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

[blue_ice]

[Oh, perfect. He's racing through equations in his head when his companion acts faster, saving him for now. The one downside of modification magic is that the spells took a fair few seconds to cast.]

I'll create a sinkhole beneath it. Be ready to back up.

[With that, he recited the equation as quickly as he could, taking care to restrict the radius. With his final word, the ground quaked beneath them, the wall quivering dangerously.]

Now!

[Aaand running again, fingers crossed.]

[tachyonme]

[Yeah, okay, that works too. Mizael nods once to show he heard the warning and shifts his feet slightly to be better prepared to move when he needs to.

And on the signal, Mizael hops backward a couple times, ending up a good twenty feet away where he can watch the wall of ice and the poor chimera sink into the ground together in safety. The chimera is still doing its best to try to attack something with that ice breath, but it's increasingly only able to aim straight up or at the walls of the hole.

Once he's satisfied it isn't hurt and won't be trying to climb back up or something, he relaxes a little and crosses his arms, absently tapping his wand against his side while considers what to do from here. At least it seems they have time to do that now, which should help. It does seem like an awful lot of this human magic requires more time to perform than he wants to waste in the middle of a crisis...

Like teleportation. Why did they have to complicate something so simple? Though that would probably be the best way to do it...]