It's time for a FAMILY MEETING!

[mermaidcursed]

Who: Everyone!
When: May 11th, 6 PM
Where: Class 1-B (Gaming Club Items have been stored safely) 
What: It's time for a family meeting! Because seriously some things need to be DISCUSSED.
WARNINGS: Death and murder, discussions of cannibalism

After a night of a feral cat losing it's goddamn mind, a day of half the adults and several students looking absolutely exhausted and more, and the end of the auction, clearly something is up. Plus, there'd been plans to investigate certain things after the last meeting that never had been elaborated on. So this time, Nene takes things into her own hands. So once again, transfer students will find a note in their lockers requesting their presence at Class 1-B at 6 PM, after everyone else has gone home. 

Even if last time was... kind of a mess. 

Is she desperate enough to enact a speaking ball? ... Not yet. But in her pockets is a brand new NERF gun and five darts. 

So she unearths the cardboard jail, set up around some desks in the corner, but otherwise clears the board and sets out pieces of chalk... but hoo boy, does she look kind of miffed? And it doesn't even have anything to do with Hanako-kun cracking up at Gay Baby Jail. He'll understand soon enough. 

On the board is several things in chalk- "LAST NIGHT", "NEW THINGS" and "FROM LAST TIME" with lines underneath, like she's perparing to take notes. Thankfully, there is more than one piece of chalk however. 

// OOC RULES 

As with last time, this is a free-for-all! Feel free to start discussions, theories, or share information and jump around between things and include everyone! Inviting others into the discussion is great, everyone should get a chance to be involved.

HOWEVER: LET THE OOC DISCOVERER SHARE THEIR OWN DISCOVERIES ICly. People work hard for their clues and information, and there should be no thunder-stealing!

Should there be any concerns or suggestions for the setup, please just let me know! 

Comments

[mermaidcursed]

So... I don't know what was happening last night, but I think it's really important that we all remember some crucial things: the last time we made a big mess, we got fumigated, and the PDA forum posts are all very public.

What was going on last night?!

[silentabyss]

I fought the void.

[commences]

( taking his seat at the cardboard jail because he already knows that's where he goes. )

[contrarily]

( that's where she goes, too, but this time, she has a nice idea that is sure to get everyone in high spirits! )

Psst, Koma-kyun, come with me for a sec. ( to the home EC room!! )

[wolfetracks]

( unfortunately, sidney doesn't have anything just yet. so he's here, somewhat baffled and ready to learn. yay? )

[commences]

( passes him a sandwich. )

Courtesy of the chef.

[rhymed]

[ Hajun is literally just going to sit all pretty while everyone discusses what they're in trouble for. No jail time for the guy who was trying to be normal and lost his mind only to realize that he'll have to cooperate -- maybe. ]

[commences]

( gives you a sandwich too. )

Courtesy of our cheftress.

[closewithnewintown]

[honestly she's still at like a solid. 11. on the energy levels. because now hiro's friend is alive and back and they can be reunited and it's just like the storybooks and

she goes up to the board, looks uncertainly between the three categories, and then just sorta. under all of them. writes "NAO SATO IS OUR NEW BEST FRIEND AND EVERYONE SHOULD BE NICE TO HER <3" in big bubble letters. perfect. she has no further contributions at all.]

[adsum]

[ The first thing she does when she staggers into the room is drag her hand across the board and smear out that entire sentence before collapsing against the wall. ]

[sunstead]

[Clamor......... has made tea. because you can't have a family meeting without at least one person remembering to bring refreshments. It tastes like artificial lemons and faintly of bananas, and rest assured, it has been filtered and boiled many times.

He also has some healthy vending machine snacks to give to anyone who looks tired or hungry. Please, kids, remember to eat...]

[contrarily]

( why have lame snacks when you can have A HEALTHY SANDWICH? there, she hands him one, all smiles! )

It's good, try it!

[contrarily]

( her and koma-kyun are making sandwiches so everyone can eat while they're talking :) no she doesn't know shit except knowing the trick to entering void school but listen.

here's some food for y'all... she's so nice and thoughtful. )

[commences]

( he's here to pass it out, get in line everyone. c: )

[silentabyss]

[Noah is here and he's still breathing like he's run a marathon despite some time having passed between "tanking ghosts in the void and getting his soul(?) sucked out" and "family meeting part two: electric boogaloo".

He has nothing to add to this conversation other than The Void. That's all he knows. Which sounds more cryptic on the tin than it actually is.]

[sunstead]

[Noah............ gets a juice box. it's cold this time. don't push yourself too hard, kiddo.

Clamor also may have left him some mixed nuts. They're good for you!!!]

[obsessiveness]

[ few minutes in and everything's become an incomprehensible shitshow. god, do people here not know how to handle meetings around here?

so of course izumi's going to make his voice heard. but not without an irritated click of his tongue. ]

Okay, but can we like, take it up to the top first? I know a lot of shit happened since then, but I wanna share some stuff I discovered when I investigated the art club with Komaeda a while back.

[ throws a pointed stare at ko who's busy distributing mystery meat to the unsuspecting, then moving on - ]

In case you guys aren't aware, the art room has been out of red paint for a while now. Apparently the art club had made a deal with some satanic cult that's been hanging around class 3B. They in turn are collaborating with someone in the science club to keep the "paint" oxidizing or whatever that means, so they've been giving the art club blood as a replacement for red paint in exchange for some little favors here and there. Fucked up, I know.

[ now if only komaeda would contribute HERE instead of making sus sandwiches with that brat, GOD ]

[mermaidcursed]

( EXCUSE ME??? EXCUSE ME. HELLO???? )

They're- they're using blood as paint...? But... then where are they getting it...?

( please don't say people this meeting's already going to be taking a turn for the horrific- )

[carpevinum]

[Lucifer shows up here only because Nene told him to come. He has nothing to do with any of this, he was reading in the library in blissful peace. He takes a seat though, politely ignoring the gay baby jail.]

[contrarily]

Hi, Imp-kyun!! I was just thinking about you!!

( because of izumi's thing, you know. )

Do you know anything about a cult?! Also, do you want a sandwich?

[kingofscience]

[ He's tired and he's just arrived, forgive him for being a little late. He's had to deal with speed stitching a person in the last 24 hours, and that's not the best thing for someone's psyche when it's so sudden.

ANYWAYS, he's here for the shenanigans! ]

[commences]

Hey! Are you hungry?

( here's a sandwich... with just mayo, and no meat, because komaeda's luck is acting up again. )

I hope you enjoy it, courtesy of the cheftress. Let's bring about hope from this!

General Void Things I guess tho it isn't much

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[Well, Moriarty is here - a few bandages from where the cat scratched him, but generally alright even after staying in the void past everyone.

Once Noah finishes talking about his battle against the shadow beings and heroically saving the young girl who is also in the room, he clears his throat to draw attention to himself.]

It may not be much, but I was also there. And I observed something quite interesting - The shadows of the other world will not attack you if you have no inclination to attack them. Even when they'd been agitated and attacking anyone inclined to help protect the young man over there or act defensively towards them, they distinctly left me alone.

[Which, uh. Basically states he was just watching everything play out in silence, BUT.]

The other thing is that I was able to observe their behavior after the event was over - again, they never turned defensively on me, nor lashed out...if anything, they merely milled about the bathroom for a few moments and then went along with their 'days' at school, acting as if they were in classes or whatnot.

[He gives a light shrug, as not to agitate the healing stab wound he got a bit ago.]

It isn't much, but it is interesting nontheless. If we are ever forced into that realm again, keeping this in mind will most likely keep one from being swarmed by shadows.

[silentabyss]

Yeah, but that doesn't explain why they started to swarm to the bathroom where Senku and the others were! They could have been in danger — if the shadows stand in your space, you start to die.

[dangernoises]

[ A rather comely man appears, and promptly rises to professionally introduce himself. He will literally avoid Eye contact with Komaeda however, uncomfortable and obviously so. This runs the same for Moriarty, though he at least listens to what the individual has to say.]

Good evening, my name is Dr. Henry Jekyll. I was a professor in my past life, and worked along side Sherlock Holmes in several of his cases. I presume you know of him?

[ A cordial pause. ]

I am hoping that with everything going on, someone can update me with information regarding the mysteries of this school. Since I have just woken up to my memories myself.... I also acquired some items if you are interested in looking?

[ Jekyll offers the necklaces forward to be viewed. They are of course, washed off as if he would leave them running with blood after waking up to them in his hands. ]

[closewithnewintown]

[just off at a desk stacking potato chips on top of each other because she is already bored.]

Sherlock Foams. [just a mild correction it's fine she's sure everyone makes that mistake.]

Void School 101, also hey guess what there was ANOTHER dead body

[sunstead]

[Now that they've more or less finished covering what the hell happened last night, it's probably time to loop back to this, so...]

About the "other world", or the void, or whatever we're calling it... it'll probably be easier to explain if we start at the beginning instead of jumping around. [though Moriarty's talk about the shadows was very helpful, as was Noah's account of fighting them.]

I found myself there on the 8th, after... well. To put it bluntly, there was a... a corpse in the clock tower. Not Miss Aiko, I mean, but... I believe it was one of the other transfers in our group. I'd seen him around before, after school ended. [RIP Edgar, Clamor doesn't actually know his name so... maybe someone else saw him get dragged off, and can politely add the name for everyone...] There was blood everywhere, and... I felt dizzy for a moment, and the next thing I knew the school had transformed. The trigger seems to be blood touching the floor, specifically. I don't know if it's an act of illusion, teleportation, or something else entirely, but this other realm is a replica of the school we're in right now, but old and abandoned along with being filled with those shadows. The "normal" students here don't seem to be affected by it, either, just those from our group.

If you do end up there, you can return by breaking any of the mirrors. Don't ask me why that works, but it does. Time doesn't seem to pass while we're over there, so you'll end up exactly where you were before it happened.

[silentabyss]

[CLAMOR HE'S CONCERNED???]

H—

You went—

[Processing.]

The—

That wasn't your first time in the— did—

[404, Noah not found.]

Are you OKAY?

[Like Noah's been so mentally blacked out this entire week that maybe Clamor said something but Noah just kind of forgot? Because oops PTSD happened?]

[trialbyliar]

Oh, oh!! I have a subject I wanna bring up, too!

[Kokichi hops up, waving a hand cheerily. And then his smile suddenly falls away and he frowns, pulling out his PDA.]

Like Yashiro-chan said, some people here apparently have some trouble remembering that eeeeveryone can see everything posted on the network! Including all those NPC students!

[That's a hell of a way to refer to the non-transfer students, dude...]

I had to think fast to come up with a subtle way to call for help while Doll-chan was bleeding out on me, y'know! And my hard work was immediately thrown in the trash because you morons can't take a hint! I was seriously crying my eyes out in the bathroom trying to cover for everyone...

[Lies. What a shocker.]

Can we all agree to maybe...I dunno, not blatantly post shit that's gonna make us all look crazy, hm?

[dangernoises]

Hm, there may be benefit to posting things a certain way however, if the students here take note of what is on the PDA's. Though I do agree, we should refrain from saying things that they are arguably unaware of.

[ HE says that but mun is this close to posting on the pda network as Hyde and he about to say some shit soon. ]

[carpevinum]

[Lucifer steps up to the front of the room and claps his hands together, loudly with the intent to get everyone to shut up for three fucking seconds so that they can talk. He's had Enough.]

Listen up. We need to stop messing around and talk about what we came here to discuss before this devolves into one of Asmodeus' parties.

[BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT'S BECOME, IS ONE OF HIS SIBLING'S WILD PARTIES.]

Of the talking points I've heard so far, I've heard about the alternate dimension version of the school — the void, as we will call it, I've heard talk of the meat in the fridge being human meat, and I've heard about this cult apparently harvesting blood from other students. Are we missing anything, and can we please discuss the finer details of the issues at hand without this becoming any more chaotic?

[commences]

When we spoke about the blood issue, we were told that the sacrifice wasn't worth it, and not to get involved with it.

( there's something about that phrasing that's bothering him. )

If it's just giving our blood, I know most people donate without a problem... so why is it viewed so negatively?

[dangernoises]

[ non serious post quickly intermitted because I dont know where to fit this - its totally unrelated please ignore this unless you wanna watch a man straight up get up and try to kick Komaeda in the dick. If he fails immediately he just sits back down boredly like nothing happened. ]

[commences]

( um, um... when he goes to kick??? idk... the floor is sensitive and he makes a hole?? with one foot??? bro, fall and komaeda will scratch his head confused. )

[dangertohands]

[Shoto... is lost. So he will just mostly sit here and listen to everyone talk. And wonder just how safe the cats in this school actually are... Don't mind him.]

[commences]

( sits down next to him, and gives like the longest, depressed sigh that he can muster... )

[begetblue]

[ Turing...was also a bit lost. They got the note and all, but walking into a room full of animated chatter was a little bit overwhelming for several reasons. Really, they had to take baby steps. First they poked their head in to at least get an idea of what was going on here, and they only managed to actually go inside once they got a feel for the voices and the people they belonged to.

They brought their own note with them; it read "NSI NKV HYV," and the paper was adorned with some doodles, underlined Ns and Vs, plus some other marks. Was this even important? They had no clue, but there was no harm in bringing it along. ]

[dangernoises]

Hello.... ? [ A robot... How interesting. ] Can you tell me what these mean? Or.. Are you unable to?

[mermaidcursed]

Ah... now that I think of it.

( because she knows that even from last month... people have vanished, and not been seen again. the other students act like they never existed... or simply moved away. and yet... )

There were more of us. Who all has gone missing lately...? I haven't seen Inaba-san in a few days... or Shirogane-san.

[sunstead]

[... he already brought up the unidentified transfer student corpse, so he won't say it again, but...]

I haven't seen Abel since the end of last month... there was also a boy named Ain, who had, err, [Henir bullshit] blue markings? On his arms. I haven't seen him around at all, either, and you'd think he'd be difficult to miss.

SO about an attempted murder

[dangertohands]

[Okay, so this should probably be brought up. Since Shoto is the only witness to the event here right now, he may as well finally bring it up. It wasn't something he was really up for talking about before now since this school was just too weird.]

I don't know if this is important to the discussion about what happened last night, but at the end of April I and Inaba witnessed something. It was the twenty-sixth, after classes. We heard a commotion and headed towards it. [A pause. More to properly remember than be dramatic.] A student was standing over another with a switchblade.

[And that's how he ends it. Just that.]

[moraloutrage]

Wh-what?! [He turns towards him, with a startled gasp.]

What happened? Please, provide more details! Which students were involved? Was it a murder?! How can you hope to surpass me when your skills for summary are so lacking?!

No meat, PSA, pretend it got brought up sooner. cw: cannibalism talk

[improbablenotimpossible]

I see I hadn't managed to put up notes after every instance of the staff pulling it down, and word of mouth hadn't extended far enough.

[Given how much some people love to chatter and gossip he would expect it to spread more]

It would be best for everyone to switch to a vegan or vegetarian diet from now on - the meat is human, and far as I could tell from my own attempts to remove it so people do not accidentally eat it, they have a large supply of it to replace what went missing.

[mermaidcursed]

( jesus christ this school is a NIGHTMARE??? but like, at least she saw the note... and she doesn't like working with unfamiliar. ingredients. anyways... )

T-then... considering the water and water-based drinks in the vending machine are just as contaminated as what we can get from the school... maybe we shouldn't trust the snacks either.

( at least her fruit sandwiches are safe... for now. )

Meetings More Often

[mermaidcursed]

Considering how things keep happening so much- ( and the horror don't stop coming and it don't stop coming and it don't stop coming and it don't stop coming- ) -and usually in drastic or, um. Dangerous ways, it might be for the best to try and come together for sharing information or going over what we have more often...

( not that she wants to organize these every time. )

What would be a good amount of time between meetings...? ( not counting if something goes drastically wrong, of course. )

[filialdeception]

I believe organizing meetings once every month or so could work, barring emergencies.

Of course, if anyone wishes to have them more frequently, I would not object. But so far this seems like a reasonable option to me.

about Hiro being a murderchild

[silentabyss]

[Noah is going to be brave and Say A Thing.]

Um... s-so, Stephanie and I spoke to Hiro Arisu a bit ago at lunchtime. Uh... we believe he might have killed someone. He didn't exactly deny it when we confronted him...

[Stephanie please help him. Addressing an audience is scary.]

[closewithnewintown]

[she looks. uncertain, at first. like she is still legitimately considering whether to just. not say anything. but, eventually, she sighs, and brings the resin knife out of her jacket pocket.]

Hiro borrowed this from me for the weekend last month, because it, um. Reminded him of someone he had lost. [GLANCES SIGNIFICANTLY AT NAO] And then the class president ended up dead, and he brought the knife back with a note that he was sorry.

... I'm pretty sure he's involved. It's just I think he had good reasons for it... I'm starting to think you don't become class president in this place by being a good person.

Hyde having a panic!??!? attack!?!?

[dangernoises]

[ 'What the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck?' Insert Hyde shaking throwing tables at people - someone calm him the fuck down please. No thanks to Rika ... Just imagine a dog very excited and delighted. Seeing as he's someone who doesn't respond well to positive emotions the only way he can respond in tandem is by being violent. So hes throwing tables, maybe even a knife... Randomly. Don't ask him where he got them. ]

[carpevinum]

[Lucifer dodges the knife. Where did you get a fucking knife.]

Excuse me. If you could please stop endangering everybody around you, that would be fantastic.

[Hyde gets One Warning before Lucifer starts to get physical. Y'all ever wanted to see two grown men fight?]