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

[starrypoint]

a. pool time

[this is something that'll happen easily across the span of the month, because humans have a natural tendency to be drawn to water in order to relax. he can't overshower and subaru honestly does not mind the pool monster down below in the depths, or the body that was here prior, he is just

vibin

floating on his back in the pool on random days. notably from the 6th onward if he's caught at the pool he's got some slight bruising that'll go away soon enough, don't worry about it.]

b. coping with crafts time - post exchange

[dying is not easy, subaru finds. it churns his stomach to be at yogen again, as relieved as he is in the same breath, but--

he can't help but think about it, crystal clear in his mind, and wonders what happened in the jungle, or if it was something just after and he doesn't recall, or--

anyway. subaru's in the art classroom, and then also in the common room with various paper crafts surrounding him. they're all very festive. halloween festive. maybe they'll look familiar in a few ooc weeks. regardless, they'll be stuck up around the dorms too, everyone gets their choice of pumpkin, spider, and bat because those are the only ones he can make on hand,

if he sees you he's waving you down with a bit more cheer than necessary.]

Wanna join? I've got a lot to do and not that much time to do it~! Sit, sit, you can help design up some spooky critters! Or cut them out!

c. trick or star treat!!!! - 31st only, dorms only

[yeah.

he's eighteen but he doesn't care, there are so many dorm doors to knock on and he's knocking on every single one to see if he can't get a treat. he has some tricks to play if he doesn't get it too, to varying degrees, but anyway--

subaru's wearing a demon cat costume, and you can hear him coming down the hall in the evening hours by the jingle of his bell... and should you open the door to see this handsome critter:]

Trick or treat~! Gimme gimme something good to eat, or I'll play a trick on nya!

d. whatever else!! the jester jingles appreciatively

[throw anything at me idm, this includes forum pings and such... if u wanna get in touch just pm me fusionicstars or dm on disco @ sundrymunty#8836]

steph

[starrypoint]

[he meant to apologize a lot sooner, but

with

everything that has gone on, between the beginning of the month and sweeping through the exchange, subaru can't say he found the time. he could've made the time. he made time for so many other people, so many other things, busying his idle hands and idle thoughts to keep from latching onto anything. but subaru's better at quick, in the moment apologies that can breeze by or be swallowed by the sound of something so much louder, not...

... not standing outside of her dorm room with a large, folded up paper clutched in hand, a container tucked inside his arm. she hasn't been out too much lately, he knows, since the exchange... maybe he should've gone home too, seen how everyone was, but--

but there's a lot of reasons he didn't.

subaru knocks on the door.]

[closewithnewintown]

[she has never been more popular in her life, which would be great, if she didn't actively want to be completely alone and just stay in bed until she starts growing lichen.

still. she can't be rude.]

Come in.

[starrypoint]

[............. okay.

it'll definitely tip steph off that something's different when she finally realizes it's subaru, since he's made it very obvious since day one of living in the communal space he doesn't tend to knock on doors and just sort of opens them or peeks in if they're open to see what someone's up to--]

You sure you want me to?

c i'm tagging you more than once i promise but let me get this one out of the way

[crystallomancy]

( natsume opens the door

shuts it on his face

yeah they're roommates yeah he saw this happening no he doesn't have to indulge it )

[starrypoint]

[............................................

he's gonna open the door to his own room.]

You oughta join in! What's the point of living together like this if we don't have fun? This is the fall of our youth!

[forget the murders at the beginning of the month. join him.]

[crystallomancy]

( looking like he's really debating shutting it again but then that'll devolve into a level of stupid he isn't sure he wants to sink to )

I don't like sweet THINGS.

b! but i'm coming for c later >83c

[mermaidcursed]

Oh! There you are- ( and nene actually smiles, because this is practically what she wanted to do too- just a bit more festive, really... but she can make it work. ) Ehehe, I was just looking for you for something like this.

( in her arms is a set of jars of paint- pink, blue, green, purple, orange and white. and subaru might notice that the label says 'glow in the dark'- wouldn't that be perfect for his decorations? )

We should use these!

>83c!!!

[starrypoint]

[subaru tilts his head at first, but he seems to perk up when he's told that He was looked for...! him!!!

oooh.]

Glow in the dark! Those'll be perfect, Nene, you're a genius! Where'd you find 'em?

im crying bc nene's plan.... she's been wanting to do this and u gave her the best opening to do so

[mermaidcursed]

In the craft room, but they were kinda hidden behind a bunch of other paints. But when I saw them, I knew I had to grab them for you! ... We'll have to put them back later. But right now?

( right now is arts and crafts time, and also... her plan. while she sets everything down, she moves to get supplies for the paints, at least. makeshift pallets, brushes, water to clean said brushes, here's hoping no one drank it on accident-- )

... I missed you, while you were gone. So, I'm glad we can do this.

C

[rearranger]

[ ...

It takes Ranger a few seconds to pick through his cultural knowledge to know what the Hell is going on here. Fortunately, he's at least able to figure it out. it's still weird, though. He's pretty sure this is neither the time or the place, adn that it's supposed to be for kids or something.

He immediately regrets visiting the dorm rooms for even a brief time. Never again. ]

... Huuh? I dunno if you wanna trust me with giving ya something. No taste buds, y'see.

[ Well, that's not quite accurate. He technically does have them, but it's not a feature he bothers using ]

[starrypoint]

[fool. halloween is for all ages. subaru will teach you this, newbie.]

Oh, it doesn't gotta be like a food treat, it can be anything at all! I just thought I'd have some fun~. What's wrong with your taste buds though? Born without 'em?

[he knows some people can't smell. that's like, the same thing right]

[rearranger]

[ please teach him the magic of Halloween, he's a very sheltered child. ]

Huuh? What's the point if it's not something sweet? I thought you kids hated it when you got stationery or whatever.

[ He's pretty sure some people do weird stuff like that, anyway, he has no experience either way. As for his question... ]

Anyway, I got 'em, but I don't use 'em too often. No stomach, y'see.

a - before meeting.

[decrypter]

[despite the pool monster and the dead bodies, the pool is really the only way Helena wants to exercise, to build her strength little by little. and with Subaru around, there's no need to be nervous that something will happen that she's unaware of. eventually, she's going to join him in floating, content that she's done enough for the time being.]

Hey, Subaru? Can I ask you something?

[starrypoint]

[it's way relaxing with helena, who can't see the expressions he makes at the ceiling as he floats along, the depths of the pool beneath him and the expanse of the sky above. she'd surely ask about the aimlessness of them, what ever could be occupying his mind so far off... though certainly the unusual quiet might've tipped her to something different, but who couldn't be exhausted after the past few weeks?]

Sure! What's up, Lena?

[at least his voice doesn't betray any of it, cheerful and warm]

[decrypter]

You know how Natsume's presentation said we're all waiting for reincarnation? What are your thoughts? I know everything got a little loud then, so I wasn't quite able to hear if you were talking about it.

[she had to leave the room twice. shouting's no good for her head - and she had to calm down herself to not jump in.]

b for back here again

[crystallomancy]

( of course he's going to decorate........

but natsume loves halloween too, loves october and the chill that drives summer off, the mysticism of the late hours and late days... so he sits with subaru, prototype bat cookies on tray being set beside the cut-outs. they are frosted with love and green frosting, like furry neon monsters. )

Your pumpkins are ugLY.

b for "my wife is a bitch and i love her"

[starrypoint]

[with love and green frosting. please.]

Are you going colorblind too?

b for bad subarus get no cookies

[crystallomancy]

Halloween is about the odd and the fantastiCAL.

( ....moving the cookies away from subaru >:/ rights lost )

How many are you maKING?

c for cute threads

[decrypter]

[the faint jingling does get through to her, but she pays it little mind - she'd heard the collar earlier, but decided it was simply part of the day. still, a knock can't be ignored, and so she goes to get the door -

if she'd known this was going on, she would have trick or treated herself.

still, she smiles, and her voice is warm, eyes widening in (affected) surprise.]

Oh no! What can I do? All the good things to eat are in the kitchen, not in the room.

[because that's how you get ants, and the last thing anyone needs in these dorms is ants.]

[starrypoint]

A treat can be anything at all, Lena~. The only thing that's limiting people from that is their own imagination!

[and helena is a creative person, so he's got faith...!]

aira

[starrypoint]

[quality..... senpai-kouhai time.

aka, bright and early on a sunday, subaru is unfairly crawling into aira's bed to wake him up. pinching his cheeks.]

Aira~, hey, hey, wake up~. But be quiet, we don't wanna wake the other two.

[pinch... pinch... come on... he'll cover your mouth if you scream... they have morning practice to do...!!!!!!]

[auditions]

( tired... he's tired... he's tired, and there's no good reason to be awake, but the pinching and pulling at his cheeks is making it hard not to be.

"be quiet," the voice says, but he whines a little bit as he pulls the blankets up. maybe if he pulls them over his head, he won't be under attack any more. )

c

[commences]

( he's already dressed in his fluffy attire, fangs noticeable in his mouth, and probably a play on little red riding hood's wolf — or he's just a boring, ordinary, common wolf that someone would find. he lifts one paw up, tugging at the ribbon around his neck as he snoops around for a certain someone, and it doesn't take him long to find who he's searching for. watching subaru knock on the door of another student's, he waits to see if someone is coming to answer or not — it's been about five minutes, and they haven't opened so komaeda slowly creeps up behind the other and...

he slaps his hand against the door over subaru's shoulder, and he pins the feline up against the door, his chest pressed against the male's back. )

Boo!

[starrypoint]

[subaru usually gives people a good wait time, just in case-- he'd been about to leave this to try the next when suddenly there's a furry claw beside his head and chest against his back, and he stops short of elbowing whoever the hell it is when he hears komaeda's familiar voice.

the threat remains a second longer and subaru is still tense, uncomfortable, but he laughs his arm drops and he turns his head a little to see the other, bell jingling and heart pounding at thr fright.]

You really got me there, Maddy~. Lemme turn around so I can see your costume.

[back off.... just a little ☆]