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

[commences]

Didn't invite me?

( and they're roommates, but he's shutting the door right after as he looks towards add. he can tell that he's... crying into his food, pretty pathetic to look at, but at least he's capable of crying. )

Happy Birthday, Add-kun... I guess I wasn't the first to wish it, but...

( he looks down to the pancakes knowing that only so many people can cook around here, so he tries to narrow down the suspects who did it. )

I wanted to give you your present, at least.

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[he's still trying to hide the evidence, like there's even a point to it, but maybe he can at least regain some dignity by putting a stop to it... but it's not an easy task, especially with Komaeda giving him that look and saying such sappy things.

the last time he celebrated his birthday (really celebrated, not just crashed his own AU-selves' birthday parties with gratuitous violence and murder) would've been with the El Search Party. and back then, too, it was only because of his slip-up that they even found out what day it was. sharing it felt like asking to be disappointed, like anyone should even care when he was born... and after being surprised the first time it became another matter of guilt, a reminder that the friendships he'd cultivated were built on lies, undeserved.

he's only just started moving towards acceptance—that maybe people can like and care about him, in spite of his flaws—and being struck with such a poignant memory now, after the conversation he just had with Noah...

... it takes awhile for him to find his voice again, face buried almost completely in his sleeve that just keeps getting more damp instead of drying up his tears. The dynamo next to him huddles close to his side in support, while the one in Komaeda's arms shivers.]

Y-you... you don't need to give me anything. Passage of time between worlds is unrelated so there's no particular meaning to the date, physical age is also irrelevant, birthdays are a waste of time but it makes even less sense under these circumstances... I j-just got something in my eye, that's all. It's not a big deal. I'm fine!

[commences]

( with dynamo shivering in his hold, he uses his prosthetic hand to pat the top of it like he would do a dog, shushing it so that he hopes it'll remain calm too. who knew add could become so nervous about these things, but komaeda understands birthdays are meant to be celebrated with others, so he won't overstay his welcome. maybe he hasn't celebrated his birthday in years, or maybe this is the first time someone has gone out of their way to show that they want to do this with him.

whatever it is. )

Is that so? I won't tease you, but you and Hinata-kun have this in common. Do everyone born in this month do it, I wonder...?

( tear up, become over emotional by something as simple as a birthday. komaeda thinks they should, he figures that they're happy.

he lifts his prosthetic now into his jacket pocket, and he pulls out a small bag. there's one final cat treat inside, the same item that komaeda has used for so long since he's been here in yogen. he has another treat sitting in the cat bed back in the science room waiting to see if lily may appears, but his final one... he holds it out to add. )

I've seen you eyeing this bag since you came here, it's only one left, but... maybe you'll get more use out of it than me.

( if add looks, he'll see that same bag, and that last treat, and komaeda's holding it out like it's his final lifeline. )

You like Lily May, right? It'll summon her, you already know how this works.