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adsum ([personal profile] adsum) wrote in [community profile] yogen2021-11-06 07:57 am

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.

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.
sportadork: (I can see you)

[personal profile] sportadork 2021-11-10 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
[at some point, three items are placed in Noah's field of vision: a bottle of water, an apple, both set on a small pile of napkins. Sportacus himself is perched on a nearby desk, hands folded in his lap.]

How are you feeling?
silentabyss: (053)

[personal profile] silentabyss 2021-11-10 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh hell yeah, snacks. Noah immediately goes for the apple, thanks.]

Mm... fine, I guess. Kind of like an entrepreneur. Except I have to count money at the end of this... Maybe I'll just make Amami do it. How's the festival been for you? Oh, thanks for the snack.
sportadork: (must have seen your picture)

[personal profile] sportadork 2021-11-11 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[grins] You looked like you needed one.

It's been very interesting! I have seen towns hold festivals before, but never schools. [thoughtful pause] There have been some very strange people, though. I'm not sure what to make of them.

[because he's read his bradbury and he is not about those golden eyed folks.]
silentabyss: (083)

[personal profile] silentabyss 2021-11-11 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Strange people... how? [Lowers his voice a bit,] If you're talking about Komaeda or Dito, they're just like that. You'll be fine if you stay away from the latter.

[There's no physical way to avoid Komaeda though, and Komaeda is so is it fair for Noah to tell people to avoid Komaeda when he's not doing that?]
sportadork: (just living for today)

[personal profile] sportadork 2021-11-11 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm? [he pauses, then laughs] Oh, no, not strange as in... "vaguely terrifying." Just strange. Bizarre. The people that came to visit the school today don't seem... exactly like people. You know?
silentabyss: (060)

[personal profile] silentabyss 2021-11-13 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I've been here for a while, and I've always felt that... I don't know, really, it just feels like they're on another plane of existence sometimes, while we're still here existing as we are.

[It's odd, and he's not quite sure how to word it.]
sportadork: (and I always fight back)

[personal profile] sportadork 2021-11-14 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
A lot of things here seem... unnecessary, when you consider why we are apparently here. [pauses, thinking...] But, I've never been dead before. It may just always be like this!
silentabyss: (058)

[personal profile] silentabyss 2021-11-15 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Technically, I've been dead, but I've just come back immediately from it. So... I can't really figure out why I'm stuck here in purgatory, I guess. It seems like... kind of paradoxical, I guess, for someone to be unable to die but to be dead?

["Paradoxical", eugh, he sounds like Add now.]

If death is always like this, I change my mind and I want to be immortal now.
sportadork: (and from this moment)

[personal profile] sportadork 2021-11-22 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
No, you don't. [grins] At least the company is good! Where I come from, being a ghost is supposed to be very lonely.
silentabyss: (030)

[personal profile] silentabyss 2021-11-23 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you speak from experience? [Snorts.] I just don't feel like dealing with all of the problems that come from still being alive. If I'm going to die, I'd just prefer it to be silent forever.
sportadork: (and I'll be your dog)

[personal profile] sportadork 2021-11-26 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
[a smile.

then, he shakes his head.]
Not being alive doesn't fix any problems. It just adds another.

[a pause, and he gestures vaguely around them.] Or, sometimes, many.
silentabyss: (043)

[personal profile] silentabyss 2021-11-28 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
...I guess so. It's annoying, though.

[He really does sound like an unimpressed angsty teen when he talks like that, like he could possibly find normalcy in who and what he is. It might be charming, were Noah not incredibly depressed.]

You seem... unbothered by all of this, I guess. How do you do it?
sportadork: (but I got a lot of heart)

[personal profile] sportadork 2021-11-29 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
I'm very rarely bothered! [which honestly sounds like bragging but he just says it completely earnestly.] Everything always turns out for the best, so worrying about it never seems very important.

Worrying about things sometimes is good, though! It can help keep you safe, or prepare you! [sheepish smile] I should probably worry about more things.