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 GroundsFull 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 BuildingThe 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 ComplexDetached 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 TowerNoteworthy 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 PalaceLooming 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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