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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[stillnewatthis]

"That is correct," Orisa said, still quite cheerful despite her predicament. She shifted her fusion driver to support the arm in midair, slowly lifting it up. It wasn't quite oriented properly, but maybe Aaron could spin it? "My body parts are held together by localized electrotransmissive magnetic fields. Ordinarily only extreme force can break those fields, but magic appears to offer a unique exception."

[bornebygrace]

That was... a lot of very big words. He recognized some of those words, but he certainly couldn't tell someone what the meaning of that sentence was. He knew someone back at home that would know exactly what those words in that order meant, but... All of that went directly over his head.

"I'm gonna be honest with you - I have no clue what you just said..."

Aaron noticed that the arm wasn't quite oriented, slowly spinning it so as to not disturb the balance of the arm on the fusion driver. (He was not about to be responsible for dropping what looked like an expensive piece of machinery.)

"...But you seem to be taking this quite well. I think I would be quite more panicked if I were in your situation." He at least knew that the magnet part is why they wouldn't need some super scientist to fix her arm up, but the science behind it all was lost on him. He would watch as Orisa reattached her arm, making sure the arm stayed balanced and didn't fall off the fusion driver.

[stillnewatthis]

The arm indeed popped right back into place, the magnetic field reconnecting as soon as it approached its joint. Orisa closed the fingers of her hand, then reopened them and twisted it at the wrist.

"An electrotransmissive magnetic field is a magnetic field that electrical currents can pass through. That means I can move my hand and arm and receive feedback from it, even though there are no physical connections between the joints. As you can see, omnic engineering is quite different from human physiology, so our responses to different things will be very different."