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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.

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.

Comments

kissing booth

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[ How I was going to tag the soccer prompt but then remembered Chiaki can't go out there, so imagine her with her cheek pressed against the window watching this like ):

So she'll have to come across him here, walking up to the booth and watching him hide the paper. ... Picks up the book. ]

:3

[commences]

Oh, you're the girl who was staring out the window with such a forlorn look, even I felt depressed after looking at you so long as you had to accept being locked away inside the grounds of the school.

( yep, he says that like he's shocked, but he knows who she is, and he doesn't move his hands to take the book away from her. ...

she does have to pay to use it. )

Are you into love? ( like always. ) If you want, it'll help you obsess over anyone of your choosing... or maybe even reawaken your heart! ...120K yen please.

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Right? It's bullshit that I can't go outside!

[ Damn right he should feel depressed on her behalf.

Anyways, she flips though the book like she's in a bookstore reading entire novels with no intention of buying anything. ]

Why would people need help with this sort of thing?

[commences]

Switch to my class, I bet you could.

( why is that? well, he's been able to go out more than some people as the months went by, but how would she even do that? )

Because they're lonely. ( yep, and desperate. ) I should check if it works, though, will you stand still?

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Huh... sucks to be them.

[ To feel lonely... she doesn't, even when she's here with nothing and no one. ]

What're you going to do? If it's something weird, I'm going to stomp on your foot and break your toes.

[commences]

Nope, I'm going to do as the book prescribes.

( he'll pull it out of her hand for good measure, and once it it's in his palm, he flips it around so he can read it properly. )

Besides, you'll be doing it, so I need you to retrieve two items. Are you ready for your mission?

[adsum]

[ Oh. So standing still was only so he can confiscate the book. Fine... ]

I'm the one making somebody else less lonely...? But okay, fine. What do you need? Also, give me money to cover the cost, plus extra for the service charge.

[commences]

You need a jar and honey, and then we can cast a personal spell.

( stop, he's ignoring her because he's NOT doing any of that. )

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[ Why is he so stingy with his moneyyyy

These are things she can probably pilfer from the home ec room, though, as long as she doesn't get in way of the cooking competition. ]

Alright, but you'd better be here when I get back, or I'm hunting you down and dumping the honey on your head. Be right back!

[commences]

Now, now... Kudo-san, I'll be he—

( oh, she's pretty speedy when she sets her mind to it, because i just imagine she doesn't even wait for komaeda to finish before booking it out of there. luckily for her, komaeda has to play his part at the kissing booth so he'll still be there when she returns, probably selling his services. so if she comes back to him seeming put off by kissing someone because he's not in the mood then yeah.

it's when chiaki appears again that komaeda's eyes light up from the annoyed expression to something more gentle.)

You're back! I thought you'd keep me waiting forever.

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[ She absolutely turned around before she finished speaking herself, but it's not like Komaeda would have had anything important to say that couldn't be said when she gets back. ]

I'm back! And teaching you some patience; you're welcome!

[ clunk clunk clunk

She sets down on the table a jar of manuka honey (in case he meant a 2-in-1), a jar of pickles (in case he needed a larger jar, or a snack), and a normal-sized empty mason jar. ]

[commences]

Perfect, you brought everything that's needed for the spell — now, you have to write four names.

( he'll pick up the card that had both subaru and p-kun's name on it, flipping it on the other side so she has something to write on. next, he picks up a pen, placing that in front of her hand too as he leans back to grab the honey, opening the jar so that he can look inside.

it's probably sweet, and he doesn't do well with it. perfect. )

The four you choose will be the ones you have to keep an eye on.

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[ Komaeda, looking into a jar that's like 70% sugar: it's probably sweet ]

Lonely people, right? Okay.

[ She writes down, in this order: Rokuro Arata, Seiya Kaneko, Rantarou Amami, Natsume Sakasaki ]

[commences]

( i heard honeycombs were bitter, like raw honey. )

...Ah, familiar names. Who's the loneliest out the set?

( ... )

[adsum]

[ raw honey is bitter?? google says that sometimes honey from poisonous flowers taste bitter but hm

this is normal sweet honey ]

Seiya!

[commences]

( that's what i heard??? so i'm scared to eat from a bee's hive. hm... do we have those here, evil honey flowers. )

Huh? He's a bit antsy when I touch him, but I thought he was nervous...

( alright, well his name is going into the pickle jar. )

Now put the other three into the honey.

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[ Did you hear from a credible source that wasn't your brother

With Seiya quarantined in the pickle jar, Chiaki pulls the honey jar over to her so she can stick the rest of the cards inside, poking them down with her finger so they're in the middle and giving the jar a good shake after the lid is screwed back on.

She licks the honey off her finger. It's sweet. ]

Now what?

[commences]

( THOSE I KEEP A QUEEN BEE ON ME TIKTOKS!!!

ugh, disgusting. komaeda doesn't make a face though, instead he keeps up a small smile as he watches their names float in the preferred jar. )

With that done, everyone in the jar will be sweeter.

( because it's sweet honey, and if their names are submerged, it's meant to make them sickly sweet. as for the pickle jar. )

He's going to be a tad bit sour, which is a shame... he's pretty nice, you know?

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No he's not.

[ She picks up the pickle jar and turns it around, gives it a little shake, watches the pickles thump around inside and the card swirl around the brine like a snowglobe. ]

Is that it for the spell?

[commences]

Why are you...

( she's such a freak, he thinks, but he closes his mouth. thinking about it, he parts his lips again as he continues. )

No... it's only part of the spell, now you have to recite the spell. You know since you're messing with that jar, he'll become more violent towards you. You're meant to hand it off to someone and then, he'll have no other choice, but to follow that person as his soulmate, but... he might be a little tsundere.

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[ She scoffs ]

I can take him.

[ Okay, so what's the spell, she's going to stare at his book, hand it over ]

[commences]

( "you have a limited number of words, and you can only recharge when you’re with your soulmate.
by using the pickle jar to remove their sour tendencies, whoever's name is set in there has been removed of all negativity, and can only say nice things.
those inside of the sweet honey has lost the ability to speak in kind words, and can only respond with cruel comments at their soulmate."

komaeda stares at chiaki, staring, but if she keeps reading...

as long as this is done properly every day, they're inflicted with this hex for an hour on the same day, but timeframes are flexible, so it's always a surprise! )

What's it say?

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"By using the pickle jar to remove their sour tendencies, whoever's name is set in there has been removed of all negativity, and can only say nice things." Okay, but that's not going to help him. If he were nice all of the sudden, people would be weirded out.

[ She hands the jar over to Komaeda. ]

[commences]

Not my problem, you put him there without asking me about the entire spell, that said, maybe his soulmate would be happy.

( it'd only be to them. )

If he doesn't have one, he'll be fine. So we can make one for him... hm... who would be a good victim?

[adsum]

[ Holds the jar out to Komaeda.

... ]