October Event

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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.

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.

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.

Comments

[commences]

That's the "trick" of trick or treat, isn't it?

( he shakes his head, looking off to the side. )

I'm not too fond, that's why I gave my option. Wouldn't it be fun for humans to have their own complimentary hairball?

[closewithnewintown]

That's the opposite of fun, actually. Even cats don't like getting hairballs; why would humans?

[rolls eyes] And that's not what tricks are! Good tricks, at least. Covering taffy in hair isn't a fun prank; it's just gross.

[commences]

It's gross, I agree... but they can overcome the situation, I'm sure! You shouldn't miss out on your childhood by being an adult...

( you think after being in yogen so long that pain and suffering is the new wave, unfortunately this is stephanie he's talking to. )

What do you need, maybe I can help.

[closewithnewintown]

... Everything you've ever said about your childhood makes me worry about you more. I just thought you should know that.

[thinks...]

Well, I'm done with most of it... But, for something else I'm making, I'm gonna need salt. Like, a lot of salt. Probably more than this kitchen has. Can you find me more?

[commences]

...It's why I want you to have one instead.

( because he's aware his childhood wasn't anything to brag about, but his eyes lift to watch her. )

Huh? That's fine, I can try... how much do you need?

( they probably have enough in the home ec room considering the entire school has to use it, and in the vending machine. )

[closewithnewintown]

Oh, I was having a great childhood until I slipped in the shower and broke my neck. [she's just gonna make up a new cause of death each time she thinks about it it's fine it's healthy] Ten years is apparently a good enough run.

[what's the "constantly making jokes about it" stage of grief.]

Um... [pops a piece of taffy into her mouth so she has more thinking time.] If you can just find a bowl and fill that with salt? That should be fine.

[commences]

You know, I actually saw that happen to someone once... it was quite the conversation starter at dinner, but no one seemed to care.

( when was this or who was it doesn't matter, but he moves on as he claps his hands together. ) And many more to come; I like your hope, so we'll keep growing it.

( depression, i believe. )

Easily done, when do you need me to bring it to you... right now?

[closewithnewintown]

It's not a big rush; I just need it for later. Before I go to bed is probably a good time. I'm staying up a bit later 'cause it's a holiday. [so, y'know, 9:30.]

... Also, don't bring up people dying at dinner? That's the last place to do that?

[commences]

Then I'll bring it by at 8PM sharp, where will you be?

( he has to know where he's bringing it to, or he's going to set it outside and dump it on someone's head, you never know. )

...Ah, hm. It's fine, I'm sure they'd want to talk at dinner too, and if not, at least they can be mentioned!

[closewithnewintown]

[sighs, but fondly] Why are you always just so... silly?

Anyway, I'll probably still be in my room, even if I'm not sleeping. I have some school stuff I gotta work on for next week.

[commences]

You want me to bring salt to your room... an odd choice, can I ask what it's for?

( he doubts she's going to make salt balls out of them, and trick people into eating them like jawbreakers. )

If it's about the pH values of salt, I'm sure you don't have to learn that.

[closewithnewintown]

[without even a pause] Saltwater taffy.

[commences]

...Yep, you have a whole lot of work ahead of you, do you have the rest of the ingredients?

( corn starch, water, sugar... )

[closewithnewintown]

[smiles]

Of course! I have everything ready, except for the salt.

[man lying is so easy and fun why doesn't she just lie all the time???]

[commences]

Show me everything! I want to see the things you've gathered.

( hehe, lying is easy! )

[closewithnewintown]

[she gestures around her, on the kitchen counters and at the table; various ingredients are piled together, but there is a distinct lack of salt.]

We ran out in here! I used up the last bit for this taffy. [which is technically true, and the rest of it is just in a container in her bag.]

[commences]

Now, now... I see... hm, that doesn't seem too bad. You're not going to eat all of it, are you?

( it'd be bad for her stomach, but he is looking around at everything she has... all the ingredients. )

[closewithnewintown]

No, silly. It's for gifts. I'm making everybody a surprise! [smiles] Tricks and treats, remember?

[commences]

What do I get since I'm not fond of sweets? Come on, tell! Tell!

( he's going to slide off his chair so he can go stand next to her. )

Something trash like me can have!

[closewithnewintown]

Well, I was just planning on giving you some anyway. You don't have to eat it or anything. You could... Throw it at people! If it gets stuck really good in somebody's hair, they'll have to cut off a lot of it to get it out. That's a pretty good trick.

[spoken like someone who has great experience with this.]

[commences]

Sorry, sorry... I'm not really into that sort of childish behavior.

( ... )

Something else would fit me, hm... how about you give it to Rokkun, he has quite the sweet tooth.

[closewithnewintown]

[gives him a long stare, like she's waiting to learn which parts of what he just said are a joke. she hopes both.

oh god neither are jokes are they.]

Then maybe I should add some cat hair. [very sweetly:] I hope he chokes on them.

[commences]

Now, now... that's not nice.

( wow! she's the same, at least. )

That's not much of a treat for him, perhaps him and Arisu-kun can have the same gift from you.

[closewithnewintown]

Hiro should be allowed to breathe. Some people wanna lose their breathing privileges.

[commences]

Not yet, there are certain hopes that are needed for this school to prosper.

( so they can't let him choke. )