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✽ There are several new points of interest at the bulletin board this month, most prominently a wooden box with the slit on the top just large enough to drop a sheet of paper inside. Above is an explanation of Secret Santa and a form to fill out for those interested in participating to write down their name, homeroom, and locker number. Sign-ups close on 12/5, and following assignments, gifts may be given in person or through one of the student council members if anonymous gifting is preferred (contact the mod to hire a stuco elf).
✽ Right next to this box is a poster with a large orange giraffe painted on it. The contents of the poster has nothing to do with giraffes, but rather, is an advertisement for student store commissions featuring quality work with quick turnarounds and a special discount for the month of December if you buy five or more commissions, or bring the shopkeep a warm drink and maybe a snack while they're working.
✽ To the side of the class roster and current ranks is a digital countdown, and scrawled on the bulletin board itself is the message "You're almost there! You can do it! One more push!" but it's unclear whether this message refers to the countdown to the new year, or to the long glass tube situated along the edge of the bulletin board next to it. Maybe both. The tube looks similar to a graduated cylinder, holding a total volume of 5000 ml and currently containing 4850 ml of dark red (presumably) blood, hot to the touch. It can not be broken or removed. The mod will be in contact if any character action this month causes the volume to change.
✽ A neatly typed notice, half buried under all the other announcements, contains a reminder that tuition will be due soon for those students continuing to study at Yogen. If tuition is not paid in full by the end of February, "compensation" will be taken instead.
✽ And finally, there is a notice from the student council that proof of club activity is once again due for submission to the student council by 12/24, otherwise the club will be dissolved and resources taken back. Please submit activity proof to the toplevel below.

12/20 - 12/24 finals week

✽ The week before winter break is finals, with many students cramming as many math formulas and foreign country leaders into their heads as possible without it all spilling over, while other students have decided to chance the practicum instead. Those who have signed up for the practicum are asked to meet inside the auditorium after homeroom at the start of the day while test takers begin their written exams. Students are allowed to change their minds on which to take, up until the end of homeroom on Monday, after the bell rings and the doors close.
✽ For the test takers, finals last for five days, from 8AM until noon each day, after which students are allowed to go home, or have lunch and continue studying in their homerooms or in the library. At the end of finals on Friday, students are asked to remain in their homerooms over lunch break while their exams finish being graded, after which homeroom teachers will return and ask certain students to go with them to the faculty office. These are the failing students. Which the homeroom teachers themselves have the pleasure of executing for their failures. All other students are dismissed and wished a happy winter break.
✽ For those opting for the practicum, finals last for two days, from 8AM until noon on Monday and Tuesday. All students from all grades meet in the auditorium the first day and are told the very simple rules for this semester's practicum: in order to raise your failing grade, all you have to do is kill another student, upon which you take their points for yourself. At the start of both days, students first gather in the auditorium for a headcount and then are given a half hour no-killing grace period during which they are allowed to scatter and find the best sniping/ambushing/hiding spots. The hunt is limited to four hours each day and kills must be done on campus; any kills done outside of these parameters are just for fun and do not count towards their final grade. Points are given for kills involving students in the same grade level of different homerooms (e.g. third years only benefit from killing other third years) and points are revoked for kills involving other grade levels or test takers not participating in the practicum. They studied hard, leave them alone. Most students need only one or two kills to pass, but multiple kills stack and earn them extra credit that will carry over to the next semester. Students who end the second day with a still failing grade will be called to the faculty office. ... All remaining students are dismissed and wished a happy (early!) winter break.
✽ A winter storm starts to whip up around noon on the 24th, raging through the night before settling down come morning, blanketing the entire campus with several feet of snow.

OOC

✽ PC faculty still have finals: they will either take written exams excluding that of their own subject, or they can take the practicum. Players with faculty characters are asked to reply to the toplevel below to indicate the number of failed students per class, but characters do NOT have to ICly be responsible for killing failed students. Unless they're cool with that, and if so, please let me know.
✽ This is a reminder that for any character that murders (again, please let me know), they will experience the same pain the following night and lose powers/abilities for one week. Two weeks after the murder, +1 tally and +100 merit points will be awarded for each kill.
✽ The void in the auditorium continues to grow, and (pending character interaction) by the end of the month will encompass the entire right wing of all floors, including the locker area but not the rooftop. Please mind the void, murderers.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

a. dorms (12/02)

[ After being told that it's not acceptable to leave a coffin in the middle of the hallway and halfway in front of somebody's door, Ranger had... Proceeded to not care about that even a little bit. It did, however, occur to him that that he would see it every time he left and entered the room, and that Komaeda may or not want to have to crawl over a coffin every time he entered his room. He cares about both of those a little more, so he's set out to continue the process of finding a good spot for it.

Those who have been around might have already heard the loud bang that had come from Star 5 when it was pushed onto its side, and the scraping as he'd pushed it along and then stopped. There had been a blissful silence now, that is ended as he starts shoving it again. It takes awhile, but he slowly manages to push it all the way down the hall and angle it into the middle of the commons room. This, to Ranger, seems like an acceptable place to leave a coffin. They could throw a tablecloth over it and use it like a coffee table.

If they couldn't then, well, that's not his problem. So, with one more hard shove, he's going to push that coffin over that results in a resounding crash as the heavy coffin hits the ground. He'll take his expression cards back out then, hiding his face behind one, and wipe his forehead after despite not actually sweating. He's satisfied with his work here, so he's just going to sit right on top of that coffin for a minute.

Feel free to find him at any point in this process, he sure is being noisy. ]

b. bulletin board

[ The countdown is interesting, as are the notices posted about, but of even more interest is the tube that's next to it. The amount that it's intended to hold would be a full adult's worth of blood, maybe a little more depending on the person. He touches it and finds it runs hot. He tries removing it, and finds it impossible. He tries taking the cap off of it, and finds that to be of no avail. He continues to mess with it for some time before giving upon on the entire affair, humming thoughtfully as he looks at it.

Just a little bit more, hm...? It would probably be a bad idea to let it finish filling. The entire thing seems pretty ominous, but even so, he wonders what would happen if it did...? For that matter, what was the fastest way to get it to fill? How quickly would it go up once the requirements were met? Whether or not a person wanted to, it's pretty close to the end, so it'd be nice to know.

Ranger gives it another tug with his free hand, nothing more than a token effort to confirm that its immovable, then lets his eyes move to the countdown timer again. ]

Hmm... That how much time we got left?

[ Did they have until the end of the year to see if it gets filled up? ]

c. wildcard
[ Choose your own adventure, or hit me up at

pfle and we'll figure something out. ]

Edited 2021-12-05 09:25 (UTC)

Oh, it reminds me of Saw.

( the one horror thriller where various people were kidnap for a torture game, or a second chance at life, but specifically he's interested in the vial — is there somewhere to offer their bodies to give extra blood, a mechanic like that which komaeda seems to be searching for as he walks up to his partner just as interested in the idea of it. where rio feels as if filling it would be bad, komaeda would take the risk to see what happens once it's complete. )

I don't see anything...

( he touches the bulletin board, looking through any of the slips of paper posted on it to see if they give advice on how to handle this. it seems like nothing to him, but he gives extra attention as his lips purse into a straight line to look it over. he lifts one hand, tapping his fingers against it to check the durability, and he takes a step back afterward as he cups his chin in thought. how can he offer his blood if there's no way to give it, he's a little disheartened by that, but it's easy to tell that something about this saddens him. )

We have enough time to give your blood, or maybe my blood. Hm, I wonder what it represents.

[ The reference is lost on him, as most pop culture references re, but Rio can guess the general idea based on the context clues. It's meant to be seen, and it seems reasonable to assume that the timer is somehow related, but there's nothing at all to suggest what purpose it serves aside from the sickly red color.

Donating blood? Rio looks to his partner. ]

If you wanna donate blood, get it from somebody else. I don't have any, and you're still using yours.

[ Which is to say, he does not need his partner bleeding out. That said, he seems otherwise fine with the suggestion. It seems like a bad idea to finish filling it up, but then it's possible that it's exactly the opposite and literal blood sacrifices were necessary to appease this place. That, too, was a common story in these situations. So, he's fine with whichever. That said, as noted there's no convenient place to bring another bucket of blood to drop in there. ]

Hm, maybe it's based off of how many dead bodies they got around here? Should be able to confirm that one soon enough.

[ He'd heard vague rumors about the upcoming tests. It seems pretty dangerous to fail, but that's not his problem. Either way, with the amount of idiots here that would probably solve the problem if it was just a need for more death. He wonders if that's really it, though - if it were him, he might give that suggestion for the sake of deflecting from the real answer. ]

... If it were you, why would you put this stuff here? We've got a timer, a bucket of blood, and a cryptic note.

( he lifts his organic hand, looking it over about where he'd allow himself to get cut in order for blood to just drain for him. if there was a hole, along with a saw that cut his fingers in two, then he would do it — stitches would work afterwards, he thinks, and that's why the idea remains to him when he could use someone else's. his own wouldn't make a difference, it's about what someone can do. )

Blood is a luxury here, the science club are the people who turn it into paint for the art club, and...

( he lifts a hand, raising it to his chin as he tries to think over what would he do with this if it was him. it has to be about graduation or getting past the exams, or it could be talking about the final push of how much they need to give. )

It can be used to rush, never know what they could do in a panic.

( but why is it hot, blood that boils, is it about anger? the symbolism that comes from that? he takes a step back as he continues to stare at his hand, and then up at the chamber of red, before he glances back to his partner. there's a sudden epiphany that he gains, a small "ah" as he looks to his partner. )

I want us to check one thing, but I don't believe spilling my blood here would prove successful. Considering the void has ate up most of this school... ( he strokes his chin, and then his arms drop down next to his sides. ) It may not having anything to do with the trips to that place, but... we could always try and see. What do you think?

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12/20 - 12/24 finals week

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