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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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...Do you want to know why you're HERE, Chiaki-chan?
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[ In that "I'll decide whether to believe you" tone of voice ]
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To get an education, of COURSE. We're at SCHOOL.
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Don't bullshit me.
[ Give her a more believable lie, at least! Who kidnaps people and makes them go to another school for education? No school should be so desperate to raise ranks that they'd go out and kidnap her. ]
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( Said the exact same way he said the first one, no change in expression. )
Pick your statement to beLIEVE.
( neither of them are lies, anyway. you do go to school to learn, and grades still have some importance here, regardless of if they're actually important or if they, instead, are symbolism for something else. and this is also a place where the students are dead, so. )
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Chiaki scrunches up her nose and stares at Natsume as if waiting for him to take it back. ]
If this is where we go when we die, then how come I came here by myself? Where's everybody else?
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( counterpoint maybe they did come and you just don't recognize them yet. )
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[ She would recognize them. ]
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...I don't KNOW. I can't answer THAT, because as far as I KNOW, I died on my OWN.
( or, well, he won't let himself think anyone but him died. )
EarthQUAKE?
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[ ... ]
I opened my eyes and was sitting in the train.
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Alone, and on your way HERE. ( ... ) Does that mean you believe me when I say we're DEAD? You're really going to believe THAT, and not something more hopeFUL, like this is just a dream and you're under the knife being saved by doctors or someTHING?
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[ Hope, though? Eh. Chiaki pulls away from the door and peers up and down the rows of lockers, trying to get a feel for which one is hers— because one is hers, she can feel it, and it feels like it'd be like opening a mailbox after coming home from vacation. ]
If it's a dream and I'm alive, then great! But whether I'm alive or dead doesn't change my current situation, you know?
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If it's a DREAM, then none of it matTERS. If it's NOT, then it DOES. That's ALL.
( you can dream of being back in high school all you want and it doesn't change anything )
...Who else was with you on the TRAIN?
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[ There's still the feeling of having a good night's sleep. Plus, she gets to open her eyes again and find herself not crushed under a literal ton of rubble, it's all good things. ]
It was me, Kouji, and Seiya. The ones who came with me. I wonder how they died?
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Kouji... As IN, Kouji Seki?
( we can get to seiya in a second. )
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[ They weren't really in the mood for full introductions while sitting in the train to the afterlife, but Chiaki perks up a little at Natsume's surprise. ]
Did you know those two like you knew me?
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( he doubts it's hokuto's dad, )
And not that well eiTHER. Well, I suppose you and I didn't talk all that MUCH, but we had a wonderful discussion about favorite aniMALS.
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The anglerfish!! So you love them too!
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( HOW DID SHE KNOWWWWWWW )
They're not my favoRITE, but you did say they were YOURS... But Little Anglerfish isn't cute enough for YOU, so we settled on a different ONE.
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Huh? You don't think they're cute? You can't just settle on a different favorite.
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I don't have a favorite aniMAL, but I think cats are cute and they're good companions, TOO.
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[ They're cute, sure, but there's nothing riveting about cats that can be found anywhere and everywhere. ]
I can't imagine our discussion was very wonderful, though, because I'm right and you're wrong. Have you ever seen an anglerfish? You'll change your mind once you've seen one, trust me.
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( >:/ )
We ended up talking about other animals with a similar modus operandi, such as the assassin BUG.
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I guess that kind of suits you. "Little Assassin Bug."
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( .......not because he respected her, but because she demands people to look at her, acknowledge her opinions, just like now. )
Find your locker YET?
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