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npc contact.4
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
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
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.
✽ "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
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.
✽ 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.
✽ 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.
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[ The words are slow and thoughtful. They've been called many things over the years, but rarely has a friend been one of them. It's far more common for humans to pray to them at the end of their life, to ask questions or ask to be granted a succor that they cannot offer. Those who have done so tend to forget, for memories form and melt away like waves in the ocean, but those who are long lived are gifted with a memory better than most. ]
There's no need for you to doubt your memory, it is as real as you or I so long as you trust it. I remember that day well. It was a warm summer day much like today.
[ They hold the drink in hand, placing their palm atop it. To a god who believes that souls must continue forth on their path it seems to be nothing more than another tank, an aquarium rather than a goldfish bowl, but it is one where the fish within it can see it as a complete world. They can only hope it to be one more stop before they continue on the journey to their next life. ]
You wish to remain who you are, as do so many here, but even those who wish to remain will eventually outgrow this place. The founders answered by allowing them their own world, separate from this place.
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[that is the key, there. her life has been so comparatively short, and now what time she has, the freedom she has, she wants to utilize it somehow, before having to forget.]
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[ They can drop off notes or add items, the vending machine being one of them, but growth and change need to come from within. For those who have crossed that line, they can only look forward. ]
There was a group who found a way to bridge the gap and change the course of history, but even they could only do so for but a moment.
[ Even considering the perk that one of them had chosen, and for the explicit purpose of preventing what they could only see as a tragedy no less, it had been little more than a brief meeting. ]
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[quietly, she opens her drink, the fizz of the carbonation like a whisper in the wind.]
I'm sorry, because I know that's how things are supposed to go - souls are supposed to move on, accept the world as it is, but...it's not enough, it feels like. I wouldn't be able to stop myself from trying to find a way back through the glass if they were suffering dearly, and I'd end up weeping for them no matter what.
Maybe I'm merely immature, but it feels wrong to just go and leave them. If there's a way to leave them hope in a more concrete way, then that's what I want to do.
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Yes... I wish to ensure that all the souls here have a safe journey to the next life, but only you can decide when you're prepared to take the next step.
[ If the counselor intended for the school to be a place for schools to grow, then it's a fitting place for immature souls that are still tethered by wishes and regrets. For some it's the desire to see the school empty, for others it's to live a life they were denied, and for still others they will wait for eternity for the return of those they once knew and lost.
The look down to the drink in their hand, then back up ]
Once you've resolved yourself to leave you'll be unable to look back, but you need not leave until you're ready, Helena Adams. Only you can decide what the path forward looks like.
[ Though they don't say it aloud, the lack of denial is their own way of acknowledging that she could try to break down those walls as well. They are a god, but not one who knows every past and future; the former has passed, the latter for each one of them to create. ]
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[there will be flowers, and burdens will be eased. there will be time to try to turn this school back into what it used to be. and maybe she'll find a way to open communication through the walls - and maybe she'll see those she's come to cherish again. all they need is time, and there it is in abundance, without the void like a bomb beneath them. with Kazuki and Akari letting go to finally move on in their own cycles.]
I really love them, after all.
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For as long as you hold onto that feeling, the love that you harbor will be your northernmost star; a shining light that guides you along your path, however long it might be... There's is no right answer save for the one you choose, Helena Adams.
[ The reiterate those words, for all journeys have different lengths. There are some paths that are long and others that are short, some travelers who sprint down them and some who must look around to ensure their safety before every step. ]
I believe that the wisteria trees will bloom beautifully under your care.
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people will come back. people will wake up. but there is no rule that they have to come and be afraid, alone. there is no rule that the scent of wisterias has to be a frightening thing.
she smiles, and it's a bright and easy thing, free from care.]
Then, Lord Jizo, may I ask for one thing?
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You may. Speak your wish, Helena Adams.
[ What will it be? ]
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...May I give you a hug?
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... You may. You may now, and at any time with you wish. I am a god, but I am also your friend, Helena Adams... I wish to support you as both.