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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[areasontohope]

Yuki's been wandering around, thinking half of the school has gone mad. People have appeared to be not sleeping or looking rather odd. So he packed his books up and stuffed them into his backpack after class.

One more class for the day and he needed to get to work at the library. Things had been a little chaotic with the thing going on at the Library of Starchime. And as he opened his umbrella outside at seeing a little rain, it turned to hail.

So he hurried through the unexpected weather, now that was almost coming down in chunks the size of ping pong balls. Getting back inside, his umbrella snapped shut and he put the umbrella away in a bag.

Rounding the corner he wasn't sure what but something stopped him. And in front of him stood Webby aiming something at him. So for several long moments, he stared, unsure as to what to say except the obvious.

"Are you..alright?"

[woo_oo]

With a bit of nervous laughter, Webby tries to tuck her grappling-hook away.

"Yeah, sure! Kinda. Sorta. Maybe. Not exactly." She swallowed, not exactly making eye contact.

[areasontohope]

This wasn't like Webby at all or at least what Yuki knew of her, recounting the brief time that they'd met. She had looked right at him then with such enthusiasm, and they had spoken of going to the library and looking at maps, which they hadn't done as of yet.

But then again, this week seemed to have a lot of people on edge or out of sorts. People had been falling asleep in his classes which was pretty unusual too.

They didn't really know each other but that wasn't going to stop him from hesitantly reaching out. It was something he was learning to do here.

"Can..I help?"

[woo_oo]

"... Do you know how to get rid of wicked voices from people who are definitely not here?"

On second thought, this didn't sound like something a sane person would say.

"Keep in mind, I'm 85% sure I'm not going crazy."

[areasontohope]

Well now, that was a question that Yuki hadn't expected to hear.

But on the other hand...

"I'm not sure, but I think..it seems to be something other people are going through. I almost got ran into by a few people who looked like they could use a good night's sleep."

He's not really sure that he's being all that helpful, but darn it, he's trying.

[woo_oo]

"Oh, good!" She cheered up a bit, feeling confident. "Then it's not just me! That means everything's okay!"

No it didn't! But she was kinda desperate.

[areasontohope]

"Ah..I'm not sure I would..." his voice trailed off as he looked at Webby. Yuki paused and tried again.

"Well, at least other people seem to.."

No that wasn't going to work either.

"I'm sure it'll be over soon."

[woo_oo]

"Yeah, I just have to wait it out!" Webby replied, hands on her hips.

"Besides, sleep is overrated! This is like... super training for a stakeout!"

[areasontohope]

"It really shouldn't go much longer." A week was about the average that he had noticed for odd things to happen. Like those plants.

"A stakeout?" Yuki supposed he really should be used to her enthusiasm about unusual things by now. But still, Webby always managed to surprise him.

[woo_oo]

"Yeah, you know! When you're waiting for the bad guys to come out, but you don't know the exact time, so you lay in wait for hours and hours and hours and hours!"

That was normal for a spy or a police officer. Not... a small child.

[areasontohope]

He wasn't sure Webby had ever been on a stakeout. After all, she had seen and done some pretty fantastical things and Yuki felt pretty darn boring by comparison. Still, he had his doubts and thought maybe the lack of sleep was affecting her. So he wasn't going to argue.

"I suppose so. But I think I'd be more excited about actually getting to sleep in."

[woo_oo]

"I can do that later! Eventually! In the future!" Man, she hoped it was a near future. Maybe even a tomorrow future.

[areasontohope]

"Well hopefully, the future won't be too far off. Seems like a lot of people could use a good night's sleep around here."

This was said with a smile because he didn't want to think about Webby suffering.

[woo_oo]

"Until then, I'll be doing everything possible to stay awake!"

Oh boy.

[areasontohope]

Uh oh.

"I'm not sure..but coffee might be a start." And Yuki regretted even suggesting it because Webby's temperament being what it was right now, would probably get much worse on coffee.

[woo_oo]

"Great idea!" Webby beamed, pleased to hear it. "I'll chug down lots of coffee! Let's go find some!"

[areasontohope]

"Uh..okay.." Yuki knew this was a Very Bad Idea. But if it kept Webby from doing other silly things, then he could at least try and supervise. It was kind of like he did with Momiji, but Webby took it way further than the Rabbit ever did.

[woo_oo]

Webby began to bounce along the hallway, though every now and then she clearly twitched, hearing that awful voice from anywhere and everywhere.

"Tea, and coffee, and mix them together..."

[areasontohope]

"I'm..not sure that's a very good idea." This was a pretty weak protest on Yuki's part. He didn't feel like doing chemistry right now. But then another idea hit him. Well if they were going to mix things, might as well do something productive..he hoped.

"But we can make a cake to go with it." This was said with a smile to hide how nervous he was starting to feel.

[woo_oo]

Oh boy, CAKE? Now that was one way to distract a small child. "Maybe we can make a coffee cake, or a tea cake, or a whole cake full of caffeine!"

[areasontohope]

"A coffee cake wouldn't be bad.." Yuki mused as they walked along. But he wasn't sure about a cake full of caffeine. "But a tea cake..that doesn't sound like that's a bad thing."

[woo_oo]

"We could have both! Let's do both!" Two whole cakes full of coffee ans tea! "Why, I'll make them if I have to!"

[areasontohope]

"I..guess." Yuki's not really sure what to do at this point, but he's just trying to keep Webby out of as much trouble as he can. And he realized he would probably be doing clean up too, but if that's what it took to keep her out of trouble, then that's what he would have to do.

He sure didn't have her enthusiasm.