August Event

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Please let August be better than July I'm begging

✽ Due to 10+ classes raising their ranks last month, ALL characters have access to the courtyard via the door in the locker area and the windows facing the courtyard.
✽ Characters with 1-10 tallies are not able to get any further past the end of the courtyard before they fall unconscious; characters with 10-20 can get halfway to the pool building before the same happens to them; characters with 20+ tallies can reach the pool building but unfortunately, the door is on the other side. There are no windows on the walls, but from the clocktower, characters can see that it has a glass ceiling, though they are unable to see inside.
✽ Outside, there is no breeze, and it occasionally rains ash.
✽ Characters going up to the 4th floor will feel that the door is warm to the touch, and will occasionally open (see: missions)
✽ The student store opens, with the door propped open with a doorstopper. The npc running the store is currently not interested in conversation, but may be available for threading in the future and is available for threading in the toplevel below. Please see the updated bonus activity page for more information.
✽ Posted on the bulletin board and also handed to each club president before break is the notice that proof of club activity is due at the end of break. Please submit these proofs in the toplevel below.
✽ There is another ad on the bulletin board advertising an exchange student program for the month of October. Applications will be taken until the end of August, and there is a 300 merit point fee. Sister cities include Death City, Devildom, Ishigami Village, Lanling, LazyTown, and Maiami City.

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[ Huff!! Komaeda can't hold his arm above his head forever, not with npc-kun standing up on top of the counter and making another swipe at the shoe. ]

They're not childish!

[ but maybe they like ducks, shut up ]

Buy my totems, but I'm not going to sell them to you all at once. So you're just going to have to come here once a month for a totem until you've got them all, and make sure to shop lots in between those times too!

[commences]

( come here shopkeep-kun!! come heeere! he's waving it around, making sure to pull his arm back when the other is soooo close to grabbing it. ugh, seeing them struggle, just a little despair.

but yeah, if they're on the table... it is a little hard to keep it away from them, so komaeda will fail sooner or later. )

Whatever you say...~

( duck totem...

oh, once a month... how mean, that's just a loophole in preventing komaeda to get the death one. )

Maybe... hm... if you give me a kiss on the cheek, I'll think about it.

[adsum]

[ They are this close to jumping off the table and bodyslamming Komaeda to get their shoe back, but then he says that and they stumble and almost fall. ]

Wha- huh? No way. Thinking isn't good enough. I don't do transactions for "maybes."

[commences]

( a sign of weakness... A SIGN! )

Ahaha, is that so? Do you gamble... you could get pretty lucky!

( or lucky is just komaeda, but he's tapping his cheek with his other hand to show where npc-kun can kiss. )

Maybe I'll give your shoe back, too.

[adsum]

[ stands on one leg so they can poke Komaeda's cheek with one ducky socked foot. ]

I said I don't do maybes. Give me my shoe back [ ... ] plus 10,000 yen, and I'll kiss you on the lips if that's how you want to play.

[commences]

( why...

he will reach out to grab npc-kun's foot, and pull it to make them fall on their ass... is komaeda victorious?

if not, he's taking their sock too. )

You want to kiss me that bad... not satisfied with just a peck on the cheek...

( come on npc-kun, get it together. )

[adsum]

[ npc-kun can fall on their ass if in return they can reflexively kick up with their other foot and catch Komaeda in the gut. Sock stays on their feet, though. ]

No! I want money bad enough to stoop so low!

[ But this is how prostitutes happen so we're not going down this path. npc-kun gets off the table and goes around behind Komaeda to nudge the back of his knees to make them buckle, give back their shoe. ]

[commences]

Ow...

( why are they like this!! okay, komaeda's knees bend and he falls to the ground, but because of the "shock", the shoe in his hand is sent flying? where? don't ask me, you tell me how lucky they are today.

of course, komaeda's laying on the floor with a smile... you know, abuse brings out the good in him. so he's actually excited, kicking his legs up like he's some teen watching a drama movie on a friend's bed. stomach hurts? check.

but hope? powerful. )

...You shouldn't harm your benefactors, I could have died right now.

( wish he did! )

[adsum]

[ The shoe goes flying and lands tangled in one of the suncatchers hanging from the ceiling on display, lucky that it didn't break but unlucky in that npc-kun stares up at where it's hanging like how are they supposed to reach it from here? ]

That's okay.

[ It's an absent minded response, npc-kun preoccupied with dragging a chair out from behind the counter so they can use that as a step stool. ]

[commences]

Changed your mind?

( slowly, he gets up from the floor as a hand presses against where he was hit in the gut. a small cough in the elbow of his jacket, and he's attempting to get himself together.

he follows npc-kun's eyes seeing where their shoe is, and how they grab a chair for help. )

How nice. ( that blooming determination! he smiles softly as he follows after them, and he continues. ) You'll do anything for that goal, huh? ( inhale, exhale ) You're really just like him...

[adsum]

Why are you stealing people's shoes?

[ The goal... is this shoe, yeah. One that they can just barely reach with the tip of their middle finger even when standing on their toes on top of the chair, enough to nudge the sole and make the entire suncatcher jingle precariously.

...

Okay.

They jump, knocking the shoe off the suncatcher and the suncatcher off the hook and themselves off the chair, they can save one of three things and it's going to be the suncatcher. ]

[commences]

I'm enjoying myself.

( that's the plan, especially when the other jumps to get their shoe, but bad things happen around komaeda so... he should have seen this coming. especially with how they seem to struggle with small tasks.

quickly, komaeda holds out his arms to catch the other from hitting the ground. not because he cares or anything, but he allows npc-kun to rest in his arms for a moment, and he stares down at the. taking in their appearance... like the color of their eyes, how soft their hair looks...

and then completely drops them after —

it would have hurt more had they did the straight drop, but komaeda shortened the distance. king move. )

Are you okay?

[adsum]

[ It's honey brown eyes that stare up at him in surprise when they're caught in his arms, and then in utter betrayal when they drop once more to land on their tailbone on the ground, owww

But the suncatcher is unbroken, safely clutched to their chest, and I like to imagine the shoe had conked them on the head right after being caught but it should be fine too. ]

...Yeah...

[ They get up to place the suncatcher on the counter, touches a hand to their chest where their heart is pounding like mad, then goes to retrieve the shoe and tug it back on their feet before it gets stolen again.

... ]

Why did you catch me?

[ Like. Dropping them after is perfectly understandable, but the catching? ]

[commences]

( yeah, that's a good image, perfect actually! because komaeda will stare at the shoe that hit their head like he's thinking about taking it —

sadly! it's gone... :( aw, he didn't even get a chance. )

Huh?

( he blinks, confused as he watches them. it's like komaeda's trying to understand why the other even asks him that question, and he glances off to look at something.

like the rocks! )

Anyway, I know someone that'll buy a few of your things... He's not here though, so I'll talk to him about if he talks to me.

( yes. as he says that, he's going to the counter to look at the suncatcher. )

[adsum]

[ "Anyway"

Foot re-shoed, npc-kun snatches the suncatcher back up before Komaeda gets any funny ideas. There's nowhere they can hang it high enough on their own that Komaeda can't just reach up and pluck it off the hook, so they settle for holding it against their chest instead, arms crossed protectively over it. ]

"Not here"? [ "if he talks to me"? ] Are you fighting?

[commences]

( how is he supposed to explain his luck? :/ so yeah, anyway!

now with npc-kun shoed foot, komaeda can walks over, reaching out for the suncatcher that the other holds onto. trust him, what's the worst he can do? he pulls at the top of it, as if silently requesting for them to let go. )

Oh. ( he hesitates, canting his head to the side. ) I didn't do anything wrong.

( just phrased like that because komaeda is komaeda. )

But, I have more buyers to tell you about!

[adsum]

So that's a yes. Sort of.

[ Like fighting but not... fighting... not physically, anyways, not in a way npc-kun can capitalize on. And here they thought they finally had the chance to sell some skull-smashing rocks. ]

Well, whatever. Who are the buyers? Who's the richest? How much do they have?

[commences]

Between you and I, do you even know how to have relationship problems... you seem to stay to yourself.

( but that's said like he doesn't mind!! just in case npc-kun wants to feel sorry for themselves. )

But... He'll buy rocks, he likes specific ones... I don't understand it.

( clapping his hands together like he's moving on. anyway, if npc-kun won't kill komaeda, he can always count on old, insane and reliable to do the job. )

If you see someone with brown hair, like a chestnut... chat him up, he's pretty gullible, and desperate to get out tight situations if you use the means of money.

( ... )

His name is... Hinata Hajime.

[adsum]

I'm great at relationships. No problems here.

[ It's nothing they care very much about, though, unless it gets them on the up and up in the world, so instead they stare up at the ceiling like they're trying to envision Hinata and see if maybe they remember him from anywhere. It's tough... Faces are hard. ]

But, Hinata-kun, huh...? So you mean he's weak against extortion.

[ The rocks will get some use yet. ]

[commences]

Yes, you must be good at them, it's why your friends buy from others, and not from you.

( makes sense! are they even friends... does npc-kun even remember who they are, or do they latch onto the concept of having people so they feel better. well, also: )

He paid a million yen for a sticker to get out of watching a movie, but he had to watch it anyway... how despairing! At least his hope blossomed in the end...

( like he's going back on memory lane, but only for a moment will he sight wistfully, then carry on. )

You can work with that, can't you?

[adsum]

He sounds... stupid.

[ This makes no sense to them without context and they're sure it still won't with context, but maybe... they can work with this. When are we having movie night so they can lock Hinata and everybody else in a room and force them to watch B movies until they pony up money for npc-kun to let them go. ]

[commences]

...

( it's a sensitive subject, is he stupid? yes, very much so. luckily, there's more to him than just that, though, so in a way... he can forgive it. he may lack talent, but he's sure that hinata could impress someone as basic as npc-kun, they sort of dwell within the same realm of lackluster-ness. )

Tell me when you meet him, I wonder how it'd go...

( when are they watching a movie, the bee movie for example? ) There's also... Amami-kun, but...

( ... ) Do you have jackets with numbers on them? ( he can't stay on a topic, his dementia. )

[adsum]

[ Somebody with a post-1999 canon regain the bee movie please thank you ]

All the jackets have numbers on them. What number are you looking for?

[commences]

( what if someone regains it, can they trade it in for a let's say... totem!?

now he's picking up the suncatcher so he can walk to the others, where does he put it? )

Numbers on the jacket, I want to purchase something with the spouse discount.

( a sale... :) )

[adsum]

Hey!

[ They're right at his heels just in case he runs off with the suncatcher and they have to suckerpunch him in the gut. ]

You have to tell me what numbers first.

[ Also they're divorced. ]