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August Event
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 storeis 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.
✽ 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
✽ 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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sidney doesn't remove his hand, especially not when lucifer looks at him like that. if anything, he pulls him just a bit closer, in his own way. he's here- he's here. )
I see.
This place is cruel. For me, it hit me with my family and private thoughts- for you, your home... If people even can leave with this exchange program, I suspect it will be not unlike the elevator. As for Diavolo... I'm sure that anyone in your life would readily do what it takes to get you back, if they knew where you were. This feels more like a cruel joke, honestly.
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I suspect much the same. I consider myself lucky not to have seen an alternate version of my own world, and I suppose the school — or whatever presides over it — is furious with me for my lack of emotional torment.
[It's not easy to torment Lucifer in the first place. He shuts down and puts his emotions somewhere else.]
...That said, I agree with you, though sometimes I feel as though my brothers might think they're better off without me.
[Oh, that's... hm.]
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I have more and more reason to suspect it feeds off of negative emotion and death, so... that tracks. But I'm proud of you for avoiding the same hells others have endured.
As for your brothers... even if they think it for a little while, I'm sure they'll come back for you. Moods like that don't last long- especially not when it's been months. My sister got the same way. I did too. It can happen. But it doesn't last- not without it being deserved.
( but, he thinks, don't let this become a weakness that yogen can latch onto. it can't get him too. )
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[He'd rather not have anyone see the broken version of his homeland, though. Especially not Stephanie, who had to hear the sounds of a child getting mauled. The gentler part of Lucifer that he once swore didn't exist just hopes she's alright after that.]
...you're correct, though. I recognize that you are. Ah, that household would almost certainly fall apart without me.
[Then why, why oh why, does his laugh sound so weak in that moment? Like he's trying to convince himself that someone's actually looking for him...]
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( despite lucifer's words, sidney hears what's not being said. so despite everything, he pulls him just a bit closer. )
Lucifer. If you knew your brothers were missing, would you not destroy anything in your path to find them?
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...but he finds himself leaning into Sidney anyway, letting out a little sigh.]
Naturally. I've destroyed everything in my path before to protect those I care for.
[Lilith... she'd laugh at him right now, if she knew he was acting like this.]
Perhaps I'm being silly, then. Ignore me. I'll be alright.
[Lucifer.]
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Then have faith. No matter the arguments you may have, they'd do the same for you... but you must remember, this place stripped you of your power at first. They're facing just as much a hurdle as we are, I'm sure of it.
i FINALLY get to use this icon
He might have. He might have just done that. He's made his interest in Sidney known, and perhaps this is just a gesture of caring — Lucifer would expect no less from the man — but also. Also.
...ugh. No. This isn't like him, to get hung up on gestures and idle thoughts. The awful, sickeningly self-absorbed part of Lucifer says that of course Sidney should return his interest; the part of him that's a little more touch-starved yet horribly afraid of intimacy says he's thinking too much like Asmo and to knock that shit off.]
It certainly did. Much to my chagrin... [blush please go away he's trying to have a conversation.] I believe most of my power is still restricted still. If I were at full strength, I would have razed this place to the ground.
:D
It's something to look forward to, once we break free. This place can't hold us forever... ... I was in the manor for perhaps one hundred years. If I, a mere human man, can earn my freedom from that place, you certainly can do the same here. ... It might take more time than any of us are happy with. But it's not impossible.
me writing this tag like "haha"
Maybe the real Avatar of Lust was Lucifer all along.]My only hope is that you, [and others, but for the purposes of the conversation, in the here and now: you, Sidney,] don't come to harm in that time. I couldn't bear the thought of you getting hurt.
[That... slipped out, uh—
—sometimes, Lucifer is allowed to have moments of emotional vulnerability, even if they're terrifying, as a treat.]
man the retroactive foreshadowings amazing
ah.
well.
sidney is not a man who gets told things like that. he's the one who dies for others, after all- and others accept it. it's impossible to ignore the warmth that comes with lucifer's words. )
I'll do my best. But I can promise that I give twofold what I get, at the very least. And I want you to stay safe as well.
i hate us sometimes
[...sure.
Anyway!]
With all due respect, I am a demon, thousands and thousands of years old. I've seen things that even a man of your mental fortitude would pale at. [And there's... now the hand reaching to brush some of Sidney's bangs from his face.] I assure you, I will be fine. I always am, somehow.
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Good. Don't let this place prove you wrong.
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And he is, of course, absolutely being himself when he says he'll be fine. With regards to the dangers of this place and any other future dangers. His brothers, well, that's a niggling thought for another day, isn't it?]
Please. I've never been proven wrong in my life. [what the fuck is wrong with you] Believe me, Sidney, it takes a lot more than this to break me.