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

[gender_neutral]

Sure... they could go with hugging. And... with V. the PG version of what V used to use the spell for, anyway. But in V's defence, Belkar totally deserved it.

"Once... a juvenile black dragon." V's voice fell some, there. That... had been the start of a chain of events only recently finished. Or so V thought.

"Wait. Was that just a cut away panel?" V might be a little alarmed, just now.

[woo_oo]

Since Webby had no idea what a cut away panel was, she focused on what she did know - dragons! "Wow,a huge dragon? And you charmed it? You're so super amazing! I wish I could've seen it!"

[gender_neutral]

"Yes well, at the time it was rather impressive, I do find reasons to wish that I had dealt with the situation a little better than I had, however."

[woo_oo]

... Well. You can't say that and expect her not to ask, along with adorable inquisitive head-tilt.

"Oh? How come?"

[gender_neutral]

"The Dragon's mother came recently looking for revenge, which she chose to take upon my own young, rather than upon my person."

Now stop asking.

[woo_oo]

Even someone emotionally stunted as Webby knew when to pull the plug on a conversation. Her eyes darted around, trying to think of how to resolve this.

"... Can I ask you for advice on magic stuff sometime?"

[gender_neutral]

V considered than nodded. "So long as this is not a case where you ask me if you can, and then later when you level up claim that you have been studying with me so that you can take a level of Wizard without putting in the effort, then yes."

[woo_oo]

Webby's eyes widen at such an insinuation. "No way! I'd never do that!" Not because she's insulted at the accusation, but because what an awful thing for one person to do to another! "If someone puts in the hard work, they deserve the credit! I'd tell everyone and anyone that you helped me!"

[gender_neutral]

"That was not quite what I meant, but thank you. There was a time during a long rest that we were all deciding what to do with the experience we had gained, and the Bard told everyone that he was planning to take a level of Wizard, and that he could do so because it would be retroactively presumed that he had been studying with me the whole time, even though he very much had not been. He has since changed his mind and is focusing on a combination of Bard and the prestige class Dashing Swordsman, but since that point I have been helping him with his Bardic Illusions, and he is actually growing in skill, somewhat."

[woo_oo]

Webby... just barely understood what any of that meant.

"... So he is a good guy or a jerk?"

[gender_neutral]

"You say it as though someone couldn't be both, simultaneously." V, for example.

[woo_oo]

Webby has to think about that one, cupping her beak.

"... Huh. I guess they can be... Sometimes the boys can be mean, but in the end, they'll always do the right thing." Though with Louie that tended to take some extra nudging.

[gender_neutral]

V nodded simply. "My point exactly."

[woo_oo]

"See, you're teaching me new stuff already!" Webby said with plenty of cheer. "This is going to work out perfectly!"

[gender_neutral]

"I do not know that I would choose to use the word perfectly, myself, but this does have the potential to not be an utter and unmitigated disaster, yes."