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.

OOC

✽ 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

[mermaidcursed]

Does Nene feel anything in the brief moment of gold eyes?

Is there anything else within the bench?

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She feels (: happy (:

There's nothing else inside the bench

[heroicpolonaise]

. noted about the eyes okay it's just the trick of the light maybe people's eyes don't just turn colors it's fine

okay!!! they'll keep the photo album, because she thinks that the well-travelled might know a place or two and... generally this seems very sentimental; kaede understands and empathizes with the message left behind, she won't forget them even if they might've forgotten, but onto another point of interest to her:

the piano. she's going to open it up so she can start getting it all nice and fixed up, what's the inside look like... is there anything on the strings, if these are snapped she's going to bemoan the lack of piano wire in this school

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The keys are old and yellow and coated with dust and grime, off tune when she presses the keys and some of them stick instead of springing back up. Inside the piano, it looks like the strings are all accounted for, but are in a similar state of neglect. It looks like part of the wood on the frame has been chewed on inside and there's some shredded up paper that maybe used to be a math exam and some rat droppings here and there but no visible rats

[heroicpolonaise]

..............................

the wires are fine!!! the piano can be saved!!!! all it needs is a little love!!!!

anyway she'll also check the underside of the piano for anything interesting, but besides that--

1. can the cabinets be moved? if so, is there anything behind it?

2. if there's any posters or pictures or anything, anything behind those?

3. vents... anything in the vents? please don't say rats. they're checking this room from top to bottom if there's nothing else of note that's perfectly fine

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There isn't anything in particular underneath the piano, and the cabinets can be moved with Nene's or another person's help. There's nothing behind the cabinets, but underneath one of them in a corner the floorboard sounds squeaky when stepped on, as if there's empty space underneath
There aren't any posters or pictures, it's a very empty boring room
There are... rat droppings inside the vents but no actual rats. There seem to be no living things at all in this school besides the characters

[heroicpolonaise]

no way

okay so nene and kaede will absolutely see about that squeaky floorboard, can it be removed normally or will they be able to take the rusty saw to it

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They can't seem to get a good grip on the floorboard to lift it up, but it feels flimsy enough that a good stomp will break the wood, or they can rusty saw it, what are they going to do

[heroicpolonaise]

STOMP IT

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Kaede STOMPS the floorboard and her foot goes straight through— and also straight through the wood underneath, creating a passage between the two floors just large enough for a skinny black cat to squeeze through sometime in the far future
She pulls her leg out and feels around inside the hole and ew, rat droppings
There is no gun inside, because unfortunately the hole comes before the gun

[heroicpolonaise]

why have you crushed all my dreams of kaede having a gun

black kitty cat you owe her one in the future okay remember this and sit with her in the music room when she plays piano

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Kaede will have to steal somebody else's to realize her dream ):
I hope black kitty makes some friends, the only person that's even marginally tolerable is Rin and that's barely