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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[burningbrighter]

"Yeah? It's probably better to watch from inside for now," she admitted, easing herself down into the snow. Oh, that was going to burn.

"So...I accept? I think?"

[stillnewatthis]

Orisa gave a delighted little tromp, each of her legs lifting off the ground and dropping back down in rapid sequence, before she reached out to simply scoop the girl up. "Input destination!"

[burningbrighter]

"Whoa! Hey, okay...um, the courtyard?"

She tried to point helpfully, but her memory wasn't the best when everything was blanketed in white.

[stillnewatthis]

Setting Sunset on her back as if she were some metal beast of burden, Orisa then turned and set off at a trot towards the courtyard. She was being useful, which made her quite happy!

[burningbrighter]

Ah. The nice, bright courtyard. Er. Promenade. She'd totally remember her terminology when she wasn't half-freezing.

But there was a roof! And that was nice. She sighed against Orisa's shoudler.

"Do you do this often?"

[stillnewatthis]

"This is a little bit out of my intended purpose, but I believe it applies. Being a hero and helping others is part of being a guardian and protector!" Orisa's gait was surprisingly stable -- well, not surprising when one considered the amount of on-the-fly adjustments and compensation she could perform.

[burningbrighter]

"Wow, that's pretty neat."

It was something Sunset sometimes considered herself to be, but that had its drawbacks.

"It's pretty tiring to be responsible all the time, though, isn't it?"

[stillnewatthis]

"My internal generator requires minimal downtime!" To Orisa, that was the answer required. Humans needed sleep and so forth, but not her!