JANUARY EVENT LOG

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00:00 01/01

✽ At the stoke of midnight, something shatters on the ground floor in front of the bulletin board, and the entire school goes dark: all electricity gets shut off, all flames are snuffed out, and the sky is heavily overcast to hide the moon and the stars. The only source of light are the suncatchers purchased from the student store, but even those fully charged will start to dim and go out over the next three days.
✽ Nene, Hinata, Noah, Amami, and Komaeda will smell something burning, and if they pull out their PDAs, it is hot to the touch and the casing is cracked, like something had blown from the inside, and their PDAs will not be working. For everybody else, the screen flickers when they press their thumb to their PDAs, and then goes dark again. ...
✽ If anybody was inside the main school building at midnight, I am so sorry, and for everybody else who enters the building afterwards, please watch your step. The appearance and atmosphere of the school has changed to that of the "void school" and can not be reverted upon breaking a mirror. Please refer to the aforementioned link for details about the school.
✽ As of midnight, no npcs can be found inside the school, including the library ghost, the gardener, and the cats. If a character were near an npc at midnight, it would appear as if they'd disappeared into the shadows the moment the world went dark.

??? whenever you guys solve the void

✽ 01/10 marks the beginning of the final semester, and when npc students and faculty will return to school. Of the ~260 npc students enrolled at the start of December, only ~40 npc students return to school, with the other three quarters having their names crossed off the class roster in the locker area. In light of the rapidly shrinking student body, homerooms will be consolidated by year, creating a single class for each of the first, second, and third years.
✽ The countdown in front of the bulletin board has reached zero, and the glass tube appears to have shattered and bled out onto the floor, to nobody's surprise. The mess will be cleaned up by the end of the week, and in its place is a notice for the school trip taking place next month. Please see the toplevel below for more details.
✽ The science lab is now open. Add will probably elbow people out of the way getting here, but he gets dibs on the anatomical model: it is warm to the touch, and rather than being made of plastic, the skin, muscle, bones, other organs feel very much real. He thinks they might be. The rest of the room is set up like a typical research lab, with all the basic chemicals and equipment: a refrigerator, liquid nitrogen storage tank, sonicator, incubator, autoclave, laminar flow cabinet, mass spectrometer, and a high performance liquid chromatography system.
✽ It snows on and off and the sky remains overcast with no sign of the sun all month.

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✽ Please give the temporary locations page a thorough read! The most noticeable changes aside from the usual void school appearance is the scattered void, lack of electricity in both the school and the dorm, and the ability to walk off campus. The setting will remain as is until the characters figure out how to revert the change, or on 01/10, whichever comes first.
✽ PDAs will be inoperable until fixed. Tech-savvy characters may realize that the PDAs are powered through inductive charging, and the first step to getting them (also electrical appliances and hot water) to work again is to locate the generator.
✽ All npcs will be ICly unavailable until we unvoid the school.

Comments

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Character(s): Ranger, Helena, Ramuda
Location: Student Store
Action: They're gonna check out the ribbon. Ranger and his two shorties to the rescue. Will anything happen if they tug on it, does it look familiar, etc.

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The ribbon comes loose rather easily, tied with nothing more than a simple slip knot. It looks like one of the red ribbons found on the school uniform, but old and worn, early over a decade old, the edges and tips frayed and a short length of the fabric on either end deeply wrinkled as if knotted tightly around something else once upon a time

It smells slightly of ash and pine

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Is there anything else scattered around? Anything that might have fallen, since nothing's really on display?

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They can find a simple but expensive looking ring left in a corner, some scattered broken rocks, and a pocket notebook on the floor behind the counter. If they open the notebook, it seems like whatever had been written there before has been scribbled over with black pen, leaving dozens of pages covered front to back, top to bottom, cover to cover with solid black ink. The pages are wrinkled in some spots, torn in others like when you accidentally rip the paper with your pen because it's still wet from layers of ink from the other side. The pens themselves are nowhere to be found, though

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help not us having to resist stealing amami's ring

For the notebook, can anything be made out beneath the scribbles at all, either through indentations on the pages or by careful observation? Like how sometimes you can make out a bit of the original ink/words beneath scribbles? I know sometimes you're able to do so either by seeing it layered beneath, or by looking at the back where it can be more obvious.

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You guys will steal a stranger's photo album but you won't return a ring to its rightful owner

anyways,
From what they can make out, it seems as if the notebook was initially used as a journal, and they can make out snippets like
"don't know where everybody went, but I"
"like that time back in August, but he promi"
"ld and dark, so I'm really grateful I got this pen from Sou. I wish he were here. I bet he coul"
"ea? You're supposed to stay in one place if you get lost, I think. But what if it's everybody else who"

A couple of pages of straight lines and intermittent scribbles that go against the page-wide scribble, like somebody playing dots and boxes by themselves.

Then there's thirteen pages front and back of what seems to be numbers, whether it's math problems or they were trying to figure something out, it's unclear.

Scribble scribble scribble.

A page of angry circular scribbles later overlaid with the back and forth kind.

A page that looks like somebody had laid the notebook down on the ground and just stabbed at it, poking holes through the paper in no discernable pattern.

A solid wall of "HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP"

"Are you out there?"

"Goodbye."