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]

Mnh?

[Oh, hold on-] Ah...you're that duck I met earlier... [Did he get a name actually. If he didn't, Louie won't be hearing it. But anyway.] General history- the school history isn't so hard to find here, I've noticed. But history of the rest of the region? Varies, and I've yet to find anything especially thorough...

[Or, well, as thorough as a history text can be anyway.]

[talkyourwayout]

I don't think we've met, but you might've met one of my brothers. ...Unless you're Kaiba's brother?

[He shrugs.]

I'm Louie, either way. Now, I know there's a class on the history of Anastara, so your best bet is probably finding a textbook used for that.

[noasark]

[A small smirk.] Guilty as charged~

Noa Kaiba. I was in Seto's body before...it's nice to meet you properly, Louie.

As it is, I was hoping to find something other than a school textbook...I'm curious to see how a different point of view proceeds.

[talkyourwayout]

Nice to meet you, too. And well, I guess we can look for one that isn't a textbook.

[Would Louie normally be this thoughtful or helpful? No. But it's just because this is Seto's brother. Nothing about feeling bad about people who are supposed to be dead. Speaking of certain should-be-dead teens...]

Nice hair, by the way. My friend Lena dyes some of her hair pink, but green's the way to go.

[noasark]

[Excellent, excellent. Book hunting, Go. And-

Uh.] Mnh? My hair? [There's a pause, before he shrugs.] It's natural- from my mother, actually.

[.....natural green hair....]

[talkyourwayout]

Wait, so it's naturally green? Is that normal where you're from?

[noasark]

It's what I said just now isn't it?

....Hmmm...it's common enough I would say...

[When two battle city participants have green hair AND Noa has green hair, that's Common.]

[talkyourwayout]

Well, yeah, it's just- I was surprised.

But I guess I shouldn't be. I mean, naturally green hair isn't nearly as weird as humans are in the first place.

[noasark]

It's pretty much the same thing turned around for us after all; I've mostly just accepted that alternate realities mean alternate rules for reality and gone from there.

[But yeah dude ducks don't talk so this is Just as weird for him!]

[talkyourwayout]

Yeah, I know, I know.

Still, a little consistency would be nice.

[noasark]

[Sorry Louie, he's giving an amused snort at that.] Hardly be a 'multiverse' if there was consistency between everything, would there?

Intelligent life is probably consistent enough~

[talkyourwayout]

I guess not, but I rather it be a bad multiverse-whatever and make more sense.

[He shrugs.]

wrap up you figure? I can't think of much else for the thread...

[noasark]

[Eh, have a shrug in reply.] Mnnh, fair thinking I'll admit.