August Game Announcements

[magicademymods]

August Game Announcements A Word From Your Mod Team Hi everyone! That's it. We don't have a lot more this time around. What? REGAINS ARE A THING TO STAY?! With last month's Research on the Sundered, we introduced regains to our Magicademy, and despite all known rules of narrative convenience, the researchers responsible have not inexplicably forgotten how to perform the spells that caused these faint connections to your home world. To that extent, each character may now earn one regain per month. To do so, you need simply comment on this post with what you would like to regain, and some associated concept of your home world or canon. You may also recommend a concept that works with that, a theme for us to build off of. Conflict, for example, is always valid! Once you've received your approval and prompt, go wild with what we've given you. And of course there will be absolutely no long-term repercussions or consequences of regains! (Please pardon us a moment while we massage our jaws back into place, as they were dislocated by not malicious laughter.) This Month In Diatu Hail becomes a concern around this time, thanks to some peculiarity of air currents and ocean evaporation. Luckily, hailstorms are brief when they appear, but inevitably sudden and fierce for their short lives. Woe be unto the student who fails to protect themselves with a suitable shield when they spend any time out of doors! A Visiting Professor offers special guest lectures during the evening. Professor Drom is a savvy thaumaturge, an expert on Glyphics, and a minotaur, all three of which he works quite hard at, with an aplomb that rivals Professor Trammel (and has apparently started rumors that they are or have been a couple). The Caverns Beneath The Academy are officially off-limits now, save solely for the magical labs and other necessary places for continuing education. The faculty doesn't understand why you all need to be told not to go try to poke a ghost dragon with a stick, but apparently you do. Balloons festoon the campus. No reason, they just do. This Month In Anastara A Traveling Festival has set up camp down by the docks (which is the only real space they can fit). Come see acrobatics, clowns and sideshow acts, tightrope walking, rare and exotic animals treated in ways not quite in line with modern ethics, and ending with the legendary Manticore of Munn! Adventures As detailed on our Adventures page, you may sign up for an adventure by responding to the appropriate comment on this post. We will respond with your adventure setups in a few days. You may undertake a new adventure this month even if you are still in an adventure from previous months. We also want to encourage everyone to involve others in your adventures! Though it is possible to do many adventures solo, we intend them as opportunities for characters to mix and mingle. Actions To represent characters working long-term towards a goal, you can submit up to two actions on the appropriate comment below that your character will be focusing their time towards (or one action twice). This can range from studying, to exploration, to trying to gain points for the Colormarch, to buttering up NPCs, to others. At the end of the month, once you submit AC, you will be given your results. No Second Event Activity outside the events in July was fairly low, so we're giving you August to get some of your own plans and plots going. Have fun! Don't do anything we would do! Monthly Mod Plans Update Locations to include all new discovered areas (monthly) Update Adventures with new options (monthly) Create a Religion page to explain the religion of the Tenscore Kingdoms (we swear we'll do this sometime)

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Re: Regains

[puzzlers]

Lady would like to (re)learn her Dusil spell. It's as follows: Corrupts the ground and deals ongoing necrotic damage to any targets in a specific area. Damage continues for a short while even after the target has escaped the infected area. And the associated concept would be fear.

Yugi is capable of something special called Dimension Summoning back home. To summarize it's powering up a monster using your own spiritual energy, and it's not something everybody in the YGO-verse is capable of doing. I was wondering if he'd be able to gain access to his personal ace monster, Gandora, via Dimension Summoning. Like, he could occasionally summon it at the cost of his own spirit and if it takes damage he takes damage, since they're technically tethered together. If so, then the associated concept would be bravery.

[magicademymods]

Lady will find, one day, that her fingers are painful and slowly turning black -- a corruption that slowly spreads upwards, running black streaks along her arm as if infection crawls through her veins, with the promise that her body is slowly succumbing to the necrotic energy she wishes to wield. She can discharge it into the ground as per her spell, which slows the spread of it for a while, but this only buys her time rather than solves the problem. To truly shake free of it, she must pass it on to others directly.

Lady will pass this test when four people voluntarily take on the corruption to help her. If she can overcome her fear of what the necrotic energy will do, and trust others enough to accept their help, she will break the curse.

Yugi will find himself able to tap on his own energy, but every time he attempts it, he and whoever is near him will be drawn into a dark maze, a twisting confusion of passages with constant hints of danger in the shadows and the threat of environmental hazards like spikes, pits, etc. Yugi will never enter this maze alone -- he always has to drag someone in with him, whoever is closest or whoever he talked to last or something similar that forges a connection between him and them. Once they reach the center of the maze, they return to where they came from as if no time had passed. The only wounds that remain are the emotional ones!

Yugi and companion(s) will need to traverse this maze four times before it stops appearing every time he tries to Dimension Summon.

[puzzlers]

Just want to clarify! Does this mean he can successfully Dimension Summon? And just ends up in the maze with a friend or acquaintance the first four times? Presumably alongside Gandora too?

[magicademymods]

Correct! That may actually not be an advantage if the maze is small...