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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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[ A bunch of strange objects have been piled into the corner of the dorms common rooms. Gatcha rocks, pencils, random sheets of paper...and some bags of candy? A few candles have also been placed down, unlit.
Crouched down in front of it is Crona. They don't seem overly focused on anyone else in the room, instead they put their hands together in some approximation of prayer and mumble something under their breath. ]
Um...so here lies Crona. I don't think I got a grave back home so I'm making one here. I died at some point...and it makes me sad because I never said goodbye. So, I'm going to say it right now, sorry Crona. Sorry Medusa. Sorry Ragnorok...and I'm sorry to Maka too. I really wanted to be your friend forever, but I'm glad I died before I did anything bad.
B. Post Student Exchange.
It was so annoying, Maka wasn't even there! [ Maybe you're on your way to class, maybe you're trying to get back to the dorms, but either way, Crona is feeling unusually chatty today, and is taking it out on a random passerby.
Gesturing wildly with a handy souvenir knife, they complain louder. ]
I can't deal with it...I looked for her for so long, but nobody even knew who she was! And I had to spend another week chasing the stupid scary guy because he didn't want to go home. I wanted this to be a fun trip...but it was just annoying! Annoying annoying!! Not...not hopeful! I can't deal with it!
C. Headache...
[ Towards the end of the month, Crona's presence in class starts to dwindle, and they can usually be found curled up in their room with whatever aspirin they can request from the school nurse. Anyone perceptive enough to keep an eye out will notice that instead of their usually twelve, they now sport fourteen tallies on their wrist...with the headaches suddenly setting in around the same time the tallies did.
Either way, they're bedridden and ignoring all their homework...so maybe check up on them?]
D. Wildcard!
[ Tag this little loser with What Ever or hit me up on plurk
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It wasn't hopeful?
( he calls out, looking towards them with a small frown as if crona has said the worst thing that could ever be said near komaeda. he's not too much worried about the stupid crazy guy that they could be referring to, they'll check on them later... if he recalls, it was shin? yeah, they're not wrong about it, so still not a reason for komaeda to comment on it. )
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Oh! Komeada...! [ Did they say the trip was lame they meant it was....very very cool...thank you for all those merit points. ]
...If it made me really upset thats not hopeful right? Maka wasn't there at all. I wanted to talk to her. And Sou is really annoying and kept dodging things?
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Was Hiyori-kun's hope not enough to make you happy? Hm... he truly is fragile, but come now... tell me, did you ask anyone where she was?
( being upset isn't really hopeful, but it can be in ways... it depends on how this upset feeling stemmed from. it can be used to create hope, but that's a lesson for another day. )
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He has hope? [ He's a jerk who threatened Crona with a cat, and then refused to die properly. Not. Hopeful. ]
Of course I did, Komeada! I went to her school and her house, and talked with all her friends. Not even her partner knew who I was talking about. Nobody knew me, either...that was fine. But a world without Maka...I didn't know what to do.
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...He's an underdog, so he can make hope depending, but it doesn't shine from him unlike others.
( sorry shin, komaeda wishes he could cut you some slack, but he has to be honest about hope, and how it works. )
Hm... they took away someone important to you? How strange... perhaps it wants you to reflect on how you live here, and have to count on others even if the person you believe in isn't there by your side?
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[ They just say it plainly. Crona isn't one to hide the things they feel...they like Yogen, and they like the people here. They wanted to return, when their ideal world didn't hold the one person they wanted because they did have other people now. Komeada, Nene, Ishimaru, everyone. ]
I'm not good at reflecting, but thats what I thought. I didn't like it, even if hanging out with all the not Maka people back at Death City was okay.
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( worry not, komaeda already knows that a world with her in it that crona would have stayed, why come back when they've finally found the person they had been looking for from the start? even komaeda recalls them tucked away in the auditorium, not willing to leave because the person they wanted to be there wasn't around. it was him who herded them to where ishimaru's fight for hope started, and even now he doesn't regret exposing them to that impressive display. )
What about Hiyori-kun? You could have kept him as a pet, had something familiar from Yogen to bide your time until she returned.
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[ It's okay...if he says no. ]
I wasn't going to wait. I knew she wasn't there and I said I'd protect you! So I had to hurry back.
[ The second part...um ]
The one time I had a pet I had to kill it. I did the same to Hiyori, so I guess he was my pet for a bit?
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( it's not a no, but it's also not a yes, it's one that plays the third option to see what would happen between them. now, while crona doesn't get to know the unknown, komaeda will focus on what they say instead about their trip. )
I didn't die while you were away, I've been playing... it was lonely, sighs...
( he frowns, before trying to refrain from laughing at tsukimi a pet... that sounds, correct actually. ) Did you gain a new tally from killing him, and I'm guessing yourself? Is that how you both came back?
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[ How fun! The idea of it is a pretty good distraction. Working together to make something new...thats fine by them. They'd be needed so Crona is on board with their second world destruction plan ever. ]
Yeah. It took forever to find him. He's good at dodging Komeada, I didn't think he would be! I had to work hard for a whoooole week. Then I did myself, which was way easier because I know not to dodge when I'm just going back home.
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That's why fights and arguments are fine, because in the end, hope will win out! Yell at Hiyori-kun to your leisure.
( and then wait for komaeda to say the opposite when everyone starts yelling at each other about how they don't need hope, sighs, if only there was some way to help them all. )
Hm? I'm surprised... you're much stronger than him, and yet he managed to live a week of you actively trying to kill him?
( oh, interesting... very interesting indeed. ) I should talk to him to see if he took care of you properly at least, there's two sides to every story.
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I only yell at annoying or dumb people.
[ So yes they will yell at Hiyori whenever. ]
Well I was trying to only use the knife because I wasn't sure if anything else would work... But I'm not weak! He just kept surprising me! I only managed to get him after I threw that knife at him from really far away.
[ One may recall Crona's skill in darts. #Foreshadowing. ]
He was okay. I'm annoyed but you don't need to yell at him too much. What does taking care of me even look like?
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( because some people are good prey than others, and shin is actually pretty good at that so if crona wanted to be a predator, then that's perfect. it all falls perfectly on the food chain, crona at the top, and the other at the very bottom as he grazes food. ...maybe crona does have lion tendencies, but komaeda isn't going to think so hard on that. instead, the mental image of shin being sniped by a knife in the back almost seems fitting, and a hand raises to muffle his bits of laughter. )
Which built the foundation to you impressive aim! Make sure you thank him for being a dart board, going out of his way so you'd have a great time... how kind!
A || Crona my child
He passes by them, quickly goes outside to grab some spider lilies, and returns. Can't have a grave without flowers. Setting them down on the grave, Lucifer crouches beside them.]
Would you have been happier if they made you a grave? Perhaps they didn't make you one because they're waiting on you to come back.
[They're a kid, so... maybe that will make them feel better.]
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Oh, huh? Well I don't know..? [ They lean forward on their heels to pick up a flower. They're pretty. ]
I was a criminal, so if I died, it would just be like they'd decided to execute me. When they were talking about that nobody mentioned if I got a grave or not. [ It's a thought that makes them frown...they hadn't thought about that in a while. At the time they'd been so wrapped up in the euphoria of befriending Maka they hadn't really cared about if they died. ]
I think it would be nice if I have one, because then people could say goodbye to me even if I can't hear it. Goodbyes are important. What makes me sad is the idea I never got to say thank you to Maka for everything...if I graduate this year and stop being me, then I'll never ever get to say that to her.
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...
Anyway. Maybe an anecdote will make Crona feel a bit better.]
A very long time ago, my little sister Lilith died, and was reincarnated as a human. Never once did she stop being herself, though — even if she was no longer an angel, she was still Lilith, and she was still the same sister I'd had for a thousand years. [He reaches out to pat Crona's head.] I doubt you'll stop being "you" when we get out of here.
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Mhm...not being me isn't so scary. The person I am right now...is kind of useless and can't deal with everything. I committed a lot of sins, and I don't think I'll ever be normal.
[ The run a finger over one of the petals delicately. ]
Lilith sounds nice. If she becomes a person, and I do too, maybe I'll meet her and I can say hi. I'll tell her you miss her. [ They slowly dig a nail into the flower, tearing one petal off, and then another. ] But I want to see Maka again. And I don't want her to die...I want to say it to her face right now.
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[A utopia is a dystopia, to someone like Lucifer.
He doesn't tell Crona that Lilith has been dead for a thousand years or so, that anecdote having taken place shortly after he and his siblings Fell. If it provides Crona comfort, that's fine, and perhaps somewhere in Lucifer's cold, dead heart, he'd like them to meet somehow too.]
Perhaps there's a way for you to see Maka again, without this school interfering. I don't know how, but you should hold onto that sort of hope. I'm not a superstitious man, but I know a human back home who would say that holding onto your dreams makes them come true.
[Whatever that's worth.]
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can't a man just find a place to lay for a bit and think about his various life choices,
but more seriously, subaru's popping his head over the couch and watching crona for a moment, then speaking up--]
You good over there, Gocchan?
[me: gocchan is more pleasant looking than go-chan i'm sorry]