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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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Ramuda Amemura. Short guy with pink hair. He was pretty spooked about the whole thing.
[ Ranger looks down at the coffin, patting it with his free hand before leaning back. ]
It should be fine. I'm the only one that can open it, and I dunno why I would. Anyway, at least if it's in here if something goes wrong it'll be easy enough for people to catch it.
[ So see, it's a good thing he was quick to bring it out here. ]
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[Ishimaru frowns thoughtfully as he listens to the rest of what he has to say.]
Wait, how are you the only person capable of opening this coffin?
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[ He hops up now, turning around and placing the fingers of one hand on the lid of the coffin. There's no real gap to find purchase, but he manages to get a grip on it, and tugs up several times to demonstrate. It doesn't budge. ]
You need a device to open it.
[ Should he be saying that? ... Well, it probably doesn't matter. People will figure it out eventually anyway. ]
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Is that so? That... yes, that is quite unlike any coffin that I have heard of! That could be dangerous if one is not careful for it.
[He knocks on the coffin experimentally and looks up towards the other.]
If you are the only one who can open this, I assume that means you are the one in possession of said device!
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Yep, I've got it! Gotta admit, I'd rather have not had the thing show up at all, but it could be worse. I can at least keep people from meddling with it. I bet somebody'd get tossed in there otherwise...
[ Ranger shakes his head. ]
Hm, maybe I should at least cover it up, so everyone doesn't have to look right at it. You think a blanket would work? Maybe if there's a big enough one...
[ Out of sight, out of mind and all that. ]
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Yes, it is quite inconvenient, and I suppose that there is no easy way to be rid of it. I am glad that we have some control over it, at the very least.
[He smiles slightly as he looks it over.]
It should absolutely be covered at the very least, if it is to remain in this room! Our fellow students have enough reminders of death in their daily lives as it is. It would not be hard to procure a blanket or make one, as we have had less of a need for the ones we made before we could access the dorms. Or perhaps a tablecloth can be acquired! Yes, if we can simply see this as unique table and smile, that would be quite splendid!
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[ He nods in agreement, satisfied with this plan. Really, he'd rather think of it as a table than see the constant reminder of home. ]
You know where we can get one of those?
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[ By mug he really just means go ask him. ]
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I only have merit points to my name personally. So it shall depend on what the price turns out to be!
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[ He holds up a hand to ward off any further scolding. ]
Kidding, kidding! Ahaha, you're a pretty serious guy, huh?
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I can be, particularly when it comes to being diligent and upholding moral values! Don't get me wrong. I know how to kick back, relax and have fun every now and then. But as the Ultimate Public Morals Committee Member, I cannot condone wrongdoings on my watch!
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"Ultimate Public Morals Committee Member?" That's a mouthful. What's it mean?
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That happens to be a title reflecting Super High School Level talent, decided by a former school of mine! It means that I am considered to be the absolute best at what I do, which in this case happens to be possessing the qualities befitting a member of a public morals committee! I am diligent, driven and honest, and I possess a strong moral compass!
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I see. A person with strong values, eh? That's a useful skill. It's nice and flexible too. You'd do well in a leadership position.
[ Politics, activism, anything that would help to steer others in what he saw to be the right direction. ]
Whatchya planning on using that talent for? I mean, aside from keeping people in line here.
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Trying to keep everyone here in line is quite the ordeal on its own! But beyond my current position here on the student council, I intend to take steps to improve society! I believe wholeheartedly in the power of hard work and its potential to achieve anything. I wish to shape a society that is based around encouraging and awarding effort!
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[ He seems surprised for a few seconds, though pleasantly so, but that's more of a consequence of how he's had Ultimates presented to him. It had taken him a bit to register that they're just prodigies in their respective roles, and this seems to solidify that. ]
That's a good way to think. The company I worked for was like that. They believed in pushing the boundaries of what's possible, so they tried to find people who were languishing and gave 'em a space to do their best work. Turned out pretty well in terms of advancements in medicine and technology, so that sorta society sounds good to me.
[ He nods, agreeable to this. ]
So, you're the "leave things better than you found them" type, eh?
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Ishimaru's eyes widen, intrigued by the company he sounds.]
I assure you, my sentiments are quite sincere! It may seem surprising, for someone acknowledged as talented, but my 'talent' is actually the result of hard work! I see only folly in relying only on natural gifts... In any case, that company you worked for sounds quite splendid! That sounds like a business model that I would like to study.
[Ishimaru grins.]
You are completely correct about me, of course. That's an attitude that I hope to apply to this school as well!
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[ Or maybe it's easier than it seems? Even so, from the sound of it, he's managed to build up trust among them - or at least with Maya. That seems as though it'd be an accomplishment in and of itself. ]
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...Ah... Well... Through the student council election. It was held some months ago to replace someone who had... passed. [He pauses, blinking as he tries to banish the images of the brutal deathmatch that played on his mind.] That election was the most harrowing experience of my life.