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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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You go. I'm in no hurry to get back to that place, and maybe I'll finally get some peace and quiet without you around.
[ He can take a nap. Live here in the void a little, until the lack of sunlight makes him feel like he'll lose his mind. ]
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( he asks, watching the other just rest within the bed, how the world around them is just a lost world with nothing to offer. )
We could make a deal, if you want my blood... you can have it, but you have to come with me.
( and do what he says, but he releases the fabric the other is laying down, and takes a step back like he's waiting for him. he's quiet, willing to compromise on his own terms, but a compromise regardless. )
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[ This isn't a compromise at all. It's Komaeda making demands and this boy, drawing the blankets back over his shoulders to trail on the ground as he gets to his feet, walking past Komaeda out the door because he's not coming with Komaeda, not making any deal with him, and if they happen to be headed to the same place, then fine. ]
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( those same familiar shade of eyes that continuously appears in his life, and it's enough that maybe he wants to gouge them out. it's a brief thought, one where he doesn't care for the moment, and so he clenches his fist tightly to keep himself from trying. instead he smiles softly, almost innocent as if he wouldn't dare do such a thing as he watches him leave the room with the blanket attached. it's fine, komaeda turns around, following after him as they move through the void. )
What did you need it for?
( he lifts a hand to touch where the other injected the needle with it still in his hand, hm... he wishes he could see the nape of their neck. )
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To see if you bled red.
[ There's no reason for him to explain himself or tell the truth, Komaeda has to know this. Back protected by an extra layer of fabric, the student walks ahead of Komaeda, throwing a brief glance at the counselor's office door as he passes and makes his way to the other half of the floor, carefully side stepping the other shadow students filling up the hall. ]
Let me have more of your blood.
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What do I get in exchange?
( it is ultimate blood, but aside from that, everything about komaeda bleeds lucky, but who knows if it'll do anything for him. there's no immediate use that people would find from a carrier within a zombie movie, it's just that everything about him appears to have gains or flaws that if he allowed his blood to be siphoned by him, who knows what problems would stem from it. he'll make his way next to him, tiredly showing his hand that the other had tampered with as he passes the dark bodies as well. )
Also... if you're looking for those with different shades of blood, it'll take more than just stabbing to find that out.
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[ Wrong family to deal with exchanges. He's one who generally takes what he wants, and tries not to be swayed by anyone or anything. So he takes Komaeda's hand, cold fingers running the pad of his thumb over Komaeda's wrist, his tallies, but unfortunately they don't bleed.
...
He lets go of Komaeda without taking any blood. ]
You're no good. But you're right; it's better that we head back, now.
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( he needs a reason, and he already used hope, but rubbing over his wrist yeah... none of them are bleeding, and the only way to make them is by scratching until they go back raw. of course, that doesn't stop komaeda from looking at the other, and he follows suit, grabbing the other's wrist to look at his tallies. )
If you want, we can kill someone together, there's all sorts of ways to take a life... do you want to hear all the thoughts I have?
( he'll pull him towards the bathroom instead, but he'll stop halfway to turn towards him. ) If you don't want to hear, we can just do it.
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...taking his hand back without an apology... ]
I'm not interested. You'd just waste it.
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Waste what? Come on, tell me... what do you have to give me?
( he blinks, curious as he takes a step closer now. )
I want to see. I'll take good care of it.
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I'm talking about people. Senseless killing doesn't impress me, so I don't care for it.
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( ah, he really doesn't have anything, but he has to correct something about this. if he was to kill, there'd always be a reason behind it — that's how it always is, and always will be. )
When you kill someone, you think of those that'll be able to take the death of that person, and use it to push themselves forward. Some are too attached to the norm, like everything around us... ( from the voice entities, to the walls around them, and whatever else someone can find in their daily life and say that's all there is, and that line of thinking is what causes weakness. ) ...they take it at face value, and so you have to give a little push... give them a reason to want to keep going, and not fall into the rhythm of just... thinking everything is okay. That's why I would have taken a life, just to see how your hope handles it, and if you couldn't... then you're just as weak as some of the others...
( he smiles, patting the male's shoulder on the side of where he stabbed. )
It's about hope, how strong their foundation is, if no matter what happens, their support will never crumble... that sort of strength is unique. As you know... why live in doubt with others, when they can kill or die believing in one another, ahaha...
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Okay, freak.
[ He stopped listening after the first sentence but he also has a feeling he didn't miss anything important. Anyways, Komaeda, you stay here. He's going to go somewhere... not here. ]
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When you kill someone, you think of those that'll be able to take the death of that person, and use it to push themselves forward. Some are too attached to the norm, like everything around us...
( that is said as he links arms with him, keeping him close, and there's probably shit on the ground that's going to trip one of them how komaeda bumps shoulders. )
Who are you, and do you even know how to get out?
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You shatter reality. I'm somebody who's been here longer than you have, and who doesn't need the advice. You do: this isn't a place you want to find yourself in too often, or for too long.
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...We shatter reality.
( ... )
Why do you say it like that? You must know everything about this place, will you help a lowly first year like me... what are the tips and tricks?
( he's excited, of course, teach him senpai. )
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I say it how it is. Here's a tip: fuck off.
[ Not that he expects Komaeda to. Now that they're no longer touching each other, he starts forward again, with the steady pace of somebody who knows where he's going, except where he's going is just down the hall and looking at every room they pass and then up the stairs, apparently to weave in and out of the school like he's taking Komaeda on a tour. ]
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...
( he really is taking him on a tour, i'm sick, which komaeda's seen this place thousands of times, but he always looks after his mystery friend as if he'll show him something new. wandering through the void is the best spot to stay when depressed, no one bothers you, no one cares, and if you die here, you die out there. it's simple as that, and a place that komaeda's used to surveying, and using for his more... alone time needs to think about what to do for the future, etc. )
Hmm... Senpai, where are we going?
( he smiles, looking towards the other as he links their arms. let's go!! )
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We're not going anywhere. We'll come back to the same place in the end, anyways.
[ Back to the nurse's office in the middle of the day, but not yet. First is the Yogen tour, and he's very literally just walking and opening doors and looking inside and moving on. ]
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You're right... you're right... are you able to open the door to the science lab?
( since he's opening all the doors, maybe he can open that one as a treat, which maybe komaeda has to add a little onto the story. he'll lift up his mechanical arm, showing it off as it makes sense. )
Also... what's your homeroom, Senpai?
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[ But the door to the science lab has a window on it, so he merely looks through it and moves on.
Ignoring that question, he lifts his left arm in mirroring Komaeda's. ]
How'd you lose it?
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I'll tell you all about it if you let me into the room.
( that's a fair trade, right? he's even going to look back towards the science lab. )
Here and in the other world... I'll give you the whole detail about it, from start to finish.
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[ He should know that already, for how often he must have tried to get inside the science room or out through the front doors and courtyard back when he wasn't allowed anywhere. ]
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( it was worth a try since he seems so... aware of what's going on, and it's that one room that eludes them — honestly, komaeda wanted to take the skeleton model considering add's obsessed with i-- wait. )
The anatomical model, can you retrieve it for me? I'll make it worth your while once a peer of mine examines it.
( basically the only thing komaeda wants out the room. )
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What use are you to me?
[ He's a senpai, information about the school wouldn't be news to him, what he can get out of Komaeda he's sure he can get elsewhere. ]
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