Mages Guild: Who turned out the Sun? Edition

>walks out into the conversation
I quite like the night.
Adapting wouldn't seem a problem to me.

I will salt everything you own with garlic if you keep this crap up. We let you blow up the moon almost every other month, leave the sun alone!

>Eventually.
I´m checking the portals. See you.

Now...
>Scratches his chin
This is not something I've ever had to think about fixing before.

Have you tried lighting it?

The sun does not burn.
It doesn't even have any oxygen.

I don't think i've come across a missing sun in my years.

See you. Tell us any updates.

No, the torch.

Then this is a weird situation.

Do you see any pyromancers around?
Are they concerned with the situation?

Now I know. This is s ploy by the pyromancers so that their services as providers of fire will be more in demand.
They are trying to manipulate the free market!

Possibly. They may have made their own. Or stolen it.

On my way.
>Runs back into the building.
Now then. Which one should I check first...

Of course they're concerned! I'm sure that Noel is working her ass off to figure out what the hell is going on.

Working on it. It's dark, hard to see anything.

Hey, if you're gonna keep criticizing, start offering up some answers!

Like any of you see the sun on a regular basis anyway.

MAGIC user WE AINT GOTTA EXPLAIN SHIET

Noel would probably be the one who could tell us something about the situation.

They probably do have an alternate sun with them

I... I dont know. I wouldn't know where would be a possible place with answers.

I'm not that pale.

True, it is.

Someone should go check, just in case.

Have you tried turning off the dark?

I cast magic missile at it, but it didn't react.

I saw the sun just the other day.

>Is checking the wastes first.
Nope. Completely dark.

>Walks towards the Aen City Portal.
The light´s still on he- Nope. Just a fire.

>Over a dozen other portals later.
It´s dark. Everywhere.

Reporting back. No good results. Sorry.

Have you checked if the moon is still visible, ie, if the sun is just incapable of beaming at us directly?

Someone say CREATE A NEW SUN?
I told him the last one wasn't big enough, we should make this one bigger!

>we should make this one bigger!
Why?

...It's the middle of the day, of COURSE the moon wouldn't be visible!

Alright. Now we're getting SOMEWHERE...

>of COURSE the moon wouldn't be visible!
Uh.
No, that's not how it works. I suggest you look it up.

I second the question. Surely a smaller, dimmer one would be more economical. Not to mention more elegant.

We have been.
When you look up, do you see the moon?
I surely dont!

I can pretty conclusively tell you that we won't be able to see that giant rock, because there's THIS giant rock in the way!
>Sam points at the ground.

Trust me, I know how giant rocks work! That's what I do!

Well, It´s night. Of course the moon was- OH. Maybe we have an Eclispe happening?

I´ll gladly help!

Because bigger is better.
Eeeh...

Maybe we should make Earth invisible for a few minutes to make sure then.

...
>She seems to ponder this.
I mean, it MIGHT work? Is that something you can do though?

Bigger also means we can't control it. Like, what if we need to turn it off again?

Another thing we should do is prepare a ritual to find the culprit.

Those of us who needed the sun for our projects experienced a major setback: I want to be compensated for my lost time, resources and effort.

You're a daft bastard, you know that? Making a new sun would play merry hell with the celestial spheres, causing untold chaos as destiny realigns itself.

I'll not be having any of this damnable retro-astrology fad. You'd have people waking up as toads and such all up and down the countryside.

Too much bloody bother. Just give the peasants a load of ever burning lamps and let's move on to other points of business.

Or maybe the sodding druids would like to prove that they aren't a waste of space and funding for once and conjure up some strains of crops that grow in the dark eh?

>Points at the Growthmancy part of her name.
Just make a fireball. Let´s see how much bigger I can make it.

Just one try, please?
>Looks at you, nearly begging.

You want our Ritualist to drop whatever she's doing and work on that?

...I mean, I can call her real quick but I wouldn't hold my breath.

And what's going to happen if the sun is so close to us that we all burn? Then what?

Not really. I am pretty well versed in ritual magic aswell and with a few others I could find out who did it in but an hour.

>Points at her tanned skin for a second, but sighs in defeat.
Okay. You win. No big new Sun.
>Is definitely not whining like the teenager she is,

Id have to agree on not being burned.
I don't exactly tan.

Alright then. Have fun with that.

I mean, making a tiny sun and growing it might not be a bad idea, but it has to be able to grow somewhere.

...Yeah.

I mean, you clearly have the sun-situation in control. So someone should take care of the idiot who turned off the fucking sun.

>Is grinning again.
You got an idea of where we could grow it? I doubt this disaster ridden place is the right option...

Guys I figured it out! Candlejack must be behind this! It's the only thing that ma

...I wouldn't say that at all!

Lemme check our maps and see...

Could we uh, not. Do this.
I mean, is the old sun still there?
Whats gonna happen if we end up with two?

Thank you so much!

Then we have one in reserve? For later accidents like this?

Id prefer our situation to not having two suns.
Its quite pretty out here anyway.

>Sorry, forgot my name.

Lady, I've been in every damn storage closet in this guild at least twenty times in my life and I've never seen a spare star around here.
I mean, most life dying out in the realm doesn't sound that bad.
Oh wait.
It sounds awful.

Another good point.

...where would we keep it?

You DON`T? Sorry, never thought that would be possible.

In the guild some- I have no idea. I´m actually all out of them.

We should ask the hydromancers from the Arcane Fire Department. Maybe they extinguished the sun.

I can understand your issue with the matter.
it isnt the most suitable condition to live in.

I guess finding the original sun wouldn't be the worst thing to do.

I mean, the pyromancers have one lying around as an ornement.
But I aint goin in there to ask for it. I prefer not being crispy.

I assure you, that is not the sun. That is a portal to Elemental Plane of Fire.

Yeah, Its not somthing that I'd consider "Storage safe"
Anyone got a telescope? I mean we ARE still orbiting somthing right?
Oh thank the gods.

...why does the Arcane Fire department have hydromancers?

Lemme see if I can find one.

The Hydromancers are employed as fire extinguishers.
Im deadly serious.

Also can ya see anything?

That seems remarkably dangerous.

Not to us. Anyway, last time I checked there was a giant flaming DO NOT ENTER sign just above the entrance.

Of course, of course.

Why wouldn't it have them? They use their water magic to extinguish fires.

Same reason the Arcane Flood Department has pyromancers.

I hate trying to clean that thing...

Hey, we can't help it if redrobes just don't read the signs.
>KRAAAANG!

...Like the one on my office saying "Do Not Enter without Supervision"...

Guys guys guys!
Why don't we just take the darkness and push it somewhere else?

AW fer fucks sake now I gotta clean your doorway again.
I uhh.
Maybe?

I can't help it that they don't read a sign right in front of their eyes!

...okay, lemme call her, that might not be the worst idea.

>Sighs

I've just about given up putting up signs, honestly.

WAIT NO.
DON'T CALL A NYCTOMANCER.
ITS ALLREADY DARK ENOUGH IN HERE!

Let's open another portal into the Plane of Fire where the sun was. I think it can work.

At worst, we'll have a spare portal, which is good thing!

Look, if she can make it be not-dark then you all will stop complaining, right?

a potential option.
Its skirting around the problem insted of fixing it.
We need to establish if there is anything where the sun should be.
Did you get that telescope yet?

I've called the astromancers, they should have them if anyone does!

Now I'm going to work on that bloodstain.

Have you considered that someone might have cast something to make us not notice the sun, then applied enough magic to make that semi-real?

Nyctomancer?
Magic involving darkness I presume?

I'm sure most people would prefer it to not be eternally dark.

>Has begun sleeping outside during the commotion. is right now as tall as the guild she leant herself against.

Last post as Mira for today, might use another character later.

Who would do such a horrible thing?

Nice, they'll know.
That..
Thats scary. Do you have a way to check?

I don't know who, but I've done similar on a personal scale to drive one batty and test the principles of subjective reality, but anybody who would do such, assuming both that this is the truth and the sun wasn't merely an illusion in the first place, would need both an arcane amplifier and a symapthetic echo device to reinforce the illusion to the power of the number of minds on the planet.

Anyhow, testing might work, assuming that we can get objects out of its area of effect. From there, we simply have to chain mirrors until it overloads the amount of contigencies against secondary actions built into the spell. Of course, maybe the illusion that WAS the sun kicked the bucket, maybe, if that paper a while back was correct.

I uhh. Yeah. Wait no.
Im not Qualified for this...
Good luck?

I know that we regularly strain the laws of reality, but I think that this is a new one.

I'll supply the meeting with freshly brewed coffee while we figure this out, but unless you want to call the church in here to cast artificial sunlight, the plants are all eventually going to die out.

One of the grad students blew out Lab 6. I got the fumes cleared out, but... you know, when you have a minute. Since you're still on shift.

Or maybe some schmuck just closed a portal to the elemental plane of fire/plane of positive energy...
>Rubbs nose.

Yeah yeah, I know the drill.
I hope the poor bastard is still alive...

>Wanders in
>a bit more chirpier than usual
>he opens his arms wide and takes it in
Boy, it's a beautiful dayless day.

Hey, who the hells scribbled away my title?

Oh hello there.
What a fine sun-less day we're having.

Now if we could also get rid of the living that would be just great.

No hair left and partially blind in one eye.

Really, they think that just because they aren't undergrads that they have full license to go mad scientist in order to stake their claims in the field. Such is life, I suppose; the ones that are intelligent enough to not try killing themselves or are clever enough to succeed will be the new faces in the field, as few as they are.

>crosses his arms
Please don't try it.

Uh, please no.
Aw crap. Ok I'll go clean that up.

Now that just sounds like a wasteful and unnecessary thing to say.