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@Truean: The first one almost sounds a little like the community college I worked for; the one that has a very thinly-cloaked policy of discrimination against men. I wouldn't be surprised if it was bad as well.'t ain't that much of a dick move. Assistant could've decided not to give two months notice, which is more than enough time to find a replacement.
The second one, first of all, is from the New York Post, a conservative mouth-breather-piece. Secondly, it's... kinda spot-on actually. Unless you're under an employment contract, you can, for the most part, quit whenever you damn well please and your employer can terminate you for just about anything, including nothing. In most cases the employer is generally unwilling to fire employees out of hand; after all, they have to have employees to make money, and it usually costs more money to find, hire, and train shiny new asskissers than it is to correct problems with existing employees. The example given the article, the grad student being hired before informing her employer she's going back to school is an interesting case. Even though the author is clearly an idiot(September is already fall), that actually was a dick move on the employee's part, not employer, but the choice of response given by the author is good, let her stay on if she's actually good at her job, dump her if not - there's little time to try and improve if she's not.
))"A thing cannot die unless it was alive. To say the sun will die is either to assume it is alive, or to simply treat "death" as equivalent to "loss of function." Are you really going to argue semantics with one whose sphere is quite literally the clever construction of language?"
Hey man, there's no hate. Just distaste, I s'pose.Don't worry, Kyuu hates Saukko back.So does a magic system have to be related to one's sphere(s)?
Saukko doesn't like Kyuu very much. Just enough to be pedantic and cause trouble, though.
"One might also consider that their comparisons are nonsensical. Oxygen does not require fire to exist, gravity does not depend on the atmosphere. nor language dependant on stories - though the world would be dreadfully dull without them. It's almost as if I've already made this point and one chose to ignore it for the purposes of being obstinate."
So does a magic system have to be related to one's sphere(s)?
"One cannot have death without life. It could even be said that holding domain over death implies one holds it over life, or the reverse."
I just hate pushing it around. Both halves of our yard are on an incline.
"I have wanted to make a magic school for a while, so here it is."GalyaGalya revolves around the manipulation of death and life and is separated into two schools. The School of bone and The School of Flesh, the School of Bone revolving around the manipulation of long dead bones and the School of Flesh the manipulation of living flesh.
The school of bone is based on the use of setting up runes on the ground where a dead body that has some kind of skeleton or skeleton is and speaking the ancient words. The undead creations made this way will be bound to the mortal who makes them and cannot go against there will. Once the ritual has been preformed the body will get up and based on the kind of ritual be more skilled in ether combat or manual labor, the more powerful the rune combination the more skilled the creation is at one of the tasks. Highly advanced users of this school of Galya can use a pile of bones to make a large skeletal monster.
The school of flesh is based on the use of staffs imbued with life and death and the use of correct motions and words. A staff will usually be made of wood with living flesh that is kept alive by the staff itself, the school of flesh can be used to close up the wounds of others, be used to turn lesser creatures into massive savage mindless beasts or increase or decrease the muscle mass of other creatures. A particularity skilled user can even control lesser willed people like a puppet to a extent.
