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Test Drive #1
The Airship There
By carriage or coach, spellwagon or ship, perhaps even on the wings of magic, the Sundered heed the call to gather at the Tenzin High Dock of Vulbaria. On this, the appointed day, a great passenger airship sits in the dock, the seals of the six Houses fluttering from flagpoles along her length and her wooden planks atremble as if it is eager to be off. At last, the gangplank descends, and the Hand of Diatu opens her doors to the Sundered so they can take their first step on the path towards protection and salvation.
Inside, you may choose from long comfortable couches, broad circular tables surrounded by straight-backed, cushioned chairs, or viewing seats at the glass front of the ship. Sundered who need special accommodations are quickly provided for, ensuring everyone travels in comfort. Trays drift through the air periodically, offering snacks and drinks to the passengers.
This may be the first chance you've had to truly relax since being swept to this strange world. Certainly it is the first chance you've had to meet your fellow Sundered. As the airship lifts gracefully off from the High Dock, your journey to Diatu begins. Excited? Nervous? Simply angry? Or perhaps searching among the crowd here for a familiar face or some sign of hope?
Rain, Rain...
Welcome to Diatu Magicademy. It's raining.
Seriously raining. One of those downpours that feels like a curtain has dropped on you, that soaks to the bone within a second of stepping into it. Obviously, this won't do, and a civic-minded cluster of Purifeul students has taken it upon themselves to solve this problem. No sooner do you step through the gates then you practically run into a giant and complex runic diagram being drawn out with long staffs by several students, all of them speaking seeming nonsense about derivatives, limits, and equations. Magic! In action right before your eyes!
And yet, just as their mathemagics wind towards the center of the diagram and they all make their final stroke -- one student slashes his line off on a weird tangent, speaking an equation that sounds nothing at all like what his fellows utter. The spell completes... weirdly, as the students look in horror at each other. The temperature abruptly drops seventy degrees, and a cold wind begins to blow.
Welcome to Diatu Magicademy. Please get out of the blizzard before you freeze.
Thaumaturgy 101
After some fifteen minutes of grumbling from Professor Loshakle, followed by half an hour of theory and basics, the grouchy old man finally gets to drawing a magical symbol on the board. "This is straight out of Fundamental Principles of Wizarding," he says, writing Sense Magic next to the symbol. "As is everything you'll learn here. I'll emphasize yet again, you MUST know the name of the spell and the proper gestures. You can't simply wave your wand in any old pattern and say any old words. That isn't how it works," he says, glaring around the class as if daring someone to question him.
But he gives no one the opportunity, instead producing a wand and making the gesture to trace the symbol he'd drawn in midair. "Sense Magic," he intones, and the air and his wand both shimmer.
"Now. You all try." Just like that. What the Professor doesn't mention is that this spell can produce some very interesting results if the symbol is off, or the timing...
Bala-inlota Practice
Bala-inlota is the main interaction the Magicademies have with each other -- the sport of wizards! Two teams take the field, with the goal of heaving a ball through their opponent's hoop. The rules primarily revolve around not inflicting lethal injury, because bala-inlota is a free-for-all at best, where each team relies on both physical and magical might to win the day.
You kind of wish someone had told you this BEFORE you got hauled onto the field so the coach could see if you've got what it takes.
Now half a dozen players are charging down the field at your ragtag group of semi-willing recruits, while another half-dozen are preparing spells that you've been absolutely assured aren't as nasty as the ones deployed in actual play. On your side: the ball, your wits, your physical ability, and maybe three classes's worth of magical education.
On the upside, magic is pretty good at healing.
Sunset Shimmer | My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
Oh, Sunset raged for a little while when she was first briefed on the situation. Her friends needed her! How could this just happen? People really shouldn't mess around with magic they don't understand!
Of course, she wasn't a hypocrite, so that meant she had to come here and learn to understand it. She spent most of the journey wandering the ship, sympathizing with all the complaints she overheard.
"Sometimes I think magic might be more trouble than it's worth, if this keeps happening every time uses magic they don't understand," she shrugged, popping something from the snack tray into her mouth. Heh. Not bad!
rain, rain
What a mess. Sunset pulled her jacket tighter around herself, glancing suspiciously at the spellcasters around them. What were they doing? Why wasn't it working? She then looked up at the sky, wondering if something else could be responsible for the snow.
"Geez, it's like the windigos are raging again. But it's not like there's a shortage of negative emotion around here."
Could emotions affect their magic? She'd have to look into that, and maybe ask the professors.
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And that was Hibiki's snack tray. It might have been everybody's snack tray when this airship lifted off, but Hibiki has commandeered it to float next to her and provide her with snacks and tea, and that means it is Hibiki's snack tray now.
She looks at Sunset in profile, somehow managing to occupy and entire couch despite being a single human sitting straight up. She also manages to look down at the other girl despite being the one sitting. A celebrity possesses countless skills. "Cloud the atmosphere elsewhere with your displeasure."
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"Am I? Sorry, didn't realize you were the king of the deck."
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And raises an eyebrow: this is splendid stuff. "Exquisite."
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And this person said she had an attitude problem? Well, she did. Sometimes. But that was so not the point here.
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As Hibiki remains in a fairly composed mood, she shall grant Sunset the tremendous favor of correcting her erroneous claim. Her nose still goes up, though. Some things simply must be done. "A chance in location is insufficient to turn a swan into a frog."
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"It's also insufficient to bestow grace, I see. Whatever. Enjoy your reign at the top, but it gets kinda lonely after a while."
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Hibiki makes herself VERY BUSY with her teacup anyway, though. Loneliness? You think she doesn't know that? But, also, you think she'd ever admit that? Except to those who can ease her solitude by standing at her side, above the clouds?
Besides, the top of the mountain is the quietest part. It is the only place for her.
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Sunset is confident that a place like this won't allow such snobbishness for long. The dormitory life sounded positively cramped. And she'd have to make sure this one didn't outdo her.
"But good luck keeping that up, that's all I'm saying."
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But they've belabored a point for an unpleasantly unnecessarily long time (a whole thirty seconds, what nerve). Hibiki puts down her teacup and looks at Sunset out of only the corners of her eyes.
Her arrogantly-narrowed eyes. But that's nothing new. She started making this face ten years ago and now it's just. Stuck.
"If you've time to worry, considering your own situation would be best."
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"If you're looking for someone to blame, it's me," she says suddenly, decisively. She won't be bothered by it. She's already accepted this fact so, so long ago. "As long as I'm here, this sort of thing is to be expected."
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Sunset has trouble believing that, but it still bothers her to see someone so down. She tries to smile welcomingly. "I'm sure it isn't your fault. Magic this big is way bigger than any one of us."
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"As you can see, I am a zombie," she explains. "I died in a stupid accident, without ever accomplishing anything. And just when things were finally starting to look up despite that—"
She stops, biting her lip. The faces of her friends appear in her mind, but it's too painful. It makes the separation worse.
"You underestimate my curse. It's more powerful than any magic I could ever imagine."
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"So powerful that it's stronger than whatever changed us when we came here? Because my magic from before is definitely gone," she admitted.
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"Changed us?" she echoes back, a pang in her heart that dares to believe that maybe her curse was somehow removed... But, let's be realistic. She will simply never be that lucky, and her zombie appearance ought to be sufficient enough example of that. "I'm definitely still a zombie, though, so... I can't really say."
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This was...a little awkward to say the least. She'd never met a zombie before, only seen those human movies. And they didn't paint a very flattering picture.
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"Since I'm dead, I can't get sick," she explains, same tone as ever. "It's all right. You don't have to spend your time worrying over someone who can't change."
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Was that the right thing to say? Oh, she was so out of her depth here, but friendly was always best.
"So...yeah. This might be pretty interesting, right?"
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Re: Sunset Shimmer | My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
Sorry, kiddo, someone might be horribly offended by that thought.
"The problem is not with magic, it is with those who, as you yourself pointed out, meddle in that which they do not understand. Magic itself is a tool, greater and more powerful than any other, perhaps, but it remains at the whims of those with sufficient talent. Would that it also remain only with those of us who have the education to accompany that talent, and there would be far fewer saving throws needed in each campaign, and far fewer idiots who think a single level of Wizard is all that they need to become great workers of the forces of the world!"
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"You're right. I've seen too many people get consumed with magic...and I was too, once. This school really needs to make sure they train us properly---but if their wizards did this in the first place..."
Well, it could end badly. That was all she was thinking.
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Sunset pulled her jacket a little tighter around herself. "I'll do my best to help too."
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