A-Plus is the name of a secret training program for teenage meta-humans. It is housed at Detroit Memorial High School, and receives funding from the US Department of Justice. If/when the teens operate officially together in the field, their team name would also be A-Plus.

The Team

Year One

Faculty

Cordova, Emilio "Emil" - B.Sc. B.Ed. Former UNTIL field officer and teacher in UNRWA-run international schools.
Mangat, Hansa - B.Ed. M.Ed. Specializing in English Language Arts and counselling.

Students

Akiyama, Jotaro "Joto" - AKA Torchbug
Arden, Amelia "Emmie" - AKA Stretcherette
Berruet, Quillyn Aoife Lauren (goes by Lauren) - AKA Galvanic
"Boston" - AKA Dynamics
Bronson, Brynna - AKA Bluebird
Hollis, Lamont Sebastian "Monty" - AKA Artisan
LeFevre, Danielle Clarissa "Dani" - AKA Battery
Schultz, Garson - AKA Granite
Verdant, Jasper - AKA Remnant

Setting

Detroit Memorial High School

The first school was established in 2002, renamed from a 1979 high school in honor of the victims of the Battle of Detroit in 1992. The original Detroit Memorial was scheduled to be replaced in 2022 due to its age and insufficient property size. With so much of the downtown area having been rapidly developed and expensive, it was seen as cost effective for the school division to purchase an existing tower and retrofit its lower half as a school, while keeping professional offices in the upper level to help generate some revenue.

Starting in September 2022, Students moved into the new school at 2930 E. Jefferson Avenue in the downtown core, a 22 floor building of which the school occupies the first 11 floors. The school has capacity for 2,500 students.

Floor Layout

22 - MC Public Schools Board Room/Board Offices/Roof access/Building Maintenance
17-21 - Various professional offices
16 - Commercial lobby/professional offices/PRIMUS Field Office
13-15 - Offices of Millennium City Public Schools
12 - School administration/media arts studio
11 - DMHS Student Council/Student Lounge/Club Spaces/multipurpose rooms
10 - Math faculty/classrooms
09 - Science labs/science faculty/classrooms
08 - Humanities faculty/classrooms
07 - Library/Computer Science lab/Robotics Lab/school server room
06 - Industrial Arts/A-Plus Secret Training Facility/Split-level atrium (upper)
05 - Gymnasium (upper)/spectator space/indoor track/Split-level atrium (lower)
04 - Gymnasium (mid)/workout room/spectator space/classrooms
03 - Gymnasium (lower)/athletics faculty/infirmary/classrooms
02 - Arts studios (art, drama, music)/Arts faculty/Cafeteria/Foods labs/Theater (upper)
Main - School Admin/Lobby/loading dock/Auto Mechanics lab/Theater (lower)
Sub - Parkade/Building maintenance

Elevators and Stairs

There are two sets of two elevators on the northwest and southeast of DMHS to service the school for all 11 floors it occupies. Students may also use stairways on the northeast and southeast to move between levels.

Professionals working in upper floors of the tower use an alternate lobby on the north face of the tower, with its own dedicated express elevator to reach the Commercial Lobby on the 16th floor. There are emergency stairwells which go through all levels of the tower, however, they cannot be accessed without tripping an alarm, and are monitored by cameras.

There is a large service elevator on the main and second floors which services the drama department's movement of items to the theater stage. A teacher key is required to operate it.

Parking

Student parking near across the street from Detroit Memorial.

Four sub-levels of a parkade are for professionals working in the tower, and not students. This includes the teachers of the school, though the parking rates are high enough that many choose to carpool, or use public transit.

Students have a designated parking lot nearby. It requires a visible parking pass, which can be obtained for $400 for September-June, or a 1 month rate of $50. There is a substantial waiting list for student parking passes. The wait list is cleared at the end of June, and a lottery determines first opportunity to purchase a pass the last week of August. Security routinely patrols the lot, checks passes, and will not hesitate to tow unauthorized cars.

Students can also use nearby commercial parking lots and parkades, but the costs are much higher.

Transit

Detroit Memorial is served by the 9 route of the MDOT (Millenium City Department of Transportation) system.

Students are also served by 18 school bus routes that serve the school's catchment area.

About 3% of students regularly use taxi cabs to go to and from school. The school division provides transportation funds in most of these cases for students with special transportation needs.

The A-Plus Facility

The hidden training facility is concealed between the 5th and 6th floors, though it is primarily on the 6th.

As work on the tower retrofit progressed, US government officials, in cooperation with PRIMUS and the Adventurers superhero team, quietly created the hidden facility and cleverly hid it with a split-level atrium. Being in between the gym and the Industrial Arts lab - two of the noisier portions of the school - helps conceal 'super' training activities. There is also some high-end sound baffling between the A-Plus facility and the other portions of the school.

There are secret access points for A-Plus members through stairwells, the I.A. lab, and the library above. Biometric identification is required to access the inner doors of the facility.

The entirety of staff and students are unaware of its existance, as intended. Aside from the A-Plus program teachers - Mr. Cordova and Mrs. Mangat - the only school staff aware of the program's existance is the principal, but the principal keeps out of its affairs. Students enrolled in A-Plus are screened carefully for their ability to maintain the secrecy of the program and the facility.

Athletics

All teams of Detroit Memorial are called the 'Maelstrom.' Their team colors are grey and sky blue. (The Maelstrom logo is silver and sky blue)

The school has an impressive slate of teams, including:

Football (September-November)
Basketball (December-March)
Volleyball (May/June)
Badminton (February-April)
Track and field (April-May)
Cheer (all year)

Clubs

The following are established extra-curricular activities students may join:

Anime Club
Drama club
The d3C0d3r5 (Robotics & Coding Club)
Chess club
Concert band
Marching band
Mathletes
RPG Club
Running Club

Student Council

STUDENT COUNCIL EXECUTIVE
Role	Duties
President	Attends all council meetings as chair, only voting to break ties Liaison to school admin Spokesperson for council
VP Finance	Oversees transactions of the student council and its authorized activities Regularly reports on council's finances and provides budget forecasts Liaison to Detroit Memorial's accountant Is 'Acting President' if current President is unavailable
VP School Spirit	Organizes dances, sports rallies, and other school spirit events Enlists volunteers as needed for events
VP Outreach	Identifies worthy causes in the Millennium City community to involve the student body Enlists volunteers to achieve council's philanthropic endeavors
Secretary	Types complete minutes of council meetings Manages the Student Council mailbox Compiles any written student feedback for council presentation

APPOINTED NON-VOTING POSITIONS
Role	Duties
Grade-level Representative (x4)	One position for each grade level (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) Reports to council on matters
Safe and Inclusive Schools Rep	Advocate for students on any matter affecting safety or accessibility Chairs Pride committee Liaison to student council and school admin on matters of sexual orientation & gender identity
Communications Rep	Manages council's media accounts Responsible for creation of official council visual media (self or volunteers)
Graduation Rep	Chairs the Grad Committee and organizes its volunteers; must be a Senior Prepares a grad event that reflects the character and times of the graduating class Oversees efforts seeking funds and donations to enhance grad ceremonies Mandatory member of the School Spirit committee
Athletics Rep	Brings forward matters of import to DMHS's sports and athletics students Mandatory member of the School Spirit committee
Arts Rep	Brings forward matters of import to DMHS's visual & performing arts students Mandatory member of the Yearbook committee
Yearbook Rep	Chairs the Yearbook committee Works with Secretary to document/archive any media or collateral that should be preserved for posterity
Student Elections Chief	Selected by council in April each year; must be a student no higher than junior level, who will attend DMHS the following year Ensures distribution of election packages to candidates Investigates - and assesses penalties for - campaign violations Recruits and oversees volunteers for the student elections Provides timely and accurate student election results to school admin

Notable Ancillary Characters

June Valet

Role: Student Council Presidential Candidate
Year: Junior
Popularity: 9/10

June is running for student council! She was the 9th grade rep on council in her freshman year, managed to get elected to the Student Council Executive as Secretary, and now in her junior year, she has designs on running for President.

June is popular, friendly, and very happy to bend an ear about what student council does or can do. She is also a starter on the girls' basketball team, known for excellent two-way play, teamwork, as well as outstanding individual talent.

"Rememeber: June Valet on voting day!"

@historiphile

Zilla

Role: Tough Guy; Bully
Real Name: Godfrey Antoniuk
Popularity: 2/10

Zilla is that guy anyone who remembers from middle school, remembers with disaste. He's loud, rude, and uses his size and bulk to try to get his way.

His real name Godfrey, and his 'monster' size, led to his nickname, 'Zilla.'

"You're in my seat."

@historiphile

Joining

A-Plus was founded in spring 2024 after some generative world-building discussions between Adventurers members. Though we have RP'd in A-Plus a few times, it remains somewhat a work in progress.

As a sub-group of the Adventurers, A-Plus follows the rules and principles of its parent group. This includes the group's recruiting practices.

The characters of A-Plus will at a minimum be these things:

A teenager of high school age (starting at age 14 for 9th grade/Freshmen); see 'Age of Characters' below.
Either a meta-human (not necessarily a crime fighter), or a costumed vigilante
A student, enrolled at Detroit Memorial High School
Maintaining a secret identity, as well as the secrecy of the A-Plus program.

Slice of Life RP Opportunities

Using the Detroit Memorial High School setting, we often do RP that takes place between classes in slice of life style.

We seek "Non-Hero Characters" - similar to NPCs, RPers would obviously portray these as characters in DMHS who are not super powered, but some variety of 'normal' person. These would probably be students (feel free to dig up your favorite teen character archetype!), but it could be teachers, admin, or custodians - people who make sense to be in the school building.

It would get to be a bit of a strain on immersion and verisimilitude if every person in the A-Plus orbit were secretly super-powered, and that's why this Open RP isn't really the place to bring that kind of character.

If you aren't into playing a non-super character, this RP probably isn't for you - and that's okay.

If you are interested in this, please reach out to @historiphile. If you've been wanting to join the Adventurers or A-Plus, this is a great way to get known and show your RP style, which can help you in your bid to be recruited.

The high school RP is rated PG-13.

How to Gain Membership

Only current Adventurer members are adding hero characters to A-Plus at this time. There is also a soft cap on A-Plus of about 8-10 student characters per 'Year'.

For non-members, you can express interest if you want, but no promises are being made right now.

Age of Characters

Characters in A-Plus are participating in 'school years'. While our parent roleplay group, the Adventurers, have characters who age in sync with the real world, the characters of A-Plus are more on comic book time. Hence, school is always technically on! We can be doing school-based RP in real-world summer; we can be celebrating Homecoming in real-world April.

The only age consideration is what year of high school your student character in. Students should not be in the program more than 4 years, as, after 4, they should graduate. Time will advance in the group periodically, by a trigger method yet to be determined. When it does, we will hold events to mark the end of the school year (grad? a farewell dance? a supervillain attack on the school??), and when that is completed... it will be time to set a roster for the next year! New students might come in, old ones advance a year and become more senior!

Why not go beyond 4 years? The very nature of schooling is growth and renewal, and in that spirit, the idea is to keep older characters rotating out, and newer characters rotating in.

A-Plus

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