yogen | (no subject)

Who: Faculty, and idk if you wanna bring a +1 i won't stop you, i'm not a cop
What: FACULTY MEETING
When: 12/6, 7pm-ish
Where: Faculty office
Warnings: TBA

[a note, in a childish scrawl of blue ink, is placed on the desk of every teacher.

The rumors are true.
Here, tonight, 7pm.
We can't do nothing.

at the appointed time and place, you can find Sportacus sitting cross-legged on his own desk. he is eating an apple, though mostly he's just taken one bite of it and is otherwise using it to gesticulate.]

"Every student that fails their exams will be killed. Sometimes, they make you do it." That is how the teacher next door described it, when I asked. [pause] That is not good! So, it cannot happen. I hope there's no debate on that, but...

[he's heard things about some of you fuckers and he's not impressed, basically.

still, he smiles. but he always does that.]

We have very little time to do an impossible thing. Luckily, that is when most impossible things are done!

[he gestures vaguely before him. the floor is open, gentlemen. let's save our students.]

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Why do ya think we're being asked now, then?

[ merry...christmas...... ]

( why indeed? sidney leans back, and almost move to cross his arm against a ghost that isn't there. )

... It could be a facet of responsibility for the staff. They aren't quite like us, after all. But if we stick it out we could at least learn about other things- you weren't here for this, Ramuda, but a few months back there was a typical flower sack baby project. The moment class was over on the last day, the teachers bailed- just as the sacks "hatched". If there's any other things coming up, we can at least catch wind of it.

( the question is if this is really worth it or not. )

"Flour sack baby project?" Never heard of it. Mind explaining that to me?

[ Sorry, Sidney, this is probably a discussion you weren't expecting to have-- ]

What did they hatch into?

( it's probably the most pleasant unexpected conversation in a while! which is really saying something, all things considered. )

So, in normal places that aren't... Yogen, two students are paired up to raise a fake baby. Flour is commonplace as a standard sack of flower weighs as much as an average infant. Students are graded on teamwork, meeting the fake baby's needs in more advanced projects, and keeping it in tact.

Here, however, there was something not right about the flour sacks that were given out- as time passed, they were... growing. It was like they were organic. They'd grow heartbeats, move- and when they hatched, there were a variety of little monsters of all kinds. If they touched you, you'd lose a sense corresponding to what they grabbed- someone I know lost his sight temporarily when his monster reached for his eyes, and Clamor couldn't feel anything for a week or so.

( so, uh. yeah. that sucked. )

Oh.

[ .....well then. That's Fine? That's fine. ]

That sounds soooo gross! This place is pretty messed up, huh! Making everyone do something so disgusting...

[ His voice is pitched in a way where it's slightly obnoxious, laced with disgust and disapproval, but it's all to mask how legitimately fearful he actually is. ]

Is that something we gotta expect while we're here? All these creepy projects...

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It was pretty terrible, yeah.

( but not as bad as being asked to kill students for failing a test. )

Something similar hasn't happened in some time, but I'm not about to assume that these exams are the last of it.

And what's the point of it all?

[he usually tries to keep the. open frustration. out of his voice. but he's just increasingly failing at it.]

Who is this benefiting? Us? I don't know much about souls, but I don't feel as if they are being bettered in any way here! If anything, I only see the opposite!

( sporticus isn't the first to ask such a thing. even sidney's wondered it himself, now and then. but there's no answer beyond 'misery builds character' apparently. )

You aren't the only one. I don't think the answer will ever satisfy us, either.

( after all, being asked to kill... only a very select few would find this a positive. he's certainly not one of them. )

Well... I don't know about that! The truth is its own reward, right? It's just a matter of actually getting it! [grins] Finding it in a place like this will be difficult, but it is never impossible. There is always a way.

( even the ugliest truth is valuable in that it's an unfortunate necessity, this much is... well. true. but here in yogen, he just feels like they'll wind up being mocked on some level. )

I don't doubt that we can find it. I just worry about how people will take it. Apparently we're supposed to be strengthening our souls...

( ... but considering sidney spent two months in a depressive state... )

[nods nods]

I have heard this! So, either things have gone very wrong, and we need to fix them... Or, things have gone very right! And if that's what happened, we need to find out why someone is lying, and what they are really doing.

[easy, simple, finish this in a cool 22 minutes with time for commercial breaks.]

I can see what you mean by wrong, but can you elaborate on how things could be going 'right'?

Just because things aren't good for us doesn't mean someone else doesn't consider what's happening to be very, very good. It's like... I have a friend, who likes things to be very quiet. So, he works very hard to make sure that children don't play outside. This isn't very good for the children, of course, but it's very good for him.

Whatever is going on here... I believe it may end up being a bit like that.