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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[paradoxical_personality]

To an extent she could respect that. I mean at least he wasn't going to insist that others make the same choice.

"Seems simple enough," Hel was curious as well but she was definitely drawing the line at this research. "That's a big if, since someone here must have known what they were doing. Maybe not at this school specifically but on this world." In theory. It still could have been an accidental spell. "Maybe." At least she would allow that much.

"So basically, until you see them do something openly hostile or suspicious you're giving them blind faith." That would be all well and good if they turn out to be on the up and up, but if not you've already supplied them with valuable data. "We have two very different ways of approaching this..." Hel would wait until they earned her trust before supplying anything.

"Do you have a name?" Feeling that their initial subject was exhausted by this point.

[delusionsofleveilleur]

"Alphinaud Leveilleur," he introduces with a polite bow. He's glad that their difference of opinions hasn't caused any tension between them, but at this fact, he does find it amazing what simple civility can do. Would that others could see and learn from this.

"I suppose that does align with my criteria. Until I find evidence of something unsavory, I see no reason not to lend mine own aid," he continues. "I have been betrayed once in such a fashion. Still, as much regret as filled my heart at that time, I should not like to instead make the mistake of assuming those intentions on someone who was not involved." That said, he also knows this is his own point of view, and he doesn't hold it against her for being more cautious. "Might I ask your name as well?"

[paradoxical_personality]

Hel could come across as too sarcastic at times, or cold at others but in spite of her faults she was usually willing to hear someone out. There were a few occasions where her and her companions jumped into battle too quickly, but let's not talk about those. Cough. "That name sounds Elven," Unsure if elves even existed in that other plane.

"May you not find yourself regretting that decision this time." Alphinaud had impressed her both with the way he carried himself and his acknowledgement that there were different ways to approach the same situation. Some of the other students acted as if everything was black and white to them. It was better to examine a situation from multiple angles. "I can see your point..." He wanted to give everyone a fair trial.

"I'm Hel, Queen of the underworld and Goddess of death."

[delusionsofleveilleur]

There's that term again. "Elven," or "elf," he's now heard several times. He's deduced that there are enough similarities both in etymology and physiology to compare to "Elezen," but it's strange that so many from different places share the same conventions otherwise.

That said, he hopes as well that he does not regret it, though it isn't a pressing concern of his right now. He's glad to have been offered the chance to speak his mind, and she graciously listened despite holding a separate opinion. Then... She introduces herself, and he finds that he is entirely unprepared for such a title.

"A goddess?" he echoes back, as if in disbelief. Rather, it isn't that he is inclined to not believe her, but... She does seem like just a normal girl. Is that a result of her transfer to this world...? If so, the implications of this are not to his liking. If even a deity could be torn from their realm...