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Alicia is a student at the Zhalram School of Bladecraft, one of two schools
owned by a shadowy organization that oversees the Zhalrami army recruiting
process. Alicia is troubled in her schooling and attempts (and fails) to hide
her natural talent for magic; she tries to use her magic skills to assist her
team in the battle drills but gets caught. Alicia gets monitored more closely
and comes out to Tistus about her magical powers, Tistus is concerned for Alicia
but accepts her and they work together to make the suspicion go away.
process. Alicia is troubled in her schooling and tries to suppress her innate
magical talents with little success. Alicia finds a spiritualist in town and the
spiritualist encourages her to use her magic in battle, making her team the
cream of the crop (with various social consequences). Alicia gets caught by the
schoolmasters and confronted to admit she is a spellcrafter, leading Alicia to
disagree and coin the term "spellblade"; arguing that she has a unique gift and
she wants to see where it will end up. The teachers have never seen this happen
and deliberate before accepting Alicia and encouraging them to continue down
that path.
- Cover the setting
- Introduce the bladecraft school
- Introduce spellcraft and frame it as an "other"
- Introduce Alicia undergoing a magical awakening
- Get caught by Tistus
- First battle
- Accidentally uses powers on the field
- Gets caught
- Teachers deliberate and propose a magical vivisection, something that would
purge someone of their magical powers
- Alicia argues she didn't ask for this, this just happened to her one day and
she would be okay to be rid of it
- One teacher proposes Alicia be evaluated for a magical vivisection,
- Leads to victory
- Get sus by Zekas
- Tongue-lashing for the absurdly crazy strategy
- Meal hall
- Bed, idle thoughts about her magic
- Spiritualist
- Various battles?
- Flashbacks to her father noticing signs of this happening and teaching her
how to suppress her gift
- The magical side would effectively kidnap her from a young age and her
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- Father died in the aftermath of an avalanche
- Alicia enrolled in the bladecraft school to get away from home because it
reminded her of her dad
-
Alicia gets expelled and then roams
around the marketplace she talks with a spiritualist named Kala and ends up
getting roped into their underground school of mixed arts.
## Slightly Longer
Alicia is a student at the Zhalram school of Bladecraft, she is on the Red Team
and works with her teammates to get through various battle drills. Unbeknownst
to most people, Alicia has a talent for spellcraft as well (a large taboo for
someone in the school of bladecraft) and is desperately trying to hide it from
others, but slips up and is discovered. The school elders have discussions about
this and then decide to put Alicia under academic probation. Alicia roams around
the merchant district of Zhalram and happens across a spiritualist that offers
Alicia a magical locus that is shaped like a sword and hints at the bladecraft
and spellcraft schools being operated by the same person. Alicia experiments
with it and then hides it in her room.
## Old Chapter Checklist
- [ ] Introduction to the school of bladecraft. Alicia is shown to suppress
her magic and tensions between spellcraft and bladecraft are hinted at.
Zekas starts to get suspicious of Alicia.
- [ ] Alicia has a chance encounter with a spiritualist that points out Alicia's
twin aura and pulls her into an alley to talk about magic. Alicia refuses
an offer of a spellblade locus for her magical talent. Another battle,
another narrow victory, another scolding. Zekas talks with a teacher about
Alicia.
- [ ] Alicia meets with the spiritualist again and accepts the locus, getting
shown how to wear it as a bit of jewelery. Alicia wears it into her next
battle and her team wins, but Alicia is called out for cheating with
magic.
- [ ] Interrogation by the school's headmaster, threats of expulsion for daring
to mix bladecraft and spellcraft. Alicia attempts to come out as a
spellblade to the headmaster and is laughed back to her barracks. Various
drama ensues. Tistus offers support to Alicia and they cuddle to sleep.
- [ ] Another battle day, Alicia uses her locus to empower herself and takes
point to defend the flag point.

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# Abandoned Ideas
Alicia is a student at the Zhalram School of Bladecraft, one of two schools
owned by a shadowy organization that oversees the Zhalrami army recruiting
process. Alicia is troubled in her schooling and attempts (and fails) to hide
her natural talent for magic; she tries to use her magic skills to assist her
team in the battle drills but gets caught. Alicia gets monitored more closely
and comes out to Tistus about her magical powers, Tistus is concerned for Alicia
but accepts her and they work together to make the suspicion go away.
Alicia gets expelled and then roams
around the marketplace she talks with a spiritualist named Kala and ends up
getting roped into their underground school of mixed arts.
Alicia is a student at the Zhalram school of Bladecraft, she is on the Red Team
and works with her teammates to get through various battle drills. Unbeknownst
to most people, Alicia has a talent for spellcraft as well (a large taboo for
someone in the school of bladecraft) and is desperately trying to hide it from
others, but slips up and is discovered. The school elders have discussions about
this and then decide to put Alicia under academic probation. Alicia roams around
the merchant district of Zhalram and happens across a spiritualist that offers
Alicia a magical locus that is shaped like a sword and hints at the bladecraft
and spellcraft schools being operated by the same person. Alicia experiments
with it and then hides it in her room.
- Teachers deliberate and propose a magical vivisection, something that would
purge someone of their magical powers
- Alicia argues she didn't ask for this, this just happened to her one day and
she would be okay to be rid of it
- One teacher proposes Alicia be evaluated for a magical vivisection
### Old Chapter Checklist
- [ ] Introduction to the school of bladecraft. Alicia is shown to suppress
her magic and tensions between spellcraft and bladecraft are hinted at.
Zekas starts to get suspicious of Alicia.
- [ ] Alicia has a chance encounter with a spiritualist that points out Alicia's
twin aura and pulls her into an alley to talk about magic. Alicia refuses
an offer of a spellblade locus for her magical talent. Another battle,
another narrow victory, another scolding. Zekas talks with a teacher about
Alicia.
- [ ] Alicia meets with the spiritualist again and accepts the locus, getting
shown how to wear it as a bit of jewelery. Alicia wears it into her next
battle and her team wins, but Alicia is called out for cheating with
magic.
- [ ] Interrogation by the school's headmaster, threats of expulsion for daring
to mix bladecraft and spellcraft. Alicia attempts to come out as a
spellblade to the headmaster and is laughed back to her barracks. Various
drama ensues. Tistus offers support to Alicia and they cuddle to sleep.
- [ ] Another battle day, Alicia uses her locus to empower herself and takes
point to defend the flag point.