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diatu2019-05-03 01:19 pm
magicademymods) wrote in diatu2019-05-03 01:19 pm
May Event and Intro Log
It is entirely possible the Twilight Ball is beloved because the general student body is aggressively amorous, but no one admits that out loud. With the dance on the horizon, the mission of the day becomes finding a partner -- or asking the prettiest or nicest or most tsundere to the ball before anyone else does. The Sundered are particularly popular by virtue of being new, so students may find themselves fending off invitations or even crowds of people interested in being seen on their arms. Even the younger Sundered have a few people in their age group who'd like to pretend they're just as adult as the older students. To avoid the mob, one strategy is to find someone else in dire straits and agree to be their date, thus giving both of you protection now and then. Another, stranger, vastly more unorthodox strategy is to actually ask someone out legitimately... if you've got the guts. (The third strategy is to go with Headmaster Birony, who has been occasionally heard to bemoan loudly and publicly that she has nobody, HINT HINT. But who could possibly be THAT desperate?)
So, yes, there's love potion in the water. Someone spilled an entire bucket in the river. These things happen. Luckily, as diluted as it is, the potion doesn't reach the levels of obsessive compulsion that the worst of them can; a person drinking a unfortunate draught instead simply finds themselves attracted in a weird and sharp sort of way to the first person they lay their eyes on, for a period of about thirty minutes. Diatu Magicademy is an inclusive and progressive institution, and consequently these potions affect and can target all manner of beings, from ducks and wolf-shifters to robots and dragons. They are pretty convenient about failing to bring about really skeevy pairings, though, so don't worry about being Hot For Professor.
An enterprising student who adds their own spin to this hallowed ceremony of delivery can make bank; singing and performance are popular ways to enhance a message among Valhudor students, and a recent trend finds quartets delivering acapella harmonies to the recipients of love notes. But simple note hauling can still be worth your while... so long as you don't find yourself delivering a creepy confession from a weirdo to one of your dear friends. What are the odds of that happening, though?
This month, however, the research team informs its applicants that there is no magic being performed. Instead, they ask you to participate in partnered interviews, in which two Sundered compare their worlds and ask each other questions while the researchers take notes. They explain that they wish to find commonalities and differences between worlds, in the hopes that this will help them identify a larger pattern in how the Sundered were brought here. How is this bad enough to merit earning a reward this month? As it happens, the researchers who sit with the pair have an Intimation Crystal, which shines red every time someone speaks to deceive in its presence. Lie or omit information or cover with half-truths and the interviewer will ask you to go back and try again -- and they encourage you to speak on everything you can. You might end up venturing into dark or unpleasant territory in these interviews...
With a tumultuous shuddering and an eerie, whistling roar, the first tendril of a far mightier being surges out of a wall on campus, venturing into the cloud-shadowed outdoors for the first time in its existence in this plane. Then, like a cloak shrugged off, the outbuilding it emerged from rises up only to crash to the ground as the Sundered creature rises up to claim it glory. It is a nightmare, a horror. A terrible, indescribable thing as large as a small building —a shapeless agglutination of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of light. For some inexplicable reason, it is colored in bands of purple, black, and gold, and several parts of it sprout white feathers. That's the bad news. The bad news is that this existential threat to reality does not go unnoticed, nor unchallenged. Mere moment after the Sundered creature makes it presence known, a cold wind begins to blow. The temperature abruptly drops thirty degrees, leaving those around in a clammy and miserable chill that feels like they've passed their whole body through one of the ghosts of Makerion Keep. This estimation is not too far wrong, for the pale off-white dragon that emerges from the clouds above is translucent and ethereal, save for the shining eyes of coldest blue that fix on the beast like pinpoints of fire. What a ghost dragon is doing here is anyone's guess, but when it opens its jaw to unleash a withering cone of necrotic energy at the Sundered creature, it demonstrates plainly that it will not brook this interloper on its domain. In other words, Diatu Magicademy is now home to a kaiju fight. That's the bad news. The BAD news is that both these creatures are, by their very nature, incredibly resistant to magic. So even as the professors spill out and split duties of getting students to safety and fending them off, the two beasts barely notice the arcane energy flashing through the air as they begin vigorously brawling. Thank goodness this is a weekend, or else you'd all have some serious trouble getting to class on time.
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Re: Research On The Sundered
[Kazuma's gaze darts briefly towards the crystal. Did it just light up for half a sec? Well, whatever.
The pair of researchers sitting in with them mutually frown at the magical item themselves, but they remain silent.]
Okay then... So there's currently a war going on back where you're from. I'd say where I came from is similarly in conflict.
The country of Belzerg is at war with the Demon King and his army, but the town of Axel that I lived in is more for starting adventurers, so it's normally far from the front lines- Not to say that danger doesn't often find its way there anyway...
[Kazuma glances at the crystal, which remains unlit.]
How far from the conflict would you say you were, or from dangers in general?
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And Hydaelyn, our world, is generally full of creatures, if one is not wary when one ventures out of a civilized town, it is quite easy to find one's self at odds with some sort of monster one does not expect. Garlemald does not bother itself to patrol or defend against these creatures, though I understand the Eorzean Alliance is better about such things.
[Indeed, the crystal is also quiescent at these revelations.]
So are you an adventurer of sorts, then, where you are from?
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[The teen's expression sours at the thought of his early days. However, his face brightens back up as he continues.]
But my party and me managed to get through it. We earned ourselves a mansion to stay at, and we even somehow managed to take out some of the Demon King's top generals too.
[It's a smug smile on his face this time, before his thoughts return to the present.]
So what did you do for a living, back in your home-world?
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I? Well. I was a courtesan and spy in my time. But in the end, before I came here? I was the acting viceroy of Doma.
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[And with that word alone, his nervousness is back in full.]
How did- what was it li-... uh, errr.. did it... pay the bills?
[Wide-eyed and panicking, it's probably a safe assumption that Kazuma didn't register a single syllable past "I was a courtesan".]
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I... suppose I hope it did--I was not there for myself, you see. I was there to pay off the debts that Sashihai left behind when he died. And because my parents did not care enough to buy my freedom from such.
[If Yotsuyu does not sound convinced, well. It was the fact that she'd hated much of what she'd been forced to do, then.]
So what of this Demon King of yours?
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Uh? The Demon King? I can't say I've ever met the guy, or gal, or gender-neutral entity. Only thing we hear of the the dude in the town of Axel are rumors.
[He admits his ignorance of the big bad with a sheepish smile.]
Well, that and the unasked for visits from his generals... Let's see, there was a wizard Lich, a dullahan, a devil living withing a mask, and a massive, acid slime.
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[She glances over as one of the researchers interrupts. Yotsuyu furrows a brow at the man.]
The Warrior of Light? Eorzea's champion. They are quite the hero in their own right, if you must know. I certainly should, it was not as if I did not battle them myself at Castrum Fluminis. [Though her lips twich slightly at that, and she eyes the flicker of the crystal with a soft growl in her throat.]
Very well, it was the eikon Tsukuyomi, but I was the one who summoned her, and who was her willing vessel!
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[Kazuma stops mid-sentence, his face a picture of sudden realization.]
Waaait, you're not saying you were the bad guy, are you? Cause a title like "Warrior of Light" sounds like some sort of FF protag...
[Bravo, Kazuma. Your insight is astounding.]
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[Either they had powerful resurrection magic, or--but his next question had Yotsuyu giving him a wry smile of sorts.]
That is exactly what I am saying, yes. Perhaps not the bad guy, but I was numbered among them.
[Unsurprisingly, the crystal remains inert.] Although my brother was worse. And Zenos, the emperor's son, was the worst of all...
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[While Kazuma's tone is serious, his eyes betray an air of mischievousness.]
As long as you're not planning any trouble on the world domination scale while your here, right?
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No plans of world domination at all. I am actually trying to reform myself...such as I might.
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Well, then I've got no problems with what you may or may not have done in your previous world.
[[Kazuma assures her with a simple shrug as his demeanor returns to casual]
Hell, with the way things are now, what happened then could be treated as a completely different life.
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[She chuckles a little, then, and shakes her head.]
No, I am done with inflicting suffering on others...unless they should ask for it.
[Yotsuyu can think of one such individual she has heard of, but that doesn't even elicit a flicker out of the crystal.]
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[His tone suggests it's a joke, although the beads of sweat forming on his face at his own reference of that unapologetic masochist of a woman suggests otherwise.]
B-but anyway, got any other questions?
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[Technically, that is a question Kazuma could answer, but Yotsuyu would not blame him if he did not. ]
Conveyances perhaps? We had airships, though they ran on magitek, not magic as they have here. Or did we go over that already?
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Airships? Magitek? No, nothing like that there, not that I've heard of, anyway. Although magic there is a plenty of. Teleportation is a common way for a mage to travel. They can even use the spell upon a group, although the user of the spell must have previously visited any place they'd like to teleport to. I hear that it's even utilized as a service, like a teleportation mage-merchant who can port you to any major city for a fee, but I haven't had a chance to try it myself.
For the magic-less and less financially well off, your own to feet is the cheapest option, but there are horse drawn carriage caravans available for not too much of an asking fee.