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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As a shopkeeper, my name doesn't do anything for your sales, rather... it would do the opposite!

( so this means komaeda doesn't have to give away his name!! )

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[ ...That's true. Komaeda's kind of weird, so if they mention him being a regular customer maybe people will start avoiding their shop. ]

Okay. I'll just go "hey you" then.

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...A general you, I may not notice...

( as if he's fishing for something specific, or maybe he wants to see how much his time is valued... or he just likes to see the other make demands, komaeda's always like dealing with bossy people. )

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Not a general you. Yu.

[ Like the name, which they trace 友 in the air with their finger as one of the ways to write it.

"friend" ]

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( are they renaming komaeda, i am tearing up. but it does catch him off guard, staring in their direction, blinking... )

Really? Am I deserving of something like that?

( his parents didn't give him a nickname, hell, they didn't want to say his name if they could help it. the first time he got a nickname here was because of rika, and he took that pretty well even though it's different, just like this...

it always starts off different with him. )

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Hm? You don't have to deserve things. Just say yes or no.

[ If he likes it, he's Yu-kun. If he doesn't, there's a thousand billion other names npc-kun can go through and they'll find something acceptable, eventually. ]

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( part of me wants to see what names they go for, just because that's cute. )

...You can call me trash, garbage, waste, cockroach...

( but he mutters "yu" to himself, seeing how the name plays out on his tongue. )

Does it fit me? ( "yu" but they can say trash does too. )

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[ me, opening up my website of generic Japanese names and hitting randomize,

npc-kun hums a little to themselves, because not... really... They don't want to call him any of his suggestions, but it doesn't matter because Komaeda's opinion is now invalid. ]

Mmhm! Yu-kun fits you the best, because I chose it! So that's your name now!

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( that was the lucky name chosen for him, he'll have to deal. )

Do you think it rings a bell like... scum, I think that's pretty defining of me as well!

( he looks at the burner... he wants to touch it. )

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[ Um.

... ]

Yep, Yu-kun really is the best!

[ Gonna ignore Komaeda's suggestions and start the blender, WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I never remember what they're supposed to be doing unless you bring it up WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ]

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( they're making a drink for elizabeth's birthday or something, it has to be blue, and have disgusting things in it... but they're trying to make the beverage that's like alcohol, but isn't... with durian (coconot milk) carambola. )

...You ignored me.

( they sure did, but he's going to reach out to touch it with his organic hand, but pull away after tapping it just a bit — his fingers warm to the touch, that quick sting, he wants to do it again. )

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[ If he reaches for the stove again, npc-kun is going to slap his hand away, stop that. They power off the blender and just hands the entire pitcher to Komaeda. ]

Drink, Yu-kun.

[ He has to finish the whole thing. ]

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( ow...

he'll take it, but what color is it, how much is in the pitcher, because he's going to take it to the table nearby so he can sit it in the middle to stare at. is it better cold... or warm. )

Do we have ice?

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[ I imagine it's an ugly dark green brown, still piping hot and it maybe splashes everywhere when the lid is first unscrewed because of the built up steam inside, I know this by experience.

There's a whole liter to go through. ]

Ice would water it down. Don't insult my drink like that. You have to enjoy the whole thing as is.

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( alright, he'll look at npc-kun, and then he'll pick it up, bringing it to his lips as he tilts it up so that he can start swallowing it down... is it chunky, the substance.

it burns his tongue, scorches his throat that he thinks he's going to gain blisters, and other swollen lumps, and the fact that it's thick enough to fill his stomach... it moves, pushes, molds together inside...

hot... )

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( he closes his eyes, nodding to himself as he sets down the... extremely bitter beverage, strong on his tongue, and probably another cure to beat a disease that takes your sense of taste tbh...

he sets the pitcher down.

he looks towards npc-kun, leaning to the side... )

3/3

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( WHAM!

he falls onto the ground. )

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[ !!?!

npc-kun takes the time to move the pitcher a little further towards the center of the counter so it won't accidentally spill, and then crouches down in front of Komaeda.

...

Reaches into his pockets ]

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( since he's laying on his side, the pockets that npc-kun checks has nothing...

try again! )

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[ Hm. Scuttles around him to roll him over to his other side and check those pockets ]

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( grabs their arm before they reach into his pocket...

boo. )

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[ They yank their arm back with a yelp, falling backwards onto their ass so they can reflexively kick out at ...the ghost possessing Komaeda

... ]

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W- What are you doing?

( sighs, if they're going to kick him! at least kick him until he's dead...

which, komaeda has a little of the drink leaking from the side of his mouth, and it's not blood thank god! )

...I drunk it.

( ... ) I want seconds.

( ... )

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[ ... ]

I didn't do anything.

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Here.

[ They hop up onto their feet to take the pitcher and hand it over to Komaeda who is presumably still lying on the ground. Finish the rest.

... ]

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( they don't take it because... )

Your turn.

( drink it with him. )