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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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Rio wonders if that's really true. He was no different than the rest of them, not really, and so if they were parasitic than he must be as well. No flowers prosper from such rotten roots, and so any creation of theirs should be no different. He looks down to their intertwined hands, neither one organic, and then back up to his face before turning his head forward once more.
But if he was just being choked out by weeds, then did that mean he could? There's something frightening about that idea. He's not human, and he never will be, no matter how infinitely close he is to being one. He'll always be a product of ASUNARO, no matter how much time passes, and those three who put their every effort into who he is before so quickly tossing aside all of that work. But in the end, it only made sense, since they had no need for failures.
There's a quiet, thoughtful sound as he searches for an answer that makes sense to him. ]
Well, I've been online for a little over three years.
[ Which, suffice to say, isn't quite the same as being three years old due to the nature of his existence. But he has three years of functional memories, and three years of experience, all tied to a single place and a single group of people. It's a short enough period of time that just three months is already close to a tenth of it. Within a year, he would have been with the people here for a quarter of his life. ]
Time should be enough. It's a little different than how it works for a human, I'm sure, but it's the same basic idea. The more people you meet, and the more that you experience, the less you depend on the past.
[ He blinks slowly. ]
I chose you to be my partner. I don't feel conflicted about that.
[ There's a note of caution to those words, as though he's uncertain that it's proper to say such a thing. He needs Komaeda for that reason, but it's a different kind of need, one that he can't articulate. Komaeda might have been the one who planted that seed, but such things were easy enough to dig out and choke out and simply die of neglect. Instead, it had grown into this. He's not a replacement for Safalin, and they can't understand each other in the same way, but it had been something he chosen for himself.
When he looks back at it, whether or not it had been a flippant decision, it had probably been the first one that he'd made for himself. ]
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Meeting others is a hopeful experience, they create an entirely new picture before you. There's so many flowers to be seen in this garden, all different shapes and sizes.
( when it comes to rio's garden, and his own rose, it's how he handles something so cherishes to see it grow into full bloom. just like the hope fragments, komaeda searches for his personal garden, and one they meet each other properly then they can put that flower together.
...
would that flower ever come together? he doubts it, there's too many pieces that hate others, and too many that wish to hide away. he swings their hands, looking down at rio's chest, and he knows that the on le floats about.
there's others, but... he'll tend to his garden. )
I'm curious, will the past be your stepping stones, or will they become the decoration around your garden?
( it's not meant to be a challenge, but he is curious about how the other will use them if they help broaden his experiences. komaeda's thoughts are pretty straightforward, and by that it means using them to motivate himself towards a future that he can create himself, nit letting their disappearance or lack of presence to hold him back. )
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But he's been pushed and pushed and pushed, and so he tries to look for the other half too. ]
It'll be fine. I've started to find other things that are important to me. You're one of them.
[ He was perhaps the most important person he had here. But there were other people, other things. It was everything at the expense of one singular need, or it was one singular need at the expense of everything else. But he had already been disposed of, so he supposes the latter is nothing more than a passing dream anyway.
Komaeda won't feel the way he squeezes his hand, but he does it anyway. He offers another answer of a kind by continuing, ]
So, whatchya think? We can go see anything changed, and then go from there.
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( if he had it his way, he wouldn't allow rio to say such careless comments that hardly make sense. in a way it does, he feels as if understands why, but he doesn't like the way it's spoken, and how deep the rabbit hole has went. would they suffocate, or maybe that's just komaeda who has to breathe unlike the other, where rio could lay dead, and not do so — the pebbles and dirt can pile in, and komaeda will cease to exist.
his attention is on something else, though, his mind being placed on changes. )
If nothing's changed, perhaps... there's something more drastic to it.
( it's that train of thought that causes komaeda to hum, contemplate what could be done next that someone else hasn't did. they're all trying to find out what's so interesting about the vial of blood anyway, or if it's even blood. such a shame they can't get inside. )
This school has such quirky mechanics and events. It's actually endearing. If only you were here at the start of the school, I wonder what mystery would have interested you.
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I think they all would. I like piecing things together, and problems that I can solve, anything with moving parts.
[ Comes with the territory. ]
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( she had moving parts, but she was a human so perhaps rio wouldn't care that much. it'd be interesting since in a way, she was like a doll herself, or treated as one. hm, ouma won her in the end. )
Let's go check the substance, it's around here...
( he'll turn around the corner, bringing him over to board so that they can still see the liquid intact, and still seems to be the same amount. )
Hm.
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Maybe if we ask around, we can find something out... Somebody had to put the thing there, after all.
[ That would be as good of a way as any to try and get a hint as to its purpose. If it turns out that no one knows what it is or where it came from, then that would still tell them something of interest. ]
Wanna see what we can find out?
[ He looks up to Komaeda now. He's more well connected, so Rio supposes he would bge better suited for this sort of task, but it's not like he won't make an effort. ]
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( why would the science club give such a cheery note? it fits akari's personality, but maybe rio can figure that out when he goes to visit. he contemplates taking a detour towards the science club, but rio's right for his response, and that they should check it out.
he nods. )
Should we split up? We'll be able to cover more ground to ask. ( he lifts his other hand, pushing back a few locks of orange behind his ear. ) Keep your eyes peeled, alright?
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Yeah, let's do that. I'll drop by the nurse's office and go from there, and we can catch up later. In the meantime, lemme know if something comes up.
[ Rio nods, squeezes his hand one more time, such a silly thing to do with a hand that has no feeling to it, but he lets go after. But he's never been one to waste time, so he's already starting off in the direction he needs to go in, one hand raised. ]
See you soon.