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adsum ([personal profile] adsum) wrote in [community profile] yogen2021-09-04 06:11 am

September Event


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.
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2-a.

[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-06 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[swimming is perhaps the best form of exercise she can manage here, and it's fun as well! she's taking a breather after her most recent length, but a voice reaches her, and she pulls herself a little more up on the side to reply.]

Oh yes, it's very fun! I hardly expected this to be here, but it's been so nice...

[but the mention of hungry makes her also consider.]

Whatever you've brought, have you brought enough for yourself as well?
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-06 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
( nene crouches to set the tray down. there's some fruit slices, and rice balls if something sweet isn't too appealing at the moment- but when nene takes a look at the older girl, it's... huh. she's definitely seen helena around, didn't she also have a cane...? maybe she had trouble seeing? would it be rude to ask- )

Uh-huh. There's some apples and oranges, and rice balls. I thought lemonade would be nice too, but I can go get something else instead? Oh- I'm Nene Yashiro, by the way. I don't think we've talked yet.
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-06 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Miss Yashiro...no, I don't believe we have, but I've heard your name in passing. Let me...

[keep a hand to the wall, but swim across it until she gets to a ladder so she can climb out. close to where that is, a folding chair sits with a towel and her cane resting with it. this she trusts hasn't been moved, so she can take the short walk over to get what she needs and dry some of the water from her hair.]

I'm Helena. Helena Adams - it's nice to meet you.
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-07 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! You made the roommate post. I hope you found a good match!

( she hopes ishimaru found a good match too, especially with komaeda doing... komaeda things. she'd have offered, but ishimaru was clear on rooming with boys, so? yeah. can't help there. nene picks up the tray again to move it closer for helena, so she doesn't have to get up again until she wants to swim more. )

How's the pool? I haven't gone swimming yet.
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-07 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
It's been good so far - though I'm sure it's filled with saltwater as opposed to fresh.

[she shrugs, because what can you do in this school? a thank you is automatic as she feels for a drink of lemonade, taking a sip before continuing. it's wonderful - especially compared to the month's offerings before, and it's almost like this place isn't terrible.]

Actually, I was hoping I could meet with you sooner rather than later. You're president of the Gardening Club, yes?
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-08 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Saltwater...? That's odd... ... Maybe we're close to the ocean? But the forest... ugh, why's geography hard.

( but she quits her grumbling to watch helena's movements carefully, and then glances at the tray. )

The rice balls are to the left of where the glass was, and the fruit slices are a little further back, okay?

( was that. was that rude? is she being presumptuous? heck. but oh, that's curious- perking up, nene leans in slightly, gripping the edge of her own seat lightly. )

I am! Is something up? ............ Did one of the guys do something weird-
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-09 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing of the sort, I promise.

[she heard that as clear as day, but smiles regardless.]

The roof of this school - I've been up there several times, and if I'm not mistaken, there's remnants of what could be a garden up there. I'm sure no one at all would mind if your club decided to bring it back, so you wouldn't have to be restricted to just what grows in pots.

[even if it was just to grow a shrub, it could still be made beautiful.]

I wanted to bring it to you first, before someone else saw it and decided to use the space for something else.
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-10 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
( on the roof... plots? plots of land not connected to the courtyard? would it- holy crap they could have fresh vegetables. as nene listens, she can't help but grow more and more excited, almost kicking her feet- she wants to bring it up to lucifer and natsume too, but oh my god she wants to do this. )

That- I had no idea! I hadn't gone up yet, that's incredible! Sakasaki-senpai and I were talking about wanting more room when the club first started- oh gosh, it might be a bit too late to plant things right now, with it already being fall, but- no, maybe tomatoes would be fast enough? Even then, we could still get things cleaned up-- thank you for telling me!

( E X C I T E D ! )
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-10 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Of course! I'm just glad that I could bring you some good news.

[sipping the lemonade again, she beams, imagining all it could hold.]

There's no harm in trying to see what might take root, though we've left summer behind. You could end up quite surprised - one should always hope for the best, right?
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-11 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I think there's some good fall vegetables- oh gosh, aren't there things that are good to plant just before winter so they'll take root in spring? I need to check... Ah, that's assuming anything grown up there would be safe to eat.

( beat. )

The gardener told Sakasaki-senpai that anything grown in the courtyard would be unsafe to eat. We don't know why.
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-12 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
It might be because of the tree. Given how big it is...wouldn't it take all the nutrients in the soil?

[she's just wildly guessing. gardening isn't her area of specialty.]
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-12 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
I'd like to think it's more mundane. But I think the produce grown in the courtyard is supposed to be poisonous...? Which feels harder to explain.

( natsume didn't necessarily explain what he or kazuki meant... )

I'd have to ask... I never think to ask follow up questions.
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-12 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Bad soil, then? Or bad water...I've heard that things grown with bad water will inherit the same qualities...

[setting the glass back on the tray, she reaches for an apple slice.]

Which makes me wonder where you could get enough soil.
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-12 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Hm... I wonder... the water in the pool is salt water, right? It could be both.

( suddenly sad helena can't see that she made apple rabbits... oh well. )
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-14 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[she can feel the shape, though, and pauses while her fingertips trace it before she smiles. she knows! she appreciates the effort.]

Well, whatever the cause, maybe these beds aren't doomed. And if you're truly worried, I volunteer to be the test subject to make sure things aren't poisoned.
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-14 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
O-oh no, no, I couldn't ask that of you- ( she's not natsume. and you're not komaeda. not that nene knows about that incident, but still. ) I-I'm sure there's safer ways to determine that!
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-15 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
I already told Miss Rika I'd do something like that, to prove her wrong! I might as well commit to it.
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-16 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
Rika-chan's hardcore...

( and so is helena, holy shit. )

W-well, I can at least ask the gardener about it too, so we might not have to take that risk.
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-16 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the second time you've mentioned a gardener...I didn't know that we had one. Or rather, that they would speak with us.

[she's heard no indication of one at all. this is the first conversation to mention them. but in her heart, she can't help the associations of such a word - warmth, and gloved hands, and the scent of cut plants.]
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-17 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh- um. Sorry? Or-- aaaah... Kazuki-san shows up at night, but it can be hard to catch him. Your best shot is during the full moon, I think.

( she really doesn't know- she knows he shows up to others outside of those who couldn't see the supernatural, but not when. )

He's really nice, but he can be kind of cryptic... I don't think he does it on purpose. He gave me flower seeds once, before the club started.