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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.
emptyembers: (Hmmm....)

[personal profile] emptyembers 2021-09-27 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
[He reminded Yukio a lot of Shima.

Which, wasn’t a good thing all things considered.

There was something behind that smile that Yukio couldn’t quite place. It was nothing good.]


Yes.

[No hesitation on that one, huh Yukio?]
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[personal profile] devouringdeep 2021-09-27 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Yukio’s lack of hesitation is mirrored by Childe himself, as the moment he gets a clear answer he’s simply opening the scissors to drag the blade across his right palm. It’s a quick motion, the cut deep enough to pool like it does in movies. He wipes them clean on the inside of his school jacket before he’s turning his hand palm-down to drip the blood into the floor.

The effect is near instant, reality warping and shifting in that vertigo inducing sort of way, until their surroundings steady and they remain in the clocktower. Albeit definitely changed and just off enough to show they’re not in Kansas anymore.]


Take a sec to steady yourself. It can be sorta disorienting, and we wouldn’t want you to get sick all over your shoes.
emptyembers: (srsly)

[personal profile] emptyembers 2021-09-27 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
[The sudden shift made Yukio stumble back, his eyes wide. It felt weird. Sort of like walking through mud for a second before steadying himself. He blinked a couple times, looking around and narrowing his eyes in curiosity.]

Not what I had thought with a name like the Void.
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[personal profile] devouringdeep 2021-09-27 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Childe smirks a little at the comment, pocketing the scissors once more and wiping his hand on the front of his coat. He doesn't bother to wipe the blood off somewhere less conspicuous, as the stains will just be gone the moment they come back to the real world.]

Technically speaking, this is just the ah... Shadow School I guess? The Void itself is in the Auditorium, and apparently if you step into it you die. [He still very much wants to go in there though.] Wait 'til you see the students! They don't have faces.

[The delivery on that statement is far too chipper for the subject matter.]
emptyembers: (does a think)

[personal profile] emptyembers 2021-09-27 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
[There was a lot to take in, even more so now with the new information Child had just given him.

Faceless students, a void in the auditorium.

This place gets more fascinating by the second.]



I heard that the void in the auditorium was spreading. Is that true?

[He hadn’t been aware that you’d die if you step into it, though.]
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[personal profile] devouringdeep 2021-09-27 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He sobers up a little at the question, the expression on his face turning serious.] Yep. It sure is. [It's fascinated him since his arrival here, and honestly Childe has been very torn on whether or not he wants to see what happens when it spreads through the whole school... Or shrink it back to see what's at its heart.

Both options sound very... fascinating.

He shrugs, and then then he's back to being carefree and sunny.]
But hey, we can burn that bridge when we get to it. Let's go see if we can find out where that key of yours goes, yeah? [He's motioning to the stairway in a sort of after you kind of gesture.]
emptyembers: (hehe... nerd)

[personal profile] emptyembers 2021-09-27 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Definitely very similar to Shima.

Yukio didn’t know if he hated that or not.

He watched Child for a few seconds before he was stepping around him and making his way down the stairs. It definitely felt as though he was somewhere else, yet things sort of felt similar regardless.]


You’ve been here before. Anything come to mind that would need a key?
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[personal profile] devouringdeep 2021-09-27 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
Mm, a door maybe? [That’s super helpful Childe, thanks!] It wouldn’t hurt to try the ones you’ve already tried out there. Things are different here, so who knows?

[Hands back in his pocket, he follows after Yukio, humming a little to himself as he starts down the stairs.] I’d say we could split up, but you’re kinda the only one with the key. So I’ll just stick with you to keep you safer.
emptyembers: (I see)

[personal profile] emptyembers 2021-09-27 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Every now and then Yukio would glance back at Child, watching him through the corner of his eyes. If suspicious had a face, it would be Child.]

Not a bad idea.

[Of course, at this point nothing was a bad idea. The only bad idea would be no idea, and for that they’d need Rin.]

How long does it stay like this, anyway?