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]

Is there even anybody here besides me that isn't already completely in love with them?

[commences]

Third opinion? Have you ever asked the ghosts what they think of the others here, maybe it'd help.

( looks at her, thoughtful. )

[closewithnewintown]

... What is with everybody here and wanting to do seances?

[pause] Also, Subaru wants to do a seance with the cats. He thinks they can talk.

["isn't steph all about keeping friends' secrets?" yeah. friends.]

[commences]

He's going to do what?

( as if that's the most important part of this conversation, but he sighs, thinking of how he has to tell him to back off. lily may has never did any wrong, and if she can talk... that's her secret! )

...You won't have to do a seance, though, I'm sorry.

[closewithnewintown]

How else am I supposed to talk to a ghost? [and no that's all he gets she's mad at him too.]

[commences]

Will you be responsible, will I... regret this, as you told me awhile ago?

( stares... she can be mad at him, but he remembers what she said. because of what he said, she got a little wild about her theories. )

[closewithnewintown]

I think you're gonna regret lots of things. [pause] What ghosts have you been talking to?

[commences]

I get around, you'll have to find them yourself.

( he's no help, but that doesn't stop him from pulling a fan from out his jacket pocket. )

This'll get the job done... give you the chance to get insight from a party who are deader than us, they would know more...

[closewithnewintown]

[. . .]

What, am I supposed to cool the ghosts down? That's just a fan.

[commences]

( he sets it on top of her diary, and shrugs his shoulders. )

Hm... I wonder what are you supposed to do, I'm sure your hope will push forward to figure it out. You aren't stupid at all...

[closewithnewintown]

You don't even know... [she sighs, picking up the fan. it looks. normal.]

Well, I guess we'll have plenty of stuff to talk about. Like being dead.

[commences]

Now, now... show it to Tanaka-kun.

( he says with a smile, because komaeda knows how it works, but he's aware of who enjoys the item more than anyone, and that way stephanie will figure out how it works. )

I'm sure he can helpful in this endeavor since it's about ghosts! I have my own method of associating, but we've had good conversations... with the ones I've spoken to.

[closewithnewintown]

[just. using the fan as a fan, like she's debating whether she's even gonna bother humoring his insanity today.]

Were they friendly ghosts? [pause] Your pet doesn't think those exist.

[commences]

He was! I liked him a lot! ...He's very thoughtful, so I think he can ease your mind, hm... I'm sure Tanaka-kun would vouch for me, but... you won't be able to see them unfortunately, it's only to speak with them.

( unless ori changes their mind, you'll have to find out, but komaeda is having grand ol' time s he thinks back on his conversation with ghosts. )

Hang out by th—- who is my pet?

[closewithnewintown]

[a pause. she snaps the fan shut.]

Keigo.

[commences]

They don't like them, yes.

( but he shrugs, )

Doesn't mean they don't exist.

[closewithnewintown]

[a thoughtful noise]

Maybe there's a reason for that... You might be onto something.

... Hiro did say the dorms were haunted. Maybe I should test that out for myself.

[commences]

They are, I've used my hacking gun a few times, but... I never been able to see an actual appearance for why it does.

( but it could be because that building is the old school building, maybe there's more that they don't know or it's basically the monster that's trying to eat them alive. )

Are you sure you want to try by yourself? If that doesn't work out... hang around the wisteria, maybe you'll get lucky.

[closewithnewintown]

I'd just see the man in the kitty mask if I went there. [pause] Is he a ghost? I only see him when I can't sleep. That's a ghostly thing to do.

[commences]

What days can you not sleep? I know he comes out on the full moon... do you have sight to see ghosts? That's amazing!

( he's going to lean forward to stare into her eyes, trying to see if there's anything different about her. )

Maybe you don't need that after all! ( the fan that he points to, but he draws his hand away. ) But... I want you to have it, maybe it can become useful... I never thought I'd see something like it again.

[closewithnewintown]

Most of them. So it's probably not related. [she shrugs, inching away from him a bit.] I've seen weird stuff a lot. Ever since Hyde. It's just something you get used to.

[commences]

Oh, the stepping stone, I remember now. It all makes sense, he was a spirit, after all.

( from what he remembers both him and moraity admitting, it was something about being a servant. perhaps powers come with being close to them, stephanie was however. )

Ah... does this mean you really didn't need it, and here I thought I'd give you something to help your hopes... I can never do anything right.

( and with that, he'll stand up like he's ready to leave. he did come here with the idea that maybe he could do something helpful. )

[closewithnewintown]

[she watches him, head cocked to the side.]

... You don't need to give me anything, you know. There's nothing a friend can give you that's worth more than themselves.

[commences]

...I'm useless, so I wanted to give you something useful.

( isn't this how this works. not like he's buying her friendship, but he genuinely wants to help her with her goal, even if they don't match up with others. )

Even myself isn't good enough to help your thoughts, so I thought maybe other opinions from souls not like us would help. I wanted to ease your mind...

[closewithnewintown]

... You aren't. I know I can't convince you, but you really aren't.

[shakes her head] I don't want my mind eased. It won't be easy until I'm back home, in my uncle's house, sleeping in my own bed and wearing my own pajamas. Until then, being uneasy's the best thing I could be.