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I would like to set the record straight regarding the events of this past weekend, as I may have a CERTAIN AMOUNT of UNFORTUNATE CULPABILITY in the matter.
As you may well know, all League representatives partake in a certain amount of thrilling but ultimately rather harmless chicanery, directed productively towards the place best equipped for it: Neopolis City. We are, indeed, even expected to stage such ploys, or our membership is likely to be revoked without them -- just as the occasional Band representative must keep an eye on their Damsels and Babies Quota.
Anyone halfway decent with spellography would recognise my magical signature all over THE SHAMBLING UNDEAD currently scattered throughout the city itself. Yes, I conducted a large-scale mass raising. Did I intend for mayhem? Yes. Skills are not genuine skills unless they are tested, whether those skills lie in wreaking havoc or in Mass Disaster Response.
But did I intend for this? No.
The zombies were never meant to represent a threat to Neopolis Academy itself -- only to the trained adults of the city, who live prepared for precisely these circumstances. But for the zombies to appear on-campus, I was used and manipulated by a sub-faction entitled VILLAIN. They are not on any official rosters, but they are nonetheless a very real and very genuine threat to the safety of Neopolis. I hear from my sources that a few of their number were active in instigating the riots over the weekend. One or two were spotted, but not identified. Their continual lack of identification over the past few years is one of the most dangerous things about them. If anything, we of the League are reliable for our predictability. This new upstart group, on the other hand, is nothing but unpredictable. They usurped my spell, altered the parameters, and caused great swathes of chaos in the academy: the one place which was meant to be sacrosanct. It is, AFTER ALL, where I keep my books.
Do believe me, my weekend was spent striving to undo the damage -- the final un-raising on Sunday night was my own doing. Some of you may hold the tiff with Ms. Weathers against me; the fight was merely the product of high nerves and stress. You will note that we overcame our multitudes of differences and worked together, in the spirit of ugh cooperation that is meant to infuse this bipartisan academy.
For all the infected students: my SINCEREST APOLOGIES. I will tolerate a certain amount of petty complaints at my doorstep. If you have a PERSONAL GRIEVANCE to air with me as a result of this weekend, feel free to address me here, or to queue up for office hours. If you or your family have LEGAL GRIEVANCES to air, I kindly refer you to Beelzebub & Schuster, who will assure you of my legal innocence in this matter. We also remind you that Academy territory is not subject to the laws and statutes of Neopolis City.
And points for drama, Mr. Davies, but it was hardly necessary.
I never doubted for one moment that the students of this academy would impress and astound us with their capabilities.
( FACULTY. )
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