WEEK 3

[whimsicalism]

WEEK THREE

Two weeks, two trials, four deaths.

One thing is certain: The monster in charge of this place knows enough about everyone here that he also knows what can drive some of them desperate enough to kill. He is powerful, and he has access, and he despises the whole student body. The face of the class' captor has been revealed now, in a sense, and the flames of his hatred for children have turned out to be very real.

At least, for now, the students of Ira Academy have one another to lean on. Some might have found the post-trial camaraderie a comfort. At least everyone hasn't given up hope. At least many students are still finding their anger and their will to fight back.

There are fewer pretenses this coming week. Classes proceed as normal; the school day still functions as normal, but the further everyone comes from that first fateful meeting with the man in charge of this school, the further away and more incomprehensible the thought that there was ever really a chance of going along with the original plan, completing reeducation, and staying safe.


...Of course, you could still try. There'd be nothing stopping you.

But you won't, will you? That's just how the students of Ira Academy are. You'll visit the third floor of the Academy, ascending the newly opened flight of stairs. Maybe you'll investigate one of the new rooms, dwarfed by the echoes that bounce of the uninvitingly tall ceilings. There's probably still something in this place on your side.

Will you work together, or will you grow further apart?

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OOC NOTES

Welcome to Week 3! New locations have been added and the third floor is now open for exploration. The library is a very large space and more than one person can investigate it throughout the week if you'd like. If you want to investigate one of the Floor 3 rooms, please hit the mods with a ping in Discord and put INVESTIGATE in your subject line.

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 2 should be submitted no later than this coming Sunday. Remember to submit your regains, and sign up for a spot exploring this week's mystery if you want to!

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MONDAY

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MYSTERY SIGN UP

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As a note, please don't sign up if you explored Mystery Two and Three unless no one else wants to.]

[temmapathy]

[Let's do this! Would prefer around 12-1 PM EST.]

[copycut]

[ sup. Earlier in the day is more ideal for me, so I'll also put in a vote for 1PM EST. ]

[britbrat]

[ let's make him suffer!! I should be free anytime on the day o/ ]

[cellpreservation]

[I'm available all day!]

MYSTERY 4: Tempest Inside

[whimsicalism]

[It’s almost Tuesday. Midnight is coming slowly to the Academy, the clocks tick on regardless of the heartache that still lingers. Maybe you’ve finally fallen into a restless sleep or trying to force yourself to sleep has taken up most of your night. Something in your wall is shaking violently. It’s not just the noise that awakens you, either. Whatever is shaking makes your room vibrate. Your alarm clock moves and falls off the nightstand. The bed shifts with you in it, throwing you out.

Plaster bends and breaks just slightly to leave a hairline crack. The scent of warm water comes to your nose as you rise to your feet. Before you reach your door to see just what was happening, a small indistinct thought comes to you. It’s not your voice but it feels like it’s correct.

...laundry…

After you open the door, several other students do so, too. Maybe it’s a gut feeling but this might be a bad night.]

((OOC: As with the previous mysteries 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. After everyone has put in a reaction to the mystery we will set up a comment order to go on.))

[cellpreservation]

[?!!

Surely this is his punishment for not believing Dylan last week.

Anyway with the word laundry in his head (why laundry?????) he stumbles out of his room, not that he's particularly easy to spot given his night clothes consist of an all black street outfit.]

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[The vibrating makes the door slam behind you.]

[temmapathy]

[Polly lets out a squeal of fear, nudging against Emma's legs, and she scoops the pig up in her arms as she sniffs the air. Feeling the word resonate in her mind, she slowly opens the door, peering around worriedly before setting Polly down, and starting towards the stairs.]

[whimsicalism]

[You might want to be careful that Polly stays away from your door or shut it yourself. At least it looks like a few other students have been roused by this strange sensation.]

[copycut]

[ When she's shaken awake, the first thing Kuro does is fumble for the paired blades now kept at her bedside. It's... a little easier said than done, given that the vibration sends them scattering to the floor alongside her alarm clock. She scrambles to snatch up a hilt in each of her hands, and then she's up, bursting through the door to her room and ready to confront—

No one at all. Her fingers grasp tighter around metal as she hurries toward the stairs, toward the laundry room, intent on seeking out the source of the disturbance. ]

[britbrat]

[ Valmont jolts awake, extremely rattled, but with a strong urge to check out the laundry room. He's not sure where that came from. He's never done his own laundry in his life. It's about a fifty-fifty chance he even knows what a laundry room looks like.

Nevertheless, the urge and the shaking don't abate. So he throws some clothes on, closes his room door behind him, and cautiously begins heading toward the stairs.

...Then notices Emma and Kuro there as well, and immediately begins heading back the way he came. Nope ]

INVESTIGATION and open to all

[canreallymove]

Detention Center: Level 1 (INVESTIGATION)

[Well. This looks more like it. Not that he likes it, but. This is more what he expects from a villain.

He's up early. Before even going to the kitchen, he goes here. He's going to find something here. Surely he will, right?]


Kitchen

[He comes here later. He needs to eat, after all, for what he's about to attempt. Of course, if someone else comes in, he'll be more than happy to make something for them for breakfast or lunch. He'll be mumbling a bit as he goes about, though.]


Library

[TIME TO RAID.

You'll find him on the highest shelves, tossing books into a pile down below. Rather surprisingly, he's managing to toss them into a neat pile. Probably comes with the territory of him being so cool. And probably also just deft with his fingers so the books don't, like, fly and break. He seems used to stacking things, at least, from afar.]

Uuuuugh, I'm gonna hate this...!

[whimsicalism]

[Oh, there's definitely probably something up with this room. Where do you want to check exactly, Sonic?]

Library

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

[Shocker of all shocks, Dylan is in the library. This is pretty much a second-er, third room for him, after the dorm room and the first aid room. And hearing a disturbance is definitely an attention grabber.]

Uh, Sonic? What...what are you doing?

Kitchen

[cellpreservation]

[What's up with this mumbling.]

...Sonic?

INVESTIGATION

[holyironmade]

school store

[After class and lunch, Jeanne seems to have regained a small amount of energy that she can then apply to one of her most sacred duties as an Ira Academy student: Vending machine rolls and subsequent safety containment.]

If this is dye, then I will have to just bleach them white all over again... Perhaps this is one of the cards Koishi was talking about...? No, we do not need two planetaria... I know that she said we can choose our own gender roles, but I really think this will not be necessary for me right now...

[The machine shoots kibble at her for the first time but she has already been given a yellow raincoat to shield herself with! The garment can be tied into a makeshift parcel. Nice. Now to continue.]

What a pretty ring. Such a shame it lacks a promise to wear it for.

[The succulent plant, nutcracker doll, and Budegg virtual pet also seem to have caught her fancy. Less so the weapons... Well, one last—]

Anything but this.

[Yet another turtle.]

vending machine

[It's almost an hour later that she's actually reached the third floor and that's enough time for a growing girl to get a little peckish. The candies in the vending machine are blatantly forbidden fruit from her perspective. Her reflection on the glass has stars in its eyes.]

It is only one item, so that is the opposite of gluttonous... But that makes the choice very difficult...

Library (Investigation)

[Seems that Sonic is enjoying the ladder experience, maybe she'll say hi to him when she has the chance, but she came up here still wearing the skirted uniform so she'll be staying low. She'll explore important things as they come up but first things first. What are this library's books on religion, eh? She values them for her own purposes as well as being interested from the perspective that this place is literally influenced by Hell.]

Library (open)

I have progressed in my studies!

[As Jeanne mentioned back when classes were the main activity to worry about, she has been hoping for the opportunity to study written Japanese and she has received it. Join her! Praise her! Nudge her towards other topics too!

...that is hard work though so you can also find her curled up on the nap pillows with Claudine at School. An actual French book like A Little Princess! Yes!]

[whimsicalism]

[There seems to be some religion for beginners books here, as well some various religious texts of various Earth religions. There is one book, though. One book that looks... perhaps a bit more along the lines of what you're looking for, Jeanne.

A small book about Babylonian deities.]

Vending Machine

[cellpreservation]

[o:!!]

It feels like it's been forever since I saw regular snack food.

CAT POSTING

[shinedsobright]

Gacha
[Fret has finally acquired a decent amount of gacha currency, and is giving it a go to see if he can make any more additions to his secret creation. The arrow and broken swords are somewhat close to the mark but not quite, so he keeps trying, dud items coming out one by one (though he still saves them), until finally... he gets a creature of his own! The tiny tuxedo kitten is asleep at first, and puzzlingly damp - Fret does tilt his head in curiosity over that, because how could anything leak into a capsule? But this is something he better not think about, like how it could hold any of these things in the first place!! For now he just cradles the little guy in one arm toward his chest, where the kitten winds up brushing against his favored gray scarf and stirring mildly as its little claws grip into it. Aww. But he has one more coin, and it's... wow, some kind of toy gun, but clearly there's more to it than meets the eye. This could really be a find!

Before he can examine it too much, though, the tug at his clothes gets stronger and he looks down to see the tuxedo has opened its big blue watery eyes. They are saucer-wide as they stare up at the human face looking back down at it, and in the next instance the kitten wiggles and leaps from his grasp. Mewing and mewing, uncertain and distressed, it runs away at top speed!]

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Don't go over-!

[Any number of bad things could happen to a kitten loose in a death academy! It could run into a monster or get brainwashed! It could trigger Hunter's dogbrain!! Or... like... the actual dogs! There's only one thing to do now... Catch! That! Kitty!]

CHASE
[Fret is in the middle of trying to find the kitten. The gun is hanging around his shoulder which is probably questionable but he actually has no idea it shoots nets, and would he use it if he did? Probably not! It's literally only there because of how fast this all happened. Regardless, before his target is spotted, he could really be hunting anything. That is, before he tries to recruit YOU.]

Hey, you seen a little black and white kitty? It just booked it as soon as I rolled it!

[And at that moment, a glimpse of the kitty is caught!! Hopefully not being chased by something other than Fret, but it is definitely still in the running, and will find another hiding place if they're not quick about it. Better hope it doesn't go all the way out to the playground and try to slip the fence... oops, it's definitely doing that at some point.]

A Powerful Name

[After all of the shenanigans, Fret finally came to his senses and lured the poor animal out of hiding with something to eat. It's mewing again and purring as it feasts from atop a cafeteria table, finally feeling a little more secure as it's accepted this teen boy is going to watch its back after all. Fret is just giving the occasional idle scritch and talking to the cat a little fondly considering he wasted a good deal of the day running around after it. His monster project is an afterthought by this point.]

Man, you put up a really good chase. It's almost like when we were hunting for "Neku"... you're even kind of the right colors.

[Well, that didn't actually turn out to be Neku in the end, but the clothes still match his mental image. He figures the real Neku had to have dressed the same way if everyone got so easily confused by him.]

Whaddya think, little guy? Wanna be named after a Legendary Player who shook up the game? [He puts his arms on the table, leaning his head into it as he looks over, a little more soberly.] ...Maybe it'd bring us some luck we need...

[The cat meows, more out of thanks for the food than anything. Fret's brief melancholy disappears as he gets a stupid grin. He is seriously about to name this kitten Neku if no one gives him any better ideas.]

Chase

[violence_ensues]

A black and white cat? No, I haven't-

[Just then, Adorabat catches sight of it behind Fret. She gasps and points with a wing.]

THERE!

A powerful name

[cellpreservation]

[Walking in and- did he just hear a cat.

Looks over. Oh. Yes, that is in fact a cat.]

...Vending machine?

(I don't) Gatcha

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

[It's almost a relief that, for once, Dylan doesn't walk into the school store to discover someone getting covered in kibble.

That relief dies an instant death when he sees what's barreling his way.]

What the-where di-ih-ah-CHOO!

[Poor kitten, waking up from it's wet nap, and immediately getting sneezed on.]

Chase

[canreallymove]

Nope, haven't seen any cat like that.

[Said with a completely straight face while said cat is sitting on his head, kneading on his quill.]

Mmmmmaybe check the laundry or somethin'?