March Event and Intro Log

[magicademymods]

March Event and Intro Log Golem On The Loose The rain never stops. Water and mud track all over campus. Diligent cleaning golems stomp about, mopping and scrubbing and polishing and then going back to do it all over again, and again, and again... One of them seems to have had it. The renegade golem bursts into Kedrigan Hall -- interrupting classes and disrupting labwork to furiously seize students and scrub every last scrap of mud and dirt off of them. All the halls have been locked off with "Under Cleaning" signs, and anyone who enters them meets with the golem's wrath, as it violently plays a pre-recorded message about not interfering with groundskeeping and deploys a giant claw-like tool to grab the interloper and put them back on unforbidden ground. The professors, who are after all completely immune to the golem's attention by its very design, seem to think this is a good learning opportunity for students. Is it? Horrible Spell Doom? "Are you sure you're ready for the test on Advanced Gaseous Discovery?" one upperclassman asks the other. "Of course I'm sure," the second says confidently. Whipping out a wand from a holster on her belt, she sweeps her wand through the air gracefully, pronouncing several Osmarian sigils as she draws them. Probably. "See, that's a blue cloud--" Said blue cloud, which puffs into being as the last syllable left her lips, abruptly doubls in size. Then it doubles in size again. And again. The upperclassmen, who have been in Diatu for several years and know exactly what this sort of thing means, don't hesitate. Not even stopping to share a glance between them, they run like crazy, leaving the growing cloud behind just as classes let out and students begin to enter the halls. But... surely it doesn't have any weird and wacky side effects, right? The Bala-inlota Parade (aka The Non-Horrible Prompt) To celebrate the start of the Bala-inlota season, Anastara spares no expense. The great parade and associated festival stretches the whole weekend, and the whole city puts on their colors and turns out for the fun. Enterprising vendors sell food, drinks, and souvenirs ranging from small and crude figurines to magical constructs that shine field displays onto flat surfaces so you can watch the action up-close! (Good luck affording that, students.) Practically any sort of entertainment you could want appears on the streets and canals of Anastara, and food and drink flow freely. Research On the Sundered With the arrival of the Sundered come those wizards engaged in research on their presence here, now set to investigate what brought them here and how to get them home. All newly-arrived Sundered students are asked to meet with representatives of the research team, to introduce themselves and relate what they will of their homes. In addition, the team requests samples of blood, hair, and skin -- carefully magically collected, and the researchers will sign in the presence of the Sundered a Glyphed contract that forbids them from using the samples for a purpose they know will be harmful. (They quite understand your reasons to be suspicious of this collection! And they will not compel anyone who refuses even given these conditions.) This month, the team has developed a Sundering spell that they warn is crude and unpolished, because the Curriculum is so unpracticed. They hope it will connect to your home worlds and establish a magical link they can build off of to open further passages. No promises! And to those who do undergo this spellwork... it has a certain side effect of confusion, as brief images from your home world flicker across your vision for a few hours afterwards. Wonders Await Diatu Magicademy is open to you in all its glory. Have fun!

A Special Note

If you thread out one or more scenes based on the confusion from "Research on the Sundered", respond to the comment on this post with a link to that thread. The results of this will be revealed next month! (It is, we're afraid, not a regain, lest your participation be based solely on that hope!)

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[valkyriefoodie]

New Student Exploration through Flying:

Skuld stretched her long white wings and flew up into the air. From the twisted corridors of the school's many buildings she could tell that the complex was a large one but from here she had a bird's eye view of the place. It was massive! Some of the palaces in Asgard weren't as large as this school.

She soared between the spires, walked across rooftops, and... may have on one or two occasions peeked into a window to get her bearings but she always made sure to smile and wave if some one noticed her. After all she was exploring not trying to frighten anyone.

Just Passing By:

Passing over the large courtyard she spotted who she thought might have been a fellow student and swooped in to land beside them in a flurry of white feathers.

"Hello! Were you sent to this world by Omnipotent Odin to learn magic too?"

Golem On The Loose:

"Hey! You can't do that!"

The young Valkyrie exclaimed as she charged forward to grab the Golem's arm and prevent them manhandling her fellow student... it wasn't very effective. Being so much larger and more made of stone than her Skuld ended up hanging upside down from the creature's massive bicep rather than successfully rescuing anyone.

"Why are you so upset anyway, because of the mud? Maybe we could help you clean it up?"

Wildcard:

(Whatever you'd like! Skuld's new and not opposed to meeting anyone.)

Just Passing By

[perfectenn]

The young man in a red and orange Valhudor uniform stumbles back. His wind-tossed hair obscures his vision as she alights, then he raises his head to stare at her with wide, startled eyes. The question takes a few seconds to comprehend.

"...No. No, I was not." Tenn straightens his bangs, and favors her with a curious expression. Isn’t it a little odd to ask that of him? "I am not a hero or dead, as far as I’m aware."

Just Passing By

[valkyriefoodie]

Skuld tilted her head casually at the young man's apparent confusion.

"Was that a strange question? I thought everyone who arrived here must have been trying to learn how to become strong enough to defeat Ragnarok."

Then she looked at him more closely. It was difficult to tell from appearance who was an Aesir and who wasn't.

"Maybe you are human? Some one from Midgard?"

[perfectenn]

"I'm not a warrior, and I didn't come here by choice." He corrects her quickly, with some lingering confusion at being mistaken for one in the first place. Tenn meets her inquisitive gaze, though his attention inevitably moves to the wings.

"I am... though, perhaps not from the Midgard you know." His voice slows as he hunts through what he's read of mythology for the correct terms. "You're from Asgard, I assume. Did you come here intentionally?"

exploration

[burningbrighter]

Sunset was on the other side of one of those windows, passing through on her way from a study session. Was that someone floating just outside?

She pressed her hand up against the window, waving it lightly. "Ah....hi?" she mouthed.

[valkyriefoodie]

OH! So there was someone there! Brightly she waved back before flying closer. Skuld pressed her head to the glass, managing to create a very silly looking smushed face in the process, and made a pointing gesture towards the window lash. A very unlock the window could you motion.

[burningbrighter]

"Oh sure!"

And Sunset opens the window, stepping back to allow the new student inside. "Hi!"

You are so cool. That's probably obvious in her expression.

Just Passing By

[outofyourshadow]

To her credit, Lena only jumped a little bit when someone landed directly beside her. Glancing at the winged person, she can't help raising an eyebrow.

"...Not exactly? I was brought here to learn magic, but I don't think I was really sent by...anyone." At least, not that she was aware of.

[valkyriefoodie]

Skuld hadn't exactly been sent by anyone either, but she thought she had been. It's what made the most sense to her given the way things usually happened in her world.

"No?"

Thoughtfully she folded up her wings and looked up at the sky.

"Were you always magical or did you gain your magical powers when you arrived here?"

[outofyourshadow]

"Uh..." That question was...complicated. "Both? I'd always had a bit of magic, but I lost that when I came here, and got a different magic instead."

Which was pretty much true.

Just Passing By

[plusfivedex]

Kamala had been to wrapped up in taking her surrounding on the ground to notice the winged person above her, but as soon as Skuld landed, her interested shifted.

"Hey!" she laughed, delighted. As for Skuld's question... "I don't know about Odin - I mean, I know about Odin, I'm just not sure if the father of Thor really figures into this at all. But those wings! Those are amazing!"

[valkyriefoodie]

"Hello!"

She waved happily even though they weren't so far distant that a wave was actually necessary.

"Are they? Thank you for saying so! Every Valkyrie has them. Some times I forget they might seem weird to people who aren't familiar with Aesir."

Bouncing a few steps closer, enjoying this brief moment of decent weather before the rains arrived and decided to drown the school, she stretched her arms towards the sun.

"I'm Skuld. I suppose I've just become a new student here. Have you just arrived too?"

[plusfivedex]

Kamala's eyes widened at the offered explanation of the wings, and she grinned. First magic, then a vampire, and now a handmaiden of Odin? This was a very cool school.

"Nice to meet you, Skuld! I'm Kamala, and yeah, I'm new here, too. This place is pretty amazing, isn't it?"

Just Passing By

[blindedbyruin]

Canale raises his head to frown curiously up at the sky, and then over in the direction of the person who just landed nearby. Maybe on a ship he could sometimes expect someone to come falling out of the sky, but otherwise...well, it is a school of magic, so maybe it isn't so unreasonable here, either.

"Not that I was aware of." Though he isn't entirely sure of that name, either. It's only vaguely familiar, like something he's read before but not quite. "I was under the impression it was an accident."

[valkyriefoodie]

"Hmm... some people have mentioned it being an accident, others make it sound more sinister like a kidnapping."

But she smiled, hopeful that it wasn't such a grim situation after all.

"I think I was sent here to learn a new style of magic. I think it would be helpful to learn how other worlds use magic."

[blindedbyruin]

A kidnapping was certainly what he'd thought it was at first. Something like that would be his luck...

He looks quite a bit more surprised by the rest of that. "Then you also have magic in your...world? I must admit, this is all very new to me. Where I'm from, this kind of thing only exists in storybooks."

Exploration

[stillnewatthis]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

[The slowly-growing noise comes from another student, it seems -- one who can also fly, and who is apparently doing so at a speed far greater than is safe by any standard. Almost entirely upside-down, the hippotaur robot kicks her legs in programmed reflex as her attached airship parts launch her forward.]

[Just as she starts to approach the flying girl, however, Oris comes to halt so abrupt that some of her joints visibly separate before electromagnetism pull them back together again.]

Oh! Hello!

[valkyriefoodie]

[ The warning siren of the screaming girl caused Skuld to glance cautiously back over her shoulder but what she saw... and it was heading straight for her!?! In a flurry of feathers she did her best to flit out of the way but fortunately the mechanical girl had some really, REALLY good airbrakes! ]

Whew! I thought you were going to crash!

[ Skuld breathed deeply as she found a corner of the building to land on. After such a shock a moment to catch her breath seemed in order! ]

Do you always fly around that quickly?

[stillnewatthis]

[Quite sheepish, Orisa rubs the back of her head, looking surprisingly human in that moment despite, well, looking not at all human.] My system was not designed to integrate these parts under normal circumstances. The ability to fly is very useful, but I do not seem to have a proper throttle!

Golem

[paradoxical_personality]

Before Hel even realized she recognized that voice, she found herself uttering the words. "Speak for yourself." She was pristine, because of her own desire for cleanliness, there was no way she was going to muck in with this Golem and start scrubbing the floors. In fact, it hadn't tried to grab her so she started to take a wildly divergent approach to the situation.

"Instead of trying to stop him, I say we let him do what he wants. The students here are too lackadaisical in their appearance anyway..."

[valkyriefoodie]

"Hel!"

There was a familiar... and some what grumpy voice! If she weren't hanging upside down from this Golem Skuld might have been tempted to fly over there and give her a hug. A nice, student just tackled a muddy cleaning Golem hug. It was nice to hear some one she knew from home was here.

"We could do it with magic! We don't have to get dirty!"

[paradoxical_personality]

Don't you dare Skuld. Resist those urges. "Skuld?" Uncertainty crept into her voice as she took a second glance at the person dangling uselessly from the large Golem. For a moment her expression betrayed her, some of the hardness was abandoned in her outward demeanor. I mean, it's not like she was happy to see the Valkyrie or anything.

Composing herself, even she had to admit that Skuld was on to something here.

"Still, seems like a lot of work to me...... because I'm willing to bet that you haven't picked up any of what passes for magic here yet." Translation: Hel would be casting all the spells.

Exploration

[king_of_egypt]

"By the Gods!" Not usually one to startle easily himself that all flew out the window when he spotted what he could swear was a woman's face peering into the bathroom. Thankfully he was wearing a towel over his lower half, but he still felt he was at a significant disadvantage despite the fact that a month ago it wouldn't be that unusual to be as devoid of clothing as he now was. The fact was, they were not currently in Egypt and it was not currently over hundred degrees in the desert. The standards of decency were significantly higher here. As soon as he had a mind to he moved closer to the window, to investigate, keeping a firm grip on the aforementioned towel, droplets of water still occasionally sliding down his exposed chest. This tower was by no means short in height so how was it even possible for anyone to be currently outside this particular window?

[valkyriefoodie]

By the Go... wow.

Bright eyed and unblinking Skuld stared as Yami approached the window. He was... he was... fit. And that was some very interesting hair. She knew a few people back home who would be envious of that style. He was wet though. Why would that have been? Did the roof leak? And... why was he wearing a towel?

Slowly these puzzle pieces began to knit together in her mind and her cheeks, at first a light pale pink grew a fiery shade of red with each step closer he took, until she exploded in a fit of nervous feathers. Quickly she whirled around to place her back towards him. Or was it too late to think about privacy?

"No, I'm sorry! I didn't mean too... They really should label these buildings!!! Who puts a shower in a tower?!"

Flying

[bluebloodyblazes]

Rin was leaning back in his chair, artfully dossing off after having read like, three whole paragraphs of the advised reading he's been assigned for Thaumaturgy when movement caught his eye at the Keep Window.

At first, he thought it was just gonna be another ghost dicking with him, but when there was actually a woman smiling and waving at him, he overbalanced in his shock!
Rin clatters to the ground ungracefully with a (very manly) yelp.