly walks up to where the professors eat for their meals and pulls out a seat.

The loud groaning of the chair as it is dragged across the floor brings the rest of the first years to attention. You can still hear the mutterings of several conversations but they are starting to die out.

This must be Mr. Gonzales. You’ve heard about him from your parents but mostly stories about how boring he is is in his lectures. As soon as he begins to speak you see that these were not fabrications.

Roll 1d100 to stay awake.

Rolled 1

>>27801598

Rolled 100

>>27801598
by the caffeine gods we will prevail

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Rolled 89

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>>27801634

>>27801624
>>27801634
fucking beautiful

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>>27801634
>>27801624

>>27801624
>3 or lower
-CRITICAL SUCCESS-

WRITING.

You guy's have earned this

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>>27801659
Color version.

>>27801684
+3 to all magic history rolls (Including rolls to stay awake in class)

Actually, once he gets going, you find it incredibly interesting. He tells the class that he decides to start at the beginning of it all: The Witch Trials.

Little is known of how and why Tituba (the founder of The Salem Institute) came to Salem, only that she used a few well-placed imperio charms on key members of the town to slip in unnoticed and stay as long as she liked under the guise of ‘Tituba the Slave’. In the few journals that have not been destroyed or lost in one way or another it is revealed that Tituba did not originally intend on staying long within Salem but due to reasons lost to history, she extended her stay which resulted in her being caught teaching several children of the town magic. This, of course, would send the whole town into mass hysteria.

>>27801949

It has been revealed that only two Muggles knew the truth about Tituba and what was going on in Salem: Martha and Giles Corey, and the latter died for it. As they piled stones on top of Corey, he refused to plead guilty or not to his false charges of being a warlock, as well as refusing to reveal any of his counterparts.

It was his final, selfless act that made Tituba decide to leave. She quickly made her exit using the same curse that let her stay with villagers. As she fled across the countryside on a stolen horse and buggy she noticed that she had more cargo than she had originally intended.

To her surprise she found that one of her youngest students, Anne Putnam, had stowed away in the cart. Tituba was going to leave the girl by the road side but after much begging she had a change of heart. Besides, to travel in this time as a black woman meant needing a white escort. What cover could be better than an older slave woman looking after her ward?

After returning briefly to Salem to alter more memories the two departed on a long journey across North America to learn the various magical arts and eventually open up the Salem Institute on the island.

Mr. Gonzales ended the lesson there with promises to continue the story tomorrow. The students begin to rise from their seats and exit through the doorway, some a bit more eager than others.

As you walk out of the Main Hall you think about the next day of classes. Herbology, Transfiguration, Charms, and another round of Magic History. Oh and of course the early morning tutoring session with Professor Squall. Tomorrow would be new chance at everything and hopefully things would go much better than they had today.

They have to. Right?

-NEXT TIME IN SALEM-
-Natalia tries to pretend it was all a bad dream!
-Natalia looks in the mirror!
-Natalia cries more!
-Snowball is disappointed he can't groom Natalia!

Comments, Questions, Concerns, and Critiques start now!

>>27801991
Is it even possible for a Magical History teacher to not be boring?

>>27801991
So, QM, in a case where a critfail and a critsuccess are in the first three rolls, which one is used?

>>27802065
In this case, I chose the one that was rolled first. Also I felt you guys (and Natalia) needed a win. I'll come up with a rule for this before next thread, as well as a fate point system (which Im thinking will be based on unlocking achievements)

>>27802056
It is not possible, no.

>>27802065
Traditionally they cancel each other out, I think that not being the case was mercy?

>>27802104
ah well, still nice to know.

catch you later.

Anons, we appear to have a crush on Allen.
Allen, a BOY.

/tg/, it's like you don't want to be a little black lesbian.

Remedy this immediately.

Rolled 33

>>27802269
Natalie is an American citizen. According to the last census, 1.7% of Americans identify as lesbian.
Rolling for sexual orientation, 1 and 2 means lesbian

>>27802345
The one time /tg/ dice don't nat 1...

But seriously, I laughed. Not bad, Anon.

>>27802396
Don't be sad. Now we can grow up as a tall, skinny black girl with a huge afro and wow all the boys at the prom.
I kinda miss X-Prom Quest