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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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[To death. Burning themselves to death.]
It's a volatile element. The real Clamor would have known that.
[Noah feels like, had he ever bothered to sit in on Natsume's recent lessons ("lessons"), he would have maybe figured out something was wrong sooner if he'd watched Clamor of all people start showing off Elrios' Most Dangerous Element. But that's guilt for another day, perhaps.]
Th-that's not the point, though. Um... See, here, he left some spells for you. Radix, Curtain Call, and Horoscope, it looks like. [Noah points to each one on their respective pages.] I know how to do those, s-so if you wanted to pick one, I can... I can help, maybe.
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Curtain Call sounds interesTING. ( the name sure is, and also i just watched a video for it and it is EXTREMELY PRETTY so i'm biased. ) Let's start with that ONE, and we can move onto the rest in TIME.
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[Because Curtain Call requires doing just that, and Noah shows it off, letting a blanket of stars extend out before him so that Natsume knows what exactly is expected of him. Noah's version of the spell is a bit darker than what it's supposed to be, because the only way for him to extend the spell to a reasonable distance so far is to mix it with his shadow magic.]
...that's what the spell is. Don't... don't aim it at anyone you don't want to maim.
[It can hurt people. :)]
A-anyway, that's why I need you to show me how far you can project magic outwards... I-I can give you advice after that, I think.
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Natsume's already thinking of the non-battle uses for something like that—maybe he could figure out how to get it to stay a little longer, enchant some people with a night sky close enough to touch... It would be amazing for concerts, if they could do this, special effects without the hassle of wires and potential electrical failure—
Ah. Right, yeah. Noah's asking him to do something; he should do it. )
Very WELL. ( It's little issue to call his magic to him now, sleepless nights spent listening to it as if that would help and focusing on making little constellations and nebulas appear on the bottom of the bunk bed above him until he'd pass out at long last doing their work, but sending it out and away...
Well, he's lucky this time (17), but it takes it a moment to go, and it doesn't go very far either—maybe two feet shorter than Noah's. He's lucky he passed the threshold in the first place... but it's still embarrassing, a little, even though naturally he'd be able to do less.
He's just used to being a genius, and maybe he's been catching onto spells and the like quicker than someone else might, but what he knows and what he can do has a pretty wide margin, still. It's like understanding the technique and the theory but still painting a terrible looking house. )
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[If Natsume needs a pep talk, Noah will give it; he's oblivious to Natsume's feelings about being a genius, how he's used to doing everything right within the first few attempts, and more than that he doesn't catch onto the embarrassment. To him, Natsume is cool for having gotten that much so quickly.]
It took me a bit to get that one right. Clamor would probably pat you on the back and say that you're doing good.
[Noah holds his left hand up, the one that's stained an inky black from his shadow magic, so much so that even his fingernails have changed — and within it he forms a little ball of stars coagulated within the murky depths of a shadow. It's the only way he can make his celestial magic do anything substantial.]
When I was first learning how to do anything, I was taught, [unfortunately by the cultists who ruined his life,] to see how long I could maintain magic for, on a per-spell basis. That's how I got so good at the cats. ...I know I'm kind of all over the place, but do the spell again, and try to maintain it for as long as you can this time.
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( It isn't a failing on his part; it's just facts. He calls the magic again gently, letting it form slow-twirl constellations in the palm of his hand. They fade in and out, but they're usually in the same space; this is a feature not a bug. )
...It's been much more difficult than I THOUGHT, ( something he'll only admit to Noah and that he's probably otherwise only admitted to Clamor, as cheering as the idea that their master would find his progress impressive, ) and I didn't think it was going to be a walk in the park to begin WITH.
( But maybe a little easier than it's actually been, since he's been such a fan of magic and the occult and the history of witches and all things supernatural...
Natsume watches his magic start to shimmer at the edges, tell-tale signs of it going, and focuses a little harder; it rounds itself out again, and when he extends it from his hand he imagines it similar to Curtain Call yet gentler, a cascading of stars across an arc. It still isn't very far in projection, but it's okay. It's easier to hold when it's smaller, and it's what his roll got him so he gets to keep it for more than one comment this time. )
Master Clamor wanted to teach me things to defend myself so I wouldn't have to go straight to getting my hands blooDY. ( More accurately, preventing murder, but. ) In TRUTH, I... think I'd like to be able to use these to mesmerize and enchant oTHERS. To help them ease their hearts for a moMENT, either as a distraction or as a substitute for the special effects I'm unable to achieve here due to a lack of resourCES.
( ... )
And I'd like to learn how to heal, TOO. ( A little quieter, a little embarrassed about it, because he doesn't feel like healing particularly matches the image he puts out. ) I want to be able to save those I still CAN.