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Evan was embarrassed that he hadn't talked to anyone at all during the time he had. He needed to change that, and hopefully he would come around after this class was over at the latest. Thinking over his possible genre's he listened to Kyuu for help. He may not be the exact character, but he is close enough to have the genre the same.

"I am from a more modern fantasy epic. At least, that's what I would call it. In this world magic is used along with guns, swords, and a lot of technology is modern but seldom used during the hard times the world is going through. There are many characters and there is a constant war between the lords of Life and Death. It is very complicated so I don't think I could explain it all you guys," he said with a quick smile.

Sigma stood scowling as he gave in to the drawing's tuggings, but D'cund would not be budged.

"I would be too much of a burden."

And with that, the finger Isa was tugging on popped right off his hand. Without a moment's hesitation Sigma quickly stepped forward to stabilise the drawing just in case she might've stumbled. He held her by the shoulders with both of his hands until she was sure she was balanced and then returned his clawed hand to his pocket and his other to his side.

D'cund felt a bit bad about this and rumbled out an apology, "Ahhhh, Ahpologes..."

Of course while this went on their workbooks filled with information on their respective genres.

D'cund's genre is a multi-era classical/medieval fantasy epic. He is not the main character, instead playing a recurring role as more stories progress around his own. D'cund's personal story is somewhere between adventure, political-drama, thriller, and comedy. As his is a background story his world is littered with political intrigue, romance, etc etc.

Sigma's genre is a mid-modern soft sci-fi catastrophic adventure. Why catastrophic? The events taking place in the story are not large enough to be considered apocalyptic. Sigma's story goes between tragedy, horror, slasher, and black comedy. There are light references of romance and occasionally paranormal.

Both of these have plenty of action moments.

He tucked his phone away in his pocket without a second thought and nodded in agreement with Alex's explanation. "That's right. Reina, it's basically as you put it earlier: the marble sends me everything as it's happening." Like Alex, Zane also noticed the elf girl's resignation of her assignment to obscurity, but he made no mention of it.

"If I was perfectly neglectful of my own work, I'd propose we'd play a marbles game right now." Ha, a joke. But that wasn't the main purpose of his statement. He put his hand on the table, so that it would be out of view from all but Reina and Alex, and wagged his finger at Evan's direction. "And I'd invite him along too."

The teacher had been looking at a map when the stout little man walked in and waved a paper in his face. Vay held up his hands, leaning back with an arched brow as he looked the man over, checked the badges on his uniform, then gave him a wry grin. "Have a seat, Private," he half ordered nodding to the desks where the other students were chatting. "We're working on a little introspection currently so why don't you introduce yourself to the class and tell us a bit about the person pulling your strings while yer at it," he pointed up to the shadow controlling the man.

The teacher just smiled and nodded at most of the soldier's introduction but arched a brow with a wry grin at the last and shrugged. "No accountin' for taste," Vay muttered as he turned to the rest of the class. "Well, while we wait for the new boot to get caught up let's give him another assignment to worry about," the teacher grinned at the class.

"First a brief review, in no semblance of order. You've got your concepts, which is a basic sum of who/what you are. To expand that a bit you did a very basic profile with the standard information. Some of you did strengths/weaknesses. Some did backgrounds. Some did the archetype and personality test. Some did the genre. Well, now we're going to revisit personality by defining an important aspect of it - your alignment.

"Now, some of you are wondering what's an alignment? The rest of you have just confirmed me as D&D nerd. For those of you who've never read a PHB, or know what that is, an alignment is a basic measure of your moral compass. Because personality types can swing both ways on the moral scale it's good to have something that says how good, or bad, you are.

"A person's alignment is made up of two parts: Law vs Chaos, and Good vs Evil. The Law/Chaos part tells how you view law, rules, authority, institutions, and structure in general. Good/Evil is pretty self explanatory - where you sit on being an evil b*****d. Now then, both these scales have a Neutral position as well for those of us in the middle - most people are lawful neutral (this is actually a heated debate with D&D nerds, feel free to express your opinion on the matter). Lawful because we're not in jail and neutral because we're selfish but not malicious. That said, some people actually care enough about others (particularly the heroic types) to be in the good scale. Of course there's also those (hopefully few) that actually are evil and some people are crazy/non-conventional enough to fall into chaotic.

"To make things easy for all of us, here's the official D&D website's Alignment Test. Don't get intimidated by the ties to an actual gaming system. You're not going to have to do any math for this. It's just an easy little quiz you go through and answer as your character to find out what their alignment is in the end. The page has a lot of good explanation on the alignments as well so I'm not going to write it out here. If you don't understand something, please, ask questions in class. Please.

"Also, a brief note on gaming systems - they are good things. With every new edition of most systems they get less and less reliant on complex algebra (who remembers THAC0?) and more focused on making the game inviting to new players, something to do with marketing. These systems generally come with incredibly rich and well developed worlds in which you can play - complete with maps, NPCs, and books full of lore. If you're just starting out as a GM I highly suggest using one of the established game system's worlds. A few systems to check out: D&D, Shadowrun, Cyberpunk (GURPS), FATE (I hear very good things about this one though haven't tried it), White Wolf, and many more I'm having trouble remembering this early."

Evan sighed after he took the test. "I am also a neutral good." He thought about his alignment for a second before beginning a drawing.

After a moment of drawing, the sketchbook closed again and Evan let himself look around the room. He felt bad for not interacting with anyone here, but he wasn't used to getting to know people. Amethyst eyes turning to Reina, he figured he could try to talk to the other neutral good here.

"Hey," he began. "Can I see your drawings?"

More personality tests? Eh, easy enough, he thought as he selected the various radio buttons that matched what he might consider himself doing. It turned out that he was Neutral Good as well. In the back of his mind, he toyed with the idea of whether or not she was familiar with the world of tabletop gaming. In addition to tabletop gaming like those Vay had listed, he was aware of the existence of RPG video games (as well as the distinction between Eastern and Western ones) and the free form ones that took place on sites like Livejournal and DeviantArt. On top of that, forum RPing seemed to have idiosyncrasies of its own, with each thread taking its premise from one or some from each of the three aforementioned types of role-playing, depending on the GM's tastes.

The teacher was speaking, and Zane pocketed his phone and looked up to see who Vay was talking to. Hey, a new one. He remembered being in the same position only a few hours prior, although by now it felt like it had been months ago. The only catch was, Zane doubted he was anywhere as obnoxious as this one. He paid the newcomer little mind whilst he took a seat in the back corner.

Someone was asking for Reina's attention, so Zane turned his gaze to Alex and then to Isa. His jaw slackened in surprise. "You're telling him to come over him? Are you insane?" he asked, making no effort to hide the incredulity in his voice as he made an observation of the number of desks and chairs that stood in the shortest distance the rock hominoid would have to traverse across.

"We could just move over there." He gathered his belongings and waved briefly at Reina, Alex and Evan. "Come on." He'd been hoping for the chance to bug that end of the room.

((Edited slightly: flipped Reina & Alex's names in para3.))

Reina looked surprised at the request but shyly smiled. "Oh um, sure." Thankfully for the rest of the class, Reina had a (mostly) firm grip on her magical ability, so the pictures that she had in her sketchbook wouldn't be as..."lively" as Isa.

She was about to open her sketchbook and show him some pictures when people seemed to want to move. Reina understood - it wouldn't have been easy to move D'cund over to them as it would be for them to go to him. The elf gave Evan a sympathetic look and said, "once we move over there, I'll show you my drawings." She blushed lightly, "and please don't worry. The rest of my sketches won't try and jump out at anyone."

Isa meanwhile, looked at Zane and stated, "I'm surprised it took this long for anyone to ask. But no, I think I just have a bit of a problem with common sense." Then again, it came down to the question of which was easier to move: a group of people or a single being? I probably shouldn't have underestimated that the single person was made of rock or that the desks would be so annoyingly in the way.