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Information about the various Faculties of Alliance High School and the surrounding town.

A full list of offered courses, clubs, and extracurriculars. Also includes jobs for characters who need that extra cash. Not mandatory at all.

The male dormitories, kitchen, and lounge reside a short walk from the Campus Main and a 15 minute walk from Downtown Umarok.

The ivy-ridden exterior gives way to a surprisingly modern inner lounge, kitchen, and living quarters.

The Gender Queer housing is one of Alliance's victories. Transgendered, transsexual, androgynous, and general gender queers are welcome in the most unique dorm on campus. One of the newest buildings, the GQ dorm was designed by an Alliance graduate architect - glossy white contours and Escher-esque stairways litter the puzzling dormitory.

All three dormitories are connected by walkways that run through the Sky Lounge, a glass walled common room elevated three stories above the ground by an artistic collaboration of beams and columns. The Sky Lounge is freckled with couches, easy chairs, study desks, and a cabinet filled with board, card, and floor games. Faculties often 'claim' the lounge for their events, as its view is one of the best in Umarok.

Here people can sign up to host a pre-freshman or perspective student over a night or weekend, and new characters can sign up to be hosted.

Teachers and administration all have offices on the third floor of the central building. The Headmaster's Office is accessible via an oaken door at the end of the hallway. A chimera is etched into the wood, decorated in filigree.

{The Headmaster's Office | Faculty Offices}

The clinic is a place of pastel walls contrasted against dry white beds and sanitized silver equipment. Students are always welcome for simple checkups and over the counter medicines, but the clinic is also capable of handling more severe injuries and illnesses.

Alliance's library is home to many locked doors and private collections. It isn't rare to see a well dressed investor disappearing behind one such door, though it is rare to see them leave with anything but perplexity on their faces. The library is shaped like a bee hive, four stories tall with an open atrium that goes all the way up. The librarian, Monsieur Dejuis, has an eerily encyclopedic knowledge of seemingly every book, reference, and location - and a bad habit of hearing any sound over 20 hz, no matter its volume.

{The Computer Lab | The Alcove | The Fourth Floor}

The Alliance dining room hearkens directly back to its foundations as a private academy. Gothic architecture and carvings reminisce of Cambridge or Oxford line the walls. Solid, circular wooden tables pepper the floor, but can be cleared away for dances and special events. The cafeteria stands behind paneled doors that disappear into the wall when closed. Mystery meat is never an issue. In fact, if one makes friends with the chef, they might be able to sneak midnight snacks or extra helpings of chilled fruit soups.

Classrooms vary greatly at Alliance High. Some, like the science and computer laboratories, are stocked with the highest caliber equipment that some universities would envy. Others, like the lecture rooms for history and math, still share the old, worn, familiar feel of wooden desks and sliding green chalkboards.

The auditorium is a staple of school spirit assemblies and all manner of theatric and classic display. The spring musical draws a wide audience from the surrounding area, while the comedy night every month attracts a rather different demographic.

{Light & Sound Booth | Balcony | Backstage | Dressing Room | Seats | The Pit}

Pep rallies, basketball tournaments, and the occasional game of dodgeball are all signature to the gymnasium. Two double doors in the far corner lead to a stock room of balls, nets, paddles, ropes, targets, scooters, parachutes, stretching equipment, and gymnastic pads.

The basement of the main building is home to the arts: dark room, graphics lab, and drawing and production studios. A few dark, disused hallways branch off from the central cluster of rooms, but most people don't have cause or desire to traverse them.

{The Bathrooms | Art Studio | Dark Room}

The recording studio and practice rooms are haven to band, choir, and orchestra kids, as well as the occasional dreamer who wants a future as a rockstar or the 13 year old freak prodigy. Sound boards, amps, mixers, keyboards, and a drum set circle around the main desk.

The Campus Main forms a U shape, with the vast green quad occupying its belly. Wooden benches, stone pathways, and winding trees provide an idyllic setting. Frisbee players, sun bathers, and open-booked scholars instill a contemporary feel.

Behind the Campus Main and before the forested countryside lies the underground tomb of Colonel Mario Perin. Wild Lady's Slippers grow in the shaded stream at the hill's base, one of the secret delights of the spring.

{Perin's Tomb}

The walk connects the Campus Main to the dormitories. Lined in old aspens whose roots stubbornly crack the concrete path, it begins beneath the Sky Lounge and ends at the quad. Faculties often come here to advertise, recruit, or run fundraisers. All the latest events and a few shadier flyers are posted on one particular aspen commonly referred to as the "Calling Pole".

Umarok is known for its garden and wildlife. Alliance High has an impressive expanse of various themed gardens, walkways, and even a vineyard that is open for student perusal. Daring students beware: the winery, however, is not.

{The Green House | The Rose Ruin | The Japanese Garden | The Pine Grove | The Old Shed | The Winery}

The fingerlakes are known for their pristine beauty: stunning foliage, beautiful waterfalls, and endless gorges. Constant hills and cliffs make bridges a necessity, and a huge variety map across the Alliance grounds like web working.

{The Suspension Bridge | The Broken Bridge | Many Bridges Trail}

Velavir (Velavier, to some) is nature's equivalent to a madwoman. The paths through the forest are many and wandering. One of the reasons for curfew is the surprising number of students who've been lost in the forest, some for days. At times Velavir is alive with filtered sunlight, chirping birds, and the occasional flag of a startled white tailed deer. At other times, Velavir is a grasping labyrinth of ancient pines and ghastly whistling wood chinks.

Rumors say that enough wandering in the forest will bring one, eventually and with more than a little luck, to the front door of a stunning cottage that looks something out of a fairy tale. It's called the Heasmaster's Cottage, though evidence to affirm this name is scarce. Wildflowers surround the twisting, winding cottage, littered in turrets, alcoves, half floors and winding gingerbread lacing. Mossy window boxes overflow with alyssum, carefully cultivated amidst the wilds of the wood.

The Athletics Grounds focus around the Alliance High Stadium, home of the Pandas. Alliance is known for its broad range of athletics, so it isn't uncommon to find archery equipment, caving and climbing harnesses, and the occasional speedo amongst the jock straps.

{Tennis Courts | Track | Stadium}

Sidled away from the main street, a series of apartments ride up a steep hillside to its crest. Each one has a unique front - the perfect opposite of the new residential area. The numbers, should anyone stop to check, skip house number 27.

{The Kennel | Casa de Diran | Monsieur Dejuis' Suite}

The Rodeo is a relatively small club, its name garnered from the mechanical bull just to the side of the dance floor. Despite its size, the club attracts an unnatural number of visitors. Its style and DJ are ever changing, but rarely a disappointment. Black Light Night happens once a month, and always creates a line.

{The Dance Floor | Backroom A | Backroom B | Backroom C}

Illiad Street is the "hotel center" of Umarok, with many different hotels for visitors to choose from, though some students also rent rooms for other purposes. The lobbies may be rented out for parties and events.

The main street of Umarok splits in half around the green, forming an almost perfect circle of quaint, quirky shops. Some of them seem to change every few months as businesses rise and fall, but several have existed, it's said, since the very founding of the town.

{O'Malley's General Store | Desirae | Sweets 'n' Treats | Riwind | Bubble Brook Pet Store | The Scholar's Toad | Blockbuster | Five Inch Flats | Mable's}

The Green is the center of Umarok, a broad circle of open grass with a white gazebo at its center and patches of gardens spaced evenly along the perimeter. Sidewalks act as spokes on the wheel: a perfect location for a leisurely stroll.

{The Gazebo | The Climbing Tree | The Clocktower}

ˇYo quiero Taco Bell!

What else is there to say? Open all night, Taco Bell never tastes better than it does at 2 AM.

Be it decorating dorms, scrounging for cheap food, or hunting for the only Wii shipped to Umarok in three months, Target fulfills most practical living requirements. Consequently, it also hires of-age students.

The only common residential area outside of the curious apartments downtown and the dormitories is a small subdivision called New Glen. Many teachers and staff members make their home here, though some find it far too 1950's for comfort. Green laws, tidied gardens, 2.5 children, and one golden retriever come standard with each lot.

{The Wooden Playground | The Train Tracks | Firefly Field}

A multitude of hills makes for a multitude of valleys, and, with the addition of rivers: gorges. The gorges of Umarok can be stunning - moss covered rock cliffs crowned in tree groves and falling down to shimmering water and dark stone. But the gorges can be dangerous as well - only those with something to prove try and reach the top or - from the top - dive back down into the bottom.

Eulia River cuts through Umarok and disappears into Velavir. A comparatively well-tended path runs alongside the river, though residents much prefer to walk in the cool riverbed during the summer months. Curious locations speckle its length, and are well worth investigation for any outdoorsy sorts.

{Eulia Lake | The Rope Swing | The Daffodil Patch | The Bramble Patch}

Named for the enormous boulders with black, tortoise-shell patterned veins, the field is a favorite destination for countryside hikers and a welcome landmark for anyone who finds their way out of Velavir farther away than they expected.

The Big Green Barn is actually the Alliance Stables, far, far from the school itself but not inaccessible. The stables and fields occupy the largest expanse of flat land in Umarok. Yearling colts and spring fillies dance in their paddocks, while well-trained geldings of various breeds are ridden both for competition and pleasure.

This board is a free for all of locations in Umarok. If it doesn't fit anywhere else, stick it here.

If characters are outside Umarok, place the thread here.