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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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Are we really Ira Academy's first class?
[Yasu takes a moment to collect her thoughts.]
There, um, isn't any fiction anywhere as part of the school's library, but we can get stuff out of the vending machines, r- right? And I know some of it comes from our homes.
Maybe a previous student got those books out of the special vending machine, and they got lost in those little nooks you mentioned.
Which, um, begs the question... what happened to them? If we really aren't the first students to come here, that is.
[Another pause.]
A- And, um. Would you two mind if I read those books...
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[ He pauses, wondering how many of his theories he should share with the class. ]
My first theory was, what if those sheep used to be former students? But then we found that A person and now I'm having second thoughts.
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That would line up with what A said the P- P- Principal's, um, goals were. Perfectly obedient, model members of society, all thinking the same—all of them are the same, a- actually. One of them said that they're a hivemind.
Do, um. [Gulp.] Do you think we could find the body of the Little Brother A possessed? If we could l- locate it and open it up somehow, then we could see if...
[Yasu trails off, not wanting to complete that thought.]
We might be able to ask A herself, too. She'd probably be able to tell, given that she was, um. Inside? It.
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But that would make, um, sense. If that was the case. Stories are part of who we are. They're how we c- create ourselves.
[Damn, getting real deep for a nine year-old.]
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Then, it would be a good idea for us to write.
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[Yasu may already be dreaming up several different story ideas.]
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Is it already happening?
[...well. Reika being smart was fun while it lasted. ]
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Oh no what if it is...
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[GRABBING FOR A MARKER]
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[Way ahead of you, pal. Yasu is already scribbling frantically in the weirdly fancy journal she got today out of the vending machine and mumbling to herself.]
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Once upon a time there was a girl who followed a path
Riveting stuff.]
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Someone should definitely ask A about this. J- Just to make us stop being paranoid, if, um, nothing else. I've been to the music room a lot lately, so someone else should go so nobody looks s- suspicious by going in there too much.