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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Super Late To The Party OTA (TWEWY spoilers.)

[grim_heaper]

Research

So zetta lame. But last month wasn't too terrible, just talk to a bunch of zeroes about their pointless deaths. So he figured he might as well go for it this time.

At first he didn't notice the new power, since he didn't transform all that often to begin with. What he did notice was a laugh coming from the shadows. He reached for his bullhorn and caught sight of a familiar head of pale hair. He aimed his bullhorn, but Yoshua had slid around the corner and vanished.

So. He was here too then? Well fine. In fact it was so factoring beautiful. Sho could take this UG AND crush that smarmy brat into paste at the same time. "You can't fight infinity." he said with a smug smile and headed off to hunt his prey.

Classes were left untaught and unattended. Ignored. Homework wasn't touched. For three days Sho Minamimoto wasn't even making trash sculptures. He was focused solely on hunting down that factoring hectopascal with aims to erase him once and for all. Sadly all he ever seemed to manage to hit were buildings.....


Reading Rainbow

After he realized that Yoshua was gone, and hadn't ever actually been there, Minamimoto went back to his art and his daily death. While working on one tower he found a discarded issue of Thaumaturgy Today and... okay, that was a level of precision he as a math fanatic and artist could appreciate. He gathered specific things from the listed spells into his creation and then ascended to sit on the top and practice with stuff from within, carefully enough, and with enough awareness of how he balanced things to do it without wobbling the monolith he was sitting on. The items he was practicing on wobbled or caught fire or in other ways acted not as intended, but amazingly the structure itself remained sound.

Defense Association
As a teacher, Minamimoto felt it behooved him to offer to help. Which mostly meant he will be attacking students who step up to test their defenses. Fail and face erasure. Thankfully, you've probably been warned by another student to avoid him.... right?