first scene

Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill <me@christine.website>

characters/alicia.md

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+# Alicia
+
+Protagonist, Student, Snep, Anxious, Spellblade
+
+## Description
+
+Female anthro snow leopard (snep), about 6'1", chocolate brown hair down to
+their shoulders
+
+**Personality**
+
+Reserved, cocky, anxious, acts before thinking
+
+**Pronouns**
+
+They/them
+
+**Background**
+
+From the mountains of Nord Sewlet. Has been a bit of a social pariah, early
+talent for magic. Wrestled with the boys in the mud at times.
+
+**Inner Conflicts**
+
+Fear of missing out. Anxiety around "negative** social situations.
+Simultaneously very highly ranked in their class and constantly getting in
+trouble. 
+
+**External Conflicts**
+
+Spellcraft and bladecraft
+
+## Notes
+
+- Grows to make peace with their anxiety

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+# Plans
+
+Introduction to the school of bladecraft. Alicia is shown to suppress their
+magic and tensions between spellcraft and bladecraft are hinted at.
+
+- [x] The first battle between team red and team blue, team red barely wins,
+      Alicia has to hide their magic from Zekas
+- [ ] A dressing-down from the instructors, Alicia starts to feel fiery rage and
+      has to suppress their magic again lest they fireball the instructors
+- [ ] Dinner with rumors spreading about an affair between Alicia and Zekas,
+      Alicia feels embarassed and has to stop themselves from turning invisible
+- [ ] Alicia lays on her cot and remembers their dad telling them why they
+      needed to hide their magical talent, but one of her teammates notices her
+      hand glowing while it was covering her bandaged hip

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+# Chapter 1
+
+Alicia scanned across the clearing. The battlefield was a wide open grassy field
+without any good spots to take cover. Their team was losing. Badly. Their flag
+was solidly in the hands of the enemy and every attempt to wrestle it free had
+failed. They saw the possibility of an opening among the chaos and gestured
+their squadmates to follow their lead.
+
+They sprinted down the battlefield, the noise of their approach alerted their
+teammates of the plan and they joined in, creating a phalanx with their wooden
+shields. The other team realized what was going on and attempted to block it.
+It almost worked, if only the force of Alicia's impact didn't knock two of the
+blue guards on their backs. Alicia ground to a catlike halt and raised their
+wooden sword to the flagbearer. The poor person looked terrified but raised his
+sword back to fight. Alicia struck the flagbearer in the leg to make him lose
+his balance, and Tistus came in from the side to claim the prize, snatching it
+and holding on for dear life with his claws.
+
+In the confusion, the blue team turned towards Alicia, thinking some of the
+blood they had spilled from an earlier fall was the flag on their hip. This gave
+Tistus room to escape with the real flag in his paws. Alicia grit their teeth
+and braced for impact as the blue team's swords were raised all around them like
+a pack of hungry wolves. Zekas, the blue team leader, reared back to hit
+Alicia's weak side.
+
+The horn sound resonated throughout the area. Tistus had made it to the base and
+the exercise was over.
+
+Red team had won.
+
+Zekas growled at Alicia, "No fair you get to have the best sprinters and all we
+have are these burly hunks that can't run to save their lives."
+
+Alicia smiled back and looked down to their side, there was a red streak down
+their left leg that wasn't there earlier. "Some burliness would have helped
+here. Can you pass me a bit of cloth? I need to get this leg to an apothecary."
+
+Zekas begrudgingly gave Alicia a bit of cloth as they bandaged themselves. As
+Alicia dressed their wound they felt a surge of power to their right hand.
+
+_Nononononono, not around others._
+
+They focused their mind and let the surge subside. Alicia balanced herself with
+her tail and looked up at Zekas.
+
+"Thanks, let's go see what we messed up, eh?"
+
+Zekas laughed, "At least you didn't let a witch beat you." and lead the way.
+
+Alicia nervously laughed back and followed suit.