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castle_whims2022-08-15 07:47 pm
whimsicalism) wrote in castle_whims2022-08-15 07:47 pm
WEEK 0
Week Zero
Despite everything that made yesterday feel like a particularly spectacular dream, everyone will wake up today back in their dorm rooms and their academy pajamas (providing they changed before bed). The artificial light is still bright and happy, but the reality of the school year is truly beginning to set in. This is the true first day of classes.
This week, the ground floor of the Academy is open to explore. All of the rooms that were inaccessible on Monday are open for the rest of the week, though students will still be kept firmly on the ground floor while remodeling continues on the upper levels.
Classes are also in session, with a basic schedule advertised on the board outside the cafeteria. In addition to basic academic subjects, the courses offered have a slight bent towards soft skills: home economics, etiquette, and public conduct are peppered in with math and science. The textbooks available for classes are handed out at the beginning of every sheep-taught lesson, and they encompass several levels of learning on the same subject to account for the different levels of students in attendance, as if someone created a series of textbooks in the nature of this video series. Strangely enough, there usually seems to be one fewer book than there are students, as if someone wasn't accounted for when books were ordered. The Lady Prefect can often be found in attendance at these classes, though she tends to disappear right after each session for her office hours. All in all, she's a distracted, even daydreamy student, and she may occasionally ask for someone else's notes. But she's quick to take roll and remind others of deadlines.
Regardless, classes only last a few hours a day, and students are otherwise encouraged to pursue their own extracurriculars and self-improvement, including via gym and music room activities. There's time to eat and train on your own schedule...or maybe you want to try making a dent in the large collection of Zoobooks in the reception area, feeding the strange vending machine in the school store some of your red coins, or convincing a Little Brother robot to tell you what really happened when one of them started getting mouthy yesterday at orientation.
Two future dates linger on the horizon, both fresh from the discussions on Monday: The Little Brother that was behaving so strangely promised a game of hide-and-seek on Wednesday, and the first main school event, the spelling bee and dance, is slated to take place on Saturday.
How will you prepare?
OOC Notes
Welcome to Week 0 proper! Events will unlock on the relevant day. Effective immediately, students are able to explore the week's locations for some more information about the school. If you'd like mod input on an investigation, please tag in the mods by writing (INVESTIGATION) in the subject line of your comment. If you'd like to speak with a Little Brother, please put (SHEEP) in your comment header. They're pretty wary of talking to students in secluded places, unfortunately, so while you can talk to them one-on-one, they don't offer a private contact post of their own.
The Prefect, however, will be available for her office hours. Nanami herself can be contacted in private via screened threads there. Given the general off-the-rails beginning of the semester, she is a bit distracted this week, but there's never any harm in reaching out!
Don't forget your regains!
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If she was a detective in one of her novels, she'd have to investigate to get to the bottom of this paranormal occurrence. But the reason why Yasu gets up and follows the music (grabbing at one of the sheets to scribble down the score as best she can in her notebook) is simple curiosity overriding her fear at something so eerie.
When she finally arrives and the scrap she was holding turns to ash, she gulps. This was magic. Real magic. Not something she should be messing with.
But...
She peeks inside the door, not quite fully entering the room.]
H- Hello?
[Then, working off of a script that she spent years learning,] Um... is there any way I can help you, sir? Or ma'am?
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Hello. I'm glad I can finally talk to you better now.
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[...she called Yasu "bright." It might be a shallow reason to like someone, but considering how little praise that Yasu has earned in her life, it's a reason nonetheless. In contrast to everyone else's reactions to the ghost, Yasu steps in without a trace of fear, looking all around the music room.]
R- right, introductions. I should be polite. I'm, uh, Y- Yasu. Although I think you already know that. Is there anything I should call you?
[And after a brief pause.]
And, um... may I ask a question? Sorry if it, it doesn't make sense, but I can't get if off my mind.
Is there a place like this under the bed too?
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[It does seem to be the same presence.] I do know that but I think a proper introduction is still better. It makes it feel more friendly. I'd like to use my full name but the Principal and I really don't get along so... let's just go with A for now, is that enough?
[There's a pause.]
I'm afraid I don't understand.
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You mentioned all that stuff about monsters, and ogres, and all that stuff that's hiding in your closet until you actually look inside.
S- So I was wondering if, um, this was the place inside the closet, where all those monsters live. And if there was, uh, a place like that under the bed too, since they're also there.
I know it's silly, but... I, um, think trying to understand this place normally won't work. Common sense won't get us anywhere here.
At least that's w- what I think. I'm probably just daydreaming again, though.
[She looks away, keenly aware that this is the most she's ever said at once since she's arrived here, and mildly mortified of how she's said something that sounds so dumb in retrospect.]
Y- You're welcome, by the way. It was fun drawing it. [She's full on blushing now. She's never shown any of her drawings to anyone else, not even the lady of the house.]
Did you like the cookies, too...?
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[A seems surprised but not judging.] I think you can get to it from under the bed. Closetland, as far as I've heard, is a place that's existed since the first children. What they must have thought were monsters were quite different, though. The dark shadows of a closet or under the bed or just behind the corner in a dark alley... I think those places are where Closetland exists.
[There's a pause, then:] Commonsense is overrated, anyway!
[If she could touch her, A would pat her on the head.]
I did. They were very tasty.
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[once again she thanks her supervisor for letting her watch while he made cookies]
I do, um... have another question, though.
How were you able to get the potato chips?
None of the vending machines sell them, as far as I can see...
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[A small pause as she digests all of this information.]
You said to a few of the others that to get out of here, we need him to come back. But...
What's g- going to stop him from controlling us again once he does?
I, um. If we don't understand how we got free in the first place, then him coming back seems really risky...
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[She pauses.]
I admit I don't know if that'll work but getting him in person might allow us to at least attempt to capture him and force him to let us go.
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[Yasu nods firmly, trying to resolve herself.] I'm going to, um, try and find out how this happened, if I can. If we understand that, then we might be in less danger when he comes back.
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I believe in you. Just keep your wits about you and you'll be able to do this.
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[yasu unfortunately doesn't know how to take a compliment judging by how she's blushing at something as minor as that]
You're pretty great too... using that Little Brother to talk to us was clever.
S- Speaking of, is the Lady Prefect, um, Nanami, your replacement?
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[Now here comes the big whammy!]
Do you, er, have any hobbies or anything? You mentioned you get bored all alone, and we can't talk to you all the time, so... maybe we could bring you something to do while you're trying to hide?
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