August Activity Check and a Quick Note on Adventures

[magicademymods]

August Activity Check and a Quick Note on Adventures Actually the Adventure Note Comes First Hello, Diatuers! (Wow, that is terrible when written out.) We've seen a great deal of confusion regarding adventures, even from players the first time around, so we've taken a moment to discuss among ourselves to address this and will be making a change for adventures starting immediately. When responding to your request for an adventure, we will ask what level of mod involvement you would like: High, Medium, or Low. High involvement will have us essentially running the scene for you. This allows for more interaction with mod-created NPCs and greater potential for setting shenanigans, but will also add an additional party into the mix and thus cause delays in tagging and thread completion. It will also limit you to one single thread, which everyone in your adventure would need to participate in. Medium involvement is much like our original iteration: we will supply the shape of the adventure and leave you to do it as you see fit, and you will check back in with us when the adventure, or major steps of it, are completed. For example, should you end up fighting a horrible monster, you would thread out the fight substantially, then tag our response to your adventure request linking us to it and we will offer you the results (and next step where applicable). Low involvement basically turns y'all loose. Seriously, we are okay with this so long as you don't run our major NPCs. Beyond that, the setting allows pretty much anything you want to happen, within its scope and bounds. (You can totally wreck the setting. We expect this. It took something like three months at most to break the original metaplot into tiny pieces the first time?) Once you're done, we give you the final results. We'll go back through and hit the current adventure threads, where appropriate. Some adventures are not suited for this treatment: Sphinx riddles, for example, offer very little opportunity for us to get involved between "get the riddle" and "answer the riddle". On a final note, however, we want to clarify: adventures are meant, first and foremost, as group activities, meant to be threaded out. Even with High involvement, we will not run solo adventures. Activity Check (In) Welcome to the August activity check for Diatu Magicademy! A reminder of our rules: You must check in. With each character's check-in, you may list Actions -- things they undertook behind the threads and have been working on this month. This can be as simple as, for example, Explore, Study, or Suck Up, or more detailed information. When we process activity, we will give you the results of your actions. Activity must be submitted by Saturday, September 4 at 8 PM Eastern time. Please use the following form: <b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Actions</b>

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[blue_ice]

Player Name: Zoki

Character Name: Seto Kaiba
Actions
-Groveled to apologize to his cat, Sara, for having looked at other possible familiars during adoption day (bonding)
-Managed to magically destroy a cursed dress with the help of friend. It might've come back. Who knows.
-Studied, putting extra effort into Draconic Knowledge

Character Name: Sunset Shimmer
Actions
-Thoroughly explored the school grounds for possible clues about all these new sunderings (with the exception of forbidden areas)
-Wrangled a few lost pets during familiar adoption day
-Researched the possibility of teleportation spells. Probably didn't find much.

Checking in!

[whose_son_am_i]

Player Name: Lin

Character Name: Loki
Actions
Going on a quest to fulfill the Sphinx's scavenger-hunt riddle.
Practicing in class with Alec.
Meeting his classmates and fellow students in the library and elsewhere.
Going on a pub crawl with Rosh and Val.
Helping Harry and Crowley deal with a killer rabbit.

[noasark]

Player Name: Usagi

Character Name: Noa Kaiba
Actions
- Met with all these new Sundered folk and helped some settle in! Spread some good word about the Profs! Spread some not so good word about the Profs! Don't worry Headmaster you're on the good word end.
- Found out his step-brother isn't really that great at changing his voice, and was entirely unhelpful about cursed dresses. Thanks Noa.
- Continuing with his usual, he Bonded some with Adelai, his Familiar, by way of....(checks notes)...Having penguins spy on his step-brother, it's fine, don't worry about it, the bond may only be .25 different,

Checking in

[phoenixwiz]

Player Name: Mari

Character Name: Harry Potter
Actions

Attending Draconic Knowledge with Sylvando as a classmate

Harry was entangled in Killer Rabbit troubles with Crowley upon finding said Killer Rabbit who shares the same name with him and they needed Loki to save them. Quest here

(Bonding) Harry finds himself having a pygmy owl for a familiar and does his best to bond with him.

Bonding and trying to find dorms with Ronstadt (TDM to game canon)

Character Name: Lena Kaligaris
Actions

Lena meets her Art teacher Sho for the first time and tries not to get nauseated by the smell of trash while painting a wall.

While researching at the library, Lena meets Loki again and they chatted and introduced their familiars to each other.

During familiar adoption day, she and June teamed up to gather up mice from becoming cat food.

Lena and Hardy meet during the hailstorm in campus.

[fatedsacrifice]

Player Name: Lynn

Character Name: Noctis
Actions Studying
remeeting Kuja at a play.

Character Name: Hendrik

Actions
Meeting Loki
Dealing with a hailstorm
Remeeting Sylvando
Having a chat with the Luminary
Research shenanigans with Loki

[ronstadt]

Player Name: Hazel

Character Name: Ronstadt
Actions
- Locked his magical item in his closet because it weirded him out
- Continued getting to know fellow students, both in person and on the network
- Started taking his classes and studying in earnest
- Explored Kedrigan Hall despite it setting off his Craydar really hard. (I had him sense the water hidden in the lower levels and would be interested in having him search for the source of the power he felt, in the future!)
- Enlisted Beetlejuice to help get rid of an exorcist (Adventure, still ongoing)

[temptationaccomplished]

Player Name: Penbee

Character Name: Aziraphale
Actions
- has probably ditched a couple of classes to hang out with his bff Crowley and/or passed notes in any classes they might share/between classes
- further explored the books in the Library of Ash and Fire that he located last time he was here
- explored the town for the best places to have nice lunches with an important friend


Character Name: Erik
Actions
- looking into instances of Time related magic, how or who controls time, and such things, because Eleven expressed an interest in knowing more, since they canonically were about to shenanigan with time
- played with the boomerang and probably inadvertently contributed to some tree or hedge trimming
- was adopted by a dog during the familiars event and has likely been feeding it table scraps since, because he's a sucker

[creepyoldguy]

Player Name: Tam

Character Name: Beetlejuice

Actions Studying and going to class. (reluctantly. half-heartedly.) Fear of explosion is a thing.

Complaining over mai-tais with Crowley. (And giving tiny mai-tais to his shoulder angel that he's "named" Rodney.)

Going on an anti-exorcist adventure with Ronstadt.

Has probably flirted tried to suck up to Birony. He's not good at it.

[holdyourhorns]

Player Name: Drag

Character Name: Spyro
Actions
-Had his Thaumaturgy class changed to Draconic Knowledge knowing that his 'mentor' would give him a tongue lashing if he wasn't taking it... but also sasses Loshackle on the way out.

-Has been using that mirror Birony gave him to walk around as a human whenever he pleases and turn back to his dragon self during most evenings.

-Bothered that same mentor for an in-person (*cough*visual*cough*) refresher on how to properly use the impenetrable scales spell. Yes, he knows Ire told him to refer to Modification, but ew... MATH.

-Will probably offer Gregory a jump into his shifting mirror if they run into each other in that Adventure.

[perfectenn]

Player Name: Worlds

Character Name: Tenn Kujo
Actions
Although he didn’t perform in the city much this month, Tenn spent time at Melody's picking up the latest news, trends, and tips in the industry.

Tenn went to the Dragonfire Library to scour the shelves for information on pre-codified magic. Specifically, he's very interested in whatever the origins of space and time magic are. (In other words, whatever the dragons used that codified Sundering may have been derived from.)

[gobetween]

Player Name: Zumi

Character Name: Gobo Fraggle
Actions Gobo has been doing everything he can to work on magic, learning what he can, even if the actual... completion of his schoolwork leaves something to be desired. (Look, Fraggles don't have formal school, this is all new for him and besides, his attention span is.. not the greatest)

Other than that he's been bonding with his familiar, a snake named Rhumb, who so far likes to live in the largest pocket of his vest.

[serpentinthegarden]

Player Name: Cocorose

Character Name: Anthony J. Crowley
Actions
- Met fellow students either in person or on the bulletin board.
- Got stalked by a DeLorean.
- Was magically tossed out of his first Intimations class.
- Cut class a few times. Once to play dice with Yami and a few times just to hang out with Aziraphale.
- Was encouraged by a few other students (Alec, Celestia, Aziraphale) to craft his own religion as he wasn't connecting to the 'Gods of Man' those in his class were worshiping for their magic. This is still a work in progress.
- Decided to start project 'Family' as Aziraphale mentioned wanting one and that Alec should be part of it.
- Helped an artist sell a ruined painting after a 'Happening'.
- Assisted Loki in his quest for a flower's breath, mostly by just being in the area.
- Tempted Harry to open his quest adventure box... only to discover an evil attack rabbit and get attacked by it. Loki later dispatched the creature.

[scotch_egg]

Player Name: Sharon

Character Name: Alec Hardy
Actions
Generally getting to know people and study hard
Broke up with FelL
Otherwise outside the threads he has been studying hard, ignoring everyone and driving himself ragged to perfect this new magic.
No trips to the infirmary yet though

[sweetsummerchild03]

Player Name: Usami

Character Name: June (Mc)Duck
Actions
- got to meet some of her fellow students from other worlds
- went to classes and learned more about magic
- read a lot of books in the library
- practiced with The Wand of Wind
- bonded with her familiar, an elf owl, and finally named him Spike

[king_of_egypt]

Player Name: Mew

Character Name: Atem
Actions

▽ Got settled back into school life
▽ Reconnected with his two familiars
▽ Used some of his time to meet the other students both new and old. Thrilled to know that some of his friends made the return.. or in some cases never left (which is more troubling).
▽ Struggled with the notion that canon powers have been restored
▽ Beat a demon at a dice game, then later found out said demon had been to his homeland before back in the time of the pharaohs, also that Crowley also has no patience for long lines.
▽ Helped cast glyphs with a fellow classmate to get them out of a cursed clothing item. (looking at you Kaiba)
▽ Posted the first word game to the bulletin spell board
▽ Working on the adventure "The long long line"
▽ Spoke to the Sphinx and was working on solving her riddle
▽ He also did a terrible job at improv during a performance

Character Name: Marisol
Actions

🌐 Reunited with Jenghis and spent most of her time with said familiar.
🌐 Focused on a bit more truancy this time, but occasionally popped into a class or two.
🌐 Plotted pranks to play on others later.
🌐 Puzzled over the bulletin board a lot because her reading hasn't improved all that much but she could see a lot of activity there.
🌐 Doodled a few times
🌐 Explored the grounds

[bearshermark]

Player Name: Solar

Character Name: Eleven

Actions
• Bonding with familiar: Glorious
• Relearning Acolyte role

Lowkey:
• Sorting out differing sets of memories
• Refamiliarizing with Forging
• Light reading into time magic

[protectiveink]

Player Name: Elly

Character Name: Roisin Murphy
Actions
-Bonding with EnEx, such as it is; mostly attempting to bribe him with food.
-Pub crawl with Loki and Val (in progress, I've had some medical fun and will be getting back to it over the weekend.)
-Attending class
-Opened her room to Kaiba after he couldn't handle rooming with Sho
-Keeping her demon in check.

Character Name: Isabel Knight
Actions
-Bonding with Chaos
-Reuniting with old friends--Eleven, Atem, and Mr. Fell, to name a few.
-Attending class, of course.
-Handwavey things involving people she knows in the city; she's so gregarious I can't imagine that she hasn't got a cadre of folks she keeps in touch with out there.

[wagerofloki]

Player Name: Coop

Character Name: V(alerie Castillo Aguilar)
Actions
- Hardcore did a pub crawl (in progress but she'll probably win)
- Didn't go to school for the first 2.5 weeks of the semester, then started going she's so fucking behind ** she did attend her fantastics class, as well as flyting tho
- Explored for hidey holes and secret passages and secret societies the first 2.5 weeks of the semester (and to a lesser extent in her free time after because she doesn't believe in homework very much right now)
- She can't get into the dorms so she's found a quiet place to set up and continue living her scrappy homeless life

[mal_contented]

Player Name: Chicklet


Sorry, August ate me with anxiety. trying to claw my way back out.
Character Name: Sho
Actions Making trash sculptures, of course, teaching, and being a general menace. Because, Sho. At the moment at least, he's not looking for how to find "his" dragon again. Taking this as a win.

Character Name: Mal
Actions Trying to build a bad girl rep while also trying to learn as much as possible without people realizing she cares. Spray painting really beautiful graffiti all over.

[treno_nobleman]

Player Name: Muffin

Character Name: Kuja
Actions
- Explored a little
- Got pulled into a play
- Researched for his role as a teacher this semester (? still not sure if that was approved though)

[smilingarmor]

Player Name: Susan

Character Name: Sylvando
Actions
-Thoroughly enjoyed his first round of classes in both Fantastics and Music and proved to be something of a natural at both (surprising no one who actually knows him)
-Studied and did his schoolwork diligently in his other classes, and tried to add a bit of his own flair to his assignments where possible
-Practiced his latest act (and did a little busking) at several outdoor locations around campus in preparation for taking it to the streets of Anastra proper
-Spent time bonding and practicing with his familiar (a Siamese cat named Magdalena)

[letteropener]

Player Name: Dragon

Character Name: Princess Celestia
Actions Studying Discovery in particular; learning how the weather works in this very odd uncontrolled world.

Character Name: Maria Cyphert
Actions Learning the limits of paramagic with regard to Diatu magic.