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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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If you're so certain that they're not ready, then just tell us how to tell when they are. Or should we wring that answer out of you by force instead?
[torture still isn't off the table.]
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You'll accrue quite the debt here, should you use such words with no fear.
[A fair warning, and the only time he'll give it--
before he sets the hose aside and holds two closed hands out to the three, palm down. Nothing about them seems particularly different, they're just similarly dusted with green.]
One contains the truth, the other a lie. Choose one.
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... she doesn't want to make a decision without consulting the others. so, after a moment, she looks to add and natsume and raises her write hand as much as she can, tapping it questioningly. this one? or the other? )
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... it's obvious, isn't it? Kekek, I don't believe in games of chance, but if only one hand contains a "truth", then it'd be the one that binds us all together, wouldn't it?
[he holds up his own right hand—it would be the more symbolic answer. something about teamwork that he'd be way too embarrassed to voice out loud...]
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Your RIGHT. I won't guess what it conTAINS, but that's the one we're chooSING.
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He opens his right palm, then closes all but his index and thumb back to it. Two.]
If at first you don't succeed, try again.
[Iolanthe closes his hand again and picks up his hose, though he doesn't water the flowers in front of him any further.
... It was cute, and in the spirit of things, so he offers a second bit after a moment, quiet as if it's a secret.]
To you I offer no lie: sometimes you need a second pair of eyes.
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but they have more information now, so whatever. he can work with this, probably. Add gives the chain connected to Natsume a rude little tug as he steps away, trying to put some distance between themselves and Iolanthe because he's had just about enough of this guy. it's time for a TEAM HUDDLE.]
We'll be here all day if we ask the same plant over and over again... so, assuming for now that "asking aloud" is the intended method, we should ask a variety of plants and see if any give a response back. Don't worry about the colours for now. Once we get something to react, we can focus on that colour and see if there's a pattern, or if a different coloured flower begins to react in response.
[obviously by "we" he means himself and Natsume. Nene is their emotional support for this stage, it's fine, she's doing great.]
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Anyway, the shaking stops, but there are a few leaves from the tree scattered on the floor probably from the slight tremor? Who knows.
A little ways over, there's wiggling coming from a red plant near the boombox! Will the group stay to console ...Iolanthe, or will they check out the mystery live plant?
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( she knows the pain of a broken pot all too well, the rush to help the plant- nene tries to move forward to help iolanthe, reaching out already, but... )
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He glances at her, then back at the other boys.]
Your friends need you more than I, though only in a minute sense. [... Not minute, the time, but mi-neut the amount.] Hurry on, fair Yashiro, for I will be awaiting your return.
[Once they've completed the task.]
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turns on his heel upon hearing his words and tugs add and nene towards the other flower instead. )
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please she is small and light ...then... they're. investigating the flower instead? okay! )
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or at least examine it, which is what he's going to do as soon as they're close enough to get a good look at it—is this even a real plant? he's trying not be too rough when he touches it, looking for the cause of the movement first and foremost.]
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You guys took foreeeeever! I almost fell asleep up there, y'know~? So now it's punishment time! ☆
[because the second thing that happens is add's little friend pops out of the flower and, with a grin, sends an electric current through add...
... who soaks up most of it...
and ends up shocking natsume enough to make his hair staticy. it'll bounce away if it's tried to be picked up or anything, but the flower stops wiggling after that, so apparently that's what was causing it.]
Are you guys keepin' up with my faellows? Listening close to what they're sayin'~? Ignore their words and you're gonna find yourself missin' the chance to meet our lovely Queen!
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natsume takes the watering can from whoever has it and waters subaru thoroughly. )
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I'm not a flower, so it's punishment time!
[subaru's throwing a ball of glitter at natsume have fun with that bitch. he is thoroughly wet though.]
C'mon~, take this seriously! You've gotta water all the flowers before Her Majesty comes! We've gotta get this place lookin' good! The others've got tasks too, and since you've been invited you've gotta do your part as thanks! Like guests washing the dishes after being given a good meal...♪ Also, if you run out of water, you're gonna have to ask Iolanthe for more~.
[...]
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Iolanthe-kun and I are the best of FRIENDS, so he wouldn't mind giving me MORE. ( ugh... he's so glittery now... shaking it off fruitlessly. ) And your analogy SUCKS. We haven't been treated to anything YET.
( ... )
But we're listeNING, as cryptic as our instructions thus far have BEEN. Are you here to tell us how to tell when the flowers are ready to be watERED, or just to be a nuiSANCE.
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Stepping into this world is treat enough, my quick to anger guest! Not just aaaanyone gets to visit the fae, y'know~.
[so yes, they owe something.]
Also, you've been told, so I've got nothin' to say~. Why don't you follow instructions for once in your life, huh? Seems like that title you boast so proudly about is just for show~.
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GRIMACES
turns to the flower dynamo was in and smiles very sweetly instead, subaru akehoshi who )
Are you thirsTY? I know it's such a chore to hang around a sunspot like Baru-kun ♪ I hope he hasn't burned you aNY ♪ He has such a bad habit, you KNOW.
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not looking at add though, that dude feels like he holds a grudge the way natsume does]
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but that would be too easy... also there's no way he's overcoming the raw strength of Natsume and Nene literally just standing there, Add weighs fucking nothing. He slips on a leaf and faceplants onto the floor instead, and this is the angle he's glowering from while the two idols are having their banter.
he eventually hauls himself back onto his feet... anyway,]
Stop wasting time on the idiot. If he doesn't even have new information, he's useless. Lifeless mannequin would've performed the role adequately.
[if the flower Natsume is talking to isn't going to do anything, he'll start heading for the next one]
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[oh? did you think iolanthe was the only fairy about? the girl who clicks down the volume of the music just so that she might be able to come around and be heard is also one of them - carrying her head high, but with a smile on her face. glitter on her cheeks like a true fae, and pointing directly at the watering can.]
You waste your time and your water arguing with poor Puck there - I should set you to another task so that you don't have the energy to muck about like that.