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

[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. )

[closewithnewintown]

What's his hope even good for? Being mean? Treating people badly? That doesn't even fit hope by your weird definition of it. He's just a selfish jerk.

[commences]

The future... Do you believe he's a despairing person by default?

( selfish jerk... some ultimates are selfish jerks, and their hope is even more beautiful and radiant. his hope is at war with other people's hopes, and komaeda loves hope wars. )

[closewithnewintown]

The future... [scoffs] You mean the one he's not even gonna see, because he's determined to do dumb stuff all on his own?

[unlike her, of course, who is determined to do smart stuff she has brought unwitting, definitely unwilling accomplices into.]

What do you call it when somebody doesn't have hope or despair? When they're just useless? He's that. He isn't anything.

[commences]

Talentless idiots, normal, boring people who are just trash that litters the sea of its beauty, and so only the strongest creatures survive and attempt to take back the habitat.

( to her last question, but he guesses he can be honest. )

He lacks talent, but just like your hope, I want to see his. I think the version of me in the past must have saw something, hm... I saw a side of him that I didn't believe I'd see.

[closewithnewintown]

Or maybe you didn't see anything, and he's just tricking you into thinking you did. [a pause] I mean, that's what everybody's doing to the people that came back now, right? Why else hasn't Chiaki tried stabbing Natsume, even a little bit? You could tell her anything about what happened here before, and she wouldn't know the difference.

[commences]

Does Kudo-san not know yet? You could always tell her, I see nothing wrong when you try your hand at honesty.

( he's going to sit down next to her now, and he thinks about chiaki because she is different — everything about her is different. from her profession, but she still puts up a good fight. )

I'm not a likeable person, you know? Why else would he talk to me the way he does...

[closewithnewintown]

That's not my story to tell. [beat] Besides, I like Natsume not being stabbed. Even if he'd kinda deserve it.

[y'know, fair's fair and all.]

... That argument would only make sense if he ever talked to you as if he actually liked you.

[commences]

Hm, you'll leave it up to him? Do you think Sakasaki-kun is capable of exposing the truth? Perhaps, if Kudo-san asked...

( not how he deserves to get stabbed, even komaeda chuckles at the thought. natsume avoided getting stabbed once, and maybe this is his chance to finally have a taste of what it's like. )

...? It's hard to say, he didn't seem against the idea of marrying me, but you don't have to like someone to get married.

[closewithnewintown]

What.