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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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( Natsume's fortunetelling is always popular... it just pops off in particular at the start of semesters and around holidays. He's looking forward to winter actually, big money to be made there— )
Are you interested in a reaDING, Little Bat? It's free for first-time custoMERS.
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[that, and he had always seemed a little pained about it. everyone had their secrets - she let Eli keep his.]
What do I have to do?
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Do you know how to shuffle CARDS? ...Just do that until you feel like you've done it eNOUGH, thinking of what you'd like to know from THEM, and then I'll have you pick three cards from the SPREAD.
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what am I missing? what's being overlooked, or absent from her? that would be easier to sort out. when she's done, she'll follow his lead, and pick out three different cards.]
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an interesting spread, but it's actually overall positive—the negativity of spades always gets overturned by its ace suit, and natsume lays them out one by one. )
Let's begin start from the top and work our way DOWN... The hearts suit represents emotions and feelings—though despite their SHAPE, it isn't always about LOVE. Playing cards and the minor arcana reflect one anoTHER, and hearts is analogous to CUPS.
Spades, meanwhile, are like swords: they represent thinking and communicaTION, and truth be TOLD, they're usually negative in naTURE... But their number has a lot of bearing on interpretaTION, and the one you picked is quite luckY.
( ♪ )
FinalLY, diamonds are for the more practical parts of LIFE, just like the coins of the minor arcaNA. As for numBERS... Sixes are about harmony or the yearning for such a THING, but rarely are they negative; similarLY, aces are never negative in reaDINGS, as they represent new beginNINGS. It's in this way the usually conflict-bound nature of spades can be defeaTED. Sevens...
( he settles his fingers on the edge of the cards, gaze lowered to them. )
Sevens represent mysteRY, and getting caught up in the little deTAILS. It's often a sign you need to take a step back and review the big picTURE... Despite THAT, I think it's a good match with the suit you PICKED.
( but with all that said: interpretation. )
Now that we have all of that out of the WAY... The six of hearts typically represents harmony in relationSHIPS, such as being content with what you have and remembering fond TIMES, or friendships easily picking up right where you left OFF. To ME, it's a sign that things are going well in your personal LIFE, which is wonderful considering where we are—bonds are just as important here as they are anywhere ELSE. Have a strong enough ONE, ( he continues, slightly softer, ) and you'll have someone willing to take revenge for you should anything befall YOU.
( and isn't that the sweetest sentiment to have in a place like this? )
As I SAID, spades are typically negative—but aces are always posiTIVE, so it completely changes the meaning of the CARD. The ace of spades represents new realizations and inSIGHTS.... It's a little hard to describe its significance on its OWN, but paired with other CARDS, it becomes a little easier—already it shows you'll discover new things about the people you know and come to KNOW, and that these revelations, at least, won't negatively impact what they mean to YOU.
LastLY, the seven of diaMONDS... This typically represents reassessment and a turning POINT, or dissatisfaction—it's a card that indicates to me you're experiencing some discontent in your LIFE, and that it's time to refresh your mind and look at things with a fresh EYE. ( a beat. ) Metaphorically, of COURSE. Seeing as this one came up in a reading with the six of hearts and the ace of SPADES...
( natsume hums softly, looking back up at her. )
Perhaps it means that you're thinking much too hard about what you do or don't HAVE, and that all you need to do is reconsider the people you've met and grown close TO... Not in a bad way, BUT... ( ...how to put it? ) Noticing new things about them will help ail any worries or dissatisfaction you might have in the present—your mind will be put at-ease once you realize what you've been searching for all along has been right beside you the whole TIME.
( ... )
Does that help your query aNY, Little Bat?
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Yes. More than you know. Thank you, Natsume, you've given me good fortune today.
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I'm happy it HELPED. A fortuneteller's greatest joy is being able to calm worries and give guidance to those in NEED. Just because we're here doesn't mean I've given up either joy of my profesSIONS. ( even if he's giving up seeing smiles... well, it will be fine. ) You don't have to tell me what your query was, BUT...
( .............he's curious. )
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[and trying to learn what she's not being told. it's frustrating, but so far, the time isn't exactly right.]
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Try not to worry about the things you can't conTROL... That includes what you're able to LEARN, or what people are willing to give YOU, be it friendship or otherWISE. ( he knows he's not the most forthcoming either. he's sorry. ) Perhaps it's because you're trying so hard to pay attention that things are slipping through the cracks TOO... Have you ever heard the saying, "You can't see the forest for the trees"?
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[and in her case, that number of things grows even larger.]
But you're right. Perhaps I'm just worrying more and more and it's getting in my way.