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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[afterthemoon]

Making Modification Fantastic

Isa wasn't really the sort who was into fashion, not really. He dressed mostly for comfort, and the sort of outfits Isa tended to think looked good... well, whether or not they did was up to personal preference, wasn't it?

The sweater Isa's working on seems pretty mundane and boring compared to what many of the other students are making... but that may also be why nothing seems to be going wrong yet...

Pocket Summoning

You'd think Isa's previous experience with summoning portals between dimensions and summoning weapons out of thin air would give him an advantage in this subject.

And you'd be wrong. Isa portals fizzle out before he can even have a chance to test them, it's clear he's misunderstood a fundamental step in summoning. Perhaps because it's so similar to what he's done before and he's unconsciously trying to do it the way he's used to...

Wildcard

Have another idea?

Pocket Summoning

[woo_oo]

After seeing him fail yet again, Webby skips on over, wanting to help.

"Hey, Isa! Want to work together?"

[afterthemoon]

"...If you can think you can help, then yes, we can work together."

[woo_oo]

No insult detected. "Great! First, what are you trying to summon?"

[afterthemoon]

"I was trying for something simple, like paper. But I just can't seem to get the portal itself to work."

[woo_oo]

"That's the problem!" She declares. "You need to visualize a place, like... the library!"

[afterthemoon]

"What, you think I haven't been visualizing things like that? I know how portals and summoning works..."

[woo_oo]

"There's visualizing..." Pause for drama. "And then there's... visualizing.

[afterthemoon]

"Alright, Webby, how do I... "visualize"

[woo_oo]

"First, close your eyes." She instructed. "See the library... smell the old books... hear the librarian snapping at people to be quiet..."

Wildcard

[bearshermark]

Spotting Isa out on the grounds, Eleven realized he'd barely spoken to him since his return. It was a terrible oversight, and he made to remedy that immediately.

But just as soon as he took the first step toward his friend, a nearby tree positively shook itself and launched a cloud of seeds through the air. Eleven threw up a ward almost without thinking, then waved his wand in Isa's direction as well.

"Are you all right?"

[afterthemoon]

"I'm fine, what... what was that all about?"

He dusted whatever seeds managed to get on his clothes.

[bearshermark]

He shrugged and let his ward fall.

"I think they're burying their seeds for next year, but.. it's weird, isn't it?" He made it to Isa's side without further incident at least.

"And people think Yggdrasil is weird whenever I mention it."

Pocket Summoning

[twilightskey]

"I would've thought this would be easy for you."

It's a lighter jab from Roxas, one meant more for teasing than to cause actual harm. Roxas himself was never that good at summoning the dark portals, relying on Saix or another Nobody to create one for him most of the time. But it looks like Isa's struggling with just getting the portal working.

While the two of them practice, Isa will no doubt notice that today Roxas is not alone. Today, he's got an orange and white cat with him, who is currently sitting comfortably on the nearby desk.

Re: Pocket Summoning

[afterthemoon]

Isa huffs softly.

"The magic here resembling the magic from back home isn't a guarantee that we'll understand it right away..."

He leans back in his chair, to take a moment to reevaluate the spell at hand, and he does notice the cat on the nearby desk.

"Is that your familiar?"

[twilightskey]

"I guess you have a point there. And it's not like any of us have strong connections to the darkness anymore." The dark portals had needed specific requirements, now that he remembered, so it made sense that this would be a bit different to master.

The cat, upon being noticed, moves to curl into a traditional 'cat loaf' position. Roxas perks up, nodding.

"Yeah, it is. This is Sunset. I guess I never told you guys about her, huh?" He reached over to carefully scratch her head. "She's kind of been hiding in my room and mostly keeping to herself, but I finally convinced her to come to class with me."

[afterthemoon]

He chuckles

"That sounds like a cat, alright" He holds his open hand out towards the cat to let her get used to him.

"Remind me to show you Luna, I'd bring her to class, but she's usually asleep during the day."

[twilightskey]

The cat sniffs at Isa's hand, though doesn't seem to get upset or anything. It's probably safe to offer her a pet.

"Luna? Is that your familiar?" He knew that all students had a familiar, but now that he thought about it, he hadn't seen any of his friends's familiars.

"What about Axel and Xion? They have familiars too, right?"

[afterthemoon]

"Yes, she's a fruit bat, I think you'll like her."

He idly rubs the cat's ears as he continues.

"Lea has a rat, Smoke. ...As for Xion's... I'm not sure, I haven't seen a trace of it."

[twilightskey]

"A fruit bat? That sounds pretty cool. I wouldn't mind meeting her." He's seen a few bats with other students, and he thinks they're pretty neat. They're like birds, but with fur. He's never seen one up close though.

"A rat? Hah, no wonder I've never seen it. I'll have to ask him about it." He grinned at the mention of Smoke, but frowned and hummed at Xion's. "Oh, well... maybe we should ask her sometime." She seemed to be doing... well, a little bit better since their discussion together. A lot of emotions had been let out, and he didn't want to push hard discussions for a little while.

[afterthemoon]

"Maybe ask Lea as well?"

This wasn't a slight against Xion, but knowing her, Isa figures she would've needed Lea's help with her familiar.

"How's she doing, anyway?"

[twilightskey]

"Yeah, that's a good idea. I will."

He nods. He knows it's not a slight against Xion, and maybe Lea might know something as well.

"Oh... she's doing okay. I mean, more okay than she was. I've just been trying to do things like normal to help her." She wasn't 100% yet, but she was doing better than she was that night.

"...How are you doing?"

Pocket Summoning

[hotheadwarmheart]

Given his vague plans to switch to Discovery at the end of the semester, when Isa mentioned to Lea that he'd be taking the optional course, Lea thought that coming along and trying it out for himself might be helpful. Not that his signature fire could really be stored in a pocket- extra-dimensional or not-, but it would be handy for other things, like having Forging tools or notebooks always handy when needed instead of having to hunt for them.

Of course, knowing that and actually accomplishing it were two very different things, as he wasn't having much more success than Isa. He glanced at the instructions on the board and frowned before turning back to Isa. "We've gotta be doing something wrong," he said. "But I'm not sure what. I followed the instructions on the board, but..." He gestured at the table in front of him, indicating his lack of results.

[afterthemoon]

"If you're as stumped about this as I am, then it appears we may be at an impasse."

Isa leaned back in his chair, arms crossed. It wasn't that he was giving up, not really. But where was he supposed to go from here?

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea considered a moment. "Maybe we're mispronouncing something?", he said. "Though usually that does something a whole lot more obvious than nothing." Generally of either then dagerous or hilarious variety.