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

[holyironmade]

Yasu has earned a ribbon! It is exactly what she deserves! Congratulations to Koishi as well!

[Princess-like applause erupts from Jeanne. Also, since there is no class today, for the first time she is wearing her outfit instead of the uniform. The fact that I can't find a clean 2021 anime official art design for this outfit slays me because it's a pretty darn large part of her screentime. There is a silver pin with L A W S arranged around a big X.]

Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm... hmmm hmmm hmmm.

[She doesn't seem to be looking down at the dance going by her face, bopping along to the music, including with Reika. Hi, Reika! However she's sort of hovering around the table where she has set aside a "Sadani" screw-top water bottle and her white handkerchief, never quite letting it out of her sight. She is also not taking any punch or food yet.]

[noblesnow]

[If Jeanne dances with Reika, it follows that Reika dances with Jeanne.]

I'm glad you're having a good time.

[holyironmade]

[Bopa dop dop dop. The power of the transitive property. They are dancing. Honestly Jeanne is basically just shuffling an entire foot away but she seems to think this is very adequate and lively dancing.]

Thank you for saving me from embarrassment. You really are a bit like a handsome prince.

[noblesnow]

[Hey, Reika won't judge. Reika has no room to judge.]

Do you think so? I always thought of myself as more like a princess than a prince, but I suppose this isn't bad, either.

[holyironmade]

Well... I do have the ability to save people at times. I suppose there is a bit of the prince in me too. But I feel most like a princess locked up with long hair. You are still a cool princess.

[Words that mean everything and nothing.]

[noblesnow]

I suppose I'll just have to rescue you from your tower, then.

[REIKA YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANYTHING THAT COULD EVEN METAPHORICALLY BE THE TOWER WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS]

[keyringwitness]

I, I, I, um, I, i- it was, uh,

[In an instant, all of Yasu's previous eloquence and confidence evaporates, leaving her the same stuttering mess as always. She reaches her hand deeper inside the satchel at her side, but even that nervous gesture barely seems to calm her down.]

It, it... [Darnit, she can't find a way to deflect that compliment. She'll have to take it sincerely. How mortifying.] Thank you... [Yasu scuffs her feet, staring holes into the ground as she blushes furiously.]

[holyironmade]

[Her blush is visible even through all that hair. This gives Jeanne a thought.]

I worried how you could see through your thick bangs. You must have honed your hearing very well.

[keyringwitness]

Y- Yes, that makes sense, doesn't it.

[She mostly has good hearing so she can hear the madam coming and either get back to work and completely avoid her, but sure, Yasu will roll with that.]

[romancing]

Thank you! I'm gonna show neesan next time I see her!

[ She's just happy she got a pretty ribbon ]

[holyironmade]

Did she help teach you to spell?

[Or is she just going to appreciate the joyful twirl that comes with showing off a ribbon.]

[romancing]

I don't remember. She used to read to me when I was little, but neither of us went to a school. Our parents must have taught us something.

[holyironmade]

I suppose if they helped raise her, that is the logical option.

[Suggests they're out of the picture, which she'd normally parse as sad, but this seems to be normal to Koishi, as it is for Jeanne herself. She wonders if there is a good reason.]

Is there a duty you two have living on your own?

[Like... Koishi has longevity apparently. Spirit...??? Spirit detected???]

[romancing]

Well, neesan and I live in the Palace of Earth Spirits, but it's mostly her job to take care of things. I don't stay at home much, but when I come back, I help her with some of the chores. She has to do stuff like making sure the Hell of Blazing Fires is working properly, so she has Orin fetch all of the furnace fuel, and Okuu feeds it and keeps its temperature from getting too hot.

[holyironmade]

[Ah. Likes: wandering.]

It sounds like a Buddhist hell that lasts just one quadrillion years? Interesting. Is it your prerogative as an unaging child to be nearly carefree forever?

[romancing]

Oooooh, do you know anything about Buddhism? It all kind of goes over my head, but I stayed at a Buddhist temple a few years ago. The head nun there is nice, but I didn't understand anything she was saying~.

Anyway, the palace is at the capitol of the Former Hell. Hell moved places a while back, but our buildings and stuff are still there, and youkai still live there, so someone needed to keep an eye on it. I guess that fell to neesan.

[ a laugh ]

What are you talking about? I get older ♪. Just reeeeaaaaaally slowly. I don't really have much to do, though, that's true. So I like to wander around and see new places.