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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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[...]
It's different with you, Lena. I can't help but loosen up, 'cause I know you won't mean any harm to 'em. But I've been super careful otherwise.
[because. he has to be, for different reasons. it's not like they've agreed one way or another, but this seems to work for them -- subaru'd rather keep them safe like this than to have them in danger's potential way.]
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[not everyone has the same level of affection for Keigo as they do, would work so hard just to know they were happy. her affections aren't on the same level as Subaru, but they're dear to her - enough that she's been considering a few things for their sake that she hasn't decided on yet.]
You want to protect your love. It's only natural.
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Lena~, I'm glad you're interested and all, but it's embarrassing to talk about this...
[can they,,,,,, stop ☆
he doesn't sound upset or anything, just embarrassed]
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[she won't do this too much longer, but the look on her face is very amused.]
And as someone older, I feel qualified to say if you can't talk to me about it, then how will you talk to them about it should they want to? You should open your arms and embrace it instead!
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I didn't even think if they'd wanna talk about or not, Lena, 'cause we already sorta talked and stuff... What sort of things do you do in relationships anyway? We got handholding and time together down pat.
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[wait. wait she can do this. convincingly. decently. she has this.]
Supposed to...
[no, they're too young to rush off into betrothal. it's early. what her father would call courting.]
It's...
[but they're in a weird school in purgatory and nothing she ever read said what to do in extreme circumstances.]
...
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So we're tough outta luck, huh.
[man]
Lena, I don't wanna reveal my hand, so can you ask on the forums about it for me?
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[say that again?]
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[......]
Please.
[his MANNERS]
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Subaru gets to see a very rare sight, which is Helena getting more and more flustered by the second, not sure how to reply while also still being a good friend. how can she do this? then people will assume it's her that needs the advice, and how can she properly deflect without revealing his identity? oh this is a mess, an utter mess of a situation, and she can feel her cheeks burning with heat.]
You think their advice will be more valuable than maybe looking for a book that addresses this? Or, you know, there are a lot of stories with courtship in them, you could try emulating a bit of that...
[she cares about him, would take a physical stab wound for him, but this is a whole different game.]
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subaru watches her with growing fascination, and she can hear the bell jingle closer as he reaches out to pinch her cheek. ☆]
Ahaha, you're so cute~. Red really suits you, Le~na! ☆ Don't worry about it, I'll ask someone just as shameless as me to do it.
[he's gonna ask natsume but don't worry]
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this will not help her flush go down, what does he mean red suits her!! he's lucky she can't see to wave at his hands, and she huffs a little.]
Who's even as shameless as you? If you can't answer that, I'll do it, I just need to prepare myself!
[who would even match Subaru? god.]
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Natsume'd do it if I asked. ♪
[confidence]
He's my best friend, after all~. And he's been suuuuuper nice to me lately~. [because he can sense something off about subaru and is somewhat lenient as a result.] So we can ask him to do it for us. ☆
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[if this means all three of them are in a room poised over the forums, then so be it. she has to know! she can't let anyone else know her lack of knowledge!]
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Of course! And we'll just ignore any weirdos!
[like komaeda]
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...does Natsume know, though? About you and the boss.
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Yeah... Natsume's a smart guy, and he's known me for years now, so I'm not surprised he found out.
[it's obvious, at least, to natsume. the difference doesn't come in the form of extra affection but in the distinct care in where it's placed, how it's shown; his friend could tell by the sudden new way subaru delegated his time and the way he'd drawn back on certain public things, considering he usually treats all his friends to the same level of touching and affection... the shopkeep had gotten a slightly different one.]
He's pretty mad about it too, but... I think he's just worried. [...] I know what I'm gettin' into though, so I'll be fine~.
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[she's just. pointing that out.]
But he shouldn't have to worry, at least when it comes to them. Honestly, I'd almost be more worried for them than you.
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Why's that?
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[look at them. all without a single clue. it's amazing.]
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... Mm-mm. Even less than me, I think.
[at least subaru has some memories of his mom and dad together. so few as they are, he has them still. warm and lovely and full of kindness, hugs and soft spoken words the moment that door opened.
he thinks maybe he should've dropped in on them first after all. he thinks how he won't make that mistake again, given the chance.]
So we're pretty much learning together... I guess.
[yeah. okay. they probably haven't changed much out of sometimes there are kisses.]
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[did she use that word on purpose? yes.]
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But what if what feels right is the wrong thing to do~?
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[like...don't propose marriage immediately but otherwise? she trusts you Subaru.]
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[the right choice...... spending all day and night with them...... he wishes he could go back time and popped in and seen their face light up and maybe it wouldn't have mattered if there were customers or not but it sort of does matter to subaru since he doesn't want to cause them trouble with word getting around to people who Do like subaru a fair amount and might be mad that he's dating someone and then they terrorize that someone and]
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