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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Orientation

[talkyourwayout]

Louie wasn't a fan of being ordered around - not if it didn't pay - but he wasn't exactly interested in getting into any arguments. Not just yet. He caught the end of the cloth, and did as Hel said. He could see what she's getting at, and it wasn't a bad idea, anyway.

"Good thinking." Except... No matter how much he spread out the cloth, there seemed to be more to go. "...What is with this?"

[paradoxical_personality]

In truth, neither was Hel that's why she was giving orders instead of taking them. It was just fortunate that this Therian was willing to tolerate her behavior today. From her vantage point she watched him work, and it didn't take him long to spread out enough of the material to finish making her path. "That's plenty." Which was just her way of tell him that he could stop unfolding it.

"It's something that appeared to me when I arrived called the infinity cloth," It wasn't entirely unusual in her experience but uncommon such as when the rune knife made it's appearance in Midgard. she did question why this world thought a cloth was the most suitable item for her, however.

Placing down the end she'd been holding, Hel walked across to the other side without incident. "You did well." Or thank you. Cough.

[talkyourwayout]

"Wow, what an exciting welcome gift," Louie remarked, rolling his eyes. "This place is so weird, seriously..." He shook his head, then looked up at Hel once she crossed over to his side of the cloth.

"Uh, yeah, okay. Sure. You're welcome?"

[paradoxical_personality]

In spite her herself she smiled a little at that. "It's not exactly something warriors would embark on a lengthy journey to find, no." Cloth was hardly exciting, but at least it was already being useful in some capacity. "Did it gift you with anything when you arrived?"

She leaned over to pick up the cloth, rolling it up haphazardly just so she could get inside all the quicker. "You're the only Therian I've seen so far. Most of the sundered appear to be human." Trying to make some attempt at conversation.

[talkyourwayout]

"You know what? It didn't. I wonder if I should ask someone about that." Although, he really hoped that if he could get something out of the faculty, it would be something better than a frustrating cloth.

"Therian? I don't know what that is, so I'm pretty sure I can't be one. Unless that's a word for Duck where you're from," he said with a shrug. "Also, you seem... Kind of human." Just when he thought he had it all figured out.

[paradoxical_personality]

"How curious," Hel hadn't been sure if they all had received gifts or not but now there was evidence to the contrary. It might be something worth looking into further among the other sundered. "I wouldn't be sure who you could ask since no one handed me this thing to start with." It, like the rune knife must have chosen it's wielder.

"Maybe there's a different word for it in your land," And duck wasn't the word she was thinking. "They are sometimes referred to as beast-men." Waiting for a sign of recognition on that one. "Anyone possessing humanoid qualities and that of a beast." Essentially. Human? Excuse. Let's not be insulting duck man. "I am not human, I'm Aesir, A Goddess..."

[talkyourwayout]

"Oh." Louie sounded disappointed - he'd like the idea of at least maybe getting some cool magic treasure.

"Beast-men? I feel like I should be offended by that," he said, with a chuckle that indicated he wasn't in the slightest. "But a goddess, huh? That's cool." She seemed way cooler than the demi-god he knew, at least - infinitely more tolerable. "So... What are you a goddess of?"

[paradoxical_personality]

The let down was understandable, but Hel thought to remind him. "I got a piece of cloth....... you aren't missing much."

"It is not an offensive term," At least not where she was from, at least he seemed to find some humor in it. Some creatures could be too sensitive to such things. "Yes, a Goddess." She confirmed, though there wasn't much she could do to prove such a claim. Learning that he had at least met a demi-god would have piqued her interest. "The dead." Said without any kind of delay or buffer, hope that didn't come as too much of a surprise but all and all this duck seemed to be taking everything in stride. He was very well adjusted.

"I rule over Helheim."

[talkyourwayout]

Louie shrugged in response to the reminder. "I guess not... I don't know, though, you did already find a use for it."

"Helheim, like the Norse place?" he asked, looking surprised, though perhaps not for the reason most would be when realizing they were talking to the Goddess of an Underworld. It was just... He'd never expected any of that mythology stuff he'd picked up on here and there - usually from Webby, occasionally from Uncle Scrooge - to come up here. At home, it honestly would have been far less of a surprise. "Hey, what does a Goddess of the dead do, anyway? Do you just babysit ghosts all day?"