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!

Comments

[panglici]

It makes all the things that I couldn't figure out fit into place....

[There is a brief moment where Carrie is visibly considering summarizing all of those, but then... she's horrified everyone already, no need to go into details as to what her own suspicions were.]

The important thing about all of this is that he's still something that can die, if he's so desperate to take up that throne that he'd go to all this effort.

[keyringwitness]

...exactly. If he's going through this much trouble, then he has to be vulnerable to something. We just need to find out what it is.

[Yasu considers making an analogy about vampire weaknesses, but remembers at the last moment that's probably insensitive and shuts her mouth.]

[panglici]

I'd think ice or water, in a simple elemental sense. It'd explain why anyone here with magical power can't use it, we'd be on too even a playing field then.

[keyringwitness]

I would like it if it was as simple as that... but, um. Hot enough fire just turns water to steam, and I'm pretty sure that whatever magic the Principal is using, it's at least powerful enough to do that.

We need to find some other way.

[panglici]

If we could bait him into coming here in person instead of using that - I know there's a word for the thing when it's not magic, probably, but the only thing that I know exists that lets you see and talk to someone that way is a distance mirror. He's not as powerful as he wants us to think he is if he's using one, that's the important part.