Test Drive #3

[magicademymods]

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.)

Comments

Isa | Kingdom Hearts | Be aware of KH3 spoilers.

[afterthemoon]

Lightning Crash

[It was a storm like nothing Isa had ever seen before in any world. Not even the highest tier of Thunder magic could match the arcs of lighting lighting up the clouds.

He saw no good reason to try and brave that storm.]

You should wait for the storm to pass.



Wand Wrong Way

[Why did he let himself get caught up in this?

Isa wanted to go back home as much as the next guy, sure, but chasing unfounded rumors had the tendency to end in wild goose chases.

And wild goose chases cause his patience to wear thin.]

This is just a waste of time, if you need me, I'll be back at the school.

[He turns on his heel to leave.]

Wildcard
((Have another idea? Go right ahead.))

Wand wrong way

[nobodys_puppet]

Xion had been heading through town trying to find a shortcut back from the beach. As usual she had been looking down as she walked until she saw the familiar black hem of a coat. She had been looking for Roxas, hoping he would show up like Axel had, So she looked up... just as he was turning on his heel, just as his voice registered.

Her hood was still up, but she saw his face clear as day. And panicked. She turned on her heel, dropping the shell she had picked up, and ran, trying to slide through the crowd, terrified. She had to get to Axel, had to warn him. And Sora. And... everyone. What would Saïx do to someone like Fluttershy?

She had to warn everyone.

[afterthemoon]

[He notices the hooded figure running through the crowd as he walking forward and... steps on something.

A seashell.

He puts two and two together and his heart sinks.]

Wait, Xion!

[He doesn't pursue her, he knows better than to do that, he probably shouldn't have called out to her but it had kind of tumbled out on its own.

He pockets the now cracked seashell and waits for a reaction.]

[nobodys_puppet]

She stopped dead, startled when he called her name. Had he ever...

Didn't matter. It was some sort of trick. She had to warn Axel and the others. Had to!

[afterthemoon]

[He approaches her, slowly, as to not startle her. He also gives her plenty of space.]

... You dropped this.

[He holds out the cracked seashell, watching her cautiously with those green eyes of his.]

[nobodys_puppet]

When he spoke, she turned and just... stared at the shell, stepping back. "You don't own me anymore..." she said, stepping back again. "I'm never going back."

Lightning crash

[gender_neutral]

"I thank you for your concern, but I cast protection from lighting before I headed out."

Re: Lightning crash

[afterthemoon]

Well, if that's the case, then carry on.

[He should have expected that something like that existed.]

Re: Lightning crash

[gender_neutral]

V started to walk away. Then stopped. Right. Character development and growth. Actually caring about others. With a sigh the small elf turned. "It is a touch spell, did you need me to buff you?"

Re: Lightning crash

[afterthemoon]

No, thank you. I'm just... watching the storm for now.

Re: Lightning crash

[gender_neutral]

"Very well. I suspect that short of magical interference it shall be continuing for quite some time, perhaps long enough for a random encounter."

And from personal experience, fighting in a thunderstorm rarely went the way of the Order Of The Stick....

Wildcard

[grim_heaper]

There was a hugggggge trash pile, or so it seemed. Despite the lean it had a surprising amount of stability. So much so that there was a man in dark clothes perched atop it.

[afterthemoon]

[Well, whatever this is, Isa has no time for this nonsense.

He's just gonna try to go around the giant pile]

[grim_heaper]

The shadowy figure jumped down to land before him. "Going somewhere, yoctogram?"

[afterthemoon]

["Yoctogram?"]

That's none of your business.

[grim_heaper]

"+ or - true." He seemed amused. He couldn't help it, there was something about this guy. He had potential as a harrier, perhaps.

Re: Wildcard

[sevenyearsasleep]

What...what was Link even looking at.

The Hylian studied the trash pile for a few minutes, before trying to see if he could find the piece that would bring it all crashing down, if he were to remove it.

(Hey, he knew a hidden area indicator when he saw one.)

Re: Wildcard

[grim_heaper]

The man who had been perched atop dropped down with a disturbing ease. "Like the art then?" Maybe someone here had an actual brain cell?

Re: Wildcard

[sevenyearsasleep]

"There's probably an entrance hidden under it. Or maybe a chest."

Link stalked around the pile with a critical eye.

"Do you think the teachers would get sore if I found a bomb and used it?"

Re: Wildcard

[grim_heaper]

"Given the art teacher made this?" he said flatly, "Do the math. Where's your beauty?!" Another Zero then.

Wand Wrong Way

[hotheadwarmheart]

[The irony was, Lea hadn't even been looking for the wand that day. In fact, he'd come to the merchant district, in search of- of all things- socks. Since one of his spare ones was being used to shield is extra glass eye, he had need of a new pair or two, and he'd heard there was a decent clothing shop down this way.

As luck would have it though, he'd been paying more attention to the directions he'd written down than to his actual trajectory, and walked right into someone who'd been coming out of a nearby alley.]

Oof! ...Hey, sorry, my bad; I should've been paying more attention to-

[And it was about then that he looked up and saw who he'd walked into, his eyes going wide.]

Isa?! What the-? What are you doing here?!

[The literal answer to that of course, was 'the same thing as all the other Sundered', but Isa would likely guess that wasn't entirely what Lea meant.]

[afterthemoon]

Lea!

[Isa's face seems to light up at the very sight of Lea. Honestly it's a little goofy looking.

Though at the question he huffs softly and crosses his arms.]

I could ask you that very same question. This isn't quite what I had in mind when we promised to meet up again, you know.

((Grumpface doesn't have any icons that can show how happy he is))

[hotheadwarmheart]

[Unfortunately for Isa, Lea doesn't look nearly as happy to see him, his expression defensive, not unlike when Isa/Siax had last visited him in Twilight Town before the final battle.

And someone doesn't really want to admit that he's on such a mundane, boring errand, so he ignores the first part of Isa's reply to focus on the second.]

And when did we promise that, exactly? Last time I saw you, you were still one of Xehanort's cronies and were trying to stop me from rescuing Sora!

[Yes, logically he knew it was probably another issue with crossing timelines, but at the moment, he doesn't much care.]

[afterthemoon]

What?

[Isa's expression falters and goes dark.]

That was some time ago. The last time I saw you was after I was defeated in the Keyblade Graveyard, and we made the promise.

[He holds off mentioning details like the fact that he died in Lea's arms, or that Roxas and Xion had been involved for now. If the timeline wasn't adding up, there was no need to complicate it just yet.]

Look at my eyes, Lea, I'm not one of Xehanort's "cronies" anymore.

[Indeed, his eyes were green again, and not the poisonous gold that marked one of Xehanort's vessels.]

[hotheadwarmheart]

Keyblade Graveyard?

[Well that place didn't sound ominous at all.

But he does take a moment to look at Isa's eyes, and indeed, they're back to their normal blue-tinged green. At that realization, he relaxes somewhat.]

Yeah... alright. But that still doesn't explain what you were doing with those guys in the first place. Did Mr. old, bald, and creepy force you into it or something?

[Honestly, that's what Lea's hoping for. That Isa was only there because he didn't have a choice or maybe even that Xehanort had done some weird mind-control spell on him or something.]