Editing Falling Oak Avenue (section)

===School Hallways or Classroom===
The entrance the Finder falls through from the School Grounds may lead to the Hallways or the Classroom. Finishing one will lead to the other, and finishing the second completes the Path. Any fallers not already dispatched will be present, and presumably will still be hostile if they were when they entered the School.

The Hallways appear endless from inside and are lined with open lockers and classroom doors from which streams of school supplies pour. Combination locks will appear in the debris, grabbing one of these and dialing in the number used to initiate the Path sends the Finder to the next length, or completes the Path if this is the last length. In addition to the locks, there will be 2-5 blue objects in the debris, which are boon items. Debris can be safely picked up and held onto, or thrown at any remaining fallers, but letting go of or dropping an item without hitting a target will cause the Finder to abruptly turn down a side hallway, potentially hitting the wall, ceiling, or floor.<ref name="hall">'''Eighth/Ninth Length - Hallways'''<br><br>The hallways appear endless, and the 'floor' remains an omnipresent threat. Lockers and classrooms may be open, and will vomit forth endless debris, papers, and school supplies. Deal with the remaining Lost. Keep an eye out for anything blue amid the debris. These are boon objects, and there are anywhere from two to five. Hallway objects tend to be associated with an unusual name or place. Tracking down the (a?) person with the name or going to the place will 'awaken' the object from a minor trinket with some utility to it to something more potent. It also, however, gets strange reactions from the person in question or the locals. Each such object taken from the Avenue and each awakening of any of these objects seems to correspond with the Finder being treated as more and more offputting by normal and moderate Innocents. When questioned, these people can't ever put their finger on why. Giving away or losing the items doesn't remove this cumulative drawback.<br><br>Be aware that throwing debris or letting go of debris is something of a gamble; if accurate, they may dispatch Lost. If the throw/drop 'misses', however, the Finder will abruptly 'turn a corner', with a violent reorientation of their 'fall' as they continue down a perpendicular hallway. Combined with the motion of throwing and their new body orientation relative to their fall, contact with the floor is a possibility.<br><br>Grab a combination lock (there are usually several falling through the air), and dial in the number given at the outset. It is typically helpful to deal with the remaining Others first. This can take anywhere from two to five minutes. - [https://old.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/hp8xmw/_/fy8jyl6 Wildbow comment on Reddit]</ref>

The Finder falls past the windows of the Classroom, either inside or outside the School, while the Teacher keeps up with them on the other side of the window, asking them questions. The questions come from a pool of 3000, and are generally trivia more than educational. Wrong answers are punished with a physical wound, worse each time, generally being unhealable or cursed after three wrong answers. Four or five right answers in a row will end the questioning, the Teacher will give the Finder an apple, and the length will be complete. The apple should be held onto until off of the Path, losing it will cause the Finder to lose memories or knowledge.<ref name="class">'''Ninth/Eighth Length - The Classroom'''<br><br>The Finder won't necessarily be inside the classroom, but may fall parallel to it, either falling through hallways or falling alongside the school, while the teacher remains by the windows, possibly moving from room to room to stay in earshot.<br><br>The teacher asks questions one might find in a trivia contest, never questions applicable to actual education. These questions can range from the trivial (the capital of Yugoslavia) to the difficult (hitting percentage of a baseball player from 1973). Each wrong answer will be immediately followed by injury to the Finder, never directly by the teacher, each injury worse than the last. After the third mistake, injuries may be impossible or difficult to heal, or have curses and deeper consequences appended to them.<br><br>Questions and answers seem to be drawn from a pool of roughly three thousand possibilities. Finders who intend to use the FOA will want to memorize the questions and answers. Four or five consecutive right answers will please the teacher, who will give an apple. The apple can be a boon, and regardless should be held firmly in one hand until the Path is complete, or memories and years of study will be Lost to the Finder.<br><br>On finishing the Path, the apple may be addressed and then eaten, imparting knowledge that one would have obtained from two (four consecutive right answers) or four (five consecutive right answers) years of steady education in a mundane subject. However, eating the apple for a subject bars the finder from ever getting money, acknowledgement, or respect for that knowledge, and may sour the disposition of spirits when that knowledge is used for Practice.<br><br>Answer five questions to move to the Hallways (if not yet done) or end of the Path. - [https://old.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/hp8xmw/_/fy8jyl6 Wildbow comment on Reddit]</ref>

Receiving the apple or entering the lock combination, whichever comes last, will complete Falling Oak Avenue and deposit the Finder safely on an Earthly Oak address.