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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( that is absolutely... a way to define hope, if npc-kun can find some means to motivate himself along with others. in komaeda's mind, this opens avenues to various relationships, build connections with people he doesn't know... give everyone else the joy that they make a chance just like them.

that's one part of it, but komaeda leans forward separating one slip of paper from six others. he slides it to npc-kun, making sure he can tell the difference. )

This is the one I'll help you with, the others can be used to get an idea from those who are interested.

( people will give their idea, and then they can use it to come to other thrilling answers. depends on how npc-kun handles this, and it's not like he has to tell them about the contest, but he can offer the equation to see if anyone can answer it. )

Hm? Of course you can! Arata-kun's hope is the only hope I'm overseeing as of right now, so you'll do everything in your power to offer the best of the best.

( among their peers, or well, customers. ) It'll keep you busy, I'm excited to see how you go about this.

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[ The problem Komaeda singled out gets a little star scribbled on one corner so they'd be able to tell if the papers got mixed up later, but it's not the only one they focus on— if the prize money is the same for all of them, and they've only got until the end of the school year anyways, then there's no reason for them not to solve all seven. ]

Yeah... It'll be like ENIAC. I'll crowdsource!

[ This is my first npc doing anything homework related and they're not even a student ]

You said you would help me with this one, so tell me: what are you good for?

i looked up this. problem, and im crying, and i keep seeing donuts and why did grigori hate himself

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( they're really going for the 7 million yen... i'm crying as i look at those equations, and my brain starts to melt... anything for you npc-kun, we'll get you that money. )

The answer.

( he points to the one doodled with stars, pointing out that it's this one specifically and not the others. while he could help, there's more people who are involved in this sort of thing — ishigami-kun, grenore-kun, and who else is their science and math majors around here. arisu-kun? no, he sleeps in his club... rokkun, he knew a lot about rat health. )

I also brought a million yen to offer you if you can answer it correctly. ( so in a way, npc-kun has help and wins two million yen, just the one million at a later date. he sets it down on the table right next to npc-kun's hand so he can feel it if they must. he taps his finger against the paper, reading the conjecture by poincaré. )

"Consider a compact 3-dimensional manifold V without boundary. Is it possible that the fundamental group of V could be trivial, even though V is not homeomorphic to the 3-dimensional sphere?"

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it doesn't sound like math, but... it's been answered. of course, there's a standard form of the question at the bottom which reads: every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere.

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What are your thoughts?

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[ me googling manifold like wtf is this

oh those are a lot of words npc-kun doesn't know... it's enough to distract themselves from reaching for the money, because even if it's just to count the bills, they wouldn't have the willpower to give it back once it's in their hands.

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Give me two tries, and I can answer it correctly.

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( ok when i think about it... it do look like a V or a heart... so maybe we're close to solving it already. )

Just two tries?

( grigori took like... years right, let me open his wiki to see how the great mathematician went about this. if npc-kun doesn't want to do this one first, they can always choose one of the other equations to apply komaeda money to, which might sound easier, and give them the chance to use a calculator. he's not going to mention it as he watches the other curiously, wondering how they'd even go about solving this one. )

How will you go about your first... is there a formula you already have in mind?

( donuts... )

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It's a yes or no question. My answer is "yes".

[ Who needs formulas when anything in the world is possible as long as you have faith? Can the miracles of god be boiled down to letters and numbers? No. Neither should this stupid math problem. ]

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Hm... Is that really your answer?

( where is the formula? alright, komaeda has to think about it. a hand raises to tap his chin, and is his locker under the counter? is he allowed to go over, and get something, let him! let him!!! he's already crawling on top of it... )

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Yes.

[ Komaeda can climb over the counter for his things if npc-kun can take that stack of cash, his prize money ]

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You're taking this pretty seriously, aren't you? There's no reason to do that...

( let him crawl!! let him crawl! he doesn't get the prize, this was just them cheating, and not even figuring out the formula. the way it took npc-kun one day when it took grigori...

and from 1995 to november 2002, he worked alone on the poincaré's conjecture, cutting off nearly all contact with the mathematics community.

... crawl, crawl, can he go over yet... )

Permit me, let me over... break down your barrier!

( in his little shuffle, a piece of paper does fall out his pocket and onto the counter, what's written on the sheet is... "by moon or by sun, i shall be found. yet, i am undone if there's no light around." )

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I'm always serious.

[ It's not cheating! It's a yes or no question and Grigori is insane, my brain stops processing math after about 20 minutes unless it's easy math

But fine, they don't get the money but they do let Komaeda over the counter so they can pluck this sheet of paper off the ground.

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First a diary, and now poetry... Komaeda sure is a romantic, huh... they're learning so much... ]

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( is this not cheating when it lacks a formula!! he has to show, what if someone went up and said no... but npc-kun is a genius before their time so. all i'm saying is that the institute could keep their one mil if i had to cut off civilization for math...

yay! up and over, and with a loud plop on the floor, but even though he sits next to where he needs to be... he looks up at npc-kun.

there isn't anything komaeda really needed, but he seems to be waiting for the other to move...

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yeah... komaeda is a romantic... it hurts my head every day... i think about his type 4 which i timed, and cry because it's really him. )

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[ If somebody says no, npc-kun will cross their arms and say "prove it." The burden of proof lies upon the accuser, and let's see them come up with the math to back their claims.

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The paper gets folded up and tucked into inside their shoe before npc-kun walks around the counter to the backside to sit down next to Komaeda because there really was no reason to play leapfrog over it, "Expressive, Dramatic, Self-Absorbed, and Temperamental" crying, he really is a type 4 ]

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( is they really going to do that to grigori? when he spent 7 years to be bested by a "no"? )

...What are you doing? Aren't you going to find it?

( like that's a hint, like the piece of paper means more than what it's letting on. sure, npc-kun came around the corner, and komaeda watches them curious as to why they sat with him. clapping his hands together, he laughs softly as he keeps his voice low so no one else can hear. he's seen subaru stare by the door before, so you know, don't want to break his heart or anything.

imagine minding your business, and his type 4 starts acting up. but i guess that's every thread that pops up on npc contact. )

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[ yea Mister Grigori Perelman has nothing on npc-kun, he should just give up ]

Hm?

[ They tuck their knees to their chest so make themselves small, so they can both fit in this cramped space they're also going to have to share with that footlocker, why are they having this conversation down here ]

"I am undone if there's no light around." Isn't that you?

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( but he's older and wiser? he should teach at yogen... now that i think about it, and then they can steal his ideas while he's holing himself up in his home. )

...Me?

( he's a little confused, but as he thinks about it, and he repeats it a few times. it's true, if there's no light... he'll die without it — he's constantly fluttering towards it, a moth to a flame... if you will. )

Is that a compliment? I'm no good at telling... but, wrong answer... what catches light?

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It is what it is.

[ Neither complement nor complaint, but the first thing that came to mind when they read that riddle. Their eyes glance over to the suncatchers hanging in the corner of the room, but that can't be it either, because if those could be found anywhere, under the moon or sun, they wouldn't be able to charge such exorbitant prices for them.

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Me?

[ Look at them... practically glowing... not one to shy away from the spotlight but rather demands it. ]

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Remember what I said.

( don't take things too seriously, is what he said before, at the start before the other came to sit down with him here next to the footlocker. komaeda pulls out a key, undoing it so he can take a look inside for a few of his things... what does he want today? maybe he wants to mess with whatever the other has instead. )

Hm...

( he looks at npc-kun from their brown eyes, to their fluffy hair, the mochi cheeks... )

Glowing, but not the answer!

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[ Komaeda's said so many things, help. npc-kun goes over the lines in their head again, "by moon or by sun, i shall be found. yet, i am undone if there's no light around"

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Photons.

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( NOT PHOTONS. )

...It's hard to hide something in photons.

( he looks at the suncatchers, sighing... very hard to hide in photons. )

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[ They also look up at the suncatchers... but that's the wrong answer, they already know, so they're sticking to their guns. ]

I'm right, though.

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( !?!??!?!?! komaeda can't believe this.... photons... he stares at the suncatchers... which could be an obvious answer. )

...Nothing can be hidden in photons, I don't have that talent, you know.

( he's ultimate luck, not ultimate... photon merger. )

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[ That's true... photons are elementary particles; nowhere inside to hide anything. ]

Why is it something that can be hidden...?

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Using your sense of deduction to find the answer will show how far you're willing to go.

( but with npc-kun making their own answers, despite how far out they are... that's admirable. )

...You're very creative, I must admit. Why should it not be hidden, not everything is right before your eyes, sometimes... you must search.

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[ "by moon or by sun, i shall be found. yet, i am undone if there's no light around"
"sometimes... you must search"
okok they can make use of that hint—- ]

Sight.

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I can check, come here.

( what does that mean? )