July Event Log

[magicademymods]

July Event Log A Reading Rainbow Though the publication is ordinarily drier than dry toast Modified to be drier than dried toast, this quarter's issue of Thaumaturgy Today is all the rage around campus. The reason: a series of advances in motile spells! Easier and more powerful than those found in your standard book of spells (any grade), these spells achieve their power by specificity. One spell for lifting fruit, one for lifting laundry, one for lifting books, the list goes on. Though Professor Loshakle is deep at work writing a blistering reply criticizing every nuance of these spells, outside of his wrathful gaze the spells flourish as people practice them on everything they can. Copies of the issue are easy to get your hands on, if you want to give these new spells a whirl. On the other hand, your stuff or you yourself might fall victim to the spells of other students, whether by mistake or cruel jest. And woe betide those not human -- since no spell explains how to lift an anthropomorphic duck or a robot, for example, enterprising students are particularly eager to come up with one on their own, and there's only one way to test such things... It's Raw, You Donkey! There was an incident. Mistakes were made. Rice balls were detonated. Puddings were animated and sent on rampages. A cheesebread was found lodged in Makerion Keep, sunk to a depth of three feet in the walls. Whatever happened, and no one seems to have details... the Great Hall is closed and no food is being served. So... what're you going to eat? Several pop-up stands have emerged, as enterprising students try to cash in, but that costs money and who knows how the quality is. Headmaster Birony keeps showing up with pies, having made several savory ones that taste really good, actually, but can you really live on pie alone? (And do you really trust Headmaster Birony?) Some students have taken to the ultimate last resort: cooking. As it happens, the skills of the chef and of the aspiring mage are not exclusive in principle, but generally learning the one means little time to devote to the other. Faced with an oven or a grill, can you muster up the capability to make something edible? Or will you burn the water and turn bread back into grain, and thus have no choice but to avail yourself of pricey booth cooking or Cam-pies? Of course, the Great Hall will PROBABLY be open again soon, you might be able to last until then... The Defense Association In light of certain recent activities, like horrible monster attacks, Professors Trammel and Kith have teamed up to provide self-defense lessons to students who so desire. Purely optional, this extra class at the end of the school day promises study in shields, wards, basic attack spells, and mobility spells (because sometimes the best thing is to run like heck). Needless to say, these classes are quite the adventure! Students find themselves in dueling circles quite frequently, expected to carefully deflect each other's spells. Hopefully you've got the knack of it; the practice spells they have taught you don't cause any harm, but they sting like the dickens! Research on the Sundered Conflict. Conflict seems to be key. As near as the researchers can tell, all the Sundered lead lives that are simply not ordinary, and their experiments in conflict from last month produced results they didn't expect (as you all have learned) but that are most promising. Professor King herself has taken the lead on this experiment, and she warns anyone who volunteers that it is likely to be very dangerous, and they will be taking this very slow. They are, she explains, going to try to bridge the gap between you and the world you came from. A SMALL bridge, a proof of concept, no portal home and celebrations yet. But they hope it will work, and be the first step towards getting you back where you belong. If you agree, they get to work. Any student who undergoes this process immediately regains a power of their choice. It does not have to be on their application, and you do not have to provide proof during AC. It's here now. Only if you do not have a power to regain, you may regain an item instead. The price? For the next three days, you will be haunted by visions of your greatest enemy, your most hated foe, or the person you least wish to see in the world. Perhaps you hear their laughter in the darkness of your room at night. Perhaps you see a fellow student as them. Perhaps they are taunting you from just behind your shoulder... Whatever form it takes, for three days, you will be at their mercy. Or the mercy of your own mind's imagining them. Or perhaps a combination of the two. Who can say...?

Comments

Regain Questions

[magicademymods]

If you have them, ask them here!

Re: Regain Questions

[grim_heaper]

Fair to presume that Noise (creation and control) would NOT be returned to Sho?

Also, with the spell on him if he tries to cause harm... if he tries to kill his worst foe... um... how bad will this be for him?

For V: Given D&D, are we talking about a single spell, a level worth of spells, a feat, a class skill.... or....?

[magicademymods]

Noise creation and control can absolutely be returned to Sho. Of course, any influence these Noise have on people in the RG will rebound on him, so enjoy the flood of negative emotions attempting to sic them on anyone in the RG will bring!

The worst foe isn't real, so the spell does not apply.

V would get, in this instance, access to first-level spells. Again. Why this is happening is a very good question.

[grim_heaper]

Well they can also kill, which is why I presumed no. Okay, so I'll get to find out what happens when Sho does lethal damage with the rebound spell in place. good to know. Any special rules you want on who can see the noise, given no one has a player pin?

Okay! I will look up first level spells! Meant to ask with Cantrips, but... ah.... does V have to prepare spell slots as normal, or is it any spell V could know at that level, if it is in V's book, V can cast it?

[magicademymods]

Our understanding, as supported by the TWEWY wiki, is that Noise are only capable of physically manifesting and causing physical harm to those in the UG; those in the RG can have their emotions negatively influenced, which is the means by which Noise consume Soul, but the Noise cannot manifest there, nor physically attack those in the RG.

To that extent, only Intimation magic would enable others to see the Noise.

V's power works with preparation as normal. He has the same ability to cast cantrips as if he somehow got it twice.

[grim_heaper]

Okay I am a little confused now, lol.

I will admit when I asked about Noise I had forgotten they did actually have some impact on the RG so was presuming that a yes meant he'd have them the way he would in the UG. To that end the yes makes a lot more sense now. From an RP standpoint, not sure how to play with the negative attachments though, and more, how to let people stop them. I really don't want him to be an unstoppable negative effect on the game after all. Maybe swapping which regain he gets would make more sense?

With V I thought you said level 1 spells for this, so V would now have Cantrips and level 1? If not then I am not sure how V could use the ability as if getting it twice?

[magicademymods]

We would require an OOC permissions post for the Noise, while ICly the Noise could be affected by various magics, with or without being detected. (We should add that the Magicademy is highly likely to treat them as a form of Dictation, which could have highly negative consequences for Sho.)

For V, you are correct, but he does indeed possess double access to what he has. Without revealing too much, we can say that using spells from this month's regain carries no danger of Curriculum Breach, while using spells from the earlier brute-force regain does.

[grim_heaper]

Okay, my brain is just con fried. To make things simpler, how about we just give Sho back his transformations and figure out the noise, if they happen, at a future date? I mean, I'm all for negative consequences for him. I'm just not firing on all cylinders mentally and won't be till August.

So V has double the number of cantrip slots back, and no level 1 spells?

[magicademymods]

Acceptable!

V has cantrips and first level spells twice. What is interesting to note is the ones V has pushed through feel much more like V's own magic, where the ones just regained have a certain flavor of this world's magic about them -- despite being mechanically and functionally identical.

[grim_heaper]

Okay so cantrips AND level ones? Okay. Cool. Thanks. Still confused, but I can work with that.

And okay. Sho can transform. I will try and go post for the research to warn these, ideally before I head out to con tomorrow morning. Thank you.

Re: Regain Questions

[afterthemoon]

Two questions:

Can the "worst enemy" be a version of themselves?

Can the "worst enemy" be multiple people?

Re: Regain Questions

[magicademymods]

[holdyourhorns]

Is it possible for Spyro could have Sparx back?

The best friend + 4 hit blocker (before passing out) + gemstone (dragon-cut) tracker + destroyer of butterflies

[magicademymods]

Re: Regain Questions

[daughterofclay]

So, canonically Jude's only (known) power is being immune to glamour (which includes magical mind control but also illusions). My question is -- if she regains this, would this apply to being able to see through all Fantastics illusions, period, or would that be Too Powerful?

[magicademymods]

This would ultimately be a question of willpower, and whether hers overcomes the Fantastics user's.

In other words, a giant handwave for her sometimes being affected by Powerful Event Plots or Mighty NPCs while being able to shake off the influence of everyday PC trickery.

[daughterofclay]

Amazing, thank you!

[noasark]

So, Noa doesn't really have powers that don't rely on being a supercomputer, but the entire set up for this month's Research is REALLY COOL to me, so ultimately I gotta ask if his suffering could, at the least, be rewarded with his horse.

He won't really understand why it's his horse, but hey, it's a nice horse.

[magicademymods]

Yes, Noa will be able to tell people to look at his horse. His horse is amazing.

[noasark]

They sure are amazing-

THANKS MODS!

Re: Regain Questions

[replaceme]

If Lady's familiar had died back home would it be possible to have him come back alive for a regain? If not would this power be okay?

DUSIL ∞ devour soul

corrupts the ground and deals ongoing necrotic damage to any targets in a specific area. damage continues for a short while even after the target has escaped the infected area.

[magicademymods]

One or the other, the answer is

[puzzlers]

SASSY SNAKE IT IS! THANK YOU MODS!