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JANUARY EVENT LOG
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.
✽ 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.
✽ 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.
✽ 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.
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[That wasn't something that was really important, or even pertinent to her at the time. But now that it's happened...]
I might know someone who might know, though. Although if she doesn't know, maybe someone else does.
[Someone who's been here longer.]
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[At least, if they can get here. Satou hopes that nothing has happened in the dorms. Her stomach twists at the thought.]
How long have you been at this school, Rika-chan?
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[That's an affirmative sound, to say the least; she doesn't know if the others are safe, but right now it's more important that they are the ones that are safe.
Then the question is raised.
How long has she been here?
Memories say that she's been here a while, outside of the constraints of 'awakening', of, well... remembering, but-]
Since the culture festival. That was in November.
[It's January now, isn't it? With it being past midnight and all.]
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[At least, since she 'woke up' here. Satou still isn't sure what triggered that. Her memories prior to then are too hazy to hunt for details in.]
Well... It was a longshot anyway. But I was wondering if anything happened in this classroom that might have left an... impression.
[In her world, strong emotions can imprint an area with magical power. Satou wonders if the reason that part of the classroom is affected isn't because of a physical thing, but a magical one.]
I can't remember anything during the time I was here, though.
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Mm... that's something that we can find out about later, at least. I hope.
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[As they leave the staircase, Satou will pause to make note of the strange burns on the wall. She had almost instinctively put a hand on the wall for balance, but withdraws that hand when she sees its state. It feels like their once active school has been inactive for years, doesn't it?]
For now. Anything we see that feels different, let's speak up about it? There might be a clue in that.
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This school already... feels different.
[Like she stepped from one place to another.]
I don't think that was there earlier. And I don't remember there being a fire. I would have heard or seen it too, from the classroom.
[But then again, that's something that she can't confirm one way or another right now; she knows nothing about any school fires, after all.]
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[Satou considers how honest to be, then continues;]
I used to spend a lot of time in old and abandoned buildings. This place has that kind of vibe now. Has time actually passed..?
[No, that's ridiculous. She shakes her head.] Watch your feet, just in case. If the walls are like this, the floor might be bad too.
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[Like a calendar. The chalkboards don't help given that they're the only ones in here, but something more tangible might be better.]
But instead of passing, maybe--
[...]
Maybe it's the other way around?
[Perhaps the school has gone to the past instead of the future. Nevertheless, she nods, making sure to look at the ground around her. There's something about watching her feet like this that's strangely... well, not necessarily nostalgic, but... there's a sense of familiarity there.
And maybe that's why she decides to echo Satou's footsteps as they continue to walk.]
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[The school could have been renovated, it's true. Satou glances up and down the hallways, then gestures towards the classrooms.]
Want to check the classrooms to find out? Maybe someone wrote the date on a chalkboard..?
[Or they might find an old calendar. Satou remembers checking the publishing dates on books to confirm it was the 90s too. They could check if the books are still from that time.]
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It's winter vacation still, so the dates might have been cleaned off already... but it doesn't hurt to check, I suppose.
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[She can hope.
But Rika is right. Can't hurt to check.]
If it looks dangerous though, we'll turn back. I'd rather we see tomorrow than know when tomorrow is.
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[Even though her tone keeps its usual tones of a child, something that she's used to... there's also something about it that tells another tale entirely; something tired, of something that is used to not seeing what tomorrow brings them.
But her serious expression soon fades into a smile.]
So let's fight on, Satou. Nipah~✩
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But she wouldn't risk that kind of reason on anyone.
Plus, Rika just followed it up by being flawlessly adorable.]
Ha... hau... [A universe noise that means run,] Y, yes! Nipah! Nipa~h!
[Cured and distracted by the cute, Satou leads the way into one of the classrooms. She's looking for signs of the date and gradually comes to a conclusion.]
Nothing is printed in the 1990s. I think you might be right, Rika-chan.
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She'd recognize that sound anywhere, although having it spoken by someone else that wasn't Rena is definitely a surprise. And having her 'nipah' repeated is... a bit embarrassing, even for her.]
M-Mii... I wonder why we're in the past, though.
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Gently putting the book back, Satou muses aloud;]
Usually when you retrace your steps in a mystery, it's because you suspect that there's a detail in the past that influenced your present circumstance...
Perhaps there's something here that we're supposed to learn that will help us in the 90s?
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I just don't think that this much weirdness can be a coincidence. It seems more like someone's strong will than fate.
The countdown, finals leading up to it, New Years triggering this, and us somehow going back in time... It doesn't feel random. It feels planned..?
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Then... if someone did this on purpose to make us find out something, I wonder what that 'something' is. And why they want us to find it.
[Amongst a bunch of other questions, but those are the ones that immediately pop to mind.]
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Still.
[She gets to her feet, planning to switch to the next desk;] If someone is trying to communicate with us so badly that they turned back time, then it must be important. I don't want to overlook a message that means that much to someone.
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[The we'll is a bit distant, if only because she's earnestly unsure if she'll get the information about it or not.]
I wouldn't want to overlook it, either.
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This is different, she cautions herself, Rika-chan is bright. She's going to get involved regardless. The best I can do is be here if it gets bad, right?]
... But! [She brightens,] We'll miss their feelings if we're tired. Let's secure a place to sleep before we get too deep into the hunt. We know it's the past and some rooms look less dangerous. That's already a lot!
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