Mod Account for Diatu Magicademy ([personal profile] magicademymods) wrote in [community profile] diatuooc2021-07-23 03:56 pm
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Test Drive Reloaded! #1


Test Drive #1




Welcome to Diatu (I Like Swords)

The Arrival Hall is all aflurry with activity! No one had expected so many Sundered to suddenly pop up, the staff find themselves desperately scrambling to keep up with the influx, and a bunch of new arrivals find themselves hanging out in the Hall lobby, waiting to be seen, sent home if possible, or counseled and prepared for student life if not. Rumors run like wildfire: some people believe they've been kidnapped by aliens, a worryingly persistent suggestion that this is a setup for a murder-tournament keeps circulating, and one or two nutcases insist that a dragon tinkered with the rules of magic and now they have to study at a magic school to survive. Pie stocks are grievously low, and thought Headmaster Birony herself appeared and began violating the rules of space and time to summon pies from the future, a second Headmaster Birony with an eyepatch, several war scars, and a wild hairdo appeared and promptly yelled at the first Headmaster for stealing her pies. A pie fight erupted. Pie stocks are even more grievously low now.

Still, here's your chance to talk to your fellow arrivals. Or aggressively attack the nearest target in an outrage (they set up a target dummy and labeled it VENT AGGRESSION HERE, and are trusting you guys on the honor system). Staff don't have time to talk, but they promise they'll get to you soon!

A Day In The Life

The sun is bright, the air is warm, a cool breeze blows across Anastara, clouds keep drifting directly through the island and engulfing people... it's summer on Ascelion, and the day is ripe for learning. Or as ripe as Diatu Magicademy ever can be -- though no one would trade the character and charm of the lively campus for some stodgy, regimented school more interested in forcing students into the mold than encouraging them to be their best, sometimes conditions in the Magicademy are a little inconvenient.

A toilet in Kedrigan Hall keeps clamping onto the butts of those who attempt to use it. Thus far, half a dozen students have been freed from its clutches by their friends, while reports of singed buttocks have increased twofold. (Yes, only twofold. Think about that for a minute.) Staff are on the lookout for a prankster rather than a commode, so as of yet the treacherous toilet has gone unpunished...

Not far away, a group of cleaning golems has occupied the promenade as part of an ongoing strike. As they possess only rudimentary intelligence, they believe this involves seizing objects from anyone who passes nearby and hurling them at a set of bowling pins. Meliandre Tomekin, Head of Groundskeeping, has set up shop across the Promenade; any student who wanders too close gets a big block of ice shoved into their hands, along with instructions to hold it still while she shows those reprobates what-for...

In the Great Hall proper, school clubs and activities have, as was inevitable, escalated competition for new students to yet another level which only isn't a war crime because it isn't part of a treaty yet: they've conscripted geese. Horrible geese, to be precise, who dispense flyers for various clubs with less subtlety than a nuclear holocaust. Some of them fight for dominance, others have teamed up to pin down innocent students and stuff leaflets down their throat, and one has a wand and is somehow casting Discovery spells?!

A Forgery!

"I tried a mass-Forging technique," the older student says, showing off the briefcase full of identical wands and a sign that says 'FOR $ALE CHEAP'. "Some of them are exactly what I intended, they self-correct runes, but the rest, well.. . I don't know, I can't tell, and I'm not really interested in finding out one by one, so... you buying?"

All sales final. No refunds. Caveat emptor. As for what the wands do, well... there's a reason he answered with an ellipsis when asked. On the other hand, maybe the effect isn't too terrible? Maybe it's even beneficial! Maybe the wand shoots out rainbows and muffins! Or maybe it just animates and strikes you vigorously about the head and shoulders...

Three Dragon War

Someone, we're not naming names, canons, or the color of eyes and the dragon to which they belong that forms said person's obsession, may or may not be indirectly responsible for the latest game craze sweeping Anastara: Three Dragon War, a collectible card game that features players as dragons, deploying spells, creatures, and Sundered against each other to destroy each and avoid the machinations of the Third Dragon. The awesome thing about the game is that the Third Dragon comes in all different forms: classic bundled-with-the-starter-pack Ire, super-rare Anastara Diatu, suspiciously-rare Cam Birony, ultra-common Large Eagull, and more. The concept of an outside force adding randomness to the battle and being manipulated in turn by cards means Three Dragon War is the hottest card game that's come along since the last card game that was the hottest that had come along came along.

Face-to-face, you find yourself in a duel over these cards and the magical images they summon. Can this untested deck come through if you believe in it? Or are statistics and probability actual things that actually happen? Dragon Battle! Jiao Long Fu!

There's One in Every Test Drive

Not every magical disaster is caused by some wayward student you don't know. Many of them are caused by you instead. To wit: you're on the spot in one of the magical labs, being called on to demonstrate a technique more advanced than others you've mastered so far. Failure is expected, and the wards should prevent any injury to others from a miscast spell. But will the sparks of your magic just sputter out and die? Or will you inadvertently mispronounce, misform, misshape, or miscalculate in a way that brings chaos to you and your lab partner?

(You could also manage to succeed in casting the spell, but that isn't very fun.)
phoenixwiz: (Sneaky Little Fella)

[personal profile] phoenixwiz 2021-07-24 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
“Oh really, maybe I could try, I mean, I do know of some friends who have done similar things back home,” the young teenager smirks back at Crowley, “I didn’t have a lot of time to relax back home, so maybe a few pie throws shouldn’t hurt.”

Well, if Fred and George are here, they would’ve love to jump in regardless and continue on the chaos as they please. Harry soon finds a pie on top of the table, grabs it, and chucks it at the first random person he could find. Said person in question looks at him, rather confused as to why he did, before he points at someone else and replies in a mischievous manner, “Look, that lady did it first!”
Edited 2021-07-24 20:21 (UTC)
serpentinthegarden: (Not so bad)

[personal profile] serpentinthegarden 2021-07-24 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Its all cream and berries. Go wild!"

That was easy. The serpent snickered as he slithered his merry way on out of the huge front doors and took a more comfortable human form so he could watch the chaos from the safety of the leeside of the window. He arrived on the other side of the glass just in time to see the lady being pointed at lift another pie and toss it back in Harry's direction. It was retaliation for having pointed her out!
phoenixwiz: (Confidence Within)

[personal profile] phoenixwiz 2021-07-25 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Harry immediately dodges the pie from the now angry lady wanting to even with, narrowly avoiding a date with whipped cream and berries. The young man soon takes two pies and proceeds to toss it at other peoples nearby while ducking in between people to avoid getting hit by pies.
serpentinthegarden: (Sofa brooding)

[personal profile] serpentinthegarden 2021-07-25 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
The way that kid was dodging pies one might have thought he had once been in combat dodging magical spells or that he was just an amazing dodgeball leaguer... Did they have dodgeball leagues?

Anyway, Crowley watched until only watching grew a little boring and then he plied a bit of demonic magic to add a few cans of whipped cream to the dessert table. Whipped cream went perfectly with pie and it spewed from the can in such a steady stream even that Potter kid might have trouble dodging it. Or so a mischievous demon thought.
phoenixwiz: (Channeling My Inner Hermione)

[personal profile] phoenixwiz 2021-07-25 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
Oh boy, he does sees that there is now whipped cream coming after everyone right now. Quickly, he immediately dodges at the whipped cream as fast as he can before pulling out his wand to cast a Shield Charm to keep a couple of them at bay.

As for the rest, he then switches in with the kinetic magic he has gotten from Avalon to fling the whipped cream at different directions, some landing on so more people and others landing on the walls.
serpentinthegarden: (Sofa brooding)

[personal profile] serpentinthegarden 2021-07-25 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
When the cream hits the window and coats it from the inside so that nothing more of the fight could been seen, Crowley wandered away. He could have gone back to the door and peeked in but it was more fun to cause chaos and walk away. He took up a safe position under the shade of a tree in the Promenade and waited to see who the victor would be.
phoenixwiz: (Giggling Non-Stop)

[personal profile] phoenixwiz 2021-07-25 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
“Ha, eat whipped cream, mister!” Harry calls out on an unsuspecting man as he telekinetically send in a pie onto their face, which then spooks the guy in shock when it landed on his face.

Pretty annoyed that this wizard has the nerve to throw a pie at him like that, he gets all rilled up and attempts to throw one at him, only for Harry to deflect it back at him with kinetic magic and have it plastered on his face.