sythyry | Leap into this Pool of Boiling Acid

Sythyry's Courses (second term of 4261)

I was going to take "Subtle Magical Dangers" from Prof. Ili, having survived "Notable Magical Catastrophes" last term. However, I accidentally told my Evil Neighbor about my plans, back before she was my Evil Roommate. And, as she is Evil, she talked me out of it, thuswise:

Me:"I shall take "Subtle Magical Dangers" from Prof. Ili, having survived "Notable Magical Catastrophes" this term."

Ghirbis:"Ah! Foolish you are, and entirely free from both common sense and a vision of practicalities!"

Me:"One might think that "Subtle Magical Dangers" were entirely practical, for someone planning a career as a subtle and dangerous magician."

Ghirbis:"Ah! There is nobody as short-sighted as a Zi Ri!"

Me:"How, short-sighted?"

Ghirbis:"So short-sighted as to only see the long view!"

Me:"Ah, that kind of short."

Ghirbis:"Next year you shall not be involved in any huge and subtle magical workings. Any magical dangers you face shall be as obvious as your roommate's despicable gender!"

Me:"Which I somehow managed to avoid noticing for some months."

Ghirbis:"A fact that I cannot account of, so I shall ignore it entirely. But you shall be at court. So you must take something of use at court!"

And that is how I came to take "Leap into this Pool of Boiling Acid" instead.

(in Sythyry's words)

Course	Teacher	Opinion
Formal Enchantment II	Prof. Trillisanguinus Spreen (Rassimel woman)	More of the same. ~Mother~ shall be so pleased. I shall be so more stipendulous.
Applied Enchantment II	Prof. Nethry Alzagond (Rassimel woman)	Perhaps I shall finish the cursed thing this time around.
Very Dangerous Knobbles	Prof. Visessasilmin (Gormoror woman!)	A course on spellbinding. The name of the course refers to the use of attaching spells to little lumps of this or that, for use as traps.
Biology of Elementals	Prof. Verra Tardamos (Rassimel man)	One of those marginally-magical courses, half natural philosophy and half magic, with which I must pad my studies because Enchantment takes so much cley and I don't really have enough left for something like spell invention. Still, I have more or less decided that I shall be an enchanter. Esory is being entirely too influential.... or, perhaps, ~mother~ is.
Leap into this Pool of Boiling Acid	Prof. Phrass	Another course of anecdotes and snippets of history, this one about famous demises and the demises of famous people. It is arguably the most practical course I am taking -- at least, Ghirbis argues so. It will contribute greatly to my powers of smalltalk at court.

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I took a class once like "Leap into this Pool of Boiling Acid" It was called The german people and culture. It was my professor's travel log and all the exciting and fun/dangerous things he did and or saw, plus any relevant history or music or movies that he thought might relate. our grading was based on 2 100 question multiple choice tests with questions like "what was the lady's name that I stayed with in ___"

and yet, it greatly increased my ablity and powers at small talk during family reunions and parties.. like did you know that for awhile in germany they put baby drop off bins outside the orphanages with warmers and blankets so that mothers could leave the babies without talking to anyone and the baby would be kept warm and safe, instead of just left on the cold steps...