October Game Announcements
A Word From Your Mod Team
Regard is STILL building up! What would help you spend it?
Also: Your thoughts on leaving applications permanently open?
This Month In Diatu
Lousy Shmoctober Weather means you can't trust the skies day-to-day. Some quirk of the air currents around Ascelion means one day it might be summer-hot, and the next chilly enough to see frost in the morning. Students often resort to Intimation to figure out what to wear for the day. Some rely on other magic to ward them against weather, which always results in hilarity when two temperature-controlling spells each attempt to overwhelm the other. Don't worry, the medical treatment stings less than the results!
Ghostly Activity picks up significantly this time of year as additional spooks keep wandering onto campus. Ka students especially find themselves plagued by late-night hauntings, but no student is really safe should a ghost decide they need to be harassed in some way. On the other hand, the polite restrictions on smiting ghosts that apply to the local specters don't protect these newcomers. Can you out-terrorize the undead?
The Caverns Beneath The Academy ARE STILL OFF-LIMITS! JEEZ YOU GUYS! YOU'RE MAKING POOR PROFESSOR TRAMMEL SAD! YOU MONSTERS!
Audio Warfare dominates the campus as other Fantastics students in the school have gotten into a sort of scrap with Valhudor. No one is quite certain how it began, but massive musical performances keep erupting spontaneously and turning even mundane everyday activities into epic show-stopping numbers. It sounds fun until the other faction shows up and starts trying to outdo the first. In fact, bala-inlota practice ended early the other day for the first time in recorded history, as the team was musically portrayed as both dominating champions and plucky underdogs simultaneously and somehow managed to end up defeating itself in an unlikely upset. Anyway, watch out and if you have to get involved, we recommend doing it by being a musician rather than a subject.
This Month In Anastara
Citizens Found Out About a Ghost Dragon and no one is happy about this at all. Rumors fly left and right, each more outrageous than the last, and perhaps for the first time Magicademy students are regarded with, if not hostility, at least a little suspicion and wariness. (Unless you have Fame! If you have Fame, you're all good!)
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! Our efforts at running purely solo adventures have ultimately not worked out well, so we want to emphasize their role in building CR and engaging in plot or silliness.
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.
Regains
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.)
Just A Reminder
October has five Wednesdays, so the TDM will be the 16th.
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diatuooc2019-10-07 01:52 pm
Regains
Re: Regains
FRULMAAR - strikes fear into the heart of the target, causing them to run from their demons. damage of any kind does cause the spell to break.
It's basically a fear spell.
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Joy
Sadness
Anger
Disgust
Surprise
Cynical Bemusement
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and making a fool of himself by double-checkingSpyro would like to have his unlimited water breathing back.... I'm sure the nature of these regains has the perfect reference under getting comfortable with being uncomfortable.
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Which means, as he does it, Spyro will start feeling... different. Physiologically changing in a very uncomfortable way. Like he's slowly transforming away from who and what he is, into a dragon of this world.
LUCKILY this feeling is purely psychosomatic, and no actual changes are occurring! He'll stop feeling that way as soon as he can come to a reckoning with what may be happening, either accepting or opposing it. He definitely won't ACTUALLY turn into a xenocidal power-hungry sociopath no matter what!
Power Regain (October)
Tyzias's Melody, Ancestral Awakening, imbued her with the abilities of Neophyte Redglare, her personal hero and the common ancestor all tealbloods share. In addition to greatly enhancing her physical attributes, it summons Redglare's dragon Pyralspite to wreck shit alongside Tyzias.
However, the Melody isn't a power that can be activated at will. It's a desperation attack, only available when Tyzias is backed into a corner, gravely injured, or under extreme emotional distress
or when the moment is appropriately dramatic.Good themes for Tyzias's Melody for you to consider are DESPERATION and/or HEROISM.
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In others.
To summon a dragon and infuse herself with its might, Tyzias will need to embrace the nature of dragons in the Tenscore Kingdoms.
Beings of magic. Enemies of humanity.
Power gathers about Tyzias, and pushes her to unleash the full nature of her power. When it reaches its peak, her Melody activates, and Tyzias will unleash its power indiscriminately. It's up to others to stop her, heroically and desperately.
When she loses, the Melody will be hers to keep once more.
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In Melodies of Life, Melodies of Eternity's predecessor game, the Calamity had the power to amplify the negative and repressed aspects of a person's personality, pump them full of power, and split them off into separate beings: creating a Shadow. Defeating this Shadow isn't a matter of physically wrecking them (although that is an element), it's about accepting that, like it or not, all of these negative aspects are a part of you. Tyzias's power going haywire and mixing with the Calamity in unpredictable ways seems like a good way to create a mass version of this phenomenon. Would it be acceptable to incorporate that into the plot?
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How could we say no?
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