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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[woo_oo]

[That... was an odd direction for the conversation to take. She tilts her head, and her snake copies the action.]

... I can take care of myself. Besides, if you're in trouble, I want to help. If you act weird, there's probably a reason for it, and we can work together to fix it.

[She is NOT going to lose another friend, dammit.]

[darkenedmoon]

[This is why she normally did not lend herself to having friends. You could command those subservient to you. Friends were not. How...annoying. Ugh. Still, the child seemed wise, and so Yotsuyu had to trust in the good sense she'd shown so far.]

If you must. But use your utmost caution, do you hear me? I have enough blood on my hands already. I do not want to add to it with yours. You are undeserving of harm.

[Which might insinuate that others in Yotsuyu's experience were deserving of it. Here, that remains to be seen...]

[woo_oo]

[To anyone else, those would be HUGE WARNING FLAGS.

To aaaanyone else.]

Well, far as I know, the same goes to you, okay? This could be a fresh new start for all of us, so I'm going to think with a positive attitude!

[darkenedmoon]

There are those who would disagree with you--at least on the former. As for the fresh start--you have touched on precisely what I am hoping for, here.

[The thoughts of "Tsuyu" are still somewhat fresh in her mind, after all. Even if Yotsuyu felt like she didn't have much chance back in Doma, well. Here no one knew her. And there was this youngling who was practically infecting her with her positive attitude.

No bad thing, in her mind.]

I do hope you have the right of it. And I shall try to keep thinking positively, because you do have the right of it!

[woo_oo]

So I'll believe in you! And if you have trouble believing in yourself, just remember that I still will! It'll go around in a neat little circle.

[She knocks a fist to her head playfully.]

It takes a lot to un-convince me of something.

[darkenedmoon]

So I see. [About the un-convincing. Still, with Webby's conviction, Yotsuyu has to admit that it might be nice to have someone in her corner. Someone she hasn't terrified or manipulated to be there. Someone who is there because of...friendship?

Oh, if the Eorzeans could see her now...]

It will be nice to have someone on my side. Thank you, Webby.