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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[fatedsacrifice]

"Well..you could." Noctis observed, knowing that she didn't owe him anything. They'd only met once and that didn't constitute her being bound to him.

He smiled though when he heard Yotsuyu say that he was welcome. And as he kept his eyes focused in front of him (As Prompto had said many times - eyes peeled, mouth closed) the king nodded.

"Don't really have any reason to keep fighting these guys." He'd seen the wanted posters and for nostalgia's sake he'd thought about hunting some down for a reward but he was already working so he didn't need the currency.

[darkenedmoon]

"But whyever would I?" Yotsuyu chuckled at that. "What does it cost me?" Nothing, nowadays. She gave a look to the circling eagulls.

"I do not suppose you know a touch of Discovery? I imagine a bit of food as a distraction might dissuade them from harrying us. I would do it myself, but likely the shield would drop, and I doubt that would be a happy occasion for either of us."

Considering Yotsuyu was gainfully employed, she certainly didn't need to hunt eagulls, either. Punishing a few for being a nuisance was one thing, but hunting them? Well, she felt as if that might be a tad below her.

[fatedsacrifice]

Behind her, Yotsuyu got an answering grin though she couldn't see it. "Nothing I guess."

Noctis continued to watch the circling the eagulls and nodded at the suggestion. "Ya..guess I hadn't thought of that." He slightly laughed at what she said about the happy occasion but then thought. Hurriedly he called to mind a spell in case she couldn't maintain the shield.

Feeling like he was back home going through his roster of weapons, finally he produced a bunch of bread and stared at the hungry birds.

"Alright, ready when you are."

[darkenedmoon]

"Very good. In three, then, shall we say? Three...two...one!"

As promised, Yotsuyu dropped the shields, lashing out briefly with her katana to drive off a diving and eager bird. She grabbed Noctis' arm and tugged him lightly along--careful not to foul his aim, be it with a weapon or the diversion they'd decided upon, either!

So long as Noctis scattered the bread, the birds would occupy themselves with it. Though Yotsuyu refused to stop until she'd given them a wide berth and hidden behind a building. She was slightly out of breath, but still laughing. What a chaotic place the Academy was!

[fatedsacrifice]

He nodded, looking at the birds and when the shield dropped, Noctis scattered the bread.

The king felt Yotsuyu grab his arm and somehow he felt like a little kid running from big bad hungry birds. He could hear them scrambling for the food behind them and easily kept up.

When they stopped behind a building for breath, Noct heard her laugh and couldn't help laughing too.

"Didn't..quite picture running from birds today." And cue more laughter.

[darkenedmoon]

"Nor did I, I assure you--but so long as there is no lasting damage, save to pride or dignity, I dare say we shall survive!" Not that Yotsuyu would have been half so happy about wounds to either, six months or so ago, but how the times had changed!

"That was well done. Hopefully they are preoccupied now, and shall disperse without attempting to find us again. Horrible creatures." Not that Yotsuyu disliked most birds as a matter of course--she was rather fond of rooks, as it went--but eagulls were noisy and dirty and quite frankly, a nuisance. She was not surprised at all to find they needed to be hunted here.

[fatedsacrifice]

This academy was definitely a strange place. Noctis had no idea whatever this version of the afterlife was but between Yotsuyu and Kuja, he hadn't laughed this much in a long time. It made him miss the guys, wishing they were here to meet the people he now knew here.

Once the laughter died down, the king shook his head. "Where did those guys even come from? I don't remember ever seeing them before." Being older certainly had thought himself fit but with being a little winded now, he wasn't sure that was the case anymore.