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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[talkyourwayout]

Louie has no powers to regain, but should item regains still be an option, let's get the duck his khopesh back. This will also serve as a test to see if I'm understanding how this works...

The associated concept, put in simplest terms, would be greed - the episode where Louie first gained the khopesh centered around how his greed blinds him from thinking things through, resulting in impulsive and dangerous actions.

[couldabeenturbo]

Dewey will be working on earning Eiather some points for the Colormarch.

He will also really start doubling down on his Music, Glyphics, and Fantastics. He's intent on learning how to use a guitar as a magical weapon - basically trying to level up in Bard.

[hotheadwarmheart]

Question: Do we need to put in for our character a regain this time if we did the sundered research, or do they automatically get the thing they got back from that?

[magicademymods]

You have it! It was regained on beginning the research.

[hotheadwarmheart]

Awesome. TY for the info!

[shiningkindness]

Fluttershy will be working on her studies, particularly still trying to communicate with animals as well as Music. She will also be working on her familiar bonds with Ballet and Tango.

Lena will be focusing on arranging a birthday party for Webby. Yes, this will take all month.

[shiningkindness]

Requesting to regain Fluttershy's Pony Up ability, allowing her to temporarily gain pony ears, a tail, and Pegasus wings. An associated concept is Kindness - the Pony Ups occur when the girls show the truest part of themselves, and for Fluttershy, that is her compassion and kindness to others.

If item regains are possible, I'd like Lena to regain her amulet, which itself does have magical powers. The amulet allows Lena to do things such as telekinesis, though it's unknown exactly to what extent Lena is able to harness its abilities. A possible associated concept is Imprisonment - the amulet was actually Magica's staff, which allowed Magica to create Lena from her shadow. The amulet and Magica's powers bound Lena to her, and Lena did her bidding in order to someday be free from her.

[temptationaccomplished]

Aziraphale is new, so he's going to focus on learning the lay of the land and trying not to get lost. So exploration, but more like...exploration of a map of the known areas.

He's also going to be particularly focused on Sundering and Glyphics, especially as glyphics might be applied to a summoning circle to prevent...uh, the unintended visitor from leaving the circle. He may try picking Professor Drom's brain on this subject, as well as investigating any advances made into the study of bringing/returning sunderings.

Re: Actions

[treno_nobleman]

Kuja will be working on advancing his knowledge of Sundering and Thaumaturgy. He may also take up tutoring in Thaumaturgy.

[treno_nobleman]

Giving this another go! I'd like to put Kuja in for the Right Twice A Day adventure.

[treno_nobleman]

Kuja has sorely missed his ability to glide. Having to walk everywhere is such a pain, and it's not like he doesn't know how to walk, but sometimes it's nice just to levitate and not walk. This was a near constant for him in the worlds before, especially in battle situations, though it does have its uses outside of fighting.

[cometophobic]

Signing Marisol up for The Eagull Nest!

[king_of_egypt]

How about Familiar Turf for Atem?

[bearshermark]

I feel like it would be a good time for Eleven to regain Holy Protection- an ability that temporarily wards off enemies- ie. random battles in game. I imagine it's like a more temporary version of the game's blessed goddess statues that protect campsites from monsters.

Buuut I wonder, how would that translate to rpland? There aren't really many monsters around? Revised definition of enemies to anyone/thing that bears ill will? Within a certain radius? For how long? Or maybe it wards off negativity/ill will or something. Turns aggro'd people to neutral sorts within a certain radius temporarily?? What do you guys think? I'd just like it to grant some sort of peace and protection to those within a certain range, really.

For an associated concept, it'd be pretty easy to go with faith/trust in higher powers.

[bearshermark]

Eleven will be practicing forging- namely, working on Tenn's commission and making/locating tools/materials for it. Doing a bit of light reading on True Water.

Aaand begrudgingly turn a focus on his studies in Discovery/Osmarius in order to keep his grades up.

[magicademymods]

Louie awakes one morning with the khopesh, and a driving mental compulsion: he must hand the weapon to the very next person he sees, no matter what. Struggle or fight against this urge as he may, it doubles and redoubles each moment, until at last he must succumb.

As soon as the khopesh is passed on, Louie and the recipient both magically understand the following:

The recipient may keep the khopesh, and nothing more will come of this.

The recipient may also choose to give the khopesh to person (who may not be Louie). If they do so, they are subjected to the following curse:

Curse: The Cut of a Blade

This curse triggers at the exact moment it would be a disaster for the victim to start bleeding all over, and causes exactly that to happen. The victim will lose a dramatic but not harmful amount of blood (or other vital fluid or equivalent) in the most spectacular way possible. Sudden wounds, nosebleeds, eye socket bleeds, arterial sprays from the wrist -- it's disgusting, terrifying, and gross.

The next person in line learns all this and has the same choice, and so on, and so on. If four people in total pass the khopesh on, the last one may give it back to Louie, allowing him to keep it for good.

[magicademymods]

Fluttershy wakes one morning with the sudden knowledge of a Sundering spell in her head -- a spell that, when cast, will restore enough of a connection to her world that her ability to Pony Up will come back to her. But this is a complicated and finicky spell, requiring time and effort and precision and also assistance from others.

The true challenge of this spell, however, is not in all that: it is that the spell is, in fact, both incorrect and cursed. The slightest step towards accomplishing it makes it sink deeper into her head, so that it takes on an urgent fervor, then a downright obsessive one as she progress towards performing it. The true regain comes not when she casts the spell, but when, in the process of trying to cast it, some catalyst occurs which does indeed bring out her kindness.

[magicademymods]

At a terrible time, Lena finds herself holding the amulet just as she has a strong inner thought or desire -- something she wishes someone else would do, such as shut up or go away or anything both negative and unlikely. The person she is thinking of then feels a horrible mental pressure to do just that very thing. They don't have to succumb (what with godmoding being bad, and all), but the mental impulse is undeniably there. Of course, using the amulet like this can prove terribly corrupting, can't it? Especially if she needs to wish people would stop investigating this very powerful artifact of forbidden Dictation she possesses...

The trick to truly regaining the amulet is to use it on herself, by forbidding herself from using it like that any more or something similar. Once she does that, all these effects vanish, and everything is back to normal.

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.

Re: Actions

[gender_neutral]

V will be studying magic of both sorts. You know. Again. Because V. Also working on putting together an adventuring party to go after the dragon in the now forbidden underbelly.

Xion.... is pending, but if I do not edit before AC, go with her trying to go through the "this is" style books Lea gave her, and hunting Eagulls.

Minamimoto is working on trash sculptures. And still trying to find his dragon. At least it is keeping him mostly out of trouble?

Re: Adventures

[gender_neutral]

Xion: City Hall Under Siege

V can have Phantasmagorica

and for Sho, how about.... 30,000 pounds of bananas? BEcause that more or less describes him.