Differences in The Wandering Inn Interlude – Wistram Days (Pt. 5)

• For those who passed,
• their celebration was nearing their its consecutive day.
• their celebration was nearing its third consecutive day.

• It has to be said that mages know how to party.
• Aside from being able to obtain countless delicacies and goods from around the world,
• Aside from being able to obtain delicacies and goods from around the world,
• the students at Wistram had developed quite a number of spells specifically designed to add to a party.

• The half-Elf rolled her eyes as she levitated over a tureen of gravy while Pisces warmed his food up with a simple heat spell.
• The half-Elf rolled her eyes as she levitated a tureen of gravy over while Pisces warmed his food up with a simple heat spell.
• In moments he was happily scarfing down his food.
• Calvaron sighed and shook his head as he stared at the two second-year student sadly.
• Calvaron sighed and shook his head as he stared at the two second-year students sadly.

• “Please,
• sit Montressa.
• sit,
• Montressa.
• Are you here for me,

• I am studying my [Invisibility] spell at the moment.
• IT would be a time commitment but I…
• It would be a time commitment but I…
• hm.

• Montressa’s mouth feel open as Ceria tried desperately not to burst out laughing.
• Montressa’s mouth fell open as Ceria tried desperately not to burst out laughing.
• Calvaron continued,

• but even those demons would probably run from Illphres.
• You might know her as the grumpy Human who never smiles to anyone.
• You might know her as the grumpy Human who never smiles at anyone.
• She specializes in ice magic—she had to teach a class in combat magic last year,

• Miss Montressa,
• every work I say is absolutely true.
• every word I say is absolutely true.
• Good luck,

• “You taught me how to impove my magic.
• “You taught me how to improve my magic.
• You helped me learn so much last year.

• and every day the ice mage looked more and more annoyed to find Ceria standing there.
• But she never wavered,
• But she never wavered,
• and Ceria never gave up trying to persuade her,

• “As a matter of fact,
• those as mice droppings,
• those are mice droppings,
• Ceria.

• This is what was different.
• In the time since they had become second-year students.
• In the time since they had become second-year students,
• Pisces had made a name for himself with his prowess in magic and dueling.

• More than once Ceria had seen other students casting [Detect Magic] to try and observe him using the spell,
• but so far they—and she hadn’t been able to figure out how Pisces was doing it.
• but so far they—and she—hadn’t been able to figure out how Pisces was doing it.

• “I—it’s more than I’m afraid of falling.
• “I—it’s more that I’m afraid of falling.
• Why did you come here?”

• Illphres said the word lightly as she pointed down to the ocean below.
• Ceria’s heard stopped.
• Ceria’s heart stopped.

• It was practically frictionless,
• and as Ceria wind milled her arms desperately and stepped back to keep her balance,
• and as Ceria windmilled her arms desperately and stepped back to keep her balance,
• her other foot slipped on a second patch of ice.

• I really think you should stop.
• You did you best,
• You did your best,
• but Illphres is never going to teach you.”

• Ceria shook her head and coughed hard.
• Her lungs felt full of phegmn and she resented the way all the other students leaned away from her when she did.
• Her lungs felt full of phlegm and she resented the way all the other students leaned away from her when she did.

• “I am sure no one will be able to break this spell.
• It is countless times more complex than any [Message] spell you could ever devise,
• It is many times more complex than any [Message] spell you could ever devise,
• and it can be used up to several miles away.”

• The banquet hall erupted into shouts and this news.
• The banquet hall erupted into shouts at this news.
• Jurix turned to Illphres.

• Illphres slid forwards on the ice,
• gathering momentum as she let the slick,
• ice take her momentum.
• gathering momentum as she let the slick ice take her momentum.
• It spread across the banquet hall,
• making anyone standing on it slip of be forced to grab a table for support.
• making anyone standing on it slip or be forced to grab a table for support.
• Calvaron tumbled to the ground with a cry and Beatrice had to grab Mons to keep her upright as Illphres kicked herself across the ice,

• but the other half were too busy fighting to dodge.
• She heard screams as several arrow found their mark.
• She heard screams as several arrows found their mark.
• One flashed past her head as she held still on the deck of the rocking ship.

• wearing bright red bandanas.
• That way the archers on the other ships could avoid hitting their friends as she fired on the mages and mercenaries fighting for their lives.
• That way the archers on the other ships could avoid hitting their friends as they loosed arrows on the mages and mercenaries fighting for their lives.

• Ceria screamed the spell as she pointed her hands up.
• The man dodge back from the gout of flame with a curse and gasped as Pisces ran him through.
• The man dodged back from the gout of flame with a curse and gasped as Pisces ran him through.
• The mage pulled his blade back with a grimace and helped Ceria to her feet.

• bloody sword in hand.
• She flinched as she saw him holding two heads.
• Ceria flinched as she saw him holding two heads.
• He’d already killed two of the [Captains] of the four ships and sunk one with his vessel.

• but a Human,
• heavily tattoed on his face and arms.
• heavily tattooed on his face and arms.
• He cut at Pisces,

• Illphres raced towards him on the frozen sea.
• She lept,
• She leapt,
• and a pillar of ice threw her up onto the deck.

• With every step and thrust and dodge and parry,
• he remembered the lessons his fauther had taught him.
• he remembered the lessons his father had taught him.
• His sword felt heavy in his hands,

• and tripped backwards over a corpse.
• He raised his rapied as the man stepped over the body—
• He raised his rapier as the man stepped over the body—

• He was horrified to find the man who’d grabbed him was dead.
• The tears in his chest showed clearly where he’d been kiklled.
• The tears in his chest showed clearly where he’d been killed.
• But he still struck at the pirate,

• exchanging blows.
• For Illlphres,
• For Illphres,
• each spell was a spear of ice,

• too.
• Each time Illphres raised a wall of ice to block,
• him,
• Each time Illphres raised a wall of ice to block him,
• he would swing past the wall of ice or shatter it with his enchanted blade.

• He caught her as she froze a score of pirates around her.
• The captain kicked Ilphress of her feet.
• The captain kicked Ilphres off her feet.
• He tried to stab her through the chest as she lay on the ground,

• Jurix,
• the Dullanah and Bastam,
• the Dullahan and Bastam,
• the Drake,

• Caught by surprise,
• the pirates tried to swarm the ship Justix was on.
• the pirates tried to swarm the ship Jurix was on.
• But one of their ships slowed as spells began to rain down from the sky upon it.

• Ceria stumbled across the deck of the deceased pirate captain’s ship as Illphres connected it to another ship with a bridge of ice.
• She wanted to support Illphres;
• Ceria wanted to support Illphres;
• the woman stumbled twice as she walked,

• He looked at Ceria at last,
• and their was guilt in his eyes.
• and there was guilt in his eyes.

• Ceria took a step back.
• The lifeless corpses standing on the deck stared vacantly ahead.
• The corpses standing on the deck stared vacantly ahead.
• The head of one had been hacked nearly apart,

• Standing in a balcony in the huge,
• Standing on a balcony in the huge,
• circular room,

• not inherently biased in itself!
• And is Wistram not a place where all mages may study!
• And is Wistram not a place where all mages may study?
• Consider,

• the case of Az’kerash!
• His name is infamous as the most powerful [Necromancer] of this mileniea.
• His name is infamous as the most powerful [Necromancer] of this millennium.
• He once studied here before he was slain on Izril.