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

[idealistic]

[ Lloyd is quite confused, considering it doesn't even occur to him that her actions weren't voluntary this whole time.

until now, at least. ]

Wait. So you're not doing that on purpose? [ a+ questioning, there. ]

[logdates]

Not at all.

[She glances down at her feet, with unusual timidity as she speaks.]

I'm not sure what I can do about it...

[idealistic]

[ he regards the girl for a few more beats before his face splits into one of those grins where you just know he's going to say something stupid. ]

It doesn't seem so bad. Look at it this way: now you move twice as fast! You'll never be late for class, and you can easily kick anyone's butt in a footrace.

[logdates]

[Peridot regards Lloyd carefully. Some might guess he was joking, but she's still figuring that kind of social stuff out, so she doesn't. She does think he might be a fool, though.]

It'll be good to be punctual, but I don't think that really outweighs the inconvenience here.

[idealistic]

[ the sad part is: Lloyd isn't joking at all. he's 100% serious. ]

Hmm… Yeah, the weird dancing might get annoying after a while. Maybe you can get someone to carry you if it gets too annoying?

Or find someone here to help make it stop. [ which, considering the existing student body, is not very likely. but he can dream. ]

[logdates]

The latter. I'm not having someone carry me. Would you want someone carrying you?

[idealistic]

…

[ .......... ]

Good point. Think we should start with those guys wanting to do the tests, first?

[logdates]

Seems like a good place to start, yes.

[idealistic]

[ Lloyd's already on his way to the doors that led into the testing room before Peridot even finished. as the doors were closed, he opted to knock on them instead of just barging in like a heathen.

that knocking turns to banging.

that banging turns to hollering. ]

Hellooooo?! Hey!! Is anyone in there?!

[logdates]

[Peridot sighs, watching him, and walks over to Lloyd. Or... Tries to walk over to him, and ends up overstepping her mark a bit.]

If there was, I'm sure they would have come out by now. If only to make you stop doing that.

[idealistic]

Ugh… dammit.

[ he does stop once Peridot drops the logic bomb on him, testing the handle for good measure. no dice. lovely. ]

I don't remember seeing any doors in there. [ then again, not a lot of details from the room comes to mind. ] I can try walking faster if you wanna come with while I look for someone?