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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SPIKES OF FURY!!!

[hyperdrivemonalisa]

Isabel--is incredibly grateful for her swift reflexes, even as one of Kaiba's belts takes a swipe at her face. She leans back, and the one that goes for her ankles? She jumps over that one.

"Ah, Seto, I think you went a little overboard!" She sounds more amused than annoyed, though, when it comes down to it. "Not sure what I can do, but do you want a hand?"

At least with her bracelet, she might be able to wrangle the belts, a little bit.

[blue_ice]

"Yes I can see that!"

Kaiba is attempting to wriggle free but not really making much headway into this belt cloud. It's unfortunate. He's been here for a while, apparently, because his voice is hoarse and he manages to croak out one word he rarely uses.

"Please."

He blasts a hole through for only a moment, sending a rope through it. At least that will tell her where he is in relation to the mess while he tries to banish them.

[hyperdrivemonalisa]

It might have been a tad disconcerting when Isabel's bracelet started to play music by itself, but a line of force shot out, coiling around the rope and traveling down it to reach Kaiba's grasp. A lifeline, of sorts.

"Okay, I'm coming in!" At least she's used to the way these projectiles seem to be moving--like a sparring partner, almost. Good, Isabel thinks to herself. It's been a while since she had a good workout. As the belts lash out at her, she moves to block their strikes with her fists and forearms and kick back with her feet. It's just like being home, sparring with her father or Sifu Nhairis. She's not really doing anything magical--or perhaps not consciously, but hopefully by weakening them, Seto will have an easier time subduing all this rogue leather...

[blue_ice]

Kaiba doesn't care at this point, as long as he gets out. He smirks as she draws them to fight her, the fabric pulling away from him just enough...she expertly dances out of the way, or he assumes she does because he can't really see.

He finally wriggles his legs free, gets them under him, and stumbles toward her, looking worse for the wear but relieved to see her.

"So that's the key? Distract them?

There's not much he can do with his hands bound but he manages a small spark of lightning, loosening them a little. He pulls.

[hyperdrivemonalisa]

"I guess? Seems to be working!" Isabel wasn't sure, but even as she was tiring, the belts seemed to be, as well. Fine by her, especially if they tired first!!

There might be something of a dance in her movements, considering the way she fights. Sweeping movements, mostly with her legs--they're a bit better equipped to take the blows from the belts, between the muscles themselves and the fact that there's more area there. She might have some welts, but Isabel never cared about that sort of thing--and there's a lesson there, too.

"Makes me wish I actually had a weapon," Isabel said, irrepressibly cheerful. "Probably could snap those right off of you!" She was tempted to try to use the force whip as a bullwhip, but she was unwieldy at best with such a thing, and actually harming Seto? That was right out.