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!

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[nobodys_puppet]

"There is no other way, if I stay here, if anyone remembers me, they will find me."

She wasn't sure which that would be worse. Axel finding her and bringing her back... or Xemnas finding her and destroying her utterly.

[burningbrighter]

"Who are they?"

[nobodys_puppet]

Since there were multiple answers to that, Xion turned away. "Either way it will be bad," she said, softly. "Go and forget you met me. It is the only way to do what is right."

[burningbrighter]

"And just leave you out here to freeze? That's a horrible way to go."

Sunset dug her heel in. "Look...we're not being sent back to our worlds for a while, so you have time to figure out what to do, okay? If you want to be on your own...let's keep you warm, at least? I can help you find a shelter out here."

[nobodys_puppet]

"It is an easier way to go than others..." she said, softly.

[burningbrighter]

"...you were thinking about other ways?"

Sunset was very worried by now.

"Please don't give up yet! If you learn more about this place and you still think you need to...maybe there's a spell that can help you. But maybe there's another way to help!"

[nobodys_puppet]

"I already tried. I thought I had succeeded when I arrived here instead."

So not just thinking.

[burningbrighter]

"Oh..."

She bowed her head.

"I'm so sorry. You shouldn't have to suffer like that. I know you're sure you have to, but...I still hope for better."

[nobodys_puppet]

"I don't have to suffer," she agreed. "Once I am gone and no one remembers me, there will be no one to suffer because of this." Which was part of the point, really.