how have we not had a proper meeting since OCTOBER

[subtract]

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!))

Comments

give back kazuki

[sisters]

Speaking of Kazuki-san, now that Komaeda-kun has brought up the contents of his box, I think now is a good time to mention that he's still missing.

I'm sure a few of you have noticed, some of the others who were in the school with us before weren't here when we got back — even the ones who couldn't leave the school grounds, like us. After hearing from Komaeda-kun and experimenting a little myself, it seems like we can find them if we can use their "reason for being here" to draw them back.

( if anyone walked in on amami putting together a shrine for izumi sena, decked out with christmas lights and candles and vanilla ice cream offerings, no you didn't. we're not talking about that. )

The truth is, that box we found was Kazuki-san's "tether" to this place. His connection to his students is what bound him here. So Komaeda-kun thought that to bring him back, maybe we could make him a new anchor — something that represents our bond with him. If we do that, maybe he'll appear here again.

( "why would we want the man-eating monster to come back?" you may ask. not to fear! amami has an answer for this too. )

I don't know about you guys, but Kazuki-san is the reason we know a lot of what we do about why we're here, and what this place is. If it wasn't for him, we'd still be a lot more confused than we are now. I think that, all things considered, it's useful to have him on our side, so I thought I'd bring this up. If everyone could consider whether you would be willing to donate one item that you'd like to remember to a new time capsule, then once we've collected everyone's we'll bury it under the wisteria tree after dark.

( and ideally the idea is that kazuki-san will show up and be like "thank you my children" or something. )

Of course, if it doesn't work, you can feel free to take back what you gave.

( but hopefully it does? )

ITEM DROP

[sisters]

( tucked neatly up against the box is a note written in doctor's scrawl handwriting that reads: Leave one )

[OOCly, feel free to leave one item for kazuki's new time capsule if you wish — preferably one with strong memories attached!]

[silentabyss]

[Noah leaves a completely different set of cat drawings from his sketchbook in the box. There are also some of fellow students in the pages he leaves, mostly Clamor... if you have strong CR with Noah there's a little portrait of you somewhere in there drawn very small, I'm too lazy to list everyone just assume you're there ok thanks]

[carpevinum]

[Hey Kazuki remember that brooch Lucifer tried to give you during mission 1 and you gave it back?

Well Lucifer's giving it back-back. :)]

[sisters]

( Amami leaves a little keychain with a bajillion eyes that was given to him. )

[filialdeception]

[ Ah, hm.

For awhile, he considers this.

Then, Meng Yao seems to leave the room without saying much of anything. Whoops, guess he's not giving anything!!

Actually after a certain amount of time, he comes back, putting the doll in there. Except, he's added something else, like a very small and knitted blue-yellow mini-scarf fitted around the doll's neck for a personal touch.

It'll be strange parting with it, because he's been bringing the doll with him everywhere (look...), but...whatever, it's done. ]

[commences]

( komaeda crawls in to lay there like a cat. )

[heroicpolonaise]

[please stop]

[commences]

[suspiciousweapon]

[things that will have to happen later because Clamor... does not have pockets...

but when he get around to it, he'll drop his green pendant he always used to wear into the box, the same one that he inscribed with the sealing spell way back when. no take-backs this time!

he'll also drop a page of magic lesson plans in there, from when both Noah and Natsume had just started learning. the details of the actual spells aren't included, but there's a blue and a red star next to each item on the list... proud his apprentices.]

[subtract]

[Add puts in......... a half-eaten, melted, months-old, cough drop flavoured KitKat® bar, which probably has mould growing on it by now.

fr tho who the fuck is kazuki, never seen em]

[mermaidcursed]

[subtract]

[...sensing that judgmental look...]

What?

[decrypter]

[she'll have to slip out to her room to get it, but when she's back, she has her record player in hand, complete with the song that it had appeared with. it had brought her happiness, and now it might serve a higher purpose.

it gets gently tucked in the box.]

[moraloutrage]

[Ishimaru might not have met Kazuki, but he both respects him and sees the value in having him around. So he'll do his part to help out!

An item with strong memories attached... well, Ishimaru brings something he's proud of and lays it in the box. It's a small stack of his graded test papers. Passing those tests were among his happiest and proudest memories here in Yogen!]

[commences]

( brought about 600 rocks from his gacha excursions that he's going to dump inside of the box, but he'll also put a leash and collar (beginner) as his memento. )

[mermaidcursed]

( after seriously sideeyeing everyone involved with the plundering of kazuki's boxes... nene leaves some origami flowers of various types- tulips, lilies and more- alongside a few of the stuffed hamster plushies she taught herself to make. dad, please come back... )

[crystallomancy]

( ...well, this is easy enough, though it's hard to part with it, too. natsume'll place his crystal ball in the box, delicately wrapped in a purple piece of fabric so that no one else's gifts will scratch its surface and it'll stay nice and clear. )

♫ message in a bottle ♫

[notsosou]

[The shop stall wasn't too bad of a success, so Shin's a little more confident trying this idea; shortly after the meeting there's a notice on the bulletin board as well as one directly next to Kazuki's box, each attached to a container with a slot haphazardly cut in the top for putting pieces of paper in and lids fixed in place with tape.

The handwriting on the notices is neat and the inexpert braille is not quite, and Subaru has brightened them up with signature glitter and orange design. They ask for messages for Kazuki and their future selves to be placed inside, so that they can be put in a USB in the box. There's an explicit option to have your message encoded Y/N, he'll use rot13 unless you specifically request something fancy. If you put a picture in he'll : / and then take a photo of it on his phone and transfer from there.

Finally, near the end of however long the box stays open for, Shin writes his own message before capping the USB and placing it inside; he doesn't really know Kazuki so he'd feel awkward writing anything particularly long and heartfelt to him... so it's a short sentence on protecting Nene, who he knows talks with him a lot. Then, separately in a different (rot18 for ooc convenience, but ic something involving the number 20) code to himself:]

Cebbs: XXXXXXXXXXXX [It's his social security number, because it's useless in Yogen but why would he ever tell anyone it?]
Qba'g Gehfg: Xbznrqn Antvgb, Fnen Puvqbhva, Qvgb, Yhpvsre, Angfhzr Fnxnfnxv, Peban Tbetba, Pbhafrybe, Wbfuhn Xvelh [Redacted is saved by namelessness. Shin worked so hard to memorize his voice... shame it'll get wiped.]
Nyyvrf: Erv Onb, Unehxn, Arar Lnfhuveb, Uryran Nqnzf, Fubcxrrcre, Fvqarl Jbysr, Enagneb Nznzv, Fraxh Vfuvtnzv, Evb Enatre
Vs guvf vf gur svefg gvzr guvf obk unf orra bcrarq gung lbh erzrzore, vapernfr guvf pbhagre ol bar: 1

[Then in that same cipher there's as much Yogen lore as he's learnt and thinks to include, including: what the wisteria does and that there's at least two months until coming back, that the Counselor can erase memories and controls the school's barriers, that there might be a ghost wolf somewhere on the loose, the sound after midnight and in October, what the tallies mean, the void school's properties (but not how to get into it, because that seems obvious, and also with 'item duplicated food shouldn't be eaten' underlined because it wasn't), that this place can suddenly take you to different places and times and apparently into a storybook?, that the network periodically gets wiped and that this has all been repeating since the 1400s, with the fire taking place at 1517, that there's people who have graduated and one of them used a perk to phone the school. There's also a note to have ozoni happen next New Years.

And finally, that he can use magic(!) if he hasn't learnt already. That's not Yogen lore he just really wants his future self to know that. It's exciting ok.]

[samuraiwomen]

[ Also adds like 500 rocks because guess who was CRUELLY tricked into buying out npckuns entire stock while inebriated.

She will also supply a few objectively terrible drawings she's done with people over the last few months. Thank you for all the tips on how to draw crocodiles and birds! ]

[starrypoint]

[it won't take but a moment, and subaru returns from his room with an album of his own, though it's not a photo one -- it contains the songs he'd sung with trickstar, and every memory that went with it. he stares down at the faces of his friends, chest aching, and gently tucks it where he thinks would be safest among the other gifts.]

[rearranger]

[ Ranger will leave an rectangular expression card with a cat face is drawn on it in white and a zig-zag handle. It's not quite as perfect as most of his cards, with the features being just a bit asymmetrical and the marker having been pressed just a little too hard in a couple places. ]

[miirai]

[Rika hasn't been here long enough to leave any particular items with strong memories behind-- or even have met Kazuki-- but she can write, so she does so. It's folded up, but if anybody does decide to open it up and read it will notice the neat handwriting, along with a drawing of a black cat in the corner.]

I was the most unfortunate.
I knew that there was no exit out of this maze.

Then, he was the next unfortunate.
He did not know that there was no exit out of this maze.

But all the rest weren't so unfortunate.
They didn't know that they were in the maze in the first place.

[dereban]

[Well, after hearing that spiel and the whole concept of losing memories, she does think it's a good idea to leave something in there. For a good moment, she's contemplative--the necklace she's wearing right now is probably the strongest item she has on her, but leaving that in a box would probably only hurt her more, instead of help.

That, and she doesn't want to place something in the box in front of...all of these people.

So she waits it out, until everyone is done - hell, until everyone leaves because she is trying to do this sneakily.

She opts to leave a handwritten message: it's better than something typed because recognizing your own handwriting in spite of not remembering is easier. Plus, something like this is something that she's actually done before, so she has experience...

The paper is folded and taped. On the corner of the folded parts is her signature with her full name: Inaba Himeko.

When untaped and opened up, what people will see is that the entire paper's borders are decorated with heartseeds. And thankfully, she doesn't need to write much.]

To the 'me' that is reading this:
Never forget your humanity.

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[stubbornhope]

[Satou writes a name on a small card;
"Samantha Fletcher"
Then folds the card into an envelope. Using her switchblade, she cuts off a piece of her pink hair ribbons and hides it in the envelope.]