dormheads | SPRINGLE

common room.

In the common room, the walls have been painted with photo-like pictures of forests and lakes, and spread across the ceiling is a depiction of the night sky. One wall is lined with bookcases, the books ranging from fiction to non-fiction as well used course textbooks. More bookcases have been used to section off one corner for a study area, with a desk and chair provided.

Elsewhere, there are a few couches (one looks as though it doesn't quite belong) and chairs, most seated around a coffee table and with throw blankets tossed over them if you need the extra warmth. On the table is a bowl of healthy and semi-healthy snacks, regularly stocked. (Nearby is a garbage can.)

This week, there's something.

specialty room.

Past an entrance in the common room, a mini coffeehouse has been set up, with express machines for those who just want their coffee now and slightly more advanced equipment for aficionados. It offers a variety of strength levels and flavors to accommodate tastes all across the spectrum, along with a teapot and packets of caffeinated and non-caffeinated tea for those who prefer a different drink. There's a sink if you want to use your own mug, but otherwise, disposable cups are provided for you to use.

Pasted on the wall by the coffee machines is a detailed but clear handwritten guide on how to use said machines, complete with illustrations. There are also cute little doodles of Spring Dorm residents using the machines and drinking coffee, though they look as though they were done by someone else.

Please use this as an open post for members of Spring Dorm. You may post top-levels whenever you'd like and go wild. A new post will go up at the start of each week.

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[ .... maya feels such fondness for rita that the entire dorm can feel it ]

You guys can count on me for extra credit help, too! The one I have now is pretty tough, but.... I think I can figure it out.

[ maya nods at the scripts. she has seen at least one of them but i am slow and backtagging so ]

I do have a few theories... but I don't know how good they are. Just, um, kind of my experience.

Can I ask you what it is? Your extra credit, I mean.

I can't tell you that! C'mon.

It's nothing crazy, though. Just something I don't have a lot of experience with.

... Are we not supposed to tell people our extra credit?

So... this is something the school's been annoyingly unclear about, but I had some talks with the dorm heads about the specifics to get a better idea.

You can tell people and ask them directly for help, if it's just a couple people in private.

You can't tell the whole world, and if you're doing an assignment that requires deception, you can't do it with someone you're telling your assignment to, since that defeats the purpose.

Oh, that explains why Mabel couldn't say why she was accusing Claude at trial but was able to tell me later in private.

Oh, was that what it was?

[ maya is now radiating a lot of judgment, sorry tsuyukasa ]

Yeah. And Rita just said it's important for people to do the extra credit, so.

[DON'T JUDGE HER.]

[ she is judging ]

I don't know why she waited until so late in the trial to do it... and accused Claude of all people..... he's already been suspected so much.

[ she's a child and also gestures at the whole weekend so maya won't get too mad, but she's pretty annoyed and defensive of claude!! ]

Well, luckily... no one took that accusation seriously.

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Well. It's Mabel. She's not like... a genius strategic mind.
[Wow nice week really is over.]

But I guess since everyone is here right now I should get mine out of the way.
[He's going to go make tea???]

[...!?

hey guess what everyone gets to feel a twang of panic???]

Now!?

Wh-Isn't it better since everyone is here to supervise??

Okay, no, two things here-- first, if you're telling all of us you're doing it, that's maybe not the best start. Second, supervise what.

[BUT MOM!!!!]

Well as long as I dose it correctly I should only be uncomfortable for a few hours. But if you want to volunteer to get poisoned instead, that's fine with me.

Tsuyukusa, show me how it's written, exactly. You're absolutely not going to poison yourself or anyone else only for it not to work.

[if he just outed himself and it fails AND he actually gets super sick from it that's kind of a worst case deal.]

Well it's pretty vague. So I figured that gave me some leeway?

[He will show it to her!]

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[ Claude is still not looking at Maya, but there's some sappy affection coming from him. ]

[ claude feels her feelings of!!! protecc claude!! protecc! ]

[ .... but she also is happy to feel his affection like a nerd. it's like when you tell a dog they're a good dog ]

Yeah... that sure happened.

[EXHAUSTING.]

[VERY tired energy over here. lord.]

That definitely was not the trial to do it in, but at least it's out of the way now.

[never again, PLEASE.]

Well... it is in the rules..... I've been pretty quiet about mine, 'cause I don't wanna invalidate them or anything.

[GOD rita wishes she wasn't perceiving that now and she's just kind of embarrassed]

I-I said it before, but I can always... [help...]

... What kind of theories? No harm in getting them out there.

[ that makes maya more fond im sorry she's a gremlin ]

I know, Rita! I'll definitely call on you if I need to.

[ ... ]

Well, you know how you and I couldn't contact Mr. Sieghart? And well... I couldn't get my powers back. Plus, what we learned from Hugo yesterday about the dead being in daycare.... I think they're still alive, somehow.

The other thing, is, um, the last place I was at... was inside of a book, basically? It was weird. But, uhm, there was this mysterious creep who everyone worshipped... he wrote "the story", and everything he wrote came true, basically.

Soo... I kinda wonder if this is a situation like that....

I-if they're alive, then shouldn't the communication coupon have worked?

[not meeting eyes with anyone, please don't perceive how rita "ghosts don't real" mordio attempted to contact the dead.]

By the last place you were at, you mean... that stuff you told me when we'd all just got here?

They're in a place we can't reach them. That's why it isn't working.

[ rita... nerd ]

Yeah. With the witches and everything. But we were all kind of pieces of the story,