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yogen2021-08-05 12:02 am
closewithnewintown) wrote in yogen2021-08-05 12:02 am
give your friends a surprise
Who: EVERYONE
What: FAMILY MEETING
When: 8/4, right after school closes.
Where: Student council room
Warnings: Eventually, probably.
["If my friends back home were acting like this, I would've already locked them in a room and forced them to figure out their feelings."
the job puts all of her considerable superspy skills to the test. she knows where every normal kid's locker is; it's easy enough to slip the note into each that morning. if it's someone who she knows would be unable to read the note, she tells them its contents, but keeps her own involvement out of it. lies of omission don't count.
the note reads:]
I have very important information about this place. Please come to the student council room after school ends today.
- Nao Sato
[and if the text looks just a bit girlier than you'd think she'd write, hey, you don't know her. she's got layers.
either way, it's a pretty interesting proposition: the student council room door is, for the first time in seemingly ever, wide open. anyone can walk inside - and, hopefully, most everyone should. because it's only when Stephanie thinks that she's got enough of them inside that she actually enters the room, shutting the door behind her.
click.
it locks. she grins, spins the key on her finger, and slips it into her pocket.
"How are you supposed to do that with grownups?"
the exact same way, she's decided.]
We haven't had any meetings since, um. Well. The last one. But, I'm pretty sure nobody has no more murders to report, so it shouldn't be too bad, and we can all just focus on the most important task: Getting along! All of us are on the same team, but most of us barely even know each other; some of us even hate some of the others! [SHE SAYS, LIKE SHE DOESN'T ACTIVELY DESPISE KOKICHI] So, I figured we could spend the evening fixing that problem. Play some games, talk about stuff we've discovered since the last time...
And, maybe, if everybody does a really good job, I'll unlock the door!
[smiles]
What: FAMILY MEETING
When: 8/4, right after school closes.
Where: Student council room
Warnings: Eventually, probably.
["If my friends back home were acting like this, I would've already locked them in a room and forced them to figure out their feelings."
the job puts all of her considerable superspy skills to the test. she knows where every normal kid's locker is; it's easy enough to slip the note into each that morning. if it's someone who she knows would be unable to read the note, she tells them its contents, but keeps her own involvement out of it. lies of omission don't count.
the note reads:]
I have very important information about this place. Please come to the student council room after school ends today.
- Nao Sato
[and if the text looks just a bit girlier than you'd think she'd write, hey, you don't know her. she's got layers.
either way, it's a pretty interesting proposition: the student council room door is, for the first time in seemingly ever, wide open. anyone can walk inside - and, hopefully, most everyone should. because it's only when Stephanie thinks that she's got enough of them inside that she actually enters the room, shutting the door behind her.
click.
it locks. she grins, spins the key on her finger, and slips it into her pocket.
"How are you supposed to do that with grownups?"
the exact same way, she's decided.]
We haven't had any meetings since, um. Well. The last one. But, I'm pretty sure nobody has no more murders to report, so it shouldn't be too bad, and we can all just focus on the most important task: Getting along! All of us are on the same team, but most of us barely even know each other; some of us even hate some of the others! [SHE SAYS, LIKE SHE DOESN'T ACTIVELY DESPISE KOKICHI] So, I figured we could spend the evening fixing that problem. Play some games, talk about stuff we've discovered since the last time...
And, maybe, if everybody does a really good job, I'll unlock the door!
[smiles]
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[ Minato smiles a beat after Amami does, as if in response to the smile rather that any real happiness. It softens to a more genuine one, though, when the rock is in his hands and— do not say this was nobody else's immediate thought when they see a rock like this— tries to poke his pinky through the hole.
It doesn't fit.
Looking a little disappointed, he sighs and lifts the rock to his eye, peering through the hole at Amami, and looks a little more disappointed. ]
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Sorry, what you see is what you get.
( for him, at least. )
A better example of what it does would probably be in the courtyard at night. I've been meaning to check the library, too.
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[ Quite the opposite; Minato's appreciative of people who are exactly how they seem, so he doesn't have to go through the trial and error of figuring a person out so he doesn't say something that makes them angry.
Without lowering the adderstone, he turns left and right to peer about the room, focusing his narrow field of vision on each person's face. ]
What do you see in the courtyard? Or the library?
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In the courtyard, there's a pretty dangerous looking creature that wanders around at night. When they talk about "the gardener," or "Kazuki" — it might be something like his true form. Tanaka-kun mentioned this at our last meeting, but it's looking like he's the reason our access to the outside is so limited.
( can't really see why you'd fake being a monster if your true from was the human half, y'know. )
As for the library, not sure yet. Call it a hunch, but I think there might be something to find in there though, if you look hard enough.
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Being able to talk to him would be nice...
[ He holds the stone out to Amami, having surveyed every face in the room, and diligently reports his findings as requested: ]
I didn't see anything unexpected here. Maybe there's another creature in the library making it so people can't talk? [ or hear, all of that ]
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( or something like that. anyway, amami accepts the stone back, looking satisfied enough with the findings and pocketing it now that minato's gotten his free trial. )
As for Kazuki, he didn't strike me as much of a conversationalist when I did, but he's willing to chat a little if you can see him.
( in human form, at least — has yet to give that a shot in monster mode. )
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...Have you asked him to let everybody go?
[ Maybe he'll say yes! Maybe he doesn't have to die. ]
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( sounds like the kind of answer someone who has to die would give, not gonna lie. )
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[ can't believe not answering questions is grounds for murder now ]
Maybe he doesn't know. Or we're supposed to figure it out ourselves... like a quest in a video game.
[ There's some sort fulfillment in solving things on your own, anyways, compared to answers being handed to you. But this is also optimism speaking. ]
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in any case, amami will still offer up a smile that looks almost apologetic. )
If you think he could help us, I'm not against it.
( he just hasn't so far, and gives out poison plants, and hear me out on this theory about his tree... but if there's a good alternative to the suggestion hanako will (has?) propose(d?), he's more than happy to give it a try. will give it some thought, at least. )
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[ For Minato, being able to help or not doesn't factor into his inclination to talk to people, admittedly because he doesn't really talk to people so much as people talk at him. ]
But I think... people don't have to provide answers to be helpful. Listening to their problems, listening to their joys... spending time together... small things like that can be helpful too. Somehow.
[ Monster can't eat you if you're friends with the monster, or something. ]
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( there's a "you got me there," kind of feeling to his words, but he doesn't sound too bothered by the fact. well, if anything, he'd say he's more disappointed in himself for jumping conclusions, but... even then, it was the very desire to learn more about him before acting that kept amami from making any rash decisions about kazuki to begin with.
it feels like he's getting a bit ahead of himself here though, expression shifting to something more friendly again. )
Sorry, I just realized I didn't introduce myself. I'm Rantarou Amami, class 3-B.
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[ If by visiting he means he was kidnapped and is here hopefully temporarily and has no idea what's going on. Though, much of his life has been transient with no idea what's going on, so he can't really call it that either. ]
...I've heard bits and pieces of what's going on. Dunno how much help I can be, but I'd like to.
[ That's why he's here, at this meeting. ]
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( he's just... chilling... and choosing to live in the school? really? wait — is this how the native students feel about them? there's a moment for amami to process this, but honestly, it's a little impressive. being willing to go that far for a friend is, anyway. )
Oh, but anyway, it's fine. ( about the helping bit. ) We're doing our best with what we have, so just having someone else around who gets the situation is already something.
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[ It's not like there's anywhere else for Minato to go, bound to the confines of this school just like all the others. But even if there's a whole wide world out there for him, he suspects he would stay close to the only person he knows anyways. Even if, as he is, he feels like a drain on the limited resources there are here. ]
There's really nothing? I'm good at [ killing ] fighting, and I was the top of my grade.
[ Academics and fighting ability, all you need to get through high school ]
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( top of his grade? good at fighting? amami doesn't even really tend to show up to situations that would require those, never mind actually being particularly good at either of them. as far as he's concerned, he's pretty uselessly average himself, so they can be deadweights together. )
Actually, some of the others seem pretty dedicated to their studies, even here. If you don't know where to start, there's always that.
( honourary study club member minato? )
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[ Do homework, get paid in food? It sounds profitable, at least it will when school starts back up again. ]
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( not that he knows who's in it. just seen, y'know, the posters and stuff. amami's never been too much for book-studying, so the details haven't really stood out to him enough to stick. )