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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Re: Lea OTA

[nobodys_puppet]

Xion stared at where the rock had gone through his head, falling on her rump. She looked up to Axel, wanting to believe him. Wanting this to all be an illusion. To be fake...

"You.. You're really okay?" she asked Axel, her voice barely a whisper.

Re: Lea OTA

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Really," Lea confirmed, heading over and offering Xion a hand up. "All this is in our heads, thanks to whatever the researchers did, and it'll wear off in a few days. Of course, that doesn't make it any less of a pain in the mean time."

Re: Lea OTA

[nobodys_puppet]

She looked at his hand a moment before taking it. "How do I stop hearing and seeing him?" she asked softly. She... might never offer to help the research again if this was going to happen every time.

Re: Lea OTA

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Far as I know, all we can do is wait for the three days to be over," Lea said as he helped her up. "That's when it'll wear off on its own. Until then, we just have to deal with it."

"I just hope this whole mess will be worth it...", he said.

Re: Lea OTA

[nobodys_puppet]

"Three... days?" of this? Three days was a long time!

Re: Lea OTA

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Well, more like two and a half at this point," Lea said. "But yeah. Can't end soon enough for me either."

Re: Lea OTA

[nobodys_puppet]

"Could we just... sleep for three days?" She'd done it before...

Re: Lea OTA

[hotheadwarmheart]

"I don't think you can don't that on purpose without magical or medical assistance," Lea said. "And it's probably not a good idea to try; anything strong enough to knock you out for that long probably would have some side effects that wouldn't be worth it."

"Besides, I'm not sure sleeping would help much," he said. "Our luck, we'll probably end up having nightmares the whole time this is going on."

Re: Lea OTA

[nobodys_puppet]

She made a face. "I do not know if I can handle three days of this," she whispered as taunts threats filled her ears. She pulled her hands up to try and cover them, but the sound got through anyway.

Re: Lea OTA

[hotheadwarmheart]

"We'll be there for you, if it helps at all," Lea said, resting a supportive hand on her shoulder. "Trust me, it sucks just as much for me and Roxas too, so we'll all be counting the minutes til its over."

Re: Lea OTA

[nobodys_puppet]

"Can we just sit on the rooftop with ice cream until it is over then?" Yes, because that won't end with one of you three falling. At all. Right, Xion.

Re: Lea OTA

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Yeah, no," Lea said. "As appealing as that is, it's probably about the worst thing to do when we're all hallucinating. It's like asking for one of us to fall to our doom."

Re: Lea OTA

[nobodys_puppet]

"...Oh...."

Even your ideas are broken and flawed the illusion mocked. She winced away, sliding closer to Axel.

Yes, always needing someone else to save you, never able to save yourself....

Re: Lea OTA

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea put a protective hand on Xion's opposite shoulder, holding her gently against his side. "Hey... whatever he's saying?", he said. "Just remember; in less than three days, he won't be anything more than a bad dream. But you, me, and Roxas? We'll still be here. And then we'll all go for ice cream and make fun of how much of a jerk he is. Got it memorized?"

Re: Lea OTA

[nobodys_puppet]

She looked up at him. In more ways than one. She gave a small nod. "Alright, Axel," she said softly. She didn't know how she was going to block out that voice for days. But Axel wanted her to try, so she'd try.

Good place to wrap this up?

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea reached out and gently ruffled her hair with his free hand. "We'll be alright," he assured her. "We've got each other, after all. And that's something that not even the real Xemnas will ever have."

Sadly, yes.

[nobodys_puppet]

She nodded and leaned against him. "Can Roxas sleep in our dorm until this is over? So he isn't alone?"

And one more tag should do it.

[hotheadwarmheart]

"If he wants to, I don't see why not," Lea said. "Let's go find him and see what he thinks of the idea."

Yep! Ty for the thread.

[nobodys_puppet]

"Alright," she said softly.