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...?

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[king_of_egypt]

[Well- Kaiba, you are loaded back in your own time. That's where the gold could be coming from if you diversified your assets. Atem knew he was pushing it though, and Kaiba had been a decent sport all this time, so he let it drop.]

[Atem bit back a smile as the rainbows made a resurgence]

Possibly- but what sort of message, and why? [Though he wasn't sure there was anything deliberate behind this] For the time being, you can always have someone else open the books for you.... but if you turned the page it would likely create the problem again. [You'll need a study buddy]

[blue_ice]

Ugh. Fine. Let's see what happens.

{ He passes the book back to Atem, and then makes an attempt to turn the page. Another explosion of color washes over them---if anything, it's even bigger. ]

Oh no, I think it likes you.

[king_of_egypt]

Mm, best to know what you're really up against.

[Taking the book once more, he opens it again before handing it back. This time the rainbow is so brilliant it's almost blinding. Atem raises an arm to shield his eyes from some of the light]

I wouldn't mind if it liked me a little less. [Still said with a smile]

[blue_ice]

Welcome to my world.

[ He pinched the bridge of his nose. ]

Yugi was affected with a curse something like this when we first arrived, due to the research...but that affected his hair, rather than any opening books. And I haven't volunteered recently.

Must be luck. Are you sure you haven't seen anything strange?

[king_of_egypt]

[He couldn't help it, that prompted a laugh]

That would have been my next guess, but that strikes that possibility out. [Puzzling over the little conundrum]

I'm sure I haven't [The strange power Atem was 'gifted' with was oddly specific enough that he hadn't encountered it yet. In order to change bagels to donuts or vice versa one still needs to be near donuts or bagels... and since the dining hall was currently closed he wasn't attempting to cook either baked good himself] You could try checking the bulletin board to see if anyone else has come down with this phenomenon.

[blue_ice]

"I would, but I might just make rainbows explode from all of them at once," he snorted. "It's...not the brand signature I'm looking for."

To be brief. He's not resolving this any time soon, though, so he gives Atem another look.

"Is that reading offer still open?"

[king_of_egypt]

"You might just at that." Shaking his head. "It is a little much to sign all of the time."

It certainly doesn't seem like it, no.

"Mm, it's still open."

[blue_ice]

"Then until this passes, I should stick with someone. And despite your ridiculous wisecracks, there are worse choices."

He doesn't mean that too harshly. There's a small smile underneath it all.

"There should be plenty of time to resolve it before we seriously need to study in-depth again, at least. The midterms were bearable...how about for you?"

[king_of_egypt]

Finding the comment amusing more than inflammatory anyway he held up his hands in mock defense. "I'm fresh out of wisecracks too." Clearly he was the best option available at this juncture.

"It is a stroke of luck that it missed midterms." Maybe Kaiba had brushed against a possible motive. ".... They were.... alright." Ignore his hesitation.

"Say, you don't think that someone was seeking vengeance because you received higher marks than them do you?" Petty, sure but not impossible.

[blue_ice]

"...and this would be why I tested out of Domino High," Kaiba grumbled, shaking his head. "Petty schemes and nonsense. I didn't miss it."

But there's an odd expression on his face. While many aspects of school, especially this school, annoy him...he can't deny that his life has changed for the better in some ways.

"In that case, wouldn't there be better ways to humiliate me? Tamper with my schoolwork? Frame me for some crime? I'm not ruling it out, but...nothing about this school makes sense. School life's not worth it, is it?"