[physical education 101]

[sevenhorrorsmods]

Who: transfer students
When: July 1̷̝̤̳̙̫̭̻̝͓̄̇̾̀̕͝9̸̙̱̹͍̮̈́́̀̅͛̐̔̋ 20
Where: the. . . gymnasium?
What: an ice breaker
Warnings: moderate physical injury (not debilitating), psychological horror (absolutely debilitating)

[The school is empty. The school is quiet. The only sound that cuts through the silence is the soft ticking of the hallway clocks that mark the passing of each second.]

[. . .]

[At least. . . until a stiff breeze whips through the classrooms, scattering dirty papers and jerking the curtains aside. The clock strikes 6:00 a.m.]

[The school bell chimes.]

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Comments

[suplexer]

[ It is 2spooky but Tifa does better at handling the spooks when she has to look out for others, so... ]

Not at all. It's better to know what we're dealing with sooner rather than later, right? No more nasty surprises that way.

[selfportraiture]

Right... ideally, there won't be any nasty surprises at all, though.

[Out into the gross, spooky hallway outside of the gym with them!

Ena jumps with a startled noise when she accidentally brushes a spiderweb with her hand.]

Ew--!

[suplexer]

[ It would be one thing if they were going through a monster den or something. Tifa wouldn't have blinked at most anything in that case. But the added threat of ghosts just makes her jumpy.

So when Botan startles, she does too, yelping in a similar way as he grabs for the other girl's arm and tugs her away from whatever spooked her.

(She has gotta stop making contact with Shiawase girlies, rip.) ]

A-are you okay?!

[selfportraiture]

[She really does. Tifa reaches out and immediately she'll get a proper wave of Ena's emotions--fear, and embarrassment to have jumped at a spiderweb, and exhaustion, and a simmering anger over the entire situation, lingering always.

She yanks her hand back quickly, swallowing.]

I'm fine! I'm fine. Sorry, it was just... just a spiderweb. It just startled me.

[suplexer]

[ That does answer Tifa's question about whether or not the members of Yuffie's group also have the same strange affliction to them. She's pretty sure she's handled other people here and not felt this weird overflow of emotion, so is it really split up by class?

Huh... ]

After those spiders from before, I don't blame you.

[ The girl yanked her hand back pretty fast, so she won't call her out just yet. Better to ease into it when she's more calm. ]

But it does seem like this place has been abandoned for a while, huh...

[selfportraiture]

Yeah. I mean, it's not unusual for schools in the countryside, I think, but...

[She steps on a piece of floorboard that creeks ominously, and carefully takes a different path instead.]

... They're not usually this--you know. Haunted.

[suplexer]

[ Hey now — her schooling hadn't really involved attending a school so much as learning from some of the town elders or some of the other adults, but! There hadn't just been spiderwebs or creepy vibes like this. ]

... Right. I mean, how could you have classes when there's ghosts around? Maybe it only ended up haunted after it was abandoned?

[ As they continue down the hall, she notes that some of the doors are labeled. The "Music Room" catches her attention, though when she tries the knob it's locked. ]

Hmm...

[selfportraiture]

[That's such a pragmatic approach. "How would you go to class when ghosts are happening?", instead of "wow, wouldn't it be fucked up if a school was haunted?".]

I don't know... it's a really popular horror trope, though.

[... Oh. Ena's brow furrows at that.]

It's locked? Why would the music room be locked?

[suplexer]

[ A horror trope? Tifa's not quite sure what the girl means by that, but she's a little more focused on the door randomly being locked. ]

Yeah, of all things... Seems kinda strange, doesn't it?

[ And then she goes stock still, because... it's faint, but she's pretty sure she can hear music from the other side. ]

Wait...

[selfportraiture]

... Hm? That's piano, isn't it?

[suplexer]

It definitely sounds like it.

[ Tifa feels herself tensing up, and breathes out a low breath to try and calm herself. ]

Do you think it's...

[ A ghost? ]