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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

[commences]

( he'll see the pda, looking it over, and with the idea ingrained, komaeda stands up to play this as normal as can be. he lifts a hand, pointing a finger up as he twirls it around. )

You're so friendly! In this land, I knew you'd be able to see the other side of... me! Cheshire Cat leaves a grin, and no cat, there's always two of me!

( that's true, there's two komaeda's, the conscious and subconscious, the white and the black split into two straight down the middle. his heart, too, is the same way, and that's why he's able to play properly, his tail bouncing as he skips away to find a few pieces of paper, and a pencil as he notices something out the corner of his eye, but he looks back to nothing — he always knows something is there, playing, tricking him, and yet he's never saw it properly. perhaps the tail is cursed, perhaps this spirit loathes his existence and that's why it hides.

once he has what he needs, he makes his way back over, covering from the side so that no one can see the device that nene's using for their moment break. )

What do you think? Is it a very merry unbirthday to us, to us!
A very merry unbirthday to us, to us!

( he claps his hands together, shaking his head from side to side until he stops. )

Whose birthday is it...?

( which has a meaning to what is it that haunts him? )

[mermaidcursed]

( nene chuckles, and waits quietly while he's up. she looks at the people at the karaoke 'stage', at people happily sampling treats from the main table, and the different tables all set up for individual meals...

komaeda returns, back in character but eager as ever. nene looks up at him and accepts the requested items, quietly pushing a few things out of the way- the cluttered tables were part of the aesthetic, but they sure were difficult! and then... she draws, occasionally glancing up at the apparition and then back down. she's not a great artist, but she's decent enough. cutesy things are her forte, though- and a strange cat definitely fits the bill. ... it kinda reminds her of that french superhero show...

once she's finished, she turns it over to komaeda once more. )

[commences]

( as he stares down at the picture drawn, he holds it up, turning to his side to see if he can hold the portrait up to the figure, but knowing his luck — it disappears. it's a mischievous cat in the picture, cute by her drawing standards, and while he could amaze over it the entire time — )

A self portrait! Who knew that The Dormouse was so... creative in that field! Don't you only love tea?

( he's glad he has an idea of what's been following him, the cat truly is that of a cheshire then, and it makes him think of what sort of world did norton come from? it's for a moment that komaeda reminiscences, wondering if he's made it back to his fantastical world, with his eyes closed, he smiles briefly before giving his attention back to nene. )

Do you love to draw, too? Oh, boo, you should do this more often, it's true.

[mermaidcursed]

( nene pauses, thinking. does she love to draw? ... she drew hanako during class sometimes, and flowers- her flowers are really good, actually. she likes making details with cutouts in her bentos... she wrote, once upon a time. it's been a really long time since then, though- not when her teacher can just... flip through the bookstacks and know.

after a moment, on a remaining piece of paper, she writes: )

i don't hate it
but i've never thought of it before

[commences]

I can't draw either, but... the shopkeeper loves people who can draw, I wonder if they want to change their story.

( live in that painted world that nene had told him about, a pretty gilded cage where everything is fine in the inside — they would find themselves led to those delusions, and he can't allow himself to break out of character. he clears his throat, looking up for a moment at the ceiling as if he's searching for something, or waiting for the feline to appear next to him so he can only see a second of them. he glances back down now, staring at the drawing. )

If you won't speak, why not try that alternative... in pictures, images, let people decipher your thoughts.

[mermaidcursed]

( nene pauses for a moment, tapping the pencil eraser against her lower lip in thought. through pictures...? well. that sort of whimsy would suit wonderland, wouldn't it? after a moment, she draws again- the symbol on komaeda's shirt, surrounded by some puffy clouds.

like komaeda-san? )

[commences]

( heaven, he thinks. when he looks at it, staring at the picture she's drawn which takes after the symbol he wears religiously. he laughs, there's no room for him in heaven, but there is the sharp pain of the spear dropping down into his stomach, the sharp end connecting with concrete, as the rope keeps his body still —

that's just frigid horror symbolism in his mind, but he taps it with a smile. )

Lightening?

( was he right? )

[mermaidcursed]

( pFF- the most he'll get from her is quiet, stifled giggles until she shakes her head, actually grinning. try again! )