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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[hyperdrivemonalisa]

"Yeah! That actually sounds like a great idea!" Isabel said. She really liked the way this guy thought! She couldn't help but grin at him.

"Hey, are you new? I haven't seen you around before." Not that she knew everyone, but she at least knew most of the Sundered at a glance, even if she'd never spoke to them before.

Her eyes widened slightly as Aaron admitted that he was an angel. "Whoa, seriously? I mean. You--eh no I guess I should've known better!" But she laughed at that. "I'm Isabel Knight. And that's Chaos." As she nodded to the cat. At his accusation that she was a nerd, she laughed. "Yep. Guilty as charged. Really? That's super cool! I don't have a fancy familiar, just this."

With that, she lifted up her bracelet and held it out to show him. "It's called the Musical Force Projector. I used to have to sing it make it work, but now I just have to want it to." Isabel might have mentioned some of the things she's used it for, but that felt a bit too much like bragging.

[bornebygrace]

Her grin made him happy. He liked it when he could get people to smile.

"New? Uh, sorta. I was here when everyone first arrived, but then I guess there was some cosmic accident and I went home, then came back?" He scratched the back of his head. "It was weird, but I'm here now. Hopefully for keeps this time!" He didn't really want to go back to his empty apartment again. It was always so quiet now.

"Eh, I dunno if you coulda guessed - I wear a hoodie so people can't see my wings for a reason. I'm just glad you didn't suggest vampire, with the pointy ears and the teeth and the," he motioned to his face and how overall white he was, "you know. With some of the young adult novels and all the idea of day walking vampires isn't so weird, so people think it's fair game?" He chuckled at the idea of being a sparkly vampire.

"Isabel! That's a wonderful name!" The enthusiasm may be a little misplaced, but he couldn't help it - something had tickled Aaron. "And Chaos - does he cause as much trouble as his name implies? I'm Aaron LeBlanc." Yes, the surname was something he picked as a joke. He gave a small bow with a smile, as if saying "at your service" with his name. He laughed and scratched the back after. "Purble's mostly just here to be my cuter half, if I were to be honest."

He looked over the Musical Force Projector without touching it. "Don't you 'just this' it - that's actually pretty cool! You must be pretty talented in music, then?"

[hyperdrivemonalisa]

"Oh, wow. I mean...El did that too, sort of, but it was...weirder, I guess. Like he lived back at his home for a while, and time actually passed a lot, there...but it was only a couple of days here. Your experience doesn't sound like that," Isabel admitted.

Isabel made a face at Aaron's next words. "Okay, you're pale, but you do not sparkle, and like...ew. No. No. Edward you are not. No, I'd rather be more inspired than that!" And, well. She liked to think her idea was pretty inspired. "Besides, having wings? That's so cool!" Apparently Isabel was definitely her mother's daughter, being infatuated with that idea.

"Chaos? I named him that for a reason!" As Aaron introduced herself, she laughed and waggled a finger at him as if to say 'oh, you'. "I don't know, you two are almost an unbeatable duo of cuteness." She shrugged as he asked if she had musical talent. "I have at least some! I'm no Cultist of Ecstasy, though. That and I was a bit more of a jock back home, I guess. Known more for my physical ability, but the only way you get a name for that here is playing bala-inlota, and I wanted to be sure of my schoolwork before I picked that up! I am in Valhudor, though, so I guess someone agrees with my assertion that I have some talent!"

[bornebygrace]

The idea that someone else went home and things changed that much was interesting to Aaron, and somewhat worrying. He thought he may have just been a one-off, but apparently that wasn't the case. "That's really concerning. I can't really comment about if my time away was 1:1 mostlybecauseIdon'tknowwhatdayitisatthemomentbutalso my days back home just kind of blend together now."

Her response to his mention of Twilight made him laugh. That was exactly the reaction he'd hope to get upon mentioning it. She was considerably more inspired than that, no questions asked. He regained himself. "Ah, wings are really great. I don't like talking about it that much because I can't, like, gift them to people?" He seemed embarrassed. He wasn't trying to humble brag. "It is really fun though, and sitting in weird places is definitely a past time of mine."

Aaron gave a knowing nod to the explanation for Chaos's name, jokingly solemn, but that turned into him shaking his head as she called them both cute. "Nah, nah, nah - it's all Purble. I'm definitely not the cute! I look a bit too much like a vampire! Too many weird stares!" He was mostly joking around with it.

"Oooh - I'm a little jealous. I wanted to be Valhudor, but it may have been perhaps a bit too easy. I make music back at home." He chuckled. "I'm a bit out of practice with the more 'jock' type stuff. And with the school stuff - that's been tough to adjust to, heh." A pause. "So, uh. What's a Cultist of Ecstasy? I may be a little bit traditional but anything with the word 'cult' kinda activates my fight response, heh. Hah."

[hyperdrivemonalisa]

Isabel listened to Aaron's description of how he wasn't certain about his time away, and frowned a little. That was certainly disconcerting. Worrying, a bit, too. But then he explained that his time at home just blended together...

"That kind of sounds like me when school's in session. High school. The days are just one after the other...especially if there aren't any holidays to break it up. At least here at Diatu things are a bit more interesting!"

"I think it'd be a little weird if you could gift them to people! They're yours! At least you're not like 'well I can always hack them off and you can graft them on!' One of my mom's...acquaintances actually did that, way back when." Carolyn hadn't exactly made up with Alex, either. Ever. "So I should look up?"

Isabel grinned at that. "Nah, you don't look like a vampire. You lack fangs! I mean some of them can hide them, at least where I'm from, but plenty of them like to be all 'oooh look at my sharp teeth, I vant to thuck ur blot.' Laaaame."

She pursed her lips. "Yeah, Valhudor doesn't sound like it'd be a challenge to you. I bet that's why. Which is why I'm in it...though I guess most houses could have stuck me in there and I'd float. Except maybe Purifeul...I'm not that much of a Scientist." Back to chuckling in amusement, Isabel shook her head. "It's not really a cult-oddly enough, it is a Tradition--one of the ways of magic where I'm from. It could have been called a number of other things, that's just the one that stuck. Me, I'm an Akashic Brother...even though I'm not a brother." She laughed. "It's just that my Tradition's called the Akashic Brotherhood, so."

Isabel figured it wasn't a terrible secret here in Diatu, like it might be somewhere else. And Aaron seemed pretty okay, too.

[bornebygrace]

Oh, high school! One of those things Aaron never had to do, thank goodness. He'd say school sounded so boring, but here he was - at school. It was just the studying that was boring, really. He made a sound of agreement with a nod towards how Diatu was more interesting. (Really, he just liked the change in scenery.)

"Oh! No, not like. Give you my wings, but just... Miracle wings to you, you know? Divine stuff and all that?" He made a nervous sound. "Not like some Saw shit." He started laughing again. It was really nice to be able to make pop culture references with Isabel - there were some jokes he'd like to make with Yotsuyu, but she wouldn't get them. "Normally I'm somewhere near the ground so that Yotsuyu may find me, but if you haven't seen me for a while, probably! Just... Not while these terrifying birds are on campus. They're. Hm. I'll return to the skies when they go away."

"I mean! They look like fangs!" He pulled his mouth open with his fingers and stuck his tongue out totally obnoxiously. Sure enough the canines and first premolars on both the top and bottom were quite sharp. They were a little elongated, but certainly not to the level that people would think 'oh god, vampire!'. He let his face go, chuckling. "I could do that accent, but I'll stick to my French I think."

He kinda relaxed a bit, slouching a little as he looked back over the grounds. "I'm sure you'd do fine even if you're not a scientist. I'm not that great at it, but I study a lot and I try to ask for help if I just don't get it." Aaron looked down and rubbed Purble's head. "Eiather isn't so difficult, but it's... The joke isn't lost on me, if it was meant as a joke." He was surprisingly somber as he said it, but he moved past it quickly as she explained about the Traditions.

He just looked confused, but good-natured about it. "You're saying a lot of words but I don't understand what they mean, especially not together. So far... I understand the word magic." He gave a solemn nod. His expression broke into a smile. "Nah, I get it. Another place with magic, like this but different. It sounds far more interesting than my own stuff." Powers of god and everything, you know.