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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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( there's an answer, and komaeda looks away as he continues to smile at the other's thoughts. he continues, )
Such words might have saved everyone here.
( he shrugs, moving on as he turns around to finally face ishimaru properly, eyes connecting with that vibrant red. )
That's not enough, Ishimaru-kun! You need special eyes, or way to see things better than most. Being human is such a drawback...
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[He asks, alarmed. And ready to feel guilty about anyone and everyone he failed to save. At least it's now easier to understand what he's trying to communicate.]
...Ah, I do think I know what you mean now. Is it like how the gardener was only visible to those with special attributes or items...? Please tell me. What secrets have the portraits held?
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( he looks at him, sizing the other up before turning back to the portraits. sure, he could talk to anyone about the portraits, especially those with spiritual sight, but rewriting the narration that ishimaru might ask him for help is exciting. )
Do you want to use me? You know... you can, I don't mind it! I'd do anything for Ishimaru-kun!
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[What do your elven eyes see?]
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( like a dog, he looks over to the other with a nod. he wants to be used, please! )
These are normal, but the one's back in the dormitory are... in pain, or are trying to speak. Having an adderstone will show you half of that. Do you need me to purchase you one?
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Ah, I would like to acquire one, but you do not need to purchase it for me. I am sure that I can afford it on my own merits!
So that's the secret of those portraits. Were you ever able to make out any of what they were trying to say?
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( because he uses something else before he got an adderstone, but having one anyway would do him some good. it's always nice to have a second pair of eyes. )
Between the stone, and the hacking gun... they do two separate things, but if they said anything, perhaps they were screaming in pain. I believe with the stone you'd see them move...
( hm... )
You should check it out, I know Rokkun has never liked them.
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[That's not good at all. But it does give him more food for thought.]
I can certainly understand not liking them. B-but I shall... look into it. If there is a chance of helping them, then I have to examine every possibility.
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( if he remembers, he believes a few students put sheets over them to bring normalcy back to the dormitory. as for komaeda, he doesn't mind them, and so there's some day he removes the fabric to truly look at them for what they are. there has to be something about them, a hidden secret... )
...I think they're souls trapped. When I use the hacking gun, it tells me that there's a spiritual presence everywhere within the dorm. Almost like the entire thing is a spirit itself unlike the school.
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[That sounds very risky! And probably for the best that it failed, if those portraits really contain their spirits... Ishimaru feels a chill wash over him as he looks around, taking in his new information.]
Is- is that so? That is quite alarming! If they're trapped there, how do we take them out?
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( as he says that, he shakes his head with a frown. ishimaru can tell that komaeda doesn't have all the answers, but he does have theories. )
That said, if I'm right, what makes them different from us? Why a painting, and us here, but... Rei-chan was just as mysterious.
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[He frowns as he hazards a glance towards the paintings.]
I do not know what marks the different, to be sure. Perhaps it has to do with... with their disappearances or deaths. [A blink.] 'Rei-chan'? I do know of a student by any name, but not of any associated mysteries...
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( besides, it's small enough that komaeda doesn't need to play any mind games, and why would he when it comes to ishimaru? that's not komaeda's style of handling things anyway, being messy or making it more difficult; instead he opens different pathways. )
The AI locked within the computer, I know that isn't part of your forte, so you wouldn't understand it!
( he's going slow just in case ishimaru has questions. )
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[He frowns thoughtfully.]
...Ah. I see. Yes, that is a matter I do not know much about. Although I have had experience speaking with a type of 'AI' in the past, I do not know much about this one.
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( he doesn't linger on that when knowing how much it bothers him when an ultimate doesn't understand his love. especially with the frown, komaeda takes a step over to place a hand over his heart. )
Please believe me when I say I do want to help you. ...Alter Ego, yes! I know all about them, I've never exchanged words, but they took part in my daily life as well. If you go to Robotics Club when we return, you can meet her there... she doesn't know much about humans, and you would be the best to represent us!
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I... I do believe that you wish to help me. And I do feel that there is nothing wrong with love in itself... but I would expect that feeling to inspire actions of a more gentle and morally sound nature!
[He can't get over that time Komaeda actually did a murder. And he's still trying to figure him out in general, and how much of him he can trust. He definitely feels he was telling the truth when telling him about his fate back home, but the rest of what he says can still be strange, confusing, unsettling.]
So you know about Br... Alter Ego as well. I see. [He doesn't know what the rest of his comment means, though. Did he somehow utilize Alter Ego as well?] I would be honored to act as a representative for that person, though! I appreciate your vote of confidence!