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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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[ 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
But it's something they appreciate, the vote of confidence, and they smile back at her. ]
Hehe... Thanks! Right now, you're the one willing to help me, and that matters a lot more than being smart, you know? So which one do you want, manifolds or 3-spheres?
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Also if you keep track of what's selling well you can raise the price and decrease inventory to create scarcity in the market.]
Urk...3-spheres sounds a bit prettier. Like, "music of the spheres", I think. So I'll take that one, and repeat back to you. [ She jots down a note about it to look up later. ]
No, thank you for letting me help, really. Even if I feel a bit dumb, this is more fun then my everyday worries.
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Then manifolds is mine.
[ ... ]
It's rare to hear somebody else thinks math is fun. What are you worried about?
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[ She reaches over to ruffle npc-kuns head lightly, if they let her. ]
A girl needs her secrets to be interesting right? It's not your job to worry about me. You should focus more on drawing and manifolds then my problems.
But well...yeah. Math is nice. If I work hard, everything works out. The rest of life isn't like that.
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It is my job, though. I sell happiness, and solutions to people's problems. You can't math all of life's problems away... sometimes you need another person's help.
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[ She stops the the conversation to look genuinely apologetic when npc-kun flinches. She was getting overly chipper, huh? She's going to put that hand down and not move it again. ]
My unhappiness is my own fault, so it wouldn't be fair of me to just buy a solution. [A surprisingly honest answer. ] I'm nearly an adult, so I can't go burdening others. Mhm...it's a different type of hard work, but I'll handle it.
[ Its true, everyone needs help, but if you take someones hand when you've done something terrible, you'll drag them down with you, if only a little. Npc-kun is a good kid, and Sara senses they have their own circumstances. If they're troubled, she shouldn't make it worse. ]
If you want me to be happy, just bring me jam?
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[ They don't seem too concerned about the head pat, like they didn't realize they reacted negatively at all. ]
I can bring jam. Since you're helping me with math and all.
[ npc-kun? npc-kun will buy solutions, no guilt ]
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[You won't become a good adult that way! But well, Sara's not your mom...she'll just help you with math and eat your jam.]
Hooray! It's my favorite food. I was so sad all these months without it!
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[ They're very clingy, and would happily wrap their arms around somebody and just lay there all day, but that's no way to run a business. ]
Also jam isn't a food, it's a condiment. It makes your teeth hurt and your mouth dry if you eat it plain.
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[ Let her slowly reach out towards npc-kun again? Are they lying to her? Sara is too impulsive to not immediately check. Is it just her or something? Maybe npc-kun is shy around girls... ]
I won't hear such words from your mouth. Take that back immediately! Jam is a wonderful food. I eat it out of the jar for breakfast as often as I can!
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They shuffle over to her, wrapping their arms around her middle and the sort of hug they give is one that starts with a squeeze, before relaxing and settling in her arms. It's a hug that doesn't end... they're just holding onto her now. Forever. ]
I'm buying you compote.
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[ Sara freezes for a moment herself, but then slowly lowers her arms around their shoulders and gives them a squeeze. She really needed that, thank you. Npc-kun hugs...very healing. They should sell this as a service. ]
Compote...well thats basically jam, right? Please don't buy me anything expensive!
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It's like jam, yeah. But it's also easy to make, and fruit is sweet so you don't need as much sugar.
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Easy to make? Could it be... [ She looks down at where npc-kun is resting at her side. ] ...That you're a chef, as well as an artist!? How exciting!
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Anybody can cook, just like anybody can draw.
[ There's a difference in skill, but... drawing well doesn't make them a good artist, and cooking well doesn't make them a chef. Their art doesn't— in the words of their sister— catch people's eyes and make them think. And their food was always only for them, out of necessity, that's not what a chef does. ]
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[ It's nice that npc-kun likes them, but its not like its the result of any skill or hard work. She's just bad. ]
I'm tired of exceptional people and circumstances. Nothing good comes of it. I think things everyone can do are wonderful, because it means we can share them.
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[ Bad artists are still artists!! this is a hill they're willing to die on. ]
...I sort of get what you mean. When somebody is super special, it's harder to connect with them, which is too sad for everybody. But I still think art is something anybody can do— you shared yours with me, and I like it.