WINTER TERM OPENING CEREMONY AND CLASS START

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WINTER TERM OPENING CEREMONY AND CLASS START
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The snowfall has only intensified as Daybreak moves into the first day of Winter Term classes. A school-wide orientation will be held in the auditorium, followed by an open period where tours will be given to new students by student volunteers. After a noon lunch in the main hall, short introduction classes will be held where the syllabi will be distributed and professors can give a brief overview of what they’ll be covering over the term.

A. ORIENTATION ASSEMBLY

With a new school year comes a fresh address. The orientation assembly is one of the few times that the Headmistress and High Seer, Mila Duchene, speaks to the gathered faculty and students about their purpose and why they’ve been found and gathered here. About how Nightfall looms ever closer, and how together they will be the flames who light the coming darkness.

It is, in the manner of many orientation speeches, fairly long-winded. Those who have been here for more than a year have likely heard this speech before, though it’s slightly more urgent this time. Maybe it’s a good time to get to know the people on either side of you a little better while the Headmistress talks, because you’ll be here for a while. Or maybe you’ve planned ahead, and you have something to entertain you at orientation - much to the shared entertainment or dismay of others in your vicinity, perhaps.

Or you could actually be listening to the speech. It’s up to you.


B. SCHOOL TOUR

For students fresh to the academy, the sprawling nature and architecture of Daybeak Academy can be quite intimidating. Fortunately, helpful student volunteers have been tapped to help escort the new students around and give them a feel for campus. Student volunteers are typically chosen for both their experience on campus and helpful nature. While some scripts are provided, students are encouraged to ad-lib and put their own spin on campus and what they like about it. New students are, of course, encouraged to ask as many questions as they can to make sure they fully understand and familiarize themselves with the campus as quickly as possible.

C. SNACK STATION

During the first three days after the Holiday break, throughout the campus grounds are small stations manned by the kitchen staff and volunteers, the smell of hot chocolate, cider, and frying bread fills the air, stirring the appetite and promising warmth on this cold winter’s day.

Every booth has hot chocolate, some spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, others rich and creamy, but always with an option for marshmallows, peppermint bark or caramel drizzles - with non-alcoholic hot cider for those with an allergy to chocolate. For food options, naturally being France there are crepes of all types and beignets on offer, with jam- or custard-filled berliners, while those looking for a more savory fare will be treated to rissoles - a fried bread stuffed with minced meat or bechamel sauce and cod.

While the drinks are on tap and readily available, it may take a few moments to get the treats out, so might as well make conversation while a fresh batch is made.

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Comments

[betheman]

"G-H AUH-"

And immediately, Gongenzaka covers his nose, almost gagging. He hisses from the doorway. "GN...A DUMPSTER..??"

[tiredcharmer]

Thanks to years of living on the streets constantly assailed by threats, mundane or not, Tyzias is a fairly light sleeper. So when Gongenzaka gags, hisses, and yells, she awakens immediately and punches the lid of the dumpster open, peeking her head out. "What the fuck do you want?" She mutters, squinting. Tyzias is... completely filth. There are fries stuck in her bird's nest of hair. She's also still wearing all of her clothes. "I'm trying to get my hour of-- oh, hey Gon. Still, though. Fuck off."

[betheman]

Gongenzaka merely chokes, still having troubles with the breathing bit.

Finally he just shouts.

"WHY HAVE YOU BROUGHT A HEALTH HAZARD INTO THE DORMITORIES..!"

If it sounds a bit nasally that's because he's still covering his nose.

[tiredcharmer]

"More comfortable than a bed." Tyzias turns away from Gongenzaka and shuts the lid. "Now piss off, I only have forty-three more minutes of rest before I have to get up to work on the three-book problem."

[betheman]

"And we have trouble breathing, due to this!" Gon that's only you.

"More than that...do you truly not have a method of finding a comfortable sleeping method, that does not involve risking the health of those around you!?"

[tiredcharmer]

"Fiiiiiiiiine." If everybody kept on making such a big stink about it, she should probably do something. Groaning, Tyzias flops out of her dumpster, snaps the fingers of her mechanical hand, and... a teal blowtorch erupts from her index finger. She begins carving runes into the side of her dumpster, occasionally checking a notebook at her side. Gongenzaka's nose can discern that Tyzias, outside the dumpster, is... oddly scentless. As in completely lacking in any kind of smell.

[betheman]

That.

That is super weird.

He sniffs (and recoils of course, because the dumpster is...still very rank-) but...

"Auh...Tyzias?" he asks, frowning a little. "...How is it, that you lack a scent..?" It's....

Concerning...

[tiredcharmer]

"Just a little something I cooked up to shake off were trackers," she explains as she continues to inscribe runes into the side of the dumpsters. Brownbloods were tenacious motherfuckers, but at the end of the day they were pretty easy to shake if you got far enough ahead of them and they didn't have your scent. "Using the same thing here, actually. Here, lemme turn it off for you."

There's a brief pause, and then Gongenzaka is hit with two years' worth of body odor.

[betheman]

"GU-AUH"

WHY

"Do you not clean yourself, even!?"

[tiredcharmer]

"Nope."

[betheman]

"Why?" he asks, sounding quite exasperated by now.

[tiredcharmer]

"Takes too much time."

[betheman]

"Ten minutes of your time is far better than countless hours in a hospital for yourself down the line..!!"

[tiredcharmer]

"I've slept in literal fuckin' garbage bins for years. I'll be fine."

[betheman]

"That is the sort of excuse given by smokers, when one tells them to stop smoking, you realize."

He has a point. "It is filthy, and unhygienic- and you should take better care of yourself..!"

[tiredcharmer]

"Look, if I have a heart attack or pneumonia or something, you can feel free to gloat all you want." Tyzias gives Gongenzaka a withering glare as one of her hands twists into a simple positional tracking rune. She was just... done at this point. "But until then?"

She snaps her fingers, and Gongenzaka is teleported outside the room. "FUCK OFF!" The door slams shut, and this time, Gongenzaka can hear Tyzias locking it.

[betheman]

"Gloat?! Another's suffering is reason to assist, not gloa-"

But sadly he's teleported out in that moment. He isn't one to anger but he does grimace and growl a bit before going back to his room. Maya will probably show up later.