Nevermore

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

Room Raiders

Raven’s room is truly the gothic paradise she deserves

Her bedroom is well decorated, but not cluttered

She keeps her alter there for privacy and easy access

She has a large apothecary cabinet where she stores things like herbs, candles, and crystals

As well as several book cases, housing everything from research books to novels

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

“Please make yourself comfortable, anything I have is your’s to share with the exception of what’s in that cabinet,”

Pausing, Raven gestured to a large wooden cabinet against the wall, the glass doors showing an array of bottles, jars, and wooden boxes, cloth pouches and little trinkets from elegant candles and little carved stones to simple crystals and extravagant gems and jewlry, and although the cabinet sported a rather prominent lock on the main set of doors, there was a smaller case hidden in the back with an even bigger lock on it- that one showing nothing of it’s contents

“I don’t mind sharing with you, to be clear, if you’re an herb person, but it’s... easy... to mistake one thing for another, I wouldn’t want you to get hurt,”

Raven had spent most of her life finely tuning her knowledge to tell the difference between an herb that could kill you and one that you put in your tea, not to mention the other contents of the cabinet that held varying degrees of danger- both mystical and practical- there were matches and flammable oils and an athame tucked away, to name a few- and, truth be told, most people- especially young college students- just didn’t have the experience she did

Casually, she settled into her desk chair, her cat- Poe- jumping into her lap almost automatically

“Would you like some tea wile we talk?”

@lovelycassieainsworth​

[dylanwentworth]

I guess we’re all still trying to fly under the radar around here, huh? I get it, I’m pretty freaked too. Anything you say on these phones could end up… anywhere. And who knows who is watching, where. What has been seen. Anyway, enough of the Paranoia Express. I’m uh.. gong to try to bring some normalcy back and start socializing again. Not that I did much before. But I had a plan to let Halloween’s costume open the door for sewing commission, so… consider this me opening the door. Anyone that wants something made can come let me know. Otherwise, I’ll just make more clothes for Lu.

@luxeacademystarters​

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

Sure, I’ll bite

I hear we’re going to a pretty cold place for winter vacation? I’ve... never actually seen snow so I’m a little underprepared, do you think you’d be able to make me a cloak before the trip?

Blue, or black, preferrably

[dommedelaney]

"...Why are you crying?" -Raven

"Would you laugh at me if I said I'd just finished watching Titanic?"

@quoth-0-the-0-raven

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

“I won’t judge you, I can’t say that I see the appeal, but I won’t judge you,”

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

33. “You shouldn’t have said that.” -From Delaney O'Neil

"I've heard that before, but for the sake of being on the same page, what shouldn't I have said this time?"

@dommedelaney

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

What are your biggest pet peeves?

Well that answer could keep you here all day, so I'll stick to my top three

1. Bigots and any kind of intolerant people

2. People who force their own opinions and ideas on others, although I guess that's kind of a... sub-genre... of the first point

3. People who go snooping around in other people's private lives without permission

And two bonus very specific pet peeves because I'm feeling nice- Dog-earing, highlighting, or otherwise disturbing books that don't belong to you, and people who are needlessly loud- think teenage boys at a mall..... kill me

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

🌙✨✨🖤

[nakiaatluxe]

I don’t know who is behind all this shit, but I’m just about over it. Since someone clearly thinks they’re going to be able to embarrass me or drive me out because of my past, I’ll be the first to go ahead and let them know they’re dead wrong. I’ll get in front of this, and say yeah, me and my siblings were taken from my mother because she wasn’t fit to raise us. She was a wonderful woman who was very very sick, and at the time she couldn’t pull herself out of that place. I’m not ashamed or embarrassed, and I will never allow anyone to even try and use my past and my life against me. Go fuck yourselves. 

@luxeacademystarters​

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

Good for you

I admire your strength for being so..... upfront, and I’m glad someone else is owning their secret

Your past doesn’t define you, but for what it’s worth, you clearly came away from your’s a strong and put-together person, so...

..Sorry, I’m not... the best with the “supportive” thing but I wanted to offer you my support anyway

[luxelilianortiz]

I’m interested in what exactly the administration here will be doing to address the issues we are clearly experiencing with security at this school. First in-person, now all of our technology? Why such the specific time, too? Did anyone else catch that? Something seems fishy here.  @luxeacademystarters​

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

Couldn’t agree more

I have two theories about the specific timing

1. It’s got to do with the way they’re getting around the security system, electronics often go through update periods at a specific time of night when people are the least likely to be interrupted by them, if you have cable TV, for example, you’ll notice that the cable boxes update at around three A.M. every night, computers also aim between two and four on average, Luxe’s security system might go down for a very short period of time every night and this is the window the hackers are using, or maybe it’s during a hand-off period in manual security and was the only time the hacker could access without being noticed

2. It’s a message in and of it’s self; whoever is doing this quite obviously has a bone to pick with the school, sure classism and elitism are the given causes but what if that’s not actually it? Or rather, what if that’s only the surface reason we’re being attacked? What if there’s another motive beneath that? Someone got hurt, or expelled, or worse, and whoever is doing this is getting revenge- for themselves or another, if that’s the case then they’re likely to leave clues- intentionally or not- about what happened to “inspire” their attacks- if this is the case, I’ll bet you everything I own that the incident in question happened at 3:21 A.M., we should see if there’s a record of any police or emergency services visiting the school at around that time over the last few years

It also should be noted just for the hell of it that three A.M. is known as “dead time” and is when most paranormal investigators and others who are interested in the occult make the biggest effort to contact ghosts and the like, so if anyone is messing with the occult in connect to all this, that would be your explanation for the timing

[dommecappella]

Wow, I didn’t know we were all rooming with a bonafide pornstar. I can’t say I haven’t thought about it myself a few times– not for the money, obvi, for the attention.

I can’t say you’re all boring anymore, that was pretty entertaining. So it’s all happening behind the scenes, got it. I should have known, you all think I’m elitist (because I am) but I’ve never been in a more bubbly place before in my life. Everyone has found one person to hang with and nobody else exists. I bet most of you couldn’t tell me three secrets that were just spilled that have nothing to do with you because you can’t re-read a video. Be honest, you weren’t paying any attention until your name or the person you want to date was brought up.

@luxeacademystarters​

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

Carter Millhouse is a gangster, Blair McCain has a juvenile record, Mark Petrie survived what sounds like a teen slasher movie, did I do it? Did I win?

I couldn’t help but notice your name was mysteriously missing though, Miss De Luca, my goodness.... I wonder how that happened, you don’t strike me as the clean-nose type so I wonder what you had to do to dodge that bullet...

Or who you had to do

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

"Where does it hurt?" -From Cameron Adams

"Mostly my dignity," Raven replied with an exhale, just short of a wince

"I suppose my hand is stinging a bit, but that's inconsequential, how many people saw that?"

It was one thing to slam her hand into a door when she was alone, but getting distracted by a loud noise and doing it in the middle of a crowded hallway was quite another

@subcameronadams

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

❛ excuse me , i think you dropped this. ❜ -From Delaney O'Neil

Raven paused, turning to look at the woman behind her and glancing down at the book she was holding, a plain black notebook with a crescent moon on the front

"I think you're right, thank you," she replied a second later, reaching for the book

@dommedelaney

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

neverm0re posted: I'm not really that social but... the mask is nice.... and I'm curious, who has the other one?

[subcameronadams]

quoth-0-the-0-raven​:

Well this was just…… perfect.….

Raven had finally decided to do what her roommate kept telling her to do and get out of the dorm for once, go do something fun, attend the festival, go to the haunted houses….

Raven had always loved haunted houses

And here the night was ruined by…. she wasn’t sure what…. she hadn’t managed to get any information yet

Calmly, she made her way towards the first person she saw and appeared silently behind them, waiting for whatever conversation they were having to die before speaking up

“Do you have any idea what’s going on, by any chance?”

@luxeacademystarters​

Cameron had never been one to panic, especially not when everyone else was. Generally speaking, the best time to be calm came when others were unable to do so, seeking some sort of order and logic in the midst of chaos. So, when panic began to ripple across campus following whatever had occurred during the Haunted Houses, Cameron did what he did best- breathed. After speaking to a few people, he’d managed to ascertain some semblance of a story about what had happened. So, when he was approached, he had a fairly decent and put-together account. “I can try, keeping in mind I wasn’t there.” He said, turning to face Raven. “Apparently, anyone inside the Dollhouse Haunt got locked in. They separated the Elites from the Scholarship students. It looks like they were shown some kind of…Scary film, a movie, something like that, and then the Elites were let go. People are still searching for the Scholarship students.” Cameron’s eyebrows raised as he spoke, shaking his head. “That sounds wild, I know but…It’s the same story I’m getting from just about everyone.”

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

“Mm, not the wildest thing I’ve heard today...”

Raven had been born into a cult for the express purpose of becoming a human sacrifice, like a damn farm animal, so she had definitely experienced stranger

“So there are some scholarship students who have been kidnapped, is basically what you’re saying,” she added a beat later, nose wrinkling just slightly, to say that she wasn’t a fan of elitism was putting it mildly, there were very few things in the world that she hated more

The thing is, Raven would never consider herself to be so allturistic that she would do something crazy like stage a rescue attempt just for the hell of it, just out of the kindness of her heart, that’s what she told herself anyway, but the separation of elite and scholarship students- with the latter being held captive, no less- pissed her off just enough that she wanted to do something about it

This, again, is what she told herself

“Well then, I’ll be heading to the dollhouse attraction, thank you for your help,”

[blaineatluxe]

quoth-0-the-0-raven​:

Well this was just…… perfect.….

Raven had finally decided to do what her roommate kept telling her to do and get out of the dorm for once, go do something fun, attend the festival, go to the haunted houses….

Raven had always loved haunted houses

And here the night was ruined by…. she wasn’t sure what…. she hadn’t managed to get any information yet

Calmly, she made her way towards the first person she saw and appeared silently behind them, waiting for whatever conversation they were having to die before speaking up

“Do you have any idea what’s going on, by any chance?”

@luxeacademystarters​

Blaine hadn’t been in the haunted houses when the chaos had ensued, but he’d been right outside doing his best to convince himself it would be okay to go in, that he wouldn’t die of a heart attack or pure fright, when everything started to happen. First, everyone was brought out of the first two houses, then the doors of the third slammed shut. Blaine watched wide-eyed as some tried to get in the doors, that was until the screams started. Now, no one from the final haunt had emerged. Many students were missing, a mix of scholarship and elite, and no one seemed to know what had happened. 

His phone lit up with alerts and updates, and he scrolled through them quickly as he compared notes with the person next to him, discussing everything they were reading. Fear shot through the submissive immediately. He wasn’t ever one to maintain composure well in stressful situations, and he could already feel himself starting to falter. Then a voice came from behind and he turned, taking a deep breath and trying to pull himself together. 

“I do, yeah.” He said, switching his phone on again to pass to the woman. “It looks like something has happened inside the dollhouse haunt. People are trapped, they’ve been taken to some sort of room. I think…I think this might be deliberate.” The worry in his eyes ad voice were obvious and he glanced around frantically. “I don’t know what to do.”

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

She had to admit, she hadn’t seen this coming

Not that humanity was ever not terrible, but she had expected a place like Luxe that prided it’s self so much in being upper crust and elite and better than other schools would be classier than this

Well, there was no accounting for angry children and hypocrisy she supposed

A quick glance at the phone was all she needed to get an idea of what was going on, so she handed it back smoothly a beat later, glancing at the man beside her before turning her attention fully to the door

“It sounds deliberate,” she confirmed, eyes narrowing at the door as though that would magically make it open

Raven was a witch, but even she didn’t believe that

“You should go back to your dorm, I’m going to break this door down and attempt a rescue, do you have anyone who can accompany you back to the dorms? I don’t think anyone should be alone right now,”

[korppuhiiri]

billie eilish - bury a friend

what do you want from me? why don’t you run from me? what are you wondering? what do you know?

why aren’t you scared of me? why do you care for me? when we all fall asleep, where do we go?

[quoth-0-the-0-raven]

Well this was just...... perfect.....

Raven had finally decided to do what her roommate kept telling her to do and get out of the dorm for once, go do something fun, attend the festival, go to the haunted houses....

Raven had always loved haunted houses

And here the night was ruined by.... she wasn’t sure what.... she hadn’t managed to get any information yet

Calmly, she made her way towards the first person she saw and appeared silently behind them, waiting for whatever conversation they were having to die before speaking up

“Do you have any idea what’s going on, by any chance?”

@luxeacademystarters​