Outside the Campus' North Gate, Wednesday Morning

[seeks_truth]

She had heard the first shriek when she'd left the dorms complex for her morning jog. There had been dead eels on the lawn, but she had not paid it much heed.

Then there had been the second shriek, as she approached the gate. It had given her pause. What was out there that was, apparently, throwing fish at the school

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[not_every_mage]

When the first eel hit Anders' window, his reaction was to roll over and try to get some more sleep. Someone else would deal with them eventually, right?

But after another hour or so of screeching flying eels crashing against the dorms, he reluctantly decided he might have to be one of the someones to go deal with them. He put on a heavy sweatshirt and jeans -- the closest his wardrobe came to armor -- retrieved his staff, and went out toward town.

He'd zapped a few eels off to meet whatever Maker they believed in before he spotted Cassandra and greeted her with a relatively cheery "Hello!"

Killing things together tended to lead to a temporary truce, after all. And if Cassandra didn't think so -- his train of thought was interrupted by the need to attack a particularly large eel propelling itself directly toward him.

[seeks_truth]

"The eels are more plentiful outside the gates!" Cassandra felt she should likely warn him. "Do not let up your guard!"

She was even going to be nice and put herself - and her garbage can lid shield - between Anders and the next barrage of eels hurtling his way.

[not_every_mage]

"Thanks," Anders said, waiting behind the shield for the barrage to die down to something he could manage. (He had no shame when it came to not getting killed.) As he did, he noticed what exactly it was. "You're protecting us with a garbage can lid?"

[seeks_truth]

Cassandra grunted.

"Are you complaining?" she asked, bashing the last of the barrage with her shield so hard the eels went flying backwards.

[kenselvren]

Jalian wasn't sure precisely what was going on here, but once an eel tried to attack her, she didn't much care. She started around the dorms, but when she saw the battle by the gate - well, numbers always helped.

So she was striking out at the latest batch of eels, a long knife in each hand, practically a blur as she sliced them neatly.

[seeks_truth]

And now they had a dual-wield rogue!

"Watch your left!" Cassandra yelled, as she dashed forward to catch another wing of this latest batch on her shield.

[kenselvren]

NGL, I totally thought that!

"Thanks!" Jalian sliced through the one there, then whirled to take out a few at the end that tried to sneak around Cassandra's shield. "How many are there?"

[seeks_truth]

"Too many," Cassandra said irritably.

She swung her sword in a clear arc down, impaling one before it got any ideas. "There seems to be no end."

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy had skipped out on the Banzai regalia today, since the invasion was limited to the island. And the last thing she wanted to do was get eel guts out of the white cotton (or whatever the fabric actually was) of her gi. But that was hardly going to stop her from fighting off screaming flying eels, ha! Even without her customary rainbows, she was still a colorful blur as she fought off the eels.

But as much fun as fighting off flying eels was solo (and yes, she was having fun, shh! Don't judge!), Kathy guessed it was going to be even more fun joining up with a group, so when she saw Cassandra and company coming, she called out to them. "Hello! 'Ware your left!"

If there's already a mage, a tank, and a rogue, does that make Kathy the Inquisitor?

[seeks_truth]

Only if she got a glowy bit surgically implanted in her hand.

Cassandra looked briefly bewildered by the blur, but then chalked it up to a mage using Fade Step. Strange; Kathy had not seemed like one when they first met. She had more important things to do now, like turn around and cleave Left in two. "Got it!"

[spin_kick_snap]

Sigh. Cassandra you killjoy

"Awesome!" Kathy darted away, using the nearest bit of wall to bounce up and get some air to fight off a small group of eels that were aiming directly towards them. She never stopped moving, a using a spin kick over here to drive one of the eels into the ground, then vaulting over to scissor kick another few on the other side.

They made a creepy snappy sound when she hit them. She was trying not to think about that.

Moments later she was landing back by Cassandra's side, unaware that she'd been classified a mage or what a 'Fade Step' was. "Nice swordwork."

[seeks_truth]

"Thank you," Cassandra said dryly. What was this turning into, a mutual appreciation society rather than ensuring safe passage for those trying to get to the dorms?

She slammed a set of eels out of the air with her makeshift shield and then cut down, chopping their heads cleanly off. "Try not to move too erratically," she warned.

[hexentotchen]

Hanna had noticed this on her way back from class, and gone straight to her weapons locker. Gun, bow and arrows, knife, all at hand, once she'd realized that there were other people doing this. She would not be trying this alone, Sparkle. She promises.

"Where are they coming from?"

Anything more existential like why are they flying? could be addressed after they were all dead.

*bang*

[kenselvren]

"We're not sure," Jalian called back. "Last time there were deadly things, it was another island."

[hexentotchen]

"I didn't realize there was another one close to here!" *bang!*

Hanna wasn't sure she'd seen this girl in her classes, so when she got a moment she maneuvered closer, on the girl's left. "I'm Hanna. This is my third week here."

And an exciting week it is turning out to be!

[kenselvren]

"I'm Jalian," she answered, saluting Hanna with a knife. "I have been here almost one year now." She whirled and sliced another eel in two. "There's another island there," she pointed. "We had to sing to it before." Her dubious expression probably said what she thought of that.