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 Week/magic Mayhem

[nobodys_puppet]

Okay, snow... was not an ideal condition for Xion. For one thing all that white made the all black coat really stand out. For another thing, when Xion slipped away from the group looking for a place to hide... someone might have left footprints. And then got horribly lost.

Dare you follow those odd booted prints away from the main group?

[burningbrighter]

Sunset was generally an observant one. Footprints leading away weren't good. What if someone was lost? Or hurt? It was really dangerous to be alone in a place like this.

She gingerly stepped along the path, calling out in the hopes of finding them safe and sound. "Hello?"

[nobodys_puppet]

Hearing someone call after her pushed Xion to run faster. A root under the snow that she clearly could not see caught her boot, and the girl went down with a small cry.

[burningbrighter]

"Wait!"

Sunset pushed herself to run faster, her odd familiar (tentacles and eyeballs and all) curled around her arm. She leapt over the branch and skidded to a stop in front of the hooded figure, crouching a short distance away.

"Hey. Relax. I'm not here to hurt you, okay?"

[nobodys_puppet]

Xion pulled up to her knees and glanced back, one gloved hand going to make sure her hood was still down. She didn't know what to do. How was she supposed to blend into the darkness surrounded by all this cold white snow?

[king_of_egypt]

After arriving at the school, Atem took a moment to stand back and get a good look at it. That, and he was giving the other sundered a chance to enter before him. Even though he wasn't exactly dressed for the weather having been in Egypt one minute and here the next, his concern for others still extended beyond himself.

It was during some quiet contemplation when he noticed the footsteps. Boy did he choose the wrong day to wear sandals. Still, he started to follow the tracks. If he got misplaced he could always follow them back.

[nobodys_puppet]

Hearing someone coming behind her, Xion broke into a run. Which did not go so well for her when her boot snagged on a root under the snow, sending her sprawling...

[king_of_egypt]

The sound of footfalls alerted Atem that he had been close, and frightening whoever it was hadn't been his intent. "Wait!" He called out, looking for the fleeing figure. He caught a hint of black right before it slipped out of view so he aimed for that.

When he did get a better look, he was standing just a few paces from the fallen figure. "You don't have to run." Atem kneeled down and offered the stranger a hand up. "I know this might be very disorienting for you, but it is for all of us. They- the school and it's staff, they only want to help us". Presumably.

[nobodys_puppet]

She looked back, one snow and glove covered hand coming up to make sure her hood is pulled over her face. "I am not supposed to be here." Or at all. She ignored the offered hand.

[woo_oo]

Mysterious footprints? Count her in!

She's leaning in closely with each step, loudly narrating her adventure.

"They appear to belong to a tall creature, but the indentation in the tracks convey something else..."

[nobodys_puppet]

The odd narration was actually weird enough that Xion stopped to see what or who in what world was coming to her, though she kept her hood down over her face. Seeing Webby approaching, she dropped into a defensive crouch and tried to summon her Keyblade.

Nothing.

She tried to summon fire magic.

Nothing.

She looked around for a stick.

Nothing.

Xion turned and ran.

[woo_oo]

Oh come on, now you're just baiting her.

"ARE THESE YOUR FOOT PRINTS?" Webby calls out as she hears the noise, and immediately gives chase.

[nobodys_puppet]

What in the worlds? Nothing had really prepared Xion for this, and frankly, she wasn't even supposed to exist any more! Not that Nobodies really counted as existing.

She kept running. In some ways, the snow was like sand in how it moved under her feet. She was used to sand. In other ways, however, snow was nothing like sand. It clung more heavily, the cold made muscles weaker, and snow... covered tree roots.

Xion's boot snagged and down she went.

[shiningkindness]

Truth be told, Fluttershy had also been getting some space from the rest of the crowd. She'd been wandering a bit herself, and had started following the footprints in hopes of finding her way back.

When it was clear that the footprints were getting farther from everyone else, though, she started feeling a bit nervous.

"H...H-Hello...?"

[nobodys_puppet]

A crunch up ahead in the snow. Hearing someone call out, Xion had frozen then had tried to run. Which was why she caught her foot on a root...and went sprawling in the snow.

[shiningkindness]

Hearing the unmistakable sound of someone falling, even muffled by the snow, she hurried to catch up.

“A-Are you all right?”

[nobodys_puppet]

Xion tried to get up, but her foot was well and thoroughly caught. She twisted, looking back at the approaching person.

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[bluebloodyblazes]

Footprints? Leading off to god knows where? Rin's there. There's no Kuro or Yukio to tell him otherwise, after all.

He follows the footprints pretty easily, catching up to the person at the other end.

"Hey, you alright?"

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[nobodys_puppet]

She spun hearing someone talking. She was hoping they weren't talking to her, but no such luck. She drew her Keyblade...or... rather... she tried to.

Nothing.

She froze, hoping somehow he wouldn't see the figure all in black against the white of the snow. That he'd think he imagined her... or... something.

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[bluebloodyblazes]

"Uh... Okay? Dude are you alright?" Rin keeps walking towards the figure, but does manage to stop a respectable distance away.

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[nobodys_puppet]

She stepped back slowly. "Forget you saw me."

[stillnewatthis]

Oh, this was not good! Some poor soul had gotten lost in the snow! "I must find this person," Orisa said out loud, somewhat used to having Efi nearby to confer with. "This weather could cause them harm!"

Having so decided, the massive robot tromped along forward at a good clip, all four feet leaving strange markings in the snow as she passed.

[nobodys_puppet]

Hearing something rather large approaching, Xion broke into a run. Which led immediately into Xion landing face first in the snow. All in all, this was not her best day, and given what had happened just before arrival, that was saying something.

[stillnewatthis]

Movement up ahead! Orisa slowed down to a deliberate pace, pitching her vocal projectors for volume. "Hello? Excuse me! Are you lost?"

[nobodys_puppet]

Lost? Oh very much so. Not that Xion was going to admit to that. "I am not lost," she lied through her teeth and hood.