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?

Comments

[noasark]

They explained that the laws of magic are changing- moreover, the magic of Sundering is already dangerous on its own. It concerns space and time, two core points of reality, [he explains calmly.]

If you were to alter those two things significantly- change the rules of how time operates, and how space operates- you would effectively change how the entire world functions. You'd unravel reality itself... ...probably not for the better, [he hums, scowling as he does so.]

[ahew_kha]

Then why even begin to mess with either of those things if there's that possibility? [For as much as she knows how awful people can be, she still acts ignorant to how bad things can get. Perhaps it's something to do with it not having even been a possibility before coming to this place.]

Though I guess the point is to try and fix what has already been tampered with, but is it even possible to get such fluid and touchy things back to the state they were in before?

[noasark]

There's a reason that it was outlawed, [he laughs.] The ban wasn't lifted until we began to appear- and that was a matter of necessity. People keep arriving from other realms. This keeps happening. So they need to find a way to safely reverse it before it's too late.

...It could still be messy, but it's better to try than not, isn't it?

[ahew_kha]

[Ah, a ban on that type of thing. It would make sense, for something that sounds as dangerous as that. She's humming for a brief moment as she runs it over in her mind.]

I... suppose that would be true. Something that can bring people back to life after having died, bringing them from places other than this, it makes no real sense to me. That something could be as powerful as that.

[She's pausing, hiding a soft bit of a laugh.]

Honestly, it makes me glad no one had figured out such a thing where I'm from. Things would have been a lot worse than they already were.

[noasark]

Haaaah...well, with how close humanity has gotten...

[He's been trying not to think too hard about it. He'll focus on that other thing Kisara said instead.] Mm?

Just where were you from then?

[ahew_kha]

[Of course he'd ask that, she'd been hoping it'd remain vague.

Well, crap.]

Um. Egypt, or... more precisely, an older version of it than is in this place. [She means ancient, but that's totally fine.]

[noasark]

Hff! [He snorts, amused.] That's hardly precise. The timeline on the kingdoms of Egypt spans thousands of years; though I suppose asking 'when' wouldn't be much use either...hmmm...

...Do the pyramids exist yet for you then?