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.

Comments

[adsum]

Huh? No way. How am I supposed to make money if everybody is dead?

[ People aren't allowed to die, for the same reason Komaeda isn't allowed to die. Not yet. ]

[commences]

Actually that's easy, just loot the dead bodies. They're gone, no one will care.

( isn't this the plan npc-kun had for when komaeda died to take his inheritance?

same difference, just not married to them.

holds out hand, he's waiting. )

[adsum]

[ stares at Komaeda's hand ]

I care. Once I loot all the dead bodies, that's it. Only living people can generate more money for me.

[commences]

( give hand. )

That's also not true.

( unfortunate, but look at komaeda, living off of the dead. )

You must be pretty unlucky, that's all.

[adsum]

[ Aren't they all? To be stuck in a place like this. ]

I guess so. But I'm doing what I can with what I have.

[ continues staring at his hand ]

[commences]

( they're living in luxury here. )

Do you need a little push?

( takes their hand because they won't give hand, if not your legs... arms work. )

[adsum]

[ why!!!

They snatch their hand back, quick. If Komaeda isn't holding cash, they see no reason to offer a hand. ]

What are you doing?

[commences]

Are you afraid? That I could change the trajectory of your life by taking your hand?

( stop!!! give hand back!! he'll reach again... listen don't be like this! )

I won't do anything that'll make you uncomfortable.

( and we all know money makes them comfortable. )

[adsum]

[ Yeah, which is why they clutch their hand close to their chest. It would be a different story if Komaeda had money offered. ]

Then don't touch me. I need these hands to do my work.

[commences]

( pulls out a few coins (no need for cash-cash), because a hand doesn't cost that much like how much livers go for. )

Also to hold this, right?

[adsum]

[ Immediately holds their hand out ]

Right!

[commences]

( pushes up their sleeve, he wants to see their wrist. what's the lore here, he's not offering the coins for free!!! )

[adsum]

[ can't believe Komaeda bought their lore for like 3 yen

anyway, there's one mark on the inside of their left wrist ]

[commences]

How did you get it?

( they're bonding, plus spending 3 yen. he still didn't give up the yen yet, he's just finding things to mess around on npc-kun! they're an arata... and their fate is sealed... to be bothered by a komaeda. sighs.

just like how aiko dies every reset. )

[adsum]

[ ...

There is no answer, and npc-kun keeps their hand out, expectant. Pay for every word that comes out of their mouth. ]

[commences]

P-kun? How did you get it?

( akki has their ways, rokkun has their weirder ways, counselor has no more... but npc-kun has... one.

he'll lightly trace his index finger along the line of it, and he'll tap after. )

I know you want money.

[adsum]

[ If he knows that, then he should be offering it, even though npc-kun casts their eyes down— not to look at the scar, but down at their feet, pulling their hand back. The cost of telling... the cost of admitting...

... ]

[commences]

( the air feels thick, yet komaeda doesn't pull away from his question. he's running through his mind of how should he ask, and if paying for that sort of information is how this should go. these tallies symbolize something, at the start of him when he gained his own through a murder, but there are some that are different.

...

he pauses, allowing the other to take back their hand. in return, komaeda flips his arm, wrist-side up, and his fingers uncurl to offer the few coins that the other wanted. it's not for payment, but more like comfort, or whatever type of solace the other can find. greedy, but simple, almost like how komaeda opens a book to calm his nerves, and he finds that npc-kun is more excitable as long as currency is involved. )

?

( besides, he doubts exchanging information about his own tally is worth much to the other. )

[adsum]

[ ...Yeah they take the coins. But it's a slow reach over instead of snatching them up, and their lips remain pressed together, eyes downcast again after that brief glance up at the money.

...

... ]

Tell me why it matters to you.

[commences]

( komaeda would have said different in his youth, but he's older now, he's not like how he was when he was younger. he has seen the sort of hope that's brewed from an ultimate and someone who lacks talent, and maybe he's curious. could it be because this is rokkun's sibling and he feels obligated because they're idiots, or is it from his time of watching after troublesome kids. who knows. )

...I caught you, when you almost fell.

( is that an answer, but he continues. )

I want to understand as much as you want to.

( it's a difficult thing, considering komaeda understands no one. )

[adsum]

[ It's not an answer, it feels more like Komaeda saying that they owe him— did they say thank you for catching them? They can't remember.

... ]

It doesn't matter if nobody understands me. That won't change what I'm doing. It happened because I... [ ... ] ...because of me... [ ... ] ...it's a mark of my sin. But I had to do it.

[commences]

( he didn't even think of it as owing, but trying to understand... sadly talking to people normally is rough too. whatever it is, npc-kun seems to open up about it, and the first things they say... he can relate to it.

not being understood means a lot to them, it's almost like they can keep their guard up. mysterious and such. )

What sort of sin was it?

( he asks, wondering if it's like his own. to be honest, komaeda may not find anything wrong with it knowing him. to call it a sin, to say they had to do it, and he wonders why they see it as a bad thing.

sounds like story time, so he'll get down on his knees, and crosses his arms on the counter. at least he's looking up at them. )

[adsum]

An unforgiveable one.

[ As hard as it is to talk about it, there is no regret in their voice. If they had the choice to do it all over, they think they might have chosen the same.

... ]

I don't want to talk about it. You said you wouldn't do anything that makes me uncomfortable.

[commences]

If I'm doing something to you, I don't think it's uncomfortable at all!

( he thinks, and he wonders, but he sighs softly as if disappointed in the reply. do people really feel this way about their tallies, not wanting to talk about them? komaeda looks at his own, a few of them he doesn't remember, and he cherishes the recent one because of the hope it brought. )

Think of that situation as a stepping stone, what needed to be done, because now you have customers who are willing to pay the price.

( a stroke of good luck for whatever unfortunate bad luck they went through, and komaeda smiles about it. )

Do you have a name associated with it?

( why this sound like... they killed... you know who... )

[adsum]

[ they... you know what... to you know who... ]

You're wrong. I am uncomfortable. [ Komaeda doesn't get to decide how they feel? please

... ]

But you're right that this is why I'm here.

[ There's no name though. Who names these things? """the Gateway""" Only people with bad taste. ]