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]

Not really. I think he's kinda stupid... What things? It's okay if you don't wanna talk about that, though.

[commences]

He's reckless, he doesn't know when the path before him is about to crumble, he keeps trying to touch this hand —

( he lifts his organic one to show to stephanie, but he doubts that will make any sense. )

Throws himself into other people's space, crafts his own delusional stories... he tries to make a person feel wanted when they have no place... and he keeps hanging around my Ultimates.

( sighs!! ) I really am unlucky...

[closewithnewintown]

[nods]

So, you don't like him because he mostly acts like you do.

[commences]

He's nothing like me.

( don't say that to him. )

...I'm trash, complete garbage to the world. If only I could die from my self-loathing...

[closewithnewintown]

That's basically the only difference. He's so cheerful that it starts sounding fake, and you're so sad that it starts sounding fake.

[stares at table] It's hard to figure out what the both of you actually believe. You just know it's not entirely what you're saying.

[commences]

Is that what you think of me? That's nothing I say is honest... I do want to be for my peers, because trusting each other is what matters.

( he thinks about it on subaru's end though, his positivity becomes a lie, and even komaeda has to shake his head. )

He's honest too, genuine, but he's crafted his own narration that caters to his performances; he's someone who doesn't know how to stop, when to stop. He forgets to take a breather, and then he's uses up his final breath, dying without knowing who he used it on... rather frivolous, don't you think?

[closewithnewintown]

That's not really genuine, I think. 'Cause it is just a performance. Acting the way you do because of something you want from other people, and not what you want from yourself.

[it's easy enough for her to recognize her own reflection.]

I think you described him pretty well. It's just I don't know if that's how he really is.

[commences]

...Hm, with as much thought as he puts into wanting to understand others, wanting to be by their side; I don't believe he has it in him to pretend.

( there's no need to lie about it, and this is just his assessment of what he's seen so far. )

I believe if he did... that would eat him up inside, he's forget how to function, he doesn't knows how to be anyone else... he only know how to be... him.

( that's why he projects himself onto others, or sees bits and pieces of himself in the people that he helps. why he's willing to give as much of himself as he needs if the person before him has nothing. that's not a bad thing when offered to those who can use his person as a stepping stone, to further their desires, to give them a pull in the right direction for the moment, especially if given to the person who deserve it. )

Promise me something.

[closewithnewintown]

[a pause]

What am I promising?

[commences]

You'll see the side of him that I'm exposed to...

( whether komaeda's lucky or unlucky to see that, he sounds like he wants stephanie to at least hear him out. )

I want you to see, and then make your verdict... maybe things will be more clearer.

[closewithnewintown]

Because that worked so well the last time, with... I mean, I guess. [sigh] I'm gonna be really busy tomorrow. I'll have lots of time after that, though.

[commences]

...Do not ask about his obssession, and don't let him speak about it on his own. Make him talk about himself.

( because that's always been a problem, and if he's like komaeda as stephanie says, then it should work. )

Don't let him fret over you either, and then you'll meet that person... The Akehoshi-kun that's the same person he shows to everyone else.

( he looks to stephanie. ) Busy doing what?

[closewithnewintown]

Hm... Maybe. [after they're all free.]

I already told you, remember? Saltwater taffy. [grins] It's a pretty intensive process.

[commences]

It takes a whole day to make?

( komaeda doesn't even like candy so he wouldn't know. )

I'll message Akehoshi-kun to help you.

( because komaeda's all about everyone talking to each other. )

[closewithnewintown]

No, don't bother. I like doing things myself! It keeps me from getting too bored.

I'll come see you after I'm done. Okay?

[commences]

Hm? But you like doing things with everyone... being alone isn't too fun!

( oh, oh... claps his hands together. )

Even if I'm busy, come and see me... And I'll help pass out your taffy so everyone can try, even if they don't want to.

[closewithnewintown]

I'll do stuff after! Sometimes you just gotta do things yourself.

[smiles, nods] Okay. I'll come. Promise.

[commences]

...I think Akehoshi-kun would love to help with a project like that.

( pulls out his handy, dandy pda. )

That way it won't take so long!

[closewithnewintown]

If you insist...

[sweetly] When and where are you gonna tell him to meet me?

[commences]

I'll tell him to just follow you around.

( that saves the trouble of you know, looking for her when he can already be here. )

Because you can't learn about him in just a few minutes, it takes awhile to understand...

[closewithnewintown]

Maybe, but I think I've learned enough about him that if somebody asks him to stalk a little girl, he's gonna say "no."

[commences]

Stalk? No, he's helping you prepare everything, a little girl shouldn't have to work on making taffy alone, you have to cut it, and make it warm... that's pretty dangerous, you could hurt yourself.

( he laughs, nodding his head. )

Akehoshi-kun doesn't mind hurting for others! He can do the labor part.

[closewithnewintown]

Okay. I'll meet him in the morning, then. [literally hours after she's already on the event horizon.]

[commences]

Good! Tonight's perfect.

( taps on his pda. tap tap tap... )

Do you need him to bring anything, I'll be there with the salt.

[closewithnewintown]

[considers...]

A mop. I broke my Komaeda-hitting broom last week 'cause I thought this towel under my bed was you. [beat] You know I won't be doing anything tonight, right? I'm going to bed after you bring me the stuff.