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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[darkenedmoon]

"He is not my familiar. I have a snake. He is..." Yotsuyu really wasn't sure what to call the penguin. He was really too cute to be a nuisance, and she wasn't about to try to feed him to her snake, assuming he'd eat it in the first place. There were things more suited to being snake food, for certain.

"Around here somewhere," she finished lamely, but she had to agree with the girl. "He is cute, is he not? I hope they have food for him, too. I haven't the faintest idea what to feed him."

But she did scratch the penguin's head, which he seemed to enjoy, closing his eyes, parting his beak slightly, and leaning into it. "You may pet him as well, if you like."

[burningbrighter]

"A new friend, then. That's neat."

Sunset absolutely beams at the invitation and reaches up to pet him, marveling at the softness.

"But are you all right caring for two?"

[darkenedmoon]

"I shall be fine. Supposedly, this little one shall be going back to--where ever they happened to summon him from, sometime this evening. Until then, I shall do my best to care for him."

Yotsuyu paused, then.

"It is good practice, I suppose. Although I could wish his chosen method of transportation was different. I feel like a spectacle."

Though she really didn't seem that angry about it, if at all. More resigned than anything else.

"So, how have you been getting along, then?" Sunset certainly seemed chipper enough, but she thought she would ask anyway.

[burningbrighter]

Sunset is really enjoying herself.

"Aww, don't worry. With all the really weird familiars hanging around, you'll barely stick out at all. You should meet mine!"

The girl lifted her arm to reveal a mass of black tentacles curled around it, each with an eye of a different color on the end.

"This is Monarious. He has a lot of ancient magic, but he makes messes because he can't see too well."

[darkenedmoon]

Yotsuyu could not help but stare for a moment.

"Well. He is certainly unique, is he not? But he cannot see well? Perhaps he ought to be fitted with a monocle for each eye, then?"

She didn't mean it in jest, but she was rather uncertain if they had that sort of thing, here. "I am certain he does not mean to make messes. At least he does not pick fights with other familiars..."

She paused for a moment. "Or does he?"