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Entry tags:
- !event,
- blue exorcist: rin okumura,
- blue exorcist: yukio okumura,
- dangan ronpa: kiyotaka ishimaru,
- ensemble stars: subaru akehoshi,
- hanako-kun: nene yashiro,
- identity v: helena adams,
- mass effect: jane shepard,
- mass effect: tali'zorah vas normandy,
- mo dao zu shi: meng yao,
- original: sidney wolfe,
- the world ends with you: yoshiya kiryu
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.
✽ 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.
✽ 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.
✽ 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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Also how the fuck did that all happen anyway? He blinked and then his dad wasn't single anymore.
Which is not the point, at all, because Noah pales at the math and slumps into the chair in front of Clamor. He's failing calculus because he can't wrap his head around shit, Sara's already threatened him about it, he doesn't want to think about it any further.]
...can we study something besides math?
[He's guilty, okay.]
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Anyway, wow is Noah not even trying to hide his disdain for math. He taps his pen on the page where he hasn't started the next question yet.] Aww, come on. You're in the third-year classes, aren't you? This is the homework for first-years, surely that can't be enough to scare you.
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You know I didn't learn any of this growing up.
[But he learnt other shit, like the doctrine of Henir's Order! Which is cool! It's always neat to be spoon-fed things like "human experimentation is okay" and "no the needle won't hurt today". Et cetera.]
History is a lot better and a lot more fun anyhow. What are your history grades, huh?
[Child please stop deflecting and just accept math into your soul.]
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My history grades are pretty good. [though he'd be doing better if he hadn't kept getting distracted by other historical topics while trying to study the exam material... sometimes being a history nerd can be a detriment.] Sara told me you got a B.
[:) what else did Sara tell him..... its fine, he wants to hear what Noah says for himself first]
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So anyway let's talk about history and only that!]
Yeah, I got a couple answers wrong on the final exam... [plus there was that stint where he was refusing to do homework because he's Edgy and Goth and Sixteen] One of the questions was something like, um... "What came after 1816?" and I couldn't remember the answer so I wrote down "1817" and the teacher didn't find it all that funny.
[It was super funny to Noah at the time.]
Oh, and I got an A in art. [Not like it's hard. It's the only class he'd been passing since the beginning, and it's just an elective.] See, I'm passing classes.
[sir.]
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A B in history and an A in art... that just leaves everything else. [like... most of the classes. science, math, literature...] I'm glad you're doing well in some of your classes... but, aren't you worried at all? We're already halfway through the year... what do you think is going to happen if we make it all the way to graduation?
[people who graduate get to leave, supposedly... but what about the people who don't graduate? he's only a first year, so he'd probably just get bumped to second year, but as for Noah...
his smile falters a little, uncertainty creeping in. it's hard not to worry...]
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...I don't think graduation is based on grades is the thing. [A huff, and then Noah leans forward and folds his hands together on the table.] There was one student who graduated this year, don't you remember? The girl who was missing an arm. It's unlikely that the entire student body failed their classes... that doesn't add up.
[Most people Noah's spoken to in his classes seem to be pretty comfortable with their grades. He seems to be an outlier, a slacker, even if he's a third-year and really shouldn't be.]
...she probably killed her way to the top. Actually, speaking of graduation...
[Noah gets into his notebook for a second, pulling out an old-looking photograph that he's held onto
since I got this plot clue actuallyfor a while, the corners yellowed and bent even though he's had this in his notebook for Elria knows how long. He sets it on the table in front of Clamor and sighs.]Don't they look like a normal class to you?
[They do, in fact; there are twenty students in the photo wearing clean and crisp uniforms, holding diplomas, smiling like it's the happiest day of their lives. Scrawled on the back of the photo are the words: "Congratulations, 3-B! 03-23-199▓".]
Something... happened. This is just a normal graduation photo that I found tucked away in a romance book, [don't ask why he's been perusing romance books,] or what I'm assuming is normal, anyway. I don't think having only one student graduate like what happened this year is... correct, given this.
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... You're probably not wrong. About killing her way to the top.
Still... if grades didn't mean anything, don't you think more people would be focusing their efforts somewhere else? [like on murder... looks at how all our murders so far have been by PCs, uhhhhh] You can't pass if your grades are bad. Unless you plan on killing everyone, you're going to be at the bottom.
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...C in science because of Senku, [he's basically been interrogating Senku about things he's curious about lately,] C- in literature only because there was a book I really liked, but I can't wrap my head around all this literary analysis stuff, B+ in history as I said, D in math, A in art and gym. There.
[Pauses, slumps further into his chair until he's disappearing halfway underneath the table.]
...I'm not failing everything. Kind of... I started going to classes earlier in the year, at least! My science grades went from an F to a C!
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Clamor slides the photo back over, closing up his textbook at the same time. Maybe no math for today, it's gonna take a lot of work to improve that grade...]
Which book was it? [or what was it about, same diff]
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I don't remember what it was called, but it was a historical novel about the life of some kind of swordsman called a samurai. It was really long. [Noah sets his hands on the table, palms facing each other, as he measures out the length of this book mentally.] It was good, though. The samurai in the novel had a... [snaps his fingers in thought for a second, then,] wa... wakizashi, I think it is? Which apparently was rare for samurai to wield back then.
[Noah goes on a mini ramble about the book for a good fifteen minutes, then settles on,]
I just don't get the point of the literary analysis parts of the exams. I read every book they give me, but then the teacher asks for the symbolism behind the curtains being blue — they're just blue curtains, why does it have to have some deep meaning?
me continuing this thread with context now like
You're talking about Musashi, right? I think I read part of that once... it seemed pretty good. [too bad he never got around to finishing it]
Hah, I'll let you in on a little secret—you can make up anything you want for the analysis. All you have to do is make it sound convincing. There's no right or wrong answer so whatever you put down doesn't matter, it's all about how good you are at lying about it.
[he's pretty good at bullshitting on his essays.]
bites you (affectionate) (also derogatory)
Oh, you read it? [Pauses... yeah that makes sense, with how much Clamor hangs out in the library. They might be in different grades, but Noah's seen copies of class books hanging around the shelves, so.] You know what I'm talking about, then.
[And then.
Hm.
Uh.]
Oh... c...can you? [Little weird but go off — maybe those are Pro Tips from Clamor's College Days™.] Maybe I was just trying too hard to be right... I didn't try bullshitting stuff.