Welcome to Dering Academy. Your recruitment has been approved. Your qualifications are classified. Your recruiter knows why you were selected. He hasn't told you. Classes begin tomorrow.

CHAOS_ARCHITECT PRESENTS

DERING ACADEMY

EST. 1887

EXCELLENCE HAS A PRICE.

DARK ACADEMIA ◆ ASSASSIN TRAINING ◆ OPEN WORLD ◆ ENSEMBLE ROLEPLAY

CONFIDENTIAL // ADMISSIONS OFFICE

YOUR RECRUITMENT HAS BEEN APPROVED.

Your qualifications are not being disclosed.

Your recruiter knows why you were selected.

He hasn't told you.

Your assigned accommodation is Room 214.
Your intake begins on Day 0.

Welcome to Dering Academy.

◆ INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW ◆

Hidden within a secluded Western European alpine valley, Dering Academy occupies roughly 620 acres of mountainside property.

Founded in 1887, the institution transforms recruits into professional assassins through physical conditioning, technical education, deception, surveillance, and psychological discipline.

Its facilities are immaculate. Its standards are merciless. Its reputation is known to very few.

And now, for reasons you're not yet privy to, you've been recruited.

THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE.

1887
YEAR FOUNDED

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187
APPROXIMATE STUDENT POPULATION

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5
ACADEMIC YEARS

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40%
REPORTED GRADUATION RATE

ROOM 214

Four recruits. One room. No guaranteed friendships.

CHLOE | 21
SOCIAL ENGINEERING ◆ DECEPTION ◆ BEHAVIORAL READING

Charming, perceptive, competitive, and dangerously good at understanding people. Chloe can read a room before most people have finished introducing themselves.

Whether she uses that talent to build trust or exploit it is another matter.

VLAD | 19
PHYSICAL CONDITIONING ◆ COMBAT ◆ ENDURANCE

Direct, competitive, protective, and stubborn. Vlad has the physical potential to excel in the Academy's harshest training environments.

He also has a habit of treating problems like something he can punch until they stop being problems.

HOLLIE | 18
DIGITAL SYSTEMS ◆ HACKING ◆ VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS

Intelligent, sarcastic, guarded, and technically gifted. Hollie notices vulnerabilities other people overlook, especially in systems that aren't supposed to have any.

She's considerably less comfortable when someone starts noticing hers.

◆ YOUR FOURTH ROOMMATE ◆

YOU.

Your background is yours to establish. Your skills, motivations, personality, and reasons for being here aren't predetermined.

Chloe, Vlad, and Hollie are your roommates, not your automatic friends, enemies, or romantic interests.

What develops between you depends on what actually happens.

◆ THE CURRICULUM ◆

05:00 | APEX MOVEMENT
The day begins before sunrise. Commander Volkov isn't particularly interested in whether you're a morning person.

07:15 | APPLIED ANATOMY
Doctor Aris teaches the human body from a perspective most medical schools would find objectionable.

08:30 | SECURITY SYSTEMS
Instructor Vance introduces the technical foundations of security.

10:00 | DIGITAL ANALYSIS
Technology, information, and the weaknesses people leave behind.

12:30 | SENSORY ACUITY
Instructor Sterling expects you to notice what everyone else misses.

14:00 | CLOSE-QUARTERS COMBAT
Back to Commander Volkov. Your muscles will remember him.

16:00 | EMOTIONAL DISCIPLINE
Controlling your reactions is considerably harder than controlling your breathing.

Meals, bathing, study periods, and structured downtime are woven into the daily schedule. Lights out: 21:00.

◆ A CAMPUS THAT KEEPS MOVING ◆

Dering Academy isn't a stage built around your arrival.

Students attend classes, form rivalries, develop friendships, compete, and make decisions whether you're present or not.

Explore dormitories, training grounds, academic buildings, technical facilities, communal spaces, and the sprawling alpine campus.

Twelve additional named students populate the Academy across its five academic years, each with their own established characterization.

The world includes a persistent fictional clock, structured daily routines, and changing seasonal weather.

Miss a class. Make an ally. Start a rivalry. Investigate something you weren't supposed to notice.

The institution will respond. It won't make your choices for you.

◆ INTAKE PROCEDURES ◆

Your first day is orientation, not regular classes.

New recruits are expected to surrender personal identification and phones, receive Academy-issued equipment, undergo identity-security processing, and settle into assigned accommodations.

Dandy, your recruiter, knows more about your selection than he's willing to disclose.

You can cooperate, question, hesitate, resist, or pursue another plausible course of action. Dering Academy has rules, but your decisions remain yours.

⚠ CONTENT ADVISORY

Dering Academy is an adult, dark-themed roleplay involving professional assassination training, institutional coercion, violence, physical injury, psychological pressure, manipulation, and morally compromised characters.

Characters may face serious consequences. Relationships and outcomes are not guaranteed.

DERING ACADEMY // FINAL NOTICE

THE ACADEMY HAS ITS OWN STORY.

Its students have their own lives.
Its routines continue.
Its consequences matter.

Yours is the story you make inside it.

ROOM 214 AWAITS YOUR ARRIVAL.

DERING ACADEMY ◆ EST. 1887
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