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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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I'm pretty sure I know what it's going to look like, but sure, alright.
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It can't be as bad as your last ONE. You remember what I divined for you, RIGHT?
( except that the last one wasn't bad at all, but now he's Testing Kouji god i missed his cute face. )
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[ Like he's not backing himself into a corner. ]
But the past is the past, so never mind that. What's in my future?
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A girlFRIEND.
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No, of course NOT. ( Of course not!! ) You have a higher chance of getting stabbed here than getting a girlFRIEND, just going by statisTICS. We have some rather violent students HERE...
( dito. )
But I'm not surprised you don't remember THAT. ( a pause. ) Or ME. And don't lie—the other girl who was supposed to know me doesn't eiTHER, and she certainly would have recognized me if she DID... She won my hand in a charity auction, after ALL.
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That's a little... [ What's he supposed to say to that? kinda sad, when you can't get a date normally and you have to bid in an auction. At least he hasn't sunken that low. ]
How do you know me, then?
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We met briefly at the beginning of the YEAR, but our positions were switched—you knew ME, but I didn't know YOU. ( ... ) I'm sure that's hard to beLIEVE.
Let me introduce myself THOUGH, to make things FAIR. Natsume Sakasaki, fortuneteller, idol, and magiCIAN.
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Yeah, no. It's going to take a lot more convincing, but, ]
Kouji Seki. Soc major, pianist... [ ...he doesn't really have anything cool like Natsume does ] ...I'm pretty good at slight of hand.
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I'll trust you on THAT. ( Soc major, huh... ) I can play the piano TOO, though I don't usually do so—Maya-chan would pull a face if she ever saw me near the music ROOM'S.
( she'd probably think he was putting a bomb in it again or something )
Have you happened to run into her YET?
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No clue who you're talking about... But the music room doesn't look very interesting, so I haven't bothered being there much.
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Quietly relieved they haven't run into each other yet. )
What places have caught your interest THEN?
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[ He counts off on his fingers, places that stand out or that he otherwise cannot get access to. The student council room is sus, the principal's office is sus, the counselor's office, the student store, basically everything outside...
There are a lot of interesting places, and makes for wandering the halls a full time job. ]
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I still can't get into the lab eiTHER, so we're the same THERE. ( but he's been everywhere else. ) The science club was disbanded at the beginning of this semester THOUGH, and it'll be some time before they reopen applicaTIONS.
( ... )
But in summaRY, places that don't seem like the suit a SCHOOL, or that you can't acCESS.
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[ Obviously. ]
...Look, you've already outed me as somebody who's not supposed to be here. So maybe you can tell me how to not be here anymore?
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his lips part, and he shakes his head. )
You'll leave in TIME. ( whether that's graduation or something else. ) I wouldn't worry about it too MUCH, Seki-kun.
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Just how long is "in time"? How long have you been here— how long have I?
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I don't KNOW. In memoRY, you were here and knew me before I knew who you WERE, though forgetting those types of things isn't uncomMON. But for what I can rememBER, I've been here for half a YEAR. You were in school for a month or so before you were STABBED, and you apparently went to the hospital without returning until a few days ago with no recollection of this PLACE.
( all stated like they're facts, because they are. )
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Who did I piss off... Never mind. I'd better ask around to see if I can piece together what happened.
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Do THAT, and I sense that the possibility of a stabbing in your future will become astronomically HIGH. ( in that "are you stupid" tone of voice. ) You're not going to seriously ask, "Hey, do you remember me? Do you know why I got stabbed? Who did it?" to everyone you meet, are YOU?
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No, of course not. Don't be ridiculous.
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You WERE.
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[ ... ]
Not with those exact words.
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Roleplay what you were going to ask with ME. We'll workshop it into something that isn't going to get you immediately gutTED.
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Okay, okay, ]
Heeeeeeyy... [ oh god he's not going know anybody's name ] you. It feels like it's been forever! I haven't seen you since—- and then here is where you say "since so-and-so stabbed you for this reason or that," and I nod along like I know exactly what you're talking about.
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