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MARCH EVENT LOG
At midnight on March 1st, a rolling lightning storm hits Yogen. Thunder crackles, and strikes of Anvil Crawler lighting can be seen lighting up the sky; anyone paying attention to the courtyard may see the explosive strike of lightning hitting the wisteria tree. Petals scatter throughout the air and are carried off in every direction by the wind...
As the month goes on the school will start to look even more barren. As the month goes on, several students start to disappear, with rumors spreading here and there about students disappearing after entering the forest. Those rumors twist and warp, and within just a few days there are rumors of a witch in the forest. But it's not a witch, nor a ghost, or anything else, but a dream, and those who enter will find themselves reminded of such by a soothing voice, the voice of a person they're familiar with, speaking gently in their ears:
"You are dreaming... They have always led and will always lead you here... Remind yourself, this is a dream..."
The world shifts subtly. There are gravestones marking the pathway now, and before long the forest is replaced by a completely new scene. A voice reminds you once more that this is a dream, and that you have always been here. You have always been led to this place. But where is this place? It's the world of a player character. It's nothing more than a snapshot in time. It might be one that they wish to escape, or perhaps a warm memory of a time that they wish to return to, but it is always an important memory to the character.
Whichever it is, the only way is to move forward. As characters move through the memory, characters will soon notice a snake and holly tattoo that spreads over their body will be. It starts small, a clump on one's back, but will spread across all parts of a character's body. It will reach the neck and face last, killing them upon reaching the eyes. As the curse spreads, they will notice changes in the dream including hallucinations, hearing lullabies, and shades that pursue them. They will also notice increased exhaustion and lethargy.
Upon reaching the end of the memory, they will find a glowing ball of light representative of a lost student's soul. Finding the soul will lead to both characters awakening at the edge of the forest, and the character who had been dreaming will be covered with the tattoo for a brief moment before it disappears.
Those who entered the dream may hear that same voice from before that tugs at their mind as the dream fades away:
"Remind yourself, this is a dream, and soon you will awaken. But you are here, as you always have been, and as you always will be... Soon, you will wonder where you were, and each moment after, will bring you here..."
The world shifts subtly. There are gravestones marking the pathway now, and before long the forest is replaced by a completely new scene. A voice reminds you once more that this is a dream, and that you have always been here. You have always been led to this place. But where is this place? It's the world of a player character. It's nothing more than a snapshot in time. It might be one that they wish to escape, or perhaps a warm memory of a time that they wish to return to, but it is always an important memory to the character.
Whichever it is, the only way is to move forward. As characters move through the memory, characters will soon notice a snake and holly tattoo that spreads over their body will be. It starts small, a clump on one's back, but will spread across all parts of a character's body. It will reach the neck and face last, killing them upon reaching the eyes. As the curse spreads, they will notice changes in the dream including hallucinations, hearing lullabies, and shades that pursue them. They will also notice increased exhaustion and lethargy.
Upon reaching the end of the memory, they will find a glowing ball of light representative of a lost student's soul. Finding the soul will lead to both characters awakening at the edge of the forest, and the character who had been dreaming will be covered with the tattoo for a brief moment before it disappears.
Those who entered the dream may hear that same voice from before that tugs at their mind as the dream fades away:
✽ Dreams may be whoelsale memories, or they may be more akin to dreamscapes based on a person's memories or mental state.
✽ The holly pattern represents the pain of love and aches of the heart, while the snake represents the yearning for the dead that consume a person.
✽ The tattoos will be blue or red.
✽ Characters may be drawn into the forest more than once, or require multiple memories to be gone through before reappearing. In those cases, the character who had gone through the initial memory will simply wake up in the forest alone.
✽ Characters who hear the voice upon leaving the dream will be more susceptible to entering and being lost in the forest.
✽ Anyone who is not rescued by the end of the month will be found at the edge of the forest. The tattoo will cover their body and stop just short of their eyes. It will disappear within an hour, but they will be exhausted for the rest of the day.
✽ The holly pattern represents the pain of love and aches of the heart, while the snake represents the yearning for the dead that consume a person.
✽ The tattoos will be blue or red.
✽ Characters may be drawn into the forest more than once, or require multiple memories to be gone through before reappearing. In those cases, the character who had gone through the initial memory will simply wake up in the forest alone.
✽ Characters who hear the voice upon leaving the dream will be more susceptible to entering and being lost in the forest.
✽ Anyone who is not rescued by the end of the month will be found at the edge of the forest. The tattoo will cover their body and stop just short of their eyes. It will disappear within an hour, but they will be exhausted for the rest of the day.
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Lucky (debatable) enough for her, the second most prominent draw is of Celestia.
A deck of cards is a good reminder of the games she's played back home.
So she walks up, unknowing of what card she'd be shown, how the dice would roll for her...]
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Now they're all standing within a snowy field, in which a number of activities are taking place, from snowball fights to construction of a snowman. But things don't seem quite right... it's almost like being stuck in a damaged video. Many details of the scene appear obscured or fuzzy, including parts of the classmates themselves. Many of them seem to phase in and out of existence, or they only appear as blue silhouettes. Hagakure himself is briefly clear as he's propelled past Ishimaru himself by a barrage of snowballs.
And there's an emboldened Ishimaru, the clearest figure in the dream, who grabs a snowball of his own in his hand.]
That's it! I have been left with no choice but to take part in a counter strike!
[With that, he throws several snowballs in Rika's direction!]
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[She gets hit by one of the snowballs, not having expected it in the slightest bit. But of course, as someone who is competitive, she rolls up a snowball of her own to toss right back at Ishimaru.
He can't get away with this.]
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Ah... You struck me back so quickly! But this just means that I have to work harder...
[He leans over to scoop up some more snow, only to pause and look completely perplexed.]
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[She stops her words mid-sentence, noticing that he's paused.]
Hm? What's wrong?
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What is this? When did... this happen...?
[Their surroundings grow even fuzzier, with a majority of the other students now appearing as blue silhouettes.]
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[Rika herself gives him a rather confused expression on her face.]
You don't remember?
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I am sure that this did not happen. It could not have! When... when could it...?
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[During his confusion, one of his gloves fell off into snow. There now appears to be a snake-like tattoo growing along his hand, that he has not yet noticed while focused on his confusion.]
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That horrible situation? Do you refer to the school--Yogen?
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No, that... that is a different horrible situation. What I refer to is th-the killing game that was held at Hope's Peak Academy. I was forced into that immediately after coming to that school...
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Games aren't supposed to kill people. They're supposed to be fun for everyone involved in it.
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[He looks down as he thinks back to Hope's Peak. An incomplete snowman starts bleeding pink.]
And yet, that is what Monokuma called it. A game, the killing school life... It was a nightmare. But it was the first time I got to meet all of these classmates...
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[...]
And it really was the first time?
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[Reflecting the memories, one bloody snowman shifts shape to to resemble a snow-Monokuma, complete with dark snow.]
What do you mean? Of course it was the first time. I may have heard about some of them due to their fame, but I am quite confident that we had never met before that day! ...Let alone, frolicked in the snow in this carefree manner...
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[She repeats the words again as she finds herself pouting in what's almost a childish manner.]
I'm saying this because there are times when people might have forgotten things for one reason or another.
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Yes, I do know... I know that Yogen has a way of messing with people's memories. But when it comes to what I remember of life at Hope's Peak... There is simply no space for any event like this to have been forgotten! I do not remember forgetting anything at all!
[As he ponders, the surroundings grow fuzzier. Some of the blue silhouettes start shifting into darker, shadow-like ones.]
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[...]
But if you're unsure, then, maybe we should retrace our steps. You said earlier that you "started school and then was thrown into those awful games", right?
[She's paraphrasing. But if something's missing, then it has to be...]
Can you tell me what you did exactly when you were starting school?
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[It seems like a strange and potentially dangerous thing to keep around the dorms, at the very least! In any case, he pauses as he recalls.]
Yes, I can tell you. It was the first day of school at Hope's Peak Academy. I did not know who most of my classmates would be, but I had heard of the reputation of some of them. In any case, I set foot into the entrance.
[He glances towards the fuzzy outline of the doors of Hope's Peak Academy.]
And... that is when the kidnapping occurred. It felt like everything went fuzzy, and I passed out. When I woke up, the school was sealed shut completely. That... that is when I met the classmates, and the so-called 'killing school life' began.
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[Rika nods as she listens to him carefully before going--]
Wouldn't the space between you passing out and waking up be a potential space for missing memories? Unless you can prove that there's evidence that the time between you passing out and you waking up was relatively short. Were there any calendars or dates around?
Although I suppose if it's a kidnapping... and if that kidnapper was trying to make you think that you hadn't forgotten... there could be trickery there, I suppose...
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