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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[commences]

Isn't that why you were attacking me in the dark?

( remember??? REMEMBER!!! )

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I was attacking a ghost!

[ -—wait ]

That wasn't aniki!

[ if that's what Komaeda is implying!!! that their brother is an evil spirit who goes around ripping people's arms off ]

[commences]

Hm? I know that, but who's saying I'm not the ghost?

( calm down, komaeda is aware of who aniki is... and he ain't no ghost, he's a... normal time jumper. )

Did the red eyes scare you...

( ruffles hair... )

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No.

[ But the way they wince when he reaches for their head adds no credibility to that claim, and they reach up and place their hands on his hand, so he stops ruffling. And so they can hold his hand there, just on top of their head. ]

See? You're not a ghost.

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...

( it's just one hand he has for them to hold, but komaeda allows them. his hand is cold as always, and he looks at them — well, as much as he can look within the dark. )

I don't think I'm good enough to become a butterfly, so a ghost will have to do.

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[ What is he talking about... oh. The fat ugly caterpillar becoming a beautiful butterfly, that must be it. Except he has no confidence he'll be able to emerge from the cocoon... sad... why does nobody have self-confidence ]

You can become a butterfly... It's okay. Sometimes you need help cutting it open.

[commences]

...? That would kill them.

( he does want to die though, but if he's going to die, it'll be on his own terms without help. you know, rokkun assisted in trying to kill komaeda one day too...

huh.

if he dies it's because of the aratas. )

My hope is stronger than that, I can only help myself.

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[ ? Oh, he means if you cut a cocoon open prematurely, all the goop will come out and it'll die. ]

Yeah, that's the spirit.

[ They believe in the Komaeda that believes in himself. ]

[commences]

Thank you, I'll let you know when I attempt to ( scoop out his own goop. ) kill myself.

( because that's the only want to become a proper ghost or, not even that... he'd rather be nothing, actually. )

Which will be a complete failure... because I have no hope, scum like me... useless to the very end.

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Depends on how you do it...

[ But no, not going to encourage this. ]

You're still useful to me, though.

[commences]

Because I have money.

( the obvious answer when he talks to npc-kun, because in that way, he's more useful than some people here. it doesn't bother him, because in the end what matters is their hope, not their greed. )

When I have no more, you'll stop talking to me?

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When you have no more, you will make more.

[ Or Else

or else...

...

they'll find some excuse to twist his arm, get him to pawn things, make it so he's working hard to make money for their sake ]

[commences]

( NOT OR ELSEEEEE. what is wrong w them. )

I'm not interested in making something I don't want, but is there a way... in the school, we only have merit points.

( tell him the hidden secret lore, is there something on his pda he can use to get real money? he's willing to look into it... )

Do you take those instead?

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The merit point system has no bearing on the outside world, only as an incentive by the school.

[ Like how the charity auction functioned, rewarding good students with items and services they can buy, and encouraging poorer students to work harder so they can better enjoy the auction the next year.

The exchange only works an entity— school or person— with a lot of money and need for points, and they are not that person. ]

I'm not a student. I'll take merit points, but I can't use them directly. I can only use them for the sake of somebody else.

[commences]

Hm... you must have a lot saved up, so it doesn't matter if a bit goes missing.

( yeah, that's how that works. )

What are you going to use them on for me?

( as if this is about him now, and that npc-kun has enough merit points to splurge on komaeda. most of the time, he'd think he wasn't good enough to have anything, but he doesn't really care at the moment. )

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No you can't have any, they're mine.

[ They're not in the business of giving things away for free!! or giving people presents or doing anything out of the goodness of their heart, there's an image they're trying to maintain and Komaeda won't sway them. ]

[commences]

( wow! why won't they share they probably have so much, and here they are acting as if komaeda doesn't deserve anything! yet, npc-kun has been a little tapeworm on him the entire time. )

...

( he's quiet now, maybe it's his turn on the silent treatment box. )

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[ ...

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npc-kun takes the gas mask and puts it on Komaeda's head. ]

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( ...

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komaeda sighs, his hand still on their head so he doesn't even try to stop it. )

You're supposed to borrow this, maybe you can wear it on Halloween.

( that's why he's lending it to them! )

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How am I supposed to get candy if I scare away all the candy givers?

[ Without moving from where they are, they reach around Komaeda's head and tries to tighten the straps without being able to see clearly and so they're not quite as gentle with Komaeda's hair as he was to theirs. ]

[commences]

...? Are you not going to dress up this year?

( why are they doing this? which komaeda lets them do, and he doesn't mind the tightness, it's nothing compared to the poison that forced itself down his throat, closing it as the tape muffled any air to escape. the tightness in his chest, the way his heart was loud and audible in his ears — )

It's dark.

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I don't know. I've never had a reason to.

[ Play dress up, go around begging for candy, they're not sure that's what they want to do. Dressing up other people is kind of fun, though... except when they lean back to survey their work, the gas mask is actually pretty scary still and they wish they didn't give it back. ]

Okay. Let's go.

[commences]

Halloween, you'll be with me for the second half.

( the first half he'll probably have plans, but he doesn't mind taking someone trick 'o treating. komaeda's used to the gas mask, so he can't see the way npc-kun is judging their work, but he'll wait for them to get off of him, and he'll lean up finally after laying on the floor so so long.

but he's just sitting there.

he needs his other arm.

... )

Give me your arm.

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[ ?

npc-kun crouches in front of Komaed and extends their arm, not like they were offering to help him stand. ]

[commences]

( he holds their arm, yanking it a bit. )

This one doesn't come off, where my arm?