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November Event/tdm
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.
✽ 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.
OOC
✽ 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.
✽ 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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[ Sara comes by when the booth looks less busy, leaning over the counter to stare at Noah's drawing. She pull back to hold out a warm washcloth, tapping her cheek to indicate how he should use it. ]
You've got a little something on your face, so I got you this.
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...thanks. I got kind of... mobbed, I guess. It's fine, though.
[He sets to work on rubbing that lipstick off of his face... man, there's more than he would've assumed. At least it comes off fairly easily.]
...are you having fun?
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[ And Amami but he's been looking so fragile lately Sara isn't sure she'd risk a kiss on the cheek! ]
Fufu... of course. I've been winning prizes like no tomorrow, Noah! Do you want any spares?
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Between you and me, I think people are more interested in the fact that Komaeda is casting love spells than actually kissing him.
[Love you hyung but yeah.]
Spare prizes? I don't want to take stuff from you, though...
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Love spells? Do they work?
[ Maybe a spell to help you find your one true love... ]
It's fine! I'm gaming the system to get all the cat prizes...so if you want any of my small prizes thats okay! I think... this one would really suit you!
[ Because its round, cute, blue, and has a little star on it! ]
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Anyway, you know that look people (mostly kids) get in their eyes when they see something they want but they're too shy to speak up about it... that's the expression Noah has currently. But he doesn't just say I want that and instead settles on something a little more careful and a lot less childish.]
O-oh, are... are you sure? It's cute...
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[ She holds it out to him with a little wiggle, smiling playfully. She see's that look... ]
Buuuuuut! I guess if you don't want it I can give it to Add-chan. [ It's teasing, but her tone is gentler then it might be normally. Noah, you really can take it. She doesn't mind. ]
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...]
I-it's cute, so I... I'll take it. I mean... yes, I do want it. [Please, asking for things is very difficult.] Th... thank you. It's really nice of you.
[A pause while he takes the offered plushie, thank you, it gets to sit on his lap now.]
You should try to win something for Add. He's been... upset, lately. I think he needs an extra shove.
[And not a fist to the nose like what Noah did.]
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[ Already in his lap...very good. Sara's work here is done. She'd pat Noah on the head if he wasn't nearly her own age. ]
Add-chan...well he's getting to the age where he'll probably say no if I offer it. I'll probably have to trick him into accepting!
[ She looks thoughtful. ]
But you say he's not doing well? Do you know why he's upset?
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Mm... [Noah takes a moment to think on how to explain this, and he's going to conveniently leave out the part where they got in a fistfight over this for the time being.] It's been since the exchange program. He came back looking upset, and we got to talking... he just seems like he's convinced no one should care about him for some reason. I kept trying to tell him that a lot of us do care about him and that he can't change that, and he got upset.
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That's troubling... [ No one should care about him? Sure he had his pushy moments, but Add did have friends back home, he'd even talked about them. How could he just write off anyone caring about him? Sara does. She's going to give him a toy to prove it. ]
Do you think it was that he had to die to come back? Add-chan seems pretty fearless, but something like that... Maybe he's scared...sometimes when people get scared they do very strange things, Noah.
Er... You've known him longer. Maybe he wants to feel in control of people...?
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[Another moment to think, then,]
I went into it with Add months ago. I came and got him and told him about it, and he wanted to investigate with me. We saw... um... an alternate version of Elrios, where we're from, but there wasn't anything bad happening there. We saw all of his friends, and they looked kind of like a family to me. They were... joking around and playing a board game together. And I think he was fine with that, until some alternate timeline version of himself walked into the scene.
I don't know if this is quite accurate since I had to drag Add himself out kicking and screaming, but... the way he acted then, and the way the "Add" in the elevator timeline acted all friendly with those people... it makes me think that maybe Add is scared of having friends? At first, I thought he was just jealous that there was this other Add in the picture being around his friends. I would've been jealous if I saw another "me" spending time around my friends. But...
[Noah shakes his head, looking off into the distance over Sara's shoulder now.]
After we talked, and after he got angry when I told him that people care about him, and after I walked away... I don't know. Now I feel like he's scared of having friends, not that he's jealous of anyone. But he does this fear thing in a really violent way! He kept threatening to kill people to get me to hate him! I don't know what his deal is, but I can't not be worried.
[Huff!]
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[ Its a lot of info, and her brain is coming out blank when she tries to think of how to fix it. ]
Threatening to kill people is bad... [ Remember that, btw. ] ...so I guess we need to work carefully so that Add-chan feels safe. I know he says things that can be really hurtful, but I just try and remember he's a kid.
Mhm...if he gets worse lets team up and tell him we're his friends. He can't attack both of us!
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[This is hot goss!
Noah will remember that threatening to kill people is bad and he'll do it anyway, thank you for the recommendation.
He has a brief moment like "Maybe I should tell her that Add isn't a kid" but... it's not really his story to tell, and he doesn't get it anyway. Add just shapeshifts, it's fine.]
He... he can attack both of us, but I'll make sure you don't get hit.
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[ Someone even Add could admit he might call cute...well it IS hot goss! Sara wonders if she showed up in Add's elevator trip. ]
No fair...AOE attacks are cheating. I guess I'll have to depend on you, Noah. I'm also really good at dodging!
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I didn't know. I hope it works out for him.
[It will not.]
...stay good at dodging. It'll probably help you in the long run.
[He doesn't know the full scope of Add's powers, so this is a bold assumption, but Add is some kind of... immortal void creature? With very weird magic, from what Noah's seen? So yeah, please dodge.]
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You wanna teach me to be better? Can you do a backflip? [ Sara is a girl with priorities. ]
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Sh-she's... she's fine, I'm pretty sure. We're... uh, we spend a lot of time together. [help]
...I can teach you some things, yeah. [Back in like, April, he tried to hold self-defense classes in the auditorium, after the old StuCo prez showed up dead... that obviously didn't work and now people are just dying.] Backflips are difficult, but I can manage one.