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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[woo_oo]

[Aaand now she's covered in snow from head-to-toe. With her white plumage, she blends in perfectly.

A pause, and she tries to shake it all off.]

I'm okay! This still isn't as cold as Mount Neverest.

[revidolize]

[Sakura is rather concerned about the snow that she inadvertently sloshed upon this poor girl, and she reaches to help brush some of it off before the girl shakes it off herself, revealing a... very interesting-looking face.

She's... a duck, right!? And she's talking!? This land is supposed to be magical and all, but right off the bat, this is a bit much!

And speaking of bats, Sakura's familiar decides to perch itself atop of her umbrella, sending a nice chunk of snow onto her now... She deserves that, really. Brushing it off herself, she decides to just discard the umbrella (a move which her bat friend disapproves of, but it moves to perch on her shoulder instead).]

Um... Ah... [... She doesn't want to like bring up the obvious!? But also the question is written all over her face anyway.] Are you... okay?

[woo_oo]

[Honestly, she's getting used to that look by now, she she shrugs it off - as well as some of the snow.]

Yep! It takes more than snow to take down Webbigail Vanderquack!

[... She can't help but shiver tho.]

... Buuut maybe we should get inside, just in case?

[revidolize]

[HER NAME IS EVEN WEBBIGAIL VANDERQUACK... Sakura's expression strains further as she tries (and fails) to keep a straight face. She's definitely putting all of her energy into this because she spaces out until Webby makes the suggestion.]

Aaaah, right! It's not good to be out here if we're soaked with the snow...

[woo_oo]

Yeah, and you're already looking pretty ill.

[That's why your face looks so strange, right? Not because Webby introduced herself as DUCKPUN DUCKPUN DUCKPUN. She offers a hand.]

C'mon, let's find someplace warm! We've got a whole school to explore!

[revidolize]

[Ill? Does she look— oh right, the zombie thing. She looks at the tiny outstretched duck hand and slowly takes it with her own. I-It's soft...!]

E— Explore? Right now!?

[woo_oo]

I can't think of a better time!

[With that, she already begins to walk pretty quickly, dragging Sakura along for the ride!]