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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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...
Once they find a brand new sketchbook with no creepy drawings inside, npc-kun separates a page and lays it flat on the floor, goes to a different supply closet and returns with some brushes stuck in their pocket and a box they have to lug over with some effort and set on the ground with a thud. ]
Acrylics!
[ Easy mode is paint ]
With paint, you don't have to worry about coloring inside the lines, because there are no lines. If you're a messy painter, even better, because it adds textures to the piece. And if you don't like how something turns out, you can just paint over it and it adds depth. It's very forgiving!
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anyway, amami's gonna crouch down and start digging through the box they've gone through all that trouble to bring out. what's in here? paint? amami wants pink and blue... he'll eye the greens a little bit, too. )
You think so? I would've thought paint would be harder, but I guess that just goes to show how much I know. When you put it like that it sounds like I'll be able to create a masterpiece.
( a mess that's been painted over 20 times and still has a wobbly outline that's difficult to identify as anything beyond "creature"? it's just.... abstract. that's all. )
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npc-kun flops onto their stomach with their paper in front of them, never mind the wonky perspective this is going to cause, and watches Amami sift through the paints to have his first pick. There is nothing red or red-adjacent, but there is plenty of light oranges and bright blues and every other color. ]
It's going to advertise my shop, so it has to be! [ only the best!! ] I asked you because I know you can do it!
[ just look at this ...bioluminescent sea slug... they're trying to think of what animal on their list is green but maybe Amami's just starting with the manta ray's friends ]
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Haha, yeah. I can't let you down if it's that important, so I'm gonna do my best.
( the best... his best... probably interchangeable. his smile is bright either way, though his brows scrunch together a moment later as he keeps digging through the box.
mumbles something or another about someone taking all the reds because apparently "science and art clubs collab on blood paintings" was something that was missed when catching him up on the plot, but anyway... he's going to aim for the reddest-orange he can find, which may not actually end up being the peach he's aiming for or even very red at all, but at least he'll have tried. need some white too, probably. it's fine, he knows what he's doing — shiny english raccoon.
hopefully there's a palette or something with paint already on it he can grab too, so when he sits down on the floor next to them, he can start pouring out generous amounts of each colour to start. )
I think I've got a pretty good idea for zebras, but do you wanna draw me a raccoon and a manta ray? I probably couldn't get the details right on them from memory.
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npc-kun has full confidence in him, though, and didn't expect anything too detailed anyways, acrylics aren't really great for that, especially with the globs of paint Amami believes he's going to need. ]
Are you good at zebras? Zebras are harder than the others— they have those backwards knees and everything.
[ Racoons are just a blob with stripes. Manta rays are just a blob with a tail.
But they do provide reference, dipping their finger into Amami's dark blue and tracing out a raccoon and manta ray. ]
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Zebras are easy to remember the pattern for. They're just horses with stripes.
( remember the stripes and you can make it look like a zebra. forget which part of the raccoon to put the stripes on and probably not that many people will know exactly what it is. a lemur, maybe?
not that the orange blob he starts putting onto the paper is much better, mind you, but the reference helps. )
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They have a bristle mane, though, and their tails aren't long and pretty like horses are. They're a bit stockier, and the ears are more floppy than pointy—-
[ wait, this whole thing was supposed to bolster Amami's confidence, not tear it to shreds ]
But it looking like a horse is the most important part! It's impressive. Most people don't get the knees right.
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( not that amami knows the name of the specific type of horse that usually ends up with a spiky mane when people cut it, but he knows there is at least one. well, he's always been more of a boat guy than a horseback guy, even when he's done both. for now he goes quiet for a moment, trying to use up the last of the orange paint on his brush so that he can swap it out for some of the blue-green that he's set up to the side instead. also trying to remember the last time he saw a zebra. hmm... )
I could compare them to a donkey instead. Would that be better?
( it's about the shape!! not that his current rendition lives up to even that much, if that's what they're hoping for. )
You know a lot about animals don't you, Kamo-kun?
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[ OH NO I'M DELIGHTED AND SO IS NPCKUN it's not a zebra but this is even better ]
I know lots about lots of stuff.
[ Which isn't exactly them bragging, but it is, maybe, a little. Since the outlines are done, they're going to take the rest of the orange paint so they can make their raccoon orange and blue too. Matchies... ]
...Dad had a lot of books at home, and I had a lot of time, so I read all of them.
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I'm not surprised. Before, you knew about that Mimosa...
( ...thing. whatever it was called. he forgets the rest of the name, so he kind of trails off there actually and starts to tear the page out of the sketchbook instead. thoughtful hum. pretty sure these are supposed to be posters? and even if not, it's for kamo-kun anyway, so. anyway! )
Did you have a favourite?
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A favorite... Oh! There was this encyclopedia with a white cover and silver holographic edges. I don't remember the publisher anymore, but it was my first big book! I had to climb on the desk and stand on five other big books to reach it!
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An encyclopedia, huh. I'll bet you'd win a fortune on a trivia show.
( jeopardy's around in the nineties, right? pretty sure it is. the pick feels like it explains a lot, actually. )
If it's a reference book, you think they'd have it in the library here?
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Maybe. But I don't have a lot of time to read anymore... I have a job.
[ a 24/7 job and ugh, capitalism ]
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You had time to come here with me. ( look at them, not even within eyeshot of their shop's front door and they're doing okay! )
Besides, people are more efficient when they take breaks. There's always time to do things if you enjoy them.
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[ ... ]
It's an investment. Because we're making posters.
[ So they can be away from their shop today, because what sales they miss out today, they'll receive ten-fold once school starts and everybody can see their orange and blue raccoons.
Reading, on the other hand, is simply self-indulgeant. ]
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( maybe kamo-kun just isn't in the mood for studying, and that's fair. he'll let them off the hook for now. )
How about you give me some recommendations then? I could use a little more to do in this place.
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Their recommendations are encyclopedias... ]
Hmm... What's something you don't know anything about, but want to? That's always a good place to start. Or if you're bored and don't feel like reading, you can always advertise my shop for me.
[ You know what's a good use of your time? Promoting rocks. ]
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Speaking of which, you know about the occult club here, right? They're unofficial, but I'll bet they'd be interested if you brought some things over to them the way you did with survival club. Clamor seemed pretty keen on the tiger's eye you gave me before, and he's one of the ones in charge there, so.
( there you go, some suckers who would absolutely invest all their merit points and money into rocks. clamor might also be into encyclopedias, but that's neither here nor there. )
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Clamor can't have your rock. I sold it to you.
[ It's like regifting, except it wasn't a gift. The concept of it is still rude. ]
And if Clamor's interested and he's in charge, then I don't have to advertise to them. They'd come regardless. The ones I have to work hard for are the ones who don't know... That's why I wanted your help with this.
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( look, if he reaches into his pocket even now, he can pull it out and show them. safe and sound and with him probably 100% of the time, see? )
It doesn't sound like I get any points for getting Clamor interested either. ( tough crowd! ) Guess I'll just have to keep it up in that case.
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npc-kun reaches out to take the rock from Amami's hand, running their thumb over it and holding it up to the light from the window, and they can't help but smile a little at it. Even if they're trying to get rid of all these rocks... they're still very pretty. This was a good choice. ]
That's right. Please continue to work hard for my sake.
[ ...
They hand the rock back. ]
I do appreciate it, though. You need to know.
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he watches pretty fondly as kamo-kun inspects their little rock, smiling softly at it, and maybe amami's a little fonder of it too when he sees the way they look at it. )
Don't worry about it. You've got a ways to go to meet your goal, right? I still want to see it, y'know.
( so he's got to help them make it happen, just like he said. )
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[ Charging for things like laundry tokens and rock gacha, yes, it can only get better from here. They know better than to have their eyes set on the end goal and miss what's in front of them, so they bring their attention back to Amami's paper, finding a blank spot next to the raccoon and pointing at it. ]
You sign here.
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( any pens around here? amami's gonna take a quick glance, and then move to grab the nearest one, taking a moment to sign R. Amami where they've indicated for him in a small but neat scrawl that... probably doesn't actually look very neat to them, considering the auto-translate going on here, so i'll just font-family:times; it instead of using the actual font. good enough! )
It'll be hard miss these, so at least nobody will be able to say they didn't know about the store.
( kind of grinning — he can give himself that much credit. )
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[ They sign theirs too, in kind of bubbly handwriting, but it's just their first name. Keigo. ]
It's like what my sister would always say: what makes art good isn't that it's pretty, but that it catches people's attention and makes them stop and think. That's the point of art. And why I know you'll be a good artist.
[ And also why they chose him to advertise despite his lack of art skill. These are definitely going to grab people's attention and make them stop and stare, and they couldn't ask for anything better. ]
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