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The Vulpine Hollow Community College is exactly what it sounds like: a college for residents of the Vulpine Hollow to continue their education to their heart's content. An extensive campus, good facilities, low cost, and a friendly atmosphere help just about anyone who wants to attend able to learn whatever they want. Of course, being where it is, staffed by who it is, and attended by who it is, 'friendly' doesn't always mean 'safe'. Predators and prey live together, interact together, and eat each other. For the most part, the campus is safer than most places, capable of reforming any unfortunate (or fortunate, as the case may be) student that has been devoured, but it's still a real possibility!
The Campus:
The VHCC campus is expansive, varied, and well maintained. There are always positions as groundskeepers and janitors available, though turnover is a bit higher than at a normal college. Forests, fields, lakes and ponds, streams, magnificent buildings, more mundane buildings for living in, well maintained roads, and off-the-beaten-path trails and picnic spots all adorn the vast amount of space.
For the most part, wild animals that are large enough to endanger students are kept away, but every once in a while they get through. The staff generally tries to spin this as a positive, and any student that misses class due to being swallowed by a rampaging dragon is excused from that day's work. In fact, a student devoured for almost any reason is excused from the day's activities. Of course, recreational exceptions exist, but most students are clever enough to manufacture an excuse, and the faculty doesn't try very hard to enforce it.
The Facilities
Fittingly, for a college that offers almost any subject under the sun, the facilities are wide and varied, and generally well maintained. Chemistry labs, an observatory, a pool, and sporting facilities of all kinds complement the classrooms available in any size and shape. Lecture halls, for the less hands-on courses are also available, with seating capable of handling all but the most massive of students.
Less publicized and less savory buildings and facilities are also well available on campus. Dungeons, and at least one old castle for some of the more 'adventurous' clubs are maintained in a sort of deliberate "almost falling apart" level. Underground caves, caverns, and mazes are unofficially unexplored, even though the staff keeps a record of everything inside. They're a useful fixture for scavenger hunts, and even more useful for determining who gets offers for post-graduate studies. Last one standing gets the funding!
Faculty and Staff:
Under construction!
Leshana, Dean of Student Admissions
Albin_Hodge, Predator-Prey Relations professor
Dalthia, Alternative Digestive Methods professor
Vynx, Alternative Ingestion Methods professor
Kaoru, English assistant professor
Shizu, Silent Communications professor
Tanaya, Post-Cold War Political Science professor
Necrolance, History of the Industrial Revolution professor
Carson, History of the American West professor
Drach, Mathematics of Infinities professor, head of math department
Valentina (of
Soffys_Harpies), Principles of Microeconomics professor
Tek, Computer Sciences professor
eQ, Metaphyscis professor
Pengo, Nuclear Physics professor
GidRaleon, Metallurgy professor
Tissel, Music Appreciation professor
Shouen, Theatre professor
Lizzy, Biology professor
Xens, Botany professor
Aurana, Introduction to Alchemy professor
Firestarter, Art Photography professor
Grace, Advanced Flight professor
Nyra, Advanced Flight assistant professor
ChristyRai, Introduction to Magic professor, Cheerleading coach
Scree, Janitor (Dorms)
Malyka, Janitor (Chemistry Lab)
Aina, Student Counselor
Irus, Librarian
Ophilea, Librarian
Denkou, Groundskeeper
Strobe, Groundskeeper
Zolestine, Nurse
Chase, Barkeep
Metal, Security
RouGarou, Night Security
Slurp, Mascot
The Dorms:
The dorm complex is as odd and eccentric as the campus of the Vulpine Hollow Community College itself. It consists of two above-ground structures, each appearing as a “T” shape from the air, with the “middle” prongs oriented toward each other. The northern building houses students that primarily identify as “predator”, though “prey” student volunteers are accepted as well. The southern building houses exclusively “prey” students. As a consequence of this, the buildings are typically referred to by residents of the northern structure as “The House” and “The Buffet” respectively. Southern building students generally try to change the subject.
Each building is divided into four different floors (not including basement), but rise to the height of a normal five story building. The reason for this is fairly simple. Both the basement and first floor of both buildings are reserved for large or otherwise special accommodation requiring students. The basement generally caters to reptiles and nagas/lamias of all types, while the first floor, which features a double high ceiling, works for anthropomorphic students of giraffe, elephant, or rhinoceros descent, or non-reptilian but very large students. The upper three floors of each building are more “normal”, but typically end up clustering species or types of students together in the wings. A typical distribution, for example, sees reptilian students on the second floor, furred students on the third, and avian students on the fourth, though these is naturally open for some rearrangement.
"The Buffet" tends to discourage random predation. "Buffet" students can enter "The House" at will, while "House" students are required to be escorted by Buffet students in order to be admitted. Likewise, all Buffet students' keycards work on both buildings, but House students' cards only work on the House. Additionally, there is an underground passage link between the two buildings. It can only be opened by "Buffet" students' cards going to the south building, but by both cards going to the north building.
For both buildings, in order to discourage a truly frightening student turnover due to random and targeted predation, a communal reformer exists in the basement in a specially built room to accommodate it. Whenever a student is eaten who lives in either building, at the end of the day that student is reformed, free of charge, to continue their day tomorrow. In this fashion, life goes on despite (or in some cases along with) being eaten for all students. Students are allowed to opt out of this free reformation, but are strongly discouraged from it. Additionally, free counselors are available in both buildings to discuss issues stemming from predation or reforming. Continued, targeted predation is highly discouraged, and is considered a form of sexual harassment at the very least if it goes too far unless both parties are on record as consenting.
There are two types of rooms fit for residency in either dorm. Standard, or "S", rooms are normal, fit for between one and four humanoid and human size occupants. Sometimes, tauric or otherwise quadrupedal students will have an S room to themselves. Expanded, or "E", rooms are much larger, and capable of comfortably fitting a full-grown taur, naga, lamia, or even dragon! The college does not discriminate between arriving students, and attempts to give all of them a reasonable experience with housing. E rooms have additional exits, allowing their residents to leave the building without squeezing through small hallways, and only their cards will unlock the external entrance.
Occupied Rooms:
The House:
Basement:
Occupied
01J:
Scree, Janitor
013E:
Tigerlover
Vacant
Ground Floor:
Occupied
121E:
Puppy
133E:
Arron and
Nipsy
Vacant
Second Floor:
Occupied
Room 218S:
Kino
Room 222S:
Kalden and
Lutherin
Room 229S:
Hazel
Room 232S:
Ryxie
Room 238S:
Ember
Vacant
Third Floor:
Occupied
Room 321S:
Danielle_Nadie
Room 334S:
Tzelle and
Rhuyah (both played by VHCC)
Room 335S:
Vixenia
Vacant
Fourth Floor:
Room 412S:
Talon,
Edward, and
Felice
Room 415S:
Anika and
Soffix
Room 424S:
Urah
Room 431S:
Jax_Belle
Vacant
Fifth Floor:
Occupied
Room 515S:
Alex_Roo and
Trisha_Mahrguld
The Buffet:
Room 018E:
Shaustin
Room 045S:
Dianna
Room 119E:
Candi
Room 210S:
John
Room 225S:
Jellypone
Room 229S:
Maroux
Room 311S:
Naomi
Room 315S:
Velen_Snowdrop
Room 312S:
Monique
Room 333S:
Ellopene
Room 402S:
Thorrin
Room 415S:
Scopie
Off-campus:
Krasnya, Graduate student and tutor in Interactive Design
Shui