September Event

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Autumn Semester

✽ School starts up again on August 30, and club supplies resume being replenished at the start of each week.
✽ All character run clubs survive the vetting process. Maya gives the jar of dragonflies to Hiro, who hot potatoes it to Nao, who opens the jar and sets them free outside. Maya will also tell Add that if his club damages any more of the school, she will shut down the Robotics & Programming Club. The cultists are delighted with their gifts and play rock-paper-scissors to determine who gets to keep what.
✽ The science club is shut down and disbanded due to their club project being interrupted and therefore incomplete, and the door to the lab will not open to any student. The club may be reinstated in the winter semester, and will be open to all students regardless of grade level.
✽ Posted all around the school are colorful posters painted by somebody who has no sense of color theory nor any idea what racoons, manta rays, or zebras look like. They advertise the student store, and its newest attraction:
✽ There is now a gacha machine set up outside the student store, which only takes tokens provided by the shopkeeper. Tokens are 1000 yen or 10 merit points each, and 99.99999% of the prizes are normal boring rocks, but there is a miniscule chance of winning rare gemstones. If you return 100 empty gacha capsules back to the shopkeeper for recycling, they will give you one free token.

Setting Updates

✽ The right fourth floor hallway will be cleaned up during the first few days of school, with the gorinto rocks lined up against the walls on either side, and enough structural support is done so the hallway is in no danger of collapsing.
✽ The rooftop on the right side of the school can be accessed via the stair up from the end of the fourth floor hallway. The rooftop on the left side of the school can be accessed via the windows on the fourth floor, where you have to lean out the window and pull yourself up somehow. The two halves of the roof are separated by the clock tower, and there is no railing. There are concrete dividers sectioning out part of the right side into what may have once been a rooftop garden.
✽ Touching the track for more than 2 seconds results in permadeath. If you're able to jump over the track to the field, the grass is lush and green, although it gives more than expected, like a lawn after rain.
✽ There are six ball courts with height-adjustable poles for tennis and volleyball. Very old, falling apart equipment can be found in storage in the auditorium, while brand new ones can be purchased from the student store. The courts are surrounded by 10-foot fall chain link electric fence both between and around them, with a voltage high enough to cause severe burns to death, depending on the duration of contact. Electricity flows through all parts of the fencing except the door handle on the side of each court to enter.
✽ The indoor swimming pool contains separate girls and boys changing rooms, each consisting of 5 changing stalls, 2 showers, a bathroom, and 20 small lockers that do not come with their own locks but you can purchase one from the student store. Swimsuits, floaties, and towels can also be purchased from the student store. The pool is 25 meters by 25 meters, with a shallow end of 3 ft which then drops precipitously towards the deep end, where a flimsy diving board is set up. The deep end seems to continue down for thousands of meters, with light quickly disappearing and pressure becoming immense, and there is no bottom. The water is held at a constant lukewarm, and is very very slightly tinged pink. It tastes strongly of saltwater. The only windows are located on the ceiling like a skylight rather than on the walls, and lights shut off at 6pm, so it is pitch black after sundown. The pool is always open.
✽ The dormitory is open to be moved into, with rooms assignments being ICly first come first served. There is no Resident Assistant in charge. It's a lawless land. Please use the toplevel below for sign-ups.

Autumnal Equinox

✽ September 23 marks the autumnal equinox. Like during the Vernal Equinox, students spend the week cleaning the school and gorintos are set upon the windowsills. Touching a gorinto causes the character to fall into a trance and experience the moments prior to death of the person being honored, up to and including the death, with all the physical and emotional pain that comes with it.
✽ On the morning of the equinox, red spider lilies bloom all across the courtyard and deep into the forest seemingly overnight. From the clock tower or rooftop, characters are able to see the forest surrounding them on all sides is entirely covered in the red flowers up to the crest, as if the entire land were awash with blood.
✽ The wisteria tree starts to shed petals, only a handful a day and impossible to notice compared to the hundreds upon thousands of petals held aloft by the tree, if it weren't for the fact that wherever a petal drops and touches the ground, the grass and flowers in the immediate vicinity are all dried up and dead.
✽ The void continues to grow, expanding outward and reaching up into the floor above.

OOC

✽ Characters in classes 1-B, 1-D, 1-E, 2-C, and 3-E (classes who rose at least one rank in August) find that in the void school, they can start to see the void students' faces instead of them being completely shadow. They look scared, angry, resigned, anything but happy.

Comments

[closewithnewintown]

[mildly] If Kokichi fell into the pool and started drowning, I would go get him a life preserver, but I'd have to think about it a little first.

... Well, you're not getting that. Can't you make some kind of hope from me hating his guts? You're good at that sort of thing.

[commences]

...You'd give it some thought, and his hope would have to hold out until you retrieved it! I like this concept.

( ultimates aren't say from his insanity, they just get praised more. ) Because he's an Ultimate, he's be able to overcome no matter how long you think.

( turning hatred into hope is so much easier than being told you like a person because you stripped away their chance of ever playing sports again. )

I can. But, you have to interact with him.

[closewithnewintown]

I was actually planning on doing the opposite, forever, for the rest of my life. So.

[commences]

Will that flame stay alive if you don't keep it in check?

( he smiles, yeah, it's hope time now, he's really excited for that. )

You are young, and known for forgiveness, but that motivation... that sort of hope is desirable too! As long as you don't give up... he even helped just that, you going this far to make a club... ah, I made the right choice!

[closewithnewintown]

[strained smile] See! Hope accomplished. Now I can avoid seeing his dumb face for however long my life is gonna end up being, and you don't have to feel bad.

[commences]

Hm? Feel bad... I don't really feel much about it, I just thought you were suffering from an inner conflict.

( that's right, he doesn't feel anything for anyone! all he wants is bonds and hope. though, rokkun normally has it easy making friends... - komaeda vision. )

About your club... what items are you going to ask for? Maybe a few hoops since everyone will run around like dogs.

[closewithnewintown]

Me? I'm fine. [she says, suddenly making a move to start tugging her diary back.]

Things to play different games! Soccer, baseball, basketball... I'm hoping to get Hiro to join, so I'm gonna ask for stuff to play lawn bowling. That's the sport he picked. Oh, and maybe a jump rope long enough to play jumping games...

[she sounds much more cheerful talking about sports than she did about rokkun, but also she is definitely trying to pull her diary back again.]

[commences]

( is talking about rokkun an allergen to stephanie, maybe he brings him back so she she doesn't tug. gained her spanking back over having freedom and talking about hiro, huh... )

This is mine, please stop tugging it.

( which he's not going to tug back because of how fragile it is, and the way she was before... it must be capable of ripping. )

Oh that sounds absolutely ( terrible ) your type of adventure, dreadful considering there's an electric fence.

( think rokkun knows how to turn it off )

[closewithnewintown]

It is literally mine. Even Stingy lets go once you point out that your name's on it! [are you worse than a klepto seven year old, komaeda

she just shrugs] The fields aren't much better... But, learning to be safe is a really important part about sports! So, I know we'll figure out something. [with minimal casualties]

[commences]

( isn't stingy komaeda coded, komaeda's a god compared to stingy, so efforts are doubled up. )

I'm Komaeda.

( and komaeda isn't letting up because he doesn't see a reason to. does she even need it now? she's supposed to be talking about the club... )

Then... what all do you have, if you don't have a compelling story to bring people here, the club won't form. I'm only one person, ah... but if you want my advice, blindfolds and watermelons are fun.

[closewithnewintown]

I know you are. [and that's the problem.]

What story does it need? It's just for having fun...

... And I just know I'll regret asking, but what exactly do you do with the blindfolds and the watermelon?

[commences]

Having fun is also a story, something that people can immerse themselves into... hm, just what they would get out of it, the sort of hope that'll grow from uniting together on the field to become a family.

( some lame ass bullshit like that to grind hope faster, it's usually better than just saying it'll be fun — why would it be fun? )

You never tried to whack a watermelon with your eyes covered? It takes only two people, or you can have a group to take turns.

[closewithnewintown]

...

Why?

[commences]

Have you never played Suikawari?

( he's a little surprised, it's a good children's game too. )

Whoever splits it open is declared the winner, and after... every piece is shared with those who took part in the activity. ( surprising komaeda knows something so tame? ) It's better for summer events, but... not many people got the chance to enjoy it, so I thought if you wanted to bring happiness...

( he pauses, looking off to the side like he shouldn't have even mentioned it, this is stephanie's ensemble after all. )

Nevermind, it must be pretty lame, so as you were saying?

[closewithnewintown]

... That actually sounds really nice. [she tries to keep the surprise from her voice but does not manage to stop her eyebrows from raising.] I've never heard of it before. We are all from different places, so the games we know will probably be a bit different.

... That might be fun. Everybody can bring the stuff they used to play back home and teach everybody else!

[commences]

It does?

( it sounds nice, or maybe he's surprised she's actually going with it. aside from that, it's just a small game he played on jabberwock, it was very... festive, so there's always something for them to do. )

If you're able to bring everyone together, you might yield positive results in motivating them that things aren't as bleak as they seem.

( but komaeda didn't say this, don't say he said anything. ) A moment of reprieve... for you and everyone else.

[closewithnewintown]

[pause]

I... don't think a whole lot of people would show up to an event I've planned right about now.

[commences]

...

( he's silent as he watches her, curious. )

Is that why you're the only one here? How does that make you feel...

[closewithnewintown]

It could also be you, scaring everybody away. [a shrug] I don't know. I was just trying to help everybody, but I can't make them accept that help. Everybody that's important will understand that.

[commences]

...? Should I not join, I'm capable of taking hints.

( he's going to get up with her diary like he's ready to leave, he scratches, both arms pointed to the sky ( the diary in his mechanical hand) as he leans back with a small crack. )

They were afraid.

[closewithnewintown]

I know that. All of you guys are. You treat your feelings like a monster in a closet.

[jumping and madly trying to grab her diary even as she talks like nothing is going on.]

[commences]

Half of them don't have have feelings, and as for others...

( he yawns softly, his other hand muffling the sound as he walks away from stephanie's jumping. he takes slow and steady steps, just in case she wants to hop after him. )

The amount of people who could have died in that room. If that was a trust exercise, sighs...

( he's walking to the electric fence. ) They'd lose hope in you forever.

[closewithnewintown]

What kind of trust exercise has people dy--

[she stops short, stumbles on a jump. stares at him.]

... Komaeda. What are you gonna do with my diary.

[commences]

I know, you think I'm horrible enough to toss it.

( he's not dumb, but it would help a lot of things if he did. )

Fortunately yes, but not right now, no... I want to touch it, how bad will the currents take a person out?

[closewithnewintown]

"Not right now" is really not the answer I want...

[she puts her hands on her hips.] If this place made it, it's built to kill you. Don't touch it.