diatuooc | Test Drive #3

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

"When did you get so tall, my boy?"

"I'm not that tall."

There's an implied You're just that short with a grin to match.

"Yes. Yes you are. And I'd guess this was the angels again, except I do not recognize where we are, so I suspect this to be a rather odd storm. Maybe a where are you in your future storm. Is this Hyrule, then?" though as they have not yet been attacked, he doubted it.

He's five-foot-nothing, Clef. "What? No, this isn't Hyrule. Hyrule is much more beautiful."

"Then... where are we?" Too tall!

"Noooo idea." Wait until you meet the other races of Hyrule. Hylian's are short as is, and Link's the tea-cup variety.

"But, seems to be the standard sucked-out-of-one-world-dumped-in-another. I should really get a stamp card or something...."

He gave a small snort at that. "Think anyone else from Naut got dumped here too? Or is this our Ascended powers acting up?"

"Nope. I'd love for Nautilus himself to get dumped someplace, but, I think that would probably do more harm than good."

As for Ascended powers, Link thought on that for a moment. "Kinda doubt it. We're still pretty low-grade as far as the Ascended go."

Low-grade? Speak for yourself, Link!

"I rather suspect that would be somewhat as bad as Emeraude Waking." Not something he wanted to envision. "Shall we see what this world has for gates, then?"

You're not a Deva or Aeon, Clef. Link views you as an equal, and as viewing you as an equal....somewhat significantly below those, power wise.

(He also views Zelda as more powerful than you, but, it's not likely to come up--)

"Zelda Woke and everything's fine."

"But unlike Naut and Emeraude, Zelda isn't a pillar. Your world is not held together by her willpower and prayers with no other core."

"Clef, two thirds of the object that keeps our world together is currently in Nautlius. Well....one third now, I guess. And she's the literal reincarnation of the goddess our country was named for."

"Wait, I'm sorry, please explain that one again."

"She's the reincarnation of the goddess Hylia. And the Triforce keeps our world in balance. Bad things would happen if we were to actually lose it or if it were to be destroyed."

"I thought bad things only happen if the triforce is broken or in the hands of evil...."

"Well, I mean...it's already split into three parts. And yeah, sure, in the hands of Evil is bad. But, if it were to cease to exist, be destroyed, that would, uh, be the end of the world. Pretty sure."

"But it apparently does not have to be IN your world, it just has to BE? BEcause NAut aside you said there was another world you went to as well...."

"It was taken from me in Termina."

"And THAT didn't trigger a crisis?"

"It's waiting for me."

"Waiting for you...?"

"Back in Hyrule. It'll return to me."

"And it can't be grabbed while you're gone?!"

"Only by someone with as much Courage as me."

"I thought Ganondor(k)f was trying to steal it.... If he can't anyway....?" He was confused.

Test Drive #3

And ridiculous insane Wild card BECAUSE YOU CAN'T STOP ME!

rofl

You knew this was coming.

hehe

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this is great, things he can't say in game/doesn't know in game

Heh.

This is just cracktastic (Clef, I'm sorry)

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Actually, can we table this one till after Disney?