March Event and Intro Log

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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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horrible spell doom

[woo_oo]

"Perdiot!"

Webby is instantly concerned for her friend - yes she has decided they are friends and Peridot has no say in this - and runs over as quick as she can.

"What's wrong?"

[logdates]

Peridot closed her eyes hard against the tears, but it did nothing to help. She just kept on crying silently as Webby approached.

"Nothing is wrong, that's what's wrong," she said, and indeed, she sounded far more exasperated than anything else. "Maybe it was that fog?"

[woo_oo]

Webby gasped in horror. "Magic crying fog! That's not good! Maybe... I can turn it into magic happy fog!"

With that, she began to fish around in her clothes for her wand.

[logdates]

Peridot held out a hand to indicate for the girl to stop. "Webby, that might not be a good idea, we've only been here a month."

[woo_oo]

"But what better time to practice than now?" Webby countered, as if that was all the logic she needed.

[logdates]

"I'd rather not be your test subject, though..." Peridot muttered, wiping her eyes again... Still, she sounded fairly resigned to this fate. They'd only known each other briefly, and it was already clear that once Webby set her mind to something, she'd likely do it.

[woo_oo]

"All right, let's give it a try!"

Yep, completely ignoring her.

With a wiggle of her wrist, she began to murmur something vaguely latin-ish before firing off a shot!

[logdates]

That was more or less what Peridot had expected. But what she hadn't expected was for it to seemingly work when Webby cast a spell. She did stop crying.

And then she hiccuped, which was not something Gems did.

Alarmed, Peridot brought one hand up to her own throat. "What is - hic - happening to me?"

[woo_oo]

"Whoops." Webby looked at her wand, as if that was the issue. "Maybe I pointed wrong... well, hiccups are much easier to cure than sadness!" Supposedly.