School For The Troubled (Immortal/Mortal IC)

[BigBullCrocker]

Hajime just sat looking dreary eye'd as a Koala on the weekends during summer. He stuck his feet up on the chair in front again before taking not of what everyone looked like. The only guy he hadn't seen before was the weird guy wearing what most people on the internet call a 'swag-fag' especially with the V-neck. He started squinting his eyes at people trying to see their jist. He never really cared about a 'dorm' but if it was a place to sleep then he was all for it. He took a macadamia from his pocket and smashed it in his hands using his thumb and his index finger before eating the inside of it.

[mskennedy615]

Joanie sighed as she looked around them all, everyone seeming aloof and bored. How could any of them possibly hold they keys? All she knew was that they'd better give it up, or they'd be the first ones to die. But then again, how did she know that Sebastian didn't have it? This could all just be one huge trick. Even so, Joanie decided to play along anyways, and glanced over at the boy who she had once saw shaking.
Maybe he had the key.

She didn't know what he was, but was probably by far the weakest. Maybe that was Sebastian's mind set, so give it to someone who would be least expected to. So, she stood up and walked over to him, putting her hands on her hips.
"You don't happen to have the key, do you?" She asked in a nice tone which she was sure would turn ugly if he denied it. That, or she would just have to go ask someone else. Then, it would get really ugly.

[BigBullCrocker]

Hajime started to hear talking. Anarchy could break loose if the teacher didn't handle this right. But what did he care? His sleeping room's key was in the pockets of one of these bastards. He heard Joanie accusing Sebastian
"That sounds like the words of someone with the key, accusing the nervous kid and all." He took his earphones out she might take offence to this. Which might be fun, he was of course a demon who was basically made to fight.

[Yoyo]

Well this is going to be a bloodbath, Lucas thought, chuckling at the irony of his own statement. He looked around the room, at every student and their movements. But it was pointless, unless they had known each other for some time, it would be virtually impossible for any one of them to truly deduce who had the keys. Anyone could be innocent just ask much as anyone could have the keys.

Lucas turned his head at Hajime's statement, "It could be anyone, even the nervous kid." He said bluntly, but he knew better. He could see it in Hajime's laid back state, he was just trying to provoke the girl, he didn't need to be a detective to figure that much out.

[BiHeathen]

Jesse laid back on the wall and crossed his arms, hearing what Sebastian had to say about the dorm keys and them being with someone in the classroom. Great. He had to interrogate someone just so he could have somewhere to sleep and not be bothered. He knew he could hide his emotions really well, but he didn't know about anyone else. He just had to use his witch intuition to scope the person out. He giggled to himself and muttered "interesting" as a few people already started getting paranoid and interrogating others. For all he knew, this could be a simple test and no one could have the keys. Either way, he knew none of them were going to get out of the classroom until the activity was over and Jesse just wanted it to be done with. He just listened in on the others talking amongst one another and just kept to himself. Even though it might make him look very suspicious, he really had nothing to say yet. He wasn't one to just go in and attack. He studied first. And in this given situation, if he knew exactly who had the key, he knew exactly what to do to make sure he or she had it. It was an Interrogation technique his father taught him before he was killed. Harmless, but very effective.

[SilverRain]

Sebastian watched the students discussing amongst themselves, making notes along the way. He grinned to himself as he heard their conversation. It seemed they all had made the same mistake. Not that it would be bad against them, but it did put things onto a tangent. Then the discussion seemed to die down. His students seemed hesitant to move either because they did not know who to suspect or they did not want to bring attention to themselves.

Sebastian looked at the clock and then addressed them. "Submit a majority vote to me in the next 10 minutes or nobody gets the dorm keys"

[mskennedy615]

Joanie just rolled her eyes. "I'm just asking politely, that doesn't mean I have the key. Besides, what if he has the keys all along? He could be tricking us, him having the keys all along. We shouldn't just trust anybody, then we would all just get angry at each other for no apparent reason." She said, looking at Hajime. "I think that is the answer. Do you agree or no? Cause if you don't i would really love to hear a better idea." She said, becoming irritated. She sort of believed her words, not fully knowing what was coming out of her mouth.
"I'm saying, maybe nobody in here has the keys, none of the students that is." She said, sighing and sitting back in her chair.

[SilverRain]

Sebastian watched the class start to point fingers and lash out a few threats. Others were a bit quieter though, preferring to let the rest do the work for them. Sebastian was pleased in that it didn’t turn into a full blown war in the classroom – that would be asking for death itself, But he did wish they would strategise a bit more amongst themselves before reaching a stalemate. The whole class was quiet by now and no one wanted to accuse anyone else.

It was mostly as he expected, either the strongest or weakest would be suspected first and in this case it was the weakest. Then the attackers would become attacked. The rest would just sit back and watch, trying to blend into the background and hope they don’t eventually end up as targets. Then everyone just stopped, afraid of attracting more attention to themselves.

The interesting point was that the majority of the students thought that the keys were present in the room when Sebastian had specifically said that it was not. A common misconception. It was no surprise that the brain would make the necessary assumptions to make things easier to sort out. It would only be bad when detrimental assumptions were made.

Sebastian stood up and explained the above to the class.

Next he proceeded to reveal the results. “Hajime is the one who was assigned the keys, but he played it low. Jesse, I admire how you were able to stay calm even when you were under scrutiny. And Joanie, I can see you becoming a leader one day. Lucas and Violet, both of you are strategic thinkers, who prefer a passive approach rather than active like the others. Each student’s strategy here is neither right or wrong, though you can already see how they work and where they can work”