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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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briny depths

[personal profile] safeguarder 2021-09-07 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Shepard has been investigating the new areas, and finds herself near the pool. nothing's really all that interesting besides the way that the water is pink, even though it seems like it's like that for quite a bit of the water here.

what she does find unnerving is when Noah dives back into the water and doesn't resurface. she starts to count when she notices she doesn't see his head pop back up after what seems like a few minutes, but maybe it's only her own alertness that makes her feel like the time is longer.

she's rushing over to the pool after a moment, taking off her shoes as she starts to mentally prepare for the dive--

but then Noah reappears and grabs the side of the pool. she still kneels on the edge of it, holding her hand out as if he's going to disappear back under the water.]


Are you okay? Did something hold you down in there?
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[personal profile] silentabyss 2021-09-07 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Noah, shy as he is, immediately has a moment of internal panic because oh god someone he doesn't know which is quickly cleared away when he registers the question being asked. Sorry for the scare, Shepard, Noah can be needlessly reckless... pretty much all the time, actually.]

Yeah, just — [he shakes his head, loose silver strands sticking to his cheeks with the weight of the water,] first of all, that section of the pool goes down way too deep for what would... y-you know, be reasonably contained in a swimming pool. And... the further you go down, the saltier the water gets. Which doesn't... sound correct.

[It's not like they have chlorine on Elrios, but also?? Nothing else tasted salty until he went down to where the water pressure was too much.]

A-and... that bugs me for other reasons, too, but... the water pressure was too much to swim down further, plus I can't hold my breath that long.
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[personal profile] safeguarder 2021-09-08 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Shepard's keeping an eye on Noah here, trying to make sure he isn't having some Problems, but he seems fine. she's still ready to jump in after him if he decided he wasn't okay, though.

this place just keeps getting weirder and weirder.]


How far down did you end up going? If you could estimate.

[she thinks about it...]

Of course there's no convenient mech lying around when we could use it.
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[personal profile] silentabyss 2021-09-08 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
[He appreciates the watchful gaze, even if part of him wants to reject it. If by some awful luck he gets sucked down into the bottom of the pool, uh, he might need some help.

So far, so good, though!]


Uhhh... [Math isn't Noah's strong suit.] I held my breath for what felt like two minutes, so one minute descending and one minute to go back up... I'm a pretty good swimmer...

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...20... 30 feet, maybe? At the most? ...what's a mech?
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[personal profile] safeguarder 2021-09-08 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Damn, that's a long ways down.

[she peers into the pool, as if to see if she could see the bottom. which, of course...she can't.]

It's...a robotic suit we can use to go places and do things that we couldn't normally do. [it's going to be an adjustment to remember that not everyone came from her time] Some might be able to withstand the pressure to see what's down at the bottom.
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[personal profile] silentabyss 2021-09-08 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hmm...]

Maybe the science club could make one? But, the further I went down, the darker it got. I couldn't see anything past a certain depth, so it would have to have a light on it. ...it would be able to come back up, right?

[He's not used to technology at all, it's alright. Things like that... they're too complicated for him.]

Robotic things are heavy, from what I've learnt. So if it's too heavy, it won't be able to come back up, and who knows if this pool is... bottomless, in this corner.
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[personal profile] safeguarder 2021-09-10 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, they usually have lights on them just in case.

[she considers a bit, before peering into the depths again. who knows how deep it is...but she's so curious now.

it beats going to class, anyway.]


They usually have thrusters on them too, yes. But we could also figure out something heavy to pull it back up with too, in case that fails.

[this is getting into Tali's realm of knowledge though, she mostly knows how to shoot shit and not die]
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[personal profile] silentabyss 2021-09-13 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Honestly, if they could make a class project out of discovering how deep the bottom of the pool goes... Noah would do it.]

Like a pulley system or something... [it's muttered half to himself. Noah doesn't really know much about this — but it sounds like a good idea to him.] I really wonder how deep it goes... or if there's something down there? Uh...

[This might just be the overactive imagination of a kid running wild here, but Noah has seen weirder shit in this school.]

Not like I think we can fish dinner out of a swimming pool, but the water down there is salty — it's not chemical-y like what's on the surface. What if there's some kind of weird entity down there, like what's in the void?

[More shadow students... a shadow leviathan?]
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[personal profile] safeguarder 2021-09-15 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shepard would really be interested in doing it, too.]

Well, I feel like it'd help if we knew what was down there just in case. I don't want anything coming out of it to bite us in the ass one day.

[she hates it when shit hits the fan and she wasn't even expecting it.]

I could always be the one who goes down there, if there's no other takers.
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[personal profile] silentabyss 2021-09-17 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Agreed... surprises suck. Noah's the kind of kid who if someone says "I have a surprise for you!" he's going to freak out immediately, because the surprise could be like, murder.]

I... I guess, but I don't want anyone to get hurt. I'd rather do it, personally.

[He has a complex.]
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[personal profile] safeguarder 2021-09-26 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[they both do. because she doesn't want a civilian getting hurt doing a theory of hers either.]

Use a mech when you don't even know what it is? Don't think so.

[she's gonna call that out immediately.]

If we figure out a way to make one, I'll use it.