Stories from Room 101

**Stories from Room 101** is a chapter in *The Knots of Nature*.

## Plot

Some of the students of Alexander Nigma School (and others) explain the sexual abuse committed by some of the faculty and how they saw the Tatzelwurm.

### A Story About Concording People

Holger Holgaart was sent to A. Nigma by his father to escape from bullying. He never got detention there, but he noticed signs of the abuse. Holger also saw signs of the Tatzelwurm's existence, namely scratches and bite marks.

### A Story About Before Completion

Beth Simmons was expelled from her old school when she set off a firework in a bully's locker. She initially didn't believe in the Tatzelwurm, but Chopper McNeal gave her some weapons to protect her from it, so she sold them to other students. Doofus Drake snitched on Beth and she got detention, where Vice-Principal Veronica Victoria assaulted her, after which she saw the Tatzelwurm. When she told Chopper what happened, Chopper beat up VP Victoria and the staff killed him for it.

### A Story About Abounding

Cyrus Xavier started a band at the school, but during detention, Biffy Goldstein was playing one of their songs while Lynch Webber assaulted Cyrus. This led to him not wanting to play music anymore.

### A Story About Already Fording

Stinky Kelly and his friends weren't sent to detention since the faculty involved wanted younger, weaker students. He did notice signs of abuse going on, but didn't really find out the truth until later.

### A Story About Adorning

Brandy Silver was a bully and befriended Kimmie McAddams due to her influential parents. She also had a crush on her, but Kimmie exploited this by manipulating her into sexual acts.

### A Story About Prospering

Camilio Martinez was sent to A. Nigma to protect him from God's Will First. He befriended Grayson Potter, who helped him and Cyrus cheat, but then Grayson blackmailed them into filming themselves performing humiliating acts.

### A Story About Intelligence Hidden

Grayson was bullied by the majority of the school, so he took out his frustration by helping people cheat and then threatening to tell on them if they don't film themselves doing sexual things. He regrets it now, but nobody forgave him for it.

### A Story About Sojourning

Jenny Jergens managed to get ahold of the school's records. She befriended Li Ping, the janitor, and told him about it, so they escaped the school, but Li stole the records and abandoned her in the woods. A cop found Jenny but refused to listen to her, and she ended up getting locked in a room with no food all weekend.

### A Story About Holding

Tina Kwee deliberately got herself put in A. Nigma so she could record the abuse there. Chaz Monoranian harassed her and accidentally broke her voice recorder, so she yelled at him that no one wanted him. Chaz killed himself and Tina feels guilty.

### A Story About Gnawing Bite

Biffy was given detention every day, but VP Victoria gave him things, such as an mp3 player and a kitten, if he let her have her way with him. When her son Ricky was killed, she took Rumple Kitty Kat from his room. Biffy heard noises coming from her office and came in, but he saw the Tatzelwurm (actually Li's pet snake Priscilla) eat Rumple.

### A Story About Radiance

Lee Ping frequently had detention and escaped often. When he found the keycard that unlocked all the dorms, the students came out and almost beat him to death due to a psychotic break causing them to think he was the Tatzelwurm. Lee only survived because of Principal Wendell Barrage.

### A Story About Polarising

Barrage didn't know what Victoria and some of the faculty were doing to the kids. When the students beat up Lee, he did CPR on him, but he was arrested on suspicion of raping him. In jail, Barrage overheard the staff talking about what they did, which caused him to realize what was going on.

### A Story About Skinning

Li is Lee's older brother who was kidnapped as a baby by Kimmie's parents. When Cassandra got pregnant, he was forced to live in the basement as a sex slave. Li began working as a janitor for A. Nigma and got the records from Jenny, where he found out who his real parents were. He ran away from the school, staying in a safehouse with Giovanni Viridiana's runners and a homeless shelter, but he was caught and arrested on suspicion of being involved in the abuse at the school, and the other staff members raped him in the cell.

### A Story About Great Possessing

Kimmie saw her parents abusing Li and was forced to take drugs to keep her docile and stop her from eating too much or getting pregnant, so she took her trauma out by sexually abusing Brandy. Her parents eventually got arrested when the truth came out about the school.

### A Story About Dwelling People

Angelina and Ruby developed second-hand trauma from hearing about what happened to Cam and Tina at A. Nigma. They believe that the Tatzelwurm will hurt them and ask the Palace to protect them from it.