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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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[She's trying to think of a specific virtue to attribute to him but funny how independent thinking isn't actually praised by Catholicism too much. Oh well!]
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Virtuous...? Do you really think so?
[ On the one hand, virtue isn't really a trait he tries to cultivate. On the other, sincere(?) compliment from cute girl .///. ]
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[Jeanne is sort of just saying what sounds good to her in the moment. She has a preexisting belief in ghosts for reasons that will be obvious in hindsight, and their classmates' statuses in aggregate, such as the huntress of vampires, make her feel that ghosts existing is downright self-evident. So might as well sound smart about it around this boy.]
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Well, that's me, of course. Open to anything. Within reason.
[ Talking dogs definitely don't fall under that heading, for the record, Dylan. ]
Do you think it really was magic, then?
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[Honestly, Dylan (and some of the others) does not seem to be so much a talking dog as a talking being that happens to also be called a dog by cosmic accident. He can hold a pencil for Pete's sake.]
I think astral projection is the most likely possibility. After all, our location has already changed dramatically. Why not this person's as well?
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[ He pinches himself to test this theory. Ow. Sure feels like flesh and blood. ]
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[She pounds her fist into her palm. In a delicate princess-like way though.]
Not just her, but all of us? That would address the artificiality of the realm and the single moment in time we all occupy no matter what we remember...!
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It does make rather a bit of sense, doesn't it? Perhaps our new colleague's projection was disrupted in some way, and that's why she doesn't have a physical form, while we do.
[ Valmont knows nothing about how astral projection works, but it's possible, right? ]
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[Jeanne is actually from the VCR era where there were different wires for audio and video, but she doesn't remember that precisely enough to put it out as an example.]
Still, it is only one of many theories at this point.
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[Serene smile that is actually quite frustrated.]
That is not very charitable. So what then, you think it is some telephone or radio?
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