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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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( not like komaeda, he doesn't do exactly how komaeda goes about in the world, doing whatever shameless thing happens, but he has a goal during his actions. if he allowed something like that to stop him, it'd only scar his ego, and komaeda chuckles at the thought. he does what he says, and he'll see it through, and maybe that's why he wanted to help komaeda such a long ago, because it was an impossible course of action. )
...She was to herself, when I met her. All she has is her brother, isn't that right? ( he saw it himself, and how hiro latches onto her like a child would do their older sibling's leg — they say separating twins is a hard job, and once the other dies they tend to lose part of themselves. ) You could tell she kept herself away from others to avoid attachments. You're already doing the impossible right now.
( clapping his hands together, he thinks of both maya and natsume, they're hard workers, and at time like unmovable walls once they decide on something. )
Do you think she knew you before, Sakasaki-kun? ( ... ) Or, no... that sort of narration wouldn't be what keeps her worried, I doubt she'll fall into the same rhythm as Rokkun.
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Neither her nor Hiro-kun knew me before, NO. The only person who's had any sort of friendly recognition towards me was Seki-kun at the beginning of the YEAR. ( but kouji knew everyone, like the friendly li'l senpai he was. ) They knew of ME, so introductions were a little redunDANT, but it wasn't as if we were friends or anyTHING.
That wouldn't have mattered THOUGH. ( it isn't like he was nao, after all ) The little wolf just doesn't see the point in finding importance in other people outside of her brother in a world where any one of us can die and come back without a single memory of our time spent togeTHER.
( and she's right for it.
yet nao sato is her friend anyway.
what's so different that... )
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( people are different, though, because rokkun's willing to put up with it doesn't mean that maya will, and being someone who has probably. )
Hm...Arisu-kun remembers his death, and Arisu-san lives happily with him, but perhaps they're blood so even so, a person she could fall in love with, and her blood family is different.
( he clears his throat, rubbing his chin for a moment as he speaks about what comes next. )
If you touch someone's gorinto enough, everything is burned into their soul. If I remember correctly, Rokkun taught me that, so you could always remember if we abuse that trick.
( an awful trick to make someone relive how they died, but it's one that could work properly. )
She must believe memories make the person when that's not true... hm, everyone are so worried about those, and not what else makes you that person.
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I'd never put her through that HELL. ( even to make sure she remembered him—
he would rather be forgotten. ) So you think that our traits are inherent to US, our very SOULS, Nagito-kun?
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What about you, would you go through it just to remember her? She doesn't seem to be so worried about herself.
( hMMMmMMMmmMMm. that said, he blinks, tilting his head to the side at the question. )
Rokkun said I was the same every year we met, but I've never remembered him. ( it's his luck that makes him who he is, talent, that connects to hope, it's not something that can be changed. ) I was born to love hope, I would have always been like this. It isn't memories that make me who I am.
( memories come and go, and komaeda's memories are just as fleeting. )
So they're intrinsic.
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...I hate to agree with you on anyTHING, but that's what I think TOO. ( he will always be himself, whatever else might change about him. his name, his upbringing, his looks... but he'll always be petty and vengeful, he'll always be selfish, he'll always want to find a way for those suffering to suffer less.
maybe that's just being hopeful, but hope isn't always such a bad thing. ) And NO, I wouldn't go through with IT.
( this is
kind of embarrassing to admit, so he can't look at komaeda, and his neck is red but— )
She's important to ME, but that's borderline obsesSIVE. I'm a lot of THINGS, but I'm not THAT.
( about people, anyway. )
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( and komaeda has never cared for the person, even now, he's unsure what he likes exactly about natsume. perhaps his personality that remains unchanging, that need to have control or everything in order, or to be a know-it-all who's aware of everything, and takes pride in informing. perhaps that interest is purer, to see how his actions reflect on the people around him, how he knows he wants to see those who indulge in life with him smile, and the same is for maya, too. )
...Ahaha, you've been by her side for a long time now.
( he can see him out the corner of his, the way he lights up, it must be passionate, it must be nice. if only komaeda's love could be... )
Even before my murder. ( ... ) Is this what they call soulmates? ( that's what it is considering they're souls, so they wouldn't be anything else. ) No matter what happens, you'll always be connected... ah. Have you heard this, "Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes, because those who love with heart and soul, there is no such thing as separation." I find that this saying applies to select people here, maybe you should pass that onto her, too, one day.
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Love is a rather strong WORD, Nagito-kun. ( what is love? is it just a stronger form of liking, or is it something else? and how do you know when to use it?
is it something that just comes naturally, a word that replaces "like" in "i like you" without thinking about it? or is it something deliberately chosen, like the other times he's used it? to put meaning to someone, to let them know in no uncertain terms they are worth having in his life... love, huh. ) Soulmates aren't real anyWAY. We're just two people who happened to MEET.
( and
if he could choose
he supposes he'd want to meet her again, and see if her answer would be different in another time, another place... if it's only because this school is a terrible idea, then... )