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Castle W Mods ([personal profile] whimsicalism) wrote in [community profile] castle_whims2022-08-15 07:47 pm
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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?

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!
noblesnow: Reika looking up from a book she's reading ((R) take a look it's in a book)

[personal profile] noblesnow 2022-08-18 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
A normal one, that just tells a fictional story?
canreallymove: (Default)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-08-18 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah, totally fictional! Why?
noblesnow: Reika looking thoughtfully at a tanzaku (tanabata wish) ((R) what do I do with this thing)

[personal profile] noblesnow 2022-08-18 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a conspicuous lack of storybooks on the shelves. Putting those two things together, it sounds as though someone is actively making sure it stays that way.
canreallymove: (say what?)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-08-18 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, so there's just boring books on the shelves??
noblesnow: Reika telling someone what to do ((R) make it so)

[personal profile] noblesnow 2022-08-18 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't say that, but they're all informative, without anything that seems like it's just meant to entertain. There are also some activity books, like word searches and crossword puzzles, but it doesn't look like anyone has used them.
canreallymove: (they will never take MY CHILI DOGS!!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-08-18 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Still lame. I'd take comic books over boring learning books any day!

[Didn't you just claim you threw out the comi-never mind-]
Edited 2022-08-18 20:21 (UTC)
noblesnow: Reika looking puzzled ((R) is that so?)

[personal profile] noblesnow 2022-08-18 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
You won't do very well at the spelling bee like that.
canreallymove: (antoine's a dweeb!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-08-18 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey now! You make it sound like I care about winning that boring thing!
noblesnow: Reika looking up at something interesting ((R) fascinating)

[personal profile] noblesnow 2022-08-18 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[...

Reika opens her mouth and then closes it.]
canreallymove: (antoine's a dweeb!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-08-18 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, I know. Shocking.

But it's true.