Freshman Year - Adventuring 101

via IMs

Alright, you're all students enrolled at Lorinel U. Courses are a thousand gold each for tuition and materials. Those of you with less than five thousand gold in starting money are able to get Financial Aid in the form of loans, which will need to be repaid after you are no longer a student. Here's the course catalog. Choose your classes.

Since you're all new students, you end up in the same required courses with each other. During Adventuring 101, the professor is droning on and on about the merits of having the proper tools, when you get an illusory note passed to you, asking if you're interested in some shiral hunting this weekend.

xD
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heh
wait is this a start of game or just how your opening it?

Good question.

After a moment, the illusory script swirls and reassembles: No? Good choice. Welcome to Lorinel. -PDL

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PDL?

That's what it said. I guess I could have you roll an Intelligence or Perception check... except you don't have character stats rolled yet.

lol no i dont

All of a sudden the professor's droning stops, and he looks up at the class and lets out a much more lively, animated 'Well, let's see who's left then.' Looking around, you notice there seem to be a number of students gone, though you don't remember anyone getting up to leave.

lol. The people who thought it was a good idea.
poof.

"Excuse me professor. Not to be rude.... but what just happened?"

"What's that?"

"I saw some note... asking me a question about shirals."

"Oh did you? Passing notes in class isn't the best way to get an education... most of the time. Those of you still here are here because you passed the Dean's pop quiz, intended to cut the wheat from the chaff as it were."

"OOOHHHhhhhhh....." thinks about it for a moment.... probably b/c we are in an adventure class... some probably thought it was part of that.

The rest of the class continues as normal, except now in a far more interesting, often hands-on fashion.