subtract: stop living a lie and start living your new life (T-0239)
Add [ 𝙼𝚊𝚍 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚡 ] ([personal profile] subtract) wrote in [community profile] yogen2022-01-10 10:02 pm

how have we not had a proper meeting since OCTOBER

Who: Everyone
When: January 10th, after 6PM
What: it's finally time for another FAMILY MEETING aka info sharing and yelling at eachother session, come and discuss recent discoveries & upcoming plots
Warnings: if there isn't at least ONE attempted murder, is it really a fam meet?

[It's the first day of the last semester, and sometime around lunch a note is slipped into everyone's lockers, as well as posted up in various common areas of the dormitories. In neat, printer-perfect text:]

Transfer Student Meeting
Dormitory Common Room @ 6:15 PM
Don't be late.

[... and that's all anyone gets until the agreed upon time, unless anyone wants to show up early and help Add set up.

Add himself is looking tall & fragment-y today, and by 6:15 PM exactly the whiteboard (that we stole and I assume never gave back because fuck the rules) is at the front of the room with a list of topics to cover. There's extra space left at the bottom for more to be added. His two dynamos are hovering at around shoulder-level by the main entrance, offering a friendly beep! to everyone who enters while they take attendance.

There is also the science room's Add's anatomical model standing next to the whiteboard. It's just standing there and looking creepy... it's fine, don't worry about it.

Once everyone arrives, Add goes over the rules—which are pretty simple, because Add doesn't give a shit.]


Let's try to keep this concise and tolerable. Stay on topic, and speak up if you have something useful to contribute. Take your fights outside if you want to kill someone. Failure to abide by these terms will result in removal from the room.

Like it or not... information is key to surviving this place, so working together as a group is the optimal strategy. Some of you will be "graduating" soon, and we still barely know what that entails. I'm not interested in letting this school dictate my future and neither should any of you, and I don't care if you want to find your own method of escape, but pooling our information will prevent wasted time and effort on dead-ends. If you don't agree with that, you can leave and figure it out by yourself.

We've made it this far, starting from practically nothing. Life or death, return or reincarnation... none of that matters because nothing is an impossibility. What matters is that we leave on our terms. Don't settle for less because you think it's too difficult. We will find a way out of this school.




((~FAMILY MEETING OOC RULES~
- this is a mingle!! feel free to start your own toplevels and threadjack into any ongoing discussions.
- off topic threads (like characters just chatting or bringing snacks or whatever) is allowed, but try to keep it contained. this is for sharing info both IC and OOC, so try to think of future-us sometimes and don't leave 38473645 unnecessary shitpost toplevels people will have to scroll past to find the one bit of plot info they needed or w/e
- if you're starting a new discussion topic, please put something in the subject line to make it easier to find! you can also ping/PM me to have it added/linked in the Official™ topic list below.
- if a new discussion topic comes up in the middle of an existing discussion, please consider giving it a fresh toplevel so it's easier to find!
- IC chaos/disruptions are allowed, but expect appropriate IC consequences. Add is a shitty meeting host and has not banned hangman or murders but like, he can manipulate gravity to throw someone out a window, this is exactly what will happen if anyone starts to annoy him.
- priority to sharing plot info should go to whoever discovered it, so please be considerate of others and ask before sharing something another character has been investigating!))
filialdeception: (17)

[personal profile] filialdeception 2022-01-11 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, a couple of the items do sound familiar, but personally I am familiar with the doll in particular.

[ Though, he'll add on: ]

...The sketches of the wisteria tree in particular seem straightforward. Though I do wonder if the ones containing the cats happen to have any of the two that were usually around the school.

Though, I have to ask what you mean by 'time capsule'?
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[personal profile] sisters 2022-01-11 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
( thought so! amami knew he recognized that from somewhere. )

A time capsule is kind of like a box that you fill with keepsakes. The idea is that you bury it, and then you can dig it up years later and look back on all the memories you left behind for yourself before. As for the sketchbooks, I happen to know a certain classmate of ours who has quite a fondness for cats.

( coincidentally, it just so happens to be the other classmate he mentioned by name. still, the specifics are less important compared to what amami's getting at. )

But there's something a little strange about that considering what was in this time capsule, don't you think?
Edited (:thinking:) 2022-01-11 21:44 (UTC)
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[personal profile] filialdeception 2022-01-11 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's an interesting concept, he thinks. And an understandable one, considering the sentiment behind it. ]

...Yes, considering that it's something that I have right now. But, I had assumed that where we were temporarily trapped was a time 'further back' than where we are now.

[ Considering how old the books looked, for example. ]
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[personal profile] sisters 2022-01-11 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think you're wrong on that, but the first box we checked, the one with the doll, was actually the one from our current time. ( amami's been keeping it in his room... ) The second one was in the version of the school we just left, which is probably why there were different things in it. Still... the fact is, something like the box cutter, or the wooden bird — if you ask me, those didn't belong there at all.

( it's off... to have a "time capsule" filled with things from this year, or one of a kind things, or even things they should still have on them. )

I've been thinking about this a lot since we found it but, together with Akamatsu-san's photo album, I think that it's hard to ignore the theme.
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[personal profile] filialdeception 2022-01-12 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
... It is rather difficult to do so, yes.

[ He falls silent for a moment, giving this some careful consideration. He has anticipated the timeline of things to be odd considering the nature of the school, but... ]

I wonder how it is possible we've been unable to witness anyone putting those things together. At least with the box that is from our current time.

[ Because he sure doesn't recall putting the doll in there, and yet ... that has to have been the case, right? The way things are lining up here. ]