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DECEMBER EVENT/TDM
bulletin board updates
✽ 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.
✽ 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.
✽ 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.
✽ 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.
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Do you know the story behind these? It's a very good one! [it's got trees and murder AND horrible grief, just the ideal nordic tale.]
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I can't say that I do--I'm just aware of the curses sure to follow if you don't exchange kisses beneath IT.
( your relationships are doomed forever and whatever
......okay he has time and no one he's looking for is around so )
Enlighten ME?
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... You'd think the mistletoe would be punished for it; that is how it usually works in those stories! But, instead, his mother decided that, from then on, it would always be known as a symbol of peace.
[pauses, grins] The kissing came later, I think.
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Wouldn't birds also be able to kill HIM? The majority of them don't roost on the ground eiTHER.
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[he smiles, looking back up at the doorway, and an idle thought escapes him.] I can see why she liked you.
[he's spent a long time with her letter. long enough to salvage scraps of letters from the scribbles, to piece them together.]
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...oh. natsume bites the inside of his cheek, not answering for a moment. it hasn't been long enough for that wound to heal; it might never really be long enough, at this rate. )
Stephanie-chan, you MEAN. ( ... ) How do you know that she DID?
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... It is only a guess, of course! [shrugs] Most of what I've been doing is just guessing.
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She was like the little sister I never HAD. ( and never wanted, but them's the breaks. stephanie... ) I did betray her trust terribly THOUGH. Her and... a lot of other people important to ME.
( ... )
I'd be alright if they never forgave ME. ( It isn't an easy thing. ) But I've apologized and tried to make some aMENDS, and that's about all I can DO. It's in their hands whether or not they choose to accept IT.
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Nothing is unforgivable, I think! When you are truly sorry, everyone is affected by it. [hm] Once you have forgiven yourself, the others come much more easily. That is always the most important step.
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How do you forgive yourself for taking another's LIFE? For hurting people just because you wanted to live so badLY, you'd take preemptive measures to ensure THAT?
( he won't count the other murders right now because we've all agreed he wasn't in his right mind but CHIAKI ON THE OTHER HAND )
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... But, maybe it's not even that complicated! [grins] The way I see it, you can't judge someone for the choices they made when they had a knife to their throat. Does that make sense?
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...It DOES. Thank you for THAT. ( he'll... figure out how to stop being sore about all of it one day; it's something that's healing little by little. he can't just dig his heels in and say he was completely in the right when that's what really pisses people off, after all.
he'll figure it out. he has time. ) Are you speaking from personal experiENCE?
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Not really! [at least has the decency to look mildly embarrassed.] I've never dealt with troubles like people have here. Not even in the cities, with the worse villains... But, it's not that they're different, just... bigger, I think! If you took someone's toy or their life, the advice ends up being pretty much the same.
[pause] That sounded much less crazy when I was thinking it!
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Did it realLY? Did IT? I'm having a hard time imagining THAT.
( TOYS... LIFE... THERE'S A PRETTY BIG JUMP BETWEEN THEM....... )
...But if you're a friend of HERS, then I suppose it must've sounded reasonaBLE. ( conceding. ) Little Bunny had rather strange ideas TOO, but I thought they suited her AGE.
( meanwhile sportacus can have a pass because he's
european i guess, westerners are so weird )
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[he thinks. this is his first time handling a murderer. he's just working with what he has.
strange ideas, though... he considers it briefly before shaking his head.] I have never heard somebody call her that before! She's the most reasonable and level-headed person in all of Lazytown.
[this is both objectively true and incredibly sad.]
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( he can't help it it's the first thing in his head and the first thing out of his mouth, but it's TRUE. IT SAYS SO MUCH. but for her odd ideas, stephanie was fairly down-to-earth. she was just a kid.
a kid with some smarts, no lie. )
What are her friends LIKE, if you don't mind my askING?
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[and then he has his first real smile in days because gosh his kids why would he ever not want to talk about his kids he only ever wants to do that]
Oh, they're wonderful kids! They have their problems and their fights, like all kids do, but they have grown so much through their bond, it's just... Pixel is a certified genius, and mostly ranks as the second most reasonable person, if you exclude, well, most of his inventions. Trixie is very much on her way to becoming a high-ranked villain [the level of pride in his voice absolutely never falters during this and if anything only grows] and she is just so dedicated to Stephanie, she's always there for her... Stingy is, well, well-named, but I think it makes it more meaningful, how much he is willing to sacrifice - I'd like to see most adults give up a genie debt to help someone who treats them unkindly! And Ziggy, just living proof that you are never too small to help a friend...
[and, at their core, their center, Stephanie. holding it all together. like a tower of blocks that's lost its base.
...
smile back on.]
I am sure they are all fine at home! I worry, of course... [shake head] I will see them soon. And Stephanie will have so many interesting stories to tell them.