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 Week/magic Mayhem

[nobodys_puppet]

She stepped back slowly. "Forget you saw me."

[bluebloodyblazes]

"What? You're just gonna try and tell me to 'forget' that I just saw some weird-ass girl in a black coat skulking around reaching for a weapon that isn't there on instinct? Yeah, no, don't think so, buddy." He's well aware he's got Kurikara on his back if he needs it, and he's super grateful to whatever gods saw fit to let him keep that at the very least.

[nobodys_puppet]

"I mean it. Forget you saw me and leave!" she tried to sound forceful and demanding. Her voice cracked in the middle and mostly she sounded like a scared kid.

[bluebloodyblazes]

"Hey, look, you're not convincing anyone here," Rin doesn't move forward, but he does stand a little straighter.

"I don't know what's going on in your head but you don't look much like a local, and this a'int home, neither."

[nobodys_puppet]

She stepped back again, planning to break and run if she could get far enough away for a good heads start. She said nothing, watching him tense.

[bluebloodyblazes]

Rin frowns at her mannerism. Someone this cagey usually means something's wrong.

"Seriously though, are you hurt or somethin'?" He takes an unconcious step forward, opening his palms up as he asks her outright.

[nobodys_puppet]

She spun on her heel and tried to run from him. She was athletic enough, she could probably lose him, right?

[bluebloodyblazes]

"H-Hey!" Rin reaches a hand out, not really having any idea what's going on.

Before he realises what he's doing, his legs are moving forward at a pace to match her own. Too many demons have tried to lose him before, and apparently this is instinct now.

"I ain't gonna hurt ya! Do you even know where you're goin'?"

[nobodys_puppet]

"If you aren't going to hurt me, why are you chasing me?" she called back. "Just let me go!"

[bluebloodyblazes]

"Because you're really suspicious!" He yells back, and now that he knows he's gunning for it, will catch up surprisingly quickly if Xion doesn't shake him.

[nobodys_puppet]

She is trying, but she can't exactly summon a dark portal. Though she does scramble up some boxes to the roof of a building, hoping he won't follow her up there. But she doesn't stop to see, she runs for the far end, hoping there is a roof on the other side she could jump to.