WEEK 2

[whimsicalism]

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!

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MONDAY

[whimsicalism]

MYSTERY SIGN UP

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[Please respond to this comment if you wish to sign up. Sign ups will close at 9AM PST / 11 AM CST / 12 PM EST or when we have four players signed up. It will start OOCly by 12 PM PST / 2 PM CST / 3 PM EST, so please note when you're most available in you're sign-up comment so we can try and work out scheduling!

As a note, please don't sign up if you explored the mystery last week.]

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

[make the skeptical dog have to deal with a ghost

please]

Re: MYSTERY SIGN UP

[lets_dewey_it]

[MYSTERY]

[holyironmade]

[GHOST!!!

I am genuinely widely available starting from 12 PM EST to pretty much any reasonable time afterwards, however please let me know if it starts at exactly 3 PM EST because then I will know to take my self-scheduled lunch break before instead of after!]

[violence_ensues]

[BRING IT]

Mystery 3 | Blood is Thicker

[whimsicalism]

[It’s very early Monday. The clocks slowly tick to five past midnight as some students get a rather rude awakening–that is, if they could get any sleep tonight. It’s been a long weekend, after all. Betrayal and death have struck the Academy. It would be understandable to spend a sleepless night staring at the ceiling.

For those asleep, the sudden wet sensation falling on them would be enough to stir them awake. For those awake, well, pray that you weren’t looking up. Something is seeping through your dorm room’s ceiling. Something wet, warm, and red.

Blood.

Globs drip onto you as a stain grows steadily bigger in the ceiling above. Perhaps the sins of Saturday are coming back to haunt you?

Either way, the laboratory is on the floor above the dorms. It may be a good idea to head in that direction unless you want to stay in your room with the ever growing amount of blood seeping into it.]

((OOC: As with the previous mystery, this is a locked event. You may talk about the events after they happen, of course, but trying to wake up the other students isn’t allowed. If they try they’ll get a sensation that they just don’t have the time to spare. What happens to your belongings after the mystery is up to you! We don’t want to make that decision for you. While you may respond to the event individually to put in your reactions since this an investigation, we prefer that you stick together for the duration.]

Re: Mystery 3 | Blood is Thicker

[lets_dewey_it]

_{[Well, he was trying to sleep. But, as soon as he felt something drip on him, his eyes shot open, and what a sight he had to wake up to...]}

WH-WHAT IS THIIIIS?! <sub>[He is NOT staying in his room with that blood in there, he's running out, trying not to break down as he looked desperately for anyone else, but being unable to bring himself to pound on their doors, instead hotfooting it out of the dorm area, panting before trying to collect himself and think about what's on the floor above the dorms.

The lab... That's it!]</sub>

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

[Dylan was, fortunately, one of the ones asleep, probably out of exhaustion from the last two nights not being the best. Unfortunately, as everyone already knows, Dylan is a dog, and it doesn't take any longer than a second to realize what's interrupted his sleep.

He zips out of his dorm room in a flash, breathing heavy and looking terrified. There's a spot of blood on his muzzle, higher up, near his eyes.]

Wh-what...what...what...

[violence_ensues]

[Adorabat doesn't even feel the blood dripping on her at first. She's hanging from the roof, so the blood doesn't have that far to go. It's only after a minute or two that she starts getting woken up by it. She blearily looks around, rubbing a wing on her eyes.

The blood travels from her leg... to her stomach, then to her head. It's at this point she notices the smell and jolts from the ceiling with a small yelp. She presses a wing on the blood drip on her and looks at it with a gasp, looking up at the ceiling and noticing the bloodstain.]

...Again? And so soon...?

[With a sigh, she opens her door and peaks out to see if anyone is there.]

[holyironmade]

[Honestly this is not an unusual sleeping condition for Jeanne but eventually she rolls on her side and realizes it is only coming from one direction, which is bad. She gets up with an extra large bloodstain on her pajamas, puts on her shoes because some people just can't get over that, and briskly sets off towards the stairs. To her company, she remarks:]

This few of us coming running? I suppose it is strangely soon for another sin.

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

[So, after...certain things happened this Monday, Dylan is, understandably, not seen for most of the day. It's a heck of a way to wake up, and it's going to take a heck of a long time for him to actually get some sleep again.

If you want to find him for the majority of the day, you're going to need to knock on his dorm room door, as well as be patient. He's kind...mentally preoccupied, at the moment.

If you're lucky, though, you may find him in the cafeteria, surrounded by a variety of objects that may or may not be familiar to some people here. The only things not present are the knife and the shirt-even when he's not fully there, staring up at the ceiling as stars are projected above, he knows better than to let those things out.

He lays on his back, staring up, hugging three things to his chest: the rabbit plushes, and the rabbit-stone-thing.

Feel free to take something if you want, it seems unlikely for him to do...anything, really.]

cafeteria

[hashtagwoof]

[ There's a bunch of random stuff surrounding a shell shocked dog. Not something Hunter expected to see at lunch today. ]

Uh... Dude? Are you... [ Wait, no, Dylan is clearly not ok. ] What happened?

[canreallymove]

Hey, Dyla--

[Aaand he sees the Power Ring.]

Oh, uh, hey. Mind if I have that ring back?

[cellpreservation]

[Is this what a traumatized dog looks like?]

...Dylan?

Cafeteria

[temmapathy]

[Emma hovers over Dylan, looking down at him worriedly.]

Are you alright?

cafeteria

[curdle]

[ She spends, like, ten seconds unironically sizing the Ring Pop up like she isn't sure whether it's a real jewel or not before recognizing the signs of a dog in distress. ]

Dylan? What ails thee?

[britbrat]

[ Okay, normally Valmont, when faced with anything Dylan-related, is going to go ahead and walk straight past. He doesn't really dare to do anything else, as much as he might like to. You never know when Adorabat might be lurking nearby. (And in his experience, the answer to that is worryingly close to "always".)

But today, as he navigates around whatever sort of heap of junk his canine classmate's managed to dig up, he glances down at Dylan - and stops. He's caught sight of something very important nestled between the dog's oddly listless paws. ]

What are you doing with - hand that over!

[ And he tries to snatch the rabbit talisman from Dylan's grasp. ]

[keyringwitness]

[Yasu's in the art room when it hits her like a ton of bricks.

The sudden plethora of art supplies in contrast to the dearth she was subjected to before put Yasu in even more of a doodling mood than usual... or, rather, painting mood. She sat herself down in front of a canvas, humming cheerily as she mixed watercolors, occasionally opening her grimoire to get references of the wispy green prince and the beautiful masked girl that she's painting, and-

She stops short, remembering several things in quick succession as she looks upon her completed work.

Several mentions of one "Amity" from Luz.

Talks with Yuta.

Talks with someone else.

It all clicks into place.]

...oh no, [Yasu whines, sinking down her stool as she realizes.] Oh no, oh no, oh no...

Did I... really... oh noooo....

[The "nos" at least sound more like they're deriding her own abject stupidity for failing to realize sooner than anything else, but Yasu is going to keep spiraling anyways.]

[canreallymove]

[Sonic is still working on his, uh, secret project when he comes in and-]

Uh--Yasu?

You ok there, kid?

[cellpreservation]

[Um.]

...Are you okay?

[temmapathy]

[Man, everyone is acting in concerning ways today. Emma reaches out to tap Yasu on the arm, using her other hand to sign.]

Are you okay?

Re: MONDAY

[lets_dewey_it]

_{[Well, Dewey has skipped class. Maybe one or two of the "staff" (read: sheep) were looking for him. Maybe one of them asked you to look for him. And eventually you'll stumble across the sensory deprivation room, thinking he might be lying in the pod. And if you open it up, you'll see the look on his face is... distraught. Not as distraught as murder, but he has seen something he didn't want to see.]}

[temmapathy]

[Emma wasn't sure what to think about the room, but she did notice Dewey's absence, and this is the only room she hasn't looked in...she knocks on the pod before opening it, not sure if that knocking would actually get through. And that expression...]

Were you with Dylan last night?

[hashtagwoof]

[ So. Yeah. Dewey has been missing all day. Dylan has pretty much lost his mind. Hunter's getting a bit worried.

So when he eventually finds the pod being used and panics. ]

DEWEY! [ He rushes open, all but pries the pod open, and pulls Dewey out. ] Dude, you okay?! You've been absent all morning, I was worried something might've happened to you!