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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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( admittedly, nene is trying to hide her curse still. it's... a liability, at this point. and she knows it. the easiest way to kidnap her is douse her in a bucket of water and then carry her in it after refilling it. she can't fight back or anything of the sort. but it still activates when trying to do day-to-day life. so at some point, you might find her shaking something out of her clothes or carrying pink pearlescent coin-sized scales.
what's up with that? )
ii. locker delivery
Oh- again?
( that's all she says before nene pulls out two sets from her locker at the end of the school day- a winter coat, bright blue with a pink accent and bear ears... and more importantly, a gray 'village girl' type dress with a petticoat and a red hooded cape. ... along side wolf ears, wolfy gloves and a tie-on tail? okay. huh.
holding out the costume, nene stares. ... maybe last month, it might have been exciting. but right now she's... not sure what to think, actually. )
... Seasonal, I guess...
iii. halloween day
( eventually, the day itself comes, and nene is. conflicted. holding the dress of the costume up, she stares.
it's important to make your own joy. this is very true. it will never not be true, actually. especially in yogen, where the ones you love are stolen from you once a week and you're left to wonder why and what could you have differently and how do you keep going after this--
but... is a halloween costume really a good idea?
there's a knock on the door which calls her from her thoughts, and nene jolts but does not put the dress down. )
Come in.
iv. wildcard
go nuts
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Trick or treat!
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Shouldn't I be the one bringing you something then?
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[glances at bed] Oh, do you have a costume? I couldn't think of one.
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( will they get snow here? it'd... be a nice change of pace, from ash and blood rain, but also what's the phrase? knock on wood? she doesn't trust anything here. but more importantly... nene has a stash of candy, and she's a girl of fine taste- stephanie will get only the highest quality strawberry chocolates from nene, because it's halloween. )
What kind of tricks are you thinking of playing?
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[just casually drops that there.] Also, can I ask you for a favor? It's a really small one, don't worry.
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She decides not to go for it this time, instead approaching with a bit of a smile - awkward, surely, but she's trying, to say the least.]
Yooo-- do you need help with anything?
[Because carrying scales around sounds like a bit of a pain.]
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( what do you do with a couple handfuls of mermaid scales... she knows they can be used for some stuff, but even now, after months upon months of this curse, she doesn't actually know how to deal with them properly. )
... Sorry, I'm sure this must seem really weird.
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[Not any weirder than the shit I dealt with back home, she doesn't say.]
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( like trying to carry a large handful of coins, except they're magical and a little slippery and you just can't explain them all that well. )
... Thank you, Inaba-san.
( for the offer? or not asking? )
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[She's not going to disagree--although she does blink several times when she's thanked before smiling, a little awkward.]
I didn't say or do anything to really be thankful for, you know.
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So what's up with that?
[ he'll literally ask that. ]
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nene keeps a fairly blank expression, holding one of the scales up. does dito's world have mermaids? ... do they even function the same way as hers does? )
These turn up sometimes for me. But they aren't really comfortable, so you can see why I'd want them out as soon as possible.
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[ he scoffs a laugh, leaning in a little closer to examine the scale she's holding up. he doesn't know much about mermaids or fairies or stuff, but he's at least familiar with inordinate creatures from where he's from.
he tilts his head, before attempting to snatch the scale from nene. ]
Why's that?
[ he asks, and if he's successful with snatching the scale, he'll be holding it up against the light. ]
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dito can snatch the scale, but nene leans a bit away, because b o y...
her secrets have been hers to give out to those she trusts- or quietly revealed on accident, but still to people she's fond of. dito is not trusted, nor is she fond of him. so instead? )
... Who knows.
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[ says the guy who is like 5 foot tall.
but it's nice to have someone shorter than him around for once. ]
Well, I don't really give a rat's ass about why, anyway. Do they bleed if you yank 'em out instead of shed them? Haha...
[ he tosses the scale up in the air playfully, catching it in his hand again as it falls. ]
iii but wildcardy
Anyway, Childe put Noah up to something, so when he sees Nene instead of... dying over how cute she is (outwardly), he instead puffs his chest out and offers his arm out to her to take, bent at the elbow.]
Nene, I'm... I'm here to be your prince for the evening.
[Childe Super put him up to something.]
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Ah- Noah... y-you look really nice.
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I, uh... Th-thanks. I tried. I'm breaking character.
[Notice how when Noah tries to act a part, he always breaks character around Nene? What's up with that? It's like he's in love with her or something stupid like that, loser.]
Ahem— You look cute.
[Sheepishly, he looks elsewhere, still with his arm offered out to her. Where are they going? Yes. He hasn't gotten that far yet.]
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nene smiles, linking her arm with his anyways. for once things feel a little... normal, between them. like she doesn't have to worry about his very existence the moment he's out of sight. )
Ah... I dunno, I feel a little underwhelming now. N-not that your costume's too much or anything! It's super not, it's perfect!
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He might've gone all out. They don't match, but it doesn't matter, because she looks stunning and cute and he looks like he's trying too hard, and maybe that's okay.]
I think you look pretty. W-we don't match, but... it doesn't really matter, I guess.
[He starts walking. They can go... they can go walk around the courtyard in the spider lilies... yeah. Romance. Fuck, he sucks at this.]
S-sorry, I should've asked if you had other plans before I walk you outside, huh.
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Well. They've spoken a few times and are on fairly decent terms. She's kind and sweet, and he likes to be around her. Though there's no guarantee she likes his company too, and he's... So awkward at doing shit like this.
Friendship limbo. It's the worst.
It's roughly the third time hiding from her that he notices the strange behavior, and it's the worry that Nene might be dealing with something painful on her own again that finally pushes him to actually approach on the fourth attempt. Clearing his throat, hands in his pocket and eyes flitting around somewhat nervously, he sidles up beside her.]
Uh... Hey. You alright? You've been... [Wait, no. That sounds like he's been watching her, and he doesn't want to sound like a weird creep or something.] You seem... A little off? Everything okay?
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but rin does change tactics- thankfully, or she would have cried!- and nene's... genuinely surprised.
a day of avoidance will do that to you during an already-bad month. )
Oh, um... just... a lot of little things building up, I guess... ( said as she toys with one of the scales from a fairly tiny pile wrapped in a hand towel. ) ... Hey, um. Did I... do something wrong?
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He doesn’t get the chance to dwell on the topic for too long, however, as that sad tone and the question as a whole have him immediately switching into panic mode.]
Uh— N-no! No, no you haven’t done anything wrong! Why would..? [Shit, had she seen him? Man, he was such an idiot.] I mean like... We’re cool! We’re totally cool.
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( despite that tiny break in her voice, she genuinely is. after a moment, she holds up one of the pink scales. )
These keep showing up for me. It's really annoying. It's... not... all that's bothering me. But I don't think anyone can fix the start of the month.
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