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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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Al-right. Just make sure to be super, extra careful with any spiders you try to talk are safe. Don't need to get any spider bites.
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[Yasu shivers as she recalls the memory. So many tiny legs. So much web in her hair.]
And, um, it's really more like spiders are antimagic, to get more specific... they help keep the witch from playing pranks on me.
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Um, quick question-is there any particular reason why you stay...doing what you do, where your from? Being a...servant?
[LIKE??? YOU GOOD?????]
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[The series of decisions that led to not only the Ushiromiya family plucking orphans out of the Gospel House to use as servants for several years but a six year-old specifically being chosen are unknown to Yasu, but they were probably made in very, very poor judgment.]
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Do you...want to be at this orphanage, or...would you prefer being somewhere else?
[He's really considering it. He's known most of these people for less than a week and he's considering it, because what else should you consider with a situation like THIS]
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[Congratulations, Dylan, you've opened a can of worms that Yasu has been trying to keep sealed for years.
She looks down, ashamed to admit that,] It'd be nice to be somewhere else, but... I d- don't really have anywhere to go.
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Okay, this...I know this is going to sound crazy, but...do you want to...maybe...live somewhere else, like...
[Maybe he should just be blunt. Deep breaths, and-]
Would you like to come live with my family?
[...or maybe that was too blunt? He regrets this immediately.]
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[Gospel House was an orphanage, but it only hypothetically found homes for its children.]
Um-
[It didn't have any advertisements. It was tucked in an out of the way corner of an out of the way island in an out of the way archipelago. You didn't leave with a family, you graduated. Exceptions were rare.]
That's...
[And even then... Yasu was never listed on the orphanage register.]
I think... [A real home had never been an option for her, she'd thought.
She bows her head, reeling from the offer.]
I'd really like that, Mister Dylan.
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...wow, that worked???
Well, guess it's one of those "don't look a gift hu-" er, be grateful it was actually easy, moments.]
Just Dylan is fine. And...glad to hear it.
[He's too short to do any supportive head pats like he would at home, so instead he pats Yasu's feet, hoping it's just as supportive.]
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I'm, um, not sure if I could stay there f- forever, but... I'd like to see what it's like. To h- have a family.
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[Which is probably obvious, given the wagging of his tail.
Though after a second, he does get a more contemplative look on his face.]
Uh, just so you know, the profile about me wasn't kidding or anything. I have a really big family, if that could be an issue.
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[Unfortunately, Yasu can't see the title of Dylan's canon.]
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I-if that's a problem, we could talk with some of the others and see if they could do something! I'm sure at least one other person would be willing to help.
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A hundred?!
[yeah that's a lot for yasu to even process at the moment dylan]
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[Is. Is it better to just. Let her process it? Should he make a comment? He'll let her process. He's not even sure what he could say to help.]
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Um... is there any space for a, er, human...?
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[Ah, Mr. Fuzzyface. You are missed.]
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[yeah yasu was chomping at the bit to get a family before but 101 dogs is a lot dylan]
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[He understands! His family is a lot to take, even for him sometimes.]