Athalia Academy: Season Four - Back on Track

Athalia Academy: Season Four - Back on Track is the name of the fourth "season" of the Athalia Academy roleplaying game, and the third main arc of the Athalia universe canon. It occurs in the Oasarian town of Pavella, where a new Academy is built following its destruction by Marcus Cross at the end of Season Three.

Inception

Before Season Four, there was already a Season Four - Legends of Lavanya. This season was meant to be the Athalia reboot, begun in spring 2015 and intended to revitalize the roleplay after Season Three slowed to a death crawl. To help accomplish this, new players were allowed to join, and for a while it worked. However, before 2015 was over the roleplay ground to a halt, and even a Christmas Special meant to again rekindle the spark didn't get the roleplay of the ditch it was in.

As a result of this, on the night of Valentine's Day 2016, HylianRose, Driving Park, and NarayanK decided that it might be best to reboot the reboot - to start where Legends of Lavanya started, but go somewhere different with it plot-wise. Thus, the events Legends of Lavanya was relegated to alternate timeline status.

Like Season Three and Legends of Lavanya before it, Season Four did not actually finish.

Player/Character Appearances

• HylianRose (GM): Maria Cross, Criston Cross, Lily Brightendale, Eric Penwright, Fate
• Nevix: Edric D'Karst, Azamor
• Driving Park: Carmen Calandra, Kali Rana
• chukklehed: Illasriel
• Animelover_princess: Oliver, Andromeda Barker
• NarayanK: Ryuu Yamauchi, Aurelia Triniel, Apophis, Tai Norel
• Theobromine: Katherine Argall, Ara Glaisyer
• FaithsRose: Caleb Waterfront, Rain

Summary of Events

At the end of a long period of absence after the events in Season Three, a new Academy was finally completed in the Oasarian mountain town of Pavella. On July 22, 2023, the new Academy was officially opened and this is where the season began. (In between seasons, during the Legends of Lavanya Christmas Special, Carlily had become canon and this was recorded in one of the first posts by HylianRose.) Some of the students from the original two seasons were now teachers at the Academy. However, most of the students from the first Academy were no longer there, having been killed in Marcus' attack five years ago.

Lily Brightendale was the school nurse, and she ran into Edric, one of the new students. Edric had a hard time in this first encounter when he realized Lily looked exactly like his mother. Meanwhile, in a cryptic scene, the Kali Rana freed Illasriel, who had been imprisoned for hundreds of years, and put her in Pavella. Andromeda (still a student) tripped down a set of stairs, crashing directly into Ryuu (now a teacher), while Oliver and Maria chatted in Maria's office. Kathy and Edric ran into Illasriel, while Eric and Carmen came across the aftermath of Ryuu and Andromeda's collision. Aurelia then ran into Rain, both new arrivals, before being joined by Ara. Lily chatted with Crash as Kathy and Edric began helping Illasriel to the infirmary.

After some more talking (and Crash causing a couple of calamities, as per usual), Edric ran into Lily again after Azamor, his demon, told him that Lily was, in fact, his mother. After a mixture of crying, laughing, and vomiting upon seeing her again and realizing she didn't remember any of it, Edric told Lily before running off. Outside the infirmary, Crash reunited with Kathy, before Lily took him into the infirmary to treat his wounds. Lily was completely emotionless after the interaction with Edric, and Crash and Kathy tried to find out what was wrong. Lily walked away, trying to find Carmen. Once she did, she went into Carmen's office with her and explained her situation through tears. Meanwhile, Crash and Kathy picked up the slack in the infirmary and helped Andro before leaving Eric to tend to her. Lily and Carmen talked through the situation before Maria walked in and beckoned them to come with her to set up the assembly.

The assembly consisted of Maria and Brako giving their usual welcome speeches, followed by Criston and all the new professors (Carmen, Oliver, Ryuu) introducing themselves. Finally, in an echo of Season One, Criston ended the assembly by announcing a party for everyone to attend, this time in the Academy's ballroom.

Trivia

• The original thread began on February 15, 2016, and ended on November 24 of that same year after 140 in-character posts.