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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Familiar Follies

[outofyourshadow]

Unfortunately, the near-sighted familiar is going to get a bat flying around its tentacles, teasing it and leading it to bump into other familiars, making a sound that was akin to a laugh.

Meanwhile, Lena stood watching a safe distance away.

"...Do they make glasses for giant eyeballs?"

[burningbrighter]

Sunset frowned, but didn't intervene. Monarious really deserved this one, she thought.

"No, but I should really look into that. He's constantly been getting lost. Maybe I could make some with magic when we start forging?"

Worth a try, maybe.

[outofyourshadow]

After a close encounter with a swatting tentacle, the bat finally grew tired of its game and flew back over to Lena, perching on her shoulder.

"Maybe. At least he'll look pretty dapper with a monocle."

As dapper as a giant eye creature with tentacles could look, anyway.

[burningbrighter]

"He would! Yours is pretty cute too," Sunset finally said with a gentle smile. "How's settling in going?"

[outofyourshadow]

The bat on her should seemed to beam proudly at that, and Lena snickered a bit.

"Careful. You might give him a big head."

He gave a protesting chatter, and she rolled her eyes before replying to Sunset, "About as well as can be expected, I guess, considering we were snatched up from our own worlds and forced to learn magic against our will."

So pretty all right.

[burningbrighter]

"Heh. That's not the worst thing. And...yeah, when you put it that way, it's not the most awesome. And it's so easy for things to go wrong when people gain new magic they don't understand."

She's guilty as charged, but so many people in her world were too...

"I really hope our professors know what they're doing. But I'll have to be careful in case they're not."

[outofyourshadow]

She couldn't help a small snort, "If they knew what they were doing, we'd all be home by now."

Clearly, she didn't have a high opinion of the people in charge here.

[burningbrighter]

"Exactly. But maybe we can help figure it out? We've come from places they've never heard of...so maybe once we start to learn magic, we can do new things with it."

She could hope, anyway.

[outofyourshadow]

She shrugged. "Maybe. Not like we have much of a choice anyway."

That was the worst part in all this. That they didn't have a choice, and it was either learn magic or get blown up.

[burningbrighter]

"For now, yeah. That's really rough. But...I think as we learn, we might have a better chance to really make a difference."

She wasn't entirely convinced, but optimism was always good to have!

[outofyourshadow]

Optimism is good to have, especially to counter people who don't seem to have anyway.

"If they let us. I doubt they'll really teach us any of the good stuff."

Not that she could actually blame them. Considering they were brought with "forbidden" magic, keeping them from learning the more powerful spells would be a precaution that even she'd probably take in their position.