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Test Drive #3

Lightning Crash

The weather over the floating island of Ascelion during spring months is best described as "hellacious"; its elevation puts it right among the worst of stormclouds and fuels their thunderous fire as they sweep past it and electrically scrape against its sides. Rain is frequent, but lightning is almost constant, along with thunderous rumbles that roll across the city and the open spaces of the Magicademy like waves.

But today is particularly bad. Webs of electricity crackle through the sky, jumping from cloud to cloud or grounding themselves on towers of the Magicademy angrily. None of them seem to endanger the students, but there's a first time for everything, isn't there? As titanic fury threatens to tear the sky in half, do you risk stepping into the outside? Does the infrasonic rumbling trigger fear or terror in your gut, as such deep waves are known to do? Perhaps you've learned a spell that will protect you. Or perhaps you've poorly learned a spell that may or may not protect you...

Wand Wrong Way

The rumors around campus speak of a small and musty store deep in the Merchant District, on a side road to a side road, where only those in-know go to find items that would surely draw too much notice if displayed publicly. Powdered dragon tail, eye of sphinx, swords Forged with magic-cutting spells, and most valuable of all, the Gateway Wand. Surely this legendary wand, in which the full power of Sundering hums, could get you and your friends back home.

Rumors are pretty lousy with directions, though. The Merchant District offers ample chance to get lost, to get distracted, or to stumble down the wrong alley and find hoodlums all too eager to extract "tolls" from the lost and seemingly helpless. Does your adventure become disaster? Does this rumored shop even exist?

Pantalones Giganticus

At its heart, Modification seems like the most simple of schools. What could be more simple than arithmetic? Therefore, Modification also has the steepest and most shocking learning curve of all, as it rapidly balloons to more complicated mathematical expressions, more variables in the formulae, and above all more chance for error.

So really, the mistake is an honest one. Any hurried student, probably in their third or fourth year of study, could accidentally introduce an unnecessary factor into their equation. That is probably why your pants are now sized for someone four times large than you. (Not four sizes. Four times.) Worse, this has happened to EVERYONE -- the entire population of the Magicademy, student and staff and faculty alike, are trundling around in blown-up bloomers, too-large trousers, not-conveniently-sized knickers... you get the idea.

Now the bad news: to fix the error in formula and restore your pants to normal size, someone else has to get in them with you.

Labwork

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.)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Lightning Crash

[Man, it looked awful out there. Back in Japan, he'd never seen it so bad, not even in typhoon season--and they were close enough to the sea that it wouldn't have been something noticeable.

Then again, Tetsutetsu had never been so high in the air before, either. This was really kind of weird, and he wasn't really happy about it, especially now being Quirkless.

Even if he'd had his quirk, Tetsutetsu wouldn't have wanted to go out there. He'd be turned into a lightning rod pretty damn quick! He'd also put a restraining arm out for anyone who looked like they were thinking about heading into the chaos.]

Hey, I'm not the brightest, but I'm pretty sure you don't wanna go out there!

Pantalones Giganticus

[Someone is...trapped in a heap of trouser fabric, doing their level best to struggle their way out of it. A messy mop of grey hair finally pokes out of one end and Tetsutetsu takes a break, panting.]

This sucks! Whose bright idea was this!? I'm going to kick their ass!

[Really, that means he'd have to find them first. Good luck doing that, without even being able to move in your giant pants. He doesn't really want to think about what has to happen before they'll revert to normal, either.]

TETSUTETSU!!! MAN, WHO DECIDED MAGIC HAD TO INVOLVE MATH?! THIS SUCKS, BRO!!!

[Kirishima is currently hefting his own pants around his waist, not too far away from where Tetsutetsu is wrangling his own. Kirishima's are likewise massive in near identical fashion.]

I thought it was supposed to be like, magical or something?! This is no more fun than regular classes at UA!!!!

[~~man not fair his quirk is gone he can't get hard~~Tetsutetsu struggles to get up--and just kind of fails, he's almost getting resigned to be a trouser slug for the rest of his time here.]

I KNOW, RIGHT? THIS BLOWS!!!

Bro, they told me there was magic here but if this is what it's like, it's the worst magic EVER!!

[YOU KNOW WHAT FUCK IT. He's not struggling with his pants anymore. HE HAS BOXERS. So he's going to stumble out of the stupid oversized pants and try to help Tetsutetsu. He holds his hand out.]

Lemme give you a hand, dude. We might not have our quirks here, but I've got your back!

[Kirishima is so smart. But that's why they're bros. Products of the best hero school in Japan! Tetsutetsu wastes no time in grabbing his hand and letting Red Riot pull him out. Thankfully, he ALSO has boxers...]

Thanks, man. Damn, but it's good to see you! This place is weird!

[but yeah going for brief bro hug of gratitude, too.]

Finding you here was the last thing I thought I'd see! [He wouldn't wish it on his worst enemy, either, much less one of his best friends, so this sucks.]

[Well, that arm won't stop someone who's way shorter than a human with the way they prefer walking about, but what seems to be a bright Barney-purple dragon does so anyway because he'd rather not be stopped in a different fashion.]

Hey, I'm not a fan of rain either, but I think this place would already have made sure we can't get randomly struck by lightning.

Yeah, you might think that, but the teachers here are just as sadistic as the ones back home! They tell you you gotta make sure you got a spell to not be a lightning rod.

[Though without his Quirk, Tetsutetsu is only as vulnerable as a normal human to being struck by lightning...which isn't that reassuring as these things go.]

And uh, I'll be real, I'm not that good at this magic stuff yet.

Oh. Is that what they want us to do...?

[Someone looks surprised. Probably because the little guy doesn't have much experience being under the tutelage of a sink or swim mentor.]

... I don't have a lot of practice with all this magic junk either.

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