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June Event
hello
You open your eyes.
And you scream.
Four long gashes tear your sleeve to ribbons and arm to searing pain, something sharp clamps down on your ankle and sinks into flesh and bone, down the hall another student dangles half a foot off the ground with their hair slowly separating from their scalp, and littered across the floor are bodies pooling blood and occasionally twitching— not in a last bid for life, but in the way strips of skin and muscle and fabric pull away from a person's limbs when several dozen invisible hungry imps have decided they don't want to be banished and would rather feast on the blood of their enemies if that's what it takes to survive.
For every instance of blood that touches the floor, the school pitches and transforms into a dilapidated version of itself, what npcs that were in the hall with you turning into shadow versions of themselves and taking hold of the fallen bodies to drag them to the auditorium. There, the empty room is pitch black. There, the threshold at the doorway crumbles and expands with each shadow that stands and feeds the void another sacrifice. In this school, in its darkness and its silence and its faceless students that cannot be touched, you may at least find some reprieve from the imps that do not exist, find fresh water flowing from the bathroom sinks, and scenes of normal school life playing out in the cracked mirrors that if you break even further you find that you return.
You open your eyes, and no time has passed. Something invisible tears open a student's throat, so close you can see their vocal cords bright white and vibrating as they scream. Blood splatters on the ground, and the school pitches and turns once again.
And you scream.
Four long gashes tear your sleeve to ribbons and arm to searing pain, something sharp clamps down on your ankle and sinks into flesh and bone, down the hall another student dangles half a foot off the ground with their hair slowly separating from their scalp, and littered across the floor are bodies pooling blood and occasionally twitching— not in a last bid for life, but in the way strips of skin and muscle and fabric pull away from a person's limbs when several dozen invisible hungry imps have decided they don't want to be banished and would rather feast on the blood of their enemies if that's what it takes to survive.
For every instance of blood that touches the floor, the school pitches and transforms into a dilapidated version of itself, what npcs that were in the hall with you turning into shadow versions of themselves and taking hold of the fallen bodies to drag them to the auditorium. There, the empty room is pitch black. There, the threshold at the doorway crumbles and expands with each shadow that stands and feeds the void another sacrifice. In this school, in its darkness and its silence and its faceless students that cannot be touched, you may at least find some reprieve from the imps that do not exist, find fresh water flowing from the bathroom sinks, and scenes of normal school life playing out in the cracked mirrors that if you break even further you find that you return.
You open your eyes, and no time has passed. Something invisible tears open a student's throat, so close you can see their vocal cords bright white and vibrating as they scream. Blood splatters on the ground, and the school pitches and turns once again.
hi
For each fallen student, a new one transfers in to replace them. Between the student council election and the imp infestation, more and more you seem to be surrounded by unfamiliar faces. The contrast is stark between those veteran students with bandaged arms and a limp to their stride and long sleeves and pants despite the growing heat, and those students with bright and smiling faces, the ones who coo over the cats and share their lunches with anybody who looks hungry and sit in small groups outside by the wisteria tree to chat during breaks, ignorant of what keeps it fed.
With all the new transfer students, many teachers have decided to assign group projects for their classes: poster presentations on their favorite myth or legend, short skits portraying famous historical scenes, and, everybody say thank you Cain and Kelly, taking care of flour sack babies. Projects are by homeroom and can be done in groups of 2-4, because sometimes a family is a dad and a dad and a wine aunt and a dog. The projects are all due at the end of the month, and if you're able to keep your flour sack baby from being turned into a cake or torn apart by imps, you may notice that they start to feel... warm... after one week. At the end of the second week, they begin to make short, quiet noises— a gurgle, a breath, a whine. At the end of the third week, while you're cradling the sack in your arms, you swear it moves. At the end of the fourth week, well. The project is over. Maybe it'll hatch? Let me know if you make it.
With all the new transfer students, many teachers have decided to assign group projects for their classes: poster presentations on their favorite myth or legend, short skits portraying famous historical scenes, and, everybody say thank you Cain and Kelly, taking care of flour sack babies. Projects are by homeroom and can be done in groups of 2-4, because sometimes a family is a dad and a dad and a wine aunt and a dog. The projects are all due at the end of the month, and if you're able to keep your flour sack baby from being turned into a cake or torn apart by imps, you may notice that they start to feel... warm... after one week. At the end of the second week, they begin to make short, quiet noises— a gurgle, a breath, a whine. At the end of the third week, while you're cradling the sack in your arms, you swear it moves. At the end of the fourth week, well. The project is over. Maybe it'll hatch? Let me know if you make it.
can you hear me?
The veteran students don't seem very keen on working with transfer students who make excuses about not wanting to work outside of school, but newer students are more willing, eager to meet people and get to know them and learn about the school. They gravitate towards the bulletin board to check out the class ranks, new clubs, a new section on the board with several dozen slips of colored paper tacked onto it and a little container below containing blank slips and a pen so you can add your own wishes:
That's certainly the thought as the month goes on and there are more and more wishes for the construction in the clock tower stairwell to hurry up and finish already, as the entire month of June, from 6AM to 6PM, six days a week, the sounds of drilling and hammering and screaming and sawing can be heard in the stairwell despite no construction workers being seen entering or exiting the school. The clock tower itself is inaccessible while the stairs are being taken down and replaced with a brand new elevator— veteran students are particularly grateful, because it's hard to climb stairs and go to class when your shin is splintered and a thin layer of bandage is the only thing keeping your guts from spilling out onto the floor.
In the evening after the npcs leave, characters are able to open the doors on the second and fourth floors to find... that nothing looks any different. On the first floor, however, a set of elevator doors has been installed right by the front doors, and while the button to open the doors don't work, they can be wrenched apart and entered, revealing a barren space with metal walls, a clock hung on the back wall that ticks backwards, and too many buttons on the panel by the double doors. Most buttons are white, numbered -6 to 27 though out of order and not all the numbers are there. Some are black, one is red, neither colors having symbols etched into them. None of the buttons work when pressed.
Not yet.
Wishes are meant to be granted, but... Some of the newer students make an attempt at being a little more realistic and add things like "I want the answers to next week's math exam" and "I want a pony" and do check the board occasionally, so it never hurts to leave a wish of your own.
"I want to be normal. --XX, 1-A"
"I want to live. --XX, 2-B"
"I want my friends back. --XX, 3-D"
"I want life to go back to normal. --XX, 2-A"
"I want my brother back. --XX, 2-A"
"I want more power. --XX, 1-A"
"I want to be loved. --XX, 1-B"
"I want to fix the past. --XX, 2-A"
"I want to find my family. --XX, 3-B"
"I want to be loved. --XX, 2-A"
"I want a normal life. --XX, 1-A"
"I want my brother back. --XX, 2-B""I want to see my family. --XX, 1-C"
"I want to die. --XX, 2-D"
"I want my friends back. --XX, 2-D"
"I want to fix the past. --XX, 3-D"
"I want freedom. --XX, 1-D"
"I want to live. --XX, 1-C"
"LUNCH DATE WITH IZUMI SENA!!! --XX, 1-A"
"I want to be strong. --XX, 2-E"
"I want freedom. --XX, 3-E"
"I want to live. --XX, 2-E"
"I want to die. --XX, 3-E"
"I want to remember. --XX, 3-C"
That's certainly the thought as the month goes on and there are more and more wishes for the construction in the clock tower stairwell to hurry up and finish already, as the entire month of June, from 6AM to 6PM, six days a week, the sounds of drilling and hammering and screaming and sawing can be heard in the stairwell despite no construction workers being seen entering or exiting the school. The clock tower itself is inaccessible while the stairs are being taken down and replaced with a brand new elevator— veteran students are particularly grateful, because it's hard to climb stairs and go to class when your shin is splintered and a thin layer of bandage is the only thing keeping your guts from spilling out onto the floor.
In the evening after the npcs leave, characters are able to open the doors on the second and fourth floors to find... that nothing looks any different. On the first floor, however, a set of elevator doors has been installed right by the front doors, and while the button to open the doors don't work, they can be wrenched apart and entered, revealing a barren space with metal walls, a clock hung on the back wall that ticks backwards, and too many buttons on the panel by the double doors. Most buttons are white, numbered -6 to 27 though out of order and not all the numbers are there. Some are black, one is red, neither colors having symbols etched into them. None of the buttons work when pressed.
Not yet.
it'll be alright
Until then, the clock tower can be reached as normal up several flights of stairs, the room at the very top bright and sunny with clock faces in the glass on all four sides, floorboards stained copper red and the air thick and difficult to breathe. For some, it's still worth it for the view of the wisteria tree in perpetual bloom in the courtyard below, especially as the heat and humidity of summer approaches and with it comes clouds of gnats that have taken up residence in the courtyard, hovering over puddles of light pink water left over from watering the courtyard overnight. Classes are no longer held outdoors, as teachers find it impossible to speak without gnats entering their mouths at any given opportunity, and the heat inside the school becomes near unbearable towards the latter half of the month as there is no air conditioning and teachers hesitate to open their windows. The homeroom teachers in 1-B, 1-D, and 2-C made that mistake once, opening the windows facing the courtyard and the gnats had gotten in, little homing missiles to their favorite food: blood, sweat, and tears. But if you don't cry, sweat, or bleed and aren't afraid of the gnats squeezing their way through the mesh screen in the windows, it can be nice to sit by the window and hope a breeze comes your way.
Those in classes 3-A, 3-B, 2-C, 2-D, 2-E, and all of the first year classes can find that they're able to open the windows in classrooms 1-B, 1-D, and 2-C to enjoy the breeze, but find an invisible barrier blocking their way and preventing any part of them from reaching out into the open space. 3-A, 2-C, 2-D, 2-E, 1-B, 1-D, and 1-E are able to remove the screen and exit through those windows facing the courtyard, keeping in mind it is the 3rd and 4th floors and they will have to climb back up to reenter the school. 2-C, 1-B, and 1-D can go a step further and find that the front door to the school opens for them, except when they try to leave, they run into an invisible barrier, unable to take another step out the door. But they can stand there and take in the sight of the school gates in the near distance, of the forest just beyond, of the npc students slipping past them on their way to and from home. At this threshold it is chilly despite the heat that smothers the school in waves, the air is fresh, invigorating, and when the sun passes overhead you swear you can feel it staring.
Those in classes 3-A, 3-B, 2-C, 2-D, 2-E, and all of the first year classes can find that they're able to open the windows in classrooms 1-B, 1-D, and 2-C to enjoy the breeze, but find an invisible barrier blocking their way and preventing any part of them from reaching out into the open space. 3-A, 2-C, 2-D, 2-E, 1-B, 1-D, and 1-E are able to remove the screen and exit through those windows facing the courtyard, keeping in mind it is the 3rd and 4th floors and they will have to climb back up to reenter the school. 2-C, 1-B, and 1-D can go a step further and find that the front door to the school opens for them, except when they try to leave, they run into an invisible barrier, unable to take another step out the door. But they can stand there and take in the sight of the school gates in the near distance, of the forest just beyond, of the npc students slipping past them on their way to and from home. At this threshold it is chilly despite the heat that smothers the school in waves, the air is fresh, invigorating, and when the sun passes overhead you swear you can feel it staring.
OOC
✽ Sometimes you summon murder imps and you gotta get rid of them yourselves. The imps are invisible unless supernatural sight (eg Nene, Clamor) or form (eg Moriarty, Sherlock) is regained, or are seen through an adder stone (possessed by Arthur, Gundham), but can still be fought either way through physical or magical means, or banished with the proper materials. They will NOT be rampaging and attacking everybody all the time, so this prompt is avoidable if you'd rather not, but they will gravitate towards 1) students who are alone, and 2) areas where there is already bloodshed happening.
✽ For the flour sack group project, groups are by homeroom and can number between 2-4 students. You may also assume npc students are part of your group if you wish.
✽ Characters may notice that physically, an elevator can't make sense without demolishing the first floor locker area, and they will have to accept the fact that not everything will make sense, and that sometimes, Ori just does not want to redraw floorplans. The elevator will be functional starting next month, maybe.
✽ Only windows in classrooms 1-B, 1-D, and 2-C can be opened by characters in classes that have gained at least one class rank to date. Those classes that gained at least one class rank last month are able to exit out the windows facing the courtyard only. Those classes with 30 or more ranks are able to open the front door to the school but not exit through it. To anybody else watching them open the door, they will see that character turn into a shadow and go through the motions of opening the door without exiting, exactly how npc students appear when they enter and exit the school.
✽ For the flour sack group project, groups are by homeroom and can number between 2-4 students. You may also assume npc students are part of your group if you wish.
✽ Characters may notice that physically, an elevator can't make sense without demolishing the first floor locker area, and they will have to accept the fact that not everything will make sense, and that sometimes, Ori just does not want to redraw floorplans. The elevator will be functional starting next month, maybe.
✽ Only windows in classrooms 1-B, 1-D, and 2-C can be opened by characters in classes that have gained at least one class rank to date. Those classes that gained at least one class rank last month are able to exit out the windows facing the courtyard only. Those classes with 30 or more ranks are able to open the front door to the school but not exit through it. To anybody else watching them open the door, they will see that character turn into a shadow and go through the motions of opening the door without exiting, exactly how npc students appear when they enter and exit the school.
June Roleplay Logs .
it'll be alright @ Rika ( CLOSED )
Hyde right now looking at Rika's shoe that was inside her box!??!? because?!?!? Japanese schools require you to wear different shoes inside. SO anyway he sees the one shoe, and decides to take it wait for Rika and give her a look. ]
Oi, oi~~ Rikarinnnn~!!
[ Because hes definitely gunna get her to chase him down the halls, and ups the stairs to where one of those open windows are. He might not be able to get out of it, but hes gunna throw it out the window. ]
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... that's still her shoe? she was hoping to get the other one replaced somehow? surely someone in the student council would be able to help her if she explained? but this little shoe thief — )
Hydecchi... ( her hands ball into fists, shoulders shaking. why is he the most disobedient dog on earth?? ) Give that back right now!!
( and sure enough, she charges at him, full-speed ahead. if she gets close enough to tackle him, SHE WILL. )
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HYAHAHAHAAAA!! NOW YOUR PRECIOUS SHOE IS LOST!!!
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Wait — ! ( ... but no, the shoe is gone, flying through the air and into the Great Unknown of the outside world. she can't go out, so she can't retrieve it, opening her mouth in disbelief.
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You little... ! ( she crosses the distance between them, grabbing him by the collar of his shirt and shaking. ... as much as her height allows her to shake him, they're like a full foot apart i'm crying ) — what's with your weird shoe kink, huh?!
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Well its gone now, so what are you gunna do? Go play fetch?
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( she's still holding him by his shirt, giving him a Really skeptical stare. )
That's not commitment, that's being an annoying piece of shit. ( she lets go after a moment, though, peering out of the window. she can't even see the shoe, but... it's not as if she's allowed to go out there, anyway.
maybe she can send komaeda on a fetch quest... )
I'm not a dog like you, I don't play fetch. Between the two of us, you're obviously the unhinged animal and I'm the master, duh!
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Anyway I bet you missed me with how fast you were chasing me and THEN you put your hands all over me. OooOOOooO, you really must have it bad for me.
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( ugh... she leans over the window, face propped up on her forearms, and considers. did she miss him? she hasn't seen him around for a while. it's not like they're friends, or like he's ever been particularly good to her, but...
he's a familiar presence, anyway. (they mixed their blood so listen) )
Hmm... ( a little zoned out, she considers. ) I think Hydecchi is a wild doggie, but he always comes back around anyway, so I'm not too worried. ~
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( WHAT THE FUCK? she yelps, when he grabs her legs, but when he tries to shove her out of the window, it's... it just doesn't work. like an invisible wall, it keeps her inside, but that... does not mean she's happy about this?! )
Put me down!!! ( AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA )
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@ Crona ( closed )
Crona? Crona is that really you? I have not seen you in a while.
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[They stop, blinking after a second as a few heads turn to who is making a scene. Jekylls face comes back into focus, and they let their arm drop? ]
O-oh? Er...can I deal with this? [ They press the scalpel down on their thumb awkwardly. ] Jekyll-san? Are you back?
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When it takes them a moment to come to, Jekyll offers a pardoning smile. Albeit awkward, but glad that he was defensive. In a matter of speaking. The professor should not have expected anything different, even if it hurt his heart. ]
A-Ah.... I am sorry, did you come across Hyde then..? I hope youre okay? Nothing happened to you did it?
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[ This was definitely the most stressful part. ]
He said lots of weird stuff about you too! I didn't get it! I'm glad I don't have to do science with him, because the teachers say I need to stop hiding in corners.
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[ There's a pause, and he nervously tucks a strand of hair behind his ear. There is a slight warm chuckle offered at Cronas dismay and statement. Hopefully whatever Hyde had done did not deter Crona from being their friend. Or just simply, being more comfortable with their time here.]
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[They lean forward to try and whisper in his ear. ]
He said everyone has a second personality here, but thats a lie, right? I don't want to be someone else yet. I wouldn't know how to be them, and that would be scary. Is it scary for you?
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So why do you deal with it? You want to tell me right? Or you don't? I can't tell what people are thinking, so you really have to tell me.
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Well...I don't care! If you don't wanna trouble me, I'm not troubled. Learning about things can be hard to deal with. [ Not knowing things can also be...ah the conundrum. ] If I see Hyde again, I'll just run till you come back.
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@ senku ( closed )
[ He had the wish in his finger tips, his own rather. As if to compare and show his own desires. ]
I could not help but notice your wish on the board, it matched mine rather specifically.
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[ He raises his brow a bit, looking to his wish in the other's hand. ]
You too? Another inquisitive mind, I assume. Ever since I've "woken up" here, I've been trying to get that door to budge. You can see how well that's gone.
New vibes @ Noah 6/25 ( ish )
Noah was one of them, and unaware of what their abilities were. Hungry to understand what it were Noah could do. Much alike the wolven beast(and when I say Beast I mean a literal one), residing with him. Feral and uncanny instincts would direct his actions bit by bit. As he restored back to the literal ways of being a servant. His eyes would linger along the boy from time to time, curious to see what they could do until one night - upon finding an exact moment to craftily single them out. He manages to.
Without so much as a warning, he will flip his knife into his hand, and his clothing immediately changes into what he originally were coded with. A flicker of golden specs casting along his figure. He will attack without remorse nor question, out of the corner of entering a room or hall.
He knew if Noah lashed out or yelled loudly there would be a problem. So he attacks to at least mince him - cause blood to cast upon the floor. Taking them both personally to the void school where none will hear either of them. ]
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The blade slashes his arm through his sleeve, and Noah lets out a shout of both pain and alarm briefly, perhaps too brief, because when he wheels around to see who had come after him it's too late and they're both stuck in the void, blood having fallen faster with the way he moves.
(What is this, his... fourth trip to the void? Clamor is going to kill him.)]
What do you want?!
[It's a useless question, and he knows it is, but he shouts it out anyway as he moves to put distance between them, shadows wreathing around his left arm. Instinctively, he goes to grab his sickle... which he doesn't have, because said sickle is currently a person and is wandering around somewhere oblivious to the situation. Fuck, the one time he needs Clamor here as an actual weapon...!
If they fight here, the shadows are going to come after both of them. Is running his best option? There's something deranged in Hyde's eyes that makes him waffle over that decision. No time for thinking. If Noah has to kill someone and leave them to their fate in here, so be it, it's just self-defense.
Still, he begins looking for a way out, a hallway to dart down, somewhere where he can find a mirror and escape. He'll have to do it carefully, lest he make the mistake of turning his back to Hyde and getting injured worse. With that in mind, Noah begins shuffling with the intent to put his back to an escape route. The question then becomes, can he fight while backing down a hallway?
No more thinking, he tells himself for the millionth time. He'll have to fight this battle solely with magic. He can't get too far from Hyde though, not if he makes this fight serious, since he can only control shadows within about ten feet of him. Getting too close means certain death, and his plan to escape is contingent upon Hyde not being quite as fast as Noah is, which remains to be seen.
Noah lashes out with a spear made of shadow, not aiming for anything vital and simply trying to disable Hyde. He'd rather not kill, not if he doesn't have to. Those shadows are surely a worse fate than death itself.]