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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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[ That's a relief. Meng Yao has kept his distance from them ever since their blooms just in case. He's an overly cautious individual and in a place like this sometimes it does tend to go into overdrive, but he doesn't think he can be blamed for that, considering. ]
Well, they'd be nice to make charms and trinkets from as well. I'm sure that the others would appreciate the efforts. Though, do you mind me asking who taught you this kind of precision with flowers? Or have you always been so skilled with your hands?
[ He can certainly believe the latter easily enough. Sometimes people are just born with it. ]
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No, not at all. [He smiles softly and shakes his head, a bit wistful-looking.] My sister Lilith, a long time ago, was the one who taught me how to make these. When we were still angels, she was fascinated with humans, and so she learnt little human things like this and taught it to us brothers. I only got proficient at them because it made the youngest of us, Belphegor, happy after her passing.
[Right. "Only" because of Belphie, and not because the action reminds him of his long-gone little sister.]
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[ This is probably why they're managing to get along so well...regardless, Meng Yao has started to see Lucifer as a reliable figure in all of this. Which is precious few amongst even the current 'transfer student body' that have been forced into all of this. ]
But, angels? Ah, I'm sorry for your loss, though...do you mind if I ask what made you change from not being an 'angel'? It doesn't really make that much of a difference to me either way, I am just a admittedly a little curious.
[ He was unaware someone here can go from being an 'angel' to not. In fact, this is the fact he's heard of them, actually. There is a distinction of hearing of heavenly beings who weren't exactly the same as angels, per say... ]
Obey Me spoiler warning
[And then Lucifer goes off on a tangent about the entire history of the Great Celestial War:]
This was quite a long time ago, but my siblings and I are not related in the same way that humans tend to be related to one another — through blood or adoption. Rather, we were "created" from the universe as angels tend to be roughly around the same time by God, and bonded from there. At the time, Satan did not exist, as he was the only one of us who was never an angel in the first place — it was me, Mammon, Leviathan, Asmodeus, Beelzebub, Belphegor, and Lilith.
Belphegor fell in love with humans, and that rubbed off severely on Lilith. Those two were always a headache, taking unauthorized trips down to the human world to see things like circuses and observe the night sky... I digress. At the same time, we were all having problems with our father, and the tension grew little by little, day by day. It came to a head after Lilith fell in love with a human man, an act that was expressly forbidden. Not only that, but the man she fell in love with had an illness that otherwise would have killed him. Throwing caution to the wind, Lilith stole food from the Celestial Realm to give to him to cure him, an act that broke yet another rule — interfering with a human's natural lifespan.
[Lucifer grimaces as he weaves spider lilies together.]
Her punishment from our father was to be obliterated immediately for those acts. The tension, by that point, had already come to a head. I stepped in and started a rebellion to try and save her life, which angered our father beyond repair. A war sparked almost instantly, and the seven of us were cast from the heavens. Lilith... was shot from the skies with an arrow, mortally wounded, and all of us fell down to the Hells together.
[He's normally a composed man, but the way his face twists gives away his feelings — thousands of years of rage and sorrow intermingled in that glower, aimed at nothing in particular.]
Lilith's death did a number to all of us. Belphegor started to resent humans, blaming them for what happened. Beelzebub blamed himself for Lilith's death in the end, since he had to pick which sibling to save, and he had saved Belphegor from the hail of arrows instead. At the time immediately after falling into the Hells, I tore two of my six wings off in my fury, and from that wrath and those severed wings was Satan borne... [Which is... a creationist story to be certain, but Lucifer clearly doesn't think it's that odd.]
I did ask the Prince of Hell — or the Devildom as we call it — Lord Diavolo, to reincarnate Lilith as a human so she could be with the man she loved so dearly. She got to live and die as a human with no memories of her time as an angel, and that, at least, gives me some closure.
...
[He sighs, and then fixes his expression, returning to something close to neutrality.]
It was a long time ago, but I still find myself angry from time to time.
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Meng Yao heeds the words carefully nonetheless, his attention rapt from the beginning and to the end as well. It's unsurprising that it's beyond anything he's heard of, because of the simple fact that it's uncharted territory in regards to what he knows. Though, of course, there is a familiarity in the concept of a "god", but not the one of which that Lucifer speaks of.
Of course, it's a tragic story, though he's had the feeling that at least a good part of it may be. Regardless, by the end, he's still absorbing the information, but has a thoughtful look on his face. ]
... The loss of family is a hard burden for anyone to bear, even if a lot of time has passed since then, and you had the chance to have her return in some way. It doesn't feel like it gets easier, but their memories live on with you and their other loved ones perpetually.
[ His mother, Meng Shi, had long since passed. Four years ago, in fact, though it feels so long ago. Either way, he'll do a little bow, feeling like it should be done. ]
This one feels honored that you've entrusted this story, despite the pain that it must give you to tell it once more.
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I trust you, Meng Yao. You have proven yourself as a trustworthy individual on multiple occasions, and to be frank, it is somewhat therapeutic to share the tale with someone here.
[He's not in the habit of sharing it, mostly because no one asks, not that Lucifer minds. The Avatar of Pride is the type of man to shut out negative emotions completely, disconnecting from them where he can as if they simply don't matter, in the interest of getting things done. To him, certain feelings are often burdensome; lest he forget how broken up he was over Lilith that he didn't tell anyone that she was reborn, in part due to the fact he thought his brothers might try to sneak off to see her and in part because it was simply too much to ever speak of until a thousand or so years later.]
You sound as though you speak from experience. I won't press for more information, however.
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In turn being able to be someone reliable to others here has seemed to have worked out for the most part. It's a strange thing, being treated in a decent manner by more than one person. ]
I'm relieved that's the case.
[ But he will nod in an assent of sorts when he does mention that he speaks from experience. He gives another pause to consider his words further, however. Even if it's not a happy thought, Luci shared what he had with him something on such a personal level. He figures...it's alright to give some in return; it's not like the man will speak harshly against his mother. Not without knowing her origins. ]
You're rather considerate and reliable yourself, though I believe that I've witnessed that even before now. I'll keep it simple, then, and state it was a recent one. But, I think as matters were...it was inevitable.
Whatever I do now I don't allow myself to be held back by that pain, even if I'll never forget the efforts of the strong woman who raised me. I believe that's something that you'll find relatable, given what you have told me. Even if I hope that doesn't sound rather presumptuous.