October Event

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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.

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.

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.

Comments

[closewithnewintown]

[a faint smile]

I'm always up for learning new games. I wanna bring them home to my friends. Like souvenirs.

[commences]

I have a great idea! You should find us one: a board and stones, and we have a shop that might be inclined to do so.

( he claps his hands together, not even thinking about what could happen with stephanie and sending her to the shopkeeper. )

Then you can show everyone else what you've learned!

[closewithnewintown]

No.

[commences]

Why? They're a simple shopkeeper, and can get us what we need.

[closewithnewintown]

[crosses arms]

At what cost?

[yeah this isn't about go anymore is it]

[commences]

Ask them, and see what they need from us to get a board and go stones...

( it's not even about making friends, komaeda wants to play the game... go stones are his favorite item, actually. )

If it's in my possession, it'll break knowing my luck...

[closewithnewintown]

I don't wanna give them anything they need, when I don't trust that they need it for good reasons.

[commences]

But our go board! It'd be easier to get through them...

( does this mean... no go board.

...

sad... )

[closewithnewintown]

We could make a go board? I make my own toys all the time.

[commences]

No way! That's going against everything I stand for.

( he likes ... go stones, he wants the real things! )

[closewithnewintown]

[. . .]

You... stand against making your own toys instead of buying them?

[commences]

Go stones! Ask them for go stones.

[closewithnewintown]

Komaeda, I'm not asking them for anything. I told you I don't trust them.

[commences]

Go stones.

[closewithnewintown]

No stones.

[commences]

Then there's no way to play.

[closewithnewintown]

... Haven't you guys been buying stupid amounts of rocks from them for weeks? Use some of those.

[it's literally number two on her "reasons everyone here is clearly fey-touched" list.]

[commences]

Do you have proof? ...Anywa, go stones are different.

( where's the proof? )

[closewithnewintown]

... Komaeda. You and Natsume dragging around literally hundreds of rocks is very noticeable. Everybody knows about the rocks.

[commences]

...I don't remember doing so?

( he wanted the skull rock, and then he swallowed it... and he had the money to spend! )

Wait, I remember, do you mean when I wanted to trade the ones I had?

[closewithnewintown]

Natsume's dumb friend wouldn't shut up on the message boards about it! And besides, they tried to sell me some rocks, but I said no, because paying for rocks is dumb. Rocks should be free.

[commences]

Those rocks shouldn't be...

( he won't go into detail, but he'd wish that they weren't, but that's not why they're having this conversation. )

Rocks aren't go stones.

[closewithnewintown]

Why.

[commences]

Because they're black and white...

[closewithnewintown]

[. . .]

I don't know how to explain paint to you if you don't already know what it is.