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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[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

What the -!? Was she CRACKING UP?

The sheer unexpectedness of it rolled over the ridiculousness of it all and caught him up in the wave. He began to laugh too, harder and harder until he was slamming one fist into the muddy ground next to them and trying not to thrash and take her out in doing so.

[darkenedmoon]

"If you ever do that again, you will be on your own!" Yotsuyu threatened. Emptily, in truth--as if she would leave the poor fool to his own devices, missing his entire arm. Still, she had something of a reputation to uphold--and thus, posturing!

She still couldn't help but stifle a snicker, especially since he was practically rolling about in the mud like a hog, now. "You are a mess!"

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"You're only cleaner because you landed on me!" Jecht pointed an accusing finger at her, propping himself up with his other arm. "And you're laughing about it all too!"

[darkenedmoon]

"Was I supposed to land in the mud too? Oh, I am sorry, I did not get the message!" Yotsuyu snorted. "And of course I am laughing, you look like a swine, rolling around in the mud as you are!"

No, she felt absolutely no remorse--not for landing on him (a prudent move on her part, she thought), and certainly not for laughing at his predicament. He'd gotten himself into it mostly, losing his arm in that portal. And she had helped him get it back!

"You could thank me, you know."

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"Yeah, I should thank you!"

Jecht bent forward and rolled to his feet, the sort of move that came from a world-class athlete instead of a burly middle-aged goofball. He was both, after all, even if a lot of people forgot the former! (But rarely Yotsuyu, though, the way she attended practices.)

Then he spread his arms, mud dripping off to the ground below. "You're terrific! Lemme give you a big hug..."

[darkenedmoon]

"I think not! Not after you've wallowed like a hog!" Yotsuyu backed off quickly, moving to higher ground--or at least dryer ground, away from Jecht's outstretched arms. She still had her fan, and moved it in an intricate pattern, muttering under her breath. Luckily for her, he was so intent on hugging her that he failed to notice the him-sized sphere of water coalescing above his head.

Which, with another gesture, dumped unceremoniously upon him. She might get spattered, but at least it was only water, now, not laced with mud and lightly scented with sea salt and beach grass by her own design. May as well ensure he doesn't smell bad, after all this...

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Sure, he didn't see it coming, but he expected it! So when the water poured down on him, he just laughed, spreading his arms even wider to get all the crud off them too. It even smelled good!

"Nice spell!"

[darkenedmoon]

"As if you should expect anything less," Yotsuyu sniffed. At least he was much cleaner, now. And he wasn't likely to end up a smelly mess--save if he went to bala-inlota practice later, but that would be a lost cause anyway.

"I am the one with the nice spells." Though there was a bit of arrogance there, Yotsuyu felt it was entirely deserved.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"Nope! I sure don't expect anything less from you, 'cuz that's you all over!" Jecht wasn't above feeding that ego, not when it was deserved, and that little scenting trick deserved some praise. "How'd you pull that off anyway?"

[darkenedmoon]

"Pull off which?" The water part, well, that was obvious, even if he hadn't seen it coming into existence over his head. "The best way I can put it is I chained Discovery magic. First water, then scented oil and simple sea salt into the water. The salt dissolved, because you shall note that it was not cold water."

Yes, there was some smugness there as she explained it, but Yotsuyu doubted she could be called to task for that, either. She no longer wallowed in her pride, but a good spell was a good spell!

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"All together that quick, huh?" Guess he shouldn't be surprised. Magic's all about will and Yotsuyu was strong-willed if anyone was. Still, he shook his head with a grin. "You're something else, y'know."

[darkenedmoon]

"Yes, that quick." Not that she hadn't spent some time attempting to perfect it--mostly by dragging her plant outside and using said spell to water it. The creature was aware enough to not let itself get inundated, especially if she hadn't created the water directly over it. It had been a mutually beneficial exchange.

"I have no idea what you are talking about, in truth," Yotsuyu replied, with a shake of her head.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"I'm impressed is all! You do stuff I think it'd take me a year to figure out." Not just the mixing of magics like that, but doing it all bundled together in one spell rather than tracing out each individual rune and speaking each individual symbol. How could he not be impressed?

[darkenedmoon]

"You fail to apply yourself." It was also true that Jecht simply wasn't as sharp as she was, but he had a downright lackadaisical approach to magic, unless it had something to do with bala-inlota. It wasn't even an insult, it was just the truth.

"I am sure it wouldn't take you an entire year to figure it out, if you did."

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"All that stuff mixed together? Yeah, probably would. Me, I'm good at big stuff and volume."

Sure made sense when you compared the two of them, didn't it?

[darkenedmoon]

"If you insist." She shook her head. Yotsuyu was aware that he was no genius, but neither was she. She was clever and strong-willed. He was...well, Jecht was strong-willed, even if he was not a clever man. Even that had something to say for it; his bullheadedness had clearly seen him through, at times.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"That's how we roll. You handle the clever subtle stuff, I wrangle the brute-force and raw strength." They made good complements for each other, thought Jecht.

[darkenedmoon]

"Tchah, there is nothing wrong with raw strength--I can certainly come up with that." If only because of sheer strength of will, but Jecht already knew she had such in spades.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Boy did she. "Yeah, you're just better at all the stuff that takes brains, like Modification." Considering math was DECIDEDLY not his strong point...

[darkenedmoon]

"That is because I have the brains to do it with." Yotsuyu smirked at that, but it was more at the memory of her family and how they always said she'd never amount to much of anything. Oh, she certainly hoped their bitter spirits could see her now!

"Though 'tis not as if you're not quite the face of the bala-inlota team, aren't you? Their rising star." And it didn't even sound like mockery...

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"Yeah, I gotta say that's going good," he said, folding his hands behind his head with a smug smile. It really was, though he'd been working damn hard to earn his renown. "That's where I'm the best."