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04/04, 23:56

M.Arisu

hey... anybody who's awake to see this. hope you're not having too much trouble sleeping.
get rest when you can. work together when you can.
all we can do is keep trying, but i'm hopeful for this year.
feels weird to say... but it's all going to be gone soon, so...
anyways.
see you at school tomorrow.

Any replies on the forum go unresponded, and at the stroke of midnight, the past year's worth of messages are completely gone from the PDA forum, including any sent over spring break. Hope you have a good memory if you were in the middle of a conversation! Though you should really be in ...whatever you've managed to make your bed... because tomorrow is a big day.

04/05, 06:00

The silence continues until six in the morning with the toll of the clock tower bells, and anybody near the locker area will hear two women in mid-conversation as they phase through the front doors, heels clicking on the ground: "-—didn't even have the decency to finish the job! And now I have to— oh, stop crying, for goodness' sake! I swear—" It's a one sided conversation, mostly, and one that stops short the moment the women spot the students lingering around. While the younger woman, recognizable as the assistant principal, hurriedly scrubs at her face with her sleeves, the unfamiliar older woman with the oddly dissonant voice scowls intensely. "I don't need this on the first day of school! Students trespassing over break! I can't believe it! I don't have time for this—" she huffs, shaking her head and stomping down the hall towards the faculty office. "Miss Nene, I expected better of you! And you! Miss Ritsuka— the two of you shall report to the faculty office after the entrance ceremony. I expect a full report of everybody involved. Now behave yourselves and go to the auditorium."

Goodbye...

The assistant principal is left behind and looks confused and distraught. She sniffles and ducks her head a little, draws a shaking breath and stands a little taller. "I'm so sorry. I'll hear you all out after- after this is done. Alright?" She too heads towards the faculty office, trying her best to smile at those she passes by. While they may be followed, they seem to phase through the faculty office doors which remain closed and locked, and cannot be interacted with until after the ceremony.

Until then, other students start to filter through the front door, seeking out friends and chatting about their breaks, remembering about homework and asking if anybody actually did it so they can copy off them before classes start, laughing at any mention of being locked inside the school all break because what?? that's silly. A handful of students wear yellow armbands on the left sleeve of their uniform, marking them as members of the student council, and these student council members go around finally removing the gorinto from the window sills, tossing the rocks into a bag without any apparent ill effects, and collecting the snacks in a separate bag— though they'll offer the food to anybody they pass who looks hungry enough. Which is a lot of you. One or two might give a short lecture about the importance of eating breakfast to start the day off right. Other student council members busy themselves in the locker area, posting the new homeroom assignments and updating the school calendar to reflect exam dates and breaks for the coming year, or help setting chairs out in neat rows in the auditorium in preparation for the entrance ceremony.

04/05, 08:00

The opening ceremony starts at 8, with students and staff moving to the auditorium to sit with their homeroom class, calling characters out by name and dragging them over to their seat— physically if need be, and they're much stronger than they look. Unlike the graduation ceremony, characters are not forced to come to the entrance ceremony, but the moment they take a seat, they find that they can neither speak nor get up again until the ceremony is over.

The assistant principal stands behind the podium on stage, looking rather nervous as she glances down at the watch on her wrist for it to be time, and clears her throat before addressing the room. "Yogen High welcomes you, all our new students," she pauses, beaming at the row of first year classes before her gaze sweeps over the rest of the student body, "our transfer students, our returning students, our... repeat students..." Looking at you, Norton, Gawain, Abel... "I, um. You may have noticed that I am standing in for our principal today, who is currently... unavailable... and didn't exactly leave any notes to go off of..." She wilts a little, but trucks on nonetheless and continues the address, promising that the teachers will pass along any important announcements, expressing her belief in the potential of young minds, and wishing everybody a fulfilling school year. The ceremony concludes in a little under an hour, and the spell binding the students to their seats is broken, allowing everybody to rise and leave.

School lets out for the rest of the day with classes starting the next morning, and while many students take the opportunity to leave, some linger around the school. Gossip is flying already with news of the transfer students caught breaking into the school over break and what punishments they might get, rumors of what happened to the principal ranging from a family emergency to hospitalization to death, complaints about the water pipes not getting fixed over break, and general excitement over upcoming events listed on the bulletin board by the lockers, in particular new club advertisements, fortune telling ads, and a Charity Auction to be hosted the Monday after Golden Week next month.

April

School is school... The first thing teachers ask at homeroom Tuesday morning is for students to hand in their spring break homework. Didn't do it? You're on their shit list now. Characters are not forced to attend class, but patrolling faculty and student council members will heckle any truant students into going and can be a pain to deal with. Classes aren't taught terribly, though. The second year math teacher has a knack for easily digestible explanations, even if she writes and erases the board a bit too quickly to copy. The third year literature teacher combines weekly analytical essays with film studies, and is showing Child's Play, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Silence of the Lambs, and Where the Red Fern Grows this month. The first year biology teacher brings eyeballs and frogs and rats for dissection during anatomy lessons, and if you have a special request for a specific eye color, give him a day or two and he can deliver. 2-A's homeroom teacher can be seen stealing chalk from each of the second year classroom she rotates through and is offering extra credit to any students who sneak her chalk without asking questions.

New students will quickly learn that merit points are awarded for a full day's attendance, turning in homework, participating in class and clubs, scoring 80% or higher on quizzes and exams, etc. Less predictably, the PDA may sometimes ping for a single merit point when hanging out with a friend or arguing with a classmate, with stronger emotions (positive or negative) when interacting with somebody else more likely to trigger a point, and if students are abusing this system, it's kept out of the faculty's eyes. As the month goes on, sometimes a student comes to class with a cut eyelid, or a busted lip, or bandages wrapped thick around a wrist, but they always deny anything more than clumsiness or an accident or having pets who very aggressively show their love. Sometimes it's harder to hide, when a bloody nose drips onto the ground or bleeding knuckles brush against the wall, and those near enough to see blood touch the building will find that everything sort of... shifts... Just for a second. The feeling of vertigo that stops almost as soon as it begins, the world tilting without slotting back into alignment. You feel a bit nauseous. Just a little.

You go to the bathroom to splash water on your face and the pink looks a little darker, a little more solid. On the fourth floor, the water has stopped running in the bathroom sinks altogether, and students are told to go downstairs to do their business so that they may wash up after. With more students milling around the bathrooms, it's much easier to notice that people's reflections in the mirrors are just a bit off, lagging that split second long enough to be impossible to ignore once aware.

Every day you have homework. A new essay for something or other is assigned each week. Nobody wants to do group projects with a slacker who can't promise to meet up after school to get it done. Like clockwork, the school empties out at 6 PM each school day, leaving those behind to their own devices. There is no school on Sundays. Golden Week marks the end of the month, and guess who's going to be stuck at school for an entire week with only vending machine junk food to live off of if they aren't able to make progress concerning their living situation? Yeah.

Charity Auction

At least students have the charity auction to look forward to and work towards. Information about the auction set on May 10 can be found on the bulletin board, and appears to be put together by the student council as an annual event and an incentive for students to start the year off strong in earning merit points. Both students and staff are encouraged to donate to the auction, with the items collected and put on display in the auditorium behind locked glass cases. On May 10, students will be able to bid on items using their merit points, those who donate will receive 10% of the winning bid towards their item, and the school will match donations 100 to 1 point with proceeds going towards the "Save A Brain Foundation."

Throughout the month, glass cases lining the walls of the auditorium start to fill up with donations. The most popular donations seem to be physical items: possessions such as jewelry or gaming consoles, or artistic creations such as hand sewn clothing or paintings. There are placeholders for things that can't be put on display all month, such as placards with a picture or description of homemade food that won't be prepared until the auction date, or the promise of fishing lessons with the guidance counselor or a dinner date with the school principal (pending availability). At the back of the room stands the largest case, with the skinny black cat often found lying on top of it as if guarding it, although it will run away when approached.

Inside the case is a body.

OOC

✽ Refer to the npc contact page for which students and faculty are currently available for interaction. The assistance principal will do what she can to accommodate the characters stuck inside the school, but the extent of her help will depend on what is asked of her and how interactions with her go.

✽ The body does not seem to change or rot inside the case, and most npc students will unconvincingly express their belief that it's just a very life-like doll. Closer investigation of the body will not be available until next month, if a character manages the winning bid. Merit points earned are handwaved at player discretion, within reason.

✽ The plot will only move forward as things are discussed and acted upon, and clues distributed during app acceptances are meant to be shared and connected, so don't be afraid to ask questions and dig into things! I am here to enable.

Comments

[loyalbreed]

[ The handshake was firm, in the exchange. Pleasantries now out of the way, he hopes the two could start on this foundation of a potential friendship. ] Indeed, though I assure you as one who lived during those times. The Knights of the Round table and many of the stories were in fact true. Admittedly, actual history is a bit different from the tales it has turned into now. None-the-less many of it still stands true.

Perhaps we can exchange stories, as it were I could use help with some of my studies. I have hope you would not mind helping me out with my classes?

[moraloutrage]

[Ishimaru manages to keep his nice, firm and formal as well!]

I... I see. I am not going to doubt your account! That - is very interesting! [It's hard for him to fully accept this as the truth, but he's trying. The part about classes is much easier for him to throw himself into!]

I will gladly provide you with some help! So long as it is not in any form of cheating, I am glad to help others to move along on their voyages of education!

[loyalbreed]

Cheating? You think that this Honorable Knight would omit himself to sleezy methods of combat and not earnest ways? [ Yes he would, he just breaks the rules and no one says anything all the time about it because hes King Arthurs favorite. ] Fret not, good man. I only act most honorably.

[moraloutrage]

I- I apologize, Sir Gawain-san!! [He says with a hasty bow.] I did not mean to imply that you would resort to such tactics, or to question your honor! I... simply mean to make my boundaries clear! It is admirable... and much like the ideals of a knight... that you seek the honorable path! We must be cut from the same cloth, in that case!

omg... i love him..

[loyalbreed]

Rise . [ It almost a bit too comfortable how he speaks in the tone acquitted to that of a Knight speaking firmly unto his battalion. He does not mean to confer the other as if he were, rather that the admission and reaction the other sufficed. Had immediately reflectively, made Gawain respond in earnest like such. ] You flatter me far to well, but the life I have lived in the past is one beyond and behind me. As I am now, I am no less nor different from you. So here before the school, we are equals despite my experiences of the past being heavier. If anything as it were, if there is question you need perhaps my livelihood may omit to something of help for you or the others. As is my place in all this.

As such, let us enjoy then the leisure's of this 'School Life.' Bequeath to me and of you! I am certain there is much you could afford to teach me in length, as I have become rather elated by the prospect of school. In the way that it is shown to me.

He's trying his best!

[moraloutrage]

[Ishimaru feels like he's in the presence of a great. After all, knights embody these ideals of duty and working hard that Ishimaru values! So he's quickly starting to look up to this guy.]

I- I see! So, you are alright with being equals? In that case, I am simply honored to be considered the equal of a man as great as you, Sir Gawain-san!

I will gladly teach you anything you need to know! And your passion for this institution is simply heartwarming! [He does frown a bit, in confusion.] But I admit that something does confuse me. I do not mean you any offense, but this happens to be a high school, which is typically intended to teenagers. On the other hand, you - you do appear to be an adult. Are you... still a student here?

[loyalbreed]

[ Gawain admires his vigor, and is pleased by the manner of his reaction - as well as being. It warms him as the Knight of the Sun. When the other presents a question most true, he does nothing but nod. A finger tapping at the edge of his chin in wonder and bewilderment. ]

Indeed, my memories of the self that I lived here... Were... More or less, I had given up my school life at a younger age - in order to take care of my family. However, achieving anything greater with my life is impossible less I acquired a diploma. I was thus offered the chance to continue and graduate if I joined this school... As it were, that is why I presently have been taking courses with others. It is odd... I am uncertain why they let me, but it is not something I understand regardless! All I know is, that I must graduate!

Now with your help, perhaps I may succeed in that!

[moraloutrage]

[His eyes widen attentively as he hears out the man's story!]

Ah... I see! How admirable! It sounds like you put your all into working hard, so I can respect your life choices! And I am glad that you have decided to still undertake classes in the long run. It is never too late to receive a proper education, Sir Gawain-san!

[He smiles brightly and balls up a fist!]

I will do my best to help you throughout your school day!! Consider me to be your guide, and your 'study buddy'!

[loyalbreed]

You've my thanks Sir Ishimaru - it has been long since I acted like a squire under another. As it were, I arguably did not need to. However with how circumstances are presented, it would seem you will be my teacher during these coming weeks and days. You've my thanks, I will make an amiable understudy. Your energy is welcomed - it matches my own in turn! [ Yes the two are SPARKLING furiously anyone passing by may even feel invigorated to pass their exams and join them in their earnest desire of hard work!!! ]

[moraloutrage]

Ahahaha! I myself have never had a squire of any sort, so this is a new experience for me! [He smiles, though he's a bit nervous about this role all the same.]

Your enthusiasm is quite welcome! It will only make this task easier. Because the true key to succeeding at academia is to put your all into it and work hard every step of the way! Taking notes, studying, completing exams, essays and other assignments! We are to excel at all of them!!

[Oh he be sparkling]