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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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[Heck, going without food entirely for twice that isn't that unusual to him if the supplementary material is any indication, holy shit. Even unhealthy food is really really nice to have. Sportacus'd be fine, what does he mean, 'normal'.
No, no he wouldn't, Shin.]
Saving your merits, huh? You could ask Nene, the garden's still producing food. Although... we might have to start moving plants indoors soon, it's getting too cold for them right now.
[Shin knows how they feel. There's just a little note of showing-off pride in his voice, buried. Months of off-and-on helping out with the Gardening Club has borne it's own fruit.]
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[avoiding the second part, because, um. so far, for lack of anything better, his answer to the question of "what do you do when your existence elicits a trauma response" is "avoid existing around them."]
... This is going to sound very strange, but does this machine have any kind of herring? [pause] I do not use it, so I'm unfamiliar with most of what's in it.
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Haven't come across anything like that... So far.
[He hasn't really been looking either, so that doesn't mean there isn't any there. His search has been laser-focused on foods that are easy to store, easy to carry, and will last even after the package has been opened, so even his beloved cans of hot soup are being left there in favor of practicality. They're a treat.]
Some strange things get stocked, though... And it cycles a lot, too. Ahaha, I wouldn't be surprised if herring shows up now that you've asked... Something in this place has a sense of humor.
[He gives the vending machine a light tap with his foot after he places the PDA on the scanner again. Instead of a small bag of chips as ordered, a bag of tiny marshmallow puffs falls down instead.]
Case in point... They just glitch sometimes. Annoying...
[He's crouching down to get it anyway. Waste not, want not.]
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Many things here are like that, I think! It's like someone is listening when we talk, isn't it?
[he pauses, looking over Sou for a second, as if considering something.]
... Could you hold up your hand for just a second? Like this? [he smiles and holds up his own hand, so that the palm is facing inwards.]
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[When he brought up the sense of it one night with Sara she started to freak out and he'd realized not everyone consistently has the feeling of being watched and backpedaled swiftly... but it's still very validating to know he's not the only one, or not just imagining it. It's genuinely hard to tell on that front sometimes.]
Huh? Sure, I guess...
[There's that customary flicker of suspicion at the considering look and request, but he has practice pushing it down, holding up his palm unknowingly like a certain other yttd character. What's he doing? Long distance palm reading? World's slowest high five? He can't really think of anything that follows on from what they've been talking about.]
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visibly deciding on one of those options with a sort of "guess i'll die" expression.
just kinda makes to grab Sou by the wrist so he can better examine his fingernails.
he doesn't agree with his grandfather's methods but he can't deny they're effective]no subject
[He is easily grabbed despite being on guard. :' ) He's kicking himself.
While most of his nails are in the condition you'd expect, there's a teeny tiny sliver of a month's more healthy growth at the cuticle... there's also some small calluses from helping with gardening and dangling off a window sill while Subaru yells encouragement, and the hand in general is very clean. He makes an attempt at tugging such back but it's feeble.]
Do you always go around grabbing people??
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[he releases the hand, his own going to rest on his hips as he thinks. he feels his expression has grown too serious, so he offers a smile.]
Surviving on junk food isn't the best idea, but it is survival. Getting the calories, that's very easy... Nutrients are harder, but essential. Focus on fats and proteins; a chocolate bar would be a better choice than chips, for example. Even the slightest vitamins can go a very long way! [pause] And, I will help you, and everyone else, however I can, and whenever I can. That, is a promise.
[because they've been talking for like maybe five minutes and he's already fully aware that he will outright starve to death before he lets a single one of his charges go hungry. that decision was made 30 seconds in.]
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[This is taking a side trip into the surreal and it's a bit overwhelming. Doesn't this guy teach math? What is going on. He glances at his hand like he can see why this is happening (it offers nothing) and tucks it back in his jacket pocket. He's used to customers commenting on how his hands look like he's never worked a day in his life, but this is new.]
Wait, chocolate's healthier than chips? Aren't they about the same?
[His brain's gotten caught on this sticking point.]
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[a pause, and he laughs a little.] What I should be saying is that you don't want to eat either of them, but.
[pause]
Sometimes life is about compromises. Yes?