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Before leaving Estarris, Victor lets Han borrow his Mirrormir armour and sword.
Kit says she has to do some Nox things over the next couple of years so Han will look after Dawn.
Kate and Karly will also look after Dawn while Kit is away, as her 3 "mad" aunts.
Han, Minnow, Bacchus, Mordred, Sebal and Trean (who are not helping directly) delay / fight Tachiomat's forces.

Tanni is invited to enrol as well with the promise that she can be returned to her home world in plenty of time.
On the way to his study, Mermerin startles 2 young girls out in a corridor stealing cake from the pantry. For some reason, the two girls do not see Mermerin's strange guests.

Sinsifel Selene Dawn - Sin's full name. Used by Valris when berating her.
As Mermerin asks the group questions, a magical quill records the information on individual scrolls.
Mermerin asks a fair few questions ;- such as... "Why you want to study here? What you hope to get from studying here?"
Mermerin talks about "booking passage back home..."
Tanni is gob smacked when she learns just how much chaos Vic, Val and Sin have - especially Sinsifel and the Eye. She has mixed feelings about it all - On the one hand she has been raised by her Father, Kaine Orgath, Champion of Law upon Urth to fear and despise Chaos as the ultimate threat to Universal Harmony. But Victor and Sin have rescued her from a fate worse than death and Sin actually seems quite likeable. Tanni would never dream of disobeying her father back on Urth. But she isn't on Urth and that freedom appeals to her.

The magical quill takes notes. Mermerin puts Victor's, Valris' and Tanni's scrolls, one by one, into a fire. The results (as delivered by "The Powers That Be" appear in the flames. Before he puts in Sins though, he asks Victor a question. "If Sinsifel cannot stay, will you?"
Victor answers truthfully - "No."
"I thought as much," says Mermerin, destroying Sin's scroll in his hand, keeping it from the other flames.

Reasons for going to the School
Dawn needs time to grow mentally and attune herself to the Evereon's systems.
The Time Drive is out of action (because of above), hence no one can actually leave Estarris.
Minnow and Kit think it will take at least 2 + years for Dawn to mature enough. Possibly a fair bit longer as she will still have to learn how to manipulate the systems, despite them being likened to "an extra limb."
Tachiomat is still attacking Estarris. The World may not have that long to survive. Some sort of resistance must be organized otherwise, Estarris will be consumed and the Evereon along with it.
Sinsifel cannot wait 2 + years as she is infected by the power of Tharizden. It will continue to spread and overwhelm her if she is forced to wait.
Minnow suggests that Victor learn some proper sword and weapon skills, rather than just fisty cuffs.
Valris is keen on regenerating from her dragon burns and using the spell rod to learn lots of spells.

Notes on the School
Celesteen is the Patron Principle of Education - a Lord of Law dedicated to Higher learning and reaching one's potentials.
The School is run and maintained by a group of "lawful" minded people who are allowed some degree of freedom in their methods in order to achieve the best possible results. No one running the School has actually sworn themselves to Law as a Servant but they all believe in the Principles of Law. Some understand the nature of Law and Chaos better than others and all are very good at what they do.

Artorius (Art) - Head of Physical Education and Development.

Orain - Head of the Sciences. Likes to be called Professor. Pipe... Late 40's. Hippy like appearance.
Gives Vic Val Sin and Tanni their evaluation tests. Questions of maths, logic, belief, what is most important question... put these in order of the most important... describe this object as accurately and then as creatively as possible... what sports have you played? Are a competitive person? What other physical skills do you have... (just human form), How many languages do you know... Vic 74, Tanni 73, Valris 210, Sin 141.

Melkos - Head of Philosophy and Governing Principles. Auditorium. Lessons on the Principle of Exchange. Social studies.

Simoni(f) - Head of Esoteric Pursuits. Appears as a middle aged woman with glasses and hair in a tight bun. Apron. Cooking bread.  Hello Darling...

Garion Hubble - Head of Sports / Hunting and Self defence. 5'8" Short shaven hair. Oriental - half breed. 175 years in the school. Grand master in no less than 19 physical disciplines.

Jenaveeve - Head of Art and Inner Expression. Beautiful. Late 20's. Straight red hair. Freckles. Black - Goth. Piercings...  To Sin - "Maybe we can unlock some of that creativity and bring a few things to life...."

Gabriel - Head of Religion and Belief - Aka "Preacher." Supernatural. Appears about 6'7" Lean. Short brown hair. Green eyes. Dressed very smartly in black suit. Valris is probably keen to get back to her druidic roots.

Verity - Music and Drama. 12 years of age. Short blonde curly headed girl. Sweet features. Born backwards.

Dorian - Weapon's master / fencing instructor / Military schooling.

Caspian - Late 40's. Eye patch. Unshaven. Scarred above his eyebrow. He's got limp. Lisp. Hunched over. 5'8"... Jack of all trades. Early 30's. Hair tied - black hair. Blue eyes.

Sakumi (f) - Aged 15 - Oriental girl - Lithe and slight of build. Blue House.

Wayne (m) - 14 - Sword trainee. Yellow House.

Sorian (m) - Aged 18 - Sword trainee. Short - crew cut style.

Tabitha Kent (f) - Aged 16 - Very intelligent. Shoulder length dark hair. Button nose. 5'4". Head band. Necklace.

Maddy (Madison) (f) Good looking girl. Head of the Crystals, a gang of elitist girls.

Ursula Chedevero (f) - (Russian like girl).

Sherry (f) - Bully who tries to make Sin her "bitch".

Erik Sark (m) - From the Rock (a floating colonized asteroid). Plays Bullseye. Captain of Red House.

Tanni Orgath (f) - From Urth. Carries Black bone (a Balance dedicated blade). Yellow House.

Isabelle Jones (f) - From Elona. Aged 14. Works in School library.

Jansen (m) - Huge muscle bound monster of a young man - 18. Wrestle - Box - Kick box and in the Bullseye team.

Moreece (m) - Big chunky chap with rosey cheeks. Flabby. "Howdy."

Sawyer (m) - Good looking - Hunky. Sporty looking. Square jawed. Black hair. Superman. Makes pass at Valris.

Vee (f) - Can summon fire elementals. Prefect. 5'5". Chestnut hair. Pouty lips. Bell bottomed figure.

The School Uniform is compulsory for all students. Three Houses exist - Blue, Red and Yellow House. Every student wears the colours of their house. Colours also separate Juniors and Seniors - Juniors Light grey and Seniors dark grey. The colours appear on girls blouses and as stripes on the shoulders of T-shirts or pockets of shirts for the boys. Girls have to wear plaid skirts and either blouses or T-shirts. Boys have to wear shorts, trousers, T-shirts or shirts.

614 Students currently attend the School. Of those, 400 are Juniors and 214 are Seniors. There are currently 12 Prefects. School has been "operational" for 912 years. 80 students graduate each year. 73,000 students have passed through the Celesteen School. 671 have qualified and left the school to continue Higher Training in the Castle of Law. 34 have become Savants of Law - the highest form of recognition of a Law Servant. 19% of all Savants of Law have been trained in Celesteen. 618 students inc Vic, Val, Sin and Tanni.

Save up points to get new items of clothing / items / food / better rooms and other privileges.

No stealing
Curfew after 10pm.
Hand in late course work or are repeatedly late for class or incur repeatedly below the under bar grades - detention / or "catch up".
No fighting with fellow students.
Expulsion can also mean having all memories of time in school removed.
No drinking.
"No fornication or indecent exposure on school grounds in broad daylight" - says Mermerin. "But what you do behind closed doors is your own business."

Victor, Valris and Sin first have to undergo mental evaluation tests to test their current knowledge and skills.

"This guy is making me feel like a kid" says Valris.
Victor laughs. He always feels like a kid !
Sin is put off immediately by the length of her skirt. Blue tops and grey skirts. She voices her concern to Mermerin who basically says take it or leave it.

Typical daily timetable starts at 7am
7am - Shower / wash etc
7.30am - 8.30am - Breakfast in the dinner hall.
9am - Enrolment with School sponsor.
9.15am - 11am - First period.
11am-11.15am - Break.
11.15am - 1pm - Second period.
1pm - 2pm - Lunch
2pm - 3.45pm - Third period.
3.45pm - 5.30pm - Fourth period.
5.30pm - School finishes.
5.30pm  - 7.30pm Tea time.
5.45pm - After school classes / clubs start.
7.30pm - After school classes / clubs end.
8.00pm - Evening functions - i.e. Dances, performances etc start.
10.00pm - 6am - Prefect Patrol *Note - Not every night, but scheduled for 1 night a week*

Weekend much more flexible depending on what you are studying.

Valris initially joins the "Puzzle's club" and Sin joins the choir, band and dramatics' club.
Sports - Tennis - Rounders with bat and ball - Rugby aka Bullseye.

Maddy / Madison - leggy.. thin... blonde.

Victor is already worried that Sinsifel is going to lose her virginity.

As Mermerin walks out of the dining room he chastises two students ;-
Sidney - Protection spell vs bats at breakfast table.
Malcolm - eats everything - including metal forks and knives.

The tour continues - Erik's shows the swimming pool, garden and gym. The Celesteen school certainly seems to have everything.

Erik takes the group around to see all 11 teachers. The twelfth teacher has supposedly never been seen. Who is the mysterious twelfth being? Victor suggests that it could be Celesteen himself. A thought that doesn't seem to have crossed Erik's mind.

Victor begins contemplating what he will learn. Meeting Dorian for the first time, Victor finds himself having to face a few hard truths. Dorian - "If you want to study with me you must know this, I demand nothing less than total dedication to me above all other subjects. I will train you to Grand Master level of skill in any of the several disciplines that I am versed in but only if I have your undivided attention."

Victor has plenty of ideas of what he wants to learn but as Dorian points out - "Master Mermerin has told me that you have to fight someone or something quite dangerous when you leave here. I can teach you how to do that. I can make you and your weapon as one."

Victor's ideas ;-

Increase Sword skill
Increase Dodge skill
Practice Concentration skill
Practice / Develop spiritual abilities

Erik, Jansen and Moreece discuss Victor's friends - Valris, Tanni and Sin. Valris they agree is an absolute stunner but well out of any of their leagues. Tanni doesn't seem to warrant too much attention as she is "too small". Sin however is good looking but not too good looking to be out of reach. As they discuss her physical merits, Victor feels compelled to join in. Vic says "She's got a nice rack."

Sammis has an acoustic guitar that Moreece can supply to Sinsifel. Moreece hopes that by giving Sin the guitar he can get something out of the deal.

Jansen has a rant about Law and Chaos in the Student Recreation room that evening - He describes Chaos as having "no standards and picking absolutely any dickless freak off of the streets to become their new Chaos God - even shape a turd into a man and call it Lord of the Chaos Turds... while Law looks at a whole world of people and says - No, you're too ugly - no you can't tie your shoe laces - no you're brain isn't the size of planet and is just so fussy that it never picks anyone. Meet Me, Jansen, Lord of the Chaos Turd Planet sized brains - the man in the middle of it all."

Vic and Valris discuss some more ideas about Law and Chaos.
Tabitha Kent comes on board in the discussion and Victor tries arguing that a Multiverse without any Gods is possible.
Tabitha proposes the theory that at the beginning of the Multiverse, humankind (unique because of its power of belief) conjured up various World based concepts like Love, Hate, Good & Evil. But these concepts varied from World to World. Only the concepts of Law and Chaos proved to be constant across the whole Multiverse and as such had Multi-versal belief and power.

Tabitha walks off when Victor says "You have your beliefs and I have mine."
Valris then discusses Victor's idea of banishing all Law and Chaos from the MV. She doesn't believe it would be possible as they exist from the beginning to the end of Time - "You would have to remove them from the whole MV at the same time, fundamentally changing the entire MV by doing so."

Victor isn't stupid - he's just uneducated. He has a 16+ INT and WIS that he under uses.
Time keeping is important in the school - there are clocks everywhere.

Dorian demonstrates 5 different fighting styles ;-
Honoi - Straight cut fighting - solid stance.
Farane - Curved - sweeping strokes and circular rotating strikes.
Adayus - Stationary - Very focused. Multiple precision strikes.
Wren - 2 bladed fighting style. Very mobile. Lots of somersaults and rolls.
Veyus - Fine, precise, skilled.

Sub styles ;-
Etreyu (Special moves)
Rerete

Dorian - "I require nothing less than total dedication..."
Dorian - "If I teach you and you become a Grand master of your own style, everything will be undone if you are still half a being - if you cannot combine your two halves into one balanced whole."
Victor chooses to study under Dorian to the exclusion of everything else - after all, learning how to fight with a sword is probably the most important thing he can learn at the school for fighting Tharizden.

Chapter 41 - Eternal Champion - Irian - with helmet that shines forth demon slicing light. Ilvir makes appearance at end of the comic - "To be continued."

Back at the dorm, Valris pays Vic a visit and sets the guy's tongues wagging. Later, Jansen makes a tent under his blanket that doesn't bother Victor as he is confident that his love for Valris and their relationship is unshakeable. He is more paranoid about Sinsifel and how he would react if Jansen were making tents over his daughter.

Tanni and Isabelle walk over.
Red House is punished and told to clear up.
First lesson is Creative Language and Writing. Given text books.
Partnered with Erik in Science. Given more books and homework.
Lunchtime... Meet with Val. "I am so angry. We're not going to last a week let alone 7 years at this rate," says Valris.

Third period - Maths. Fourth period - Self development class with Dorian.

Introduce other students under Dorian - Sorian, Wayne and Sakumi of the Shadow Fighters. Wayne is studying stance and body posturing to predict moves.

3rd day. Audience with Mermerin to discuss spiritual progress. Meet Mermerin's phoenix - called "Shambles." Mermerin states the Spiritualism is generally Chaotic sided and Mentalism is generally Lawful minded.

Concentration skill - practice by concentrating on what teacher is saying - tackling concentration to avoid opponents.

4th day of wk 2. Girl with bright green hair flees dining room.
5th day of wk 2. Same girl with corrected hair suddenly flees with hairy palms.
Vic suspects Sin is using cantrips. Victim's name is Sherry. "She stuck worms in my bed." "She wanted me to be her bitch..." complains Sin. "I wasn't having any of that," she adds.

"Lets see what you're made of..."
Vic jumps 80 feet straight up. He shows his speed. Mai files her nails.
Vic smells something foul. Edge nr a lake.
He spots a 5 tentacled creature that stinks of rotting flesh and animal carcass'.
As he approaches it, it drops on him trying to smother and drain his strength. He claws his way out.

Mai says that a girl like Valris might make her turn lesbian.
Pass the night, talking with Mai and Erik.
Erik tells Victor that their cover story is Prefect Curfew Patrol - ensuring other students stay in their rooms at night.

Prefect's have people take notes for them when they miss morning lessons.

Week 3 - Day 2 - Magnets. Melkos + 15 other children in Sin's class have mentally become animals.
"Oh crap" says Sin - after Victor waits 30 mins for her to recover and Mermerin has erased the memories of everyone else in the class.
Sin is horrified at what she did - "I wanted my own set of unique results. I already knew what would happen if we boiled salt. So I got other stuff from the shelf behind me and mixed that all in. I took note of it all - even weighed and measured it."
Sin is torn between guilt and being upset to finding the whole thing very amusing. "So, what did Melkos become?" she asks - Victor remembers Melkos being a monkey but doesn't tell her.

Sin - "It was boring - at least I know how to make it happen again - I just spit in it."
"Grandfather would make it so much more exciting - he'd let us take the whole wall of ingredients down and experiment with the lot."
Valris says - "Ok, don't tell me."

Valris goes out that night on her own Prefect duty with Tabitha Kent and Vee Vasquez.
Valris has no encounters but learns a bit about her two Prefect companions. She learns that Tabitha can send out hundreds of tiny spiritual pieces of pollen that allow her to see in many places at once. And that Vee can summon up a giant battle cat that she rides into battle on with a huge halberd.

When Sin sticks her forked tongue out at her parents, Valris is shocked but sympathetic. Outside the room Victor and Valris discuss her problem. "I hope she learns her lesson from this," says Valris.

Valris has joined the Logic Puzzle club. The Psychiotromerites (People obsessed with doing things with their minds instead of their hands)

Tanni has joined the Running Club and the Riding Club.

On Prefect duty, Vic practices moving his spirit entirely out of his body.

Tanni turns, hearing Sin scream. She sees Sin backed up against a tree, about to be struck by one of the teeth filled heads. Without thinking Tanni runs at the creature, vaults onto its back and continues upwards towards its heads. Through the trees parallel to her she sees something black speeding against the skyline. She reaches out and suddenly Black Bone is in her hand, descending in a wide and deep arc to slice clean through the neck of the head threatening her friend. Moments later the sword blurs twice again as she leaps away and the other two heads fall, gushing at Sinifel's feet.

"Are you ok?" Tanni asks, panicked. "Are you injured?"
"No..." Sin gasps, stepping away from the creature's expanding pool of black blood. "I think I need some new underwear though."

Moments later Victor and Valris notice Sherry running back all scraped and cut from her flight through the woodland. "Monster!" she gasps, before stumbling inside the school. Vic and Valris run in the direction Sherry came from and remove their pendants.

Vic and Val come across the stunned Sin. Tanni is standing with the sword over her shoulder above the three severed heads, staring in amazement and disbelief at what she has done. Erik later arrives on the scene, sees that they are all ok and leaves again, just as quickly - after all, it is broad daylight and he doesn't want to attract too many students to the area. Several minutes later the creature begins to dissipate into the earth, leaving behind only a black stain on the grass. Vic and Val later fill out an incident report to let Mermerin know what happened and Tanni takes her own sword back to the school as it won't let anyone else touch it.

That night Erik meets with a couple of the other Prefects to discuss what happened. They all agree that it is a little odd for a Nightmare to attack in broad daylight and that Tanni should be considered for Prefect when she becomes a Senior.

Passes all 3. Graduates up to level 3. Spending time with Gabriel.

Victor goes up on Maths to Level 2. Victor also goes up to Level 2 in English / Writing. Level 2 in Arts and Crafts. Bead necklace for Valris.

Last match of the term. Can the Ruckers win? Victor gives a speech.

End of Term dance. Victor doesn't want to "pretend" break-up with Valris, but goes along with it - taking one for the Team.

Blue won the term... Sawyer - thanks Gadaf - Valris and Tabitha for their efforts.

Jansen's flower escapade in Sawyer's dorm and his threatening of the 12 yr old... "Stay in there ... I like little boy's bums..." squeaks Jansen in a silly little high pitched voice, striking terror into the boy sentry.

Valris gives Victor a humungus slap on the dance floor during the last door. It is so loud, the music actually stops.

Prefect Duty this evening ;-
JK - Jerry Kinlow of the City of Damascus. Yellow House, Seniors. Plate and Chain. Long staff steel shod.
Madeline - Yellow House. Buckling on two swords. Circlet.
Victor does some sword practice.
Rumour mill is turning - Valris supposedly up all night crying - Victor having an affair - mistreating her.

This term.

Blue Team do definitely have tactics for obtaining information on the other teams, their tactics, their strengths and their weaknesses.

Change tactics - Ruckers win first game in a long time.
Further use of rings of soul linking to intensify contacts.

Play - Verity running a play called the Grave Digger. Sin gets the part of the Corpse Bride. Sin gets a singing part.
Vic kills one of Narvai's Phantom Bats.
Valris - warns Victor about Moreece selling info to Sawyer.

Vic makes team change tactics at last moment.
Team wins 21 to 7.

Spirit training.
Meet with Mermerin to discuss the strange Knight.
"T is something that the powers that be choose to ignore..."
Mermerin is utterly surprised to hear Victor's story about the Creation of Tharizden.

Girls have created the Victor and Valris club. They save things like discarded apple peels and pieces of screwed up paper with Vic and Vals writing on.

"Find em, fool em, finger em, fuck em, forget em - The Five F's" - Quote Justin.

5 months passed so far.

Mai - Attacks it and adds 5' on it.
Tanni heads out and hits it, chopping an arm off. Sinsifel.
JK summons up earth bonds to pin the thing in place with his staff.
Tanni then does a super round house swing with Black Bone.
Victor bites Toby on the arm. Vic drains some of his blood. Teachers are all out of the school on a Teachers Conference... it was unannounced but Narvay must have got wind of it through someone.

Madeline - longest doing prefect duty. Sin restores Toby's body back from Narvai but not his mind. Toby has mind of a child and will have to relearn everything.
Tanni severs both the creatures legs and then its head. Mai and Madeline face off. Madeline wants to kill Toby as he is already claimed by Narvai. Erik and Toby later are taken to the hospital. Mai is still in her pink bunny Pj's and Tanni is still in a blue nightie and hair cap.
Mai says goodnight.
Toby (according to Mermerin) is going to be ok, but will have to relearn.
Vic is a bit put off because he couldn't do anything.

On the night of the performance, Sin is extremely nervous. Tanni visits her backstage and helps her with her makeup. "You're gonna be fine," Tanna assures. "You're gonna knock 'em dead."
Sin nervously laughs. "Don't say that ! What if I do kill them? What if no one claps and they think the whole thing stinks like a rotten cabbage."
Tanni grins from ear to ear. "Well, a Corpse Bride has to stink sometime. It's a matter of natural decomposition and gas."
Sin gives Tanni a jab in the ribs. "Go away. Go keep an eye on my father. I just know he's going to do something. I feel it in my bones."
"In your fleshless decaying bones," Tanni groans, rolling her eyes and doing a zombie impersonation.

As the curtain rises, Victor, Sin, Erik and Tanni are all sat in one of the rows nearest to the stage.
The first half of the show goes by without a hitch and the audience loves it. Some of the teachers find it a bit too tongue in cheek and macabre but the superb performances of Martyrin of Sin captivate even the most sceptical among them. (This isn't the first time that Verity has put on a show that doesn't quite conform to the School Curriculum and its ties to Law.)
About half-way through the second half though, Mai approaches Victor and taps him on the shoulder. She whispers in his ear - "We may have a problem."
She leads him out of the hall and along an empty corridor to the boys toilets. A boy is sat outside looking ghostly pale and obviously frightened. "Thomas here found something inside a few minutes ago," explains Mai.
She leads Victor in and shows him a large spray of blood up one of the walls and an open window leading outside. Victor removes his blood inhibiting pendant and lets his Chaos return. He sniffs around and tells Mai that whoever was here climbed out of the window, so Mai doesn't wait and starts climbing. As she is dressed in a ball gown she struggles a bit. "Give me a hand and don't cop a feel," she says.

As both of them track the person around to the back of the stage hall they suddenly come across a large crowd of 30 or so students, all milling about at the back door. "Hello," says Mai. "Why are you all here?" The crowd turns and starts shambling towards them; even though they look and are dressed as students, they appear to have lifeless eyes and zombie-like bodies.
"This isn't good," says Mai.
Just then Sin's voice carries over the moaning zombies as she launches into the final song of the show. "I've got to stop the show," says Victor, rushing off. "I'll keep this lot busy," says Mai, "Don't mind me - I'm dressed for Zombie bashing." But Victor doesn't hear her as he is already leaping back through the window and blurring with his super speed backstage.

Vic approaches Verity who is enthralled at how her show is going.
"We've got to stop the show," says Victor.
"What! Are you serious. Out of the question. It's a masterpiece. Look at their faces. Everyone is spellbound."
Victor thinks to himself - "That's what I'm worried about." It is then that he notices the dancing zombies behind Sinsifel and Martyrin - dancing zombies that look a little life-like and seem to be falling over themselves. "Look at those, they're real zombies !"
"Preposterous!" Verity exclaims. "It's their makeup and costumes. Now get out of here." She gestures and two stage hands grab hold of Victor's arms to escort him away. But as they do, Sin launches into the final romantic part of her song - the part that ultimately ends with her kissing Martyrin and taking him back into the grave with her. Victor's mind races with the terrible possibilities that might ensue if Sin isn't stopped - For Victor, this is obviously the work of the Eye of the Chaos and he has to put an end to it before it is too late. With Vampiric speed, agility and strength he throws off the stage hands and tries lowering the curtain. But the Eye prevents it from falling and matters grow worse when a lamp falls over and the curtain catches fire. Throwing his arms up in despair, Victor leaps across the stage towards his daughter.

The audience, focused entirely upon the climax of the show and many with tears in their eyes, fail to notice until the last instant the strange flying apparition speeding towards the loving couple. Gazing intently into the eyes of someone who she has dreamed of kissing for the last few months, Sinsifel leans in close, puckering her lips for the finale.

At that instant, Victor grabs her by the arm, trips over a gravestone, kicks Martyrin flying 20 feet off the stage and into the audience and flies to land on top of her in the freshly dug grave that was to be her romantic resting place.

Sinsifel screams. Martyrin breaks his arm and all hell breaks loose. But as Victor pokes his head up and looks around, he sees that the "zombies" have all returned to their normal student selves and once again he has averted disaster... students run screaming past him to escape the flames and a stampede to evacuate the hall leaves Martyrin trampled underfoot.

Mai inspects the damage backstage. None of the zombified students can remember what happened. She does notice a small bird has gone missing from its cage and one of the girl students has a few loose feathers stuck around her mouth.

Sin is not happy. "My second ever kiss... I've been waiting for weeks, I'm the star, its the big finish and all I want is you to say well done and instead there you are, flying through the air and rugby tackling me into a freshly dug grave. I am never going to be happy. I'm never going to have a boyfriend or have sex !" screams Sin.

Victor is forced to let Erik know the truth about Vic, Val and Sin's connection.
Victor and Valris are strong armed by Erik and Mai and sat in toilet cubicles to explain themselves and what has happened....

Martyrin has a broken leg from where Victor knocked him off the stage while he was kissing Sinsifel.

Vic finds Sin a couple of days later. Tanni is lying on the grass chewing some grass.
When Victor visits Mertyrin in the hospital to apologize and tell him that he can still go near Sin, Martyrin reveals what he really thinks of Victor's daughter - "She's too much of a 'freak' for my tastes," says Martyrin.

Towards the end of the year, Erik and Mai get it together and have a brief hot and cold romance.
Victor tries to give Jansen guidance in his studies and life skills but educating Jansen isn't easy.
Jansen shows Victor the latest issue of Chaos Chronicle - issue 83 - With Minnow stealing the Chaos Chicken from Mog's Throne. A golden chicken capable of laying Chaos Eggs of all things. Minnow is then pursued by a horde of demons.
Brought to you by Janar Sparrow, Editor in Chief. - All events and characters depicted in Chaos Chronicle are gathered from the real reports of Agents and Savants in the field and from the Mystic Tablets of The Eternal City.

Madison is head of Yellow house.
The day before New Year's day, Victor, Valris and Sin have a visitor.
Kit arrives and they fill her in on everything they have been up to. In return she tells them what has been happening on Estarris since they left.
Sebal has made a machine to emit a pulse wave that reveals Draconians in a half a city radius.

Sin has her own room now with Tanni.
Valris now has a room entirely to herself. So does Tabitha as they have both earned enough points.

Victor is now able to sneak at night after curfew to Valris' room and climb in through a window for nookie. Something he does at every opportunity.

Victor will focus on his sword fighting this new year - Dorian advises again that Victor uses all of his abilities to focus on his hybrid fighting style. He also picks up and learns shield.

"I am something that shouldn't be," says Kit, about herself and Mermerin's reaction to her.

New house captains - Maddison (Yellows), Valris (Blue), Erik (speech)
Merit Awards - Valris forward for 2. Sin - Merit Award for her performance and dedication to the Corpse Bride.
Prince and Princess  - Valris, Victor.

The nearby island on the lake has the ruins of an old laboratory on it - Victor suggests that she get it rebuilt and this becomes the first step in her longer term goals. With Victor's help designing it, she submits the designs for a new laboratory to Mermerin for approval. Along with the designs she works out material cost, required manpower and how she will earn enough points to "purchase" equipment to go in it. Mermerin is very impressed with the level of detail in her planning. He later says to Victor during one of their "catch-up" discussions, "I am most impressed with Valris. She has really surprised me. When you first came here I was most concerned about her - more so than even Sinsifel. But instead I and her teachers are often stunned at her abilities. For one so young to not only master the obvious affliction of her blood but rise above it and leave so many other students in her wake with her lawful approach, is astounding."

Mermerin agrees to Valris' plan, as along as she continues working with the School clubs, the school administration and co-operating as Gabriel's teaching assistant. To Valris that means unparalleled freedom to pursue her own research and experiments away from the school. For Mermerin, that means that Valris can study and learn without putting the school at risk or compromising Victor's mission there.

As the island is too far out across the lake to reach by bridge, Victor proposes building a ferry. This too is figured into the costs and set up as a project for the Structural Engineering Class.

It takes the entire first term for Valris to plan everything and get the complete go ahead but by week 13, students are beginning to construct what she wants. Of course the students don't realize it is for Valris - only that they have been given projects to complete for their year's final grades.

In the meantime Valris continues accumulating merit points by being Blue House Head, Chief Club Organizer and Event Master as well as Teaching Assistant to Gabriel and School Prefect.

Victor sighs and heads to Sin and Tanni's room and bypasses a queue of students outside, all clutching pieces of paper.
Inside he finds Tanni lying on her bed, Black Bone openly hanging on the wall above her. Sin's side of the room is strewn with paper and a desk has been positioned near the door for receiving other students. Glancing at one of the pieces of paper Victor discovers it is a petition to change the rules on School Uniform.

Sin is quick to defend her position. "I'm working within the system," she argues. "If enough people agree with me and we get a student body majority, Mermerin and the other teachers will have to sit up and listen. It's not as if I'm trying to abolish all school uniform, just add some flexibility into it - 3 different lengths of skirt for instance as opposed to just the one. Variation of colour, so instead of just plain grey we can have grey, black and white.  Here is my list of changes. What do you think?"
"I think rules are rules Sin," says Victor. "Even with your petition, they aren't likely to change."
"They have to change. There's no reason for them to be the way they are. They are outdated and unfashionable."
"They're designed to make everyone equal."
"What about mum - her points don't make her equal. She wears all sorts of things we don't get to."
"That's different. You're going about this the wrong way. Try not to be so aggressive."
"I'm willing to fight for this. I've been really good this last year, doing stuff for me and for us. But now I want to do something for my fellow students. I want to bring a little colour and freedom into their otherwise dreary oppressed lives. I want short skirts !"
Victor sighs and looks at Tanni who in turn is gazing at Sin in adoration. Tanni puts on a mysterious character voice and says - "Beware her power, for it is capable of bringing almighty shit down on anyone who opposes her..." Tanni chuckles.

Conducted via email between Nov 05 and Jan 06
2nd Year