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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[bluebloodyblazes]

"So you're like, a fully sentient Robot? What the hell, that's so cool," he says, so much awe showing in his face. What's even more amazing is that he can't even sense any Demons in the Omnic, so yeah, she's completely not being run by another entity.

"Africa? Hey, that means you're from Earth, too! I'm from Japan, but I'm guessing like, way in the past. What year are you from? You said you're an Omnic but what's that?" He starts to shoot off questions like a kid in a toy-store.

[stillnewatthis]

"'Robot' is a fairly accurate term, and I do have a full complex AI. While I am programmed in various ways, I may act as I choose. And I am not certain the calendar is the same for both of us, so if I say the late 21st century, does that work for you?" Interesting! People could be brought here through time as well as space. That made sense but was a ramification she had not yet considered.

[bluebloodyblazes]

"Wow, that's pretty fuckin' amazing! I don't know shit about AI much, unless it's like, games and stuff." The closest he gets to AI nowadays is a demon possesing his computer... again.

"I'm from Early 21st, so you're like, actually from the future! That's so cool," he grins.

[stillnewatthis]

"That is logical. Space and time are the same thing, so magic which can manipulate space can also manipulate time." Or at least, that was logical on a scientific basis; Orisa didn't know to question if the rules applied to magic that way. "Most major AI advances came later in the century, so it is no surprise you are unfamiliar with them."

[bluebloodyblazes]

Rin just laughs, waving a hand in front of his face in that.

"Naw, I ain't a computers kinda guy anyway, my brother's way better at that than me. I'd be unfamiliar regardless," he chuckles.

"So our Sunderin's got people from all over time and space, huh? That's... Actually kind of scary. Didn't know anything this side of the Gehenna gate could do that."

[stillnewatthis]

"It really is not that surprising. Teleportation was being developed in my time. If a thing can be done with science, it is quite logical that magic can do it too." Orisa was not very disturbed by the implications, finding all of this quite cohesive if one simply accepted magic existed to begin with.