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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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[ She rips her hand away to gesture down at npc-kun with frantic motions. This kid's sister absolutely isn't talking about art like this! ]
Being bad at art is fine, but everyone who see's me draw just acts like it never happened! I've been trying to improve...can you at least tell what it is?
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[ ...
Anyways, they sit and chinhand at the artwork. It's very... wow. ]
Are you just practicing? Can I have your practice pieces? I'll give you first choice of groceries if you say yes!
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[ She has plenty of paper and markers here, so it's not like it would be hard. Her practice sketches...well she's probably been burning them with Sou's lighter when he's not around so he doesn't come in and make any smart comments. ]
...Do you have strawberry jam this time?
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If it's on the shopping list, I've got it! I'll trade you jam for a drawing of an alligator. Deal?
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Any type is fine really...I just like strawberry best. Or red bean paste...
[ She waves her hand though, because she's not going to really demand much for something so simple, and crouches down to the ground. It takes a few seconds to pick up a green marker and a white sheet of paper and then she's leaning over and drawing...something on the page, before holding it up for npc-kun to see.
It's not really clear if Sara understands what an alligator is, but she did add a lot of teeth to the drawing, and a very long tail. ]
Er...like this? I can try again if you don't like it.
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Ooh... No, I like it! I won't say no if you want to draw me another one, though!
[ They lean in to point at the lots and lots of teeth ]
See? You've captured the essence of an alligator. Anybody can tell what it is. Good art doesn't have to look like the real thing, or it'd be boring and people would be better off taking photos instead.
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[ Nobody, literally nobody, has ever said that about Sara's art before. Even back in middle school when she thought she was just average. Its enough to make her blush and fiddle with the paper before offering it up to npc-kun. ]
It's not a big deal. I can do as many as you want? [ She brought a lot of paper and canvas from the art room, just a reminder that there are real actual artists at this school that npc-kun can talk to any time. ]
I've never thought about art like that. Did your sister say that too? She sounds like an admirable sibling.
[ She doesn't really have the heart to tell npc-kun that she's not really much of an artist in spirit, and basically only wants to know how to draw cute things so she can finally add cute girly doodles to her notebooks, like any proper high schooler. But its not hard to uncap the pen and draw npc-kun a bigger, and toothier gator.]
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Mmhm! She's the best! When I was little, she'd say stuff like this whenever I got discouraged that I couldn't put down on paper what I see in my head. She said not to worry about how it looks or what other people think— just draw lots and lots and lots and the practice will make you better!
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Woah, really? [ What a cute story, Sara can't help but smile as she hands npc-kun the finished gator...or whatever that collection of triangles is supposed to be.] A confident, cool, older sister, huh? I'm jealous of her! Draw lots and lots...with that kind of motto, I'm sure the two of you went pretty far.
[ She sits back on her heels and offers npc-kun a piece of paper. Screw your deliveries, just come hang! ] Do you want to draw something then? I want to see the results of all the training.
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GROUND FLOOR ACROSS FROM THE LIBRARY
BRING LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY!
Anyways, it's advertisement. A "confident, cool, older sister" paints a different picture in their head, but it's still true and they grin their agreement— until Sara asks them to draw something and all that energy deflates a little.
...
They pick up that same marker and draws an alligator. ]
Like this? There's the teeth and the long tail, but also the scutes on the back— that's the bumpy part. And they have rounder snouts compared to crocodiles.
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They don't seem very excited though...are they afraid Sara is going to make fun of them? As if she'd be the type to spit on anyone's hard work!]
It's cute... Don't look so down, I really like it! You must have worked hard to study the spirit of gators! I'm sure your sister is proud!
[ Sara leans over, tracing a finger along the outlines of the alligator, and then picks up another piece of paper and starts trying to copy how npc-kun is drawing it. Scutes...she is trying to draw them.]
You're the second kid I've met who really likes gators...are they a fad right now?
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I hope so! Thanks a bunch!
[ At least they don't ask her to sign the art like they did with Amami, but there's reasons why they don't just draw everything themselves and put their art up on display.
They settle down at the edge of the table and once they realize what Sara's doing, copying their work, they smile a little bit— though it drops when she asks her question and they look up at her. ]
They're chompy. What's not to like? [ ... ] Who else like gators?
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Gin Ibushi. He's not here but he's a very reliable friend of mine back home. A bit younger then you. He's got brown hair, wears a cute little cape...and he talks like this, woof! [ She raises her hands to imitate the ears on Gin's hoodie. ] He's a brave kid, meow! I always know I can depend on him.
At first, I thought he'd like dogs or cats best, but no, he says his favorite animal is gators? I've never seen him draw, but you two would probably get along. [ Its a nice thought. ]
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Oh... I don't know. I never really played. [ ... ] With other kids my age.
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...Really? How old are you? There's a few people here, Stephanie, Add, and that Crona kid... they can't be much older then you.
[ She slides npc-kun her finished gator. It's not visibly much better then the last two, but it does have more scales on it, and a rounder snout. ]
Maybe talking to kids is something you can practice? I don't mind hanging out, but kids your age are probably more fun, right? They'll know all the best videos games, the newest manga, what anime is cool. Girls like me are only good if you want help with homework.
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Oh!!
[ Even the art they're so keen on gets abandoned at this revelation. ]
Are you smart? Are you good at math!? Will you help me with math?!!
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[ Math, history, sciences, these are the sort of things Sara has always picked up briskly, instead of art or swimming, which she is unnaturally terrible at. It's just the way it's always been. ]
If you need help, of course I'll help. I'm already tutoring a few people. And don't be afraid of asking me for more help then just with homework! You're a shopkeeper, so its important to have a good understanding of mathematics! Do you have anyone helping with bookkeeping?
[ Npc-kun is a bit young to be managing all that themselves...but its important to keep track of that sort of thing if you're running a business. Sara doesn't want npc-kun to loose money just because they aren't keeping track of monthly income! ]
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It's just me doing the bookkeeping, so please help me! I need you to teach me about the topological isomorphism of manifolds and 3-spheres!
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[ But then npc-kun continues, and Sara smile falls into a horrified look of shock. ]
...Eh.
[ She's only in high school, what the hell is a topological isomorphism??? Calculus, she can do calculus!! Algebra! Things a second year is reasonably expected to know! Not Euclidian estimations of the universe!
She grimaces, because she was just hyping herself up and its embarrassing embarrassing embarrassing to walk back on it but...she's not a liar. She's just going to be more uncool. At least npc-kun already has a cool big sister. ]
...I can't do those... [ It hurts to say, it really really hurts to admit! ] I've never even heard of that...is that college level? Maybe your parents could explain that...or an adult like Lucifer-san or Ventus-san?
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[ They look disappointed, but not so much that the answer is to be expected. ]
I don't know... It's a math problem I was given, but I've never heard of them before either. There's six more.
[ And they're still stuck on the first one, help. ]
I tried to look it up in books, but every time I look something up, I have to look up ten more things, and it keeps going... Who's smarter, Lucifer-san or Ventus-san?
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[ That makes her perk up a bit. She loves puzzles. ]
Hm...good question. They both know lots of things. Ventus-san is kind and sweet, and he knows magic. I think he was a professor in his world! But I'm not sure if that translates to math. [ He's also been a bit distant...but he'd still help a kid out, Sara is sure! ] Lucifer-san is a demon, so maybe he can make you a deal for a really good explanation of math like that? Just be sure to swindle him properly!
I'm sorry I can't be more help...Do you remember what those problems were? We can still look at them together if you want and I can go look stuff up myself!
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Mm... There was one on fluid dynamics, quadratic time versus linear time, quantum field theory... Are you good at any of these? I'm supposed to do the isomorphism one first, so nobody can beat me to it, but the order doesn't really matter. We just need to solve all seven by the end of the school year.
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[ If there are a group of students shoving all the groups work onto npc-kun. Well...Sara is not above threatening a bunch of kids with a gun! Just to scare them straight! It would be fair, even Sou could not fault her for being trigger happy in this one instance. ]
No, I'm really sorry, I don't know a thing. I'll ask around, okay? [ It's not something she should know, but she can't help feeling dumb. At least npc-kun seems as lost as her. ] Um...Shopkeeper-san...these aren't very fair questions, I think. Stuff like that is college level. Really, really smart people need years and years of study to understand something like fluid dynamics, or how time works. Who is making you do something like this?
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[ But it's not like he's forcing them, and they seemed pretty eager about it, enough to try to understand the most basic concepts of the most difficult subjects using reference books. ]
I'm really really smart, and he believes in me that I can do it. I'm allowed to ask for help, too, so... "we" is you and me. You said you'd help me.
the crying icon of utter disgust. sniff.
[ She's a good person, okay maybe she's a bad person but was she really terrible enough to warrant this? Interacting with Komeada in any capacity? Even at a remove like this its enough to send her spiraling into a pit of paranoid tension. Of course that weirdo is apparently smart enough to know about isotopes, why wouldn't he be? Just to ruin her day... ]
You are really smart. [ Hiding her obvious discomfort is a lockjawed endeavor, but its not fair to this kid to show her issues or murder attempts on someone they consider a friend. She's trapped by social convention and this gun she found. ] Studying college level math on top of school and running a store? If you can do that, I think you're capable of anything.
Oh, well I better not slack off then, huh? [ Just give the kid a smile. ] I'll have lots of catching up to do, if I want to keep up. If we wanted to be efficient...we could both start studying something different, then comparing notes. If you split one big problem into a bunch of small ones, then we can tackle them one at a time.
UTTER DISGUST oh noooooo
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