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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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[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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