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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] emptyembers 2021-09-14 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
[He had heard her come in, and after a quick glance to determine who it was, Yukio went back to staring at the water. Any minute now, it would boil for the last time and he could finally pour it into the cup noodles.

Annny minute now...]


Hm?

[He looked back towards her, raising a brow at the question.]

Yes. My name is Yukio.
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-14 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm... I'm Nene. Nice to meet you.

( there's an unspoken 'i wish it were in better circumstances', but there's only so many times she can say that before it gets even more depressing. rubbing her eyes, nene sips at her drink before leaning against a counter. )

Before you both 'woke up' he was in the cooking club with me. I think he's been worried about you...
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[personal profile] emptyembers 2021-09-15 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
It’s nice to meet you too, Nene.

[Yukio turned around to check the water again. It was finally clear, which meant he could now pour it into the cup and finally eat something. At the very least it hadn’t been Rin he showed up.]

He usually is.
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-16 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
How long have you both been awake? There might be some things you're not aware of.

( she hates having to explain this though, and even then she still yawns behind a hand, because it's super late and life is a trial. )

...A-awake as in, aware of things here, and not- I figure you probably haven't slept yet.
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[personal profile] emptyembers 2021-09-16 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I have not, no.

[Yukio never sleeps.]

But it’s been a few days. Not… too long.

[Long enough to be confused, not long enough to know exactly what the hell was going on.

He poked the noodles a couple times, testing to see if they were soft yet.

They weren’t.]
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-17 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. I've been here since March.

( and she's still confused and doesn't know what's going on. but you have to keep going. that's all they can do while they search. )

... We're all in this together, though. So, um... if you need anything, I'll do my best. ( a pause... ) Give it another minute, I think it should be fine then.
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[personal profile] emptyembers 2021-09-18 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[He can't help but smile at her. There's something about her that makes him feel comfortable, and that's not something he's experienced before. Probably because he didn't have friends—not that Nene and he were friends exactly. They just met, but still.]

If there's anything I can do, just let me know.

[Yeah, another minute was probably a good idea.]
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-21 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
( it's the Vibe, yukio. give in, for she is soft and sweet and just one moment of mistreatment from punching someone through a wall.

don't worry about it. )


Of course. ... So... I should probably let you know, there's... a lot that happens here. People... go missing. Or straight up die. There's also the void... has anyone told you about that?

( because this tends to be what she has to talk about in first talks, isn't that lovely? amami, sara, now this- )
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[personal profile] emptyembers 2021-09-23 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
I’ve heard… mentions here and there. But nothing in detail.

[He likes her, it’s fine. If things continue he might be scared of her but never admit it. He’s not scared of anything he says lying.

He used the chopstick that he totally had picked up before she came and stirred the noodles. They seemed done. Whatever, it wasn't the first time he had eaten hard ramen.]

I’ve gathered that things aren’t… normal around here.
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-09-27 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, they super aren't. ... If you witness fresh blood make contact with the ground or floor, you'll be... warped? I guess? To what we've taken to calling the void. It's... like a reflection of this place, but worn down and dilapidated and cold. Some things are different, and spreading from the auditorium is... an abyss. Sometimes people try to explore it but I wouldn't recommend it if you don't have a way to fly. You can get out by breaking a mirror, and you'll be brought back to where you were when you were brought there.

( she hates having these conversations. but. it's important. )
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[personal profile] emptyembers 2021-09-27 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
[He wanted to ask more. He should ask more. But he could tell that Nene didn't particularly like this topic. Which, he didn't blame her. Things weren't butterflies and rainbows here, and he didn't need her to tell him that. But if he could avoid making her uncomfortable, then he could figure things out from a different source or by himself.]

I... See.

[He silently and politely ate his ramen while he thought.]

Thank you.
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-10-01 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
We tend to have meetings on the regular to share information. I hope that it helps, if you come to one...

( ... )

But also everyone in this school is an absolute disaster, and things don't always go as planned.
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[personal profile] emptyembers 2021-10-02 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[He laughs a little]

That... That I don't doubt.

[He's a disaster, so of course the rest of the students would be too.]
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[personal profile] mermaidcursed 2021-10-03 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. ... Early on, we had a little... cardboard jail to put people in, because it was funny. I originally made it because I wanted a 'time out' zone for people who broke the rules while we were playing an ice breaker game, way back at the start of all this. ... I'm still surprised so many people humored me about it.
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[personal profile] emptyembers 2021-10-04 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a good way to make the best out of a bad situation. It sounds like something Rin would get into a lot. The jail, I mean.