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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.
KEEP MOVING!!!!
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There's a small little squeak, the war cry of a voice that if our participant can remember is Wilbur.
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The lights shut off, and the world goes dark, and in that moment Dito will feel a sharp sting of a needle piercing his skin in the back of his shoulder, and a glass jar colliding at the back of his head. Petals of wisteria fluttering all around him to knock him unconscious. Goodnight, sweet prince. His body will be dragged into one of the rooms nearby, and but bloody shards of glass and petals will remain on the floor as the door closes shut.
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When the next participant enters the room, it's pitch black and silent.
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[ A dark, silent room, not welcoming in the slightest. Sara turns, holding letter in her hand as she squints deeper into the room. Her first instict is to feel the wall for a light switch. The letter was already suspicious enough, she doesn't want to linger here in the dark.
Honestly, it would be in her best interest to just leave well enough alone in a school like this, but if someone was in trouble, she at least owed them an investigation. ]
Hello?
GAME 3: DITO & SARA | FLOORMASTER: ???
There's various cans on the floor with star holes stabbed inside of them, and lights inside so that stars illuminate all over the ceiling — that's another source of light that Sara can use to her advantage. She can hear from the arrows on the floor that they appear to be whirring, so maybe they're actively running? For what reason, well, she'll have to find out. Across the room, she'll either hear him, but can't see him.
As for Dito, whenever he wakes up, or if he's already wake, he'll learn that he's inside of a cell made just for him, and only for him, to him, and if he tries to open the door — it clinks, not unlocking. Indicating that he's trapped inside, and if he tries to move one arm, he'll realize that he's handcuffed to one of the cell bars, and far away happens to be an axe that could be his salvation, but even if he tries to reach for it... he can barely make it, just out of his reach. Just like... salvation.
Touch the sky, Starman... Do the best, you can...
Also, the door locks behind Sara.
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[ Not more stupid carnival puzzles! She's been good, so please, no more games of life and death!
...Sara takes a moment to mentally freak out before it's all business. The door is locked? Typical. Terrible music? Also typical.
It's too dark in here to see anything but the tiles clearly, so the first thing Sara does is lean over and try and take one of the little star cans off the green tile closest to her, slowly watching it for a reaction. If there is none, she'll slowly press her hand down on the tile to apply pressure, and then move to stand on it. ]
Is this really supposed to help anyone? Come on.
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There are no stupid carnival puzzles, this is genius constructed by Add, and his genius will be realized, especially as she picks up the star can, and now she's acquired her personal light source. The moment she touches the panel, however, it starts to move in the direction that it's pointing, likened to a conveyor. If she isn't careful, she might be dragged forward, and fall on her chest, but before anything else, if she looks in the corner of the room on her side, she'll see a few balloons blinking — especially the green one to indicate what she had touched.
It glows for a moment, and then dies down, but she might have saw something on the floor right next to it.
bro my linear progression
Immediately, his brows knit and he jingles the cuffs noisily against the cell bars. It's annoyingly dark, and his eyes take a second to adjust to it while he blinks, looking at his surroundings.
... Yeah, this is a cage alright. His chest feels kind of tight, just because he is not fond of this kind of situation whatsoever, and he starts jangling on the cuffs harder.
He immediately wonders if someone else is there, but then he hears a girl's voice across the room -- along with some whirring, and some weird lights. Fan-fucking-tastic. ]
The hell is going on?!
[ Vaguely he remembers going to the 4th floor that morning (is it still morning?), but he can't remember much past that point. His head is killing him, and he moves his hand that isn't cuffed to attempt rubbing at the back of it again, feeling a clear wound there.
... Ah, so that's what happened. It's expected that he can't get out of this easily, so he's not too surprised when the door doesn't work. His eyes do flick toward the axe, though.
He scrambles forward, the side of his head pressing against the bars as he grabs the one he's cuffed too tightly and tries reaching with his other hand to grab it. He strains hard with a groan, trying to get his arm to dislocate or something just so he can pass those last few inches and get to it.
-- To no avail, since he's simply too short. This isn't great, because if there is someone else in the room, he's basically a sitting duck. Or dove, if you will.
He shouts a little louder now. ]
So what are you gonna do? Try and kill me?! Haha... I'm not easy.
[ He's listening out for any response, although the music is annoying and distracting.
Experimentally, Dito's going to try scooting so that he can stick one of his legs through the bars, seeing if he can possible reach the axe like that and kick it closer to the cage. ]
I DIDNT SEE THIS TILL NOW ;w;)/
[ It's dark...beyond the flashing lights. She can't see anything on the other side of this room but Sara can hear someone. The voice is familiar. ]
Dito-san? Stop shouting! I'm not going to...
[ Well...He killed a lot of people...just...she's going to focus on the puzzle. >Check the corner, firstly, because Sara perfers being careful to being fast, and if it really is Dito over there...he can hang on for five minutes. ]
Did you write that note?
NO WORRIES!! c:
Perhaps it's guarding the axe...?
Dito won't be able to discern the problem because there's something wrong, he'll feel off, the sensation of something crawling under and above his skin even though there might not be anything there.
At least the stars within the room are sparkling everywhere, and hopefully a sense of determination? Better than whatever Dito's feeling right now.
going to kill you both for making me read cursive
Poison...she'd never dealt with that before. Sara reaches up to her own throat, trying to feel her own pulse. Is it abnormal? She wouldn't know the difference but its worrying... If she thinks of this like any other time limit, then they should be fine? It means she has to work with Dito-san if she wants to live...but even he wouldn't choose violence with his life on the line.
Hopefully? ]
Please don't panic, Dito-san, but we've been poisoned. I'll be needing your help to find our antidotes, so I'd really appreciate your honest cooperation!
[ The stars sparkling fills her with determination! And that means, its time to >Take a Ride. ]
me im so ill
He feels like he's sweating a bit, and he retracts his leg from between the bars as fast as he's realized there's an ugly rat circling there. ]
Ugh! What the hell--
[ He doesn't feel too good; his head feels warm and his situation feels insane. But everything's been insane here. He kind of likes it, too, except in this particular situation.
It's only the familiar voice he hears across the room that grounds him somewhat. He rubs at his forehead with the hand that isn't handcuffed to the cage. ]
What exactly am I supposed to do? At least get me outta here so I can do shit. There's an axe right over there.
[ Still... and he sounds a little insane when he says it: ]
Watch out for the goddamn guard rat, though.
STOP how no one can read amamis handwriting
— right, right, right, down, left, down, left — at this point, luckily for her, the two green panels won't move which will push her back onto the side she was just on! After she's back on the floor properly, the two green panels will start moving again, letting her know that she was lucky to be able to get off.
The balloons nearby blink yellow, blue, yellow, green out Sara's peripheral that illuminates that same corner where she had come from.
As for Dito... the ...rat will stare at him, barking.
anti cursive gang
Oof. An axe...?
[ Dito with an axe....... Sara wants to go home. Getting on her hands and knees, she stares at the lights. Yellow blue yellow green? At first she thinks maybe thats the pattern for the first few steps she wants to take, but there are no yellow panels on her side.
Getting to her feet, she instead looks for any other clues. Beyond the lanturn, the lights, the only other thing on her side of the room is this giant, horrible statue. Maybe if she kicks it a few times, the puzzle will solve itself. ]
And a guard rat? Ah...Dito you might just want to lie down and count to ten while I solve this.
[ Kick kick kick. This statues leg stick out in such a way that its quite easy to kick it. Almost like its taking a step...but does she want to take another risk. ]
Wait, actually, can you tell me if this gets across?
[Getting her lantern out, Sara sets it down on the panel directly in front of the statue. That should be enough weight to send it across and see if this is the correct path!