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

[standingfrozen]

"I think we stand a chance if we can turn the heads against one another. I mean, the dragon head is to one side, so... Perhaps if we can confuse it, it will turn those flames on itself long enough for us to capture it," Elsa explained, before admitting, "Of course, how to do that... Well, I'm not sure."

[hotheadwarmheart]

"I was sort of thinking the same thing actually," Lea said. "But yeah, how to do it? Normally I'm pretty fireproof but I'm not looking to potentially find out the hard way if that doesn't hold here, so trying to jump up on its back and do it directly is out. We'll have to find a way to do it from long range."

He though a moment, then seemed to get an idea. "Hey, you see anything around here that's kinda round and flat?," he said, beginning to glance around for something like that himself. "Like a big plate or a trash can lid or something?"

[standingfrozen]

"I certainly wouldn't advise testing that now," Elsa agreed. No, considering she couldn't conjure and control ice and snow here, it would not be a good idea.

"Oh! I bet there's something fitting down one of the alleys - there seems to be all kinds of things discarded in them." She smiled, curious. "What are you thinking?"

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea nodded and ducked into a nearby alley, searching for some appropriate object. "Back home, one of my main weapons are chakrams," he said. "Big, spiked metal rings that I can throw. If I can find something similar to throw and can hit the dragon head on the back of its head, it might turn its fire around on the other heads."

"At least that's the idea," he said. "Getting the right angle might be- aha!" He emerged from the alley holding what looked to be two somewhat rusty metal barrel hoops. "These ought to do."