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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.
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Yes. However, it is about precision and timing... Should you get it even the slightest wrong... [She glances around to the rest of the class.] One gentleman has been robbed of his ability to speak, and I had inadvertently blasted another off of his chair. It is most precarious, this magic...
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he rapidly sketches out the glyph in the air (which leaves a lot to be desired considering his artistic abilities) and flicks the wand once a half-beat too quickly. ]
Sense magi-- GYAH!!
[ while small, the resulting explosion is enough to knock Lloyd backwards in his seat and fall back onto the floor behind them. the residual cloud fades away in a full range of colors and smells faintly of birthday cake. ]
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Takane doesn't so much as flinch at the sudden explosion, but her eyes merely widen in response to indicate she isn't completely stoic. Also this... smells... delicious... She's getting hungry again, as if she hadn't eaten a mountain of snacks hours earlier on the airship---Ah, right. She needs to help, so she better wipe this tiny bit of drool from her mouth.]
You must slow down, good sir. Haste shall make waste. Observe, carefully. [Rather than help him up... With careful precision, she glides her wand along to the glyph with graceful wrist movements, and after a beat:] Sense Magic.
[Look Lloyd, sparkles!]
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even if Lloyd wanted to observe as the girl gave her demonstration, he doesn't. partly because he's still kind of stunned from the explosion that happened-- and also partly because his eyes are so damn itchy. he's too preoccupied rubbing his eyes to look, though he does put in the effort.
even if it meant
poutingglaring indignantly at Takane. ]Nngh--! I was-- doin' it just fine!
[ was that a flash of green coming from his eyes? ]
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... And she goes against all possible acts of common sense by diving down to grab his face, prying an eyelid open with her fingers to take a cloooose look at one of his eyes.]
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his questions are answered when Takane gets a good look at his eyes, which flash like an acid-trippy, kaleidoscopic light show. his own field of vision? looks like Lisa Frank vomited on everything.
he shrieks so loud his voice raises an octave. ] WWWWWHAT THE HELL?!
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My goodness, good sir! Your eyes are fascinatingly prismatic! It is as if they were replaced with temari balls! [An astute observation.]
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meanwhile, his eyes seem to be flashing faster. or is that an optical illusion?
he's going to be sick. ]
Who cares about what my eyes look like?! [ what the hell are temari balls, anyway ] How do I make it stop?!