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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.
no subject
Yeah, but everybody's too busy studying to go shopping, so I'm working on commissions in my room... I can spot you if you want to try again.
[ Probably can't catch him or break his fall or do anything a spotter is supposed to do, but they can watch and tell him what he's doing wrong. ]
no subject
Looks like 'later, secretly' is 'now, not-secretly'. He has to maintain his distracting cover... At least the room is otherwise empty.]
......
[Up he goes and... okay yeah there's like a half-second of straining arms and grunt of exertion before he's on the floor again, panting. He didn't even get fully upright.]
Okay... Just kidding, that's enough for now...
[He can pretend that's because he's been at this for a while, right?]
no subject
Your arms turn into jelly when you practice so much, huh?
[ There, an excuse handed to him as an apology.
... ]
Can I try on your hat?
no subject
Yeah, exactly. You've got it...
...
...
Why?
[Don't tell him Npc-kun is another, miniature Komaeda he has to watch his accoutrements around. It's bad enough getting Lily May to steal his jacket, even if he got it back later, and that's just the last of it...]
no subject
Because you always look so warm and comfy.
[ First they eye the beanie, then it'll be the scarf, then the jacket, and the struggle of getting everything returned.
... ]
...It's like being hugged at all times, even when you don't have anybody else there... is what I'd imagine, anyways. I just wanted to see if that's true.
no subject
Well, okay... Just to try on, though.
[He can't say no to that, especially the way they put it. He reluctantly tugs it off his head, his hair sticking up every which way in response because he doesn't see the point in brushing it.]
I'm surprised you don't have one yourself if that's so... Doesn't seem like there's anything your shop can't get.
[He's holding it out... Honestly where do they get these things, he's been wondering about afterlife logistics ever since that one conversation with Nene.]
no subject
...
There's a glance at Shin's scarf. ]
Buying one would be easy, but... I wouldn't. It's not something I need to survive, so I won't waste money on frivolous things. [ They pull the beanie off their head and hold it back out to Shin, smoothing their hair back down with their other hand. ] The only things I own are things people give me, and only because it would be rude to let go of them.
[ The cute bear hoodie blanket they wear wrapped around their shoulders at night, the starry jacket they run around in in the afternoons, the notebook they huddle over in the corner of the common room sometimes, the stuffed animals that live next to their pillow in their room, the ring on their finger...
All gifts. Things they have to keep, no matter how tempting the resell value is. ]
I was right, though: it felt like a hug. Thanks.
no subject
...
Wow, I just remembered... I totally don't need this old thing anymore. I guess you can have it, if you really want.
[It, like the scarf, got bizarrely duplicated when he first arrived here, part of a school uniform he never wore either with... but he'd probably be doing this even if it were the only one he had. He's not making a move to take it back.]
Frivolous things, huh... Aren't you too young to be worrying about that already?
[Is everyone in this school broke as hell... it's concerning, remembering Narumi's house and all. With the prices being charged and no employer apart from maybe the school in sight Shin had been assuming this was something they were doing on their own initiative and that they were making at least enough to live reasonably comfortably on but... looks like that was wrong. Which just raises more, worrying, questions. Frivolous things have gotten Shin through hard times... even if it meant, well, literally paying the price.]
no subject
[ The beanie hangs from their hand for just another moment, in case Shin does change his mind, but when he doesn't, npckun slowly brings it back towards themselves...
tugs it snugly over their head
... ]
It's never too early to start thinking about finances! Especially when you know you have very expensive things you need to save up for in the future, saving what you can and spending only what you need goes a long way!