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TASK ONE. FIVE QUESTIONS! 

The break’s been fun, but it’s time to start gearing up for the new school year! Get yourselves in the mood for school by answering one, two, or all of these quick little interview questions. Who’s excited to be back for school?!

△ What have you been busying yourself with over the break? □ What did you miss the most about coming to work? ○ Is there anything you’re excited for in the coming school year? ☓ What are you least looking forward to about going back? ◇ Do you have any new school year resolutions? What are they?

HELLO HELLO HELLO Nik here! I’m beyond excited to get us all to our very first chapter in our new home away from home, but before that, I figured a quick task would help get us all back in the zone for our happy little AU. As mentioned above, you’re free to answer any or all of these questions for each of your characters, and you can do so in any way you want! It can be done in third person, first person, whatever you’re comfortable with, and responses can be as long or as short as you want — you can add pictures and graphics as well to spice up your posts!

TIMEFRAME: We can spend this week and the next working on these tasks, it’s chill. My initial end date is at September 3rd, Saturday, but this can be moved if you need more time!  At the end of the task period, our first ever chapter will be posted.

TAGS: #embershightask and any other task tags you want for your blog should work!

Have fun, everyone!

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CAN YOU HEAR IT? THAT’S THE SOUND OF SUMMER SAYING GOODBYE!

It's exactly one week before the start of a new school year, and everyone's in high spirits! ...Or so the supervisors would have you all think. You’ve been here for years, and you know the drill. A month or so before the start of the school year, teachers and staff are forcefully dragged back from a painfully short hibernation (unless you’ve had to teach summer classes, which, if that’s the case, my condolences) to start prepping for the new year. Now that you’ve only got seven days left, you know what’s in store for you: cramming, stress eating, guerilla department meetings. Everyone, and we mean everyone, needs to get everything ready for the first day of school. So finish those subject area calendars, rate those student teacher applications, wrap up those lesson plans, and tie those powerpoints up nicely with a bow  — it’s crunch time, baybee!!

Nik again!!! At long last, I’m so proud and excited and happy to welcome us all officially to our very first chapter in Embers High, our home away from home for however long we want it to be! I’ll be real with you guys, I have zero future plans and intend to just do whatever the hell with this using past experiences, so really, anything goes at this point. In contrast to what we’re about to be putting our poor characters through once again, everything here is just low pressure, lowkey, and all fun.

Now on to the events of the chapter itself! Other than the fact that it’s a week before the first day of school and is likely happening in late August, I say do with it whatever you wish! Set meetings, hang out in the faculty room, slack off, actually do the work  — whatever floats your boat! Have a single thread, have multiple! If you want to focus on outside school life for some threads too, do it! If you’re at a loss, though, here are some ideas for you:

Teachers can gossip about any wacky and/or controversial changes in their subject area, whether it be academic or not.

Student teachers can be touring around the school at this time, checking out where their assigned classroom for the year is going to be, and who their assigned mentors might be too.

Or you could always say this isn’t their first time at the rodeo and have them be hanging with folks they already bonded with from last time.

Decorating your classrooms (or offices, or cubicles!) with another person’s help is always a cool thing.

You can just be in your cubicle... actually doing your work. And also chit-chatting with someone else trying to do their work, maybe?

Or you could be at home or at the nearby bar with your fellow faculty and/or staff after school. It’s the time to define your relationships!

At the tail end of that in-character week, they could have a big faculty and staff meeting with Coin and Plutarch, maybe with a special guest appearance by The Superintendent. Anything goes!

That’s pretty much it! Have fun, and pop any questions in back at the server if there’s anything you need anyone’s opinion on!

TIMEFRAME: We do whatever we want here in Embers High. When we feel it’s time to move on, we move on. I’d give it a month or maybe even two, I dunno, there’s lots to do, and we’re busy people! If we want to get to the first day of school earlier, though, that can always be arranged, of course.

TAGS: #episode one, #chapter one, #crunch time, anything along those lines works!

Have fun! Enjoy! Do happy stuff! No judgement if you wanna keep doing angst, but... after the shit these people have just gone through, why would you? 🤪  

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WELCOME TO EMBERS HIGH!

They say high school gives you some of the best years of your life, but that little adage usually applies to the students, doesn’t it? Has anyone ever asked the kids who came back years later to teach in high school?

Join the very same sad hacks from the critically-acclaimed Embers RPG as they embark on a journey much, much removed from the one they were just in for a year and a half in actual book-canon Panem. This time, our friends find themselves in non-post-apocalyptic Panem, a made-up state in the land of the free, as faculty and staff members of dearly beloved Embers High, so-called number one high school in all of wherever it is they are in the Americas (feel free to project your favorite little suburban towns in this non-existent corner of the country).

From Victors and Escorts, here teachers and educators, the main characters of our little Hunger Games rewrite must now face mundane, real-life problems brought about by their place of employ, the folks who run it from their ivory towers, and the kids they’re paid to watch over and toil for day in and day out. Snow goes from terrible tyrant to occasional stressful presence, and instead of doing whatever the hell it is she’ll be doing come Ablaze, Coin is here, trying to keep the school from imploding to the best of her ability despite the constant impossible demands of said occasional stressful presence, with Plutarch around (and spoilers totally not captured like he was at the end of Embers) helping her do it.

This story answers the question “what if our characters weren’t so miserable”, as well as “what if we did The Office, but in a high school?” And it answers them very, very well.

Presenting Embers High, a school-place comedy that’s got less to do with the kids and all to do with the chumps that teach them.