yogen | 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...

00:01 03/01-03/31

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..."

OOC

✽ 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Nanami enters to find herself in a brightly lit locker room. If she were familiar with the original room, she might be able to notice that each locker is taller and wider than it had been during the game, but as it is she'll only find that they cover every wall. There are perhaps two dozen green lights dotted throughout, and the remaining lockers are colored red. Perhaps the person who entered here last was the one who left the handprint on the knob, because the same bloody prints are left on the lockers nearest to the door, as though a person were trying to use it for support as they fumbled along.

The centerpiece of the room will be easy to find if one follows those handprints to where they stop to the right. One only need look right, left, down, and then up to the sky to see the body of a girl hanging from to the ceiling. Her neck is bent at an unnatural angle, and the collar that holds her up has dug into it enough for blood to begin to leak and leave a bloody stain on the ceiling.

The girl herself seems to be of middle school age, with black hair. She dons a brown and red middle school uniform along with matching argyle stockings. Her body sways from side to side. But if Nanami is brave enough to look up to her face, she'll find it impossible to make out. The girl's face is blurred and warped, as though were swirled and mixed into water, and those blurred features shift and move about. It would be impossible to identify the victim. ]

[ She stumbles in horror at the sight. All the sound she can make is a quiet gasping noise, like a strangled sob. She's never seen a scene with such a grisly murder. (She doesn't count her own.)

With fear in her heart, she peers up at the girl to see if it's anybody she recognizes - but it's not, or at least she wouldn't be able to tell if it was anyway. She looks long enough to figure that out, and then turns away quickly, squeezing her eyes shut, her heart pounding and her breathing ragged.

There must be a way out. There must be. She can't be stuck in a room with what's clearly a dead body - can she? She starts feeling along the walls, desperately trying to open any of the lockers.

[ The lockers open easily. The ones with red lights are empty inside. The lockers with the green light will prove more fruitful. It opens easily, and there's a drawer that can be pulled out. The drawer will offer a little more resistance, but opening it will reveal a second body. The body is an older woman, perhaps in her twenties, with long black hair. As with the girl, the woman's face is blurred and distorted, the feature seeming to move. The woman is wearing a police uniform, the badge scratched to the point where the words on it are unreadable, and the words SAVE ME have instead been written in blood.

But perhaps more noticeable than any of this is the blood that covers every part of her body, splattered against her face and matted in her hair, drenching her limbs and torso. The woman is like a doll that had been taken apart and just had the pieces placed next to each other rather than being put back together, her torn off limbs crudely pressed against the shoulders and pelvis, her upper and lower half shoved back together.

There is a walkie talkie on a shelf. A robotic voice speaks:

"10 seconds until the end of the First Trial. "

A few of the lockers creak open to reveal a door in conjunction with the words. It would be best to exit the room quickly. ]

[ Nanami can only stare at the new body in horror, taking in more details than she wanted to, before the voice jolts her back into herself.

Whatever the First Trial is, she doesn't want to wait around to find out. She slams the body's locker shut and opens the door, stumbling into the next room. ]

[ Out she goes, out the door and into what looks like a vast library. There's a man and a woman standing there. The man's features are difficult to identify. He's almost like the students int he school - it seems as though his features should be identifiable, but nothing sticks. He seems to be holding his hands up as he speaks with a woman who's waving a book in his face. Her face is similarly impossible to pin down - as with the figures in the previous rooms, the features seem to blur and shift too much to make out well.

The words might be a difficult to catch, but the gist of it seems to be that there's been a change in plans - there's comments about a girl not acting as she's supposed to, though the name warps and distorts like a skip in a recording, and a "Gashu" trying to destroy the integrity of the game. The man offers her some assurances before they part, the woman shoving the book roughly back into place before exiting to one way and the man walking to the back. Neither seem to notice her presence.

There's the faint feeling of being watched after they leave, but otherwise this room seems calmer than the last. ]

Edited 2022-04-05 03:10 (UTC)

[ She waits until they're gone, hiding in the shadows and listening to them talk, before they each go their separate ways.

Then she creeps into the room, looking around... goes to the shelf where they were standing, and checks the book the woman left there. ]

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