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
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diatu2019-02-06 03:27 pm
no worries! :D
It staggers him enough to loosen his grip on his familiar, an opportunity that Topaz seizes at once to free himself. However, he does remain by Alphinaud's side, having already been discouraged from engaging any further. (It does not seem content, though.)]
Alisaie! I would never have expected to encounter you here of all places...
[And truly, this is evident upon his face, once that instantly desires to know the circumstances that have led to this. He sees the owl and knows its implications, not that it's likely for her to have arrived out of the same predicament that the other Sundered have found themselves in.]
So you were called to this realm as well.
no subject
Her reaction to this is less pleased to see him, even though she is, and more immediately upset. Alisaie lunges forward and reaches out to grab the lapel of his coat, using her other hand to strike him with significant force across the shoulder. Her owl familiar does not seem to care about the movement and manages to remain dutifully in place on her shoulder.]
Godsdamn you! Do you have any idea how worried I've been? What has happened up until now?
[Despite her actions she doesn't take a particularly angry tone; just upset... desperate. He greets her so casually... like he hadn't marched himself off into Garlean territory, disappeared and then returned comatose. She spent all that time worrying about him while the other Scions fell right before her eyes. She had been left all alone. Then... she too had fallen. She recalls a pain like nothing she had felt before that moment and then nothing. Now this.
Had this really been the place the Calling had pulled them to? After all of that... they were meant to be here? She doesn't understand any of this.]
my heart
Clearly, he does lack understanding of all that has occurred, thanks in no small part to the communication issues he experienced since crashing down in The Burn. He's stunned for a moment by the disparity in their greetings. It hadn't seemed like long at all since he had taken his leave, but he does know from personal experience that it doesn't take long for trouble to arise, either.
After his initial daze, he places his hands firmly upon her shoulders to support her, both physically and emotionally. He displays his resolve on his face, a tightened expression meant to restore confidence, and he speaks calmly to hopefully settle her nerves.]
Forgive me... For not showing careful consideration of your feelings, both when I left for Garlemald and now.
4.5 trauma intensifies :'(
His calmer reaction to her fury, however, deflates her anger quite a bit. She loosens her grip on his collar and lowers her gaze. She feels tears sting the corners of her eyes but stubbornly refuses to let them fall. Despite her anger more than anything else she's relived he's standing here right now. That he's himself and not a soulless body, still and quiet. That he's okay. It's her relief rather than her anger that brings the tears.]
I doubt my feelings would have changed your mind, stubborn fool that you are. [She says this without spite but instead a tone of grumpy resignation. She had wanted to protest loudly at the time but, like she had said then, she knew he had made up his mind. No arguing would have changed it. In the end he had returned safely. Soul not included but... still alive. Not that this absolves him of her fury over how much she worried about him.]
It's just... all gone wrong. One after another our friends fell to that voice until I was the only one left. I didn't know what to do... where to even begin to help them. To help you.