August Event Log

[magicademymods]

August Event Log Performance of a Lifetime Valhudor, ever eager for a chance to take the stage, has launched a flash-theater campaign across the campus. Wherever students might gather, be it the Great Hall or the Promenade or the Library of Starchime or whatever, there a play will erupt, acting out the tumultuous events of the Three Dragon War. The director-ringleaders, with all the ethics of Captain Lominia, don't hesitate to shanghai students into the feature itself. Usually, these roles are that of Cowering Student #1, Useless Faculty Member With One Shoe, or Comedy Relief Pratfall Victim, and you're expected to mostly just sit there, ad-lib a little, and generally make the actors playing the Three Dragons look good. Do you behave just to get it over with, or take your role into your own hands for a little revenge? Or perhaps you're determined to take the role of a dragon and make this play your own! Alternatively, you might be looking to cash in on the bounty for the safe return of their performing surface to Brindavil Theater. These students, unfortunately... took the stage. The Great Familiar Audition With finals coming to a close for many students and graduation (or flunking) at hand for many, the cycle of academic life comes full circle once again. Airships discharge students into Anastara, the local schools send their best and brightest up the street, and the constabulary once again has to stop that creepy guy who keeps trying to kidnap school-bound students with a 'magic' train on an alleged, misnumbered 'platform' made of paper mache. And with these students come beasts of all shape and size, eager to audition for the role of familiar. Consequently, the campus is absolutely flooded with owls, cats, snakes, rats, and more, all looking for their in with a wizard. Unfortunately, they're just animals, so sometimes this results in unintended hilarity results. There's nothing quite like opening your dresser only for an unexpected snake to pop up and offer you your underwear, unless it's two snakes each offering you half of your underwear after a furious territory dispute ended in a tie. Owls deafen everyone with incessant hooting. Swarms of rats establish packs and engage in dance-fights, probably to catch the eyes of Valhudor students. The cats are oddly the most tolerable potential familiars, since they just wander around pushing stuff off of surfaces and demanding food and attention, the same as they always do. Familiar-cuckoos appear, making every effort to rub out the competition and take their places in order to get fat and lazy off the hard work of their 'master'. Also for some reason a corgi has a shiv and knows how to use it, so you better give him your sausages right now, huh? No, no one will ever believe you. The Food Cartening Though Anastara's restaurants get most of the culinary glory, a true Anastaran will tell you that the food carts of the city are as fundamental to the city as the island of Ascelion itself. When pressed, said Anastaran will reluctantly admit that no, if you take the food carts away the city won't engage in unsupported freefall, but the truth is that as a city of trade, commerce, and tourism, the food carts really are quite amazing here. But which one is the best? Famous chef Rodden Grimmslay wants to know the answer, and has issued a challenge to ever food cart: register for Cartfest, where the offerings will be put to the taste-tests of both the chef and the city at large! So welcome to the celebration, where food styles from across the Tenscore Kingdoms fill the air with competing, delicious scents and merriment abides. (The breweries are probably the real financial winners here.) Hailfight When you ask a wizard if they are capable of controlling the weather, they will engage in a long, rambling explanation of wind currents, tides, cloud albedo, size and effort, the breakdown of order, and any number of other factors that complicate the issue. When you ask a student if they can control the weather, they say, "sure," and with a wave of their wand cause the falling hail to focus directly on you. When, aggrieved, you point out that you hadn't meant it like that, another wave of their wand sends the hailstones that had just hit you back into the air to pelt you again. With a fierce hailstorm rolling across Ascelion, battle rages across the campus. From mean-spirited surprise attacks to hailstone chicken to almost literal war zones complete with bunkers, artillery support, and the occasional gas attack depending on what was for lunch, most students just can't resist playing with the hailstones and their magic. Whether you're in a duel, hunkered down in the trenches, a victim of a cheap shot, or an active instigator... you can probably get away, but only with skill and panache can you seize victory! (Many years later, linguists will identify this as the root derivation of the otherwise nonsense phrase 'hail, seizer'. Little Tenscore Kingdoms etymology lesson for you all there. Free of charge. Don't say the mod team never did anything for you.)

Comments

[sweetsummerchild03]

When her owl returns with another box, June catches it and follows Lena into the classroom.

"They must be getting hungry," June says thoughtfully. "We've been at this for a while."

[travelpants]

"Do you suppose we need to get something for them to get inside without causing too much distress on everyone in campus?" Lena asks after taking a little peek of the mice infested classroom.

She couldn't get over the screams the students in the room are making while the mice scamper about on the floor.

[sweetsummerchild03]

June thinks for a moment, looking from the mice skittering around the room to the box in her hand. "Oooooh! Or maybe we can try to lure the mice into the boxes with food?"

[travelpants]

"Why, that could also work," Lena informs her, "We'll need to get some food from the kitchen, maybe put them inside the boxes, and let the mice to come to the food themselves. Let's hope that it will work."

[sweetsummerchild03]

She nods. "Okay! I could run and get some!"

[travelpants]

"Great thinking, June! Now let's get to the kitchen and start finding food for them to get to," Lena happily agrees with her while Marly meows in concern for her stomach's hunger, though she is so far behaving herself for her master's sanity's sake.

[sweetsummerchild03]

"Yeah!" With an excited giggle, she holds the box up over her head and starts skipping out of the room. "Let's go!"

[travelpants]

Upon arriving at the kitchen (which was left unattended by the kitchen staff during the chaos that ensued) with June, Lena begins to search cabinets, pantries, barrels, etc. to find things for the mice to nibble on and get the scared students off from their desks safely.

Among the things she was able to find are cheese, bread, leafy greens, and apples: she isn't sure if this would be very helpful, but she still hopes for the best.

[sweetsummerchild03]

June was also grabbing different bits of food from the cabinets and pantries, being careful as she puts them into the box so it wouldn't be too much of a mess. Walking over to Lena, she holds up the box. "Do you think this is enough?"

[travelpants]

"Yeah, I think that it would be enough to catch their attention," Lena agrees with her as she finished gathering some of the food for the mice, "Alright, let's go and get those mice."

[sweetsummerchild03]

"Yeah!" she says as she jumps into the air a bit. "Time to round them all up!"

And with that, she darts off back towards the classroom.

[travelpants]

Lena follows suit with the food she has gathered up for the mice and goes back to the classroom with June. Splitting the food among the boxes, the young lady places them near the door and begins to slowly open the classroom carefully for the mice to go out from.

Sniffing from outside, the mice then proceed to scamper towards the food-laden boxes and start to eat them rather quickly.

[sweetsummerchild03]

Once all the mice from each classroom have filed into the boxes, June sends her owl to tip the boxes up so the mice couldn't get out. The owl moved from box to box until all of them were caught.

"Yay! We did it!"

[travelpants]

"Glad that we're able to catch all the mice before they got lost forever," Lena nods in agreement while the now relieved students can get off from their desks safely, "I think that's all we can find, I'm pretty sure that other people are also out there gathering up the missing familiars as well."

[sweetsummerchild03]

"Okay! There sure are a lot of them." Why were there so many familiars without owners?

As she looks down the hall, she tilts her head. "Where should we put these boxes, though? We can't just leave them out here."

[travelpants]

Lena was also asking the same thing as well when she then hears someone calling out from the other side of the hallway like this, Attention, students. Please collect all runaway familiars into the arrival lobby promptly.

"Oh, we should get to the lobby and bring the mice in boxes in there," Lena relays the information to June, "It looks like the staff have found a place to gather all the runaway familiars in one place. Come on, Marly: we should get there quickly."

The Siamese meowed softly while trying not to think too much about food right now.

[sweetsummerchild03]

"Oh, okay!" With a cheerful nod, she runs over to pick up one of the boxes. "They should know what to do with them, right? We just have to drop them off?"

[travelpants]

"Yeah, I think so too. Hopefully they can find new owners for the mice and the other familiars," Lena agrees as she picks up another box with the mice.

Once she got it, she makes her way onto the lobby to drop the mice off to the school staff. Marly does her best not to eat any of them as she accompanies her master towards the drop off point in the lobby.