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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Re: Orientation

[bluebloodyblazes]

He'd been too fixated on the Things and Stuff happening that he hadn't actually paid any attention to who he was talking to. He'd gone to reply to her because that sounded really really awesome, but the second he'd look up and seen who he was talking to, he'd gone abruptly red and quiet.

Holy shit she was pretty. And Hot. Pretty Hot. Oh no.

"Uh-h, uh, Wand of Wind?" He stutters out. Smooth, kid.

[sorewatopsecret]

Being a rather popular idol back in her world, men gawking at her to the point of awkwardness was nothing new. An idol's looks were just as important as their ability to sing, dance, and entertain, so it isn't as if she wasn't ignorant to her own beauty. Therefore, all things concerned, she takes his sudden loss of words and energy quite gracefully. Actually, it's a bit remarkable she's taking any of this gracefully, being under-dressed for the frigid weather with only a long sundress and short-sleeved denim jacket.

"Fufu~" She giggles lightly, playing ignorant to his obvious starstruck(?) reaction. How endearing. "Indeed, good sir. It conjures up winds with the slightest movement. Unfortunately, I had not known this upon receipt, and inadvertently blown the shingles off someone's roof..."

[bluebloodyblazes]

It takes some effort for him to shake himself out of it, but he does manage after a few long seconds.

"Awh man, don't call me Sir," he grimaces, "That stuff's for my brother and my dad," He does not want the responsibility that comes with 'Sir', no thank you! He laughs when she mentions the roof thing, though.

"Pahah, really? Did you get away before they found you?"

[sorewatopsecret]

Mm, that would be a hard habit to break, with her excessively formal speech being reinforced into her since she was young... But, she'll try. To drop the "good sir"/anata-sama. At his questions, she merely maintains her polite smile.

"Well... I suppose the matter has been long resolved," she replies cryptically, providing an answer yet no information about what has transpired. In fact, she changes the subject rather smoothly. "It is rather cold, is it not? Yet you are in good spirits. Most excellent. I am certain that can-do attitude will bet a great asset to us in returning the Sundered home."