Academy of evil and indifference
Somewhere in the middle of one of the few cities left, there is this forest surrounded by a tall barred fence. There is only one gate to enter it, but is usually open and the road is in good conditions. There is something welcoming about the whole thing, despite the bars.
If you follow the road, you will find a four story building. The walls are,or seem to be, solid rock and the design follows an unsual style. It has lots of huge windows and the tall wooden doors are usually open.
There is no sign to tell strangers what they can find in the building or who owns it, and many make the mistake of thinking that there is no harm in getting a little closer to find out.
If they ask, tough, anyone in the city will tell them that "that's the evil school, stay as far as you can!".
Structure
Unlike most of the organizations left, the school has a very clear and solid structure—one that many students love to challenge or enforce.
Officially, the higher authority is the principal, and she has her way to use, abuse, and bolster her power over the staff and the students.
For obvious reasons, she has little control over the cook and the janitor, whose places in the hierarchy are next to the principal even if their authority is not as wide as hers.
Right under the principal, the counselor, doctor and nurses dictate the movement of students and may prohibit some activities. Their patients are expected to show complete obedience. The responsibility they show in their work is such that you would think they follow the old ethical codes.
Teachers are next in hierarchy, as the only rulers in their respectives classrooms where the principal could, but would never interfere. Each of them is free to establish an internal structure for the students in their classes.
Out of classes, though, students are classified by their grades, abilities, goals and origins:
Those who have poor grades in many classes, aka the Dying ones, are at the bottom.
Next go the regular students, too ordinary to have their own demonym but more fun to annoy than the previous group; some teachers may even be open to the idea of giving them special instruction to help them improve.
The next step in the ladder are the students who specialize in different areas, and are classified according to them. Artists, mad scientists, witches and scammers are the only groups that last, but others may be formed by certain brilliant students and disappear after they graduate. When there are enough members of one of these categories, they may determine an internal hierarchy that is usually ignored by everyone else—except in the case of scammers, their inner ranks are usually related to the power they have over the rest of the school.
If their grades or skills in other areas are poor, they will need to stand out in their specialties to avoid expulsion and even then they are at risk of being treated as ordinary by their peers.
Occasionally, the higher rank among all students of the school, belongs to an overachiever who exceeds the expectatives in many areas of expertise. It's a rare exception, though.
More often than not the higher ranks are reserved for students whose origins or goals are exceptional. Those who come from unexpected places and manage to succeed at school, as well as those who are keeping up with a big family tradition, are usually part of the elite even if their grades are poor in most classes. The same goes for any student able to scare their classmates.
To the eyes of most teachers, what really matters is the student’s goals: the ambitious, greedy and innovative get all sorts of exception and a lot of attention from school’s teachers and authorities.
Public Agenda
The Academy follows the same principle that our society is built on: everyone can follow their dreams and get what they want.
Of course, that's only true for those capable of taking what they want from the cold dead—or dying—hands of the previous owner, to the disgrace of anyone who needs the same thing they happen to want. Only those who know how to do that survive in our world, but even less have what’s needed to thrive.
The Academy of Evil and Indifference, helps those with real potential to really get anything and everything they may want.
Yes, yes. The short version is that they create villains. Yes I could have started with that. I just didn't want to.
Assets
Is it presumptuous to say that the school owns a building? Yes. But it’s not like somebody can come and take it from them, so it's also the truth. They own things. The fence around the Academy's is not for decoration, is a warning to intruders, like those that people used to have back in the XXI century.
In their building, they keep all kinds of tools, weapons, and luxury items. They even keep a record of those items, but those change quite often as new equipment is acquired or developed by students or Academy's benefactors. The source and methods of acquisition are included in the record, as well as a note of when and how they are lost or damaged.
History
When the Law of Tolerance was instaurated, part of the expected outcome was the disappearance of all hierarchical, judgeful and bullying-friendly institutions. And even before that, everyone knew that this kind of environment was certainly not the right place for people to learn, especially not for teenagers.
When the school opened its doors, it wasn't exactly welcomed.
The youngest, usually open to change and ready to accept some rules for the sake of human survival, thought that it was too dangerous to reunite a bunch of kids and teach them how to crush others for their own benefit or delight. The eldest, those who had lived or heard of the dangers of the old ways, considered it regression and disaproved it in an instant.
Too bad that the law demanded them to tolerate it, and the founders of the school didn't mind to hear that they were wrong. After all, in the first principal's words: "wrong and evil are translated to the same word in a couple of languages, we aim to be wrong almost as passionately as our critics want to believe that they aren't".
So they continued to follow an organized law of the jungle, filled with double standards, confusing rules, praising some types of violence and judging others based on random and ever changing principles. Only the bright and the cruel can keep their spot in the Academy.
You can have anything and everything you want!
Maps
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Academy of Evil and Indifference
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