The Evil Administration

So this is a jamjar, right? Let's get the low-down. Why is my character stuck here?

It is a jamjar! After an analysis of Netherworld Academy's diversity, the administration found that there was a distinct lack of one demographic: non-demons. They snapped at the opportunity to improve their school's image in the Netherworld by kidnapping non-demons (via the multiverse crossing dimensional gate) and saddling them with debt so they can't leave.

Why don't I just sneak out through the dimensional gate?

It takes a really long time to learn how to operate it. Look at that thing! It's all just a bunch of flashing unlabeled buttons! The guys whose job it is can send you where ever they're allowed to send you in the blink of an eye, sure, but those allowed places don't include anywhere outside this netherworld.

Well what if I do figure out how to use it?

Then you'd still need to know the coordinates for your own universe.

What if I'm from Stargate? Could I go home then?

Sorry, Daniel Jackson, but this is an entirely different system. You'll still be here for years.

So since this is a jamjar, my character shows up basically penniless as usual, right?

Actually, that is not true. The Prinnies were forced into taking liberties with your money and possessions (by bank robberies if necessary) and brought all your stuff to the Netherworld for you.

So can my super rich character just pay off the debt?

Nope. Super rich characters just get saddled with even more debt. But it's okay, they don't have to pay it off for a long time. Longer than their entire lifespan possibly. The contract was written for a demon, and they live thousands of years.

Speaking of money and debts and all that, how is money being kept track of?

Short answer? It's not. If your character was rich in their setting, they're rich here. Just don't go overboard with it. The Rosen Queen Shop and The Prinny Request Hideout may reference values in the nether world currency of Hel, HL for short, but it's really just for flavor. If you want a conversion, assume 100 HL is about 1 US dollar.

What about jobs to futility try to pay of the debt?

Your character can pretty much find whatever awesome, silly or demeaning job you'd like. Rule of funny applies.

Well, then what happens if a character drops?

There are a number of possibilities, perhaps they found a loophole in their contract and actually managed to escape? Or maybe they actually somehow legitimately paid off their debt. More likely they got lost in the Chaos on BS Mountain or they might have simply perished somewhere and no one bothered to revive them. In any case, regardless of what actually happened, as far as everyone on campus is most likely concerned they mysteriously disappeared.

Okay, but what if I or someone else wants to re-app them?

Considering that even death is impermanent here, that's perfectly fine! A character who went home is swindled into debt again (some people never learn). A character who got lost finds their way back and may or may not remember what transpired since they left. A character who died wakes up in the nurses office, perhaps brought there by other PCs or perhaps for more nefarious reasons.

There may be special circumstances where things need to be worked out with other players or the mods, but for the most part these are few and far between so be confidant that no one leaves the netherworld without any risk of return and re-app to your heart's content!

Okay, so what's with these demons?

Demons are evil bullies, but for the most part they're not all that bad! Being evil is cool in the Netherworld, and a lot of demons are just silly nuisances. They're a cartoony evil, like Wile E. Coyote building a death trap, or breaking up with your significant other via e-mail, then calling them to say 'Check your e-mail k thx bye.' Consider this: Ding Dong Ditch is a professional sport in the Netherworld.

They aren't all harmless; some will try to swindle you, rob you, beat your lights out... the Netherworld is a dangerous place, but if you lie low you should be alright most of the time.

How can these demons beat my character up? S/he's Goku/Superman/Dark Phoenix/The King of All Cosmos.

And if they are very powerful they will be more powerful than most demons in the Netherworld, but this is a setting where some people could destroy planets in their sleep. Somewhere in the Netherworld there is someone more powerful. More on this subject in this thread.

My character is super weak! Can they power level?

To certain degrees they could get more powerful. Plenty of humans in the Netherworld are plenty powerful, but please be reasonable. If you think you're getting a bit too far out there it never hurts to check in the with mods. But your character doesn't have to be powerful to be in the Netherworld; this isn't a game about fighting. We're still more interested in CR.

So is this or isn't this a school RP? And what kind of school is it? High school? College?

You could say it's a parody of school games, rather than a school game. As for what kind of school it is, Netherworld Academy is more of an escalator school, going from primary school to college. But regardless of age, terrible budget cuts have meant all students are in the same classes, when they are in class at all.

Is this a crack game, then? Can I play a serious character here?

The Netherworld may be wacky, but the Disgaea games blended hilarity well with serious and genuine genre subversion, introspection and character development, so we would be happy to have serious and zany characters alike. Besides, every stooge needs a straight man.

What about dead characters? How are they coming back alive to play in the RP?

Ohh, the school nurse is shockingly good at curing death. Don't worry about it. Or, if your character was at all a sinner (or simply mistaken to be, the bureaucracy is often too lazy to care about the details), they could come to the Netherworld as a prinny: an exploding slave penguin. You could shop some prinny icons together, or they could be lucky and have reincarnated in the Netherworld on a day that we were running short on prinny bodies to stuff their souls into, which really has no effect except flavor.

Hey, isn't this game a lot like some other game there used to be

Yep! Netheworld Academy is a spiritual successor LJ's Netherworld RPG. We've lifted a lot of ideas and things from the game, and it's all meant as the highest form of flattery. We don't have any of the same mod staff, but we've spoken to the old founders and gotten their blessing.

Can I ask you some more questions?

Sure thing, just leave a comment here or get in touch with one of the mods. Our contact info is on the main profile page.

P.S. Hey, what about Original Characters?

The future is now! We accept any character from whatever sick, depraved canon you can dream up-that is, as long as it complies with our rating and remains PG in the app. Oh, and we do hold OCs to slightly higher standards than other apps. A really good feel on who you are apping is a generally appropriate thing for the mods to have in this situation.

Maybe you signed some form. Maybe you didn't. It all happened so quickly, but they have your signature on a legal document and you've been assured it's very binding.

Now a group of surprisingly large penguin like stuffed dolls, which somehow move on their own, are leading you down a red carpet in an otherwise dreary hallway at the end of which lies a large room filled with small uncomfortable looking desks.

You are shuffled to a desk to sit down before one of the penguins hands you a rolled up piece of paper while saying, "This is your introduction letter dood. Don't lose it, there is a hefty replacement fee... dood." After handing you the document it hands you a small touchpad and a wristband. "This is your myPhone dood. It will let you post to the network and communicate with any student or teacher wherever they are, dood." It then hands you a folded piece of paper, "Here is a map to your homeroom, dood." It then shoves you out of the room into a different hallway than the one you entered from and scurries back into the room, slamming the door behind it and leaving you to your own devices.

The myPhone is black though there is a list customizable color settings. If you try to unlock the advanced settings however, the message: "Upgrade or Assembly Approval Required" appears.

When you look at the letter, you find it is very ornate, printed in gold ink on ebony colored paper in luscious but easily readable handwriting.

To all new students: Welcome to Netherworld Academy! What you hold in your hand is your introduction as well as an overview of the place you now call home. Netherworld Academy is the most prestigious demon school in the netherworld. A place where students are molded from demonlings to overlords. They say humans and even angels have given up their honorable lifestyles and embraced the demon way! So fear not, there is a place for all of you. Our ever expanding campus consists of pristine dormitories, well kept lawns and enough classroom space for all the students we could ever want. In order to make your stay here as comfortable as possible we have a large number of prinnies, the penguin like people, whose sole purpose is to tend to your every need. Because demons are not required, nor even expected, to go to class, our school rules are quite different than your average academy, but I'm sure you will all get used to them in time. Now I am guessing some of you are wondering, "what do we do if we aren't going to class?" The answer is, whatever you want! Below the campus lies the town of Bashrivet, which is expressly setup to handle all your student needs and beyond that there are a number of netherworld vacation spots accessible through the Dimensional Gate. Even if you prefer to stay on campus there is plenty to do from gazing at the splendor of the Administrative Palace to exploring the mysterious hedge maze. Some of you might even go to a class or two, but don't attend regularly, lest you become a delinquent demon, the scorn of teacher and peer alike. You may notice if you look at your contract, which is available only to the administration and to you via your myPhone, that you owe a considerable debt to the school. Fear not! That debt covers the payment for your food, lodging and tuition so you will never have to think about paperwork again! Better yet, it will continue to accrue, allowing you to stay in Netherworld Academy as long as you like! Going home or de-enrolling while your debt remains is strictly prohibited. You understand right? Business is business. So enjoy your stay here and remember: no one has ever graduated from this school, so good luck!

In the Netherworld the only class regularly attended by most demons is homeroom, which isn't so much a class as it is an opportunity for the students to stay aware of school affairs for their own ill gotten gains.

Many teachers, however, hate teaching, prefering students to not attend so they can sit around in the classroom on company time while doing whatever they want. Sometimes, though, teachers are in the mood to teach classes related to their joys in life. These experiences are often tramautic formative life experiences for the students.

The curriculum in the Netherworld is focused upon the needs of students in a cutthroat society, and therefore sometimes even Honor Students, known for cutting classes as much as possible, consider it worth while to try to attend a class in hopes the might learn valuable life skills. The current curriculum includes the following classes.

Occassionally the mods will make an action post for a class, playing as a teachers. These will serve as mingle posts and opportunities to RP with the teaching staff. Perhaps if someone petitions the Dark Assembly, they can be a teacher as well!

Note: All Teachers are automatically eligible to be Senators and vice versa.

Class Name	"Teacher"
1001 Ways To Kill A Man	Senator Doom
Advanced Cowardice: Looking Pathetic To Not Be Worth Others' Time & Effort	Senator Chicken
Back In the Old Days	Senator Get Off My Lawn
Building A Better Horde Guarding Dungeon	Senator Horder
Crafting False Personas	Senator Survival of the Cutest
Creative Writing: How To Tell A Taller Tale	Senator Get Off My Lawn
Crotchety Old Whining For Fun & Profit	Senator Get Off My Lawn
Cuteness For Fun & Profit	Senator Survival of the Cutest
Demoralization & Tyranny: How To Keep The Little Guy Down And Not Be Overthrown	Senator Megalomania
Economics: The True Pure Evil	Senator Sparklesucker
Epic Man Cooking	Senator Machismo
Fashionista Styles: Making This Look Good	Senator Flirt
Frickin' Magical Brew Brewing	Senator Wasted
Guerilla Warfare	Senator Greenwar
Holding Your Liquor	Senator Wasted
How Civilization Is Killing The Universe	Senator Greenwar
Interior Cave Design	Senator Horder
Maintaining Webs Of Lies	Senator Survival of the Cutest
Playing The Race Card	Senator Zombie Apocalypse
Sarcasm & Sass	Senator Trap
Seduction	Senator Flirt
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness	Senator Doom
Sex Appeal & Marketing	Senator Flirt
Showboating: How To Be A Real Man	Senator Machismo
The Spirit Of The Law & Why You're Doing It Wrong	Senator Holier Than Thou
Stalking & Espionage	Senator Sparklesucker
Survival 101: How To Run Away	Senator Chicken
Swindling: How To Exaggerate Value	Senator Horder
Tactics: Pack Hunting	Senator Greenwar
Talking Big	Senator Megalomania
Throwing Kick Ass Parties	Senator Wasted
Torture 101	Senator Megalomania
Toying With Prey	Senator Here Kitty Kitty
Undead Superiority	Senator Zombie Apocalypse
Vampiric Ethics	Senator Sparklesucker
What You Can Do For God, You Ungrateful Parasite	Senator Holier Than Thou
Why You Should Feel Collective Guilt If You're Not A Zombie	Senator Zombie Apocalypse
The World Is Going To End And How It Might Happen	Senator Doom
Xtreme Physical Education!	Senator Machismo
Zen-Not-Giving-A-Care	Senator Trap

The Prinny Hideout (run by Legendary Senator Goldleaf) is a place where the Senators, Prinnies and other unfortunates may post jobs that they cannot, or more likely are too lazy to, complete. Anyone can take a request, in fact, multiple people can take the same request which often leads to a battle royale or wild goose chase to complete it as few quest providers have multiple rewards and rewards are always first come first serve. In fact signing up is typically done only as a challenge to others who might want to attempt the same request. Most people just fulfill it and come back with proof (or for those requesters who are overly trusting, simply tell them they have done it) and take the reward.

Requests come in the following format:

Subject: The name of the request. Be catchy, or functional like an e-mail subject.
Provider: The person who is asking for help.
Request: The specific thing or task the provider is requesting.
Reward: Why other people care. What the provider will give them for fulfilling the request.

To make a request just comment to this post with that information. The following text area has been provided for your convenience.

Subject: Provider: Request: Reward:

Now get to work you lazy bums so other people can be lazy...!

As part of your life at Netheworld Academy you will mandatory have to join a club ... sort of. You see, true honor student demons don't socialize or have 'friendships,' at best they have minions. No, that's really at best, minions are great, you can get to do all sorts of things you'd rather not. In addition, many demons are contrary and telling them that they have to be a member of club is a great way to ensure that most of them do their best to not be in one.

All this adds up to the following fact, there is currently one club at Netherworld Academy: The Going Homers. Members of this club don't stay after school to join in club activities, but instead do whatever they want, which is usually going home. Club meetings typically consist of them congregating at the shuttle stop to go back to the dorm, ignoring each other because they don't know one another.

The Dark Assembly likes this club because it has no leader and no guidance, meaning there's no one in it to request club funding. In fact, the cliques of demons enjoying each others' company or hobbies that you might think would have become clubs are not clubs almost solely because the Dark Assembly is stingy and hasn't approved their requests to form a club. They clearly didn't bribe the senators well enough. But perhaps you could be different, and we could have clubs again.

Current Clubs
Going Homers

Unlike most places, in the Netherworld crime is a way of life. Felonies are then badges of honor, like trophies or achievements (they even come with plaques)! Felonies are common enough that they garner no special benefit, but many demons will garner a certain respect for those whose notoriety speaks for itself.

Upon committing such acts, a prinny may find you (wherever you are) and deliver your felony. We recommend updating your status screen.

A list of example felonies you might strive for is below.

Annoying the Dark Assembly
App Too Long
Being a Creeper
Being an Honor Student
Being Lina Inverse
Being Too Powerful
Being Too Rich
Burninating the Countryside/Peasants
Catastrophic Betrayal
Excessive Brown Nosing
Excessive Property Damage
Excessive Whining
Excessive Attendance
Grand Theft Everything
Hand in Cookie Jar
Helping a Prinny... dood
Lootering
Not Appreciating Legendary Room
Refusal to Pay Old Treebeards Lawn Tax
Sparkly Vampire
Super Dickery
Sold Brooklyn Bridge
Status Screen Out of Date
Tink's Existence
Too Many Felonies
Whipped by Girlfriend
...and more!

The Academy is composed of three major buildings: the dormitories, the main school building, and the 'Administrative Palace.' All of these buildings joined by the school grounds, which has the classic Netherworld garden look of a spoooooooky forest~

The entirety of the Academy is part way up the mountains. It is said that the caves and peaks of the mountains above are home to totally unfairly over powered monsters. At the bottom of the mountain is the local college town, Bashrivet.

The Grounds

Full of barren trees with gaping maws of woody teeth, the grounds' animate, undead trees cares for itself, if somewhat poorly. While much of grounds is composed of animate dead wood, it is not entirely bleak, and there is some greenery. The dark mists of the mountains cover the grounds in a perpetual fog, though the severity of the fog can change drastically and swiftly. Sometimes it's just a bit chilly, but easy to see, and on occasion it gets as thick as thick as pea soup. Students sometimes get lost in the mists, but the establishment officially states that they are not responsible in any way. It's in the school admission contract.

To help students get around the grounds, there are stone paths marked by dreary lamp posts, and the occasional rickety sign that may or may not have been vandalized.

Of special note upon the grounds is the academy hedge maze. It is shrouded in mystery; no one is quite sure of what is inside, as the hedge mazes' illusory magic plays tricks upon those within. It is said, though, that at least one gang of unruly students has made it their secret head quarters.

The School Building

The main school building is a poorly maintained building of creaky wood, cold stone floors, and broken windows. You can thank your fellow demonic students for that last one.

In its ancient history, the academy was built of earthy materials by wood golems, the monstrous race most concerned with Netherworld ethics and morality. But seeing as attending classes in the Netherworld is an act of delinquency and social deviance, the stodgy old wood golems saw fit to make the building an obstacle to attending classes. There were grand plans once of pit traps, secret doors, moving halls, and really bad elevator music, but prinny labor is lazy and of inconsistent quality, so for the most part the building is merely large and poorly laid out. Unfortunately, a few of the traps, and worse: the elevator music did make it in, and due to the building's bizarre acoustics, sometimes it can be heard in the halls, and even in class.

Due to the awkward layout, new students have a tendency to get lost, and it is common for other students to sell maps of the building.

The school building is also the home of the nurses' office and cafeteria. The characters may be relieved to discover that food in the Netherworld is fairly ordinary. Demons like good food. Gluttony is a virtue here. They may however find the occasional... 'exotic' delicacy. Still, all in all it is the food of a school cafeteria: palatable at best.

The school building is also where characters will find the academy's Dimensional Gate. Normally intended for field trips, the gate can be used by characters to go to many places in the Netherworld, but cannot be used to get home.

The Gym Complex

Detached at a good distance from the main building is the school athletic complex, constructed at great expense for sports nobody plays and to funnel money from the school's coffers into the pockets of the administration and the Dark Assembly. 90 out of every hundred hel used in it's construction have gone to bribes and shell companies, with obvious results. It's centerpiece is a football stadium that seats almost 200,000 demons, but is sadly lacking in actual seats or indeed a team to play in. And that's international football, you American scum. Other venues are similarly dilapidated and incomplete-the squash courts are missing the critical back wall, the equestrian field lacks in grass and is a sea of mud, and the swimming pool is actually the apartment of a famous shark-reporter.

Until recently, the Gym was used by a clan of native ninja to control all ninja-related activities in the netherworld, but they recently vacated the property. Time will tell if new caretakers will arise from the student body.

Makeup Exam Tower

Noteworthy for it's towering construction that is never finished, Makeup Exam Tower is the location for all test-retakes in the school. It is exactly one classroom wide and deep, but is entirely filled with mortar as each floor is completed-a notation error means that the tower has infinite height as designed, and it currently features 107 floors. Most of it's lower structure is therefore emergency buttresses and scaffolding to support the precarious construction project-and on windy days, blocks of stone will plummet from the sky to strike the unwary or knock more holes in the main school building.

The Dean has started a betting pool as to which direction the tower will fall in when it collapses-on top of the dorms is currently the most popular choice.

The Administrative Palace

Looming over from the highest point on the campus, the Administrative Palace stands out as being a remarkably well kept array of ivory towers. These towers and the building that joins them are separated from the ordinary students by a treacherous moat and drawbridge, but, seeing as that is not nearly enough to deter many demons, the moat is home many cranky creatures.

In addition to being where the Dean and his associates perform their work shirk off responsibilities, the palace is home to the Dark Assembly, which has run the school ever since that dreadful year the permanently drunk Baciel Party made a power play and took charge of the budget committee.

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Taken Characters

Canon	Character Name	Title
Ar Tonelico	Mir	Neo Pureblood-β Reyvateil
Condemned 2: Bloodshot	The Alcohol Demon	The Alcohol Demon?
Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories	Rozalin	Incarnate Overlord
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice	Kyoko Needleworker	Raspberyl's Lackey
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice	Mao	Dean Overlord
Disgaea 3	Raspberyl	No. 1 Delinquint
How To Train Your Dragon	Ruffnut Thorston	Viking Thug
Kick Ass (Movie)	Mindy Macready AKA Hit Girl	John Rambo Meets Polly Pocket
Mahou Sensei Negima	Setsuna Sakurazaki	Crushing Bodyguard
Mahou Sensei Negima	Konoka Konoe	Convenient cheery White Mage
Makai Kingdom	Zetta	Badass Overlord
Makai Wars	Asagi Asagiri	Despairing Cameo
Original Canon	Himiko	Hungry Sleepy Queen
Original Canon	Nelia	Knight of the Golden Rose
Touhou Project	Tewi Inaba	Flim-Flam Bunny
Worlds of Chrestomanci	Gwendolen Chant	Charmy Little Witch

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The Nurses' Office an austere and sterile facility of medical miracles. Suspiciously next to the cafeteria kitchen, it is run by the school nurse, Hello Nurse (her parents were very controlling over her life and had the subtlety of a hurled brick). Hello Nurse will be the cure for all that ails the student body ... and sometimes the cause.

Whether you have just a hang over, or have lost millions of HP, Hello Nurse can cure you ... for a price. She can even bring you back from the dead. Against your will, even. Don't worry, payment plans are available (at "varying" interest rates). If you are dead, don't worry, she will take care of you, and by the terms of use of the Nurses' Office you shall end up assuming responsibility for all costs accrued.

In the event that you cannot pay, she will find a way to recoup the loss, be it through blood donations, organ donations, or mad medical experiments. Try not to fall too far into debt with her; rumor has it that she has an agreement with the cafeteria, and that those who fall too far behind are assigned to sessions of "kitchen duty," and never seen again.

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