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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.
2-C
It's the annoyance that drives him to follow her one night, creeping through the darkness when he spots her making her way to the pool. Add keeps his distance, hesitates, considers it might be better to leave her for someone else to deal with... but he finds himself inside anyway, standing in the doorway to the pool area. The moonlight reflects off the water to illuminate Nene's huddled shape.
He doesn't approach for a long time, but since she doesn't seem to plan on going anywhere... it'd be more awkward if she did get up to leave, and noticed him standing there. So he makes his way to the edge of the pool and wordlessly sits down next to her.
... he's never been good with words, so he'll just. continue to not say anything, at least for now.]
add,,,,,,,,,,,, :pleading_face:
the pool is painfully dark, and she feels like something might be in the water.
there is. deep beneath the water, in the deep end. she tries not to think about it.but the dark is comforting in a way, especially the later it gets.finally, as she reaches over to the water and just barely drags her fingers across the surface and leaves a trail of ripples in her wake, she speaks. )
Hi, Add-kun...
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But people are still people. Complicated, fragile, bound by the laws of physical reality. He watches the ripples that spread out from her touch, a quiet hum of acknowledgement before collecting his words, remembering how to speak them.]
If there's a problem, just say something already. Watching your bad acting all the time... it's starting to get old.
[... kinda harsh, but his tone is soft, not quite willing to look her in the eye if she turns to face him again. he's not saying he's worried or anything, but
well. there's a lot of things he doesn't like to say, even if they might be true.]
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maybe it's because he's less emotionally inclined? )
... It's not something that can be fixed, not really. So... it's better that I just deal with it myself.
( the harshness doesn't bother her, not really. but... not even add can bring back the long-since-dead in this place, can he? )
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is it because he's more perceptive, less emotional? not so polite that he'd let it slide? maybe it's just because he knows what grief looks like when he sees it in the mirror. but the reason for it doesn't really matter.
he scoffs, hunching his shoulders a little.]
"Can't be fixed"... tch, giving up without even trying, you could at least explain what it is. Just because you think it can't be fixed doesn't make that true.
You're taking too long, and it's getting on my nerves... so obviously your methods aren't effective enough. Tell me what's bothering you.
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I just need to be able to process things... the- the ones missing, the ones who've died. Everything. Every time I think I can take some time to heal, something else happens. I can't keep my head up above the water.
( if it was anyone else she might have asked if they could- she misses izumi, hajun, kokichi, turing, kaede-- but.
okay look she like add but she sees things. she looks at the forum. sir. )
... I'm tired of waking up and wondering who's going to be dead today.
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that's what most people would think, anyway. Add hums thoughtfully, glancing at her from the corner of his eye.]
Rewriting time isn't easy... but it's not outside of my abilities. I'll keep your request in mind for when they return to me. [and he means that, even if he doubts she'll take him seriously—it doesn't matter if she does or not. if that's what's bothering her so much, it'll be simpler to fix once he regains control of time. remove the problem at its roots rather than trying to trim back the weeds.
relationships that come to an end and bring pain... would she be happier if he just removed them entirely? but that might be hard to pull off, since she's such a kindhearted girl. hmm.
he files that thought away for now, rising to his feet again.]
If all you do is sit around and watch the world turn, you're only going to feel more useless. Stop being an observer, take the world into your own hands. It doesn't matter how big or small you start. Every change matters, everything adds up to its own whole, so doing something is always better than doing nothing. Even if it's ugly, or seems pointless... that way it's something you decided for yourself. Something you can control.
... that's what makes me feel better, anyway. [doing something, even if it's just to vent.]
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shoto had said he had superpowers.
that add would offer... he really was kind in his own way, underneath it all, wasn't he? )
... That means a lot to me. Even if you don't end up doing it.
( but there's a certain something, when he continues- is it anger? annoyance? frustration? nene grips the edge of the pool without realizing. )
I'm not asking to be useful, or anything. I take care of others, I provide food and sources of comfort. It might not be impressive, but I do things. I'm just asking to breathe so I can get my grief sorted out before another thing gets piled on without asking, and for the people I love to stop dying for- for five minutes! I want to go out and to come back with things not being on fire! ... Metaphorically! And sometimes literally!
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[He sighs, his hand finding itself gently touching the edges of his left brow, trying to adjust something that's no longer there out of habit. He knows she's been trying to help. That's not what he's saying, because helping others isn't helping her, if she needs space to breathe—]
If you wait for the world to let you breathe you're just going to suffocate. Stop waiting. Things aren't just going to magically get better, but that doesn't mean you have to let yourself be buried alive.
Forget about the fires and make your own mess that's yours and yours alone. Then you won't have time to worry about the other fires, and you'll be in control of whatever ends up happening. Does that make sense? Or do I need to give you a better example?
[There's that frustrated edge to his voice again, but it seems to be more directed at his own inability to communicate his feelings. He's trying to be patient, if his wording is any sign. He's trying.]
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... I misunderstood. Sorry. It... it does, though.
( it's just... not normally her style? she chases and fixes and worries and cares for- she's not a cause problems on purpose kind of gal. ... but she's so tired, and she cares so much for others, but... it feels like only a few people notice that she needs caring for, too.
... maybe this is add's way of doing so. even if it's not normal to her. )
... Add-kun... I'm tired. Of this entire place. I don't understand why it's the way it is. ... But despite everything, I'm glad I got to meet the people here. ... Even you.
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But being tired... he can understand that. And he knows it won't get any easier. It rarely does. So what is he supposed to do, when he's stuck in a linear time like this? Frustrating. He dislikes it more and more with each passing second. If he could stop wasting his time here and just go back...
He'll just have to make due for now. Like he always has, when it comes to himself. It's not that much different.]
If you need to vent... just come to me. I'll show you how it's done. [they can throw desks off the roof, or yank up floorboards in the other school, or toss things at the electric fence to watch them burn. you know, healthy coping methods.]
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( after all, who do you vent to when everyone else is worse off, or just... busy? of the people she'll even talk to- she knows she avoids certain folks, but can anyone blame her? )
So, what do you do then? When you need to.
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Aside from that... hm, the other school is quite useful. No loss of time spent, damages don't always stick. You can do whatever you want and it won't matter when you return... everything there is old and brittle, so it's easier to break... you can scream into the void and no one will hear you... no one will bother you, no one will even notice you were gone...
[being able to just... disappear, for awhile. it's a privilege he's used to having, being the way that he is, and he's not sure how he'd manage if he ever lost it.]
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... )
There's nothing good down there, not for me.
( she can't see that again. but she can listen to his other suggestions... and... when he puts it like that, it does sound nice. and frankly, chances are slim to none that you'll run into anyone else there unless they came with you. )
... I never thought of it like that.