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

[outofyourshadow]

[With a grin, Lena gives her a thumbs-up before heading to where the other members of the team were lining up.]

[stillnewatthis]

[After a few fervent minutes and one rules-argument which leads to codification of a "no shooting the enemy team during the line-up" into the proto-regulations of the sport, Orisa waves Lena down during a break.]

I must ask, Lena, if you have any experience in combat analysis and execution.

[outofyourshadow]

[Gulping down some water, Lena glances up at Orisa at the question.]

Uh...not really. I mean, not combat specifically, but...I'm good at watching people, I guess.

[stillnewatthis]

You have a knack for tactical observation! I am impressed that you can do it without training or practice for it specifically.

[outofyourshadow]

[She shrugs a bit.]

It comes from being able to watch, I guess. Sometimes you just pick up on things.

[stillnewatthis]

Observation is nothing without extrapolation and analysis. [Yes, Orisa definitely means that as a compliment.]

[outofyourshadow]

...Sure, yeah.

[Yeah, Lena has no idea what that means.]

[stillnewatthis]

I am saying you're smart, Lena! And good at thinking fast. [Orisa waggles a finger at her, fusion driver propped at her waist like she's tutting.] You should accept compliments!

[outofyourshadow]

Ah. Well, thanks.

[It was still a bit weird to be genuinely complimented, but it was a nice feeling all the same.]

And y'know, you're pretty cool.

[stillnewatthis]

Thank you, Lena. I do not believe I was designed by Efi to be 'cool' but I believe, the way she thinks and how she made me, that achieving it is not too difficult for me.

[outofyourshadow]

[She snickers.]

I'd believe that. Besides, nothing wrong with being cool, right?

[stillnewatthis]

It would be helpful to fulfill the corollaries to my primary purpose! Therefore we must 'hang out' at some point. [That is the proper phrase, right?]

[outofyourshadow]

[Perfect, 10/10.]

Yeah, definitely. I'm all for hanging out.

[stillnewatthis]

Excellent! What do you like to do most? I would say we should eat together, but that is a problem for me.

[outofyourshadow]

Well y'know, sometimes hanging out doesn't have to be doing anything. We can just meet up, and then go from there. It'll be like an adventure."

[stillnewatthis]

I thought adventures required danger and mystery. Is simply hanging out an adventure?

[outofyourshadow]

It can be. Adventures don't have to be dangerous or mysterious. They just need to be fun and exciting.

[stillnewatthis]

It is difficult for me not to correlate the four traits... but I am an omnic intended for battle and danger, so that is not surprising.

[outofyourshadow]

Well, I'd be more than happy to show you.

[stillnewatthis]

That would be wonderful! Please do!

[outofyourshadow]

[With a grin, she nods.]

All right then. Let's go.

[stillnewatthis]

Yes!

[Orisa kicks at the ground with her rear legs, then takes off!]

[...for about three paces, before she skids to a stop and turns to look back at Lena.]

Where are we going?

[outofyourshadow]

[Lena shrugs.]

We can go anywhere. I'm sure we'll find something eventually.

[stillnewatthis]

Oh. That makes it easy! This is not so difficult at all!

[outofyourshadow]

[She laughs.] Right? Sometimes, you just gotta go with the flow.