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[professor_charisma]

I suppose I should give an introduction as well, since I've just arrived, though I'll admit right out I'm not much for talking about myself. I'm a new Warden, my name is Waver Velvet. I'm from London, which I hope is a recognizable name to people out there. I know that we're all meeting here from different corners of the universe.

Ice breakers do seem a bit awkward in a situation like this, don't they. It feels out of place to say something like "I can't wait to get to work" or "I'm glad to be here". So I'll just say that I'm here to help in whatever way I can. Back home, I'm a professor, and I'd rather handle this position as a teacher rather than an actual warden. I am looking forward to meeting everyone and doing whatever I'm able to.

WARDEN FILTER
I'd rather meet my new coworkers face to face than over this, so I'll be in the lounge going over my materials at Warden Command if anyone cares to chat. But over this is fine as well. I'm not picky.

[Action tags welcome for any Warden who cares to meet. Waver will be sitting at one of the open-air tables looking over his communicator with a cup of coffee. He has a lot of reading to do, so better get that caffeine flowing. Right now, he's going over any inmate information he can access, and is taking some notes. He's planning to hit up the library later to check out books from and about their homelands, to get a better idea of where these people are coming from.]

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travistouchdowncrownlessking

[rank1]

So what do you teach?

[professor_charisma]

Modern Magecraft Theory. Think of it as magic for absolute beginners.

[rank1]

I'm interested. I've always wanted to be able to throw fireballs or crush people's heads with a pinch of my fingers. Meet up with me, we'll get started now.

[professor_charisma]

I appreciate the enthusiasm, but I can't exactly have people running around blowing the place to bits now, can I.

To start: Do you know if you have the ability to use magic?

library spam?

[saklas]

[After their conversation, Volk spends about 30 seconds trying to figure out what in the hell kind of name Waver Velvet is before deciding he doesn't care.

He's going looking for the guy, though - catches Waver at the e-book download counter and offers a handshake.]

Volkhov, from the network.

[professor_charisma]

[Waver looks pleasantly surprised. Setting his communicator down on the counter, he turns to offer a handshake to Volk.]

Ah, Mr. Volkhov. A pleasure. Lo-- [There he goes again.] Ah, Waver Velvet. I was actually going to come look for you once I was done here.

[saklas]

"Volk" is just fine.

[All smiles. It's great what the certainty of having a place to sleep will do for you.]

I've got a request that's not nearly as hard as a room but will make my life a lot easier - but before that, is there anything you'd like to ask about me or this place?

[professor_charisma]

I'm sure I will in time, right now I'm still trying to get settled. Figured I'd stock up on some reading material here to take back to my quarters.

[Look at Volk. Smiling and helpful. But the first thing he did was read up on his potential new inmate, and it broke his heart just a bit. Mistakes had been made, but the consequences... He could certainly relate.]

How have the other wardens been? How have they been treating everyone? [He grabs his communicator, ready to take notes.]

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[dealwiththe]

[ Lucifer is most definitely not studying, or reading. No, he's at the minibar, where he pulls a flask from an inside pocket of his suit jacket and begins refilling it from one of the bottles at the bar.

He doesn't get liquor in Hell. ]

So, what do you teach, Professor?

[ He sounds British, but he's not. ]

[professor_charisma]

[Give it time, and Waver will be doing the same thing soon enough. He's just a little afraid to advance his pay on his first days here just for some alcohol. Too used to a frugal life, this guy.]

Oh. Sorry. [He sets the communicator down.] Magic. I'm the head of the Modern Magecraft Theories department.

I'd ask if you were one of the newer arrivals, but I don't think anyone has been here much more than a month or so. [He'll bring his comm and his coffee over to the mini bar area. Can't properly introduce himself otherwise. He offers a hand for a handshake as he sets his things down.] Waver.

[dealwiththe]

[ Lucifer, on the other hand, has never had any sense of frugality. ]

Lucifer Morningstar.

[ Handshake. ]

Do you teach at Hogwarts?

[ Normally that would be a joke but like... does he???? ]

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[professor_charisma]

I--

[Sorry that was the two most opposing things anyone has ever said to him. There was no way to predict this. Okay, well, he's heard that Hogwarts remark before but--]

[professor_charisma]

No, I... the Clock Tower. Hogwarts is fi--

[Nope sorry we need to move on]

I'm sorry, is that honestly your name?

[He's not normally one to say anything about anyone else's name, but, come on.]

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[nineteenfortyfive]

Welcome, Waver. I'm from London myself.

[professor_charisma]

[Aaah he's so delighted to hear that.]

That's great to hear. I doubt that we come from the same London, considering how everyone was brought here, but it's still good. I'm from the year 2006 myself.

[nineteenfortyfive]

Good lord. I was born in 1918, if that helps any.

[professor_charisma]

Oh. Wow, that's a big difference. I was born in 1977. Still, nice to have someone from home here. Are you new here as well, or did you arrive earlier?

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[expectaspectre]

welcome :)

what are you a professor of ?

[professor_charisma]

Thank you. I'm the department head of Modern Magecraft Theory, you can think of it as Magic 101.

[expectaspectre]

oh
wow
that's not a thing where i'm from
but it sounds very interesting :)

i don't know if there are many other magic people on board
but there are probably at least a few
maybe you can get some kind of curriculum going :)

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[helenite]

"Brakebills," Alice slides into place across the table, fingers hugging the edge of the communicator, like someone else — somewhere else — might brace an analogue briefcase. "2009? New York, phosphoromancny based on kinetic principles and if none of that matches up, at least we've got somewhere to start."

A pause, to breathe. That all came out in a bit of a muddle. Alice glances down, readjusts the screen in her hand; belatedly sticks one out to shake.

"Hi," She looks him in the eye, but doesn't hold it. "Alice Quinn."

[professor_charisma]

Waver is surprised by the sudden introduction, but it's all like music to his ears. There were mages here after all, not just inmate ones.

He rises to introduce himself and accept that handshake, all professional and more than glad to return his own credentials.

"Lor--, Ah, Waver Velvet. The Clock Tower, 2006, London.
Department Head of Modern Magecraft Theory. Former student of Evocation."

He gesture for her to have a seat at his table.

"Glad to hear someone close to my own time."

A. Mercer

[lessandmorethanhuman]

No offense to you, but "Waver Velvet" sounds like a porn star's name. I'm so sorry for the nightmare your childhood must've been.

[professor_charisma]

But no offense, eh.

[lessandmorethanhuman]

I do mean that. And I am genuinely sympathetic to any trouble you had in childhood because of it. That's a very very rare thing for me.