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November 24, 2006
I killed Cliff Brooks today, yay!
WOO! 33k!
If you don't know about Cliff Brooks, go here for an explanation.
"Well, all right then. Let me think of a better story. I am afraid that I am not much of a storyteller, really." After a few moments, he said, "Well, you may have heard about the time that the sorcerer cliff the Black attacked the Collegium?"
Jaspa's eyes lit up. "Oh, yes, of course! I have heard that if you walk the walls late at night, you can see his ghost."
Kalishk smiled. "Well, that was only a few decades after we got started here. He did not like the fact that we had ammassed as many books as we had and were unwilling to share with anyone not a student here. So, he gathered a small number of sorcerers who felt similarly, hired a few mercenaries for good measure and arrived in the middle of the day to find us ready. At that time I was sufficiently paranoid that I kept sentry spells maintained all around the countryside in the area, and was perfectly aware of everyone who came and went within a ten mile radius."
"Why did you stop doing that?" Tindall asked.
"It became tiresome. This is a much more populous area now. I would have to spend more time following up sentry alerts than working on the library itself. At any rate, cliff appeared with his small army of mercenaries and sorcerers. We let him come, and stood on top of the walls. [Back then, the Collegium was a good bit smaller, truthfully, so ] Myself and the Professors, two of whom were founders in their eighties, took the lead, and were backed up by the scholars and students."
"Students?" Tindall looked surprised.
"There were only," he paused and counted in his mind, "five professors and four scholars at that time, plus myself. We needed everyone who could so much as throw a force sphere. We taught combat magic more thoroughly early on back then because we had to worry about attacks a lot more. The students could shield as well as Jaspa can now after their first year.
"So," he continued, "cliff was a little taken aback, but he took a stand and demanded that we agree to share the library with any sorcerer that wished it. I told him that the chances of that were approximately the same as the chances of me deciding to become a eunuch, and he replied that in that case, they would be taking the library from us by force.
"It was quite a battle, truly. The mercenaries had been shielded by Cliff, and fairly well at that. We fought them for over an hour, and finally defeated them. But one of the students was killed, and nearly everyone was injured. It was a difficult fight."
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