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

[temmapathy]

[Emma applauds deaf-style for the winners, doing a jazz hands gesture slightly above her shoulders, before heading to investigate the snack table. She ends up mostly picking out fruit and vegetables, although she does sneak a bit more dip. She also has Polly the pig with her, and sits at the edge of the stage feeding a few treats to the pig. She's generally content to watch, but if some of the younger students approach her for a dance she might accept.]

[holyironmade]

[Jeanne eventually bop-a-dops her way over to Emma. The jazz hands caught her eye and made her think that she hasn't had much of a chance to interact with the other girl, though she takes some time to wonder about the best way to approach. After all, "next to Emma both facing out to the food table" is not the best position. When Emma's away sitting down, any stuff at her feet can more clearly be seen, and that organically draws Jeanne's attention.]

Oh, my! Is this pig your partner? [Kind of like how Ash and Pikachu are partners.] Your date to the dance?

[temmapathy]

[Emma shakes her head slightly.] Not really. My dad brought Polly home from work for me and my brother, but then we had to leave her behind. I thought I'd never see her again until she came out of that vending machine. [She's catching up on all that lost time!]

[holyironmade]

Leave her behind when you went to space?

[It is a sad thought to be separated. Though also a happy thought to be reunited. She looks down at Polly wistfully, gears turning in her little head, then up at Emma.]

I should look into it myself soon. I didn't want to gather unnecessary things, but Polly is quite nice.

[temmapathy]

[Emma nods.] Yeah, we weren't allowed to bring pets on that trip.

I also got some things that belonged to other people.

[holyironmade]

How mysterious. It is as if we are encouraged to make trades. I would not have expected our captors to want to take care of more beings, any more than the organizers of your voyage. Is it proof of more ways to come and go from our "moments"...? [As Kuro called the children's spacetime origins.]

[temmapathy]

I guess they're not children, so the principal doesn't care? And even if the prefect doesn't like animals I be he doesn't care what she thinks.

[holyironmade]

Oh. I have it now.

He has surrounded himself with familiars! He has no need to do any of the cleaning up!

[temmapathy]

You're right! He doesn't even come here personally, so he doesn't have to deal with any of the mess himself.