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

[futurebullets]

[The laughter is like a blow to the chest, and Hinata doesn't endure it especially well - he's on high alert, tense as piano wire strung tight. It strikes him, quite suddenly, how little he truly knows Rika at all.

But... He thinks of her smile, of her calm during the investigation when he'd been a nervous wreck.

He doesn't want that to mean nothing.]

If you don't know who that is... shouldn't you just be who you want to be?

[He thinks of that emptiness, that lack in himself, and the space aches - even as something determined spreads through his veins.]

Sometimes you won't always know - maybe there's too much you want, or maybe there just isn't enough. [Unconsciously, his hand drifts up to clutch his shirt over his heart.] But you can find it. Even if you have to start with something small.

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[miirai]

[She ducks her head, her bangs covering her eyes for a moment--it's difficult to tell what she's really thinking.

But she's quiet.

For a while, there's silence.]

[miirai]

[When she looks up at him again, the red color of her eyes is completely gone. But when she speaks, it's with that same serious tones; not her usual childish ones.]

I haven't had the chance to "be who I want to be" in a very long time. And it's not something I can easily grasp in this place, either.

[Not when she doesn't have the support of her usual friends. The people she cares about, Satoko-]



Mii... sorry, sir.

[futurebullets]

[The tension in Hinata unwinds.

He sighs, quiet for a moment as he slips into a loose seiza. After a long moment, he reaches out and gently lays a hand on her shoulder.]

You don't have to apologize, Furude.

[What did she go through, that could make someone so young laugh so cruelly? Hinata's almost certain he wouldn't be able to wrap his mind around it.

And yet...]

I'm sorry, that you ended up here when you were in the middle of figuring out something so important. I... don't know if I could grasp whatever you've been through that could make you sound the way you did a moment ago, and I wouldn't suggest that I can. But not understanding part of who you are... is something I can understand. So, if you ever needed someone to talk to... I wouldn't mind.

[He lets his hand drop away, but doesn't pull back.]

And until that day you know which Furude you want to be... you can show me whichever you want.

[Even if it scares him or unnerves him - he'll face it if he can make it easier to bear for her.]

[miirai]

It isn't something you need to apologize to me about, either. Besides - what I've went through is something that not many people would believe, much less would like to listen to.

[futurebullets]

...Maybe before I wouldn't have. [He feels a little bad admitting that.] But now... I've walked in another person's memories. I've seen people dear to me killed horribly, but were perfectly fine in this school. There's a void trying to swallow us up as we speak.

[Hinata's mouth crooks up in a sad half-smile.]

You don't have to tell me anything you don't want to. But my definition of "impossible" is stretched as thin as it'll ever be.

[miirai]

[Is it really fine to tell someone she barely knows something like this? No, maybe it's because he's unrelated that it's a little easier-]

You really don't mind listening? The tale of Furude Rika isn't necessarily a happy one... at least, not in the beginning, anyway.