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

Uh huh. Suuuuure.

[nobodys_puppet]

"I don't belong to you! You didn't make me! So let me go!" she demanded, flailing helplessly as best she could, stuck in the air.

That's what they all say!

[king_of_egypt]

As they drew nearer to the entrance, he started to feel more and more apprehensive. "If you continue to flail like this and raise your voice than even more people are going to know about your presence here. I thought you wanted to avoid exposure?" It was a weak method of trying to calm her down but the attempt was made. "No one can truly own another person besides..."

Hey, she didn't claim she was innocent...

[nobodys_puppet]

He was trying to control her, like Saïx. "If you let me go then no one else would see me," she snapped back at him. "And since I'm not a person, that rule doesn't apply. Let me go!"

No she didn't

[king_of_egypt]

"I will let you go....." A pointed pause. "After we enter the institution." He was looking forward to getting inside himself, and part of him hoped they had an open fire or a furnace vent he could hover beside. His limbs had become numb from the cold and it would take a bit of a wait to get warmed up again.

"Almost there."

The crystal followed along dutifully behind his master.

Re: No she didn't

[nobodys_puppet]

"You mean after you've trapped me so that I can't escape."

And she noticed he didn't reply to her other point, proving that he knew all along that she didn't count at a person, that his words about not owning her were hollow. She wasn't taking orders anymore, however. Not from Saïx, not from Xemnas, not from him.

[king_of_egypt]

Another deep sigh. "I have no affiliation with this world nor the academy but it is preferable to freezing to death."

That was an oversight he would regret not addressing again. He'd already said that you couldn't truly own someone else, and he considered her a person so what more could he say? "I do wish, you would at least give me a chance before you assume I'm up to something nefarious....".

At least most of the other arrivals had cleared out. He approached the door and held it open for Capricius.

[nobodys_puppet]

"I gave you a chance. You said you were leaving, then stole me." Not kidnapped. Stole. "After telling me my own desires were less important than yours. What exactly am I assuming?"

[king_of_egypt]

"You told me you wanted to kill yourself, how was I supposed to leave you then?" There really would be no arguing with her. "I certainly didn't mean to imply that your desire to save that Sora character were any less important than my desire to protect you from yourself, I only questioned the legitimacy of your solution. If left to carry it out, there would be no turning back from it."

Striding inside, his familiar followed with the girl in tow.

"I happen to believe that all life is precious." He turned to look towards her as the door shut behind them. "That would include yours..."

"You're so quick to throw your own life away..." Not like anyone else he knew. Cough cough.. Atem had sacrificed his life not once, but essentially twice in his quests to save the world.

[nobodys_puppet]

She had already tried... and wound up here instead of succeeding. "You were supposed to leave me by walking away," she said under her breath. "And I am not actually alive, so I don't have a life to care about!"

[king_of_egypt]

Perhaps there was a reason for that. There might have been another path she must walk first, before fulfilling this destiny of hers. "I almost did... but my familiar didn't think it was for the best. I quite agree with him." "Funny you should say that..." He trailed off thinking better of explaining. Atem was straight from the afterlife himself. "You seem fairly lively to me." Lingering near the door, he decided to flag down the first person he saw that looked official. They might frown on the tactics he'd used in bringing the girl here, however they would know what to do from there. Surely. While they waited he thought to ask. "Do you have a name?"

[nobodys_puppet]

"There is nothing funny about it," she snapped, still struggling.

She might be ignoring his question...

[king_of_egypt]

"I suppose not," At least not to her. It came as little surprise that she didn't wish to introduce herself.

"I'm Atem," Seeing no harm in telling her his name, and perhaps she would return in kind. Although he highly doubted it.

[nobodys_puppet]

"You think knowing your name changes anything? Let me go. This isn't your concern. I don't belong to you, so what do you care of a broken puppet gets destroyed!"

[king_of_egypt]

"Just attempting some civility." Atem explained calmly, his patience was renewed now that he was starting to thaw out. "That's a terrible way to describe yourself, or anyone." "I never want to get to the point where I lose all sense of compassion." Oh, good. He saw someone in very official looking robes approaching. It wouldn't be much longer now before he could leave this to the authorities of this academy. He only hoped they would have more luck than he did.

[nobodys_puppet]

"There is no reason a Somebody should be civil to a Nobody, especially a broken failure of one like me! Just let me go!"

What... was compassion...? She wasn't sure she could recall ever having heard the word....