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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.
it's all good, i should have made alice offend people's ears with a requiem of awkward piano noises
He intends to leave soon enough, though winter break means too much time for too many thoughts, and the more he sifts through memories to put in order, the heavier their weight grows. Remembering nothing must have been the definition of blissful ignorance for everyone.
The sound of someone calling his name startles him into straightening up — if not before his fingers hit several piano keys at once, creating a discordant noise that ruins the music room's quiet. Worse, he fails to stifle some strange surprised exclamation of his own, snatching his hands away.
Alice draws back, turns to confirm what he heard, brow furrowed. That voice... It's one that he recognizes by now. ]
...Shin Tsukimi?
[ Purgatory no longer makes sense — Shin Tsukimi didn't suddenly die somewhere, did he? His AI, perhaps, but what of the man himself? ]
What in the world...? How are you attending this bizarre school?
the Yogen Samurai Yaiba comeback tour
W-who? Never heard of him. It's Sou Hiyori, here.
[This is... Shin has the uncharitable impression of Alice as someone who'll just loudly blurt things out, and while there's been a slow erosion of the sense of the need for the name's shield (the revelation of balancing... and that some people do know and he's not dead yet) it's become ingrained at this point. When did he start answering completely naturally to 'Sou', such that hearing his own name feels strange?
...Surely 'Gonbee Yamada' isn't going to throw stones in this glass house, is the pointed thing he's trying to convey with his eyes as he says it. Even under hearing the name, his mind's whirring, because... didn't Alice die before he could even learn it? Did Sara tell him here? Or... but there's no evidence for that.]
Ahaha, same reason as you, I imagine... It's a long story.
[He doesn't know that Alice already knows about the purgatory thing... stepping lightly while he feels that one out. Speaking of revelations, it's also. A little strange, having the knowledge that Alice killed the actual Sou Hiyori in the back of his mind while speaking to him now; he never said anything the entire time? (Shin you missed it because you were in the 'bathroom'.)]
the worst RECOless tour
Well, it's his business, and none of Alice's. Shin Tsukimi simply remains someone difficult to understand, unless it's another case of desperation, and resorting to familiar tactics reassures him. ]
Very well... Sou Hiyori.
[ So Alice says, albeit reluctantly, thus agreeing never to utter the man's real name again, though distaste undeniably turns Sou Hiyori into something that could have been an insult instead. Even before, when that name was the only one to use, it quickly became the source of too much to question. ]
You could easily take a leaf out of my book, but do as you wish.
[ Using an alias may be a good idea in certain situations, he knows that. Frown still in place, pensive, he crosses his arms. ]
At any rate, you're surprisingly calm...
[ For a man who was desperate to escape his awful fate, at least until he seemed no less desperate to protect someone who truly should have survived.
"Same reason as you" — what does that imply? That the likes of them deserve to be here, whereas good people like Reko and Nao Egokoro don't?
And Kanna Kizuchi, of course. ]
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[That's definitely the inflection of someone who's met Midori, the true self under the smile; Sara and Ranger have that same (strangely or not so strangely gratifying to hear) distaste. Under what circumstances, Shin has no idea. The only point of contact he knows of for sure, thanks to Sara is... the contracts. But with his ability to erase memory... can he even do that from the grave?]
It'd be too late to change it now. It's not like you gave yours so freely, yourself...
[It's what near-everyone here knows him as. The airiness of it stings, just a little. They were both backed against the wall in main games; Sara sure has a digging curiosity and way of pulling things out into the light.]
Me? Not calm? ... I'm being mean, though, aren't I? It's been six months since I arrived. Plenty of time to get used to things...
[The school in general, since that's what he thinks Alice is referring to, although some things he doesn't want to get used to if it would mean becoming complacent about them. He'd taken the revelation they're all dead easier than most... Because he'd remembered said awful fate on arrival, freaked out at Sara about it. It helps that even if this is the afterlife, he still exists. If being a bad person is the requirement, then Joe wouldn't be here in Shin's mind... although Joe himself would argue otherwise.]
Time does strange things here, ahaha. Have you been given the run down yet?
[He's assuming Alice is a little newer than he actually is, having been extremely stressed and busy all month. His habit of checking the roster frequently was one of many that fell by the wayside.]
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