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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( 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. )

... ( big blink. ) ...

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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? )

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[ YEAH WHAT DOES THAT MEAN

npc-kun scoots closer. closer, closer, no concept of personal space. ]

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( close enough for komaeda to cup their cheeks in his hands, soft skin... he's looking them over, mostly staring at one of their eyes. )

They've always told us to keep our eyes open... do you play by that rule, too?

( he'll lean in, keep their face in position... and drag his tongue along one of their eyes —

yeah... YEAH... THIS IS WHAT IT MEANT. )

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[ me: crying as i gently lift lily off my laptop
lily: whaps me with her tail upon exit

ANYWAYS NPC-KUN IS GOING TO SQUEEZE THEIR EYES SHUT, THANK YOU, KOMAEDA CAN GET A TASTE OF THEIR EYELID

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whaps Komaeda on the flesh arm with their hand ]

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( NOT LILY'S ACTIONS SHOWING IN THIS THREAD I'M LAUGHING.

ow! ow! komaeda retracts his hand from their face, and he's going to rub it like he's actually been hurt. )

Nice reaction, I didn't think you'd move so fast. ( chuckles softly. ) What did you see...?

( nothing, which means it wasn't hidden there either! )