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October Event
10/02 06:12
✽ Silence lifts at six in the morning, and there is still quite a bit of time before classes start. Early risers who decide to return to school from the dorms cross the courtyard and open the double doors and—- something cold and wet drips down onto their head: old blood from the torso of a student(?) bound by rope and strung up above the doors to the courtyard, body burned black and cut in half at the waist.
The air is heavy, and the entire school smells of blood.
Hope... month...
✽ A large poster advertising the student store has been tacked up on the bulletin board. For October, store hours are now 6AM to 8PM Monday to Saturday, and noon to 4PM on Sundays. Outside of those hours, the shopkeeper is occasionally in the shop and will leave the door propped open if they are, but more often than not, the door is closed and there is no answer when knocking on the door. Laundry tokens can now be purchased at a reasonable price. The rock gacha machine is now located just outside the door so it can be played at any time. Please continue to spend your hard-eared points on plain boring normal rocks.
✽ In the dormitory, the construction paper covering the oil paintings start to soak through with blood, causing the papers to grow heavy and fall. The distorted faces in the paintings seem to be bleeding from their open wounds, the canvas wet to the touch and smelling of blood. Blood dripping down the walls and on the floor do not cause the dorms to change, nor do the splatters of blood seen on the glass over the star dormitory rooms occasionally throughout the month, as if it had rained blood in the darkness and silence of night, although no other evidence is seen elsewhere in the courtyard.
✽ The wisteria tree slowly continues to lose its petals, and the area roughly ten feet around the trunk of the tree has become completely dead and barren, leaving dry dirt underneath. Despite shedding its petals, new buds are becoming noticeable now too. The spider lilies that bloomed during the autumnal equinox remain, still covering the rest of the courtyard and extending into the forest surrounding the school. Outside, the air smells faintly metallic at all times.
✽ Occasionally throughout the month and increasing in frequency and intensity towards the end of the month, characters with 13 or more tallies will find themselves sensitive to sunlight and loud noises, prone to vertigo upon standing or turning too quickly, and suffering ice pick headaches throughout the day.
✽ Characters with 5 or less tallies will hear faint white noise during the normally silent hours of midnight to 6AM, but no other sound.
✽ The class roster on the bulletin board acknowledges class 1-D for leading the rest of the classes in rank, being the first to reach 100. All characters in first year classes and #-D classes will receive 500 merit points and will be able to exit out the front door to the school. They will be able to make it up to the front gate, but will find themselves growing lightheaded and about to pass out if they try to squeeze through the bars or climb over the gate itself. Please contact me privately if they would try to get out anyways.
✽ The void in the auditorium continues to grow, and (pending character interaction) by the end of the month will encompass the entire right wing of the first floor past the lockers, the home ec cooking room on the second floor, as well as the art club room on the third floor.
✽ In the dormitory, the construction paper covering the oil paintings start to soak through with blood, causing the papers to grow heavy and fall. The distorted faces in the paintings seem to be bleeding from their open wounds, the canvas wet to the touch and smelling of blood. Blood dripping down the walls and on the floor do not cause the dorms to change, nor do the splatters of blood seen on the glass over the star dormitory rooms occasionally throughout the month, as if it had rained blood in the darkness and silence of night, although no other evidence is seen elsewhere in the courtyard.
✽ The wisteria tree slowly continues to lose its petals, and the area roughly ten feet around the trunk of the tree has become completely dead and barren, leaving dry dirt underneath. Despite shedding its petals, new buds are becoming noticeable now too. The spider lilies that bloomed during the autumnal equinox remain, still covering the rest of the courtyard and extending into the forest surrounding the school. Outside, the air smells faintly metallic at all times.
✽ Occasionally throughout the month and increasing in frequency and intensity towards the end of the month, characters with 13 or more tallies will find themselves sensitive to sunlight and loud noises, prone to vertigo upon standing or turning too quickly, and suffering ice pick headaches throughout the day.
✽ Characters with 5 or less tallies will hear faint white noise during the normally silent hours of midnight to 6AM, but no other sound.
✽ The class roster on the bulletin board acknowledges class 1-D for leading the rest of the classes in rank, being the first to reach 100. All characters in first year classes and #-D classes will receive 500 merit points and will be able to exit out the front door to the school. They will be able to make it up to the front gate, but will find themselves growing lightheaded and about to pass out if they try to squeeze through the bars or climb over the gate itself. Please contact me privately if they would try to get out anyways.
✽ The void in the auditorium continues to grow, and (pending character interaction) by the end of the month will encompass the entire right wing of the first floor past the lockers, the home ec cooking room on the second floor, as well as the art club room on the third floor.
Exchange Program
✽ On October 11, students participating in the exchange program are given one pocket knife each and sent out the front doors, upon which they will find themselves in that canon location as if they had stepped out of any normal door in the area. For characters who visit their own canon's location, they will find all their friends and family alive and happy— except for the one person they are closest to, who will be absent. Nobody there will recognize your character or the person they are closest to, regarding both as complete strangers, as if neither have ever existed in the first place. But otherwise... think of it as canon good end, in contrast to elevator bad end.
✽ There is no bus to take them back to Yogen and they can stay as long as they'd like, even forever if they feel like it. If they wish to return to their real home, though, they would have to first return to Yogen and figure things out from there. The first time they open the pocket knife, they will find a piece of paper tucked between the blade and the handle reading "Use to return." If they use it on other people, that's the local law enforcement's business. In order to return to Yogen, perhaps remembering Natsume's presentation mentioning how they got there in the first place, they will have to use the knife on themselves, or otherwise die by happenstance or, eventually, old age. Two weeks after their return to school, they will find one additional tally on the inside of their wrist.
✽ In return, Yogen receives three exchange students: two familiar and one not.
✽ There is no bus to take them back to Yogen and they can stay as long as they'd like, even forever if they feel like it. If they wish to return to their real home, though, they would have to first return to Yogen and figure things out from there. The first time they open the pocket knife, they will find a piece of paper tucked between the blade and the handle reading "Use to return." If they use it on other people, that's the local law enforcement's business. In order to return to Yogen, perhaps remembering Natsume's presentation mentioning how they got there in the first place, they will have to use the knife on themselves, or otherwise die by happenstance or, eventually, old age. Two weeks after their return to school, they will find one additional tally on the inside of their wrist.
✽ In return, Yogen receives three exchange students: two familiar and one not.
OOC
✽ The first prompt leads into this month's mini-event, which is becoming a misnomer, maybe they should be called murder events instead.
✽ All students leaving on the exchange program will icly be gone for at least 10/11 - 10/17, although they will be able to return at any later date in October, at the player's discretion, regardless of how much time they experienced on their trip. Just like in the bad end elevator and the void school, nothing physical can be taken back from the exchange trip, but characters can at least drain their bank accounts eating good food and exploring town before coming back.
✽ The new exchange students are former npcs Kouji Seki and Chiaki Kudo, as well as a new student ???. They can be interacted with in their corresponding toplevels below, after 10/11.
✽ All students leaving on the exchange program will icly be gone for at least 10/11 - 10/17, although they will be able to return at any later date in October, at the player's discretion, regardless of how much time they experienced on their trip. Just like in the bad end elevator and the void school, nothing physical can be taken back from the exchange trip, but characters can at least drain their bank accounts eating good food and exploring town before coming back.
✽ The new exchange students are former npcs Kouji Seki and Chiaki Kudo, as well as a new student ???. They can be interacted with in their corresponding toplevels below, after 10/11.
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aira jolts upright — well, as much as he can considering subaru's got the ice pressed to his neck and his hand pressed over aira's mouth. the point is, even if his initial yelp of surprise is muffled, his first instinct is to get away from that cold that's piercing into his skin; something he does by kicking himself back up 'til his shoulders hit the headboard of his bed. reaching up with both hands so he can pull subaru's own away from his skin, he shoots the other a look of sheer betrayal. )
Akehoshi-senpai!?
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G'morning, Aira! Let's shoot some hoops!
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There are easier ways to wake me up than that...
( is he sulking? yes. knees all pulled up so he can wrap his arms around them, it doesn't really look like he's all too excited to go outside, but then again... this is one of his idol senpai, going out of his way to invite aira to go do something together with him. give him a minute. the scales are weighing, and it's clear pretty quickly which side has more in its favour.
... )
Lemme get changed — I'll meet you outside.
( he's gonna take a minute here, but it'll help him shake off the sleepiness a little. )
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oh he agreed!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
Okay! Don't take long though, or I'll drag you out no matter the state!
[he won't really... he'll just wait longer. outside the door or outside the dorms, subaru will do the first and rock on his heels.]
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( because unfortunately, he's still learning, and he doesn't doubt for a second that subaru means what he says ☆
so when he makes his way outside the door, aira will keep to his word too. it takes maaaaybe a little bit longer than it really should for him to get dressed, but the room (and his neck) is cold, and the blankets are warm, and he's still kind of thawing out. rubbing at his eyes blearily even as he gets himself ready, he'll make his way over to the door and just kind of... blink at subaru for a minute before stepping out and shutting it behind him.
give him another moment and he'll huff a little, do that funky little anime thing where they smack their cheeks to charge up their energy, and offer a livelier smile in subaru's direction. )
Sorry to keep you waiting, Akehoshi-senpai. I'm all ready now!
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It's been a while since we got to play together, huh~? Between everything that's happened here and even back at ES~. Not to mention with the whole SS going on too!
[aira's the only one who gets to know in their small cast about the current events i am so sorry they are so apart in time.]
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The SS?
( um, yeah, the SS! totally! he knows exactly what subaru's talking about — is what he wishes he could say.
but he's not about to make a fool of himself acting like he gets it, because "going on" doesn't exactly line up with his timelines, so... )
Isn't that scheduled for like, way later? I mean, there's no way you guys are planning this far ahead... right?
( right? please, alkaloid just saved their own asses. they were on the idol equivalent of living paycheque to paycheque, so there's no way they could've been planning this far in advance if subaru's serious. )
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okay maybe add has some validity about timeline jumpings or whatever he's always going on about. but does he... no, he shouldn't worry his junior about it, right? it doesn't matter right now anyway, but subaru's quiet and thoughtful in a way that's unlike his usual star-studded personality on and off stage before he grins.]
Nope, of course not! It's, uh, complicated in a way, so let's leave it aside for now. ☆
[maybe get back to it after shooting hoops. maybe]
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Um, right... Sure.
( is there some kind of internal gossip going around ensemble square or something? it's kind of unnerving, not knowing what's being spoken of around him... )
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It's nothing bad, and nothing you've gotta worry about. Promise. ♪
[he hasn't talked about it to natsume either, but maybe he should ask and see what he thinks..? no, it really, really doesn't matter right now, and
might never again, as much as he was looking forward to singing with alkaloid and everyone else... once they got out of the jungle...]
Anyway, what's your longest shot? We'll start from there and keep stepping back until we've got you center court. ♪ Or maybe I'll get your endurance back up with some laps. ♪ I'm not gonna go easy on you just 'cause you're younger than me, Aira~.
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( by which he means, like, the midpoint between the net and center — that's where he's made some of his better shots from time to time, less with people coming at him and more that he got passed to at the right time and place, but still. he doesn't know if he really cares to run laps for basketball of all things either. breaking eye contact to look at the perimeter of the court and, oh god, are they doing this on the outside courts? absolutely not. no way.
he still offers up a nod, but he's gonna see if he can worm his way out of this one. )
The shots sound good to me. Those are, like, the most important part of basketball, right? Or maybe something more core, like passes?
( anything that doesn't put him near those ominously buzzing fences? or even worse, now that he thinks about it — the death track. )
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We could do lay-ups too if you wanna practice those~.
[even if
that puts them dangerously close to the fences,]
I'll handle catching all the balls that bounce around the court, by the way! I really like chasing them, so don't worry about losing a single one~!