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

[everydays_great]

She couldn’t help tucking into herself a bit, her shyness once again shining through in the face of a stranger. But eventually she nodded and managed to find her voice.

“M-Mm...I’ve...seen stuff like it on TV before...in shows and movies...but I’ve never seen it up close like this.”

[plusfivedex]

Kamala's smile was warm, and she nodded. "Yeah, I know what you mean," she said, thinking back to all those years of seeing the Avengers and other heroes on the news - until she'd become one, herself. It had been exciting...

...And freaky, of course.

"My name's Kamala. I don't want to interrupt the show for you, but if you want, I can try teaching you one of the spells I used back there."

It hadn't been all that helpful, but it had worked, at least!

[everydays_great]

Whatever hesitancy she had before melted away as a smile bloomed across her face.

"Really? Okay!" She jumped up to her feet, clutching her wand excitedly. "I'm Nanako!"

[plusfivedex]

"Yeah, okay, let's do this!" Kamala cheered with a nod. "I'll show you how to make a stream of sparks like I did!"

[everydays_great]

She nodded in excitement. “Yeah! Okay! I’m ready!”

[plusfivedex]

"Alright."

Kamala turned to face the wall, then adjusted her grip on her wand. She moved it carefully in a swirling pattern through the air, recited the word for the spell, and sparks burst forth from the wand tip.

[everydays_great]

She gasped softly, and if it was possible her eyes grew even wider.

“That’s so cool! Can you show me again?”

The words that the spell used were kind of complicated, so maybe hearing them again would help.

[plusfivedex]

"Oh, sure!" Kamala said. She tried to slow down saying the magic word this time, but that... Unfortunately seemed to effect the way the spell worked. Or maybe, Kamala thought, she pronounced something wrong this time, because instead of a stream of sparks, she got a cloud of dust.

[everydays_great]

"Oh!" Despite the spell not working right, Nanako still seemed very excited by it. Or maybe she was excited because it hadn't worked right.

"It was different that time!"

[plusfivedex]

Kamala laughed, sheepishly. "It wasn't supposed to be, but yeah! I guess that's good to know."

[everydays_great]

"Oh really?" She tilted her head curiously. "How come it was different now?"

[plusfivedex]

"Hmm..." Kamala paused to consider. "I think because I said the word a little differently."

[everydays_great]

“...Oh! Kinda like how some words sound the same, but depending on how you write them they can have different meanings?”