Test Drive #6

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Test Drive #6



Dwarf Woolstrich Migration

A magical time of year, the Dwarf Woolstrich Migration lasts about a week, during which hundreds if not thousands of these knee-high flightless wooly birds zip through the main grounds of Diatu Magicademy, traveling from the mysterious eastern reaches of the grounds to the mysterious western reaches of the grounds. No one quite knows why they migrate, where they live when they aren't migrating, or how the Magicademy campus can support an entire ecosystem on its fringes, but no one questions this too much because these little guys are ADORABLE. Seriously. They're harmless, cute, fluffy, friendly, and precious.

They also tend to attract land sharks, who otherwise avoid Diatu Magicademy because the land version of sea creatures is otherwise immensely played out. So enjoy your company with these wonderful little miracles of magic's abominations against nature, or guard them from gruesome consumption at the hands of a tired gag. Or be annoyed by them because you hate cute things. We won't judge. (We will totally judge.)

Midterminal!

Buckle down. Quills at the ready. No notes on your wrists, in your pocket, or on the back of your eyelids. Talking is prohibited, of course, but are you desperate enough to risk cadging an answer off of your friend? Is the comrade you helped study for hours now biting through their robes in panicked nervousness, all but begging for you to save them? Did you spy a cheat and want in on that, or perhaps to find a way to report them? The pressure is on, and this isn't even the final.

Then on to your lab exams, where your ability to put theory into practice is under scrutiny. Discover a handkerchief, then Discover something under it. Intimate what number your professor is thinking of. Sunder a marble from here to there and back again. Whatever you're taking, you're being called on to demonstrate. How good does it go? Or bad...

Blob Around Town

Rumor has it an immense round pinkish thing has been rolling around the back alleys of Anastara. That's... okay, that's weird, but not particularly weird for the city surrounding Diatu Magicademy. Nonetheless, the city has issued a bounty on the whatzit, offering a modest sum for identifying it and a greater fee for eliminating any threat it might pose.

Not many wizards are that interested in chasing yet another oddity that doesn't appear to be eatingf people yet, but a pair of students working together might find the task decently rewarding. But are you getting in over your head? Are you going to find things are not at all as they seem? Is it a really, really fat Jigglypuff? (It is not a really, really fat Jigglypuff.)

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.)