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daybreakacademy2020-10-31 01:32 pm
rpdsfinest) wrote in daybreakacademy2020-10-31 01:32 pm
This Is Halloween?
[A: Examinations]
[Leon stumbled out of the testing chamber, winded, and deeply exhausted. Whoever designed that test was an absolute madman of some kind. He'd heard it was developed several months ago by one of the professors here at the Academy, and it was uncomfortably close to the experience he had in a warehouse beneath Raccoon City. Except it was in a mansion. And a lot more environmentally off-putting. Hell, there were zombies and all kinds of horrible monsters in there, not unlike what he had fought before. Still, he'd made it out alive and in one piece... and almost entirely unscathed.
He'd kept his cool throughout the test, through a surge of adrenaline that it managed to produce in him. To the observer, he looked mostly calm and professional, though his mind was a jumbled, complex place while in danger. Never enough to get him killed, but the bad memories were still... in there. Soaked in sweat and coming off a combat high, he trudged over to a table with bottles of sports drinks on it, took one, and settled down on a bench next to you as his score was tabulated on a monitor nearby.]
Who the hell made that test, anyway...? That was twisted as hell...
[He downed a considerable amount of the drink he picked up in one go, turning back to face you, whether you had taken the test or were merely an observer.]
Did you run it too?...
[B - Halloween Evening]
[The sun was setting in the distance, slowly, and the bite of mid-fall was in the air. Leon walked the paths of Daybreak's quad, noticing something odd toward the end of it. ...A group of figures, shambling about. His mind quickly jumping to high alert, he approached carefully. ...And as he got closer, the tell tale signs appeared; vacant expressions, what looked like decay.
Zombies. Grouped in the quad. Instinctively, he was about to turn and run... until he heard a very familiar song belt out from hidden speakers, and every one of the zombies began dancing along. ...Of course, it became clear quickly, they were actually students, not real zombies.
...And then a bunch of actual spirits and ghosts rose out of the ground joining in for the good, harmless fun.
Leon stood back a bit, shaking his head, perhaps unaware of the company nearby.]
...This place just keeps getting weirder and weirder.
[C - Halloween Night]
[Before making his way to the Halloween Dance, Leon volunteered to give out candy to the kids of Soliel that made their way to campus. Dressed in a armored costume he found in town with the help of some of Daybreak's staff, he smiled as he handed out chocolate bars and other treats to the kids that happened on through. After the spook earlier, Leon finally seems like he's relaxed and loosened up fully to have a good time.
Are you coming by to get candy for trick-or-treat? Or are you another volunteer? Or are you just passing by? Either way, Leon will greet you with a smile.]
Hey, you having fun?
[D - Wildcard]
[Did I miss something? Hit me up here.]
[Leon stumbled out of the testing chamber, winded, and deeply exhausted. Whoever designed that test was an absolute madman of some kind. He'd heard it was developed several months ago by one of the professors here at the Academy, and it was uncomfortably close to the experience he had in a warehouse beneath Raccoon City. Except it was in a mansion. And a lot more environmentally off-putting. Hell, there were zombies and all kinds of horrible monsters in there, not unlike what he had fought before. Still, he'd made it out alive and in one piece... and almost entirely unscathed.
He'd kept his cool throughout the test, through a surge of adrenaline that it managed to produce in him. To the observer, he looked mostly calm and professional, though his mind was a jumbled, complex place while in danger. Never enough to get him killed, but the bad memories were still... in there. Soaked in sweat and coming off a combat high, he trudged over to a table with bottles of sports drinks on it, took one, and settled down on a bench next to you as his score was tabulated on a monitor nearby.]
Who the hell made that test, anyway...? That was twisted as hell...
[He downed a considerable amount of the drink he picked up in one go, turning back to face you, whether you had taken the test or were merely an observer.]
Did you run it too?...
[B - Halloween Evening]
[The sun was setting in the distance, slowly, and the bite of mid-fall was in the air. Leon walked the paths of Daybreak's quad, noticing something odd toward the end of it. ...A group of figures, shambling about. His mind quickly jumping to high alert, he approached carefully. ...And as he got closer, the tell tale signs appeared; vacant expressions, what looked like decay.
Zombies. Grouped in the quad. Instinctively, he was about to turn and run... until he heard a very familiar song belt out from hidden speakers, and every one of the zombies began dancing along. ...Of course, it became clear quickly, they were actually students, not real zombies.
...And then a bunch of actual spirits and ghosts rose out of the ground joining in for the good, harmless fun.
Leon stood back a bit, shaking his head, perhaps unaware of the company nearby.]
...This place just keeps getting weirder and weirder.
[C - Halloween Night]
[Before making his way to the Halloween Dance, Leon volunteered to give out candy to the kids of Soliel that made their way to campus. Dressed in a armored costume he found in town with the help of some of Daybreak's staff, he smiled as he handed out chocolate bars and other treats to the kids that happened on through. After the spook earlier, Leon finally seems like he's relaxed and loosened up fully to have a good time.
Are you coming by to get candy for trick-or-treat? Or are you another volunteer? Or are you just passing by? Either way, Leon will greet you with a smile.]
Hey, you having fun?
[D - Wildcard]
[Did I miss something? Hit me up here.]
A
[ She's cooling down herself, though she barely looks it. Then again, bug people don't sweat, at least not in the same way.
She pauses. ]
Though the keys to the security devices were strangely obvious. I know not enough of such environments to imagine why.
no subject
[He lets out a deep breath, finally settling down.]
Not the first time I've seen something like that. Might be more common than we think.
A
So now she occasionally watches others take the test for themselves now, on the occasions where the professor is busy with other things but still wants some eyes on the students (or even other faculty) attempting it.]
Oh, that's some of Professor Valvatorez's work. [She makes it sound like a completely normal thing, which to her, it kind of is.] I first went through it back in January.
[Then, while looking at the monitor, checking to see where Leon stands relative to the last time she had actually taken the test herself, she makes an observation:] It looks like you've dealt with that sort of thing before.
no subject
That explains a lot. It's the product of an actual daemon.
[He's at least familiar with Valvatorez. It was hard not to be, with a hard crash course at the school.]
Yeah. I did, a lot like that. Just before I got brought here. First brush with the supernatural too. [Close enough that he wondered how Professor Valvatorez could come up with a concept so similar to the Umbrella facility he escaped from. He assumed coincidence but...] How'd you do in it? Did you pass?
Because it looks like a lot of people are failing it...
no subject
He doesn't pull any punches when it comes to any assignments or tests, but ah, hold on— [The monitor is a touchscreen, so she presses a finger to it and swipes to scroll through the list to find her name listed with the results from the last time she'd done it.] There. That one's mine.
no subject
When she stopped and pointed out her own score and time, Leon's eyebrows rose.]
An S-Rank? Is that a perfect score...?
[It's not, actually, but it's close. And it's damn impressive for a first time, at that. There's only a handful of S+ ranks clocked on the board, most of which were received after multiple rounds through. Only one person got a first-time S+, and it looked like it belonged to someone named Rex Arany. Odds are, it looked like Time was a factor for that ranking... as well as other factors Leon couldn't be sure of yet.]
Wow. That's... that's really good. Hey, how'd you deal with the big guy chasing you for awhile in there?
[He had mostly just run from it, and kept quiet to avoid detection when it'd lost sight of him. It worked pretty well, as it turned out. If anything, that kind of escape and evasion did look practiced on his part.]
no subject
The route that I took to get through was, ah, a little different.
[If Leon checks the board again, he'll probably see that Desi's time is strangely low compared to others that had also achieved S-ranks. Had she found some shortcuts that Valvatorez had snuck in when he first designed the thing, or was there some sort of trick up her sleeve despite the test itself bringing all participants down to normal human levels?]
no subject
[Because as far as he could tell, there was no way around needing that key to get deeper into the facility.]
...Did you find a way to break down a door or something?
no subject
Well, first I tried picking the lock— [She doesn't specify that the attempt was with not actual lockpicks.] —but that didn't work out like it had for the doors that came before it, so I unscrewed the hinges and opened the door that way.
[Of course, since it wasn't the first time she managed to avoid doing something that Valvatorez had intended to be mandatory, he had probably outright expected it by then.]