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adsum ([personal profile] adsum) wrote in [community profile] yogen2021-10-02 07:12 pm

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.

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.
closewithnewintown: (I ponder whether I think)

[personal profile] closewithnewintown 2021-10-15 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[stares at the ceiling. i bet it's popcorned.]

... Is that a weirdly indirect way of asking me if I want you to kill me? Or is it an actual question.
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[personal profile] commences 2021-10-15 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I live on an island, so there's a variety of things we could do... like the amusement park or maybe the restaurant area...

( he taps his chin as he thinks about all the attraction traps there is, but the one that stands out the most. )

There's also the beach... but I can kill you too, if you want.
closewithnewintown: (I've been helpful and friendly)

[personal profile] closewithnewintown 2021-10-15 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't been to a real amusement park since I moved...

... It'll be the same if they do it again, you know. Or worse. They'll never really let us see our homes. It's just... teasing, I guess. [and why would a place that wants you to move on mock you about your past?]
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[personal profile] commences 2021-10-15 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Not for you it won't, there won't be anyone you know to attach yourself to, and so you won't be sad...

( as for komaeda, he has no one, and so he's not bothered by the cheap tricks that she played against them. instead, he'd do it to enjoy himself, he thinks. )

I wouldn't call it teasing, but it sounds fun, right? We can even go to the movies...
closewithnewintown: (am I crazier than other patients?)

[personal profile] closewithnewintown 2021-10-15 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
... It doesn't sound fun if we have to die for it.

[pause] Seeing my friends and family not recognize me... It was hard. But it's not what I'm seeing every time I close my eyes. It's not why I don't feel like playing.
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[personal profile] commences 2021-10-16 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Dying's fine, especially if it's to obtain something... if that's part of hope's design, then so be it. Death isn't scary, you know...

( besides, he told stephanie what he did, and how he did it, and even now he keeps a smile on his face. )

What do you see when you close your eyes?
closewithnewintown: (I have the tools to dig)

[personal profile] closewithnewintown 2021-10-16 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[a long pause]

The ground.
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[personal profile] commences 2021-10-16 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
...Why is it bad that you saw something, some people... can't see anything.
closewithnewintown: (I booked today's appointment)

[personal profile] closewithnewintown 2021-10-16 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Dying isn't fun for most people, Komaeda. It's actually one of the most unfun things that you can do. And I don't really think I wanna play anything with anyone for a little while.

... I'm sorry. [like it's her fault.]
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[personal profile] commences 2021-10-16 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
...You shouldn't push people away because of what you did, almost like... you regret it, so don't apologize to me. I don't believe you've done anything wrong.

( he smiles, clapping his hands together, but maybe this isn't the time to smile... so it holds on for a few minutes, and he reaches over to lift her, and settle his arm across her shoulder. this done so he can pull her close up against him, and lean if she wants. )

Then we can sit here in silence for as long as you want.
closewithnewintown: (while the wheels in my head)

[personal profile] closewithnewintown 2021-10-16 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
[there's a couple things she thinks about saying. about how no, she doesn't regret it; it was just something she had to do, but it makes her sad to think about it anyway. that it's not why she's pushing people away. a dozen other things.

instead, she just clutches his shirt, tucking herself against him.]
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[personal profile] commences 2021-10-16 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
( he may not understand, but what he does know is that the moment she latches onto him that he's meant to stay there, and so he does. his eyes doesn't fall down to watch her, and instead they're attached to the wall as he thinks for a moment of what he saw in the book, of what she's been through, and children are so different. the one's he took care of were too filled with hatred to be sad, to let things like this bother them, but stephanie lives a very different life, and they could be why komaeda doesn't understand her feelings like he should.

to hurt is to feel alive, as some says, and he hums in thoughts.

and this hum persists, and it's a small little tune in the quiet of the room since they're the only two there. )