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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[burningbrighter]

Sunset was still blushing as she gathered her books. There was so much there!

"I just...I don't know. I miss my friends and I wanted to make sure I didn't forget them."

[nomoremistergneissguy]

"You guys read a lot of these kinds of books? I mean I'm not judging you!" Really, he wasn't. Cliff wasn't usually inclined to that anyway, but he really did think the comics were interesting. He doesn't like to joke about things like that. And Cliff knows just how precious Sunset's friends are to her!

"I don't think you could actually forget your friends, though. Like...not without a spell or an injury that does that sort of thing. You value them too much."

[burningbrighter]

"I do. Rainbow and Pinkie do too...but Twilight loves more serious books. She'd never be caught dead with a comic."

She smiles faintly. "That's...actually happened to me. A magic stone erased all my memories, and I'm sure something like that could happen here. But I've learned there's a trick to get around that...making memories."

She brushes her finger over the page.

[nomoremistergneissguy]

"It did?" Cliff looked a bit startled at that. "Yeah, I bet a magic stone could erase your memories...then again. Stone's something I've got a little bit of experience with. Hopefully if it was a rock, it's something I could stave off."

He wasn't sure, but Cliff sure tried to be a font of optimism.

But then, he laughed. "We've made a few ourselves, too, right? So it's not that bad! You need to tell me more about your friends, too. So if you forget, I can remind you!"

[burningbrighter]

"Maybe I'll just draw their story. I could draw our story here, if you want..."

She turns to a blank page and gets started. There's a figure in a dress---that's her. But the one taking shape next to her is him. She's not sure when she became brave enough to let him see, but. Here it is.

[nomoremistergneissguy]

"What about if you want?" Though Cliff leaned in, definitely interested. His brows arched a bit when she drew herself--Sunset is nothing if not talented, and he can't help the fact that a grin spreads over his face at that. But when he realizes just who it is she's drawing next to her--he isn't sure he quite believes it.

"Is that me? I mean, you're really good at art and it kind of looks like me, but..." He's usually messed things up somehow before they ever got to this point...