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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!

curdle: (pic#15902706)

[personal profile] curdle 2022-08-31 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ now just what in the fuck hath happened here ]

Peace. There be times when 'tis easier to deny such things. [ ... ] What's happened, then?
canreallymove: (D'oh!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-08-31 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
...

You miss em' don't you? All of them.
violence_ensues: (Disappointed)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-08-31 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Adorabat pats Dylan's back a couple times.]

Y'all don't have any power there? I'm sorry you have to live like that.
curdle: (pic#15902706)

[personal profile] curdle 2022-08-31 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Like as not they'd never had such for themself.
hashtagwoof: Pleasantly Pleased (I wait patiently outside)

[personal profile] hashtagwoof 2022-08-31 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And so he does! ]

Thanks! I wonder if the frame from that sheep picture will fit this thing...

[ That will be a check for later. For now, he has one more thing to lug back to his room... One more reminder, that is... Ugh. ]
violence_ensues: (Default)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-08-31 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Adorabat, possibly to Hunter's annoyance, follows.]

The cat's name is cuddles, huh? What are they like?
keyringwitness: (Thinking Fast)

[personal profile] keyringwitness 2022-08-31 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yasu squeaks when Sonic pokes his head into the art room, jumping a full six inches out of her stool. Her embarrassment-blush turns into a panic blush as she tries to spin around, loses her balance, and falls, tumbling head over heels.]

I- I- I'm, er, um, f- fine, really, I am, d- don't worry about me! [she says as she clumsily picks herself back up.]
keyringwitness: (Avoidant)

[personal profile] keyringwitness 2022-08-31 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Fine! Fine fine fine, I'm, um, just- just, um- looking for an excuse-

[...

Yasu hangs her head in shame as soon as she realizes that she said that out loud.]
keyringwitness: (Avoidant)

[personal profile] keyringwitness 2022-08-31 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
P- Peachy, yes, Emma, t- thank you, um, er,

[oh god she's looking right at the painting and the painting isn't incriminating in of itself but it's still embarrassing yasu feels like she's going to spontaneously combust]
canreallymove: (I'm waaaaiiitiiing!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-08-31 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Uuuuuuugh. And I hate waiting, too!

[Which sounds like a personal problem for him, to be honest.]
violence_ensues: (Cute)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-08-31 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Store

[Adorabat is at it again, with a number of items laid on the floor. She inserts one last coin, and what comes shooting out of the collection slot is a dumpling ball, bonking her straight in between the eyes with a small squeak, causing Adorabat to oof in surprise and fall the the floor, a little dazed.]

[Care to help?]

Art Room

[Adorabat is happily painting in the art room. By the look of it, she's been at this for a while. There's multiple paintings scattered across the floor. There's pictures of a black cat wearing a red cape, a white and brown badger, and a blue bat with a yellow heart on its stomach. There's pictures of the various students here, mainly of Hunter, Dewey, Emma, and Luz. There's pictures of a quartet of strange people being maimed in various ways. Alive, but still badly hurt. And finally, there's paintings of various locations. Adorabat seems to be on yet another painting, humming happily.]
Edited 2022-08-31 16:49 (UTC)
canreallymove: (mondo uncool man!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-08-31 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Man...how do any of these help us? We can't see faces or anything...!

[grumble grumble...]
canreallymove: (antoine's a dweeb!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-08-31 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure did! I punched Buttnik real good.


Then he ran into the fish tank and that's how we found the glove!
keyringwitness: (Smile)

[personal profile] keyringwitness 2022-08-31 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even with the incident on Tuesday hanging over her, Yasu's made the art room into practically her second dorm. She's here all the time, usually tucked in a corner doodling, painting, or writing in her notebook... but today, she's watching Adorabat paint with a small smile on her face. Art buddies, heck yeah.]

Is that Pure Heart Valley? [she finally asks, betraying her presence in the art room for the first time since Adorabat arrived.] It's really pretty...
canreallymove: (Default)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-08-31 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, we'll work on it. Definitely gotta stretch your back, because you'll be rolling into a ball, yeah?
canreallymove: (mondo uncool man!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-08-31 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Heck yeah! These are creepy!

So it's time for a makeover, don'tcha think?
violence_ensues: (Impressed)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-08-31 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Adorabat didn't exactly pay Yasu any mind, just letting her paint her own things. Granted, Adorabat's paintings aren't really very good, but she's a preschooler. What do you expect?]

Yeah!

[She flutters over, taking the painting Yasu was looking at closer to her.]

This is one of the central parks! A lotta the other cutie pies think the town's pretty, too. OOH! Wanna see King Snugglemagne's castle?
violence_ensues: (Excited)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-08-31 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I promise I'll stretch my back EVERY SINGLE DAY!
curdle: (pic#11225731)

cw brief emeto mention

[personal profile] curdle 2022-08-31 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Thomasin may not be as not as on edge as she was this time last week, despite her surprise at lunch, but after the motive, a shadow's been cast over the whole school, and it will not be easily lifted. In the evening, after the group meeting and a quiet supper in the cafeteria, she decides to finally redeem her coins at the vending machine. She's not certain, really, why it took her so long in the first place.

A great assortment of stuff materializes around her over the next few minutes, all of it baffling. She only barely catches the egg in time for it not to splat on the school store floor, and nervously sets it on a counter while she continues feeding red coins into the slot. If anyone comes in after the turtle comes out, she gives them an awkward look before clarifying: ]


'Tis not Valmont's.

[ Which sounds like something someone who stole Valmont's turtle would say, but you know what, it's fine! Finally, after yelping and jumping back as an arrow narrowly misses her, she's down to two coins. She puts one in, and for a moment it seems that the blood they spoke of at meeting has begun pouring from the neon facade of the vending machine. The reality is something worse. A filthy cloak, the color of fresh blood, lies on the floor. Thomasin has never seen the garment before, and yet she is certain she knows whose it is. Mercy's shrill voice comes to her as her hands tremble and her heart races.

A witch! I've seen her in her riding-cloak, about the wood. ]


No, no...

[ But words cannot take back the knowledge. She can smell the forest on it, and the woodsmoke and grease of daily life in the crudely-hewn world she once inhabited. There are stains on it she cannot think upon, lest she retch here and now. She doesn't want to touch it, but she must, to get it out of here before anyone sees

Without thinking about it, one of her shaking hands puts the final coin in. Anyone who comes in for, like, the next five minutes will see Thomasin sitting on the floor, her shoulders shaking as she presses her face into the soft coat of a jumbo special big boy.

After composing herself again (and putting on the sunglasses), she takes most of her haul back to her room! And after that, she folds the cloak up and carries it, held in her arms like the sick inverse of a swaddled infant, to the workshop, where she throws that shit straight into the kiln. She, uh... doesn't know how to turn it on, though... a little help.......... ]
canreallymove: (antoine's a dweeb!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-08-31 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the spirit! And when you can do the backwards stretch, I'll show you how to roll into a ball!
temmapathy: (worried)

[personal profile] temmapathy 2022-08-31 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds really scary. [A pause, before she signs a bit more.]

Do you want a hug?
temmapathy: (upset)

[personal profile] temmapathy 2022-08-31 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I WILL karate chop you again.
temmapathy: (worried)

[personal profile] temmapathy 2022-08-31 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, what about- [She pauses mid-sign, looking down disappointedly.]

I was going to say laughter might drive them away, but there was that clown...
temmapathy: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] temmapathy 2022-08-31 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Emma looks over at the painting, nodding somewhat approvingly.]

It looks good! Who are they? [She's assuming they're from some fictional book, right now.]
canismajorcontrolfreak: (Way up high)

[personal profile] canismajorcontrolfreak 2022-08-31 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[A small nod.]

Blood dripped from the ceiling. Woke us up last night. Went upstairs to search.

The science lab was covered in blood. Not just covered-it was like it was bleeding.

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