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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[goingbythebook]

A Reading Rainbow
New spells to study? And you expect Huey to not be all over that? He's got one of those issues open in one hand, his (Eiather-given) wand in the other, and though his eyes are on the page he's doing just as the spell prescribes. Starting small, he's got a small arrangement of fruit a few feet in front of him and he aims to move them one at a time. A spell for the apple, a spell for the orange, and so on.

You might just catch him succeeding in that or, since his eyes aren't actually on what he's magicking, YOU might just wind up being an accidental subject of it all. Fun times for everybody!


It's Raw!
"Food shortages"? Oh no no no! Not while Huey Duck is around! He's- somehow -acquired a small store of food and has set up his own little station, near to the Eiather area but open to anyone from any house. And while most of his cooking skills are.... questionable, he can at least manage a few simple campfire treats (bless you Junior Woodchucks), and though a certain green-tinted brother may find it rephrehensible, he's giving them away for free.

So come stop by for a simple hotdog, a piece of foil-wrapped corn, maybe some s'mores. Or if you're feeling adventurous, there's always the fish. ...It's supposed to be that color, right? The roasted veggies might be safer, but you should probably eat around the burnt parts...


Defense Association
He'd practically volunteered just on the words "Extra Class" but the fact that it could prove useful on its own was an extra bonus. Huey proves adept at learning the ropes initially because of course he does, but he's going to need a little extra practice just to get it all down.

Which is where you come in, of course. Time to challenge a small duckling who's looking at you with fierce determination. Have fun!

reading rainbow

[woo_oo]

ZAP!

Webby blinked, suddenly no longer able to feel the floor under her feet. She glanced downward, seeing that she was now starting to hover a few inches in the air.

"... Neat!"

[goingbythebook]

He heard that and looked up from his notes, gasping shortly.

"Webby! Hang on a second, I'll get you down!"

What followed was reading so fast it practically burned lines into the magazine. The counterspell had to be in here somewhere-!

[woo_oo]

"Hey, don't rush it! This is great!" With that, she attempted to run in the air, seeing if it affected her floating state.

It's Raw

[couldabeenturbo]

Louie's going to hate them both, apparently, because as soon as he sees Huey setting up that campfire, he knows what's up. Sure, the annual cookoff had never been one of his favorite things, but it didn't mean he didn't want to put the skills to use.

"Okay, so what's the plan?"