The School of Very Mundane Learnings, despite their titular mundaneness in what they teach, the campus itself is not normal at all. It is full of the unexplained, even. Stories of the unusual have been spread between the many age groups in the school. Such unusual occurrences include: A poster that seems normal at first, until you rub your hand on it, which will cause you to phase through it, revealing the infamous (Not-So-)Forbidden Corridors, which somehow avoided being audited for 15 years before the inspectors came and the school had to hide every anomalous object in there temporarily (and very briefly) and instead install handrails to dodge suspicion. There is an elevator that only staff can use, and nobody knows where it goes. The (Not-So-)Forbidden Corridors are well-known among the students, with the stories and accounts passed down generation to generation. In the tour of the (Not-So-)Forbidden Corridors, you will find all sorts of artifacts. DO NOT TOUCH THE ARTIFACTS, THEY COULD BREAK REALITY. If you want to know what the (Not-So-)Forbidden Corridors look like, imagine this: A rusty room with an industrial tone to it. The walls look like rusted metal, the floor and ceiling are like concrete, and it is laid out like a haphazardly-thrown-together museum of anomalous objects. There are numerous safety violations that have been since patched up by handrails, but the handrails only contribute to the unease, giving the impression that there are forces beyond the control of the school, despite their only purpose being to make the thing look legal and safe, and free of falling hazards.
Another unusual part of the school is the Very Long Hallway, a hallway so long that the school management had to put conveyor belts through most of it. There is also the “Caffeine Machine”, which creates “coffee” that has very random effects on the world around the drinker, so much so that the Caffeine Machine was assigned to a very specific room in the (Not-So-)Forbidden Corridors.
There is the bathroom-dwelling Crab Cult, an oddity in the school that offers its spare funds and life savings to crabs, by maintaining a secret crab tank, and they believe the crab tank contributes to a cosmic balance. They’re quite friendly despite their odd beliefs and will teach how to take care of a crab.
Two seemingly insignificant languages that are being taught at the school have an intense, inexplicable, and extremely hostile rivalry, complete with gang jargon with all sorts of confusing and/or derogatory terms. The school management decorated an empty area with a small artwork depicting a cultural exchange between the two languages, but that only made an unofficial reserved area for confrontations, arguments, and important matters concerning the battlefield and staying out of the eyes of management.
There have been rumors spreading around that the school has a secret stash of then-apples that have been rotten by nasty swamp air (and frayed from the fabric of logic by the school’s aura), but those rumors have been responded to only with “If you want to know if it’s real or not, and if so, where it is… You’re on your own. Have fun!” (Which clearly means “I’m desperately trying to deny the existence of these clearly-real things”) It is to be noted that the rumors often come with the story of a very specific someone who ate the rot and then proceeded to hallicunate into existence a new cosmic god that takes physical form in this universe as a silk moth. The silk moth in question has been sighted multiple times and has become a legend of sorts, and it might be the key to decoding Cosmic Entity Runic. The swamp apples, and their combined effects from getting the air of the swamp and the surreal aura of the school, make them a disaster in itself, that is ready to be psychoactive and potentially create new surreal artifacts or even summon cosmic demigods.
The cafeteria once served butter in hot dog buns, which is inherently a crime against nature. Stop it. Please. On a similar topic, the cafeteria once tried to replicate the swamp rotting effects on the rumored rotten apple stash and serve it under the name “Mangrove Special.” (which was only made funnier when the silk moth hallucinate-into-existence story swirled around some time after it was taken off the menu) The inspectors were not amused. The cafeteria also served “Devious Carrots”, which are just carrots with a side of delicious, scrumptious, savory moss, except the adjectives I applied to the moss were purely sarcastic. Yours truly, the writer. The cafeteria, on the bright side, has a good selection of plant-based plants, such as: Apple, Carrot, Soybean, and Banana. They also have the mandatory chicken and pasta, which is just okay.
And while all this is happening, the mundane classes continue to teach mundane subjects despite any possible interruption.
The school management have mortal enemies of the inspectors, as one day the inspectors could land them in big trouble for the safety hazards in the (Not-So-)Forbidden Corridors.