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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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Nene's... the kind of person who hides behind smiles, like you and me. But I've been a little preoccupied, yeah.
[with other things... other people... he'll be a little less turned around next month, and even now he seems faaaaar more relaxed and carefree than their crawlspace conversation nearly a month ago. has been, too, since the exchange in particular.]
I wonder what I can do to help... I'd hate to third-wheel 'em, but they're pretty attached at the hip right now. What's Lon-chan like to do besides feed the beast?
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( let alone, don't compare komaeda to her, she's only hiding behind smiles now, but she's nothing how komaeda is. when he smiles, he means it (or that's what he believes) considering it's all about hope to him. yet, he can say all of this with a smile because he doesn't think too much about how awful it looks, but that nene will overcome this with no problems. )
Ebalon-kun? Oh, he's quizzing people to figure out if they're real or not, Clamor-san's death has ruined his perception... ( as for what he likes to do, komaeda thinks about it, he's never really got on a personal level with him before. which probably shows as komaeda can't really pinpoint an exact thing. what does he know about noah other than revenge? that he's learned to live for others, and that he's some child who isn't special and all he has left is to try his best. )
...He has hope! A spectacular hope, and he wants to protect all of you, so he likes doing that.
( uh oh... and then it hits him, his eyes widening for a moment that he's got something, and it may not be a lot but... he chuckles softly. ) ...He also likes to draw, and he's really good at cats.
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yeah he should've known better than to expect komaeda to know something real about someone besides their hope. this does tell him that noah and komaeda are more like passing acquaintances than anything, at least, which is something in its own right he guesses.
... ooh, that's something concrete though ♪]
Drawing, huh~? I can do something with that. ☆ Thanks Maddy, I knew I could rely on you. ♪ You're pretty useful when it comes to info gathering, after all~.
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( he ignores subaru for something as more fulfilling, he points at the plate in his hand to look at the pieces of meat they have to go through; they don't want to overfeed the monster, but if subaru wants to interact with it, then he'll have to become a familiar presence. cutting his hand so that some blood sinks into the flesh would probably be a good idea, and komaeda's thoughtful on the matter as he wonders if there's anything to do that with as they come closer to the pool.
he thinks about that instead because despite what he knows of noah, he doesn't want to discuss it, not because it'll seem like he knows nothing — he knows enough, and is aware that the other doesn't really have a childhood anymore; he thinks of saving people, and not himself. that sort joy may be lost upon him, and perhaps it'll show in other ways. besides, it's best if komaeda keeps his distance on people's joys, and then there's no way for him to ruin them. )
Only a taste, and then you can pursue the creature more.
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Aren't we technically trying to get it to pursue us? Since we're gonna feed it and all, we want it to seek us out when we visit and stuff.
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( it may not be kind, nothing in this world is, and since it's purgatory, everything has its own rules. that's what makes this interesting. whether it's friend or foe, it did manage to eat whatever's dropped within the pool, and so that's a start of probably how they can summon, or have it chase them down. )
Hm... you sound like you really want to meet it, me too, I'm excited for it as well.
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[yes..... cryptid hunting.....]
And if we befriend a little, then cool~. Maybe we can ask it to bring us down into the depths of the pool and see what it is!
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( yes, and then when it kills people they blame him. )
...Have you seen what that place looks like in the void? You might not want to descend.
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[perfect.
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Nu huh, what's it look like?
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( he glances towards subaru, curious, but at his next question... )
I heard it was a mixture of wet mud and bugs, if we happen to cut ourselves in that murky deep, we'll suffocate.
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[like... no way. they could create digimon here. they'll become millionaires, maybe.
........................ he been swimmin a lot in that lately,]
We won't cut ourselves.
[simple solution: they just won't]
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( so they have every right to copyright them. )
We can cut ourselves preemptively, especially if you haven't seen it... a new experience will do you good.
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But what about feeding our friend?
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( that sounds like a plan because i realized no plot clues this month. )
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Sounds good to me! We can see the other side of the pool sometime then too~.
[or do it now subaru'll wanna plant something there honestly,]
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( komaeda's mind goes from one thing to another, i'm sorry. )
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[it's immediate, like most of subaru's honest answers.]
I know those things're supposed to help people, even though the fee's what it is for 'em, but... I just don't think it's worth losing part of yourself.
[... he feels the same about the contract and all, but... he won't berate anyone for their choice if it's already happened. he won't agree with it, but he won't abandon them.]
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( as for komaeda who doesn't have that much of a life left, where there are some healthier than him. does that mean he's already lost himself if a person giving up their hearing and eyesight is losing? )
...Must be a shame for those who never had it to lose in the first place.
( though, this isn't about him. )
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[a beat.]
Would you buy one?
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( he tilts his head to the side. )
I tried.
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Why? You've got a lot of years ahead of you here, do you seriously not mind the fee that much?
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( bringing a hand to his face, fingers curl around his chin as he nods, confirming his answer. )
People who cherish their life to the point they become selfish... I couldn't live that way.
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I think the people who take those totems are the selfish ones, though. They might say they do it for someone else, or for a better reason, but it's just for their own... [how does he... put it.
he makes a gesture with his free hand, helpless for a moment, before he settles with--] Their own self-satisfaction, I guess. Peace of mind. Without thinking a single thing about the people around them, and what they think or how they might feel about it. I mean, it's their decision in the end, but that doesn't mean I -- or anyone else -- has to agree or like it.
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( that's the type of person komaeda thinks of him anyway, and because he's like that, he can see why the totems don't sit well with him. as for komaeda, who is keen on giving his life, they don't mean much — it's just speeding up the path that he's decided to walk down. )
When you say it like that, it must have bothered you to have such a strong opinion.
( he laughs, but he won't pry, that's not his place, and so he continues. ) Self-satisfaction sounds conceited.
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[it's conceited. and komaeda's right, subaru hates to be perceived as ever but he's right and he puts away the feeling of fingers beneath his skin as he turns his head to the side.
... and it is a strong opinion, there is a story he wouldn't talk about even if it was pried and, after a beat he bumps shoulders with komaeda.]
Aaaanyway, talking about that sorta stuff is pretty depressing, so let's change the subject! Tell me three of your favorite things starting with the letter p!
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