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11/08 - 11/13 Cultural Festival

The school campus opens its doors to the public early Monday morning, with family, friends, neighbors, and strangers arriving to fill up the halls, each visitor having eyes of gold and wallets full of cash. Festival events run from 8AM to 4PM, and pamphlets are handed out by students lining the locker area, which include a schedule and a map of the campus:

✽ The opening event on Monday is an idol performance in the auditorium by the twin star unit GEMINI, consisting of Natsume Sakasaki and Subaru Akehoshi. On Thursday afternoon, the music club will hold a performance in the auditorium, featuring the typical choir with piano accompaniment, a capella performances by smaller groups of members, as well as solos, with requests taken in between performances so members can switch off and take a break.

✽ The student store is open every day up until noon on Saturday, and while the absurdly high prices are still absurdly high, there is a sign up in front of the rock gacha that one of the prizes is an all day pass to any of the school's events for one day of the festival. The odds aren't worth the price, but it's not like the shopkeep reveals the odds.

✽ Class 1-B is hosting a themed cafe in their homeroom.

✽ Class 1-D has turned their homeroom and neighboring classrooms into escape rooms, which runs from Tuesday to Friday.

✽ The robotics/programing club and the gaming club have set up a variety of video games in 2-A, and are hosting a competition between visitors and their AI.

✽ Class 3-D is hosting a kissing booth in their homeroom.

✽ In the home ec cooking room, the cooking club is hosting a cooking contest, with student judges and prizes for the winners.

✽ The sewing club and the art club have put together a photo booth inside the home ec sewing room, featuring all sorts of props and costumes imaginable to try on and pose in front of a number of hand painted backgrounds. Photos are taken by an instant camera for visitors to take home a keepsake. In the art club room, the art club has a gallery set up, with paintings hanging from the walls and sculptures set up in front of them, and a strict no touching policy or one of the members threatens to scoop your eye out with a palette knife and she doesn't look like she's joking. There is a large open canvas, however, for visitors to try their hand at paints or charcoal or pastels on what will become a collaborative art piece done by an entire week's worth of visitors. Occasionally throughout the festival, an art club member will have a space off to the corner for portraits or face painting.

✽ The sewing club has also contributed plush toy prizes for various other class' game stalls throughout the school, where visitors can pay to play for a chance to win small prizes, and are able to trade up several smaller prizes for larger ones.

✽ Out past the courtyard, various sports teams host games throughout the week, including relay races and obstacle courses and tug o' war and """soccer""". Basically it's sports day, because there had been a sports day on the calendar but I never look at the calendar so it was already halfway through the month before I realized.

✽ The fourth floor hallway has been cleaned up and turned into the rest area, with rugs laid out across the ground and comfy chairs scattered around the room and little bags of cat treats for sale to entice the fluffy white cat into hanging out in this space all week. Even without treats, she is content to sit on people's laps and rub against their ankles and let them bury their faces in her stomach. Healing.

✽ In the evening on the final day, after all the visitors leave, a large bonfire is set up in a non-flammable area between the courtyard and pool building and left to burn late into the night for those students who choose to remain on campus until around 8PM, when the festival culminates in a small fireworks show that lights up the sky overhead in reds and golds, while on the ground, sparklers are passed around for a quiet moment appreciating the beauty, and transience, of life.

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✽ Throughout the school year, merit points have occasionally been earned through interactions between students involving strong emotion, whether positive or negative. This month, characters may notice that this happens much more frequently, and the amount of merit points earned is also sometimes more than the typical one point. Please report threads of strong emotion below, as this will minorly affect December.
✽ On 11/23, Yogen sees its first snow of the year, a light dusting across campus that does not stick when the sun rises again the next morning, but it will snow on and off until the end of the month.
✽ This event log doubles as a TDM, with new characters experiencing the recurring feeling of drifting in (school life) and out (canon life) of sleep up until they "open their eyes," after which they will have full awareness and come to their senses.

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( they're going to be on the floor too because i decided it, and that way when subaru picks which headpiece he wants, komaeda's close enough to place the cat ears on the other's head instead. he asked for dog ears, but that doesn't mean komaeda's actually listening — click click! goes the camera though, taking a picture every time that they move. it's a pair of calico cat ears, brown, white, black, orange all mixed in one that actually suit the other better as komaeda looks at his expression. )

...Let me correct my mistake.

( there's a mistake, but not the cat ears, no, they're perfect on subaru as komaeda slowly tries to slide himself out from under the other. he's on his knees now, reaching out for a cat tail (without being in the camera's view so it doesn't take another snap, the last thing they need is to use up their amount of film, and then get kicked for someone else). the way he passes it to subaru is thoughtful, sliding it across the floor silently. )

[nms i desperately wanted to say they were on the ground but i didn't want to assume and now you've done it anyway. thank you for knowing my heart. and, as always, komaeda simply does as he pleases... it's fine, he likes cats too, he won't be too downtrodden about not being a dog today.

he'll lift up a bit to let komaeda pass, careful not to get in the camera's sight himself, and he puffs his cheeks a bit before taking the cat tail and carefully fitting it on however it goes. a clip? belt? whatever. he'll wiggle the tip at komaeda playfully.]

How's that?

( just godmod my tags i don't know why you're frightened, just fuck me up. so while they're on the floor, because now he's the judge of the other's attire. he hums softly, squinting, a hand lifts to cup his own chin before reaching out to cup subaru's chin to lift his head up so he can admire him a little better. his thumb pushes up subaru's lip, looking at his teeth for something specific, but...

he doesn't see them. )

This could be picture perfect... you need fangs, I think they have them outside.

( he pushes back the sheets so he can peek outside, and seeing that the coast is clear, he looks back towards subaru as he brings a finger up to his lips. )

Shhh...

[STOP I DIDNT KNOW I WAS ALLOWED TO POWER you've given me too much..... anyway subaru licks at his teeth the way you have to when the gums feel weirdly dry after komaeda lets him go, looking a little put off at the contact.

...? he'll lower his voice, he guesses]

I can just go back to the dorms and get the ones I wore at Halloween, Maddy.

That's not the same, these are here for a reason, and if you leave...

( he stops, turning around as he tries not to be caught by the camera, or whoever is there taking pictures. it almost feels like a confessional inside of here. he sighs, trying to emotional manipulate subaru, and he doesn't know if this will work, but he's a little displeased. )

You'll lose your spot...

[oh...

no, it works. subaru's a people-pleaser, after all, he'd like to get along with people more than not, but even without that komaeda asking twice is enough to tilt his head and sit down on the ground.]

I'll save it then, I guess...? I'm gonna leave if you take too long, though~.

[like, if he leaves and doesn't come back... this isn't their two-hour slot after all.]

You will...

( if he takes too long, it's like he's been told an easy cop-out if he wants to take up on it, and probably the worst move played. he slides out from under so that he can stand up properly, and he looks back to see if subaru followed. he seems to have stayed, and komaeda contemplates his next plan which means he could leave if he wants. he takes a step forward to move closer to the props, he's standing right there at the fangs — some sharper than others, but he needs the perfect pair. )

...

( quiet, time to see what subaru does.

this is their 2hr, komaeda's cutting time every time they meet. looks @ other thread. )

[... ... ...

komaeda's taking a while... not too long, but just long enough that it puts subaru at a bit of unease; maybe he had taken the excuse to leave, which is fine he guesses, but it's still a little... lonely, to think that maybe he had. he chews on his cheek, waits a moment longer, before (not unlike the cat he's accessorized as right now, not unlike keigo when komaeda does the same to them,) he scoots out a bit and peeks to see where the other is.]

( what da maddy doin'? he's just standing there with no one to call him out ass he keeps himself standing in place, probably thinking of what to do. his eyes attached to the ceiling, head cants to the side, and he looks back towards the spot to see subaru peeking at him. he wonders what brought him out, but he has every reason to see since komaeda is always on the run, not in a bad way, but he's used to doing it to be by himself. )

Hm? You didn't miss me did you, I'm not really far if you look in the right direction.

It doesn't take that long to pick out some fangs.

[no he did not miss him, probably. but it was lonely. hm.]

C'moooon, pick something out alreadyyyyy~. They're just some teeth, Maddy, it's boring just sitting here without you.

[yeah that's how he'll put it]

...

( is it? he thinks, watching subaru complain and pout is typical behavior with him. he's also right, it doesn't take this long to find a pair of fangs to put on, and so he doesn't reach for any and wanders back to sit down next to him. )

I'm here.

( pale green looks at subaru for a moment, and then he lifts a hand to push at the other's arm so he understands they're going back in. like children within their hidden fort, he's ready to go back inside. )

[... he didn't even get any fangs...

but subaru'll scoot back in, fixing his ears a bit and looking at the other props... maybe another pair of cat ears to match or dog to be a good opposite...]

Are you dragging everyone in for a picture? Pretty horror movie of you, Maddy~, I thought I was gonna have a heart attack!

[his mood's definitely brightened up, chatting a little more cheerfully]

( he came back because time is ticking, and he's counting every minute that they're together. he remembered what subaru asked of him, and that's why he's doing it this way — not running away, just existing in his general area as time winds down. )

It's a nice genre, it keeps you on your toes... but that's what Yogen is, right? I'm sticking to the status quo.

( there's so much horror themed situations they find themselves in, it's not uncommon for komaeda to play just a bit. though, he keeps a smile on his face as he begins to put the dog ears on his head, floppy brown ones that hang over his unrealistic head of hair. )

Well... until my time is up! Oh, I need a tail too...

I don't think it's very horror.

[it's got bad situations, but it's not horror exactly-- he'll pats around for a suitable tail and thoughtlessly start to try and put it on the other himself, the way he'd always liked to help those in trickstar if they needed it, and then ends up just handing the fluffy brown bit to komaeda instead.]

Like, horror's a lot more depressing and exhausting. Yogen feels more like... suspense.

[... which is exhausting in its own way, but it has lulls of quiet and warmth in longer iterations, not punctuated by high points of emotions the way horror is but instead by a gentle wind up and snap of a rubber band. an exhilarating ride up a rollercoaster, knowing something is going to happen and not knowing how far the drop is, and then feeling a mixture of relief and explosive happiness at the result. the nerves are worth it, in suspense; they're irreparable in horror.]

You must have missed the zombies.

( he looks at subaru trying to remember him out of the people who were here at the student council death match, but, he wasn't so he wouldn't know. all he's aware of is that random scenarios happen, suspense from murders, and nothing else creepy about this.

he wonders how subaru would fair if npckun was in his arms, half their body detaching from the waist, and the amount of blood that would cover his... he looks at the lens of the camera before him, the way it flashes, and he's reaching out his hand to pull the other up properly (just so he could take the tail). he attaches it to his rear end, though it's covered by the length of his green jacket's own tail. )

Suspense is... alright, I live most of my life in that! So horror is a change of pace. ( he claps his hands together, excited as he points at the camera. ) What sort of pose?

[zombies... natsume hadn't mentioned anything about those, no one had; he thinks he'll ask about them later, curiosity piqued by the odd mention of the living dead in a place where the dead live in some way, and before he can ask more the posing is brought up and subaru pulls komaeda close before the camera can go off again, grin natural and wide and made for tv (and photoshoots, a reminder he's very much an idol in the industry), and in the space between shots he'll answer:]

Peace signs?

( zombies is a stretch, but nothing he really needs to explain considering the topic is lost now, and here they are pressed together to make peace signs. komaeda follows suit, able to spread some cheer in his actions as he presses his cheek against the other's own, eyes closed as he wraps his arms over the male's shoulder, his prosthetic shaping into his peace sign.

the camera flicks, and then it clicks taking their picture — but the curtain from above had fell over, getting in the way of it. hopefully, the camera was faster than the piece of fabric, and komaeda will let subaru go so he can go check if he so wishes. )

Wow... that's unlucky! I should have expected it.

[ah-- that is some bad luck, but subaru won't let himself be downtrodden just yet... he's gonna check to see if the picture went okay]

You shouldn't expect bad things to happen, Maddy, that'll just lead to it. Even if does sorta feel like trouble follows you~.

[just an observation!!! hows they look nms i want komaeda covered ngl but subaru fine or vice versa whichever is funnier]

There's a reason for it! That means good luck is around the corner for me.

( he's not disappointed.

the photo is komaeda is covered, and subaru's side is perfectly fine, and if he happens to look at where komaeda's arm is across the male's shoulder making a peace sign, he'll see that it's blurred. almost like some unknown entity decided that komaeda should not be part of the photo. it's quite odd how a camera can blur on one side, but not effect the other in the slightest.

komaeda stands where he is though, head tilted to the side, but there's hope as he perks up. )

How do we look? I want to see!

[... huh... he doesn't mind showing komaeda them, tilting his head slightly as he speaks.]

You're like a cryptid, but I'm fine. Maybe we should try a different pose?

( he takes it, looking it over, and with an approved nod. )

It's fine like this, you just wanted a picture of us doing the pose, right?

But you're not in it, Maddy, so what's the point? C'mon~, let's go again!

[whine whine]

I am in it!

( he points at the blurred area, not even bothered by what's wrong, but this means he's seen worse. )

It's great. You can have it, okay?

[.......... so this is like, one of the better shots of komaeda...? is his interview project going to be okay............]

Sure, thanks.

[huh... interesting...]

Are you sure you don't want one you can have?

Nope, you can have them.

( because it'll just get ruined in his hands anyway, or the wind will blow so bad that it slips out his hands. )

It's safe with you, so we can leave here now.

11/08 - 11/13 Cultural Festival

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