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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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...
It really is difficult to interrogate Add.]
You were standing in front of the void talking to yourself. [You know, as one does.] Doing... something.
[Okay Noah knows what Add was doing looking back, but at the time of them meeting, it was sort of a mystery? Like... why the void fascination, void-entity?]
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Experiments, observations, those old details are hardly important at this stage of my research. Why do you want to know about this now? If you've learned something new, spit it out already.
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You're good.
[It definitely didn't go the way he wanted it to go, but yeah, Add's Add-vibes are atrociously powerful today. Not a doppelganger. Confirmed.
Noah would walk away now with an apology, but he's still a pack mule.]
I was checking to make sure you weren't a— nevermind. I doubt you care much.
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[he slows down a little, from leading to walking next to Noah instead... it's easier to glance over at him, this way. perhaps trying to gauge his expression.
Add wasn't involved in the investigations last month, but it'd be difficult not to hear about at least some of the details during the noisy meetings, so.]
Possessed?
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...that. Yeah.
[A tense nod.]
I didn't mean to bother you with it.
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He glances off to the side again, humming quietly to himself for a moment. Noah's current method is pretty lousy... not very scientific. So—]
Megaphone Hacking Gun. Device that Komaeda owns... despite its name, it appears to have a variety of utility functions.
When Legion was possessed... before their body lost functionality, I was able to check using one of that device's features. The "detect" function will react to spirits, including those that are currently possessing an individual.
It'd be annoying to have to check everyone with that constantly, however. I suppose your method will do, but consider it if you're ever uncertain.
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[What the fuck. Noah shouldn't be shocked by Komaeda anymore, and yet.]
...I'll consider it though. Um. Thank you. Really.
[Add has never struck Noah as the type to care for others, not really, and everyone in their right mind knows that Add is kind of a bitch to boot. That's not to say Noah doesn't like him, but, uh...
Anyway, point being, Noah can tell that Add might care a little bit. And for what it's worth, that makes him happy.]
...
Why am I carrying your belongings, though? [A question that he should have asked a while ago.]
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Being thanked makes him a little flustered, though, so he scoffs, pointedly staring straight ahead now.]
Because I'm moving them. [to the dorms, which might be more obvious now that they've been walking for awhile.] Security at the school is lacking, and robotics club's storage space is limited... it's not ideal, but at least the doors can be locked.
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Oh. Okay. [Just... going to continue holding stuff. He has to remind himself repeatedly that Add is older than him and is not actually a small child in need of help... and here Noah is carrying this stuff anyway.] ...what's this little robot thing do? Other than shock people.
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[that's Massacre's job and it's very good at it, tyvm]
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[Like how Dynamo does so many things but it's mostly a cat toy.]
I-I mean, it's cute... what're you going to do with it? Can it move around on its own?
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AI appears limited and it lacks useful appendages, but its behaviour is highly aggressive... possibly some sort of experimental security or personal defence drone? Whatever it is, it's interesting, so I'm observing it.
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Huh. [An interested "huh", not a dismissive one, in case Noah's slight stoicism is unclear.] Where did you find it? Maybe there are more of them. You could make a small army?
[This seems like a poor thing to suggest to Add specifically, now that he thinks about it.]
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It electrocuted me while I was leaving the workshop one day. [..... yeah.] What use would I have for an army? Hmm, I guess it'll do until my own abilities are restored... self-defence, eliminating annoyances...
[might be mumbling about taking over the school w\ robots, dwbi]
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[He hears that muttering, Add, you're not subtle. Please don't take over the school, it was just a suggestion oh by the El]
You're you and all that, but extra defense measures never hurt anyone.
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... what's that supposed to mean? ["you're you", implying he doesn't need the self defence, but he doesn't recall showing Noah much of his own abilities yet... hmm. what does Noah think he's capable of?]
Kuku, not that it's an incorrect assumption, but... I wonder, if both of us were to go all out... who would be left standing at the end...?
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[The corruption, he means, because ya bitch forgot this is before the deck-Add-in-the-face thread RIP.]
You have some time magic, too, and if it's anything like Harque's, you can survive a killing blow, right? ...I don't want to fight you, though. [lol]
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You have a similar ability, though... so it's not completely uneven. ["completely"] Who knows? We could one day be enemies... if it came to that, don't expect me to hold back on you.
[looks at the other thread like lol, its way funnier in this order anyway]
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[Noah just shakes his head. No, they're not going to be enemies, they're going to get out of here and go find the El Search Party and they're going to go fight the Order. Together. Because that's what Noah thinks and that's what's going to happen,
and Noah has no idea he's from the timeline where Add just straight-up decks people and commits slightly less time genocide.]