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WEEK 1
WEEK ONE
This week, students at Ira Academy must return to class with their memories of the weekend hanging over them. The Principal is watching now, and he dislikes children even more than his initial draconian idea of education led everyone to believe. The rules revision is probably at the forefront of most people’s minds, along with the sinking paranoia of being monitored much more closely and more severely reprimanded for stepping out of line. This very empty academy building suddenly feels all the more claustrophobic. All students now have the option to commit murder and be freed from this school. Less than a week ago, you were teaching yourself to be friends with some of your fellow classmates. Will things remain that way, or will someone reveal themselves to be willing to take a life to escape?
But just because murder’s on the table doesn’t mean that your studies are off of it, and the Little Brothers are still here to helpfully encourage all students to complete their coursework. Despite being shepherded away at the end of the school dance announcement last night, this week the Prefect will be back for her office hours and, thankfully, less fixated on pulling off a successful weekend spelling bee and social event. Less thankfully, it seems she believes that completing your re-education as originally planned is the correct course of action. You’d do well to remember, perhaps, that right now your success reflects ultimately on her. Students who prefer to see how their fellow school denizen and prisoner-in-spirit can also sneak into the music room whenever it’s unoccupied to converse with A.
To that end, it also looks like someone’s posted a “Tutors and Study Groups” sign-up sheet on the hallway walls outside the A/V room. There are illustrated descriptions next to it, so even someone who doesn’t understand the writing should be able to glean its purpose. This seems like a good way for people who are interested in working together or helping one another with anything involved in school life. Students may make use of this resource as they will.
Finally, at the end of the hallway near the music room, a sliding wall has receded as if it was never there in the first place, revealing an unexplored area on this floor.. Hmm, what could be up there?
Regains | AC | IC Profiles | Locations | Mystery Information | Prefect Contact | A Contact
OOC NOTES
Welcome to Week 1! As with last week, if you have anything you’d like to investigate, you can bring mod responses in by pinging (INVESTIGATION) in your subject line. (SHEEP) for the Little Brothers. Unlike last week, Nanami can also be invited to participate in your threads with a (PREFECT) call-out. This is an option for anyone who wants non-private/event convos with her, if for some reason anyone wants to spend MORE time with her. If you are looking for information about the school’s mysteries, it's highly recommended you bring in the sheep or the mod journal instead!
Don’t forget your regains, and please submit your AC for week 0!
SUNDAY
CHURCH
playground
Peace be with you.
[Jeanne is prompting y'all to say "and also with you" because she is from 2001. (Unbeknownst to her, she's also not supposed to say that as an emergency non-ordained minister, but that can just be a sin she has committed in what she has failed to do.) She has taken over the blacktop with hula hoops to provide some place for people to sit, and her supplies lined up against the outside of the shed. There is one handwritten guide to the mass. There are a lot of short parts that comprise the mass, like "glory to god in the highest" and "Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again". However, they are not doing hymns or homily today, so it will only take about fifteen minutes.]
Would anyone like to do the first reading or the second reading?
[There is about half as many sentences in the written version because she could not remember it all. Maybe someone else will have their memory jogged!
The real reason Fret is here.Really she wanted to read the gospel though.]Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them. He said:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
[She looks at the congregation fondly for a moment.]
He said that you must be like a little child to enter the kingdom of heaven.
[Even more finnicky little chants follow this but now it's time for the good part. Yasu's big moment ringing the triangle in the background for the unveiling of the Eucharist! Opening one box of round crackers! Jeanne is going to put them in your mouth, because that's how she was raised to eat through opening the iron maiden's face plate. Even more recitations go here but it leads up to this one for dismissal.]
May almighty God bless you, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
do i have to slap a content warning up here for like, anticatholicism circa 1630 lmao ANYWAY
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Some stuff, a meeting and some SHEEP
First things first, he's looking for a sheep.]
Hey, you! Sheep dude! You got a moment?
[Later on, he's in the classroom and making a sign with the word MEETING on it. Because we clearly need another one. In fact, he slides a note under the dormitory doors to make the point:]
MEETING 3PM I GOT SNACKS
[Which he does, obviously. Some drinks, some food, and of course the food includes some good ol' chili dogs. When wouldn't Sonic include chili dogs? IMPOSSIBLE.
Later on that evening, he's in the playground, chilling. Waiting. He's got a backpack on as he taps his foot on the ground, arms crossed behind his back as he leans against the shed.]
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MEETING i guess edward pulls up 3 days late with not-starbucks
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Investigation
... [ Not that he's really in the mood to complain right this second. He's got way too much on his mind right now.
He slips into his room for a bit. He's awfully quiet, you're free to knock on his door if you feel like checking on him, but after a few minutes he comes out to slip a note under Dylan's door. ]
Man, I really hope dogs can read...
[ There's a bit of time to kill before Sonic's meeting. He was planning on going to the music room or something, but he noticed the stairwell at the end of the hall. Weird, he didn't remember it being there before.
Going up leads him to the lounge... Not much here, but he may as well get a closer look. Starting with that fishtank that doesn't have any fish in it. Why would anyone have a fishtank and not put fish in it? ]
CLOSED TO DYLAN (CW: Child abuse/endangerment/possible neglect, implication of animal abuse)
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Investigation
She also takes a look at the first-aid station, simply looking over the supplies in general, and looking a little bit relieved-though not by much.
Polly isn't always by her side, but the pig can be found in various places around the school as well, occasionally diving into a spot and coming out with vegetables in her mouth that she proceeds to chew on happily.]
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MONDAY
MYSTERY SIGN UP
Sign ups will end at 12:00 PM PST or when there's four people.
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Mystery 2 | Call of the Deep
Something seems amiss in your dark room, however. Something is glowing softly in your bedroom. It’s as if someone put on a nightlight in your room. You can’t quite find the source until you look up. Near the ceiling next to the door is… something? A glowing ball of light, long tentacles draping themselves down to the floor, shimmers in and out of your sight before vanishing through the door.
As you follow it, some of your fellow students also open their doors following similar objects. The glowing creatures seem to be drifting away from your group. A sudden idea comes to mind: if you don’t follow them now you might not get the chance to do so later. The creatures are leaving the dorm quickly, are you ready to follow?
[OOC: Only those that are investigating this particular mystery are affected by these strange creatures. The contents of your nightmares are up to you, of course. Since this is a closed investigation, if your character tries to wake up the other students they get a sense that they just don’t have time to do that, even if they leave someone behind to do that. Don't worry about it. ]
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1/2 [cw: free will being sapped]
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INVESTIGATION / Toplevel
Or rather, it's time to roll down her sleeves, put on some goggles, gloves, a hairnet, and an oversized gown, because she's going to do something very inadvisable: take a look inside the biohazard bins in the decontamination room.
After her non-OSHA compliant adventure, Yasu can be found in the lounge, sitting at one of the tables with an anatomy textbook on her left side, her grimoire on her right, and a mess of pencils, tongue depressors, cottonballs, rubber bands, and several other odd bits and bobs as Yasu's head rapidly whips back and forth between her books and her project: a crude imitation of a human hand's skeleton structure using school supplies as the bones and rubber bands as the joints. Yasu sticks out her tongue slightly as she concentrates on tightly wrapping another rubber band around a golf pencil that services as a segment on the index finger, then leans back, looking at her work.]
Hm... do you think this joint will bend properly? [she muses aloud, taking another look at the anatomy textbook and the simple blueprint that she has in her grimoire.
Later still, once she's shelved her Frankenstinian hand for now, Yasu remains in the lounge, happily humming and doodling in her grimoire. If you peek over her shoulder (or across the table, Yasu is in her own little world right now), you'll find sketches on a minty-haired, wispy young man in a princely outfit holding hands with a girl in a moon-patterned half-mask and frilly black dress with musical notes printed on the torso holding hands and other activities that constitute romance in the eyes of a girl Yasu's age.
It takes a long moment for her to notice any observers, but when Yasu does, her face flushes red and she slams the grimoire shut with an embarrassed,] Eep!
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yard sard (and chaos)
--and is immediately pelted with kibble.
Understandably, for her next few gacha pulls she stands next to the vending machine and reaches around, but when the next three things come out normally she concludes she's safe now, and moves back to a more normal position for the last fwe presses.
So naturally the machine finishes up by shooting kibble at her again.
She takes some time to clean up that mess, and stashes a couple of more dangerous things in her room, before she heads for the cafeteria with a big pile of crap.]
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Sometimes you have too many threads but you just want to note something for the record
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Yard... Sard?
He would have probably judged what he got, but that was a smallish stick like object tumbling out of the machine. Which means... ]
-WOOF! Woof woof!
[ Hunter is now on his hands and knees, eagerly grabbing the nightstick with his teeth and running off with it. Hope nobody gets knocked over while he's rushing out the door on all fours to find some place to bury it...
Yep. This is your bonus mystery, folks: Why the heck is Hunter suddenly living up to his title? ]
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yard sard!!
To probably everyone's disappointment, Valmont does not get kibbled. However, not long afterward, he can be found setting up in the reception room, clearing the animal magazines off the table so he can instead plunk one unassuming-looking turtle onto it. Next to the turtle he stands a sign, handwritten in green marker: ]
FOR SALE:
One turtle
Food included
Make your best offer by the end of the day
or I'm looking up turtle soup recipes
[ He wouldn't actually cook it, of course. He'd make Yasu do it.
Also on the table lie a shirt and pants, somewhat sloppily folded. The turtle chews on one of the sleeves. ]
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yale sale
Okay, maybe Dylan shouldn't be too much of a downer. He's got weird red coins, and maybe he can actually get something good from that vending machine in the school store. At the very least it's not going to be a monster or something, right? But what does come out...]
Seriously? Why do I have to get the weird stuff?
[He picks up some...thing in one paw.]
What even is this thing?
[Later, it's cafeteria where he's set up shop, most of his haul set up on the table he sits at. The only things missing are the yellow polo shirt, which he plans to dispose of at some point, and the Budegg (TM), which is currently...]
Jeez, Betelgeuse, how often do you need to be fed?
[In his paws, chain already clipped to his collar.
And yes, he did have to drag most of this here, because that's what happens when a dog gets something like a keytar.]
First part
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TUESDAY
MOTIVE
The message is broadcast on the PA system throughout the school, so even those who aren’t at lunch will hear it–no matter where they try to hide. The sheep stop moving, as well. They sign quickly as the Principal speaks.]
I can see that you nuisances still need more discipline. Very well! I’ll step up to the challenge.
Unless one of you begins the alternative capstone project and kills a fellow student, I’ll have no choice but to outsource. If any of you fail to act, I’ll be bringing a dangerous threat from your home universes. Just to hurry things along. I’m sure they’ll be as pleased as punch if they can get a few moments of your time before I send them back home. I’ll even let them ask for bonus pay as reimbursement for their time.
No giving yourself up right away, either. If you aren’t committed, don’t bother. I’ll just carry out my end of the deal. Before I forget, Miss Kiryuu will be giving out these little motives in the future. I just needed to make sure her resolve doesn’t waver.
[With that, the speakers shut off. It seems that the Principal is very committed to these new rules after all…]
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Toplevel
[Adorabat is inserting coins into that machine. She has laid around her a doll, a handheld computer, a DVD of Alice in Wonderland, and a book. She inserts one more coin and out pops a bag of ground coffee. She takes it and looks it over before turning to you.]
What's this?
Reception
[Adorabat is once again playing in the reception area with her black rabbit plush. It looks like a new toy. After a moment or two, she notices you.]
Oh oh! Wanna come play with Simon, Cynthiphelle, and me?
Out and About
[Adorabat is flitting to and from, gluing pieces of paper to the walls. If one reads the paper, they can see that it's the old version of the rules, complete with rule #9: No running in the halls. It may be terribly spelled at parts and other parts may be nearly illegible, but Adorabat's still doing this. You can catch her putting glue on a piece of paper and slapping it on the wall.]
You're welcome!
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Yard Sard
[Well, that was a thing. It completely interrupted Jeanne's post-class plans. She is now sitting on top of the jungle gym, with the two dresses and yellow raincoat fluttering on some of the lower bars. She's looking over her giant haul of stuff on the blacktop, which includes two live creatures that at this point she assumes are someone else's pets. At least she has an important duty of some sort.
Spirit Ball Shamash floats over her shoulder. Since acquiring him from Dylan on Monday, she will be keeping it with her at all times unless otherwise noted, though sometimes tucked away more subtly.]
Do you judge them, Shamash? [...seems to be talking to her little buddy about the pets on the ground, trying to prompt any kind of response at all.] Of course you do not. They know not what they do.
classroom
I cannot believe it had nothing to do with A Little Princess... Hm!
[After some time and the not-weather getting worse, she is ready to return to her original plans. You can find her like this on subsequent days if you want. She is reading a French-English bilingual teaching edition of The Little Prince, and the book has cheered her up a fair amount. That is when your character comes in!]
Do you have a moment? [You do? Great!] I was talking with Mistress Prefect about studying written foreign languages while I am here. She suggested forming a study group. What do you think? [Are you the fellow student or the tutor?]
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WEDNESDAY
SHEEP
P- Pardon me, b- b- but, um... if... a corpse... does show up...
Are you, uh, qualified to... assess its condition? I don't, er, think we c- can do that... it'd be helpful if you could keep an eye on the scene so we d- don't have to worry about anyone... interfering with it... too...
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INVESTIGATION
What've we got? Others can feel free to catch him pilfering the aquarium sterilizer.]
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Re: THURSDAY
Today after class, he could be found in the Music Room, quietly and thoughtlessly pressing one of the keys of the piano repeatedly, humming to himself as if trying to figure out what key to press next in order to string together a song.]
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What is Sonic's life rn
[Aside from the weaponry and bear trap (because heck no, he's not giving anyone weapons to kill one another with, those things are being stuffed into his drawers. Out of sight, out of mind!), and the kazoo (all the better to annoy the Principal with, duh!) Sonic's pile of stuff is in the cafeteria, with a sign that says FREE.
As for where Sonic himself is? He's in the kitchen, maniacally cooking, looking very, very annoyed. Next to him is a Power Ring, its energy spent.
And he keeps saying one word, over and over through gritted teeth:]
UNCOOL!!
Classroom
[Later on, when no one's looking, Sonic decides to sneak into the classroom and check out some books. Not that he wants to learn, mind you. He just is investigating! Yeah. Investigating.
Right now he's looking at an atlas, frowning, as he looks back forlornly at the ever-silent handheld computer.
Maybe someone should poke him or something, see why he's so troubled. Aside from Nicole, obviously. It's pretty clear he's still upset about that, for those who saw him on Wednesday.]
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[Fret is trying the vending machine out just a little, and out drops this bucket of worms.]
Well, that's, uh. Something. Do the animal people eat these or what?
[Worms are probably part of a hedgehog, bat or duck's diet, he thinks... but who knows how that works. The poopsie diaper dragon comes out next. He blinks at it in confusion and then just plops it on the store counter for grabs. One more shot!!
Ah. A mask. A hopeful, cheery mask. Doesn't that sound familiar?
But he is certainly not immune to Imprinting, so that surge of hope still warms his heart. Unfortunately he is still in the middle of thinking about what to do with all this stuff. Applying hope to that, well...]
...Ya knooow, this could be a good thing! Any protein's tasty if you barbecue it, right? [Did I mention he likes weird food ;;]
Science Lab
[Fret seems to have suddenly developed an interest in experiments that involve scattering light?? He's set himself up at the back of the class with a few supplies 'for science', which include all of the blacklight-capable flashlights he took out of the decon room yesterday, and some spare glass lightbulbs pilfered from the supply closet. Screwing the back off of that lightbulb, he fills it with water and tries shining the UV light on it to see if it scatters. It doesn't as much as he'd like (at least as far as he can tell with his naked eye. He really doesn't know much.) So he grumbles.]
Man, if only Boss was here... [Whatever he is trying here is clearly making him use his head more than he ever wanted to do. It's unusual to see him act serious, isn't it? Someone who Knows Things come at him before he starts mixing random chemicals into this bulb.]
Gym
[Well, he may or may not have managed to make anything at the end of the day, but you've got to start somewhere. If nothing else, he is at least gonna try taping up the aquarium light so it shines across the door here at ground level. If he managed to make something good in science class, that's getting set up next - slightly later. For now he is just kind of looking dryly at his handiwork and mumbling.]
Fret, you sure are heckin' doing this. Nobel Prize for plague busting, and the crowd goes wild...
[Bro maybe you should put your mask on]
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