Welcome to Gaia! ::

It's a strange time of year. A mysterious force has taken over the school and blessed us with a city to surround it. Students and teachers and random folk alike are falling in love with each other. Where two people yesterday had no connections with one another whatsoever, today they only have eyes for each other, regardless of whether these eyes are spinning from love or glaring daggers.

We welcome you to come witness the cycles of love and all the stages of heartache in this fantastical tale! We just can't guarantee that you won't become an actor yourself!

Event Threads

• Event ToC/OoC
  
• Walk-in RP
  
• Guestbook
  
• Mule Dressup/Tektek Contest
  
• Gold Raffle/Giveaway
  
• Vday Scavenger Hunt
  

Setting:

Just some quick prompts for certain locations in the school. Feel free to exercise some artistic freedom or to add more locations if necessary!


• Cafeteria: hot cocoa is free but you'll have to pay for the cookies, chocolates, lattes, cakes and other delights! Did we mention that the lunch lady doesn't accept cash? The Registration & Awards desk is also located in the cafeteria, for everyone interested in signing up to be paired or would like to nominate themselves for a prize.
  
• Auditorium: pink, red, and white streamers adorned with hearts hang from the ceiling. A giant banner with the words "Happy Valentine's Day" stretches across the ceiling above the stage. Equipment for the projector has been set up but nothing is currently playing on it.
  
• Library: not as dusty now thanks to the efforts of Scott and Troy. The only thing left to do is to put the many stacks of unorganized books back into their proper places.
  
• Quad: an open area surrounded on three sides by campus buildings. A campfire has been set up in the center, perfect for warming hands, roasting marshmallows, melting chocolate, and making s'mores.
  
• Gymnasium: There are several indoor gymnasiums at the Academy, all located in one region of the school. Separate gyms are for different things: some are equipped with weights and other fitness equipment, while others are spacious and have two basketball hoops hanging at opposite ends of the room, and with the proper set up can be geared for volleyball, badminton, tennis, etc.
  
• Music Room: The music rooms are located in a separate wing. The Academy has equipment for bands and orchestras alike. The rooms and equipment seem to come and go as people need them. Sometimes, the faint sounds of a piano can be heard down the hall, even when no one can be found at the piano.

The halls were still quiet and mostly empty save the vague shuffling of the shadow-like Lurkers that seemed to make up the majority of the Academy's population but there were new decorations strewn about the Auditorium and the Cafeteria always had some life to it, even if it was just the eccentric lunch lady yelling at her pots. Outside, winter had the landscape bathed in fresh snow but the campus' tall buildings and trees kept most of the wind from the Quad, allowing a few patches of bright winter grass and thick hedges of blood red roses to lend color to the otherwise whitewashed landscape. The Gyms had been largely forsaken in the colder weather but the Music Room echoed with the haunting notes of some romantic piano sonata coming from one of the less used concert halls, still dark and dusty from disuse despite recent renovations. It was looking to be just another day as unsuspecting inhabitants milled about their usual activities.

But it wouldn't stay that way for long. Little did they know, something extraordinary was brewing.

Adelaide roamed around the school. She quickly found a sign that stated " library. " A smile formed onto her pink lips as the library was her favorite place in the world. It was the one place where she wouldn't be judged for what she is. She timidly opened the doors to the library. As she was accustomed to the dark, she flicked but one set of lights on. She noticed the books being unorganized. She started sorting through the books...putting fiction with fiction by their genre and non-fiction in order by the dewey decimal system and the subject of the book.

Adelaide continued on her book quest. She picked up the next book. It looked fairly old. She closed her eyes and sniffed the book. She didn't care what anyone said..books had a smell and her heightened senses loved the smell of books especially older books. Her father had century old books that she would casually leaf through in his library. Her father had always laughed because she smelled the book before opening it.

Umbraja did stumble back out of force, nearly tumbling over from the combination of the forward push and the weight hanging on her back. She managed to keep her feet though, this time at least, and huffed a little laugh for that fact before grinning up at whatever had bumped into her. She blinked on seeing a new face but then that was all too common around here even without having been gone all year.

"No worries, kid. Didn't hurt," she brushed off the apology easily and shifted the bag on her shoulder to hold out a hand. "Umbraja," she introduced herself simply. "You don't happen to know where the Groundskeeper got off to do ya? He asked me to bring him back some spoils and, well, she's getting a mite restless." The strange woman shrugged a shoulder to jostle the bag at the last and as if to demonstrate the statement the bag's contents gave an awful snarl, flailing wildly. Unfortunately the Groundskeeper had mysteriously disappeared several months ago, which explained the somewhat disused state of the campus.

Duo reached out and shook her hand, a little more forcefully than intended. "Duo-87. Uh, Duo." He said, releasing the woman's hand. When asked about the groundskeeper, the code in his left eye shifted a bit. "Uh... I haven't seen him." He said, not sure how to explain that said groundskeeper had been missing for a while. He wondered how she could have known him, yet also not known that he had been missing... maybe taken a long trip? "Um, just out of curiosity, what's the bag?"

Duo searched his 'memory' for a moment for the word ponce. "I assure you that I resemble said individual in no way." He said, with a casual shrug. The bag was now making strange growling noises and kicking around. "Yeah, I suppose so." He said, when she mentioned the 'check clearing.' He moved out of the doorway as she aimed to leave, and was about to find something else to do himself before being addressed again. "Uh... I guess I am." Duo said, in response to being called strong. He was unsure of why he was being issued a compliment, but his curiosity quickly vanished as she held out the bag to him. "Certainly." He said, grabbing the bag and tossing it over his shoulder like it was nothing. The bag let out a small squeal as he balanced it between his hand and head. "Uh, where are we gonna put it, exactly?" He asked curiously.