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Castle W Mods ([personal profile] whimsicalism) wrote in [community profile] castle_whims2022-08-27 11:42 pm
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WEEK 2

WEEK TWO


Two weeks is plenty of time to get used to a new school, but the horrors of Ira Academy are likely to require much more acclimation than that. The lesson learned this weekend may be more important than anything else taught thus far: Regardless of motivation, regardless of friendliness, regardless of heroism, any member of the student body could turn out to be a killer.

Starting this week, the immovable, impenetrable glass wall blocking the staircase by the first aid station has receded. Students are free to go up the stairs beyond that wall and leave the ground floor of the school for the first time.

The new area that opens up in the Academy couldn't come at a better time. Past the landing, where a new ascending flight of stairs now waits behind another thick impenetrable wall of glass, the second floor greets students with muted, calming colors. The rooms in this area of the school house activities targeted at calming, freeing, or emptying the mind. After witnessing such terrible things on Saturday, it would be lovely to clear such thoughts away entirely, wouldn't it?

On Monday, classes will resume as normal, as if the student body had not undergone recent and horrific attrition. At least there are a fair few more places to hide now that the next floor has opened up, and it might be easier to avoid the Little Brothers trying to herd you into the classroom every now and then. It would be easy to let unease and paranoia reign over everyone. Perhaps, come Tuesday again, there will be another announcement from the Principal, holding another threat over everyone's head until the right person snaps and attempts the optional capstone project. There may be another mysterious phenomenon to follow through the school, seeking a hint of meaning or answers. Of course, you could all give up and choose re-education.

How will you move on?

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday
Regains | AC | IC Profiles | Locations | Mystery Information | A Contact | Sheep Contact
OOC NOTES


Welcome to Week 2. The Prefect has been removed from play until further notice and will no longer be able to be contacted. Mod Shay will continue to work for the game on an administrative level. ICly, the Principal will mention vaguely that the Prefect has been removed from her duties for the foreseeable future. The IC rules will be updated to reflect this and that's how the characters will find out. The sheep will take up her work monitoring the school and have their own contact post, and the A/V room is still locked. While you're free to question this ICly, please be mindful of others and try not to push the issue either ICly or OOCly. This isn't related to the plot and shouldn't be treated as such.

As a reminder, AC runs Sunday to Sunday concurrent with these posts and is collected based on the prior week; this means you have a whole week to get in AC for the week prior. AC for week 1 should be submitted no later than this coming Sunday. Remember to submit your regains! Also, if you want to investigate put INVESTIGATE on your subject line, please!

canismajorcontrolfreak: (Do you still see sky?)

[personal profile] canismajorcontrolfreak 2022-08-31 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
An electrical instrument that doesn't need to be touched to actually be played. It's good at making creepy music.

[Speaking from a listener perspective.]
violence_ensues: (Ooo)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-08-31 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
i wanna see one i wanna see one i wanna see one i wanna see one i wanna see one i wanna see one i wanna see one
normalnotroyal: (you had your dreams i had mine)

[personal profile] normalnotroyal 2022-08-31 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I can understand that. This place is... hard on us all. The only thing we can really do is stick together, though.

[Does she have high hopes for that? Nope! But she has to at least pretend like she is.]
lets_dewey_it: (getting scolded)

[personal profile] lets_dewey_it 2022-08-31 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. That's right. I'm going to do my best for everyone, then. [He's trying to keep his hopes up, at least with his own friends. He'd understand why others couldn't, though.]
canismajorcontrolfreak: (Is endless dark!)

[personal profile] canismajorcontrolfreak 2022-08-31 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Another chuckle, as well as a head pat.]

When we get out of here, sure. D.J. will probably love have someone to listen to him on that thing.

Until then, there's not much we can do but be patient.
violence_ensues: (Thinking)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-08-31 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Yay! Headpats! Thanks, bro!]

[But this does bring up a concern.]

Umm... How am I gonna get from Pure Heart Valley to your home?
canismajorcontrolfreak: (Do you still see sky?)

[personal profile] canismajorcontrolfreak 2022-08-31 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Well...the Principal brought us all here, despite us all being from different worlds. If he can do it, there should be a way for us to do something like it too, right?
violence_ensues: (Curious)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-08-31 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
You mean like a spaceship? People keep on saying they're from different worlds.
canismajorcontrolfreak: (Do you still see sky?)

[personal profile] canismajorcontrolfreak 2022-08-31 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Uh, no, not...necessarily.

[how does a dog explain the multiverse theory to a bat that is a literal preschooler...]

It's more like...everyone here is from very, very different places. To the point that...it feels much more fitting to say we're all from different worlds. So we can't help but think that it's true, and that we are all from different worlds-though not necessarily different planets.

Does that make sense?

[That is about the simplest way he can think to put it.]
hashtagwoof: (Head held high)

[personal profile] hashtagwoof 2022-08-31 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
... Yeah, I'm gonna just gonna take this off your hands. Paws.

Whatever.

[ He doesn't even drink coffee (or at least not non-cafe coffee) but yeah... He is keeping the bloody coffee. ]
hashtagwoof: (there’s no way I would survive)

[personal profile] hashtagwoof 2022-08-31 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sorry, he didn't wanna leave you in there... ]

Uh... Sort of? D... Dylan was really out of it, so...

[ Choppy words. Not much context. ]
britbrat: (excuse me?)

[personal profile] britbrat 2022-08-31 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
That's mine!

[ Yeah, Valmont doesn't care about your existential trauma, Dylan, sorry. He lunges, landing squarely on top of Dylan, hands scrabbling to pry his paws away from the talisman. Hopefully not causing bodily harm to either of the plushes in the process. They don't deserve that. ]

Give it back!

[ It's not even really his. But Dylan doesn't need to know that. ]
britbrat: (indignant)

[personal profile] britbrat 2022-08-31 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
I'll "drop it" when the offender is brought to justice.
hashtagwoof: (And I'm not the only one)

[personal profile] hashtagwoof 2022-08-31 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! That painting.

[ That sure was the framed print of Cuddles he commissioned a while back. The one he had to take down because a certain tiny puppy chewed up the frame.

The bite marks are still there, on closer inspection.

He reaches out to grab at the frame, but he hesitates to pull it away. ]


Can I have it back?
violence_ensues: (Cute)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-08-31 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! It's yours? Here you go!

[Adrabat offers Hunter the painting. He is free to take it!]
canismajorcontrolfreak: (Way up high)

[personal profile] canismajorcontrolfreak 2022-08-31 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
[He waves a paw in the air in a 'Whatever' motion.]

That's fine. Don't know what else I could do with it.

['Take the bloody coffee' says the British kids.]
canismajorcontrolfreak: (Just see spots)

[personal profile] canismajorcontrolfreak 2022-08-31 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
What the-!

[Unfortunately, there's not much Dylan can do in the way of escape, since his front paws are occupied by keeping hold of the rabbits and the stone thing, and he doesn't exactly try walking on only two legs very often.]

Have you lost your bloody mind you dodgy blighter?! Or are you trying to kill me!?!

[Fortunately, Dylan is still a dog, and what do dogs have? Sharp, sharp teeth.

He doesn't actually bite Valmont-he's not that out of it yet-but he sure is cutting it close, snapping his jaws very close to the boy's hands and arms. Valmont might want to be careful if he keeps this up!]
violence_ensues: (Thinking)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-08-31 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
mmmmmnh... I think so. I guess even to me, if I went to another village on the same world I'm on, it could seem like a different world. I never really thought about this before...

[Adorabat idly lightly taps her drumsticks on the gable in a sort-of-rhythm.]

Are any of y'all's places powered by giant gems? What's the name of your king...?
cellpreservation: ([Surprise] that's great)

[personal profile] cellpreservation 2022-08-31 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
Huh? No.
cellpreservation: ([Sigh] using tears while)

[personal profile] cellpreservation 2022-08-31 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
That only works if you acknowledge what we know...
canismajorcontrolfreak: (Is endless stars)

[personal profile] canismajorcontrolfreak 2022-08-31 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah, something that's actually normal-well, half normal, anyway.]

I know there's no gems powering London, but we do have a royal family there. Prince Corgi and his little brother Waffles.

[also technically a third one but she's never named so shhhhhhhhhhhhh]
canismajorcontrolfreak: (Do you still see sky?)

[personal profile] canismajorcontrolfreak 2022-08-31 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
...what do we know?

[Genuine questioning.]
cellpreservation: ([Sigh] To you and)

[personal profile] cellpreservation 2022-08-31 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
We know that if the Principal keeps getting away with this, we're all as good as dead. And we also know that if we don't keep it together enough to stop him, we're also as good as dead.

Those things won't change no matter how crazy things get.
canismajorcontrolfreak: (Between the you you are)

[personal profile] canismajorcontrolfreak 2022-08-31 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Dylan looks down for a moment, thinking. Pondering. Wondering. Before sighing, raising his head again to look at Yuta.]

You're...you're right. I'm sorry, I just...I'm not...I've always been more of a skeptic, and...the most supernatural thing I had to deal with before this was one my brothers pranking me into thinking a skull was haunted. So last night was just...

A lot.
lets_dewey_it: (explaining 3)

[personal profile] lets_dewey_it 2022-08-31 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
It was like, past midnight, the ceiling was dripping blood and it was spreading across the ceiling of the dormitory. The only ones woken up were me, Dylan, Adorabat, and Jeanne, and we figured it was coming from the science lab because that was above the dorms.

When we got there, the lab was just filled with blood, oozing from the walls, but it wasn't normal blood! It was too thick, too warm, and it just CLUNG to us. And even though the pool was only a few inches deep, chairs and tables were sinking into it!

And then there was a voice in the back of our minds, telling us there was something there, and we had to find it...

So I, thinking it wouldn't be as easy as looking in cabins or drawers, started shifting through the blood and reaching into it, trying to find that something. Dylan was all, "There has to be a logical explanation for this", and I was like, "NOT EVERYTHING HAS A LOGICAL EXPLANATION!" And I think that's why he's broken at the moment, that it wasn't logical.

But eventually, Jeanne used a chair to splash the blood around and help me find this. [He reaches into a non-existant pocket and pulls out the braid of white wig hair.] ...If you touch it, you'll get a vision. I don't know what it means, though.
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