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

[stillnewatthis]

Humankind attempted to go to the moon! Their outpost there is now controlled by apes. It ended poorly for almost all concerned.

[marchmadness]

[Some might find that information upsetting, but then again, those would be people who fully grasped what Orisa had said. March seemed to just pick up on parts of it.]

Apes on the moon? Why, you don't say... Did it end poorly for them?

[stillnewatthis]

I have not received an update recently, of course, but to the best of my knowledge they are doing very well for themselves.

[marchmadness]

Oh, well, that's grand news!

[Animal solidarity, and all that. Even though March hadn't always been an animal, of course, but he liked it this way much better.]

[stillnewatthis]

It is quite the tale! But I am more concerned with things as they affect Earth, so I do not really have much information beyond that which is in the public domain.

[marchmadness]

Hmm, I suppose that's fair enough, my dear, but really - I think a little bit of curiosity about things beyond your home would be a good idea!

[stillnewatthis]

One may possess curiosity without concern. I am always updating my database!

[marchmadness]

That is true - in fact, sometimes being detached is the best way to be curious!

[After all, he was always curious about new Alices' lives and personalities, but he tried - with varying degrees of success - not to get too attached.]

[stillnewatthis]

There is very much to learn here that I hope I can apply back home. I intend to fulfill my primary purpose!

[marchmadness]

Primary purpose? As decided by who?

[He shakes his head.]

That sounds boring.

[stillnewatthis]

My creator, Efi! She is responsible for my programming as well as my hardware.

[If anything, Orisa sounds very happy about all this.]