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]

( 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. )

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

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

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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. ]

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...? 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.

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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.

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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. ]

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

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

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[ It can come off, if Komaeda pulls hard enough, but they're going to take it back before he does. ]

Oh... I put it behind the counter so the ghost couldn't take it.

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...Can I have my arm?

( stop, their arm is too small for komaeda, he already has to take add's arm when it comes off. why does no one have a stylish junko arm for him to have... like the old days. )

I'll wait here.

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You're not going to come with me?

[ But the hallway is dark ]

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I can't see, the mask makes it hard. I'm better off until you come back.

( it's extra dark with the gas mask... )

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[ No. He's not going to make them walk down a dark hallway by themselves. And then walk back through the dark hallway to Komaeda. And then down a third time to get back to the store with him and THAT'S BULLSHIT HAVING TWO ARMS DON'T MAKE THE DARK GO AWAY ]

You don't need to see. You have me.

[ To latch onto his arm and pull him forward and pray with all their heart and soul that this one doesn't fall off too. ]

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( they'll never know if they don't try, and besides, maybe the arm has a flashlight. yama did say that hinata wouldn't make a second rate arm, so it has to have the universal necessities like the complimentary horror flashlight for in the dark.

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Do I? I didn't expect such warmth and kindness after being attacked, but I wouldn't complain... that was a hopeful situation!

( being beat until he bled and had to lick his lips from it spilling, and then god know how his head is going to feel later. )

Up we go! ( he stands up rather well, only because he sat down on purpose just to see if the other would do something. ) Whoo! You did it! So strong!

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[ They look confused for a moment, but then breaks out into a grin, because yeah! They did it! They're very strong! Very much immediately latching to Komaeda's arm. ]

Hehe... You should be honored to bask in my warmth and kindness. I'm going to walk you all the way down the hall so you don't get lost.

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( they're allowed to have his arm, and he won't try to take it away, instead he waves his nub to make sure that his sleeve doesn't get caught on anything as they walk together. )

Is there anyone else you treat like this, it's almost like you have no faith in me...

( his voice muffled by the gas mask, and he looks around in the smudged darkness that he can't make out. complete darkness, but there's someone else here with him, and he's surprised... normally they wouldn't trust komaeda like this. he's a murderer, so they think negatively enough. )

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[ Sometimes people are murderers... The most important thing to them is the knowledge that is that they're cute, and so nobody would ever dare kill them, and therefore they're safe.

Besides, they beat a ghost. Nobody will dare mess with them. ]

Aniki used to let me... But here, I'm a shopkeeper and shopkeepers aren't supposed to do this with their customers.

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( and bounded by hinata and amami deathpact, so npc-kun has to stay safe like always.

also, after they beat the ghost up, and they'll see multiple bruises on komaeda as soon they find some good light. )

Is that the person I remind you of... is this why you're comfortable enough despite being a shopkeeper?

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[ stopppppppp that was the ghost beating Komaeda up, not them, you can't convince them otherwise ]

Sort of... It was a long long time ago. But he took care of me when Dad wasn't around to, and you sort of feel the same, because you talk to me.

[ The key to npc-kun's heart: give them attention ]

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( like how the pages with the math answers is still sitting where the suncatchers are because they don't believe the riddle was that easy? )

Wouldn't that make him more special than that, I don't understand siblings... but I had my own kids, so isn't there a bond greater than what you could share with anyone else?

( anyone could talk to npc-kun, but isn't blood thicker than water, or whatever they say. )

Hm... but you aren't wrong.

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[ alsfdkhj they're never going to find it until they sell a suncatcher and a piece of paper flutters down and they pick it up and go ??? and toss it in the trash ]

A bond's not that strong when the other person isn't there. Then, it's just a thread.

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( they really said... i can't remember his name and Garry Gilmore comes to mind and i know that's not his name, but they said that mathematician can have rights. )

Many people hang by a thread and still survive, shocking those who didn't think they'd make it... I never said those threads couldn't be tied together... You're strong, you know?

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[ Anyways, ]

Is this that friendship thing?

[ Make a bunch of superficial threads instead of finding an older sibling figure and latching on like a leech ]

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If that's what you make of it, everyone reads things differently, and make their own opinions despite what anyone else says.

( let him tap his chin in thought which is the arm that they're holding onto, until komaeda realized they're attached. he really needs his other arm back. )

Do you think it's a friendship thing?