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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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[ He sighs and shakes his head. ]
Wre you planning to go, or did they sour you on it?
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[She nods.]
I am, actually. Someone's already asked me to go with them, so I'd hate to disappoint them just because other people are being so pushy about it. Besides, it could be fun.
What about you? Do you think you'll be going?
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He's relieved to hear that she has a date. ]
Oh, of course. They'd better treat you well.
[ There's almost a threat in his voice, but not quite. ]
I've...mostly decided. I'm dating someone, but we haven't gone on dates in public because I've been a private person for most of my life. I don't flaunt our relationship because I abhor gossip, and I don't want him to be hurt on my behalf...
[ He sighs. ]
But he's a much more outgoing person than I am. He'd love to go. And the circumstances that would have made a relationship a nightmare on our world don't really apply. Obviously, I'd prefer if he attended with me, but...
I'm not sure if shoving all the admirers out of the way and carrying him off would go over well. That's what I feel when I look at him right now. I should...probably ask normally.
[ He looks a little horrified that he just confessed all that. Sorry, Fluttershy. ]
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It...would probably be best to ask him normally. I'm sure he'll just be happy that you ask in the first place. Even if you're not...'flaunting' your relationship, sometimes it's just nice to be able to acknowledge it out in the open.
But maybe you should also talk to him about how open about it you two want to be. He could want to keep it private, like you, or he could want to be a bit more public about it. So it wouldn't be fair to ask him to keep it a secret when he might want to be able to spend time more time with you, even if you two are seen together.
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[ He doesn't elaborate, but the brief pained expression says something. ]
He can handle it however he wants. I'll support him. He deserves that much. So I suspect we'll be seeing you there.
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I'll be happy to see you there. But definitely talk to him. Even if he does want to be more open about your relationship, I'm sure he'd also want to make sure to do it in a way you'd be more comfortable as well.
Part of being in a relationship is cooperating together, after all.