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

[outofyourshadow]

I guess so.

[Not that she can really say all that much about that.]

Though I'm a little surprised that the school had these many familiars just waiting around for a bunch of students that were "accidentally" brought from other worlds.

[intellectualstrategist]

Yeah, a lot of this is just a little too convenient. The space in these houses of theirs too. But if it wasn't an accident, then what reason could they have for bringing a bunch of people from different dimensions and worlds here?

[outofyourshadow]

[Oh thank you, someone who shared in her suspicions.]

Right? They couldn't have just happened to clear out a bunch of rooms, especially with all the students already here.

I dunno. But whatever kind of magic that brought us here is illegal, so whoever might've used it probably aren't the most upstanding people.

[intellectualstrategist]

[ she's surprised there's not more people questioning things, honestly. ]

It makes me wonder if some of the older students had gotten here because of the same hiccup and have just decided to try and figure things out on their own.

[ she nods, folding her arms across her chest. ] Not illegal enough to be added to their syllabus, though I wonder if they're trying to figure it out now too. But you're probably right. Whoever's dabbling in the dart arts, so to speak, probably isn't going to win wizard of the year.

[outofyourshadow]

[It pays to be distrustful, sometimes.]

Maybe. Either that, or this was all just some student class project that got messed up and ripped open the fabric of several different realities.

[Man, if it was that one, she'll be so mad.]

[intellectualstrategist]

[ . . . ]

I sincerely hope for the sake of that student this wasn't some botched class project. [ because she'll give them more than a piece of her mind. ] I wonder if they plan to tell us who did this, assuming they know, tch.

[outofyourshadow]

Given the way things have been going so far? I doubt they'd tell us either way.

[intellectualstrategist]

Yeah, you're probably right. If we want to know anything we're going to have to find the answers ourselves.

[outofyourshadow]

[She nods, grinning a bit.]

At least that gives us something else to do, aside from homework.

[Because actually studying? Lame. Besides, uncovering a possible conspiracy was way more fun.]

[intellectualstrategist]

[ she crinkles her nose at the mention of homework. ]

Not to mention something to look forward to. Count me in.

[ most definitely. she's not really thrilled about the whole school thing, but she doesn't think it'll be that difficult. she's a genius, after all~ ]

[outofyourshadow]

[Yeah, she's definitely not looking forward to studying, so having something like this was good.]

Cool. I'm Lena.

[intellectualstrategist]

Nice to meet you, Lena, I'm Saya. By the way, which house are you in?

[outofyourshadow]

[She has to take a moment to think about that.]

Uh...Purifeul, I think?

[Is that what it's called?]

[intellectualstrategist]

Me too! Small world~

Have you been to the dorm yet?

[outofyourshadow]

I dropped by for a little bit, just enough to figure out where it is. But I didn't really look around.