September Event Log

[magicademymods]

September Event Log Here's One For Free Something about the fall brings out the best in cooks, chefs, and vendors across Anastara, a flurry and frenzy of cooking, experimenting, and tasting that goes miles towards filling bellies left hungry by the hard work of comfortable days and the encroaching chill of cool nights. Bread and bread-relatives in particular take center stage this year, with pretzels, hoagies, buns, and pies coming out in immense quantity. The reason? Cheap cheap grain from the Efrecka Principality, where the court wizard advanced agriculture by leaps and bounds through the simple act of blessing the rains. In fact, such is the bounty that numerous restaurants, street vendors, and stall merchants have begun offering samples to the public, under the not-at-all-alarming principle of "the first one is free". And while this technique is actually producing dividends (unlike previous tactics of "an offer you can't refuse" and "those are nice kneecaps, it'd be a shame if someone broke them because you didn't buy a knave sandwich"), no one quite accounted for the interaction of magic-infused grain and whatever weirdness courses through the Sundered. So what happens? Well, ever heard of "potion miscibility" rules? Maybe you start breathing fire or acid. Maybe you're terribly flatulent, dizzy, confused, or inexplicably forgotten by gravity. Maybe something wonderful happens and you sprout awesome wings. Maybe something terrible happens and you sprout awesome wings from your nostrils. Whatever the case, you're on an adventure now, for however long this lasts... What Do I Look Like, A Charity Case? Unlike the vast majority of students, the Sundered don't come to the school with a lot of resources and more on the way from home as needed. Though by no means does anyone look down on them for this, the Magicademy recognizes this as an unfortunate disadvantage. After all, not every Sundered is suited for gainful employment in Anastara -- some of them look like dragons, for example, and some of them have the social graces of a pie to the face, if the pie was full of poo and artificial waffles. So the Magicademy has offered to pay the Sundered a fair and decent wage for various jobs around the school. Groundskeeping, for example, has fallen behind while Meliandre Tomekin has reluctantly taken her golem servitors offline for a much needed dezanyfication. Students can earn their way by wrangling leaves and plants trying to get ready for winter. For the more prideful, pairs of Sundered can give tours of the facilities to prospective students and their families. Headmaster Birony has an opening for a test dummy, if you feel life is no longer worth living. Whatever your flavor of labor, you can find a way to make some extra dough. Or money, since the dough is probably magical and dangerous as detailed one prompt up. I Threw It On the Ground Most magic classes have reached a point in their curriculum where they address utilizing the local environment for practical and aesthetic effect in spellcasting. Discovery, for example, addresses the creation of material half-in, half-out of objects, which is easily practiced by conjuring a plant of some sort that is properly rooted. Fantastics covers illusion interactions with terrain, as well as style, so students of that art find themselves conjuring flashes and fires that erupt upwards from the ground and also appear to affect the environment. Modification concerns itself with properly accounting for environmental barriers, such as constraints posed by the floor. And Glyphics teaches how to bind these spells into fanciful objects, like glass spheres that shattered and release their spell when smashed at the feet of the wizard in question. So as part of classes, and part of homework, aspiring wizards are casting, conjuring, creating, and changing objects with dramatic gestures and waving wands, all focused on the ground in front of them. Needless to say, some results are particularly spectacular. A geyser of water? A rock the size of a building? Blinding light? Accidentally Modifying your partner's pants? The sky's the limit, and we mean that literally, because you probably don't have the magical wherewithal to achieve escape velocity yet. I'm An Adult Particularly concerned with the behavior of some of the latest Sundered, he's not pointing any fingers but he's getting a little tired of certain students coming up with wacky variants on his House's name, Professor Trammel has taken it upon himself to set up optional deportment and courtesy classes. Well, 'optional' unless you're in Gekronus Maius, since he can order you all to attend, and very, very, uncomfortably encouraged by everyone else for the other Sundered. Needless to say, much of these courses goes over poorly with the student body, but one section in particularly has an unusually strong grip: Style. No one, absolutely no one, can deny that Professor Trammel has and understands style, and he is exceptionally willing to share that benefit with you. The cut of suits, the length of dresses, the proper fit of vests, the flow of capes and cloaks, the power of iconic appearances and distinct silhouettes... he is a master of all these things, and the spells necessary to achieve them. Already, many students are going about campus looking far more snappy than ever before. Is this the time to take on a new look? Or maybe you have an old one from home you'd like to recreate? Could his advice on self-care benefit you? Or maybe you're just determined not to change... The moral of this story is... YOU CAN'T TRUST THE SYSTEM.

Comments

[phoenixwiz]

Oh Merlin, this elf owl is so adorable! He can’t ignore Spike for long, the pygmy owl hoots in return as he slowly warms up to the other owl and flaps his wings in joy.

“Hey, I have a feeling that they’re going to be good friends in the long run, June,” he smiles at the owl, “Could I pet Spike on the head?”

[sweetsummerchild03]

Spike responds with another cheerful hoot, hopping off June's shoulder and onto her hand in order to get closer.

With a giggle, June nods. "It looks like they already really like each other!" She lifts up her hand, careful so that Spike can keep his balance while perched on her fingers. "And sure! Spike also likes getting scratched on the side of his head."

[phoenixwiz]

The two owls are definitely having a good time with each other as they hoot in delight. Harry is happy to see that his owl familiar is starting to warm up to other familiars after being a little awkward for weeks.

He then proceeds to pet Spike on the side of his head and is already making a new friend as well. To be fair, he still misses Rose and Hedwig dearly, but for now, he is at least glad that he gets to befriend other familiars in Anastara, especially when they belong to the new friends he has made in the world.

[sweetsummerchild03]

Spike's feathers fluff a bit as Harry pets him, giving another happy hoot and earning a giggle from June.

"It looks like he likes you too!" she says. "Can I pet yours too? What's his name?"

[phoenixwiz]

“Oh sure, go right ahead, June,” he happily replies while the owl lowers his head for her to pet on.

Oh wait, he hasn’t named his owl yet! Oh Merlin, what should he name him? Hold on, after some time of thinking, he finally decides to name his familiar after a friend, well, a brother of a friend, but still a friend no less.

“I’m gonna name him Percy, I got the name from one of my friends from my world: a brother of one of my best friends in fact,” he adds in after he finally decided on a name.

[sweetsummerchild03]

"Aw, that's so sweet!" she says with a giggle, as she gently pets the Pygmy Owl. "Hi, Percy!"

[phoenixwiz]

The little Pygmy Owl has a fun time getting pet on the head from June as Harry watches them bonding together. He is also having a good time with Spike too as he pets him too.

“Hey, he is starting to like you already, June,” he tells her, “He is quite shy to begin with, but at least he tries his best everyday and can warm up to anybody as much as he can.”

[sweetsummerchild03]

She glances up at Harry for a brief moment before looking back to Percy. "Aww, are you having trouble making friends? I know how that is too, but at least you're trying! That's a good start."

[phoenixwiz]

Percy hoots back as he flaps his wings about in agreement. The poor little owl wasn’t sure how to be more socially active with people and familiars before Harry came along, so it did took a while for him to help him out of his shell. But the results of bonding together certainly reap a lot of rewards.

“He’s doing very well to adjusting so far, I do hope that he is able to be more open to more people and not worry about everything too much,” Harry adds in as he speaks.

Spike is also having a great time as he happily hoots in response to the young man petting him even more.

[sweetsummerchild03]

June nods. "I'm sure he will! It'll just take a bit of time."

[phoenixwiz]

“Same here,” he chimes in, “It will take a while, but I know that he can do anything in the end. Isn’t that right, Percy?”

The pygmy owl hoots back to him, a serene face of happiness greeting the wizard in delight.

[sweetsummerchild03]

"Yeah! And we'll be there to help him too!"

Spike gives a hoot in agreement.

[phoenixwiz]

Percy happily hops up and down in delight as Harry lets out a big grin in his face and sees him and Spike having a great time with each other.

“That’s really brilliant and kind of you two,” he replies in delight, “Percy appreciates it, it does mean a lot for him to be more social with everyone and I’m glad that he is not going to be alone on this campus.”

[sweetsummerchild03]

She nods. "Yeah! Even if you or I can't be with him, at least Spike can, right? Then they can do all the things that familiars do, together!"

June really has no idea what else familiars do, but it sounds adorable.

[phoenixwiz]

Harry is pretty relieved to know that the two owls can still be he best of friends even without them around, such as when they need to attend classes of course. He can already see them being happy flying buddies.

“Exactly, they can be great friends for life,” he smiles back at June, feeling glad that his familiar is making friends in a good pace so far.

[sweetsummerchild03]

"Yeah! Friends for life!" She's excited for them too.