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!

Comments

[bearshermark]

[Eleven leans in to peer at it.]

Hm. I wonder why? This world is so full of magic. It's odd that ours are all locked away. But I guess it has something to do with the type of magic being used..

[He straightens with a shrug]

I wish I could talk to animals.

[shiningkindness]

[She nods.]

I guess so. And I guess it wouldn't be fair to other students who don't have magic if some of us knew how to use some already. Even if the magic we use in our own worlds is different.

[She lets the geode hang from her neck again.]

...Oh! Maybe we can find a spell in this world that will let us talk to animals.

[She sure does miss it.]

[bearshermark]

[Eleven brightens at the thought]

I hope so. What sort of things did you learn from them when you could?

[shiningkindness]

Oh, I learned so much! Getting to talk with animals, I got to know all about their thoughts and feelings, and their different personalities.

[bearshermark]

[He tries to imagine what that might be like]

That sort of power sounds wonderful. I hope you can relearn or have it restored to you.

[shiningkindness]

[She smiles brightly.]

Thank you. I hope so too.

What kind of magic did you have where you came from?