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As the game progresses, different npc faculty and students will become available for threading. To request a thread, please comment below with the name of the npc and the ic date in the subject header. Threads may be cut short due to mod availability, so please have a reason in mind for the interaction.

AVAILABLE

These NPCs are freely available to thread with at any time.

Students

✽ Yumemi Minazuki: A student in class 1-D. An earnest and straightforward girl who falls in love easily. She seems to attract odd occurrences. Computer Science is one of her electies, and it seems that she was one of the students who was saved by transfer students' efforts after failing her final.

AVAILABLE BY REQUEST

These NPCs are available after contacting a mod for specific interactions. Interactions will be handwaved, but should be discussed on this page.

Faculty

✽ "Kazuki": The gardener is a spirit which appears in the courtyard during the night. He can not normally be seen, unless a character has the ability to see spirits, owns an adderstone through which they can see spirits, or visits the courtyard during nights of the full moon. Those who have spirit sight or see him during the full moon will see him in his human form; through an adderstone or within the "void" version of the school, the gardener appears in his true form as a man-eating monster. The gardener is blind, and only darkness can be seen in the eye holes of his mask. Rumor has it that the gardener has used to be employed as a teacher before becoming the gardener, and has been around almost as long as the counselor. He is patient and understanding, and is fond of the students.
✽ "Mizuki" Arata: The counselor is available during school hours, answering to a knock on the door with permission to enter. While the counselor typically sits on top of his desk, there are a variety of chairs in the office to choose from, and he will always offer to share his snack bowl. All supernatural powers are nullified within his office. Rumor has it that the counselor founded the school and is aware of everything that goes on in the school at any given moment. He can be difficult to talk with, but always seems to be having fun.

Other

✽ "God": "God" can be visited at the shrine accessed from within the forest, and will introduce themselves as Jizo, the deity who guides souls through the afterlife, particularly those of children and travelers. They take on the appearance of a middle school child, and although their power is limited, they may grant a wish for a price, and otherwise seems to enjoy company.

UNAVAILABLE

These NPCs are unavailable for threading, but interactions may be freely handwaved for faculty members and the cats.

Faculty

✽ Principal: There is currently no principal. The principal's office is unlocked, but until the sub-zero temperature condition in the room is dealt with, normal students will quickly freeze to death upon entering. Rumor has it that historically, the principal monitors the school but does not have active involvement.
✽ Vice principal: There is currently no vice principal. The vice principal has a desk in the faculty office with the rest of the staff, and takes on the responsibilities of the principal if the principal is unavailable. Rumor has it that the vice principal's job involves a LOT of paperwork.
✽ Teachers: Teachers hold office hours in the faculty office from 4 PM to 6 PM and supplemental lessons are handwaved. Students of any age can apply for a teaching position, provided competency.
✽ Librarian: The librarian is available during school hours, and can help locate or otherwise order new books on specific topics upon request. Requests for books on specific topics are handwaved, as long as the book is not canon specific. Library materials are not to be removed from the library.
✽ Janitor: The janitor cleans the school at the end of each school day, of everything from trash in the bins to bodies and blood following a murder. They are never seen, but most students assume they exist. The janitor's closet, located between the faculty office and the bathroom, can be freely accessed.

Students

✽ Keigo Arata: The previous shopkeep of the student store. Unlike most students, they committed suicide to purposely arrive at the school, under contract with a "god." Through the efforts and sacrifice of their friends, this contract has since been nullified and they were killed in hopes of becoming an official student in the future.

Other

✽ A fluffy white cat: Very friendly and will come running seemingly out of nowhere when food is being offered. She can otherwise be found seeking out warm sunny spots within the school, and enjoys being kissed and petted but not held. She is called by many many names, including Lily Mayhemnaise, Lucy, Lucifer, Whitey, Yuki, Cygnus, Sweetheart, and Emerald Moon, but does not actually respond to any of them.
✽ A skinny black cat: Wary and skittish, and will occasionally come eat the leftovers after the fluffy white cat has eaten her share. He can otherwise be found perched up on high places out of reach, but will run away if approached. He appears to be small and skinny enough to squeeze through gaps underneath doors and other places, and is occasionally seen in the counselor's office or rooftop. He is called by many many names, including Beverage, Belphegor, Blacky, Yoru, Robbie, Crux, Sweetheart, and Citrine Blizzard, but does not actually respond to any of them.

Comments

[shimashima]

[ Leaves caught in one's hair are easily removed, and a bird nest can be placed aside atop a new branch, eggs still intact, but this putrid stench in the air... Alice covers his nose and mouth with his sleeve, grimacing. It's awful; if he speaks, he can taste the smell. How will they breathe?! Once more, it's a good thing that they haven't had time for breakfast, though even his empty stomach objects, lurching, and he swallows against the urge to retch.

It's as bad as standing by the mud pool!

Of course the baby deer happily chomps through those disgusting-looking leaves, a snack acquired at last... It's another reminder that nothing here is normal. Whatever lies on the other side of these bushes won't be a sudden change from that to ordinary, reassuring scenery. The air won't smell fresh.

To answer Komaeda's question, Alice is forced to lower his arm from his face, but he tries to hold his breath, his voice strained. ]

We're here, so...

[ The sentence ends in a groan; Alice hurriedly buries his nose in the fabric of his sleeve again. But they shouldn't turn back now, right? All that's left is to investigate the other side of this foliage wall, or they won't know why they were brought here.

As before, Alice steps forward, pushing branches out of the way to squeeze through a gap among the bushes. ]

[commences]

( ah.

alice's first step will be met with a squelch, and a warm liquid encasing his shoe (dear god, tell me he's wearing shoes) where the smell of blood has grown stronger in the air. it's past these bushes that everything green on the opposite side is red. the bushes, the tree leaves, and even the ground— it's like the specific area feeds on blood, swallowing any sustenance that it can gain to thrive properly.

that isn't the case though, this place is nothing that mystical actually. it's just the broken pieces of human bodies scattered here and there, as if something burst out their chest cavity making blood fly and cover everything that's the color green. alice's foot is now stepping into the chest of an unknown victim as the deer turns around, scuttling over to take a bite out of the flesh around the ribcage.

this one seems fresh.

by another tree is a student with a familiar uniform, who must be from yogen high as well. it's not hard to make out who they are given their chest hasn't erupted, but there seems to be something moving around in their stomach as it bulges then flattens back normally.

komaeda coughs, soon spitting put blood from his mouth onto the ground which doesn't make a difference. the smell here is sickening, and it'll stick to their clothes and body unless they acquire a bath sooner than later. scanning the area makes this place seem like a paradise for the deer, but for humans like them, they'll probably be next if they don't hurry.

on one hand, perhaps this was its way to offer them a dead body without killing for one, and on the other hand... the baby deer doesn't seem like it wants them to leave at all. )

[shimashima]

...Ah...

[ It's no more than a strangled gasp, muffled behind Alice's sleeve. He stares and stares at the nightmarish scene beyond the bushes, but it doesn't quite register any longer. His foot sinks downward, momentarily lodged in the corpse beneath the sole of his shoe. Warmth seeps into it, soaked up by his sock, before it comes free with another wet noise, leaving the body's chest half-crushed. Stained bone protrudes from torn cloth. The baby deer must be pleased, merrily chewing away on exposed flesh.

It's warm — so this person died recently? It should be enough. That's as much as Alice wants to think. Any more, and he'll absolutely be sick, or they won't make it back to the school.

He watches the deer for a while, too long for his liking once he shakes himself out of his daze, and then, slowly, he stoops down to seize the corpse at his feet. It might have been easier if he could temporarily stop breathing; there's no way to keep his nose covered like this, and the stench of death is overwhelming. ]

We accompanied you here... and you have plenty of snacks... We're seeking one ourselves, so we'll take it with us. Farewell!

[ They've accomplished part of their mission, haven't they? He never wants to set foot in this place again! ]

[commences]

( komaeda's thoughts on the matter? he isn't sure that stealing someone's meal is a hopeful action, ut almost feels like they're so pathetic that they can't do it themselves. alice is trying though, so komaeda won't turn away from him and think negative of his actions. it was already a lot to get him here.

the deer whines at alice taking its food, but then it looks at how malnourished they are... (god, they're lacking extra limbs and eyes!) and so the deer decides to turn away from them, allowing their catch to depart. )

Ah, yes! We did it, so we can use this, you think?

( is it compatible with the flower seeds, they'll have to check, but there is some regret by not feeding rokkun the seeds through tea to watch the vines shoot through his corpse. that would have been a nice meal, and rokkun's death could have been a positive stepping stone where he rebuilds the school rather than destroy it.

komaeda takes a few steps away from alice due to not wanting to smell a rotting corpse, or well, a fresh one that lacks a face. they'll never know who they're carrying away. )

Who has disappeared recently? Do you think that's them...?

( just a bit of idle chit chat, but the baby deer doesn't seem to mind. the big antlers on one side of the red leaves that suggest a bigger deer is there probably does.

they should leave... quietly! )

[shimashima]

[ It doesn't feel like they've really taken a step in the right direction, not when Alice glances down at the disfigured body in his arms. It feels like a desperate act, and he can't promise that the flower seeds will sprout in dead flesh — but the blood is fresh, right? It's glistening all down the corpse's torso. Its warmth hasn't faded yet. If they hurry, surely it's enough.

The dead student's features are unrecognizable, nothing left to identify their face. Perhaps there's a PDA in a pocket to inspect for someone's closure, but not out here, too close to the deer's domain — with a menacing set of antlers coming into view, at that.

This is no one they know, Alice tells himself, though it could be someone they've seen around school in passing. He wonders whether other recent disappearances have prompted Komaeda's question, making it comforting, in a way, to note that the corpse's hair isn't especially distinctive. ]

...It can't be anyone we've met. Let's return to the pool...

[ Pressing the words out between shallow breaths, Alice searches for the opening in the bushes again, more than ready to get far away from here. ]

[commences]

( it must be nice to say something like that, the more you don't know about a person, the better. that way he can toss the body into the pool without looking back, and that must remove any weight of guilt that he might have. )

If you say so... ah, you know it's fine, right? It's not as if they died because of you.

( even if it was someone they knew, they didn't have to be saddened by it at all. those mistakes are just a stepping stone that they can utilize for something better, just like what they're doing now to purify the water.

without stirring whatever beast hides behind the bushes, they can slowly sneak out of the domain back to where they were before where the grass is green, and the leaves go between yellow and lime as well. this is what's normal to them, and the only thing that isn't for alice probably might be the body in his grasp (this is normal for komaeda).

pulling out a bag of seeds, he opens the pouch to look at them wondering if a dead body will work. it should considering asunaro works too hard to have half-assed efforts so why wouldn't it, but it is a shame that they can't watch someone be come the fertilizer for it in real time with a voice to tell them how they feel.

how can they praise an no-named hero? )

It'll be alright.

[shimashima]

[ They may not be able to breathe easier yet, not while there's a cooling corpse to carry around without anyone noticing what they're doing, but some of the suffocating unease should lift once they aren't near that blood-soaked part of the forest anymore, the baby deer and its bigger relatives far behind them. Alice has been resolutely staring ahead, unwilling to keep looking at the dead student in his hold, or even to think about anything aside from placing one foot in front of the other, but he casts Komaeda a surprised look for his remarks. Is it fine, truly? Will it be alright? It's not his fault that people wandered out into the forest, losing their lives there — and yet, it feels wrong to have spoken of it so brusquely.

He can't help but dwell on certain disappearances in particular, fearing that they must be distressing for Komaeda, too, even if he hasn't said so. After all, Komaeda is as good as an older brother to Chiaki Nanami, protective of her, which undoubtedly applies to both sisters.

This isn't Chiaki Nanami, but what became of her? Alice's gaze drifts lower, landing on the pouch filled with those seeds again. ]

...We can check for a PDA, can't we? Before we... summon the pool creature, I mean.

[ Then this student's identity won't remain unknown. Anyone searching for them, as he and Shin Tsukimi searched for Helena not long ago, would have an answer, painful as it is.

Little by little, past the darker sections of forest full of foliage to get caught in their hair all over again, patches of sky and streaks of sunlight peek through branches overhead once more. Instinctively, Alice's steps quicken. ]

[commences]

Not knowing who they are might be better for your consciousness, that way you won't dream about them.

( and suffer wondering if he did the right thing because who is to know if anyone is truly dead nowadays, but from the gruesome appearance they should be. there's no coming back from that state, and komaeda will make sure of it as he pulls out the bag with a familiar logo. asunaro's experiments are highly praised, and having a flower that can bloom from the body of a human being is something to be in awe about. though if used incorrectly, it can be a terrifying addition to the school. he thinks that maybe it's better they won't know the name of the person because komaeda will make it known that the join decision of feeding a plant inside of them and making the deceased bait be told when they return.

as they move further within the forest, it doesn't take long to see familiar pastures, and the school in the distance as they come closer and closer. they're out of the thick depths of the forest and now back home, or could they call it anything like that? home, this is where they are now, in a school where they never had the chance of escaping— he remembers early in when others would relax and accept this place as the norm, and komaeda didn't want that for them. now all they can do is adjust this school to their liking, and that's a scenario he can accept, and so a few dead bodies will help that goal.

he glances at the one in alice's arms. )

I was thinking we could drop the body into the pool and see if it'd get devoured, but... to ensure it happens, we should wake it up, huh?

( what if it's not hungry then that'd just be a waste, so they should go about this appropriately without making one mistake. )