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yogen2021-10-01 08:39 am
crystallomancy) wrote in 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
( ...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/ )
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/ )
no subject
This is about to be a very long meeting, isn't it...
Well, either way, Meng Yao doesn't blame them. He's kind of just pushing through it himself, which probably isn't all that healthy. But if he wants to succeed in everything that he does and be in more control of how others see him, does he really have any other choice? It's worked before, it works now, and at the end of the day when he is successful he'll be able to look back with a sense of satisfaction. ]
I think it's only natural that some will handle this better than most. Though it is admittedly a small number just due to the nature of this revelation.
[ There's a small pause. ]
Of course. We're all in this together, as much as this place tries to make us believe otherwise.
no subject
( because as meng yao can see, there's some people here who aren't taking this so well, and while he can't leave this job to only him — he'll probably get it done without komaeda requesting it. people are just so sensitive when it comes to things they don't understand. of course, he doesn't allow that to be their only topic of conversation. )
Even your time with Amami-kun has rewarded us with such shining efforts, that's why I believe such an attitude will do nicely.
( and that's why he wants to ask about this. ) That said... the day within the nurse's office, what was it that attacked us... I assume you understand the workings of it well.
no subject
...Ah, that. You're right that I do understand some of it.
[ He says that without thinking, his first instinct here to be humble rather than anything. ]
At the time, I'd been more uncertain in the beginning, and I believe it was because that...thing had mixed so deeply within that other person's being. But once I'd been able to remove it, I think there's a few things it could've been. Even if I've not really a definite answer at this time, given its appearance once it'd been extracted was a bit unconventional from what I'd expected.
Regardless, the state of it seemed much more like a powerful resentful ghost, though one that seemed like it would be more inclined towards...a more base level of sorts. More instinctual, maybe—or rather, animalistic.
Given the level of intensity behind this negative energy, it is lucky I had dealt with it when I did.
no subject
( that he was there because if he wasn't, where was the ghost supposed to go? he isn't sure, but he guesses that it tried to find another suitable body when making a small detour. it's probably that it didn't account for meng yao to do something, and so, it had to did what it could. komaeda has read his fair share of possession novels, but never has he really seen it up close, and the information he takes out of it could help him in the long run. )
It's like a fit of despair, ah... a little stupid considering it works off instincts than common sense.
( but why is that? questions for another day, he guesses, considering possession was done by one spirit that had sense, and then there was whatever that was trapped within the shopkeeper's body. )
I wonder if it's truly gone... or if there's more where that one came from... Is that the first one you've seen here?
no subject
[ There's a chance to find a quicker opening with a resentful ghost in his opinion because they're easier to deal with, less powerful, and there's a chance of communication with it that can even end without having it move on without necessitating a cultivator's weaponry to force it to.
This creature? No dice. ]
I didn't see it escape the room when it attempted to possess others, so I'm leaning towards the fact that it must've dissipated, not having enough energy to remain, though I won't commit to it just in case. Unfortunately, I'm also disinclined to say that there aren't anymore like that creature. Even if it's the first we've seen of such a thing.
To be quite honest, the image of that negative energy manifesting in like a sharp and dark, rusted broken glass made me also think of it like some sort of cursed artifact, though if that were the case it'd have left something physically behind to be seen by all.