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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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[personal profile] safeguarder 2021-09-07 09:53 am (UTC)(link)
[she's kind of annoyed at being stuck in school again when the whole galaxy is at stake, but while she's got a little bit of downtime she finds herself in the library. it's been a little while since she's actually had read a physical book, so she's kind of interested in it as she starts to browse.

it's when she reaches out for one that she doesn't realize that someone else is, and she jumps a little bit before she glances over at the other person.]


Oh, it's fine. I'm not married to the option, or anything.
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-07 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, but...

[picking it from the shelf, she cracks the spine, touches a random page, and closes it again. immediately, she knows it's meant for someone else.]

It will probably be more useful to you than me.

[offering the book out to the stranger, her smile is sincere. she can't read this one, and why on earth the library would mix types of books is beyond her, but it doesn't matter. she'll just keep searching.]
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[personal profile] safeguarder 2021-09-08 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Shepard watches Helena for a moment, and wonders. the way she touches the pages...

oh.]


Maybe I could help you find something that'd be more helpful to you?
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-09 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Only if it wouldn't be a great imposition, miss. I wouldn't want to take up too much of your studying time.

[she can recognize a genuine offer when she hears it, after all, but at the same time...]
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[personal profile] safeguarder 2021-09-10 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
It's fine. I have more than enough time to read.

[she's kind of missing interaction with other people, anyway.]

Are you looking for something in particular?
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-10 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, any fiction novels, really, but I'll take whatever I can get. The librarian said she'd put in a request for me for some, but at the same time, when it comes to reading I'm a little impatient. Who knows how long they'll take to come in?

[and when she's already waited over a month to be in here, it's practically forever.]
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[personal profile] safeguarder 2021-09-10 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I was just talking over with someone that they seem to go out of their way to get what we want in the most difficult way.

[Tali was the one to make the first comment...not surprising, but she knows that that's Tali's way of venting.]

So, fiction...let's see...

[she starts to run her fingers on the books, considering it as she looks at the spines of them.]
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-11 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
It'd be too easy if it was set up otherwise. This entire school feels like it wants to reject us.

[a sentiment based in nothing but her feelings and a few facts, as it is.]
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[personal profile] safeguarder 2021-09-15 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably. It wouldn't surprise me if it threw us out one day.

[then she'll really have to do something.]

In the meantime... [she picks out a book, and then hands it to Helena.] What about this one?
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-16 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm...

[opening the cover, she brushes her fingers over the title page. at first, she's smiling to feel the familiar bumps of Braille, but quickly gains a puzzled look on her face.]

Basics for the First Time Car Owner? I don't know if that's quite applicable to my life.

[and then, unable to help it, she has to stifle giggling in her hand, trying to not be too loud in the library. the sheer absurdity of the situation is all too much, and what can one do but laugh in the face of it?]
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[personal profile] safeguarder 2021-09-26 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
[oh.

Shepard scoffs a laugh herself, shaking her head as she puts the book back.]


I guess not.

[she puts the book back, running her hands along the spines of some of the other books nearby.]

I don't even think I've seen a car since I've been here.
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-27 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Neither have I. Or heard any kind of vehicle, actually...it's strange, with all the technology this place does possess. I'm sure if you mentioned something to the robotics club, they'd immediately start trying to build a car from scrap.

[given how much they wanted to take a project and run with it? that's her best guess.]
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[personal profile] safeguarder 2021-09-27 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
That's true, but I don't really know what that would do to help anything if we have a limit on where we can go.

[Shepard rubs the back of her head, briefly distracted by the conversation over finding the books.]

I was trying to talk to someone about if it'd be feasible to build a mech that can go in the pool, though.
decrypter: (wonder.)

[personal profile] decrypter 2021-09-28 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
A deep diving vessel...what are you looking to find in the depths?

[like Captain Nemo's Nautilus. or more likely something smaller and more reasonable.]
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[personal profile] safeguarder 2021-09-28 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure. There was someone telling me that he couldn't even see the bottom while he was diving.

[that's. weird for a pool.]

I think it'd be better to make sure there's nothing down there that's going to come back to bite us in the ass.