October Event Log

[magicademymods]

October Event Log Visitors Visitors from other Magicademies aren't uncommon, of course. Diatu is home not only to the Sundered and their arrival, but also a dragon, the legacies of Anastara Diatu, Headmaster Birony, and that place that serves chili. It is uncommon for them to all show up in matching black robes like they just stalked out of a warlock convention, but then again, Diatu Magicademy has long since lost any idea of what normal behavior is. They bring an artifact, which apparently is draconic in nature, and to that extent, they ask to speak to Professor Ire regarding it. Naturally, the good Professor agrees, joining them on the Walk. Within one second of his arrival, golden chains of magic lash around his neck -- one from each of the visitors, who then begin to tighten them. Warcry Ire's roar is not subtle, nor is the way it chokes off. Within moments, pandemonium reins. For those brave souls who wish to engage the foreign wizards, know this: they are powerful, strangely so, with an odd force behind their spells and defenses that explains how they are strong enough to corral a dragon. They show no emotion, they feel no pain, and they will not let their attack on Ire fade for a second. But this is their weakness: much of their power is bound up in that attack. Their focus is primarily on the dragon, and so they do not defend themselves by simply slaying all who oppose them. They have one mission and one mission only. They have assistance, though. One of them has opened a portal, allowing hordes of devilish imps to run loose, heedless of the damage they might cause. These imps are sharp-toothed, sharp-clawed, and terribly quick, and they desire only to hurt and kill. Of course, the students of Diatu Magicademy are no cowards, and no pushovers; spells fly in response, explosions fill the air and singe hair off those too close, and the battle is sudden chaos worsening every minute as more imps pour out of the portal and more students race from every corner of the campus to join the fray. Tilt Where the hell is Headmaster Birony? Shouldn't she be deus ex machina-ing these situation like the absurdly-powerful wizard that she is, all evidence aside? That question receives a partial answer when the entire island of Ascelion drops six feet straight down. The drop is faster than gravity, as if something is in fact trying to pull the island down -- which means all people and all things upon it fall slower than it descends. The impact that comes when the island suddenly stops, and stops its inhabitants a moment later, is bone-jarring. Items shatter and snap across the island, canals overtop their channels and pour water onto the streets, bruises and sprains and breaks from the sudden blow are not the worst injuries inflicted. Then the island begins to lurch about like a Valhudor student after five straight days of partying, spinning and twisting and jerking around in midair. Students tumble to the ground in droves, exposing themselves to the imps as the tide of battle suddenly shifts. And shifts somewhat back, as the Professors arrive on scene, their powerful magics making up for the loss of support from the students. Tumbling, pitching, tilting, whirling, but the battle rages on still. Run away or fight, or simply try to help however you can... Slow and Steady Victory The dragon wizard Grieve accounted for almost everything. His magic, which humans would call Dictation, has rendered his human puppets strong and powerful. His scheme to unleash imps on the grounds has kept the students and faculty from focusing on freeing his victim. His assault on Ascelion itself keeps that meddling Headmaster occupied. Yes, the resistance has proven stronger than expected, but he is certain he will win! Grieve did not account for two things. First, Diatu is a ridiculous place. And second, he forgot that the Magicademy has one more sets of defenders. First one imp dies, cut in half by a sword stroke too swift for the eye. Then another, impaled by a spear which withdraws like the flick of an eyelash. Then a third, smashed ruthlessly as if by a giant's fist. Three allies arrive, to turn the tide: Ballet the Land Whale, wielding her sword; Tango the Land Dolphin, master of the spear; and Waltz the Land Wholphin, coming into her own as a student of the warhammer. With their ability to swim through the ground effortlessly, the cetaceans can strike at the imps from surprise and safety, which is all the forces of Diatu Magicademy need to begin pushing back! If you want to take out a wizard, close the portal, or sever the spells that bind Ire, now is the time to do it! Recovery The battle is won. Not without cost. The wizards have been taken into custody, though it's probably futile; when the dragon's magic released their minds, they were only confused and baffled at their situations. They likely remember nothing. Ire is all right. Despite the pain of the attack, he's honestly touched that the school rallied to his defense. But the students, the Magicademy, the city -- all of them have suffered from being shaken like the fruit pieces inside a gelatin getting slapped. Injuries, some critical, and property damage, often extensive, spread out in waves. That was a pretty rough time of it. But at least now you can breathe. Right? RIGHT?!

Comments

[phoenixwiz]

“What the bloody HELL is that?!?” poor Harry panics upon seeing a wild rhino charging after Crowley and him (for being in the way).

Percy the owl sends out a frantic and long hoot upon seeing the rhino in question too. Realizing that he and Percy have to get out of the way and hopefully try to save Crowley, he quickly teleports the two of them out of the way onto a chandelier for some reason, which was not his idea at all, but he’ll take what he is given with, as long as the rhino doesn’t reach for the chandelier, they should be fine for the time being.

“Hey, that rhino is coming for you as well!” he informs Crowley, “Get out of there as fast as you can.”

[serpentinthegarden]

"That's not a real rhino... It's all magic smoke and flecks of stardust."

Which at the time seemed important to say as the creature looked to him like little more than smoke and mirrors. What sort of danger could a swirling cloud of magical smoke really do?

The creature reared and shook it's head frantically back and forth brushing menacingly a the underside of the chandelier with its large horn. Smoke and mirrors felt very real as it swung the chandelier around.

[phoenixwiz]

Understandably, Harry is starting to have a bad feeling about the rhino as the horn begins to brush against the chandelier’s underside, shaking it, him, and Percy around mercilessly and making the latter two very dizzy.

And he thought that a killer rabbit sharing the same name as him was the weirdest thing that has happened to him so far. With the rhino’s relentless attempt to get him, he soon teleports away onto one of the staircases to see if it would try to follow him up there since apparently someone was trying to target him for just standing there.

[serpentinthegarden]

It was weird that the rhino was so focused on Harry... maybe the creature just focused on whomever it ended up closest too or maybe it had a thing against teleportation. It was frustrating when the person you were trying to impale disappeared!

The rhino roared when Harry disappeared again and dug its foot into the floor several times before it charged across the room straight at Crowley. The demon was forced to drop the item he had snatched from the kid and barrel roll out of the magical creature's charge.

[phoenixwiz]

Meanwhile, Harry is watching the whole scene helplessly, wondering what to do next since the rhino is angry over the fact that he just teleported away from its sight. Either way, maybe he would try to deter its path of destruction by icing the floor it is currently running on.

As soon as he sees Crowley rolling away from the creature, he immediately waits patiently before seeing it within his sight. The he begins to ice down the floor it is on, hoping that it can slow down and spare the demon from getting attacked by it.

[serpentinthegarden]

How surprising it was to find his feet suddenly sliding out from underneath him. The poor magical beast slipped, landing on his shoulder, then tumbled onto his back ending up sliding all feet in the air directly into Harry's stairs much like this poor fellow.

Crowley's smirk couldn't have been any wider.

"Not so tough on ice is he?"

[phoenixwiz]

“I guess that rhinos aren’t built to withstand iced up grounds that well,” Harry speaks up while quickly dodging out of the slipping magical rhino’s way with Percy still hanging onto dear life on his shoulder.

The young man looks at that creature as it slides onto more stairs as if it wouldn’t end. The pygmy owl hoots after being unusually silent for a few minutes since the rhino showed up, wondering if this scene would end at any time now.

[serpentinthegarden]

"Africa."

Crowley shrugged as the rhino slid to a stop. It tried to roll over and get its feet back under it only to slip again like Bambi, well and truly stuck on the ice.

"It's likely they haven't seen much snow out there."

[phoenixwiz]

“Yeah, that does make sense: it doesn’t snow a lot in Africa and rhinos aren’t native to England unless they are in zoos,” he agrees as he overhears the moaning sounds of the rhino sliding away down the stairs even further.

Percy hoots again as soon as he regains his composure and flaps his wings again. The pygmy owl has been frazzled by the magical chaos and the rhino that he has a hard time trying to stay calm whereas Harry is trying to avoid to get attacked by it.

[serpentinthegarden]

After a few moments of not being able to pull itself off the ice the rhino poofed into a purple cloud of magic and sparkles which swirled around Harry, then around Crowley, before it flew away into the air. It was kind of pretty really now that it wasn't trying to trample them.

"Must have been a distraction to get that trophy back. Not sure why... it didn't look all that important."

[phoenixwiz]

“That is probably the case if I’m being honest,” Harry chimes in after seeing the purple cloud dissipated, “I am beginning to wonder what sort of importance it has to that group that they want to protect it at all costs.”

His suspicions on the trophy is slowly growing after the cloud/rhino was chasing him and Percy moments ago. Besides, even if he just caught a glimpse of it, he thought that it was the plainest trophy that he has ever seen in his life.

[serpentinthegarden]

"You could ask them?"

It was a bad suggestion. Absolutely terrible! These wizards clearly had no desire to talk about their prized boring no-account trophy, but the idea was floated all the same.

[phoenixwiz]

“Well, it looks like they’re not willing to speak about it even if I tried to ask them politely. They’re all unusually dead silent too,” Harry admits to him, “Unless I could try to teleport it into my hands so I can see it for myself.”

He isn’t even sure if risking the wrath of the wizards would be worth investigating the trophy, but it is possible. It’s just that he is trying to be cautious not to invoke the wrath of the visitors.

[serpentinthegarden]

Crowley considered this as he picked himself up off the ground and dusted himself off.

"That's weird now that you mention it. You would think one of these guys would have said something..."

[phoenixwiz]

Harry nods his head back to Crowley as the thought of unusually quiet visiting wizards does disturb him a bit. At least with Fluer and Viktor, they weren’t cursed to be this silent when he first met them.

“Yeah, if one of them did, they would have been at least more social or approachable than what we saw of them today,” he admits as he lets Percy fly for a while to settle down his nerves.

[serpentinthegarden]

"Clearly they didn't come to be social."

Or it would have been like Harry said, these guys would have said something, waved, or invited them out to lunch... This silence was weird.

"I wonder what they want."

[phoenixwiz]

“Maybe they are trying to find something valuable inside Headmaster Birony’s office,” Harry makes a wild guess, “Do you supposed that she has something so important that they could try to break inside?”

[serpentinthegarden]

"Test results."

That is why any student would break into her office but not why a group of strangers would.

"Something magical?"

[phoenixwiz]

“That could be possible,” Harry nods at the last sentence.

He must have wondered if Headmaster Birony might have found something so powerful and she had to keep it in her office for safe keeping, and those silent wizards might have plans to break in.

[serpentinthegarden]

Hmm, course it was just as likely they might have arrived here for any number of other reasons... they did have a rather nice pool...

"We better keep an eye on them."

[phoenixwiz]

“Good idea, I want to see if they are hiding anything that could raise any concerns or signs of danger,” Harry nods as he begins to think of which path to take to track down the wizards in questions, “Got any idea of where they must have went to while the rhino was chasing after us?”

[serpentinthegarden]

...

Crowley looked right...

Then left...

The hissed a curse under his breath for the newcomers were no where in sight.

[phoenixwiz]

Oh Merlin, the visitors must have left for another part of the school some time ago long before they noticed that they’re already gone. And it is becoming more increasingly difficult to locate them, considering the expansive size of the campus.

Where did those wizards must have went to right now?