WEEK 0

[whimsicalism]

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?

Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

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!

Comments

[canreallymove]

UH-

[DO NOT. SHOW. FEAR. MUST NOT SHOW FEAR. FEAR IS THE COOL KILLER. FEAR IS UNCOOL.]

Hello?

[He's going to...very carefully...stepforwardpleasedon'teathimghosts]

[whimsicalism]

Hello. Sonic, right?

[The voice is distant but near. Faint but loud.]

I'm glad you're here. I'm glad everyone is, really.

[canreallymove]

GAH-

[If he jumps a few feet off the floor, uh, hopefully no one calls him out for it.]

Wh-where are you!? Who-!? And how'd you know my name!?

[noblesnow]

It's in the handbook, isn't it?

[Reika.]

It seems a bit late for a get-together, though.

[REIKA.]

[canreallymove]

Huh!?

B-but I've been...not reading it!

[Actually, though..does the voice sound like Prissy Prefect?]

[whimsicalism]

I'm here. Well, somewhat anyway.

[There's a... small laugh and sigh with that.]

Reika's right, though. It's something like that. I've been here a long time.

[noblesnow]

May I ask your name? You obviously know ours.

[STILL JUST ACTING LIKE NOTHING IS WRONG. REIKA WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS]

[canreallymove]

You...have? And, uh, yeah...who are you?

[whimsicalism]

I have! You can call me-- oh. Right. I probably shouldn't use my full name right now... The Principal finding out about me would be bad.

[There's a pause.]

A. You can call me A for now.

[canreallymove]

A, huh?

[Well-]

So, like, A for Alicia. Got it.

[Guess Sally's middle name came in handy again.]

[noblesnow]

Or Akane, perhaps.

[And then the thread just turns into naming all the A-names they can think of.]

Are you a student here?

[whimsicalism]

Something like Alicia or Akane, I guess.

[A laughs again.]

I'm not a student, no.

[canreallymove]

You're not?

[blinkblink]

Then, uh...a teacher?

[wah wah]

[noblesnow]

Not the principal, certainly.

[Just in case anyone needed that obvious spelled out for them.]

[canreallymove]

Of course not, A actually sounds somewhat cool.

[Obviously.]

[noblesnow]

[Congratulations, Sonic, you made Reika giggle.]

[whimsicalism]

I'm not a teacher or that stupid ogre.

[She huffs.]

You'd think ogres would be less stiff. Shuten-Doji sounded like a hoot.

1/2

[canreallymove]

Yeah, man. See? School is-

[canreallymove]

. . .

Shoot in Doojiwhatsis? Wait, what ogre?

[whimsicalism]

Shuten-Doji is a famous ogre--oni--from my homeland. Used to run around causing trouble. Fairy tale things.

The ogre I'm referencing to is the Principal, though. He's angry and loud enough to be an ogre.

[noblesnow]

So he isn't literally an oni.

[listen, this was actually plausible]

I'm not surprised to hear he's unpleasant, though.

[canreallymove]

Yeah, no, same.

...

I mean, can you tell us more about the uncool principal? Anything that could help us kick his butt and get out of here, perhaps?

[whimsicalism]

I can't give you a lot right now, sorry, but I do know something that's important. He's not paying attention like he should to the Academy. Things might get weirder.

[noblesnow]

[...well that sounds ominous.]

Speaking of the academy, do you know what was happening here before yesterday?

[whimsicalism]

Why you woke up you mean?