August Event Log

[magicademymods]

August Event Log Speed of Lightning, Roar of Thunder The latest rage in Diatu: portable lightning generators! These little spheres, compact enough to be held in the hand, can launch a miniature bolt of electricity out with flair and pizzazz and surprisingly nonlethal effects. Getting zapped is like getting bit by a horsefly, not much worse. Naturally, all sorts of sports and pastimes have grown up overnight. The new sports of Lightning Tag, Lightningball, and Zap Each Other With Lightning Till Someone Collapses Because We're Tough Guys Dammit routinely break out on campus, while people who think they're funny can't go ten seconds without bolting someone's posterior. So what's your role in this? Eager participant? Sportsman? Buttzapper? Or is your idea totally new and wild? And Break the Laws That They Should Fear A rash of thefts plagues Anastara and the Magicademy both. Nothing huge, nothing heavy -- little things, like food, jewelry, trinkets and knickknacks... because the perpetrators are rats. Large and obviously clever rats, who have somehow wormed their way through defensive enchantments and mundane security both with the fearsome tenacity of their species. Look around at just the right time, and you might spot a rat scrambling for the safety of the caverns, something clutched in its jaws. Maybe something of yours? The Cry Goes Up Both Far and Near Finals draw ever-closer, and right about now students start realizing that maybe they don't understand this or that; maybe they could do with some outside material; maybe a second viewpoint would come in handy. Thus this week brings the Diatu Book Exchange! Outside of the Great Hall, students of all sorts brings books they no longer need and exchange them for books they do. The Book Exchange goes past merely scholarly works, though; time has grown it to encompass books of all sorts, from genre fiction and unlikely stories about seemingly ordinary kids attending an engineering boarding school to comics to philosophical works and more. Come to trade, browse, or lust -- there's something here for everyone! Research on the SUNDERDOG! (Sunderdog!) SUNDERDOG! (Sunderdog!) The research team has learned one important thing: Conflict is the key. The Codification of Sundering is the door. Somehow, of late, something has changed the nature of Sundering magic. They do not know why or how, but the very existence of the concept of Sundering magic now causes summoning anomalies that focus on other worlds, resulting in the transport of the Sundered here. This is, well, bad. The Codifications should not be slipping, not unless something has the power to completely overwhelm the entirety of human thought and will... To test theory more deeply, this month's Research has the Sundered locked in a room with another Sundered, a pair of chairs, and nothing else. The goal is to observe the warp and weft of magic around them with minimal interference from any other source save perhaps each other. So who did you get shut in with, and how long can you just sit and talk without going crazy?

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The Cry Goes Up

[healingincantation]

Rapunzel has always been a bookworm, so she was swapping what she could do without for new things to read. Soon, both academic and fiction works were stacked up in her arms. When she spotted Lena, she smiled at the teen from around the pile.

"Hello, Lena! Looking for something in particular?"

[outofyourshadow]

Glancing up at the greeting, she then eyed the stack of books Rapunzel was holding.

"...Not really," she admitted with a shrug. Then she grinned. "But even if I was, you might've already picked it up by now."

[healingincantation]

Rapunzel giggled, a bit sheepish. "I have picked up a lot of them, huh? Do you want to see if there's anything here you'd like? I'd be happy to share."

[outofyourshadow]

"Nah, I'm good. Honestly, I don't even know what I'm looking for. I'm not much of a casual reader."

Or...much of anything really.

[healingincantation]

"Well, what are you much of?" Rapunzel asked with a smile. "Your other interests might help you pick a book."

[outofyourshadow]

She snickered. "I don't think being a loner rebel is going to help me find something to read."

It was the easiest thing she could think of. Even if she was less 'loner' these days.

[healingincantation]

Rapunzel gave her roommate a soft, amused smile. "Actually, you know, there are a lot of great books about characters who are very rebellious."

[outofyourshadow]

"Oh yeah? Got any recommendations?"

She wasn't sure if there would be any here, but it couldn't hurt to check.

[healingincantation]

"Well... I do like the story about Count Fathom," she said, as if confessing some bad behavior. It hadn't been her book - most of what Mother gave her was non-fiction. No, this one had been one of Mother's own books, which Rapunzel was not generally supposed to read. Still, with only a handful of her own books, she'd often escaped into her mother's stories of magic and cunning. The story in question focused on the latter. "It's about a very bad person, but there's something about it that makes it hard to put down."

[outofyourshadow]

"Count Fathom, huh? What kind of stuff did he do?"

Give her all the details.

[healingincantation]

Okay, that might have been the wrong story to bring up.

"Well, he always had some kind of plan to get what he needed, usually by tricking someone, or sometimes by... Getting them to like him more than they should have. He was the kind of character you didn't really root for, at least I didn't... But I always wanted to see how he'd pull things off."

[outofyourshadow]

She nodded. "Sounds kind of interesting. I might have to look it up in the future."

Though that sounded a bit more like past her, and probably not something she should take too seriously.

[healingincantation]

Rapunzel nodded. "And if I find something here I think you'll like, I could always let you know!"

[outofyourshadow]

"Yeah, that sounds good. Keep me posted."