ooooo this looks cool- can i join?//

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Absolutely! Feel free to fill out a character sheet! I'm still getting some things finished up but otherwise I think we're just about ready to jump in :D )))

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he's made! >:DD
im not really creative with names so his name's matteo too//

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Jax had just gotten off the phone with his mom as he shuffled into the cramped hall they were holding orientation for the Freshmen in. It was a fairly large, old auditorium with a full curtained stage lit up with a podium. As classmates filed in and found seats where they could, Jax couldn't help but feel out of place among the faces around him; it was clear some people were friends from high school continuing their friendship into college together. He wished he had that, hell he wished he knew anyone from his high school here, even some of the jerks that bullied him. But through all her worrying, mom was right, this was a fresh start for me, and life certainly isn't like High School. All the drama and clicks disappear as we become young adults for the first time. Then Bang just like that something hits him in the back of the head, he turns around to see a group of guys laughing from their game of keep away or what-not.
'Well... most of us... become young adults...' he thought to himself turning his attention back to the stage as someone in a suit stepped out and took the podium.
"Alright students, alright. Thank you for joining us today! If you could all settle down and take your seats we shall begin." The elder gentleman spoke with a firm but kind voice capturing everyone's attention and having the room move to a hush. "That's better, again thank you students for joining us. It's wonderful to see another year of such a large class of bright young faces. You each have a great talent and...." that's about the point Jax tuned out the speaker. It was mostly politics to make us all feel important and like the small fortune we're spending here is the best decision in the world. Of course they'd say things like this, have they seen the price of tuition lately? Though judging on the room, some of these east coast kids are only here because their rich families couldn't bribe them into better schools.
By the time his mind wandered around and caught back up he'd just barely noticed the speaker switched to someone else in a suit who'd apparently been going on about the history of the campus. He'd read this all already in the welcome paperwork sent with the acceptance letter, and had been curious enough to already be signed up in the app to learn more. Not that it wasn't all boring, there are rumors that the school is haunted if you believed in that sort of thing. Jax preferred to think it was just a small hook to get more people to apply to a smaller old university. After all, Steven King himself wrote in similar forests that surround the university; they're no more than a dark muse.

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zero was sitting in the back of this auditorium, just sorta staring at people because he was bored and didn't bother paying attention to the speaker up front, he could barely understand what they were saying, either way.
his brown eyes floating around the large echoey room, he vision eventually floated back to the speaker, and he spaced out again somehow, extremely tempted to pull out his sketchbook and start drawing, but no. that's rude
he somehow managed to listen to the speaker again, the same thought pounding into his skull, how much am i paying for this again?

(sorry if it's bad, im a bit rusty lmao)

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(you did great I'll probably be worse lol because my dyslexia squishes everything together so it's all one jumbled mess and makes my head hurt lol. So my responses are usually short and not essays 🤣)


Zak had just said bye to his family when he turned around and walked up the stairs to the college taking in all the sights and sounds as he noticed how decayed and eroded the wood and stone was on the auditorium but the patchwork stained glass drew his attention back to the reason he was at this building.... Freshman orientation. He walked into the auditorium and quickly realized that this was going to be boring so he sat down in the corner and took out his camera and took a picture of the new Dean of the college. The flash of the camera fell on sleeping eyes and woke most of the people around him up. he quickly sat back down and took in how the auditorium resembled an old church and the stained glass outside confirmed his theory.

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(I'll also shorten it up lol figured to set the scene I needed some room lol. I'm so excited thank you guys!)

Jax was broken by his thoughts as the room slowly clapped for the speaker as he exited and two much younger people stepped out the claps grew into excitement. Still a little dazed he begun to clap too though he hadn't a clue who these people were. They took the podium and in their best spirit-week voices explained their roles as leaders of the Greek culture on campus. Due to the sheer size of the campus, it was hard to have any clubs or extra activities that weren't at least partially involved with the fraternities and sororities; they seemed like the old money sorts and likely funded most of the University. The room seemed to liven up as they cracked some jokes about their respective houses and started going into the fun of the rest of our orientation week; on and off campus activities all ending with a homecoming celebration Friday evening. Murmurs of hushed excitement and chatter erupted around him as the two continued on with finally something fun. Jax could hear the boys behind him talking about how the frat houses throw a banger of a party and how wasted they'd all get. Before he got a chance to scoff at their bro high fives, the lights in the auditorium suddenly clicked off. The room left in a gasp and then silence as the attention turned back to stage where a candle is being lit, casting a dim glow on the bottom of the people's faces still standing at the podium.
"However.... be this ye only warning!" the gentleman on stage spoke in a loud but much deeper voice than before "There are dark things on this campus, remaining in these sanctimonious halls is an honor, not a privilege."
The girl spoke up in a much creepier and less upbeat voice than before, "You will hear many stories that will stick with you, follow you...." She paused and looked to the candle brushing her hand over the flame, "But so long as you keep an eye on the light...." She said a little quieter, Jax could feel people leaning in their seats in anticipation.
"YOU'LL MISS WHAT'S LURKING IN THE DARK!" voices all around them suddenly erupted, from the aisles older classmen dressed in all black wearing various demon looking masks jumped at the young freshmen sitting nearest to them. Jax had to cover his ears to block out the shrilling screams of girls especially freaking out by the scare prank. Then laughter as the lights clicked back on and everyone realized what was going on.
"No just kidding, see you kids at Hell Week! Be safe and have fun!" The guy on stage waved as the girl blew out the candle and they turned to exit. "Remember the clubs are set up on the Quad until 5!" she waved goodbye to them as the demons in the aisles slithered back out of sight.
Slowly the room emptied as students ushered themselves to the quad, or back to their dorms, or wherever they wanted. Jax blinked getting back outside in the sun, letting his eyes adjust he adjusted his glasses admiring the stained glass and old architecture of the building. It was one of the reasons he chose to come to this school over his other choices. That and it was miles from home, he was glad for the independence.

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(so sorry for the late response and I'm sorry for such a short response my head has been hurting today and adding in the jumbled words isn't really helping 🤣)

In the back of the room Zak was stirring in his sleep as the Frat leaders stepped up onto stage and did their scare prank. He sprung up out of the corner breathing deep as he was awoken quickly by the loud screams from the girls he grabbed his satchel and his camera putting it back into it's case walking outside and towards the quad to go sign up for one of the frats. He looked all around the tables looking for one that would fit his class schedule and extracurriculars. He eventually ended up settling onto one that embraced the ghosts and wanted them to live peacefully instead of one that wanted to get rid of the ghosts and end the traditions and Hell week.

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(I'm sorry about your head! No worries! I swear I'm keeping it much shorter from here on out)

Jax took a deep breathe of fresh air his attention turning back to the last students filtering out of the building and the direction they were headed. Seemed like everyone sort of followed one another to the quad, also probably for the best of getting signed up where you want sooner. Luckily his idea of fun were a lot less popular and he felt no need to rush. He took in the atmosphere of the campus, wishing he'd grabbed his headphones but ultimately deciding against it. The way the wind rushed through all the trees around campus, and hearing the larger trees groan was pretty eerie even with the direct presence of lots of people on campus to help drown it out. Nearing the table for the creative writing club he signed up making decent small talk with the shy girl running the booth. He'd managed to have an escape for the conversation by saying he had other clubs to sign up for, he had a knack as coming across as rude and he hated that. And it wasn't a lie! He then headed to the book club corner and signed up as well, grabbing a pamphlet of upcoming readings and other recommendations.

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As Zak had finished signing up for his fraternity he walked back over to the club tables and signed up for the photography club and saw that the botany club had just started to set up after the orientation so he decided to go help them as he had nothing else better to do than go to the dorm and get settled but that could wait until afterwards. "Hey do y'all need a hand here or seems that most of your flyers are still in the box" he said giggling softly as he knelt down and picked up the stack of flyers and pamphlets and laid them out on the table. "That should work for now but if y'all need anything else email me or text me at this number" he said as he reached down into his satchel and got out a business card for his amateur photography business that he had over the summer

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Jax wandered the other tables seeing the other fun and weird clubs, the calls of the greek houses overshadowing most other booths. He ended up with a bundle of fliers and various free cheap swag and stickers of different clubs wanting new members. As he struggled with folding them up he felt his phone vibrating. Ugh his mom calling to probably check in again. He debated just putting it back in his pocket pretending he was too busy with the clubs to notice. She could leave a message he decided shoving his phone back in the pocket trying not to bump into other students. He'd rather be more worried about his academics, or maybe making a friend.

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Zak had just finished collecting the last booths swag and stickers when he accidentally bumped into a kid and made him drop some of his stuff "oh no are you ok I didn't see you there let me help grab your stuff and pick up your stickers and flyers." He said as he knelt down and picked up some of his stickers and papers. "I see you're also a freshman and in the same fraternity as me. Would you like to go hang out some time and maybe have some lunch or have a study session?" He said smiling as their eyes met

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Jax had once again gotten caught in his thoughts he had barely caught up with what happened and whom he bumped into. Grabbing the dropped items he fixed his glasses and cleared his throat, gosh it felt like he hadn't really spoken today. "Oh erm. No worries." He smiled at the classmate. "T-that actually sounds great!" He couldn't believe his luck. Stumbling for his phone he handed it over to enter his digits. He couldn't stop himself from blushing meeting his eyes.

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"great sounds like a date... Fudge erm I mean plan sounds like a plan" he said stuttering and blushing bright red now as he put his number into the kids phone. He finished giving all of the papers and merch back to the kid when he disappeared without a trace. Zak just wanted to get out of there and disappear as fast as possible, he had just developed his first college crush and he did not make a good first impression with him. He walked into the main dormitory system and looked for his assigned dorm from the application he sent in over the summer. Zak walked for what seemed like forever down the dark and stretching hallways until he found it already filled with the pictures, plants and empty enclosure he had sent before orientation now all he had to do was do the last finishing touches and it would be home for the next few years of his life.

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A genuine smile, both finding the flustered guy charming and glad to share the embarrassment with. It didn't hurt that he was incredibly attractive, he couldn't help looking into his eyes as long as he could before getting his phone back. Looking at the contact name he grinned and looked back up to greet him properly, but like that he was gone. ' Zak ' he thought to himself instead looking amongst the crowd for a sign of him. Mysterious... he liked that too. Looking back to his phone he noticed another missed call and a voicemail from his mom. UGH he didn't want to deal with that right now, not while he was feeling so good. Settling the butterflies in his stomach he decided a nice walk to his dorm was necessary, and a chat with his older sister to brag about the cute guy he ran into. She of course wanted details, of which were limited. "Ooooh, looks like you've got yourself a glass slipper there prince charming." his sister teased. "Now whatever you do, play it cool! She gave some of her classic dating advice and the conversation ended up interrupted by another call from mom. His sister gave him grief about how he shouldn't ignore her, saying something sweet and comforting about how she's likely just worried about her youngest growing up so fast. Luckily her speech went too long and Mom was sent to voicemail again. He promised he'd call her back once he'd gotten settled, speaking of he was rounding the dorm. Saying his goodbyes, he got into his sparse dorm room of basic furniture and some of his remaining boxes to unpack. Grabbing his headphones from his desk he turned on one of his favorite EDM playlists and got unpacking his few homely items. Thoughts of Zak filling his find mind now and again as he wondered when was the right time to reach out.

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