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!)

Comments

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"Sounds to me like you're losing a perfect out." Winking, Jecht nonetheless straightened up to lead the way. "You been to the big class hall yet?"

[plusfivedex]

Kamala laughed. "It's actually a class I'm pretty interested in! Call me a nerd," she joked. Seriously, though, it wouldn't be the first time. "The big hall with, like, fifty-thousand classrooms? Yeah."

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"Definitely callin' you a nerd." All in good fun, of course. "You found your way to the third floor yet? Near as I can tell there's like three different staircases that may or may not go up there dependin'."

[plusfivedex]

"Woah, no, I didn't even know there was a third floor!" Kamala gasped. She would've been way more excited about a semi-secret floor if it weren't the fact that it sure sounded like her class was there, and that was going to be a total pain. "So the staircases do move? I was talking to someone about that earlier!"

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"Naw, they don't move. Just sometimes they go to the fourth floor. Or the fifth." Boy, had Jecht struggled to understand that at first. Had to shake a kid down for information, which wasn't his proudest moment.

[plusfivedex]

"Huh... You know, there's a lot about this magic stuff that I'm excited about?" She paused, then laughed a little. "Things like that definitely aren't going to be one of them, though."

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"Yeah, tell me about it!" He could get the enthusiasm, he supposed, though honestly he wasn't feeling it much. The magic part, at least. He wasn't a wizard or a black mage or anything like that! "Food's good though."

[plusfivedex]

Kamala nodded eagerly at the statement about the food. "It's great! I mean, the other day, I was eating this salad... Sandwich thing? And it tasted like bacon, even though I'm sure it was a plant!"

Well, she can't really be sure. She's definitely telling herself it has to be a plant, though, and not actually bacon.

"I don't eat pork," she went on to add, feeling that needed an explanation.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

"I'll take your word for it." Cheerfully lost, Jecht figured it all worked out, right? She seemed happy, whatever was going on. "Whatever bird they keep serving us, that's where it's at, though!"