"Wizard High School Part 5"

"There's talk of chimeras and monsters and what should be done about them!" - Wizard High School Part 5
== Plot Synopsis ==
The group emerges into a courtyard where a couple of wizards are arranging wards across a hallway to defend against a chimera outbreak. Markus impersonates the chimera exterminator that had been called for and compliments the wizards on the standard barricade of wards that they've set up, mainly consisting of tomatoes and turnips in crates. Passing off the rest of the group as apprentice chimera exterminators, Markus leads them onwards into the hallway. Once out of earshot, Ashe asks someone to explain what a chimera is and Markus proceeds to do so, also adding that they're the kind of "really cool, and not a good idea" that wizards are known for. Thog comments on this, agreeing that it about sums up Ashe and Markus, only to be quickly corrected that A) Ashe is NOT a wizard despite what Kier says, and B) Markus is in fact a "sorcelock".
As they continue past another crate, peaches this time, it occurs to Ashe to ask the group's sorcelock and witch if the unconventional barriers really work as wards. Inien helpfully chimes in that it's actually the traps that ward away the chimeras, just as the group triggers one. A cloud of blue smoke suddenly appears, and when it's gone the party has been split with Markus and Inien remaining in the hallway while the others have been transported elsewhere.
Ashe, Gregor and Thog find themselves in a small, dark cell with bars that have been bent open. Creatures shift in the darkness - indistinct given that none of the three have darkvision, but definitely of a size to have previously escaped from the cell by bending the bars.
Meanwhile, Markus has been filling his pockets with rusty scraps as he and Inien wander down the hallway. Scraps collected, the two continue down the passage and discuss chimeras until they arrive at a dark room with a big pool of blood in the middle of the floor (as described by Markus using darkvision). For Inien's benefit, Markus creates a blinding light in the middle of the room and catches a glimpse of a dog-like creature retreating behind a bookcase at the other side of the room. More of the creatures appear surrounding them as they move further into the room, and they belatedly realize that as a pair of mages they have no means of defense while they prepare their spells. Thinking quickly, Markus flings his rusty nails at one of the creatures, only to watch them absorb ineffectively into the part-dog part-slime chimera. 
Back with the other group - wherever they are - Gregor bends the bars of the cage closed to buy them some time to safely think of a plan, much to Thog and Ashe's surprise. Ashe does something to Gregor's eyes to give him darkvision so that he can get a good look at the creatures in the darkness. Gregor identifies them as "trawlides", an ugly armoured beast known for either ramming people to turn them into paste, or swallowing and chewing them with an esophagus full of teeth. Luckily Gregor also knows that the trawlides' weak point is being hit in the gills that it uses to breathe and suggests that he'll distract the three in the room while Thog tries to shoot it with the gun. Ashe gives Thog darkvision as well, and returns the gun to him.
Still surrounded by the slime-dog chimeras, Markus and Inien dive down a clear path and into a furnace to work on strategy. Inien notes that slimes are usually weak against fire, and though Markus admits that his eldritch blasts aren't quite the same Inien expresses envy at his unlimited supply of magic power as a sorcerer. They begin planning a combo attack.
== Trivia ==
* First episode where Markus and Inien get really real for a moment and reference "wizard cateracts"
== Quotes ==
*Markus: All right, let's get rid of some chimeras.
*Ashe: So, nobody has explained to me what a chimera is.
*Markus: Oh, it's a magical amalgamation of two or more creatures, Ashe.
*Ashe: Sounds like a really bad idea.
*Markus: Ohoho, it is.
*Inien: Absolutely.
*Markus: Also, a fantastically cool idea.
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*Ashe: [About Markus] Y'know we should maybe just start calling him "Sorcelock" or something...
*Gregor: [To Ashe] What do I call you?
*Ashe: Me? Just call me--- The same thing you've always called me.
*Gregor: Ashe?
*Ashe: Yes.
*Gregor: Okay.
*Ashe: Gosh.
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*Markus: [upon creating a sudden blinding light] There we go! I should have warned you that you should close your eyes.
*Inien: Yeah, it's okay, after being a wizard I've developed a thin layer of scar tissue over both my eyes.
*Markus: Oh, you too? Yeah...
*Inien: Yeah...It's a problem sometimes.
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*Inien: Wow, we are completely surrounded. Excellent deduction, Markus.
*Markus: Look at that. Man, right? So...
*Inien: So...
*Markus: What now?
*Inien: How about you get in the way of them and block with your shie--- How about you try to attack them with--- We're both mages.
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*Inien: Oh woah, it's part slime, part dog.
*Markus: That is disgusting.
*Inien: That is absolutely disgusting. These are terrible chimeras. Also, I think we're going to die.
*Markus: That's what it looks like!
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*Gregor: We should either bend these bars closed so they can't get us, or think of a plan (proceeds to bend the metal bars closed)
*Thog: Wow, actually didn't expect that out of you Gregor.
*Ashe: Have you always been this strong!?
*Gregor: I keep telling you!
*Thog: How. Like, I just don't understand the physics of it.
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*Gregor: I'm very distracting! You guys are always telling me that
*Ashe: You are incredibly distracting, but this isn't so much a concern of you being able to do the job so much as you being able to live through the job.
*Gregor: I've been pretty good at living so far. Except from that time we all died a bunch.
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