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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[talkyourwayout]

Kind? Maybe. Or maybe he was just that apathetic about the whole thing.

"You... Really don't have to. I'm not going to stop you, but seriously. No big deal."

[unswervingcompanion]

Hendrik smiled only very slightly. Back where he was from most people just got out of his way, but that attitude wasn't needed here.

"I am curious though. How did you lose a cork?"

Yes they were small, and yes easily lost, but it shouldn't have gone far in the first place in his mind. And after he asks this, he reaches up and gets a few of the books on cooking that he'd been after.

[talkyourwayout]

"Oh, it was one of the rats. The big ones that have been running around lately."

Listlessly, he prodded his own rat familiar with one finger. "I thought Cash might be willing to get it back for me. But no."

[unswervingcompanion]

This is the first he's heard of it. So he turns back around to Louie, wondering why they would take such a thing. Surely they couldn't (or wouldn't) eat it.

"One must wonder if he could somehow communicate with them into giving it back."

[talkyourwayout]

"Eh, he probably could. I bet he's just standing up for the other rats, or something," Louie points out, half-joking as he pets Cash.

[unswervingcompanion]

"Even if it knows the action is wrong." There goes pondering Hendrik again. Rats were mysterious creatures and even more so if they were like Louie was explaining or guessing here.

It was more than the knight could understand.

[talkyourwayout]

Louie blinked. "I guess? I mean, he probably doesn't think it's so wrong."

[unswervingcompanion]

Blue green eyes went from the duck to his rat companion a few times.

"You may have a point." It was something Jasper used to mock him for, for not looking at the whole picture. Maybe his former friend didn't think he was wrong with what he did either.

It was a sobering thought.

[talkyourwayout]

"Yeah," Louie said, at first. He noticed that Hendrik seemed to be thinking about something, but he had no idea what. "...You okay?"

[unswervingcompanion]

Hendrik seemed to come back to himself when Louie asked if he was okay. "I am sorry to have wandered into my own world for a moment, but I am fine."

Looking at the duck now, he shook his head. "I suppose I was thinking too hard about your point."

[talkyourwayout]

"Oh, yeah, my brother Huey does that all the time. Thinks too hard, I mean," Louie responds with a shrug. "You're better off just going with the flow, I think."

Unless, of course, the flow brought you to danger - that was how Louie saw it, at least.

[unswervingcompanion]

The knight looked at Louie. Wouldn't Jasper laugh at him if he could hear that Hendrik was thinking too hard. And he would probably hear a sneer and remind him who the tactician of Heliodor was.

It certainly wasn't this knight.

"By going with the flow, you mean that whatever happens, happens, correct?"

[talkyourwayout]

"That's it exactly," Louie confirmed with a slight smile. "Most things aren't worth giving so much thought."

[unswervingcompanion]

"It is funny that you should mention that."

Heavens knew the Luminary was on his case as was Yotsuyu from time to time to do that very thing. He just didn't know how.

[talkyourwayout]

Louie paused, confused. "Yeah? Why's it funny?"

[unswervingcompanion]

The purple head shook.

"It seems I have heard that very advice from others."

[talkyourwayout]

Louie nodded, turning his attention back to his book and his notes. "Well, maybe that means you should take it? I don't know."

[unswervingcompanion]

He nodded after a moment's thought. "I will do so and thank you Louie. I will make sure you get your cork."

With that, the knight turned and walked out.