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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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Komaeda appears to be being Komaeda, which is a good sign, but Noah's going to ask anyway.]
Um... I never asked you this, did I? What's "hope" to you?
[And if he starts some horny tirade he'll know Komaeda isn't a doppelganger and they can just blow past this.]
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( he inhales, his breath shaky as he can feel his fingers twitch within the soft locks of noah's hair, and then he pulls his hand away to settle on his hip, as if to calm himself down. perhaps he's moving too much, or he feels that his soul might hop out of his body due to the fact he's excited &mdash his heart is already racing. )
Without it, what's the point of living? There's no reason to exist if it's bright light doesn't wash over you in waves, the hope of Ultimate's the starting, guiding light that covers us like an umbrella. ( his fingers dig into the fabric of his clothes, his body feeling hot, and he pants softly — he face flushed, and he accidentally bites down on his tongue, hard enough that blood trickles from the corner of his mouth, trickling down his chin, and dropping on the white of his shirt — staining it. )
Have you decided t... to show me your hope again, Ebalon-kun!? You're not rejecting it, are you!? You've changed so much... from your appearance... but I wonder if your hope is still the same, come on, tell me! Tell me!
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...and now Komaeda is bleeding, and Noah reaches out with a tissue from his pockets to clean that up a bit. Dab, dab.]
I'm not an Ultimate. [He doesn't get what makes him special, compared to other students who aren't Ultimates. Why him? Another thing to ask, Noah supposes.] I don't... know why my hair changed. When I was born, it was white, so I guess I'm not... shocked.
[Apparently being a human experiment might make your hair change colours. Fun side effects of being injected with stuff!]
...I feel better than I did that day at the clock tower, to answer your question. I decided I'm going to live for Clamor's sake, and... for everyone else too. You and Nene and Stephanie... you know.
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( but there's a few things he have to correct because noah brings up a good point, he's not an ultimate at all. which opens up another path for komaeda to comment on. he leans forward as the other wipes away the blood from the corner of his mouth, and he hums as soon as he's finished — his tongue does sting, however. though, that doesn't stop him from speaking up on a matter that makes him happy. )
You aren't a Symbol of Hope, I've already known that... some people aren't born talented, and some are just empty husks that act as a waste of space... but I'll watch over how you give hope to those around us, besides... I can tell how much hope is inside of you, even right now.
( he blinks, though, the clocktower was... a miserable point for noah, yes, he had went through a lot — tried to kill himself, was a coward by using the stone to come back. he wasn't ready for the end, but even that motive can be be for hope, and while he wouldn't mind... noah wasn't doing it correctly, and so to hear this change makes him curious. )
Perfect, he was the best stepping stone you could ask for! If he can motivate you to move forward, for you to have a path that doesn't keep you in place... it's wonderful. You can live for Yashiro-san, and Stephanie too... Those people that you care for!
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I mean... [Noah waffles over his next words, still holding the bloody rag in his hand — he wonders if Komaeda's entire mouth hurts or if he bit anything off completely from how he bled.] Who's going to keep people safe, if another serial killer pops up? I don't know many other people who can fight the shadow students in the void if something happens, either.
[Little reasons to keep living are enough. Should be enough.
Someone needs to be there in case another doppelganger pops up, after all.]
You said it yourself, right? Killing one individual that caused group despair like Hyde is better for the group's hope as a whole.
[Something like that.]
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( in his own deranged mind, killing hyde was needed, clamor's death was also needed, and now he's growing up into an individual that's been through it all. he's able to face those fears that once bothered him, the loss of a loved one, and work even harder to prevent it, but if something occurs, then noah will be able to handle it much better than before.
it's the taste of blood on his tongue that keeps him from speaking too much, but he does have a lot to say when he can. )
People who kill individuals to kill are no good... spreading despair because they can... we have to prevent that from all costs, and you must remove them, no matter what! ( excited, a hand raises to his mouth to wipe away any leftover blood despite not being able to see where it is — noah got majority of it, but komaeda's just being careful. )
Are you going to show me your hope again? Normally I go to find you, not the other way around.
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[There's one person on Noah's radar of people to off, which is Dito, who Noah knows Komaeda spends time around. So he holds his tongue, given that, picking and choosing what games he wants to play today. To Noah, Dito is no better than Hyde, but Noah is also a self-righteous child who thinks he's always the one in the right.
Instead of giving voice to his thoughts, Noah calmly adds,]
I mean, I don't have any physical examples. I didn't kill anyone recently to "erase despair" like you said. I was just... being anecdotal, I guess, about how if another Hyde appeared, I'd do something about it.
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( he leans up properly, a comforting smile given to the other as he takes a step back, and his lifts a hand to wipe away any slob that might have passed through his lips. as he stares at noah, the color of his hair sure is suspicious, and he's never seen that happen before — that, and he's usually when nene more than ever. he knows that it can't be some curse placed onto him by her, so what could be the reason? )
If another Hyde appeared... he didn't know his place, and we'd have to eliminate him immediately. How? We could scatter his body parts, feed it to whatever lurks within the pool...
( he's excited as he says so, but also he doesn't seem to be looking away from noah's hair at all. ) Aside from that, why did you ask about hope? Hope should always be on your mind, but the answer should have been obvious.
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...ah, uh... I wanted to make sure you were still "you" after what happened with Clamor. The... doppelganger thing. I knew no one would be able to properly mimic your feelings about hope, so that's why I had to ask.
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( clamor was a problem for them all, one that caused noah to be like this, but if that's the question that noah gives komaeda, then komaeda will give the same back. it's because of the hair, a shade he's never seen on the other before, and isn't that the normal red flag that gives away an alternate is in his midst? yes, noah is on the weaker side emotionally, or maybe one could call it stronger depending on how he uses it. )
I'm patient, so you can explain to me your answer.
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I'm... Noah. [He pauses; who is he, really?] I used to tell myself a lot that my life ended when I got revenge for my brother back home, but I guess I'm starting to think that there's more to live for other than vengeance. Like... living for Clamor and for Yuria back home, and living to keep Elrios safe from Henir's Order, and living to keep people here safe while I'm still... dead, I guess.
[He runs his hand through the back of his hair sheepishly.]
I'm learning new magic out of Clamor's spellbook lately, too. I want to think he'd be proud of me. But... I'm just me, and I'm no one special. Just some kid from a rich family trying his best.
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( komaeda knows that too, that the other is a fantastic drawer aside from everything else, but it's hard to see that a lot when they're more psychological than anything. that's how it always has been about them, and komaeda won't complain, no, because there's an interesting development. noah willing to look past vengeance for something more worth it, though he's heard a name he's never heard before. he closes his eyes to smile, and after listening to the other's introduction. )
Yuria? You never told me about them, are they a friend back home?