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Chapter 4 by Zingiber Zingiber

What's Next?

Start a Story at Boarbristle Academy

Create a character ( https://chyoa.com/chapter/Making-a-Character-for-Boarbristle-Academy.220528 ) and add a chapter introducing them and showing their character sheet. The following chapter starts their story at Boarbristle Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Your description may also contain requests to other contributors who want to add chapters to your storyline.

You may choose a first, second, or third-person narrative point of view, or present your storyline's chapters as letters or diary entries if that suits your whimsy.


Some prompts for writing scenes:

Common scenes and interactions at Boarbristle:

  • Learning in the Classroom: lecture and practice.
  • Relaxing and chatting in your academic House chambers.
  • Homework: practicing spells until you get them right -- or backfire.
  • Team Athletics: practice and competition on flying broom polo.
  • Magic Dueling: practice with simple disarming spells tolerated, but a bitter rival might propose a more serious private duel.
  • Trying to meet another student who's attractive and maybe willing.
  • Sneaking out to wander in the Weirding Wood to have sex. Watch out for the lusty resident monsters.
  • Getting permission to visit the village of Turnbuckle.
  • Challenging students in rival Houses to some kind of individual or group contest for the honor of their Houses.

What dangers threaten the students at Boarbristle?

  • Escaped Magical Beasts (yes, Tentacle Monsters are fair game)
  • A bitter former student and would-be dark lord seeks to infiltrate and corrupt the students and professors.
  • The consequences of trying out forbidden magic and failing...or succeeding.
  • Prickly/Easily provoked professors assigning tedious punishment
  • School punishments for misbehavior (curfew, fighting, magic use rules)
  • Misbehaving professors taking advantage of students sexually or for their underhanded schemes -- even worse if the professor is your Head of House.
  • Rival houses -- working against other house's reputation, sometimes with very dirty tricks.
  • Other secret enemies or hidden infiltrators in the school, House Guardian creatures.

Note from the editor: I welcome comments as suggestions to steer the storyline in my chapters. When I list "Possible Moves", those are my thoughts.

Who will you be?

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