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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] commences 2021-09-30 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone's capable of pity, I can look at those unfortunate to not understand hope, and think of how pitiful it must be to exist so naïve.

( he looks down at her, his attention completely hers, and he gives it because he can as he watches helena with a neutral expression at first. yes, komaeda can do something so vile as pity, he can feel sorry for people around him, but not out of kindness, but because he's better, and couldn't imagine being in their shoes. throughout the memory, he doesn't remember a moment his actions were pity, because as vile as he can be — )

I meant every word that I said then, and I mean it now. I'd like it if you had a little more hope in me. ( in him, but he had the audacity to say that about her — they're leaves who don't fall so far from the same tree, just different experiences, some that mold them better than others. )

As despairing as it was, I believe such a scenario was needed to push you further than every before. You said that your ability wasn't meant to do that... but what was so wrong with what happened? Yes, they all died, but at that moment... should I have pitied you or the animals that died by our hands?

( he can remember the moment, how the animals all cracked and twisted, dying right before their hands, their eyes... ) Instead, I was proud of you. Hope comes in all shapes and forms, as unsightly as it was, that was meant to elevate your efforts, put you in an experience that either you can handle or avoid the next time —

( though, avoiding seems like running away. ) The latter doesn't seem like you, seeing how you walked off the edge of the unknown yourself. Rather, it helped them, and now you can use them to continue on, knowing that what you did was right because you did pull them out of their cycle of suffering... Next time, you'll be prepared, your body won't lock up in fear of a disaster. Hm... pitying you because of actions you used to your advantage? ...That's not the type of person I am.
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-10-02 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
[...okay, so his words aren't the worst case scenario. she doesn't need to fly from him in anger, but he doesn't understand, and she has to tell him why.]

I wasn't trying to save them from their suffering! I was just trying to see if there was danger ahead, if there was something important - I can do that, I can hear it if I focus in just the right way, and instead it killed them. How is that hopeful? What if I tried to do it again, and it hurt you or someone else? What sort of hope would that be?

[it tumbles out, less polished and put together, but real. that's the agony she's been carrying since it happened - what if what was meant to be a signal ended up only causing more and more bloodshed?

what if one of the few things that made her strong simply made her cruel instead?]