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natsume sakasaki ([personal profile] crystallomancy) wrote in [community profile] yogen2021-10-01 08:39 am

i'm getting a good grade in yogen lore, which is something normal people definitely try to get

Who: Whoever's in the dormitories
When: Friday, October 1st
What: It's time for a little lecture. And a genuine information meeting. But mostly a lecture.
Warnings: N/A please don't make me change this.

( Early in the morning, a curious text gets posted. )

N.Sakasaki

DRM-STDYHLL
1800HRS



( ...In less coded news, the dormitory's study hall will have a note taped to it:

Yogen and You: A Quick Summary
Held by Natsume Sakasaki

For those who need a summary of events, whether because our meetings rarely get anything done in terms of information sharing or because you're freshly awakened. Come around dinner time for food, enlightenment, and the opportunity to share your troubles with those going through the same thing.


The room will be locked all day until about half an hour before six, at which point it will become unlocked... this is primarily for Natsume to set up a table of food, but people can come sit in early if they like. There's an overhead projector that's been wheeled into the study hall all the way from school, and the curtains are drawn over the windows. It isn't dark though, since he still has the lights turned on...

Several tables have been pushed together to make at least three groups, chairs around them like they've been readied for a dinner party, while a few more are pushed a little further back and have absolutely no chairs whatsoever; those are for the food. There's also a chair by the overhead projector.

Your food and drink for tonight: lemon and rosemary roasted shrimp, white rice, rosemary and thyme chicken, a make-your-own-salad area with all kinds of salad-making ingredients, three types of eggrolls (seafood, vegetable, and pork), and various drinks from the vending machine because some of us can afford to spend a bunch of merit points on things like that.

When a sufficient amount of people have come in, or the clock hits 6:05, Natsume shuts the door, turns off the lights, and moves to the overhead projector. To stand on the chair, so he's the tallest person in here, and claps his hands to get people's attention. )


Save all questions and outbursts until the END, ( he says, and then kneels down on the chair and flicks the projector on.

All of the slides are pre-written on some transparent sheets that project onto a wall without windows, which he reads one by one without rushing! But for ease of reading OOCly, you can find the entire thing here. There's also photocopied handouts for people on all of the tables, stapled of course, so people who aren't blind (sorry Helena) can follow along at home!

He lets the last sheet stay up, his face half-illuminated by the overhead projector, then sits down in the chair and leans forward the back of it like some kind of delinquent. )


Alright, you can speak NOW.


( ooc notes: go ahead and treat this like one of our meetings, aka mingle, jump around, actually get a chance to share information that hasn't been talked about yet, etc. thank you plenty to enh and peace too for reviewing and suggesting things for the presentation \o/ )
starrypoint: (interdigitate66)

[personal profile] starrypoint 2021-10-02 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not your business what I know about them being stuck like us, and I wouldn't tell you what the money's for whether or not I knew it. It doesn't have anything to do with our situation.
closewithnewintown: (to give me some diagnosis)

[personal profile] closewithnewintown 2021-10-02 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
It does, if it turns out your little friend is just another one of this place's puppets.

[she holds up her pointer fingers, wiggling them like finger puppets, speaking in a higher pitched voice.]

"Oh, don't worry, guys! You just have to do well in class! You just have to graduate! You just have to buy my magical totems! You just have to accept your deaths! Don't ask why! That's so silly! Just play by our rules and you'll get everything you deserve in the end! Everything you deserve--"

[she claps her hands together.]

Everything... we deserve...
starrypoint: (interdigitate59)

[personal profile] starrypoint 2021-10-02 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[he's throwing a dumpling at her face]

Don't talk like you know them! They don't want people to buy their totems, but they give people plenty of warnings and they're upfront for a reason! They know someone can find what they need in those stupid things, and if they know the risks it's their own damn choice!

[ooooh he is glad natsume is gone. natsume does not need to know he went to heckle them briefly about this.]

You can say whatever you want about me, about anyone in here, but at least they're trying to do something here -- even if you don't know what it is, even if it's for something selfish, they're doing what they can. What about you?
closewithnewintown: (and they fill up my eyes)

[personal profile] closewithnewintown 2021-10-02 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[the dumpling doesn't phase her, again, but, this time, it's for different reasons. she looks stricken, and she sits immediately, her hand clasped over her mouth.

because, to be perfectly honest, she was suggesting that the shopkeeper was a fairy trick to spite them. she knew they cared about them, and she wanted to use it to hurt them. everything else she'd said, she'd believed with her whole heart; but, that, she thought, was just to be cruel.

it's only now that she thinks that, actually, it may be true. and she's forgotten how to breathe.]
starrypoint: (interdigitate76)

[personal profile] starrypoint 2021-10-02 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[subaru stares hard at her, then unclenches his fists and swallows hard, settling back down a bit. he won't punch a kid, but he will throw another dumpling at her.]

I know I can't change your mind about stuff. But please, leave 'em out of this. It'll be egg on my face if you're right, and I'll accept that when it comes, but Boss...

[...]

They're not a student, and they're not part of the faculty, okay? They're a lonely person who've got a lot on their shoulders, and I don't wanna hear a word about them out of your mouth just because you've got some mad trust issues.
closewithnewintown: (surrounded by dots)

[personal profile] closewithnewintown 2021-10-02 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[she takes a shaky breath, barely lowering her hand to speak in a low tone, but she meets his eyes.]

They're gonna eat your heart, and you're gonna hand it to them.
starrypoint: (pic#13301293)

[personal profile] starrypoint 2021-10-02 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[boy, natsume's fortune is really getting around.]

Stick your nose into someone else's business, Steph, there's plenty of adults who could be the big bad you're looking for.
closewithnewintown: (fine)

[personal profile] closewithnewintown 2021-10-02 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[she opens her mouth again, as if to say something - but, for probably the first time in her life, she decides against it.

she'll have to figure out a way to expose them on her own.]