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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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how shock tends to dull pain.
how it doesn't quite feel real. subaru figured this wasn't it. but if there was even the slightest chance then he wasn't going to squander it, he wasn't going to just throw it to the side, because komaeda's right -- you do everything you can, you give all you can, just to see the person you love shine. he gets it now. he doesn't wholly agree but he understands just what drives a person to it, how important someone gets to be.
he trusts natsume not to let him die, at least. they're best friends. they're partners. they've been thorns and hooks in each others' sides since first year, since they made that wonderful mistake of reaching out, of allowing, of finding similarities even when anyone else might've seen none. busy parents. an inability to make friends. passion and love for the things their family left them, and how they want to use them to make people smile -- even here, even now, in this school of the dead.
it's why he agreed to try in the first place.
warmth and iron flood his senses, his own and, faintly, the familiarity of natsume's. it hadn't even been a month since the practicum, since his shoulder was dug a little too hard into and the burning tingling stretched from fiber to fiber. he was more awake for that, so in his dream-like state he thinks of it like drawing lines in constellations, from one star it another and how they can make pictures of any grouping. how so many people have different views of the sky. so many stories. it's nice, it'd be fascinating if he was more interested in that particular section of study but nonetheless it's nice.
subaru breathes out, long and slow, unlike the quick his body had panicked with, something that felt like hours ago. he squeezes his eyes, feeling slowly returning to him, consciousness with it, and he hears, dully, the words cast almost like a spell.
...
natsume...?
the name doesn't vocalize like he thinks it does, it's more of a groan in the very chest natsume presses so hard against, and when subaru opens his eyes and sees the dark of the sky, the ball of light flickering and fluttering as if hanging on with all its might, and finally registers his best friend. the weight on his chest, the circles continuously drawn, the paleness of the other's face and how he trembles, how his eyes are unlike anything subaru's seen before, and
yeah, natsume's still pretty. but he decides that he never wants to see this face on the other again, just like he'd decided he never wanted to see the same on keigo's. a silent promise digs its way deep into his heart and subaru lifts a hand to put it on natsume's, to stop him. natsume'll hate him for smiling, but he does, sky blue eyes warm with life.
subaru knew he'd pull through.]
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not because he wants to or because subaru's hand is on his, but because the magic pulled taut like a rubber band finally snaps back against him and he curls over a bit, gasping, eyes squeezing closed.
but he registers, faintly, the warmth on top of his hand, and he sighs a heavy exhale. his eyes slowly open, and there's a flash of relief before he pulls his hands away and raises them up.
...
he wipes the blood on his jacket and sits back, wobbling. )
A shame I can't tell Master Clamor about THIS, ( he says, voice small and quiet and tired. ) I think he'd be proud of how far I've COME.
( right after he got done being mad that this happened in the first place, or that he didn't really do it properly, or that he hadn't told anyone—especially someone more magically competent. )
When you feel like you can STAND, we can go back DOWN. ( never mind him. his tone's turning more clipped, composed, the way he likes to carry himself despite the way he looks right now. ) But take time getting THERE. You're still going to feel PAIN.
( and he'll still have a scar. just like keigo. )
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... I knew you could do it, [he finally manages. soft and pained from his attempt, but there all the same.] You're... Natsume Sakasaki, after all.
[never a doubt, never a moment's hesitation.]
Thanks. Sorry for worrying you.
[even though this chance was higher than the other.]
Gimme ten. I'll be good then, I think.
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I wasn't worRIED. I'm Natsume Sakasaki, after ALL. I have complete confidence in mySELF.
( yeah, yeah, yeah.
but okay, ten minutes. ten for him, too. )
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subaru laughs a little, feeling oddly light, and wonders if that's the aftermath from the threat of dying, if it's some sort of weird atonement for his poor attitude before. he feels oddly refreshed. maybe it's the magic.
ten minutes. ten minutes, and then subaru can lift himself a little more, inhaling at the renewed pain and waiting until it dulls to inch his way back up. stabbing yourself really hurts, who knew.
...
ah.]
We're gonna have to do something about our clothes.
[they're....... bloody. but at least they've soaked up enough, and subaru'll resist the urge to pull them off despite the chill the blood's giving him now. at least for now.]
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I have less blood on ME, so I'll just go to our room and pick up some for US. We'll wash up and get CHANGED, and then...
( ... )
We could burn THEM.
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[it's one of his yogen casual! it's kept him nice and warm and okay it's like, fraying a little with how often they have to wash and reuse these and it's torn now anyway and...
...
a sigh. better to burn them off and leave nothing for anyone to find, he guesses, because... there are so many people who would scold them for this, that it would hurt and upset. and that's the last thing subaru wants to do.]
Okay. But we're not using magic for it, Natsume.
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...Of course NOT. ( said in the tone of someone who was definitely going to use magic to incinerate their clothing. ) We'll use the firePLACE.
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[hmmm.]
Let's gather some flammable stuff and do it next to the school. The snow'll cover whatever's left anyway, and it'll be nothing to look at when spring comes. Probably.
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Very WELL. ( maybe he can go back later and incinerate it a little more. just in case. ) Now shut up and REST.
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[he'll gently ease himself to a better sitting position, crossing his legs and idly touching the scar that remained as proof of a fool's errand. that makes ... scars now, so many more than he ever thought he'd have. just as sensitive as the ones on his arm, but this one won't remain that way at least.
...
he definitely cannot change in the same room as anyone anymore.]