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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.
Raison d'etre
Ah... That does sound quite pleasant. [A small smile.] Yes, I - I would very much like to see such photos!
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This was back when I first got him. He was quite rotund back then.
[A chuckle. Lucifer swipes to the next photo, which has baby Cerberus sleeping on his back next to a chew toy that's a touch too big for a creature that small, pudgy belly on display.]
Oh, and here's a photo of him using Asmodeus as a pillow...
[The aforementioned Asmo is conked out on the couch with a slightly-bigger Cerberus on his chest. Lucifer distinctly recalls the younger brother complaining of dog hair when he woke up.
Hope you have a free hour, Ishimaru, because there's a good thousand years of photos in here.]
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He goes wide-eyed with childlike wonder as he beholds these images.]
Ah, this... This is so cute! I never imagined this legendary figure as a puppy. I never knew... how precious such a sight could be! So he possessed all three heads since birth...?
[Okay, eventually he has to get back to his studies! But he can put some time into this for sure!]
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[Based on the pictures Lucifer shows off, it seems that the middle head really likes to eat everything it can. There are photos of it trying to nibble on grass, on shoelaces, on a picture frame that Lucifer left lying out once...]
The rightmost head is the only one that will eat carrots. Neither of the other two would dare — even the one in the middle who usually tears up shoes, even now.
[When they get through a few more rounds of photos, it's clear to see that Cerberus nowadays is easily the size of a house. Lucifer's sure to explain the photos in detail as they go.]
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I do believe it! It is clear just from looking at the photos. I cannot image what it is like to be one of three heads on the same body, but they seem to be getting along just fine! It sounds like the middle one has quite the appetite. But perhaps the right one has a healthier diet? [He rubs at his chin as he thinks over the differences!]
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[Things go on in Hell, and Lucifer thinks they're normal things, like Cerberus existing and also the fact that there are crows with three eyes and three legs. Then, he interacts with humans, and remembers that humans don't get to have fun.]
You're correct about the healthier diet tidbit, though. It's much easier to get the right head to eat things that are good for him. I will say this, though — as a typical dog, he's fond of peanut butter.
[One can only imagine the amount of peanut butter that must be bought to keep a dog of this size occupied. Lucifer rarely does it because unfortunately grocery stores get kinda mad when someone comes in and buys three months worth of peanut butter.]
...Do you have a dog? [Asked as a conversational afterthought.]
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I am glad that one of them is looking out for their health! That is quite good. Peanut butter, how pleasant! I will have to acquire some if I ever have the honor of meeting him.
[Ishimaru answers his question with a shake of his head.]
No, I do not. My family has not owned pets, although I have occasionally cared for class pets at school. If I did choose to own a pet of my own, a dog would be a strong preference! I appreciate their loyal and diligent nature.
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[Cerberus knocks things over by accident when he gets zoomies and his giant paws shake the earth. It's different, obviously.]
There are quite the number of nonmagical cats that end up in the Devildom, which is typically where my brother gets them. I imagine it's because they manage to find their way through portals or other gaps within the veil... cats are sensitive to such things. Dogs, not so much. Then again, as you stated, a dog would never willfully leave their owner's side, if that owner was good anyway.
[Maybe that's why dogs aren't sneaking into Hell?]
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Yes, I suppose that I would classify myself as a 'dog person'. Cats may be endearing, but I agree with you completely about not appreciating their nature. They are like the opposite of the diligent and orderly nature of dogs!
[It's still fascinating to hear about cats in the Devildom!]
I never knew that they were sensitive in that way! So many of them end up in the Devildom? That is quite interesting! ...And a bit sad if they were separated from owners or other companions in the process! But I suppose that cats do have that aura of mystery about them.