September Event Log

[magicademymods]

September Event Log The Magicademy has a special treat for students this week: Combined Classes. The Curriculum-by-Curriculum education of the Magicademy lends itself to viewing each Curriculum on its own, not part of the greater whole that is magic. So in lieu of normal lessons this week, Professors are joint-teaching classes to show you what you can do by merging magic together. Profs. Porfsin & Kith: Making Modification Fantastic If Diatu students love anything, it's expressing their individuality by wearing unique clothing, particular ones similar to home in the case of the Sundered. Working together, the good Professors will teach you a basic and beloved trick of wizards everywhere: combining Modification and Fantastics to make a spell that provides you with clothes that are outstandingly fashionable and flamboyant on the outside, but fit perfectly and comfortably despite their flair. At last, the secret of how wizards can swoop around in dramatic capes and flowing robes without constantly tripping! Of course, the potential for mayhem is pretty high in practice. Shrinking clothes, accidentally creating a scarf 250 feet long... Professor Trammel has loaned them his familiar, a top hat named Decorum, so it is on hand to quickly deploy wide black censor bars in the event a mishap leaves you perhaps offering more in the way of an Anatomy of the Sundered class than you might expect. But if you work hard and give it your all, you might come out of this looking good indeed! Profs. Loshakle & Mala: Advanced Warding A lesson Professor Loshakle hammers home in his classes: the more broad the spell, the weaker its effect. A ward against fire specifically will repel so much more fire than a general ward, but of course the fire ward is entirely worthless against lightning. Today, these two Professors show one way to get the best of both world: a Predictive Ward. The theory is simple: Suspend an Intimation effect within the ward's construction, then make the ward manifold-responsive -- or in other terms, capable of shifting its focus from one danger to another. The Intimation spell predicts the damage and preemptively shifts the ward to full effect. Simple! Enjoy testing them. Since it involves hurling some things at each other. What better way to test a ward than practically? Profs. Trammel & King: Pocket Summoning One of the problems inherent to Discovery is the danger involved in creation. For example, if you desire a large quantity of water for whatever reason, you need to create it all at once -- you can't create it ahead of time without a way to transport it, for example. Sundering offers an intriguing possibility that actually is much safer than most of its uses: opening a portal into a small pocket dimension, where you can Discover and store whatever you might need, and release it later in small doses or full-tilt. Now, mess up the Sundering spell and you could end up discharging a large volume of water or stone or pudding out of midair at a terribly inopportune time. But don't worry! Several groundskeeping golems are on-hand to help with the inevitable messes. Also Professor Trammel knows how to clean clothing. You might need that help. Headmaster Camillah Birony: ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ATTEND THIS CLASS This opportunity is unique. For all her flaws, Headmaster Birony is unquestionably a master wizard, who has developed an entire branch of magic hereto undiscovered by wizardkind. The art of working magic on magic, or as she calls it, "Metamagic". "And it will be the third Metacurriculum! Wizardkind everywhere will develop and master these powers that I have paved the way for! AND THEY CALLED ME MAD!" she yells to the sky, before flinging her hands wide and laughing maniacally. So! You get to start very basic: Modifying a spell to last longer. Pick your favorite spell, any spell, and cast it. While its magical energies still exist in the pattern your will has imposed on them, Modify them. A simple equation. Add 1 to them. Multiply them by 2. Whatever works for you. You don't get much more instruction than that, says the Headmaster, because you have to figure out how to make it work for yourself. More than most magic, this depends entirely on your will and your determination. Everything else is just trappings -- take what you want from the foci of Modification, that will help, but find your own path forward. And unlike every other lesson, this one is utterly safe. At the first sign of a spell getting out of control or going haywire, Headmaster Birony squelches it like a bug beneath her heel. Not even literally, for a pleasant change!

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Making Modification Fantastic

[woo_oo]

Webby looks around, and within seconds is in full Panic Mode.

"Lena? ... LENA? WHERE'D YOU GO?" Without any warning, she's going through desks and closets - look Lena "disappeared" once and Webby was a tad... traumatized by that experience. "LENA!"

[outofyourshadow]

"Webby!"

The voice seemed to come from nearby, and Webby would feel hands on her shoulders.

"It's okay, I'm right here!"

Lena pushed back the hood, and suddenly she was there again, completely whole and wearing the purple hoodie she'd made earlier.

[woo_oo]

Webby flinched, and then exhaled deeply in relief. "Oh, okay... good, good..."

She glanced behind her, a little embarrassed at how quickly she'd begun to panic. "Uh, sorry about that. Totally cool now."

[outofyourshadow]

"You sure?" Lena watched Webby for a moment, even as she thought about what the hoodie had done. She wanted to try it out a bit more, but she didn't want to worry Webby either.

[woo_oo]

"Positive!" Webby didn't want to deny Lena her new abilities, remembering how she promised to let Lena learn and live on her own. "I'm sooo over how you vanished when Magica tried to destroy you and I thought we might never see each other again."

Sooo over it, you guys.

[outofyourshadow]

Lena couldn't help frowning a bit. "Y'know, Webbs, just because I asked for a bit of growing room, it doesn't mean we still can't talk about stuff."

Even though she wasn't the best when it came to talking about things herself. But that didn't mean she wanted Webby holding back.

[woo_oo]

"... Even stuff that's scary and depressing?" She didn't quite meet Lena's eyes.

[outofyourshadow]

"I think those are the kinds of stuff we have to talk about." Hesitating for a moment, she then reached out and placed a hand on Webby's shoulder. "You said I can talk to you about anything, right? So you can talk to me about anything too."

[woo_oo]

Webby wound up smiling, although she did look sheepish to have the reverse pointed out for her.

"... Guess I'm still learning about how friendships work too. Sorry about that, Lena."

[outofyourshadow]

"Hey, no worries," she replied with a shrug. "So we're learning about them together. Nothing wrong with that, right?"

[woo_oo]

"Not at all." After offering a smile, she backed up, exhaling. "Okay...! Go ahead and practice vanishing! I promise to be totally cool!"

[outofyourshadow]

Lena paused for a moment, looking at the hooded jacket she'd made earlier.

"Actually, let me try something," she said, shaking out the hoodie. Then she held it out to Webby. "Here...try it on for me."

[woo_oo]

"... Really?" She didn't know why, but the thought of her made her heart beat a bit faster. "Okay! Cool! Thanks!" With that, she began to wiggle it on - predictably, since it was made for Lena, it's bigger than Webby's size, making her look extra cute a little silly.

[outofyourshadow]

Lena couldn't help smiling a bit, because Webby was super adorable in it. But it wasn't exactly the effect she was hoping for.

"Try zipping it up and putting the hood on."

[woo_oo]

"Okay, here I go!"

Zip - flip - and she was gone! She blinked, holding out her hands she couldn't see. "Wow...I feel normal..."

[outofyourshadow]

"Yeah, that's definitely not what I made the hoodie for," Lena quipped, though it was pretty interesting. "Pull back the hood for me?"

[woo_oo]

She did, revealing her face again. "Think of all the spy stuff you could do with this!"

[outofyourshadow]

Lena snickered. "No kidding. And here I was just trying to make a regular hoodie."

Thinking for a moment, Lena then pulled out her wand. "I wonder if I could make another one..."

[woo_oo]

"WE COULD BE MATCHING INVIS-BUDDIES!" Indoor voice, what was that again?

[outofyourshadow]

She snickered a bit. "Though it'd be hard if we couldn't see each other."

Even so, she retrieved her wand again, trying to think of how she'd made the first jacket in the first place.

"Let's see...we were doing that combining magic thing and using Modification and Fantastics together. I was just trying to make a regular hoodie..."

[woo_oo]

"I don't think anything can be 'regular' here." She pointed out, beginning to play with the sleeves. "The word has totally lost meaning."

[outofyourshadow]

"Too true," Lena replied with another laugh. "But maybe that's what did it. I wanted to make something that wouldn't catch people's attention. So..."

Concentrating for a moment, she carefully tried to repeat the same spell that she'd used before. And soon, another hooded jacket appeared - this one a bit smaller and pink.

"Here...I'll trade you."

[woo_oo]

"Aw, Lena!" Just her size, just her colors! She began to wiggle out of her hoodie so she could fetch the new one.

"You're like Cinderella's fairy godmother! Minus the years of willful ignorance and questionable vegetable enhancement."

[outofyourshadow]

Lena snorted a laugh as she took back the purple hoodie. "Y'know, if I could find a pumpkin, I'd totally try turning it into something mobile."

Once Webby had the pink one, she slipped the purple one on, zipping it up but not yet putting on the hood. "Try seeing if that one will turn you invisible too."

[woo_oo]

"Okay! Sayonara, sister!" She flipped it over, and ala-peanutbuttersandwich, she was gone! ... At least to the eye.

"Ooo. I'm adorable and no one can tell."