River High

**River High** was the main high school in the Northside of River City from the World of the Exceed and included students such as Matsuri Misaka and Rosefeather Takahashi. However, it was abandoned shortly after the Quantriux invasion.

## Overview

River High was a regular high school built for human and Anthropomorphic students alike. It required an entrance exam to attend since It was competitive with many extracurriculars such as academic and sports' teams. The school's fencing and quiz show teams were mentioned to be the highest in the nation. All of its successes were overseen by its headmaster of forty years, Quentin Weatherthorne.

## Affiliates

* Rosefeather Takahashi †
* Laikia Silvano †
* Takana Fukumari †
Quentin Weatherthorne (headmaster)

## History

River High was founded centuries ago in 1941 by a man that played a big part into building River City and even had it named after him. The school was very successful and many people rushed to attend. At the time all of its academic and sports' teams were in the top spots and undefeated, and the GPA average was an astounding 4.5.

### The Midnight Club Tragedy

However, the school's reputation was tainted in the 1990s when a group of students in their senior year caused some trouble and received detention. The students weren't friends with each other, but during detention they were so bored and decided to play a game of Secrets & Sins together. This resulted in a fight, and they upped their sentence from one to five Saturday detentions. Over that course, they eventually became friends despite their differences.

Soon, one of the students cracked open a teacher's drawer and found a board game called Gryphons & Gargoyles. They started playing the game together, naming themselves the Midnight Club. After playing the game for a while, the club decided that they needed to go off board. So they decided to sneak into the school at night and dress-up as their characters with costumes from the theater room. They used fake swords and fought quests with each other. But they weren't alone. That night they ran into another group of students. They were dressed up the same way, and also played the game as they found it in the restricted section of the library. The two groups merged forces and then started playing with each other, and the next night they gathered after they each received a mysterious letter for the Midnight Club to meet.

One of the students, Hiram, then revealed that he had brought drugs to enhance the experience of the game. All of the students took the drugs except one. The one that refused to was Alice, because she was pregnant, and she eventually began to feel left out as she was the only one that wasn't doped up. After watching the disgusting behavior of her fellow peers for a while, Alice felt sick and ran to the bathroom to throw up in a toilet. Suddenly, the lights went out, and she she peeked out of the stall she could see all around her written on the walls in red ink was "flip for your fate" and two silver chalices filled with blue liquid. In a terrified panic, she left the building and her friends, but not before she could catch sight of a ghostly creature with a wooden goat head and tree branches for wings. Right before leaving she had also seen Featherhead, the headmaster at the time, enter the building.

The next day, none of the students that had been present during the game seemed to have showed up except for Alice, and Featherhead was also absent. Later Alice bumped into a fellow Midnight Club member, Veronica, and she asked what had happened to the rest of their friends. Veronica told her that one of the others, Fred, had his father die while he was with the Midnight Club.

A few days later and Featherhead was officially reported missing. A week later, the rotten smell and the flies tainted the school's halls, and the janitor finally found the source of it all, the janitor's closet. When it was opened Featherhead's dead body fell to the floor, and his lips were blue. His death was ruled a suicide from cyanide poisoning under suspicious circumstances.

The day after the Midnight Club members met at a diner, and Alice explained to them how she had seen Featherhead and the mysterious creature. She was surprised to find that none of the members had actually set up the quest, and all of them encouraged her to keep her mouth shut so that they wouldn't get into trouble.

The story told isn't believed by most students, and is known as the Midnight Club Tragedy.