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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.
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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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But now what do they do?
"There has to be somewhere we could. This is an old magic school. There's got to be all sorts of secrets."
And all sorts of trouble.
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Libraries tend to be a breeding ground for magical secrets. Spooky old tomes filled with curses and all of that - there's bound to be one of those.
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"Mnh. Libraries are nice," she observes with a nod. "Even if there's nothing 'strange', there's probably nice books." There's always something new in a library.
It feels that way anyway.
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"Yeah, exactly. C'mon," he says while motioning to the door. "I think it's this way."
He doesn't exactly know for sure, but he has done some wandering. He remembers seeing signs for a library, anyways.
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"Okay!" He's in charge at this point, so he can lead the way.