The registry doors open onto the Royal Magic Academy's central instructional court. Four branch halls rise around a broad dueling yard, their carved elemental seals glowing beneath the morning haze.
The admission examiner leads the way with the official ruling held against her chest. Hemme accompanies Femme Soule, while the four clerks follow with their slates and sealed course records.
Waiting instructors gather beside the dueling yard: four robed groups beneath four banners. Their attention turns toward Femme Soule as the registry party crosses the court.
The Admission Examiner
The ruling is unanimous. She enters the complete foundational course, with no branch permitted to exhaust her reserve for its own advancement.
Faculty Clerk 1
Water begins with recovery, formation, and disciplined circulation. Her first lessons must leave mana enough for the other branches.
Faculty Clerk 3
Fire follows only after rest. Attack, enchantment, and energy training will be measured against the reserve she has left.
Faculty Clerk 2
Earth and wind can alternate around those sessions. The schedule must train all four talents without treating abundance as permission to waste it.
The instructors wait for the proposed timetable, while the four branch halls answer with distant bells. Hemme remains at Femme Soule's side, silent now, leaving the choice before her.
✓ Quest Accepted
Establish a four-branch training schedule
“I accept the schedule.”
FAILURE (Fair Willpower, rolled -2)
“I accept the schedule.”
FAILURE (Fair Willpower, rolled -1)
Femme Soule inclines her head toward the timetable. The acceptance is clear in the gesture, but the lingering drain leaves her resolve wavering before the instructors can record it.
The Admission Examiner
You accept the complete course in principle, but not yet as a binding schedule. Your reserve has earned choice, not a command to endure every demand at once.
The examiner lowers the ruling instead of writing her assent. Around the yard, the four banners stir in separate currents, and the timetable remains blank beneath their seals.
Faculty Clerk 1
Then let her choose the first branch and defer the rest. Water can begin with recovery, while the others preserve their claims.
Faculty Clerk 2
A deferred schedule is still an academy schedule. She may enter all four courses without surrendering control of their order.
The failure opens a narrower door: the complete course is secured, but its sequence now belongs to Femme Soule. Four instructors wait beneath their banners for her first branch to name.
“I accept the schedule.”
SUCCESS (Fair Willpower, rolled +1)
Femme Soule steadies herself and inclines her head again, this time without hesitation. The blank timetable receives her acceptance as the four elemental seals brighten together.
The Admission Examiner
Accepted. The complete course is entered in your record, with the sequence left under your authority.
The admission examiner writes the schedule into the academy register. Ink follows the four colored seals, binding every branch to Femme Soule's admission without demanding immediate attendance at all four.
Hemme Soule
That is the right way to begin. You have the whole academy now, not four masters tugging at once.
Faculty Clerk 1
Water will hold the first place when she names it. The other branches will preserve their claims.
The Admission Examiner
Your admission is complete. Choose your first branch when you are ready, and the timetable will follow.
The four banners settle as the decision takes hold. The Waiting Instructors bow beneath them, while the registry clerks seal the course record and leave the first choice openly before Femme Soule.
Quest Complete
Establish a four-branch training schedule
Attribute Upgrade: Willpower Fair→Good