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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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( granted i have no idea what natsume actually did for their room, but nene's is nice and cute if not clearly diy! eventually nene lets go, carefully cutting some paper that she's painted with the glow in the dark paint. some of the papers are one solid color, others are gradients mixed together. )
You should come hang with us sometime, I think it'd be fun.
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also... so nene's the reason natsume has that cute canopy thing he shuts when he doesn't want to talk to subaru anymore. it's her fault... also, natsume is the only one with it, because he didn't see the need for anyone else to have one. this is what alice told me.]
Are you sure Lon-chan wouldn't mind?
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( she doesn't quite get it, but subaru's nicknames are so cute? so she won't complain. also crying no she only gave the curtains it's natsume who chooses to weaponize them!! )
I think... he wants to make friends more, but he gets anxious. ( because people keep dying. ) And he's very shy.
( hmm... between whatever it is she's working on, nene also makes a halloween decoration. a glow in the dark orange jack-o-lantern... spooky! )
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and subaru'll start working on his spiders again, this time adding some white paint outlines to really make them shine...]
Oh, yeah, I get that. It's sorta hard to make friends when there's always a chance of losing them, huh?
[...]
But that's what makes them sparkle too, I think.
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( ah... hadn't she said that to natsume, too? ...
after a moment, nene checks the paint bottles. skin safe... when subaru's done with his spider, she's going to take his hand... and paint an orange star on the back. ehehehehe... )
... You know, Subaru-kun... you've supported me a lot the past couple months. Thank you. For all of that, and being my friend.
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[... so he totally agrees.
and-- oh, a star... he looks at her when she talks, then takes the pink paint and makes a matching one on her own hand. opposite of his, it's important that they're mirrors.]
Don't talk like that, Nene. I'm gonna keep being at your side, no matter what. We'll get through the rest of the year together, and I...
[...]
Anyway! We've got plenty of months ahead of us, so don't go thanking me just yet~.
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( and then he takes her hand to return the favor and the cold paint makes her giggle- she tries not to squirm too much, really, but it's done soon enough and nene can't help but smile at it. )
Oh, I didn't mean it in some end of things way... but I really am grateful for you. And... I know the start of this month was really hard on you. I want to be able to support you too.
( though... that's also dependent on if he'll let her, isn't it? )
... That's all I wanted to say. I know talking about things can be hard.
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subaru looks down at his decorations, chewing the inside of his cheek; there's a lot that happened, between the end of last month and at the start of the new one, and... some stuff he can't talk about; it's not his place, first off, and secondly... he was trusted not to. at least, he wouldn't feel good about it.
he thinks about grinning and waving it off, but he looks at nene, with her small, kind self, the unobtrusive offer of being someone to talk to, and sets the brush aside, wrapping his arms around her to lean against her like that. head on hers, so at least he doesn't have to show his face.]
This school sucks, Nene. I never had to even look at a dead peer back at my old one, y'know? It's sooooo tiring... I feel like I really got a crash course between Kudo-chan and the rest of everything.
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... It does. It's the worst. I don't know what it used to be before this, but this place is what I'm going to think of when people say hell. ... Kudo-san... I promise, not all ghosts are like that, at least. And I'm sorry that you had to deal with that so quickly after waking up here. ... I didn't know it was possible to make them tangible.
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[it's not okay. but it's okay at the same time. it's not their faults, is what he means.]
Ama-chan said... that Kazuki-san told him that after the big fire happened, everyone got to be more tense, so maybe it was a place that was meant to help us adjust and get ready for whatever came next. And now it's like this instead.
[... maybe steph's right-- no, he doesn't want to think of it, so he won't. it's selfish, but... for all that's happened, he has gained some nice things here.]
But it all depends on those contracts I mentioned, the one that Macchi seemed like she got the better end out of. That's something I'm positive of, I just... dunno how to figure out why they started, or who they're doing it with.
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( it's a nice thought, isn't it? but how is the real question, on both accounts. ... but that's not why she started this conversation, why she's holding him right now. )
... You don't have to pretend that everything's alright, Subaru-kun. I'm not saying we can't have fun- not at all, I think being able to find something to make yourself smile even now is amazing. But... it's okay if you aren't okay. You did really well, both last month and with this. And I'm really proud of you.
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[he can be fine. it's hard enough to process worse feelings, much less without the safety net of the bonds he'd had for years -- someone like natsume can drag more out of him, but even then it's not everything. especially not right now.
subaru doesn't cry because he can't. not for himself, just for others; short stints marked by frustration and a determination to change things, but never for himself or what he's going through. he sort of just shuts it off.]
Things've gotten better, anyway! As long as I have a goal, then I'm good to go. [-- ah] And something happened earlier this month that I'm suuuuper excited about, Nene...♪ Can I share it with you?
[because maybe it'll encourage her, too... and they can stop talking about the feelings that make his head feel like itchy static ☆]
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Oh... sure. Go ahead.
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Well... I know you and Lon-chan've been cozy, from how you talk and all... [hoo] And I'm super happy for you, Nene! I think it's awesome. [hoooooo?] That's why I'm gonna let you in on a secret...
[...
it isn't a huge secret to certain people, the slight difference in attitude towards a certain someone, how he takes care not to be overly affectionate in public as if suddenly aware that it might be taken differently--]
I got a sweetheart myself. ♪
[they.... match!?]
sighs in LOVING SUBANENE CR AGAIN
I'm really happy for you!!
( and she is, truly. there's making your own joy, and then there's finding love- a love unhindered by loss or tragedy, at that. she hopes they can come out of this better than the other romantic lines have- ... hers included. )
UGH ME holds them
it's something right now but it's fine it'll be fine!!!!!!]
Thanks~! I've got no idea how to handle it, but it can't be too different than friendship, I guess?
[like... how affectionate he is already... plus some extras? yeah.]
i also love when nene doesnt QUITE get someone... she cant read everyone perfectly... is good
( don't get her wrong, she loves the idea of things working like a shoujo manga- but life is life, and manga is manga. )
knew it was mine HI HELLO me tho....
it's real real, it settled in after the exchange.
...]
You're such a bright girl, Nene.
[he's always thought so, that she sparkles and shines, but especially when she helps others. his grin loosens into something warm and he'll lean against his hand.]
I appreciate it~. I dunno what way it should flow anyway, since it's been just me and Mom for a while now, but I can remember some of the stuff Dad did when he was around. Like singing!
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it's a relief. )
I do my best... and, I think maybe, that's a good thing then? You guys can figure out the flow together, as you need and on your own terms. That's how you build strong relationships, I think... you find the flow, and learn to navigate it together.
( ... how sad, that she only realizes this now. but! after a moment, nene squeezes subaru, shifting just a bit to smile clearly again. also there was definitely going to be a joke about ships and stuff, but i couldn't work it in and i'm so mad. )
We have decorations to finish now, but then hugs can resume. 'Kay?
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but he'll let her go, reluctant at first and then away all together, turning back to the table. decorations, decorations... which will be plastered heavily around the dorms... oh, these poor walls... teru teru bozu ghosts hung with care, made by rokuro and himself... skeletons... all of this... there's gonna be so much.]
Roger that~! Hey hey, can I borrow some of this paint after? I wanna put some stars on my ceiling~.
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I was making these for you!
( HER SECRET PLAN! REVEALED!!! she's been trying to do this for ages. )
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subaru's genuinely surprised, cheeks warming pink as he takes them and looks them over... oh, these are so nice.]
Nene...
[...
he's setting the stars he'd been holding down to hug her again!!!!]
You're the best! These're awesome! How long've you been doing this, huh? You little sneak, you~! ♪
HOW DO U LIKE NENES SURPRISE...
( nene returns the hug again with gusto and probably settles far too easily into holding and being held again despite her earlier reminder that they had things to do. )
Oh, but I bet painting the wall or even the ceiling would still be fun. Just make sure you put something over the beds to protect them.