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Test Drive #2
That Wand Is a Wonder!
You pulled down a book from a tall shelf in the Library of Starchime and promptly got hit in the head by a wand that was resting atop it. It looks innocuous, a cylinder of wood, but as soon as you pick it up, light streams out of the end. The barest motion is enough to make fantastic colors, and with a gesture you send light streaming across the library!
Light is all it does, right? Right?
Pranks for the Memories
Diatu Magicademy is a school -- one with different social groups, different Houses, different classes, different levels of experience... in short, pranks are inevitable. The latest one to make the rounds is the Sticky Glyph: step on a certain mathematical rune and the next person you touch sticks to you like glue. Casually brush against them, shake their hand, bump backwards into them -- however you did it, you have a new friend now, like it or not. The glyph wears off in about an hour -- do you wait it out, ask for help, or try to undo it yourself?
The Dueling Club
One of the more popular magical clubs, the Dueling Club is precisely as it sounds: wizards crossing spells, each trying to be the one to 'defeat' their opponent. How to do that varies by the sort of duel -- knocking your opponent off a platform, or getting them wet, or just good old rendering them unable to keep dueling. Less experienced students, like you, get the "water duel" treatment. Use your spells to get your opponent off of their stool in a small pool of water before they do the same to you! Losing means soggy shoes and a laugh at your expense; winning means pride, respect, and a chance for advancement into the club's informal ranks.
Chimera!
Transporting chimera is highly illegal without proper permits -- which is precisely why smugglers do it, and precisely why smugglers are valiantly struggling to extinguish their airship, while the beast responsible ambles down the gangplank and people flee like crazy. A small chimera, its shoulders are about shoulder height to a man. The goat head jabs at the cargo and building it passes, the lion head maintains a watchful forward guard, and the dragon head has taken the "burn it all, burn it all!" approach to greeting its new circumstances.
This is your chance to be a hero, and save the city of Anastara from certain doom at this beast's claws, heads, horns, and fiery breath. Or your chance to run like heck and hope it doesn't notice you.
Nessa Callaghan | OC
[THUNK! The sound itself isn't much, and Nessa rubs her head and grumbles a curse under her breath before setting her chosen book down and picking up the wand and--]
WHOA! [She almost fumbles it again as the rays of blue and green and white streak across her aisle, and sets it down as well. She's been learning about wands, and has her own, but what the heck is this one doing here?]
Hey, has anyone misplaced their wand? [She might be getting shushed now, being as she's in a library and all, but Nessa doesn't seem to care.]
Chimera
[Oh boy, this is not good. That's the expression written large on Nessa's face. She does her best to duck into an alleyway--but not to run, but to effect a painful, minutes-long shift to Morphus. Minutes too long. Panting, she spreads her wings, extends her claws, and launches herself into the air. Nessa noted that the lion's guard was forward--so from her aerial vantage point, she dives in from behind. She can't do a whole lot to a scaled back--but she might be able to distract it long enough so that someone can mount a more cohesive defense or a capture mission. And while she does that, she yells.]
Run while you still can!!
Wand is a Wonder
Well, it's not mine, but we should probably try to find the owner.
no subject
I suppose we could just go give it to the librarian, I'm sure lost stuff gets turned in all the time. But how to get it up there without making the entire place a rave? Bad enough I already caused a ruckus in study hall, you know?
[She gives a skeptical look to her backpack, now.] Maybe if I wore gloves...
no subject
[She tilts her head to the side and approaches, looking at the wand.] I do wonder why it's doing that, though.
no subject
Your guess is as good, if not better than mine. I sort of knew magic existed, back where I was from, but I didn't really have much experience with it until I got here. Wands and stuff, to me, are kind of like...stuff out of a story book.
[Nessa shrugged, then.] Just gotta get used to it though, I guess. [She gingerly reaches for the wand, which does seem muffled, if not entirely inert. For the moment, it's just letting out some brilliant motes of colored light at the end. Holding it between her thumb and forefinger at arm's length, now.]
Well, here goes nothing. [And she heads towards the librarian's desk.]
no subject
[To put it lightly.
She's still curious about the wand, but Elsa was always more concerned with keeping things safe. And with the way magic worked here, who could say that wand wasn't pranked or even cursed? Still, maybe the librarian will know something about it?]
I'll come with you.
no subject
Here I am. [Nessa can't really help but give a one-shouldered shrug at that, and laugh--shrugging the shoulder that didn't have a wand attached at the end.]
Can't say I'm not curious, though. I mean, if you want to share, no rush or pushing or anything.