Test Drive #2

[magicademymods]

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.

Comments

[grim_heaper]

"Well... that works." He'll figure out why he is minus a whole bunch of noise later. Not like he needed it to subtract a single integer player, after all.

Minamimoto grinned, scaled the side of a small building, and leapt onto the Chimera's back with a gleeful sound. "Let's add the garbage to the heap!"

[standingfrozen]

Elsa ducked down an alley way that looked, at least, too small for the Chimera to entirely fit through. It could probably still breathe the fire her way, though, so she needed to think, and fast. She finally was able to draw her wand, and tried to remember if she'd learned anything about protection or shielding magic in classes - her usually organized brain was suddenly running wild.

[grim_heaper]

A manic laugh from the reaper as he guided the large beast. Oh this was fun! "X2 DIE!" he called after her as he nudged the beast to fly OVER the alleyway. "Looks like things are really looking up for you!"

[standingfrozen]

Elsa was able to conjure a forcefield from the tip of her wand, protecting herself for the time being. She really should have factored in the beast's ability to fly.

"Why are you doing this?"

[grim_heaper]

"Do the math! One Game Master Plus One Player Plus Zero missions! That equals one Game Master and one erased Player!" He laughed maniacally.

[standingfrozen]

"But I'm not a player - I don't even know what you mean!" Elsa protested, working hard to keep her shield up.

[grim_heaper]

"So Zetta slow! Do the Math! You're dead, you factoring hectopascal! I'm a Reaper. All adds up to erasing Players like the garbage you are. CRUNCH, add you to the heap!"

[standingfrozen]

"Wait... Dead? No, I'm very much alive."

Although, the way things were going, she wasn't sure she'd be able to say that for much longer...

[grim_heaper]

"Alive?" He barked out a laugh. "Those brain dead binomial Support Reapers didn't fill you clueless players in? Well then, LISTEN UP!" This isn't the RG! What the factor is taking you so long to get it! Does this even look like your world? You've been subtracted from life and added to the UG. And I'm the next Composer, and the Game Master. Which means you just multiplied your chances of erasure!"