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!

Comments

[keyringwitness]

Yes! You need to, um, use different brush techniques for watercolors and oil-based paints, and even those have a lot of variation to them depending on what you want to do... I'm still learning, b- but maybe we can learn together?

[violence_ensues]

YES YES YES!

[If anything could help her art be even BETTER, then that would be amazing!]

[keyringwitness]

Well...

[Yasu sits down next to Adorabat and opens her grimoire, which is really more of an all-purpose notebook at this point. She explain out all the notes she's taken about different brush techniques and mediums of paint, which are definitely more thorough and technical than what Adorabat can handle so she does her best to boil it down to the barest essentials. Considering how awkward she is normally, Yasu is a remarkably good teacher, especially for someone as young as Adorabat.

Speaking of, while Yasu stammers and stutters nonstop at first, gradually, her voice evens and her smile grows broader. Despite how short she is, she's the absolute model of a big sister.]

I know that's a lot to take in all at once, so how about we start with... this one first? [Yasu taps one of the basics with her pen.] I'll show you how, and then you can give it a try.

[violence_ensues]

[Adorabat is paying rapt attention, eyes full of enthusiasm, like a sponge. Art is one of the things she's very passionate about. She even said before that art has the power to change people. And she's being patient, oh so very patient, in listening. When Yasu suggests something, Adorabat throws a wing up, splattering paint a little, though not on Yasu.]

Yes, please!

[keyringwitness]

[To Yasu's credit, she doesn't flinch when Adorabat gets paint everywhere. (Granted, if this had occurred after the trial she definitely would've, but that's neither here nor there.) She just gets up and starts painting a woman in a small tophat, with a red dress, curly hair arranged into drills...

Yasu pauses for a moment, blushes a little bit, and then keeps on painting as if nothing happened, finishing off with a nice and concealing red dress. It shows Adorabat everything that Yasu had been trying to teach her.]

There. Do you think you can do it yourself?

[violence_ensues]

[Adorabat catches the blush but is way too young to pick up on what it means, so she'll ignore it.]

Yeah! I'll paint it reaaaal good!

[She eagerly starts, using the knowledge she's gained. It... it's still not the best, but she's only 5 years old, she'll master it in the future.]