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BBC FEATURE

BBC FEATURE
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On Sunday, several helicopters arrive on campus, bearing camera crews and reporters. The two reporters assigned to this task, Miriam Roberts and Eugene Lewis, are older, kindly reporters who specialize in soft features for morning talk show affairs. The Academy is keeping the crews in a tightly controlled space, setting them up in an older, low-usage building just off main campus and restricting their movements “out of respect for the privacy of our students”.
All students being interviewed will have a faculty member present at all times to ensure they’re properly protected and that the journalists don’t ask unapproved questions. In general, the Academy has stipulated that asking students about their personal affairs, monetary situation, and family situation are absolutely off limits, and the job of the faculty is to ensure interviews stay on topic - that of the school and the school experience, with an emphasis on the opportunities the wealth and resources of the school offer to the students who attend.
While the BBC is out, there are a number of things going on for students and faculty to engage in. The BBC crews themselves are expected to be polite, if a bit entitled and dismissive in a way that the British have mastered, and nosy, always trying to get more of a scoop than they were permitted. All players may run BBC crews as NPCs in their threads when applicable.
A. VOLUNTEERISM
Students will have the opportunity to escort BBC crew around campus and answer facilities-related questions. As this is expected to be reported on by the crew even if they don’t use much footage, students selected for this duty will be students who are more polite and don’t have too many overt anti-authority tendencies. These students will be additinally tasked with ensuring the camera crews don’t stray off target during the day.
B. NIGHT GUARDIANS
Nobody really expects the journalists to stay in their prescribed lanes, and during the night is the most likely time that they will attempt to get some candid footage and interviews. As such, faculty will be tasked with patrolling the area around the BBC quarters, with the intent of keeping students out and reporters in. This is equal parts protective for the BBC - it really wouldn’t do for a student to use their flame to prank a reporter - and protective for the students, who the Academy does not want fully exposed to the world just yet. Faculty assigned to night duty will be instructed to be openly walking the grounds and to reveal themselves to any crew who stray and redirect them to their proper place. Faculty are to be polite, of course, but firm.
C. INTERVIEWS
The BBC have arranged a number of interviews with students over the course of the week. The Academy has vetted the students and coached them beforehand on what can be talked about and what cannot be talked about, and there will always be a Faculty member on hand whenever a student is interviewed. The generally approved topics are the school and the more conventional classes, the accommodations, the facilities barring the Mythril Cage and related supernatural combat facilities, and the lavish vacation trips the school sponsors. Faculty are mostly there to make sure nobody says something they shouldn’t and redirect or cover conversation that goes places it shouldn’t.
D. CANDID FOOTAGE
All throughout the week, BBC reporters will be taking candid footage of the main campus in areas they’ve been authorized to record in. As such, all major supernatural classes have been moved to the Citadel, but all Citadel entrances outside of the ones near the dormitories have been temporarily closed. The entirety of main campus will be used for more mundane classes, and professors who normally teach supernatural classes will be diverted to mundane classes for the week. During this time you can expect BBC cameras constantly rolling to capture footage of students coming and going, and a number of faculty members trying to figure out how to wing math or history classes when their actual specialty is daemon slaying.
E. OXFORD UNIVERSITY
Students who don't feel comfortable with the impending BBC visit and feigned normalcy are, of course, able to volunteer to take a trip out to Oxford University and study under their mage academy. One of the oldest and most prestigious western mage academies in the world, Oxford has been a beacon of magical learning for centuries. As such, they tend to have a bit of an ego about their place in magical society.
They're very polite, of course, but many of the students and teachers both make clear they feel Daybreak is more some bold, artistic experiment and that Nightfall will be defeated by good, old-fashioned wizardry. Those attending Oxford are in for a very condescending week, that's for sure.
OXFORD
...Well that's how she got here. "Umnnnn...." She's not really sure how, but there's a teacher now furiously jotting notes, while two especially weepy young girls from the student body bawl about magic thieves and lost potential.
"...It's okay, I'm not hurt?" She's. Not really sure why they're all upset, but boy are they upset!
When a student from Daybreak passes this minor chaos, she just sort of blinks. "...H'llo!"
S'up, the wizards found out someone drained her magic, and now they're crying.
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Ah, well. It'd have driven him nuts to have to pretend to be an actual kid under the dumb glamour anyway. He was still busy sulking when he noticed people gathered around one kid who seemed really upset about something. Curious, the cartoon "demon" wandered over.
"'ey, what's goin' on? What's everybody upset about?" Bendy asked. The kid didn't look like he was hurt or anything.
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Reira has a bit of a ranking chart. Adult human beings are on the farthest end of this ranking chart- they're the ones she'll trust least for a while, without good reason. Humanoid things more her age are a little easier to hang around without thinking she might get tossed into a bush or something.
Bendy has two legs and two arms and such, but he's not....quite 'human' when it comes to how Reira categorizes things. So while she's never seen anyone like Bendy, he looks 'normal'.
Normal enough to trust more easy, in fact. "I'm not the one upset," she answers rather easily, looking very much like she wants to get out of this situation. "...They just tried to do a test thing, and then got upset about it."
Audibly, the teacher jotting notes mutters fretfully about the amount of power required to 'drain a magical core' or something. Reira glances over as she hears it, and back to Bendy.
"I don't know why they're upset, but it stings a bit." Empathy sucks sometimes.
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"Eh, mages make a big deal over the dumbest things." He said with a shrug. He doesn't seem to care at all that he's currently in a room full of them.
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The mages in turn seem to just accept it as inevitable, torn between getting fussy at Bendy, and just continuing their fussing over the girl. "...they were saying their magic is better, but it's all just magic, I thought..." It feels like saying a different cheesecake is better.
All cheesecake is cheesecake.
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After Reira manages to get free though, Bendy decides this is a good time to get away. "Anyway, might as well leave 'em to it. Ya wanna go explorin' around this place?"
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"I guess they found something sad with their test?" she wonders, before nodding furiously at Bendy's suggestion. "Mnh, yeah..! There's not a lot of places I've been allowed to go, so I want to see it..!"
Will they be allowed in most of the places Inside this building? Maybe not, doesn't matter, it's Exploring time and doors (and windows) are probably an illusion.
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Anyway, time to blow this joint. Bendy starts to lead them out of the room. "Name's Bendy, by the way. What's yours?"
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"Um- I'm Reira," she introduces. "...if your name is 'Bendy', does that mean you can bend a lot of ways?" As far as she knows, Reira doesn't mean anything. Bendy sounds like it does though, so it's a good question to ask.
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But then he looks a little confused at Reira's question. "Ah, not really? I mean, I guess toons can be pretty flexible under th' right circumstances, but I'm pretty sure Henry only named me that 'cause he liked the sound of it."
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But also, what's a Toon.
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Did this kid never watch tv or anything?
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"...So...." She can grab maybe 20%? Less? Of Bendy's explanation, to conclude her own image of things. "...Someone made a contract, like they did for the Sprites, but made you instead of sprites?"
It's clear. "...What's different between a sprite and a 'cartoon'?"
She probably doesn't know what a TV is.
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Well.
His dad had warned him some mages might frown upon him being from the Outlands, and that's exactly what they've done. His magic isn't good enough for them, because it comes from an outside source. It's inferior, and Noctis thinks this whole thing is quite frankly ridiculous. That only becomes more apparent when he sees a bunch of people causing a ruckus - are those people crying? - around a little girl.
"...Everything going okay?" Geez, Reira, what did you get yourself into.
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It passes quickly, but it's still very odd. She should also probably answer the question. "...I don't think so."
Amid the sobs can be heard a muffled 'what if it hurt??? what if she's traumatized??'
It sounds more like the teenagers are traumatized, given Reira's bewildered and blank stare.
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Which. She's a kid attending a magic school who's claim to fame is stopping the end of the world. She's probably a little weird. They're all a little weird.
But she seems just as confused as he is, so maybe it's nothing important.
"Well...maybe we should give them some space." So, you know, they're not...bothering them any more.
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That's what you say when you want something, as far as she recalls. The teenagers trying to
smother'comfort' the girl aren't really budging at the moment though."...they won't stop..." she 'explains', apparently resigned somewhat to her fate.
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"Maybe you should let go," he starts. He's trying to find some way out of this...! "Clinging's not going to make anything better."
Nailed it.
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Reira for her part is worming out- the girls in turn end up just awkwardly crying on each other instead. ...She's not really sure what to do from there, given that the mages have more or less all entered their own little world.
"Ummmm... ...how far away is 'space'..." she quietly asks.
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This is probably better. Noctis thinks it's an improvement, at any rate. They'll probably wipe themselves out soon and move on and be...less upset, hopefully.
"Space is...however far you want it to be." He eyes the teenagers, then turns to look at Reira. "Like maybe another room."
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"Then let's go," he says, sidestepping around the huddle of sobbing teens.
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Once they're 'a room away', she'll ask-
"....What now?"
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"Not that there's a lot of options out here..."
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The city surrounding Daybreak at least had options. Things like new places to see, or find...
This place not so much.
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