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

[thirdpint]

Bring it on!

[Reflexively, he immediately tries to move into a defensive stance, but he's stopped by two problems: one, he's still attached to another person and two, he definitely isn't allowed to actually go around starting fights. Not that bending the rules has fazed him before, but... this one seems a little more serious.

He casts a sideways glance to the worried-looking person stuck to him by the shoulder.]

...Okay, bring it on after I get unstuck. It's not a fair fight unless it's one-on-one.

[grim_heaper]

He laughed at that. Quite a bit actually. And he jumped down off the garbage heap to stride towards them. He... isn't exactly short.

He took his time, striding over. "Players always fight the reapers two on one, because you zeroes never had a concept of fair to begin with. Why start now?"

"It is X2 die."

[thirdpint]

[He yelps when the guy jumps down from the heap-- okay, it's kind of reflexive because he hadn't actually been expecting him to cave and seriously want to fight (that and the guy's way taller than he seemed from all the way down where Sora's standing)-- and fortunately both Sora and the other student are in agreement when they take a couple steps backwards.]

H-hey! Nobody ever mentioned dying! You'll get in trouble if you kill us, that's so totally against the rules!

[grim_heaper]

"I'm a Game Master, I make the rules.... And no one is going to care if I erase a few players early."

He pulled out his wand. He liked this thing. "Are they?"