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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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While you thought you were living your happy, perfect life... someone else was miserable, dealing with everything you didn't want to see. Now you know what people are really like when they're forced to fight for their lives.
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[finishes the carton, slams it down on the counter.]
It's just how my whole world is. You know why Mayhemtown is called that? 'Cause sometimes a guy in a costume holds up a bank and a superhero has to come put him in jail. That's mayhem to us.
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anyway,]
An idiot, then.
If your world is so perfect and peaceful... kuku, what about the world down in the elevator? Why does their world have to suffer when yours doesn't?
Happy, perfect little worlds like yours... those are the ones I hate the most. But they're also the easiest to crush. Foolish idiots who have never had to want for anything... they barely even know how to put up a fight.
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[she grins, returning to the fridge to get herself an apple.]
I wouldn't underestimate us foolish idiots... Besides, this body of yours is crumbling like those cookies. I think a breeze could beat you.
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Ah... but I guess your good-luck streak didn't hold out anyway. There is death and cruelty in your world. That's why you're here, after all. Kekekeke...
[He trails off into ominous laughter, and... doesn't immediately react to her last comment, at least not in any dramatic or obnoxious way. A body like his, huh...
Add slips himself one more cookie, then puts the tray back on top of the fridge.]
If you want to try... go ahead. Maybe it would provide some amusement to watch you fail. [something you'd probably expect to be in a mocking tone, but it doesn't sound like his heart is in it today.]
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1/2
[and then with another flash Add implodes]
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he pulls up his hood, fixing the jacket so it's over his shoulders again—covering up the gash on his left that she now knows is there, despite his other "injuries" disappearing.]
You signed up for that exchange trip, didn't you?
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[a pause] Yeah, I did. Why?
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You already know what this place is like. Do you really think it's going to be that easy?
[he doesn't think she does, with how she's reacted so far. but if that's the case, why go at all?]
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I know it won't be. Whatever it is, it'll be awful. Maybe even worse than the elevator. But... [a shrug] If there's even a chance that they're putting my town in danger... Any version of my town... I'd feel guilty if I wasn't there.
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[he sighs] Senku wanted to go as well... if there was even a chance it was real, he wanted to see it for himself. A pointless endeavour.
[and yet, before the summer ended there was another name next to his on the list. that Edward guy must be an idiot, following Senku there...]
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that gets a bit of a flinch out of him, because maybe he'd kinda hoped she wouldn't have checked all the other sign-up sheets or not remembered what his actual (ugh) name was... but making a big deal out of it would just be even more embarrassing, so.
taking a bite out of his cookie to stall for a few seconds]
I'm only going so I can see it for myself. Outsider's perspective as well as the perspective of the person it was crafted for... a more complete analysis can be achieved through both combined. [nailed it.]
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For science, right? [grins] No wonder you two get along so well. It's nice!
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Ugh. My point is, at least we might be able to accomplish something there... you're going alone, aren't you? You're a perceptive brat sometimes, I'll give you that much, but I doubt you're capable of bringing back anything useful. Realistically, what are you planning to do if there's danger? Annoy everything into submission?
You might as well just sleep in that day instead. We've had enough corpses for one month, I'm sick of everyone crying about it all the time.
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[she says, knowingly lying.]
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But fine. If you want to die so badly, go ahead. I'm sure you'll make great fertilizer for the gardener to use.
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[a shrug, and a slight grin] Maybe I'll grow some beautiful flowers. Maybe daisies; I really love daisies.
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[innocent. naïve. he might as well be talking to one right now, for how little he's getting through to her.
he takes another sharp bite out of his cookie, then turns to leave.]
Don't say I didn't warn you.
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