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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[ oh, no she doesn't! Lloyd's quick to move to grab a hold of Fluttershy in an attempt to steady her before she ended up faceplanting into the snow. thank goodness his abilities weren't too heavily dampened… ]
You don't look okay. Don't you have a coat?
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N-Not really...I...When I was brought here, I didn't have time to...grab a coat or anything.
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Ugh, what're they even thinking…? [ the question was mainly rhetorical. he shrugs off his coat (Eiather colors, if Fluttershy's familiar with the house colors already), already draping it around the other girl's shoulders if she allowed it. ]
Here, you can borrow my coat. I got a bunch of stuff when I first got here, and I don't really need it right now.
[ an understatement considering he's covered from the neck down. ]
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Still, she's too surprised to really stop him from putting the coat over her shoulders, though she does look up at him.]
O-Oh, um...th-thank you, but...are you sure?
[She could see that he did seem to be covered, but she still couldn't help feeling a little bad.]
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[ Lloyd pats his chest, as though showing off the thicker fabric of his usual wear. aside from a red nose from the sting of the cold, he seems to be handling it perfectly well. ]
Trust me, I've been to a lot of snowy places in just this. [ one, really. ] This is a piece of cake.
Where you headed, by the way? I was headed for the cafeteria. [ a beat. ] Wherever that is.
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Well...i-if you're sure... [And she does pull the coat a bit closer, because it is warm.] Th-Thank you.
I-I was...heading to the dorms. B-But I just came from the cafeteria, so I can show you where it is, if you'd like.
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[ he'll sweep an arm in the general direction of where he believes she came from, moving to follow her. he makes sure to keep his pace slow so he doesn't accidentally outrun the girl.
after a bit he pipes up again. ]
I'm Lloyd, by the way. So you came in in that airship-thing, too?
[ she did mention that she was 'brought' here… maybe the same way he was? ]
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At his question, she nods.]
I-I was, yes. My name's Fluttershy. It's nice to meet you.
So you came from another world too?
[It makes sense that he's not from here, if he's trying to find the cafeteria. But learning that there were so many different worlds, and getting to meet people from them, is really interesting.]
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Nice to meet you, too!
I did, yeah. It's a lot different from what I'm used to when it comes to the "traveling between worlds" kind of thing.
[ partly because he didn't come here willingly and he has no idea how to get back. ]
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My friend, Sunset Shimmer, she's here too, and she came from another world. I know about them, thanks to her, but this is the first time I've been to a different world for myself.
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Yeah, I've only been to one other one! [ well. two counting this place. ] Though where I went to was… technically the same world? Just like, half of it. Except we couldn't just sail across the ocean to reach it?
[ now he's confusing himself again. ]
It's a long story.
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So the two worlds were connected in a way, despite being separated?
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But we found a way to bring them back together so that no one would suffer or have to sacrifice each other.
[ results are still pending on that. ]