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]

Mmm, somewhat. It's also a matter of how the network is panned out; by sending the energy along a set path, certain responses can be triggered. You could have a brute force of the same amount of energy down a single path, certainly- but it wouldn't mean the same result. What this does is allow for more options according to what happens...

....if I think about it, [He realizes with a blink,] this would probably work well with Modification magic.

[mithrarin]

You... lost me on all of that. [Networek, set path, triggering responses?]

[noasark]

Ah...

...Hmm. Perhaps I'll have to try and obtain some books from home after all then...

[Probably...work better...]

[mithrarin]

"Try" to obtain? You mean, from the spells the researchers can cast?

[noasark]

More or less.

I'm hesitant for...obvious reasons...

[It seems not so worth the suffering...]

[mithrarin]

Yeah, I can understand that. But everything you do will help someone else a little, so there's always that to consider as well. [One reason Dust keeps going back; it may offer him very little, all told, but he has friends here who can benefit.]

[noasark]

Pretty much...

[Ooooof this is a dilemma...] I'll have to think it over. ...perhaps ask if anyone is even interested in those books...

[mithrarin]

I'm curious, though if they're stuff like this... [He motions slightly to the setup that had inspired this conversation.] I'm not sure how much I'll understand.

[noasark]

Well...I could make sure to get a book on the basics, after all...

[mithrarin]

As much as you can make sure of getting anything at all, right?

[noasark]

[That...gets a grimace.] Eugh...

More or less...

[mithrarin]

[Dust nods slightly. That's about what he thought.]

You clearly know a lot about it, though. Maybe explaining it is something you could do for people. It might actually help the researchers to understand this.

should we tie this up soon?

[noasark]

[Hahh. Another small sigh, and ultimately he supposes Dust is right on that again.]

Well...you're probably right there.

I suppose I can give it a shot later on when there's time...

[Will there be time? That's a mystery.]

o7

[mithrarin]

If you do manage something, let me know. I am curious... and I'd like to see if you ever manage to get this doing what you want it to.

[noasark]

I'll do just that then.

[It might be sooner than even Noa expects.]

[mithrarin]

Good luck.

[With a nod, Dust moves on. Hopefully, this will prove interesting in the future!]