Let The Games Begin

[magicademymods]

February Event and Intro Log Orientation Week/Magic Mayhem The campus of Diatu Magicademy stretches out before you, confused and chaotic and surging with energy. Where are you headed? To your dorm or suite, to get settled? Maybe you need some food now? Wherever you head off to as your first stop, you have to deal with the snow. Helpful or proud students are passing out various magical remedies to get you where you need to be -- umbrellas with a nasty tendency to dump snow directly onto other people nearby, an iron tube that projects fire but appears to have no off switch, snowshoes that keep you slightly too high off the snow and thus provide no friction for stopping... Familiar Follies Familiars do not harass or harm each other as a rule -- but that doesn't mean they have no pecking order, and the week of Orientation finds them all jockeying for status and position as suits them. This can take the form of pranks, displays, competitions, or simple physical assertiveness towards each other. The goal is simply to be seen as superior by the student body. New wizards especially may find themselves surprised at this behavior of their familiars... 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 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.) Furthermore, they request to perform a few spells on you for testing purposes. It is, quite regrettably, possible that if you consent to this testing, you will come away with a temporary side effect -- a slight change of hair color, traveling two steps for every one you take, one hand moving about a second behind the arm it should be attached to, or being ridden by a penguin. No need to worry, these changes won't last more than a day! Wonders Await Diatu Magicademy is open to you in all its glory. Have fun!

Comments

[outofyourshadow]

We can just make it look like he's wearing a long coat. Then we don't have to worry about the spats.

...Why does Scrooge wear spats, anyway?

[talkyourwayout]

[A long, confused pause.]

...I guess because he's old?

[outofyourshadow]

[She snickers.]

Is that because spats are just a thing that old people wear, or because he was around when spats were invented?

[talkyourwayout]

The second one. Seriously, Uncle Scrooge was alive during the actual Gold Rush, so who knows how much further back he goes?

[He also has no idea when spats were invented, but hey, that's no the point.]

[outofyourshadow]

Wow really? How's he lived for so long?

[She knows there are a couple of ways to become immortal, but...then again, if Scrooge and Magica knew each other, Scrooge must have dabbled a bit in magic in one way or another.]

[talkyourwayout]

Oh, right, um - I think he said something about the Fountain of Youth once. I'm like... Ninety percent sure that's how. I mean, I know someone said that. It was him or his old girlfriend.

[outofyourshadow]

...huh.

[Maybe part of her should have been more surprised, but then, there was a reason Magica had been after him and the McDuck family for so long.

Her body trapped in Scrooge's dime besides.]

...Wait, Scrooge has a girlfriend?

[Because that's the real takeaway from all this.]

[talkyourwayout]

[As far as Louie's concerned, that is just as good a takeaway as any.]

Yeah - It's weird, right?! I mean, they're exes, but it's still weird.

[outofyourshadow]

...I'm not sure how I feel about that.

[Because on the one hand, it's kind of cute in a way? That Scrooge was capable of dating someone.

But on the other hand, they're old people, and thinking about old people in relationships is always weird.]

[talkyourwayout]

Weird. You feel weird about that. Because it's weird.

[outofyourshadow]

...Yeah, let's go with that then.

[Because weird.

Then she pauses, looking at the snowman she's already made.]

Speaking of, maybe I'll make a girlfriend for this guy too. Don't want him to get lonely.

[talkyourwayout]

[He gives a small snort.]

I'm going to chalk that sentiment up to Webby rubbing off on you, or something.

[It's teasing; he doesn't even realize all the ways that the statement reflects the truth.

And then he realizes he brought up Webby to Lena since the first time he knew she was there with them.]

...Hey, have you two talked yet?

[outofyourshadow]

[She pauses a moment, and she's really glad her back is currently to Louie so he can't see her face.]

Yeah, we uh...met up.

[And they had a pretty heart-felt reunion, but she doesn't have to tell him all the details about it.]

[talkyourwayout]

[Louie respects her silence, though it's an awkward moment. Sure, he's not the worst with feelings, he supposes, but this is a little more complicated than most situations, given all that happened back home.]

Right...

[He's not sure what to do, so he lets himself fall backwards into the snow, and starts making a snow angel. Why not, right?]

[outofyourshadow]

[Hearing the small 'whump' in the snow, she glances back at him, then laughs a bit when she sees what he's doing.]

Having fun?

[Yes, it's much easier to talk about anything else besides her feelings right now.]

[talkyourwayout]

More or less, yeah.

...This is cold though.

[outofyourshadow]

[She laughs.]

Yeah, I think I'm getting over the snow thing. Wanna go see if they have hot chocolate in the cafeteria?

[talkyourwayout]

[Louie smiles as he sits up and then gets to his feet.]

That's the kind of adventure I can totally get behind.