WEEK FIVE

[whimsicalism]

WEEK FIVE

There's one thing that belongs in Closetland: Monsters.

It was a monster that brought the students here to begin with, and it's a monster who controls their lives now. By now, some have even accused their classmates of turning into--or always being--monsters themselves.

The academy is just as cold as it was last week, autumn air seeping in through the unfriendly architecture and the artificial light seeming darker than before. The occasionally cloud of purple fog snakes through the hallways at ground level, a constant reminder of the new presence haunting the school and her role in the past five weeks of torment. Now that Kakuya is back in a body of her own making, the music room is silent, though the rooms and halls of the Academy themselves occasionally fill with a low, haunting flute melody. With the school's new overlord already wishing her ill, Nanami's already deflating power and free roam capabilities are more or less completely limited as well: She's just one more toy in the box.

The stairwell has opened into another new floor. Upon closer inspection, it seems to be the uppermost one. This is the top of Ira Academy, and while it likely bears some new answers and some new locations to try and find a solution to your plight, is there anything that can heal some of the rifts that formed from the accusations thrown at the last trial? Still, if you don't find answers, then you'll be here playing this eternal deadly game.

Is the devil you know better than the devil you don't?

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OOC NOTES

Welcome to Week 4! Nanami has joined the party! She no longer has office hours but still be contacted privately, as can Kakuya, who is no longer stuck in the music room. New locations are now open, and some minor adjustments have been made to the IC profiles and rules. Please hit the mods with a ping in Discord and put INVESTIGATE in your subject line if you're interested in exploring a new location. The SHEEP are still taggable, though you may find them in a...different mood.

You now have a week to make sure your AC in for last week and to start collecting AC for this week. Remember to submit your regains, and sign up for a spot exploring this week's mystery if you want to!

Comments

[temmapathy]

Hopefully. We should also look around everywhere else, try and see if we can find any more hidden books about it.

[violence_ensues]

[First off, Adorabat is SO THANKFUL to hear that Dewey has the capability of traveling through time, so he may have had to deal with a crying Adorabat hugging him for a while. After she's calmed down, though...]

I found the room that keeps tabs on all the monst- um... cr- creatures. It also had this weird machine that looked like a keyboard but it also didn't and was drawing these things I couldn't make sense of.

[Adorabat gets out her notebook and shows everyone the drawing she made of the machine. It looks like some sort of seismometer.]

[canreallymove]

Such disrespect for the chili dog!

[what about the body though-]

It's way past important evidence!

[that he may or may not eat after this-]

[temmapathy]

[Wait a minute-]

She said something during the trial, didn't she-? That she didn't lie about wanting to escape with everyone.

[temmapathy]

Like a V-A-N-T-A-black box?

[temmapathy]

[Sorry, she's laughing too hard to look at his lips properly right now. She finally settles down, her laughter trailing off as she wipes her eyes.]

Okay, okay. I guess we need to check it for poison somehow?

WITHOUT taking a bite!

Art Room 1/?

[violence_ensues]

[Adorabat GASPS. S- SONIC!?]

2/?

[violence_ensues]

[Adorabat RUSHES INSIDE TO-]

3/?

[violence_ensues]

[-wait, this is just a doll.]

4/5

[violence_ensues]

[Adorabat looks around. Oh, there's the REAL sonic.]

5/5

[violence_ensues]

[Adorabat clutches her chest with a wing, breathing a sigh of HUGE relief. And then...]

DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN!

Not Here

[lets_dewey_it]

sis i told you this was a thing

[lets_dewey_it]

Hmmm... Thanks, Adorabat. Everyone else ought to check that machine out as well, but thanks for bringing it to our attention.

[violence_ensues]

I don't know what the papers it made meant it at all, but maybe there's something here to make it so we know what they mean. Keep a lookout.

[lets_dewey_it]

Okay okay so- I think this crime scene is completely overboard misdirection. All of these implements would be unnecessary all together. Stabbed AND strangled? AND dismembered?

I think the murder weapon was the chili dog. It's probably poisoned.

[canreallymove]

...Can I see that paper for a sec? I think I...might be able to think it out.

[lets_dewey_it]

Gotcha. Uhh, do you know those machines that check for earthquakes and draw lines depending on how much the ground is shaking? From what you drew, it looks like that. There's probably some big things in the containment cells.

[violence_ensues]

Oops. I didn't actually take any with me, but the papers should still be in the room.

[hashtagwoof]

Heh! I think you're right! Unless they were so sloppy we end up finding his shoes in a rubbish bin.

[hashtagwoof]

Right, right.

[ Still smirking as he kneels down to poke the body. Taking out the knife, looking at the stuffing and paint...

Trying not to focus on the chili dog... ]

[violence_ensues]

Oh, I didn't know that. It's the first I've heard of any machine that did that. Good to know.

-Wait! I just remembered! The machine also said a long list of numbers. Six two something and vee three and when I pressed a button, it changed to vee four.

I'm off my game...

[hashtagwoof]

"Vanta?" Don't think I heard of that brand... But hey, it's a possibility if we can get our hands on one.

[canreallymove]

That's fine, kid. But I was wondering if it's not...

Like, I'm pretty sure they use those for earthquakes, but what if it's not earthquakes they're measuring? You get what I'm sayin'?

[canreallymove]

So we can guess she's not from here, like us? And...

"You should have read the fine print"...so she got trapped in here like us?

[canreallymove]

G A H!!

B-but-Turbo said I was doin' this-!?