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July Event
07/03 Hatching Day
Those groups who have seen their flour sack baby's survival through the end of the fourth week will be rewarded with 50 merit points each and full marks on their project. After class ends, if the sacks are taken outside of the classroom, the seams begin to tear... a little hand pokes out, wet with blood and flour slurry, and a new life is born into the world. Cooing, the baby reaches out to touch its parents' face: it wants its mother's eyes, its father's nose...
If any part of a character's face is touched by the baby, they will lose the sense corresponding to the facial feature for one full week (eyes = sight, mouth = taste, skin = touch, etc), and it is possible to lose more than one sense. The babies' preferred food is flesh and blood, and they are always hungry. Please report in the toplevel below if they are killed at any time, otherwise they can be found scurrying around the school snapping at people's ankles tracking glitter footprints everywhere after a semi-successful attempt at licking the shiny off the bulletin board.
If any part of a character's face is touched by the baby, they will lose the sense corresponding to the facial feature for one full week (eyes = sight, mouth = taste, skin = touch, etc), and it is possible to lose more than one sense. The babies' preferred food is flesh and blood, and they are always hungry. Please report in the toplevel below if they are killed at any time, otherwise they can be found scurrying around the school snapping at people's ankles tracking glitter footprints everywhere after a semi-successful attempt at licking the shiny off the bulletin board.
07/03 Grand Opening
At the end of classes, the students who haven't been mauled to death by their children pour from their classrooms into the hallway to go home for the weekend, although more than one pause in confusion before realizing that it's quiet. There is no hammering, no sawing, no screaming that'd been background noise for the past month due to the construction of the elevator, and the doors to the central stairwell have been replaced with sliding elevator doors. The light at the very top indicates that the car is currently on the ground floor...
Gundham Tanaka and Shuichi Saihara press the button to the elevator on the ground floor, located next to the main entrance, and the double doors silently slide open to reveal a metal room with single blue wooden chair at the center of the car with a person sitting upon it, turned around so the back is facing the door. There is blood splattered all over the walls, and on the opposite wall from the door, scrawled in rust red blood below the clock, are the words:
this is
hopE
is ugly
Please use the toplevel below to investigate the body and the crime scene.
Gundham Tanaka and Shuichi Saihara press the button to the elevator on the ground floor, located next to the main entrance, and the double doors silently slide open to reveal a metal room with single blue wooden chair at the center of the car with a person sitting upon it, turned around so the back is facing the door. There is blood splattered all over the walls, and on the opposite wall from the door, scrawled in rust red blood below the clock, are the words:
hopE
is ugly
Please use the toplevel below to investigate the body and the crime scene.
07/03 Grand Re-opening
If you haven't been scared off from using the elevator yet... it does work as normal, providing a swift and smooth ride from one floor to another, provided that you only touch the buttons indicating the first four floors. There are others, mostly white but some black and one red, with the white buttons numbering -6 to 27, out of order and occasionally skipping numbers. Most of the other buttons still don't seem to work, with the black buttons causing the car to shudder but otherwise not move, but the red one...
Pressing the red button causes the car to plummet, the free fall lasting a full minute before it gradually and safely slows to a stop so its passengers don't get turned into pancakes. The door opens, allowing its passengers to step out and find themselves... home. In a sense.
The world outside is a bad end version of the character's canon from the perspective of your character, for example Dangans in the middle of the Ultimate Hunt, or Personas where Apathy Syndrome had fully taken hold of the world. Any familiar face is rendered obscured, their voice unintelligible, and they act as if they do not recognize the character, passing through them like shadow students in the void. The space is limited to the size of a building or street, with an invisible boundary preventing characters from progressing any further, but characters are welcome to stay as long as they like, with the elevator waiting patiently where they left it. Returning to the elevator and pressing one of the buttons to the first four floors will return the character back to the school.
The clock on the back wall ticks backwards.
Pressing the red button causes the car to plummet, the free fall lasting a full minute before it gradually and safely slows to a stop so its passengers don't get turned into pancakes. The door opens, allowing its passengers to step out and find themselves... home. In a sense.
The world outside is a bad end version of the character's canon from the perspective of your character, for example Dangans in the middle of the Ultimate Hunt, or Personas where Apathy Syndrome had fully taken hold of the world. Any familiar face is rendered obscured, their voice unintelligible, and they act as if they do not recognize the character, passing through them like shadow students in the void. The space is limited to the size of a building or street, with an invisible boundary preventing characters from progressing any further, but characters are welcome to stay as long as they like, with the elevator waiting patiently where they left it. Returning to the elevator and pressing one of the buttons to the first four floors will return the character back to the school.
The clock on the back wall ticks backwards.
OOC
✽ This month, characters in homerooms 1-A, 1-B, 1-D, 2-C, 2-D, 2-E, 3-D (those who rose 10+ ranks in the past month) will find that the water looks... clear. It smells and tastes fresh, whether from the sink or the water fountains or bottled in the vending machine. The same water will still appear slightly tinged pink to other characters.
✽ Characters in homerooms 1-B, 1-D, and 2-C (the top three classes) will find that they can open the front doors, and this month, they can step through. A single step. And then they meet the barrier again, but that's progress. In this space outside the door, the air is cool, fresh and invigorating.
✽ Regardless of whether a character was able to enter the courtyard in previous months, for the month of July, only characters who have committed at least one murder can freely open and exit through windows and the door to the courtyard from the locker area, although they are still limited to the courtyard. These murders include ones that have occurred in the game so far, as well as those OOCly assumed from tally marks stated in the app acceptance. Even if your character would never kill on purpose!! sometimes... things happen...
✽ The red button in the elevator allows characters to visit a bad end version of their canon world. ICly, if more than one character is in the elevator at the time, it is random as to which canon world exists outside the doors. If more than one character exits the elevator but leave a character behind, the character left behind will NOT be able to return to the school UNLESS they have castmates that would take the elevator back down again. Otherwise, there is no way to return once the doors are closed, and this will effectively count as a permadeath and drop from the game.
✽ As a reminder, finals are July 15-20. Summer vacation is July 21-August 29, during which the school is closed and club resources are not replenished. The full moon is on July 24.
✽ Characters in homerooms 1-B, 1-D, and 2-C (the top three classes) will find that they can open the front doors, and this month, they can step through. A single step. And then they meet the barrier again, but that's progress. In this space outside the door, the air is cool, fresh and invigorating.
✽ Regardless of whether a character was able to enter the courtyard in previous months, for the month of July, only characters who have committed at least one murder can freely open and exit through windows and the door to the courtyard from the locker area, although they are still limited to the courtyard. These murders include ones that have occurred in the game so far, as well as those OOCly assumed from tally marks stated in the app acceptance. Even if your character would never kill on purpose!! sometimes... things happen...
✽ The red button in the elevator allows characters to visit a bad end version of their canon world. ICly, if more than one character is in the elevator at the time, it is random as to which canon world exists outside the doors. If more than one character exits the elevator but leave a character behind, the character left behind will NOT be able to return to the school UNLESS they have castmates that would take the elevator back down again. Otherwise, there is no way to return once the doors are closed, and this will effectively count as a permadeath and drop from the game.
✽ As a reminder, finals are July 15-20. Summer vacation is July 21-August 29, during which the school is closed and club resources are not replenished. The full moon is on July 24.
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Oh... cute.
[ Hello bears ]
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Even in his panicked state, he hears the comment from the other boy and shoots him a look.]
Wh-whart is so cute?! This is all horrible!
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The bears... Sorry. I wonder if anybody's alive in there...
[ In the school, he means, which he starts trotting towards, because there is no police tape telling them to keep out and so his heart urges him to explore. ]
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A-anybody... alive? There... that's right! There could still be survivors in there! You believe that?! [He never thought he could see the school as a shelter, but he supposes that it could act as one, compared to such a hellish exterior. But... could anyone still be alive? He thinks of Kirigiri, feeling fear and doubt. But he still wants to know... to examine that last hope.]
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[ There could be. No matter how how slim a chance, there is always a chance, and that chance is what pulls him forward as he steps over the rubble and
pauses at the front gate, actually, finding a piece of that game that's been broken off and weighs enough in his hand that he could feasibly use it as a sword if needed, as long as he keeps a tight enough grip on it since there is no hilt guard. ]
What do you think caused this...?
[ This massive hole of a front door they're stepping though. ]
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It would have to have been something massive. Some... kind of explosion, maybe. When I was trapped in this school, there was a steel vault door in place there. [They had tried everything to get it open, to no avail. So what could have removed it so totally?]
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[ Is that a thing? A school just for bankers and the front door is a vault to fit the theme. He sticks close to Ishimaru, falling naturally a half step in front with his left hand clutching the metal rod and his right hovering at the ready to shove Ishimaru back if needed, eyes up front, scanning... ]
...You know this place better than me. Will you guide us? If people were to take refuge somewhere, where would they go?
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[Minato's suggestion is a sound one, and Ishimaru quickly agrees.]
Yes, of course I will act as your guide! As for a place of refuge... that is hard to say. Perhaps within the dorm rooms, or the auditorium? Any number of rooms could be effectively boarded up...
[He takes a moment to look at the entrance hall. Seeing it again is like some version of nostalgia that makes someone feel sick. It reminds him of every awful thing he's endured since he first remembers setting foot in these halls. The hall has a more eerily empty feel to it now, especially with the door blown open. But he doesn't dwell on it and pushes onwards.]
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He clenches and unclenches his fist around the metal bar in his hands. ]
...auditorium first. That's where people go when there's disasters, and stuff.
[ In his movies, at least. It's where people take refuge, and he wants to see who's alive, first, before scouring the school for bodies which may already be dead. ]
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[Unfortunately, he doesn't recall ever getting the true Hope's Peak experience, so he doesn't know what the designated routes are for emergencies. But the auditorium does sound like the best bet!]
Let us proceed at once. [He marches into the halls with a purpose in his step! But at the same time, he almost seems cold and robotic. As if he's having trouble feeling hope for what he might find.]
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He follows Ishimaru towards the auditorium, where the doors are slightly ajar, a puddle of bright dangan pink seeping out from underneath the doorframe. ]
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...N-no. Not again, not more...! [Chihiro's remains claw at his memory, tears quickly well up. He can't find the strength to move now, let alone look for the source of that blood.]
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Again? More? Blood doesn't always mean death. It could mean dying, it could mean having gotten away, it could mean any number of reasons for them to keep moving instead of standing still but Minato's never found himself able to push somebody before they're ready.
He presses his metal rod into Ishimaru's hands. ]
Just in case you need it. I'll go look. Be right back.
[ It'll just be a quick look, so he's not completely abandoning Ishimaru. What does Minato see, what is Ishimaru's worst nightmare ]
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Ishimaru softly, almost subconsciously accepts the rod as it's offered to him, and then his grasp tightens around it. He feels a surge of fear and concern for his new traveling companion.]
Be...
['careful' is supposed to be the rest of the sentence, but he can't get his mouth to utter more than that one syllable.
What's inside the gym is a true nightmare. It's dark and dimly lit, with a whole blown in a wall through which the red sky peeks. Pink blood is splattered everywhere... but not a single body.
No, instead there are small containers everywhere. Fourteen of them, each labeled with an image and a name. Makoto Margarine, Aoi Jelly, Mondo Butter... So on and so forth.]
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Brimming with renewed assurance, Minato picks up the Mondo butter and walks back to Ishimaru at the door, holding it out to him. ]
Coast's clear. Look.
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And then, he lets out a loud, bloodcurdling scream! And he tries to smack the container out of Minato's hand.]
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Nevertheless, Minato goes to retrieve the container and scoop up what he can before replacing the lid, because it wouldn't do to have either of them slip on it. ]
There's, uh... others, if you wanted to take a look.
[ Maybe Ishimaru is more of a margarine person than butter, or likes jam on his toast instead. ]