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
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diatu2019-02-06 03:27 pm
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[While normally she would have been excited to about meeting Louie - a duck with a hoodie? How adorable was that? - it was curbed by her concern after seeing him fall.
Making her way over - carefully - she offers a hand to help him up.]
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[He takes Fluttershy's hand and pulls himself up.]
Thanks, though.
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My name's Fluttershy. What's your name?
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[Although... It's hard to be sure. She does have a pretty unique look to her.]
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That's right. I came from another world too.
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[Okay, it's getting hard for him to ignore that something seems kind of off, here.]
Are you okay?
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O-Oh...yes, I'm all right. Sorry, I...
[She debates about how to explain it to him, but eventually she just gives up.]
You're just...so cute!
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[The words are out of his mouth too quickly; sound too indignant - he feels like a small child the moment he says them.]
I mean - ugh! - why would you say that?
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Sorry, sorry! It's just, well, ducks don't wear clothes where I'm from, and your hoodie is really nice.
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[He's not angry, it's just... Cute? Really? Ew. Anyway, (future) CEOs of massively successful corporations aren't cute!]
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Still, she is at least apologetic.]
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend you.
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Nah, it's okay. I just... I don't think anyone's called me that since I was little.
[He shrugs.]
You'll my friends from home, then, though. Like... Lena has hair kind of like yours - colorwise.
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[She's trying to contain her excitement, because MORE ADORABLE DUCKS.]
That's great. One of my friends is here too, and it's such a relief not to be all alone.
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[And he... Honestly can't help smiling at that. In fact, he doesn't even try not to.]
It is pretty nice to have some familiar faces around, isn't it?
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It really is. It makes things a lot less intimidating, especially in such a strange setting like this.
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[She is genuinely curious, but she also just wants to keep a conversation going.]
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Evil shadows. Mummies. Murder ponies. Ghosts. Crazy businessmen with amnesia. Stuff like that.
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[She seems to consider this for a moment.]
Back home, my friends and I deal with a lot of strange things too. Mostly magic, and people getting consumed by magic and turning into raging monsters. We also had to deal with Sirens, and someone using magic to erase people's memories.
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Yeah, people forgetting everything is one I hate. It's a good con, and all, but as a real thing? It's just frustrating.
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Especially if memories are magically tampered with. When we were dealing with it, a bunch of us had our memories erased of one of our best friends, and caused us to hate her.
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[Unless your name was "Gladstone Gander," he supposed.]
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[That's pretty awesome, right?]