I'm going to throw up in-game threads as location based - most certainly one for the dorms, and probably another for the student commercial area - I'm absolutely okay with players developing some of their own shops/cafes/etc, but I would appreciate a quick PM for approval before they're posted, just because I want them to fit the school.  There's not going to be any hookah shops, for instance, or bars doubling as opium dens in the basement.  The Principal is phenomenally perceptive about everything that goes on in the school.<br/><br/>Sophomore/junior/senior students will know that one of the very first student activities for freshman is an overnight sleepover in the main staff building of campus.  Its the nexus of the (extremely rare) Netherworld feng shui site, and it takes twenty four hours of residency and meditation to bond with it.  Students who don't bond during this twenty four hour period are viewed as lacking the necessary self-discipline to remain at the school, and don't return.<br/><br/>As a clarification:  I have no intention of having PCs playing freshman writing out an extended scene of meditating, because ... well, it's an action RPG.  And that sounds like the opposite of action.  Feel free to incorporate it into your initial posts for your character, or sometime after school opens.  The point of the above is just that 'it occurs at some point for your character.'