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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"I'm pretty lost without them," he admitted. "They always knew where to go, or how to figure it out when we didn't. I think I know why I'm here, but.." he shrugged, a bit embarassed suddenly.
They'd all probably laugh if they found out that the Luminary of all people didn't know what he was doing. He managed to get by solely because he could read a map- and thank Yggdrasil for that.
"I guess we all have things we have to sort out, now that we're here."
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"Why do you think you were brought here?"
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"There's an important power I lost before I came here. I think the forces of benevolence sent me here to regain it."
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"I lost a lot of things before I came here. I regained different magic...and new friends, and that helped. But I hope you find what you're looking for."
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"Thank you. I'm also looking forward to making new friends, here." Eleven laughed shortly. "I just realized I don't know your name. Mine is Eleven."
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She beamed. Hey, at least she wasn't the only one with a unique name?
"I'll definitely see you around. Lemme know if I can help with anything, okay?"
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