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This is my entry for the school-based contest: The Rules of Murder. Here is a brief summary of my idea so far. After nearly stabbing a fellow student to death, you get sent to Shady Oaks: School for Troubled Youth. But something is dedinitely not right about this school. You quickly learn that disobedience is not tolerated here. Your fellow students are a sad lot of misfits and outcasts. There are even whisperings of students going missing and many runaways never seen or heard from again.

If that's not enough to catch your interest, there is also a strange addition to your curriculum. All it says on your schedule is MA, Room 301. When you ask your fellow students what class it is, they are at a loss. No one has ever seen or heard of that particular class. You seek out the school secretary, thinking it is a misprint or mistake. The secretary is baffled as well, but she tells you that she doesn't have any control of the schedules. She insists the class must exist and instucts you to head to the basement, where Room 301 is located. This classroom has been abandoned for over 10 years...

Welcome to Murder 101, where you are instructed in the art of murder. Learn the many ways to kill someone properly. And be sure to pay close attention, for you will face the ultimate test of your murder knowledge at the end of the semester. This is where you learn the true horror of Shady Oaks... Can you pass the test? Or will you become another missing student, another statistic? Find out in The Rules of Murder.

Shady Oaks is the name of a retirement home. The one from UP, in fact. Not a school. It should be called "Crystal Lake Elementary", or "Hogwarts".

I called the school Shady Oaks because it's shady... and it's my story, so I could call it Baffoon's Behind if I wanted...

I'd call it Kiddie Kapers.

Lol. Some of my friends outside of my school repeatedly made fun of my previous school's name, as they found it to be somewhat similar to the name Shady Oaks.

This storygame is sounding similar to my entry in some ways, just with a horror theme that mine doesn't really have. Good luck!