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july event
06/01 - 06/30
Memories
Toward the end of June and throughout early July, rumors will begin to diminish as students move on from the excitement of the new school year and the rapid changes seen within the school, events ending, and teachers starting to shut them down, but there will be lingering effects. In particular, memories, mirrors, and the stairs seems to be points of interest. Students remain fearful of the forest as well, speaking of how those who enter it never return.
The sense of deja vu will considerably worsen as the month goes on. The more one thinks, the more they'll find themselves wondering if they're not forgetting something important. By the middle of the month, they'll be certain that they've done certain actions or had conversations before. It's like pulling at a thread and unraveling as an entire sweater as reminders of the past begin to flood them.
Sometimes it's their school memories that they arrived, with, but it's often different versions of their present situation. It might be as simple as a conversation over tea going differently, or as dramatic as murdering one's friend. Perhaps they'll even remember their own deaths. They might remember characters harboring different behaviors, perhaps being more distant and gruff, or perhaps more hopeful and friendly. Whatever they might be, they're memories that characters could easily see as an alternative to their present selves. That is, they're always true to the core of the character.
Incidentally, throughout their scattered memories those with multiple tallies will find that the number of tallies on their wrist changes as they pass through different memories with different versions of themselves. For those who see dates in their memories, they will find that the year often varies. Those with few tallies tend to have the least variation, while those with the fewest tend to see the least.
Unfortunately, these memories have physical side effects. Characters will find that they come with headaches, nausea, vertigo, and other forms of sickness. Those who remember strong pains or emotions will find that those feelings linger for a time after the memory passes. Those who go through an exceptional heartbreak might find themselves sobbing their eyes out, while those who suffer a stab wound might have lingering ghost pains.
The sense of deja vu will considerably worsen as the month goes on. The more one thinks, the more they'll find themselves wondering if they're not forgetting something important. By the middle of the month, they'll be certain that they've done certain actions or had conversations before. It's like pulling at a thread and unraveling as an entire sweater as reminders of the past begin to flood them.
Sometimes it's their school memories that they arrived, with, but it's often different versions of their present situation. It might be as simple as a conversation over tea going differently, or as dramatic as murdering one's friend. Perhaps they'll even remember their own deaths. They might remember characters harboring different behaviors, perhaps being more distant and gruff, or perhaps more hopeful and friendly. Whatever they might be, they're memories that characters could easily see as an alternative to their present selves. That is, they're always true to the core of the character.
Incidentally, throughout their scattered memories those with multiple tallies will find that the number of tallies on their wrist changes as they pass through different memories with different versions of themselves. For those who see dates in their memories, they will find that the year often varies. Those with few tallies tend to have the least variation, while those with the fewest tend to see the least.
Unfortunately, these memories have physical side effects. Characters will find that they come with headaches, nausea, vertigo, and other forms of sickness. Those who remember strong pains or emotions will find that those feelings linger for a time after the memory passes. Those who go through an exceptional heartbreak might find themselves sobbing their eyes out, while those who suffer a stab wound might have lingering ghost pains.
Mini Event: Despair Diseases
"A reaaaally annoying disease where you get a high fever, along with various other symptoms that are full of despair!"
On July 10th, Nagito Komaeda's bad luck will proc and he will set lose a bottle full of tiny insects that carry diseases. They scatter about and disappear before promptly disappearing, only to reappear later to bite people and infect them. Whoops!
Those bitten once will be infected. Those who are bitten twice will be cured. Those who aren't bitten a second time will just have to wait it out. The symptoms take about a week to recover from. For the most part, the symptoms are similar to those of the flu. Characters will find themselves with a high fever, weakness, nausea, amongst other symptoms... More problematic, however, is the way that it tends to effect their personality.
The diseases can cause anything from character to character, but they tend to be related to a character's personality in some way. For example, a confident character might suddenly be cowardly, or a truthful character might only be able to tell lies. Other examples include a character suddenly becoming gullible, and they can even cause a character to be consumed by despair itself. Please feel free to use any of the above examples or make up your own.
On July 10th, Nagito Komaeda's bad luck will proc and he will set lose a bottle full of tiny insects that carry diseases. They scatter about and disappear before promptly disappearing, only to reappear later to bite people and infect them. Whoops!
Those bitten once will be infected. Those who are bitten twice will be cured. Those who aren't bitten a second time will just have to wait it out. The symptoms take about a week to recover from. For the most part, the symptoms are similar to those of the flu. Characters will find themselves with a high fever, weakness, nausea, amongst other symptoms... More problematic, however, is the way that it tends to effect their personality.
The diseases can cause anything from character to character, but they tend to be related to a character's personality in some way. For example, a confident character might suddenly be cowardly, or a truthful character might only be able to tell lies. Other examples include a character suddenly becoming gullible, and they can even cause a character to be consumed by despair itself. Please feel free to use any of the above examples or make up your own.
Student Council & Faculty
The new student council members will be given a warm welcome at the beginning of the month as they are accepted into the student council. Perhaps it's because transfer students have gone out of their way to assist this newest set of students, but while some of them still look coldly at the transfer students, they seem more welcoming than before. They're happy to work with them, even, and will happily discuss ideas and how to best implement them.
Ishimaru will receive a delivery shortly after, specifically a small key with no label on it. The student who delivers it will explain that it was intended to be given to the new student council president once they had enough members, and with their new recruits they have just enough. If experiment with it, they'll find that it opens the cabinets in the room.
The cabinets contain records of the past years dating all the way back to when the new building was created. They'll be able to find student records, though none of them have names of past, present or future player characters, which contain information such as tuition, the date of their arrival, graduation dates, and so on and so forth. The dates range from months to hundreds of years. They reports maintain a record of their wishes and desire listed, and common ones are to satisfy their regrets, to undo errors, second chances, and for moments and relationships to last forever. There's also a page for the first student council president. It seems that they were a transfer student who wanted to lead others to graduation. It's also the only one with a picture, but whether or not it's real is anyone's guess.
There are also contracts and graduations. There are many gaps in these, and the majority have been torn out, but the remainder is enough to show that graduation requirements vary, with some being bloodier than others, and as with everything else in the school they become harsher and bloodier in the years after the fire. The contracts vary as well, from Aiko's tying her fate to the school to Maya's similar yet less risky all students can graduate if she lives until the end of the year, a desire to end the school if they survive, and other contracts along those lines. They all seem to be aimed at changing the school or effecting graduation in some way.
Incidentally, faculty members will find that they have access to the same student records via the principal's computer. It seems that it had once been in his office, but was removed shortly before the events that led to his freezing. While there is no access to information about contracts, they will find intermediate progress reports that seem to span their entire time in Yogen, measuring how much progress they've made every year or so. Some grow, some backslide, and it doesn't seem to take into account memory loss or death.
Ishimaru will receive a delivery shortly after, specifically a small key with no label on it. The student who delivers it will explain that it was intended to be given to the new student council president once they had enough members, and with their new recruits they have just enough. If experiment with it, they'll find that it opens the cabinets in the room.
The cabinets contain records of the past years dating all the way back to when the new building was created. They'll be able to find student records, though none of them have names of past, present or future player characters, which contain information such as tuition, the date of their arrival, graduation dates, and so on and so forth. The dates range from months to hundreds of years. They reports maintain a record of their wishes and desire listed, and common ones are to satisfy their regrets, to undo errors, second chances, and for moments and relationships to last forever. There's also a page for the first student council president. It seems that they were a transfer student who wanted to lead others to graduation. It's also the only one with a picture, but whether or not it's real is anyone's guess.
There are also contracts and graduations. There are many gaps in these, and the majority have been torn out, but the remainder is enough to show that graduation requirements vary, with some being bloodier than others, and as with everything else in the school they become harsher and bloodier in the years after the fire. The contracts vary as well, from Aiko's tying her fate to the school to Maya's similar yet less risky all students can graduate if she lives until the end of the year, a desire to end the school if they survive, and other contracts along those lines. They all seem to be aimed at changing the school or effecting graduation in some way.
Incidentally, faculty members will find that they have access to the same student records via the principal's computer. It seems that it had once been in his office, but was removed shortly before the events that led to his freezing. While there is no access to information about contracts, they will find intermediate progress reports that seem to span their entire time in Yogen, measuring how much progress they've made every year or so. Some grow, some backslide, and it doesn't seem to take into account memory loss or death.
The Forest
As a result of player exploration, more of the forest is available. The deeper one goes into the forest, the more dangerous and stranger it gets. The staircases in the deeper portions will return one to the mirror room. However, as they go along they'll be able to find various personal belongings - everything from scraps of cloth to game counsels to notebooks. The papers are yellows, and all of the times seem to be weather worn and damaged. One can assume that they've been there for quite some time.
The more they move in, the closer they get to their goal. There's a place that always seems to be on the horizon, the feeling that they're close to some threshold, but they're never quite able to reach it... But they know that they should know what they're searching for, and if they could just determine what it is, then they would be able to find it... After all, there must be something at play for students to so often fail to return, right?
The more they move in, the closer they get to their goal. There's a place that always seems to be on the horizon, the feeling that they're close to some threshold, but they're never quite able to reach it... But they know that they should know what they're searching for, and if they could just determine what it is, then they would be able to find it... After all, there must be something at play for students to so often fail to return, right?
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There will be a comment below for characters to receive plot-relevant memories. Please comment in the appropriate subthread. One memory per character please.
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For those who would try to investigate the mystery of the forest or the door in the room behind the mirror room, either throughout the school or within the forest itself, please comment in the investigation thread below.
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Aside from this month's updates and event, those who need a starting point might consider the January and February events to assist.
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That aside, if your character would spent at least three weeks moving deeper into the forest, please let me know below. This is flexible on when it started and can expand into the next month and may be retroactive (i.e. there could be two weeks in July and one in August, or if a character spent the last week or two of June moving deeper in.)
i; since the other thread is done anyway lol
I heard you called for the Paper Busters?
[ There's a bad joke to be found here, it seems. ]
Have you found anything interesting yet, by the way?
[ Because yes, one of Inaba's actual interests when she joined the student council was actually looking through the papers for some specific things. ]
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Oh good, just in time. There's a mountain of paperwork to shred.
[ A joke right back. ]
Not yet. Ishimaru and I confirmed that the cabinets opened, but I haven't had a good chance to actually see what's inside yet. I'd do it by myself, but the last thing I need's to get buried under all of this.
[ Which, he's heading over to pat the cabinets. The key's been left in the lock! ]
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Well, thank goodness we're not in the 1920s, or else we wouldn't have the power of paper shredding technology!
[ She says that so smugly before following him over. ]
I wonder if there'll be any documents on last year's... "elections".
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I'd like to think so. Appointing anybody to the student council would be a large responsibility, I'd hope that neither of the previous presidents were that lax in documenting that. Especially the way they seemingly went about it.
[ To which, he turns the key and opens up the drawer. Miyuki'd be lying if he didn't think there was something grotesque waiting for them inside the first time, but knowing that it's all paperwork puts him at ease. ]
Alright, they're divided by years, so we'd be looking at the 1999 file... let's see... where the hell is it?
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[ She says while sticking behind him, peering over his shoulder with curiosity. This wouldn't be the first time she's looked at a bunch of paperwork; kind of reminds her of finding all of those text logs from previous years. ]
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[ Although, he obviously didn't have a good eye on Maya the entire time. Either way, eventually he starts to pull out anything that references the year 1999-- the student records, the files about contracts and graduation, and any other wayward document he can find.
Before he shuts the cabinet this time around... ]
Anything else we should look for? I'm not sure how useful any other year would be.
[ He has a personal interest in finding out what every student council president was like, but that can be saved for another time. ]
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[ But what else... ]
And whatever the earliest date is, too. I want to see where the term 'transfer' comes from, if these documents have any records on who the first one was.
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[ He turns to set said files on the table before heading back into the cabinet. 400 years of paperwork wouldn't be easy to sort through, but given how contemporary the cabinet he's near is, he makes the decision to close this one up and check out one of the others.
It won't be long until he's made it further back. 60s, 50s, 40s... 1900s... and further back, until he's able to track down where the 1800s at least starts. Leaving him to start... quickly sifting through what's here. ]
I know we're only just hitting the turn of the millennium here, but honestly... having an electronic record of all of this would save us a ton of time.
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[...]
Wait, I just realized. If we're teenagers in the year 2000. Does that make us millenials now?
[ But she's definitely going to sift through the documents trying to search through them by month as she says that. ]
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...oh god, it finally dawned on him that he hasn't even been born yet. But he's in the past? And if they're meant to grow up in the 2000s, then- ]
Yeah... unless we've retroactively become 90s kids, I don't think so. Unless the plan's to take in a bunch of millennial culture while we're still here to fully blend in.
[ He temporarily goes back to looking through the files before... ]
Actually, we could use that to our advantage. We can pick up on trends before they even start.
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[ Inaba.
Naturally, she's only joking before she goes aha and looks through the documents. ]
Found the documents on the election at least. But I suppose we could? I mean, I did a whole project last year with Subaru utilizing some of the future advancements. Although we made some shit up as well so we could throw the teachers off.
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[ Wait, is he allowed to say that. Does he need to put an asterisk in there somewhere?
Anyway, more importantly. ]
Anything worthwhile in there?
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But the future, huh... there's the new musou game, and Dragon Warrior. Oh, but you're right that the new Pokemon game comes out this year, too. Back half, I believe...? It'd be gen two this year.
[ Putting that aside, however-- ]
There's some information about the elections here, but it's mostly about what it is, the selection process that utilizes certain traits, testing character... but it still doesn't explain what happened with us.
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[ ...
No, wait. Circling back, ]
--I didn't expect you to know so much about video games, Inaba. Are you one of those "gamer girls" I've heard about?
[ try to tell me ishigami hasn't once complained about gamer girls. at least pre-development. ]
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[ She rifles through her bag and pulls out a piece of paper which faint indentations and a list of names--some crossed out, others not. Most of the names are unfamiliar, except for her own that's crossed out.
And in the margins, there seems to be small doodles of cat faces, stars and notes.
And then he mentions 'gamer girls' and-- ]
Huh? [ Oh, fuck. ] I-It's not like that!? I mean, yes, I've played games on occasion when I was younger, but that was...!
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That was? Are you sure you're not a closet otaku? I don't know that many people who own a maid outfit, after all.
[ Two. He knows two. Though he wasn't sure if Inaba even still had hers, or if she stuffed it into an incinerator or something.
In the meantime, he goes to get a good look at this note. The unfamiliarity of these names bugs him, but more importantly, Inaba... ]
This looks like a hit list. [ A beat-- ] I don't recognize any of these names other than yours, but if they're students, we may be able to find out more about them through the records.
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[ An immediate reaction. She huffs a bit, arms crossing over her chest. ]
I just got that outfit for a one time thing to bolster the CRC's presentation. And, I just played games when I was younger because...
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... because I was alone in my room a lot.
[ Anyway. ]
That would be good. This might be from this year, so maybe check it against the class roster?
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[ That stops him in his tracks. That was a step too far, and he backs down from his teasing. ]
Sorry, I didn't--
[ Augh, can he just focus for a second instead of making this awkward? ] R-right. I'll get on that. There has to be some kind of pattern here.
[ Anything to keep himself busy and move on from what was just said. ]
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[ Inaba's response is a little quiet; melancholy in fact. ]
I'd appreciate it. But you're right that there has to be some sort of pattern-- ah. Can you check if there's anything that's handwritten?
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[ He's quiet for a moment, sifting through the pages... but then, he stops. ]
I'm not judging you, by the way. In all honesty, it's kind of endearing.
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[ And then she pauses, looking at him with confusion. ]
Endearing...? How?
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[ He thinks on it momentarily, making sure to save his place in the file. ]
It makes me imagine you trying your hardest to finish a game, no matter how difficult it is. Taking a look at a puzzle from all angles and feeling accomplished when you've succeeded. Not to mention, it's one of those things where one could say, "let's play together sometime" to make it seem a lot less lonely.
...
Unless, you were the type to throw your controller.
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[ But she wouldn't call the people she played with online her friends. ]
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[ That way, she won't have to associate something like that with being alone-- ]
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I mean, if there's anything like that around here! Plus, it'd have to be when we're not swarmed with work or anything!
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