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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[puzzlers]

Because it doesn't seem like going home is going to be something they're able to do anytime soon it's probably not worth the headache to consider their options right now. Yugi is going to forcibly push this to the back of his mind, though it'll probably still bother him from time to time. Maybe they'll get a chance to talk about things. He just wants a bit of closure. He had been there to send Atem off, sure, but there were so many things left unsaid. Was this what he wants? Yugi had assumed so and he gets the feeling that Atem assumed this is what he wanted too. H- Heh.

Being able to stand here like this, together, reminds him of when they interacted in their soul room; since that was really as close as it got, ceremonial duel aside. "..." He doesn't answer and, instead, lets Atem piece it together. "Yeah. It looks like we're in the same house. How cool is that? It'll be like sharing a room all over again." But for real, since they didn't have to worry about switching who was in control of his body, though Yugi was usually at the helm for the more mundane things. "Have you gotten a chance to look around?"

[king_of_egypt]

It really would have been fruitless to weigh the pros and cons between remaining here and returning to the afterlife since, yes, it was currently beyond their control. It would become one of those nagging doubts that would enter his mind from time to time.

That was an apt comparison, it was hard to believe they were both physically here. "Yes, I suppose it will be." Smiling at that, and giving a slight nod. The prospect was appealing to him, since he had never minded sharing with Yugi before. "Only this time we may have company." Depending on who else managed to get assigned to the same dormitory. Don't think Atem won't miss leaving the more mundane things to you Yugi. That had been an added benefit from sharing a form. Cough. Not that he would openly admit it.

"Not really- I was in the process of doing so when my familiar decided to cause all this commotion..." Shooting said familiar a look for emphasis. "... but now I'm glad that he did. This way we can continue the tour together."

[puzzlers]

Yugi didn't think it would take all that long to get used to having separate bodies, and the prospect in and of itself was exciting. Now they'd be able to do some things they couldn't before. Though, he'd be lying if he said he didn't miss how things used to be. The shared connection one of the more special things they had, but their connection had been severed the moment they started the Ceremonial Duel.

"We do, actually. I met, uh, two of our roommates, I think. Orisa and V." Both of them were interesting character, so they would probably make their stay more interesting. "It looks like he might have settled down a bit, so maybe after you finished apologizing" He looks past Atem to a few people that still looked a bit miffed because of the commotion. "we can look around and catch up some."

[king_of_egypt]

No, it wouldn't. I mean Yugi had been living his own life in the modern era and Atem had been carrying on with his afterlife in his own form. It was more a matter of getting used to seeing Yugi from this perspective more than anything and that he could easily get used to. It might be a little more difficult to oh say... beat a card game if someone was using the powers of the Millennium Eye, but that wasn't likely to be something they needed to do a second time. The items were safely back where they belonged.

"V?" That name was already familiar to him. Orisa he would meet a little later. "I am familiar with V, and their familiar. It should be an interesting assortment."

"Oh- right. I suppose I better," In the reunion Atem had momentarily forgotten about the shenanigans. "If you'll excuse me Yugi. This shouldn't take long, and then I'll meet you at the door, ok?" With that he strode away and began the short apology tour. Any hope of making a good first impression on the other sundered was a dream of the past.

[puzzlers]

It would just be different. Because they hadn't really gotten a chance to exist as separate people in conjunction with one another. But a world of possibilities had opened and Yugi intended to make the most of them, especially since their time here wouldn't be permanent. No doubt that they'd all be sent home as soon as the spell was sorted, though he imagined that, even still, they'd have a chance to stay a little longer. Stop, he reminded himself, unable to keep from thinking about their future.

"It certainly seems like it." V was definitely strange, but well meaning, and the same could be said for Orisa, though they were both their own brands of strange. He could see them all becoming friends.

Yugi nodded and headed to the door, deciding to roll his dice so his own familiar, Peregrin, could come out and say hello too. Cat, Snake, and Phoenix - so his familiar took the form of a large serpent with a cat head and phoenix wings. "Hey there Peregrin, I wanted to introduce you to my other self, Atem, and his familiar." He watched as Atem went around apologizing. "Shouldn't be much longer."

[king_of_egypt]

The future was still uncertain, and it would take time to figure out just what it had in store for the pair of them.

That was a fair assessment of each. At least it seemed as if none of their personalities should clash so the dorm would be a welcome retreat from the day to day activities of regular school life.

After Atem had completed his rounds he returned to Yugi, clutching his familiar between his hands. It wouldn't have done much as a precaution against telekinesis however it made the pharaoh feel slightly better. "Yugi?" Are you aware that a serpent monster is purring beside you..? The sight of peregrin gave him pause.

[puzzlers]

Yugi was glad that he hadn't really clashed with any of their eventual roommmates. Just like Atem had surmised it would make for a nice retreat following what would probably be an intense school day.

It was quite the sight, to see Atem holding his Gem, but it was kind of cute. Hopefully that would be enough to keep him out of trouble. "Yeah? oh! Atem, Capricius, this is Peregrin, my familiar." Peregrin beat his wings and rose into the air, flying closer to get a look at the two of them. Like Capricius he couldn't talk, but he didn't seem to mind the other two, so when he returned to Yugi he draped himself over his shoulder and purred his approval. "I think he likes you."