The Adventures of Adam Arcwave

Graduation Year

The Summer School program in San Myshuno was a huge success! Our program was able to help quite a few struggling students. Our 'outreach program' has also shown 2 new magically potential candidates. They're just entering their Freshman year, and already show promise. So as to not draw attention to ourselves, and to not alarm their parents (who seem to be mundane), we've found a creative means to bringing them to our school. Paying the transfer fees was a small expense that Morgan and I were more than willing to make, if Susan and Kyle turn out to be able to be able to use magic on a scale we hope they will. 
Speaking with my uncle one night over dinner about our Outreach Program, hoping that it was going to be more successful, we've discovered that only 1 in a million sims in the mundane world show any magical promise. He reminds me that only half of those can actually build their abilities to something useful. Regardless, he noted that the Mage Council would gather any and all magically attuned, regardless of ability, for they make tempting 'food' for vampires... The last thing we need are to have more of those dark creatures in our midst. I note that there are very few mage hunters left, now that there seems to be no Mage Council to answer to anymore. Our current group is too small to fulfill that niche, we're just strong enough to protect ourselves, we can't extend that reach to every potential out there. 
Speaking of the Realm, since the powers of our group have grown, we've tried to send messages. We've heard nothing from our previous families, meaning something horrible happened to them. What glimpse into the Realm we've managed to make show a shattered world, with only pockets of life remaining. Simeon, of course, wants to try to get there right away, but our family on this side has convinced us to finish our graduation year before attempting to breach into the Realm. We may even find a few more candidates before end of the year.
What was originally a hopeful return home has turned into a mission to rebuild our world. 

So, we arrive at school on our first day of class with sad hearts and low spirits. My gloomy mood is soon disrupted by Greg and the football team as I get 'tackled' by them and brought into the school among cheers and song. "Adam, Adam, he's our man, we'll beat Central this year, cause he knows we can!" I can't help but smile, and laugh with them. Looks like I have my work cut out for me this year in keeping the team spirit alive again. Their joy is contagious and has the whole school going into Assembly with laughter and cheer.

Assembly goes as expected, I now realize why the principal never has any notes with him, he never changes his first day speech. So I sit in the back of the gym with the others, trying to 'quietly' plan this years events. Apparently we're louder than we thought, the principal actually interrupts his monotonous discourse to ask us to settle down. The gym is quiet for a moment, as we ALL realize that the principal diverged from his planned Assembly. The principal clears his throat and resumes his speech, the entire senior year is chuckling at the realization that our group just 'broke protocol'. This is almost worth celebration. If it had been anyone else, they would have been given a month's worth of detention. When it was clear that my group of friends were the center of the disturbance, the principal merely moved on, fame has it's rewards it seems.

The rest of the school day goes by uneventfully, just your regular classwork, finding out this year's assignments, projects, required course materials, handing out books... if it weren't for a few new courses this year in advanced mathematics, the day would best be described as: boring.
Looking over the calculus course book, I realize that - after calculating the use and control of elemental magic - that advanced mathematics is fairly simple in comparison. 

As we've done previous years, we start our After School Tutoring program about a month after the first day of class. Since day one of class, Luke picked up that Kyle is good with chemistry, and starts discreetly teaching the boy magical alchemy. By Harvestfest, we plan on introducing Kyle to our potion making business. 
Susan is a bit more of a mystery. She seems to have a knack for illusions and glamour. More than once I've watched her go into a washroom with a clean face, only to come back out refreshed, with makeup, while having no purse on hand to carry cosmetics. Lunch time she's becoming popular with coin tricks and other simple spells. I don't think she realizes she's casting them, as her methods 'resemble' most sleight of hand magic tricks, but there's something more to her gambit.