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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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[ ... ]
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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well, let's do something a little more REALISTIC. )
It has been a while, hasn't IT? I haven't seen you since you went off to the hospiTAL. How was your STAY?
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Terribly boring. The mattresses are too soft, and the nurses tend to wake you up unreasonably early in the morning to run tests. There's always a kid screaming or crying down the hall.
[ This is where Natsume is supposed to say "oh, I'm sorry so-and-so stabbed you for this reason or that, and put you through all that" ]
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At least it got you out of school for a while; you didn't have to deal with eXAMS. I was FINE, but some of my peers... ( a sigh, a shake of the head. ) Well, they didn't do so WELL. Hopefully they can make it up next TIME.
( ... )
And SCENE. We go our separate WAYS, because we aren't friends nor classmates and I don't have any reason to engage you in anything other than cordial smallTALK.
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Ugh... In that case, I'd just ask my classmates, or somebody who acts like they know me, like you did.
[ He's not so bad at this that he'd go up to a random stranger to ask. Probably. ]
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...They might not tell you because they don't want to be the next tarGET, or because they're familiar with who did it and don't want them to get HURT.
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Dude, if somebody killed me once and I meet them again, shouldn't I be the one worried about getting hurt?
[ They already murdered him once, they can do it again. ]
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They wouldn't do it without reaSON.
( A long silence........ that also sounds like an implied "probably"............... )
AnyWAY, no one said that you died, exactLY. You just went to the hospital and never reTURNED. Perhaps you unluckily fell into something WORSE, like a vegetative STATE.
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And then I woke up and they released me back here? I don't remember any of that. Just... being really tired, and somebody screaming. Or maybe that was the train whistle...
[ ? He's not sure it's the kind of old fashioned train that'd have a whistle, though ]
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Those are two very different SOUNDS, ( he ends up saying instead, idly. ) You should be able to tell the differENCE.
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[ He was apparently dying from something, cut him some slack ]
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I actually CAN, because my hearing is better than perFECT.
( Especially now! Perks of going blind. )
Is there anything else you can rememBER? Kudo-chan—the young girl who was with you—mentioned she was on the train with you and a "Seiya," but she's not really the type of person who pays attention to things she doesn't care aBOUT.
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About the train? Uhh... There were other people on the train, but I didn't get a good look at any of their face. It was just me and the other two, and we got off together.
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What made you get off when you DID?
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[ Magic bullshit can explain away anything ]
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No, I know what you're talking aBOUT. ( The beginning of the school year had been like that, the first part. ) Like you were compelled TO...
( Drawn back... hmmm... )
Have any of the teachers said anything to YOU? ( ... ) Or the vice princiPAL.
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[ Which was confusing as all heck, but he is very good at smiling and nodding and pretending things are fine so he could figure things out later. ]
Is there any way I can remember what's going on, or am I just out of luck?
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( aka: good luck dude )
I've been working to unravel the mysteries of this school for the better part of the year NOW... Actually, I made a presentation on it at the beginning of the MONTH. (
does he............. want to give it to kouji.......... He stares at him thoughtfully... nah. ) But it needs adjustMENT, so I'm not giving it out to new people again just YET.
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[ He's thinking for school. Like the teachers know about this and are in on it. What the fuck. ]
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An after-school presentation for students like me or the you of NOW. No one else gives two whits about our situaTION.
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If you survive the YEAR, you'll have the chance to graduATE, so technicalLY, you're closer than I AM. I'm a second-year HERE.