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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[shiningkindness]

Fluttershy blinked. "I-I...don't think I can do that."

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"Well that's what you're trying with what you're doing with the spell!" he pointed out.

[shiningkindness]

She frowned, puzzled. "I'm...not sure I understand..."

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"You're doing something real complicated and adding in something more on top of it. You wanna learn the something more, you gotta start small."

[shiningkindness]

"...Oh..." Her frown deepened as she glanced at her notes. "I...guess that's true."

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Jecht nodded sharply. "Trust me. I've seen a lot of kids trying to pick up blitzball before. Same thing here. You want to make a trick happen, you start with the basics, then build up."

[shiningkindness]

"Yeah...that makes sense."

She couldn't help a small sigh though. She was so close too.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"So hit me with somethin' simple. Get it right first, then build up!" He motioned to himself, apparently meaning that literally. Come on, he can take it!

[shiningkindness]

"U-Um..." She didn't look very comfortable doing that. "A-Are you sure?"

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"Yeah! Come on, toss something my way! Put me in a silly shirt or turn me green or something!" He slapped his chest again, pretty hard honestly.

[shiningkindness]

She hesitated, trying to think of something that was fairly harmless. Then, when she had an idea, she waved her wand and sent a beam of magic at him.

And if it hit, Jecht would find himself wearing a brand new bunny-ear headband.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

He was expecting something flashier, more dangerous, or at least worse than what came his way. Not that he was defending anyway, but nonetheless, for a moment he didn't realize what had happened.

Then he glanced up, stuck a hand up there to figure what had done, and started laughing. "Ha, nice one!"

[shiningkindness]

She giggled, looking a bit cheerier than she had a moment ago. "I think they look good on you."

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"Ain't sure that's my spirit animal." But Jecht shrugged, not bothered at all. "Now do some of that Modifying to the spell and see where it gets ya."

[shiningkindness]

"Right...modifying." Thinking for a moment, she lifted her wand again for another spell. The bunny ears began to change colors, from blue to pink to brown and back to white.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Now here was where Jecht ought to congratulate her on her success... except he was still waiting for something to happen. Couldn't see the ears, after all! Somehow he was thinking that she'd make them larger or something, a change he'd feel.