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]

[The brief mixup makes Jecht smirk.] Heh, just 'cuz the words are the same doesn't mean the language is. I'll tell ya you should see a game of blitzball, and you'll go, 'what's that'?

[woo_oo]

...

Well. I do kind of want to ask that now.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Best sport ever. Two teams, one big sphere of water for a field, and glory!

[Jecht punches the palm of his left hand hard. Get the picture that it's a bit of a contact sport?]

[woo_oo]

A big sphere of water as a field?

... THAT SOUNDS AMAZING AND I WANT TO PLAY IT!

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

FINALLY! Someone comes up with the RIGHT answer when I tell 'em about it!

[Jecht taps his fist against her shoulder, 'cuz he's pretty sure he'd crush her if he put any strength at all into it.]

[woo_oo]

[She's taken down full-grown men with a chest-bump, worry not.]

What other answer could there be? We've got to find a way to play that here!

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Confusion, people not understandin', stuff like that. [Jecht shrugs, not getting it. Blitz is huge, in Dream Zanarkand or in Spira proper... but unknown other places? Makes no sense!]

I want to bring it here. Figure magic can do what machines can, right? Just gotta make that happen somehow!

[woo_oo]

I'll add that to my list of studies! We're sure to find an answer eventually!

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

I was wondering if maybe we could talk a strong wizard into doing it up for us, but they're all into bala-inlota. Not much room in their heads for competition.

[woo_oo]

Well that's a bummer. Why would you only want to do one kind of sport?

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

'Cuz they don't realize how much better bliztball is, of course! But they'll see!

[woo_oo]

They'll definitely see! Teamwork! We WILL bring Blitzball here!

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

You're the kind of girl who makes everyone like you, huh. [Enthusiasm and a blind commitment to whatever sounds cool? What more d'ya need?]

[woo_oo]

... I am?

[this is news to her!]

Wow, thanks!

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Sure! Who wouldn't like someone who thinks their sport is the coolest? 'Course it is, but no one else seems to notice yet.

[woo_oo]

Oh.

[Eh, she'll take it.]

I like you too, as much as I like Blitzball!

[despite... having only learned it existed a few minutes ago.]

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

And you haven't even seen me play yet. Wait till ya get a load of that.

[Humble and modest are not words that come within a mile of the Great Jecht.]

[Speaking of--] And the name's Jecht.

[woo_oo]

[She already introduced herself, but she's still polite, so she sticks out a hand.]

It's nice to meet you, Jecht!

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

[After the Hypello she looks downright normal, so no questioning here why she's got a hand and not a wing or whatever. Jecht slaps his hand into hers, giving it a shake that feels like he put a lot of effort into learning not to dislocate shoulders doing it.] Kinda funny to think we're going to the same school.

[woo_oo]

I guess they take everyone and anyone! It's frightening and awesome at the same time!

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

Everyone and anyone who's here from somewhere else and is gonna explode if they don't learn to control stuff, anyway. [Jecht's grin is the tiniest bit hollow, here, 'cuz being out of control and hurting others hits a little too close to home for him. Really could've done without that hanging over his head.]