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The Instructor with the Battleaxe [2 Lage 4261]

Professor Visessasilmin is not Professor Visessasilmin. She is Professor Vengtomerax Bloodthorn Tears-bringer. (Visessasilmin is a nendrai somewhere else. I do not know why the name in the catalog was incorrect.) She is taller than anyone I know, by three or five inches. She is more rotund than anyone I know.

She refers to herself as "fat and lazy". Nonetheless, without really seeming to notice any effort, she picked up a rather large lab table and threw it against the wall so hard that it split in half. Twice.

Tethezai:"Had you said something to annoy her, Sythyry?"

Dustweed:"Or, perhaps, is Prince Nestrune in the class?"

Neither one, for neither throwing! It was a demonstration of how quickly a bound Healoc spell can take effect. The first time she had the Healoc spell set to take effect when the table was badly damaged. I, personally, blinked when it hit the wall, and I never saw it broken at all.

The second time, it was set to heal the table when Prof. Tears-Bringer spoke the word "TAFLEN". That time, we saw it lying in a broken heap against the side of the classroom for many seconds why the professor lectured a bit. I don't know what she lectured about -- something about bound spells I assume, since, after all, Very Dangerous Knobbles is about bound spells -- but I was thinking about how very much bigger the table is than me, and how very much it would hurt if she threw it at me.

Prof. Tears-bringer is certainly the most imposing professor I have had so far. Even if she does wear a hundred feathers tied in her fur, and nothing else, to teach in.

For this reason and that, I daresay I shall not fall asleep in her lectures. But I may try to find a good spot to listen behind one of the structural pillars. If I think they're strong enough.

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I am somehow reminded of my 8th-grade science teacher. (I do need to catch up with him again- I still don't know if he knows he saved my life.) Mr. Russell was a very entertaining teacher, with effective demonstrations, comedic lectures, and punishment methods that included picking up students and carrying them upside-down along the hall.

Perhaps investing time or lozens in a few bound healing spells of your own would be appropriate!

I don't think you mentioned what race prof. Tears-bringer is.

I daresay a Rassimel or Orren of that size wearing only feathers and hurling tables at walls would be an imposing sight indeed! Lessso than, say, a Gormoror, who you might more readily expect this sort of thing from.

Perhaps you'll be safer towards the back of the classroom.

Gormoror, of course! Gormoror!

Ahh! All well and good, then. Glad that at least nothing at all ODD is happening over there.

I don't suppose she'd want to go out with a magic-impaired orrenish monster, would she?

Feel free to ask her yourself... somehow, I'd rather not.

Are you sure the catalogue was wrong? I'd think a Nendrai would easily be able to disguise herself as a gormorror.

I should think the city walls would notice, for one thing. Besides, she used Healoc, which nendrai can't.