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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] unimmune 2021-09-09 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Tali glances up when Noah speaks, realizing what he means. All the cats seem to be within a certain distance with him. So they came from him? When the shadow cat headbutted her hand, she was taken aback at the feeling. Even with Noah saying they were shadows, she didn't know what to expect when it came to what it would feel like.]

You called them cats? That's a human pet, isn't it? [She vaguely remembers some argument amongst the Normandy crew about which were better, cats or dogs. She's never seen either before now but this cat seemed awful cute. She's definitely going to try to stroke it again, since it seems to want her attention.]
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[personal profile] silentabyss 2021-09-09 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Normal cats are a bit softer and less like sticking your hand through a block of mist. A bit warmer, too; shadows are unnecessarily frigid. But Noah's tried his best to get all the minute details down, so his little shadow cats have whiskers and toe beans and little blue eyes that blink up at Tali with a certain curiosity.]

Yeah. You've never seen a cat? [He supposes that might make sense, since she's from the... flotilla, was it? After leaving her home planet anyway.] They're normally more colourful than just black. Some of them can be orange, or white, or brown, and sometimes they have stripes... And they're supposed to feel like soft fur, but I can't mimic textures.
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[personal profile] unimmune 2021-09-11 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[The chill from the cats doesn't bother Tali, not with her suit. Even if they are misty, she still is enjoying playing with the one that keeps begging her for more attention.]

No, I haven't. But I wish I had. They're adorable. [Those toe beans *^*] Shepard had a -- hamster, I think it was? Little brown ball of fur? But it didn't interact like this.
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[personal profile] silentabyss 2021-09-13 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[That one cat in particular definitely wants her attention. Everyone else is sort of doing their own thing — the one that's "scratching" the couch Noah's on is still "scratching" it, and one of them is currently wandering around bumping its face into everything to "scent mark" the furniture nearby. That one that Tali has, though, that one requires attention now. Do not stop the pets, please, thank you.]

Oh, hamsters... they're cute. I don't really know a lot about them. A... a lot of people here seem to like them, like Gundham and Nene. I don't think they play like cats or dogs do, though.

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[personal profile] unimmune 2021-09-15 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Tali's going to take a seat on the ground now, so she isn't crouching over to give it pets anymore. But she's definitely going to keep petting it and giving it lots of attention.]

I liked looking at Shepard's fish more, if I'm honest. The hamster didn't really...do much. Just run on it's wheel. [Somehow she isn't surprised it wouldn't get along with cats or dogs.] This cat does look like it would be an excellent prey animal.

[With those cute little teeth and claws? It would definitely eat a hamster if given the chance.]
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[personal profile] silentabyss 2021-09-17 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, cats are good hunters. The pads on their feet let them move silently. ...sometimes they do butt-wiggles when they're about to pounce on something, though. It's cute.

[Noah stops sketching so that he can show Tali exactly what he means, flicking his wrist as he controls the actions of one cat in particular — who sees her and immediately crouches down, wiggling... and then it pounces on her foot! Gasp!]
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[personal profile] unimmune 2021-09-18 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Tali watched as the cat crouched down and pounced. It didn't hurt in the slightest, but that was about the cutest thing she had ever witnessed in her life.]

Why was that so adorable? [If it had been bigger, it might have been scary, but it wasn't even a third the size of a varren.] I can't believe these aren't more widely available in the galaxy.

[She supposed they much not have been as adaptable as other animal species when it came to functioning on other planets.]