Remember that geek in high school? The one who no one liked and everyone made fun of? Or what about the popular and gifted student who everyone wished they could be like? They have all received a very important letter, and they have all been accepted to St. Martin Academy. St. Martin, or Geek High as it has been dubbed, is an experimental school starting its first year. Only the best of the best have been invited to attend and only the best of them can survive. Try your hardest and see where it can take you.
10-20-2010:: Hey everyone, Admin Bellz here to spread the good word ^^. So we have some really great threads going, and everyone here is super wonderful and loved to bits, but I feel the need to mention something that I have been noticing all around the place. The school (St. Martin's aka Geek High) has literally just been opened. If you're a senior, you have had three years of education somewhere else and have come to this school for the last year. I thought that I made this clear in the plot, but whatever, I don't mind re-mentioning it.
So! The admins are going to start putting up the OTMs! We will be picking them first, and then we can decide as a group if we should vote, or if you like this way. H'okay! So! Everyone here is very much loved and if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, that's what Dammy and I are here for.
The very bottom of the school, located three stories under the ground floor. Where the main field is located. Hey, just cause we're a geeky school doesn't mean we can't play sports too.
A large room with high ceilings and paintings on the walls. The white marble staircase leads up to the rest of the school and a few hallways lead to other parts of the ground floor.
A large maze to take a nice ride in. On the outside it seems to be only a few feet wide and deep, but is actually rather large and can go on for hours.
The Pioneer Village, created in 1930, was America's first living-history museum. The site features a three-acre, recreated Puritan village, and allows visitors the opportunity to participate in activities from the lives of Salem's earliest English settlers.
The Peabody Essex Museum is a leading museum of Asian art and culture and early American maritime trade and whaling; its collections of Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese art, and in particular Chinese export porcelain, are among the finest in the country. It is now America's oldest continuously operating museum, having been founded in 1799. The museum owns and exhibits a number of historic houses in downtown Salem. In 2003, it completed a massive renovation and expansion, designed by architect Moshe Safdie, and moved a 200-year-old 16-room Chinese home from Xiuning County in southeastern China to the grounds of the Museum.
The Old Salem Jail, an active facility until 1991, once housed captured British soldiers from the War of 1812. It contains the main jail building, an imposing granite and brick structure built in 1813 and renovated in 1884; an 1813 jail keeper's house; and a barn, also dating to about 1813. The jail was shuttered in 1991 when Essex County opened its new correctional facility in Middleton. Old Salem Jail Ventures, LLC, an affiliate of New Boston Ventures, was chosen by the Redevelopment Authority in 2005 following a request for proposals for the jail site. In 2010 it finished a complete multi-year $12 million dollar renovation. One feature is reconstruction of the jail keeper's house, a three-story brick, Federal-period building originally built in 1813. The project went into a long phase of stagnation when in 1999 the county government was dissolved, resulting in the sale of Salem Jail by Commonwealth of Massachusetts to the City of Salem for $1. The Old Salem Jail complex was renamed 50 Saint Peter Street and is now private property, with private residences. Although the exhibit about the jail's history will be free of charge, it has yet to open.
The Witch House (also called the Jonathan Corwin House), was the home of Judge Jonathan Corwin and is the only structure still standing in Salem, Massachusetts with direct ties to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The house was bought by Judge Corwin, in 1675, when he was 34 years old and he lived there for more than forty years. Corwin is buried in the nearby Broad Street Cemetery. The house remained in the Corwin family until the mid-1800s.
The Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace is the birthplace of American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is located at 27 Hardy Street but accessible through 54 Turner Street, Salem, Massachusetts. The house is now a nonprofit museum along with the House of the Seven Gables immediately adjacent; an admission fee is charged.
Welcome to the Phillips Library, the research and documentation division of the Peabody Essex Museum. As one of New England’s older libraries, the library has an international reputation as a major resource for maritime history and art, New England life and culture, American decorative arts, Asian art and culture, Native American history and art, the art and culture of Oceania, natural history and genealogy.
This coffee shop is a bustling hub for natives and students looking to get away. It separates the cultures by sitting room, but boasts delicious and amazing specialty coffees for every customer's taste. Also well known for their D&D Wednesdays, GMs get free cookies!
this moderately-sized record shop carries cds, vinyl, posters, band shirts, and other fun music paraphernalia. its employees are warm and welcoming, rather than snooty and aloof. . . . most of the time, anyway!
this pizza place has been owned and run by the same italian family for nearly thirty years. the only thing that has changed is the number of smile-induced wrinkles on the owner's face. "love at first bite" has been the slogan from day one, and all of its customers would agree.
the homemade ice cream in this shop is well-loved, though it's a bit of a hidden treasure. They make everything from vanilla to chocolate to cookie dough and anything you might find in a chain ice cream shop. except super nova does it way way better!
this small and family-owned chain boasts a nice collection of old books from the family library, as well as contemporary best sellers from stephen king to camille paglia to anne mccaffrey.
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in 1,285.3 km2 (496.3 sq mi). The population of the urban area was estimated by Eurostat to be 3.46 million in 2004, The metropolitan area was estimated by OECD to have a population of 3.7 million in 2006.
Seoul officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 12 million, it is one of the largest cities in the world. The Seoul National Capital Area, which includes the Incheon metropolis and most of Gyeonggi province, has 24.5 million inhabitants, and is the world's second largest metropolitan area. Almost half of South Korea's population live in the Seoul National Capital Area, and nearly a quarter in Seoul itself, making it the country's foremost economic, political, and cultural center.
Seattle is the northernmost major city in the contiguous United States, and the largest city in the Pacific Northwest and in the state of Washington. A seaport situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canada – United States border, it is named after Chief Sealth "Seattle", of the Duwamish and Suquamish native tribes. Seattle is the center of the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan statistical area, the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the northwestern United States. Seattle is the county seat of King County and is the major economic, cultural and educational center in the region. As of April 2009, the city's population was approximately 617,000 within a metropolitan area of 4,158,000. The Port of Seattle and Seattle–Tacoma International Airport are major gateways to Asia, Alaska, and the rest of the world.