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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.)
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I think I have something. A few of these names are here, listed in the records as deceased. Let's see...
[ The tough part is that that time period between his last memory, of seeing Shinomiya in the halls and of waking up in the third floor restroom were too foggy. He can't remember if he was there when Inaba disappeared the first time, or if he had disappeared first.
But either way, he's taking his own notes, names and dates and... status. It's a bit distressing, but at this point, he knows what he's here for. As he goes through, he's starting to notice something-- ]
A lot of the names on here... not necessarily the ones you provided, but so many of these students are listed as "missing". Missing, deceased...
[ A pause. ]
I'm going to keep looking through this. I'm pretty sure the file for the 1800s is still open, I feel like you'd have a better idea of what to look for in there.
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[ Inaba frowns deeply. ]
But it still really doesn't explain everything. Ugh. What even to look for in the 1800s... maybe something about the fire -- if there's anything about the school having to be rebuilt and if we can somehow pinpoint why murder became so commonplace...
Although that might be closer to your end. It seemed to already be the case before the start of the last school year, so I don't know if it's a 90s thing or if it came even before that.
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Anything that looks like the start of a domino effect. If we can find a small hint of history on the grounds kept, then...
[ He pauses, something having caught his eye. A little out of the way, as he flips through to ensure he's on the right track, but... ]
Hey, Inaba. Do you recall a "Nao Sato"?
[ From way back when... someone he never really spoke to, but knew was close to the Arisus. More importantly... someone who had her soul fragmented and transplanted. ]
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[ He looks down at the paper in front of him. He's piecing most of this together from the reports left, and it's bugging the hell out of him. ]
Sato's soul had been fractured in a way, with part of it being placed into a vessel after the fact. I can't pretend to know all of the details here, but from what I've read so far, the fact that you can transplant a soul into something else... I finally get what Sakasaki was talking about at the beginning of the year.
[ "You're all the SAME." A simple question of whether or not Miyuki would accept rooming with a murderer, even one that had been possessed. Of course he wasn't, if the one was lucid. He still isn't. But now, he gets it. ]
--I may need to read on this more, but let's assume that a 'soul' leaves a body once it's deceased. In regards to this school, if a 'soul' doesn't want to be left in limbo, then it could take control of a different form. Be it an inanimate object, or... potentially, even a whole other person.
If Sato's soul can be fractured and be placed elsewhere, and if one can take control of a student's body, then it tracks that... there were wayward souls that took our bodies and basically marched us to our death, either before or during the election. Honestly. A 'test of character'.
[ What a joke that was. ]
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[ For better or for worse. She remembers that she didn't want to go and bid on the body and how unnerving it was when people weren't recognizing her as one
But then... ]
I knew about the possession already, since I remember it being brought up several times during the meetings when I returned, and then in Nene's explanation, too... and it makes some things click in place, but then there are other things that also confuse me about that. If we're supposedly dead, then why would we have [a body] in the first place? Is having something physical--separate from the soul a part of the overall test...?
[ She hates to think about it. But it's something that she feels is relevant. ]
So it explains how possession works, but... not why it happened in the first place. I wonder... Miyuki. Do you think that [our souls] were still in our bodies when the possession happened?
[ For that one moment, in that last question...
...she sounds terrified. ]
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Fuck. Part of him wants to freak out, turn around and think about how incredibly scary that is. But really, he can do that later. Instead, he closes his eyes momentarily, trying to think back to the very last thing he can remember-- his attack. A calming voice, an uncomfortable pain, and then... nothing for four months. There was a chance, but... ]
I don't know. That may depend on if we were actually lucid at the time to begin with.
[ Ultimately, what wound up bothering him the most was the tone he heard in Inaba's voice. Was it close to the same thing she experienced before? If that's the case... ]
...maybe we should take five. These files aren't going anywhere-- I'm making sure of that.
[ Condensing these will keep him busy for the next while, and will be something he can actually do to help out the rest of the class. At the cost of a bit of sleep, but he didn't have to deal with the painful silence anymore, so. It was fine. ]
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And while there's a part of her that feels the anxieties that run down her spine, enough that she can feel her fingers trembling and the urge to hold onto something is there, but--
That's right, she took off the pendant, the one thing that she'd been using as a clutch to her living life, her one connection to Taichi. ]
...yeah.
[ She tries to steady her voice, but that sure as hell isn't working. She pushes the folders that she's been looking at before leaning back at where she's sitting, letting out a sigh that she didn't think she was holding. ]
This really was a... lot.
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[ There's more than likely a lot of unpleasant records waiting for him inside, things he probably would be better off not knowing-- but he'd be a much better help to everyone, a much better member of the student council if he sorted through it and highlighted the important things.
That way, Inaba wouldn't have to feel that anxiety, and wouldn't have to...
...
That's right. Like when they met last time... ]
Hey, Inaba--
[ He hesitates for a moment. Was this... was this a good thing to ask? All things considered. The first time he did, she felt embarrassed about it and he backed off, but now. ]
...when did you stop wearing your pendant?
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[ She almost jumps out of her skin proverbially, eyes widening ever so slightly. ]
Since probably... early last month? It's not that important though, is it?
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Come on, no no, think rationally for a second, Shirogane...! ]
I mean... I figured it was important to you. [ A beat. ] I thought that when we met last week, you had... just forgotten it.
[ A bit flustered, like he is right now. ]
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[ She's not going to lie about that. ]
...but - after thinking about it for a while, I decided. I can't just keep on clinging to my old life forever. Well, no, technically I could. However, it's... not what he would have wanted for me.
[ And it's here when she finds herself smiling something a little wistful. ]
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Whether she felt the same way... he'll never know.
So, his only question is: what now?
There were so many hints, he's had his own time to think, maybe he should make good on his word. Move on.
Ask her, Shirogane Miyuki! ]
If that's the case, then--
[ He clams up. No. Just because she said that doesn't mean... but what if it did?
He can't finish his thought. He... he's not ready. ]
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[ He might not be able to finish his thought, but Inaba herself finds herself asking the single worded question regardless. ]
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It felt like his mind was at war with itself. A constant clash of thoughts and contradictions that swirled around him, and what he should do.
That was the effect of last month.
They had just become friends.
Her boyfriend, Taichi's words--
Shinomiya--
Finally, he sighs. Shaking his head. ]
Never mind. It's nothing.
...Sorry.
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[ She gently chides him about it, but doesn't push. ]
I'm not going to pry, though, if you're not ready to talk about it.
[ It wouldn't be right of her to. Especially not someone who's as selfish as her. ]
But...
[ She hesitates. Should she say this? What if she's reading it wrong...? ]
If you want to talk about it. I...
[...]
You can always talk to me.
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But if he's wrong... if they're wrong...
Then what'll happen?
The straightforward route felt so unfamiliar, after trying to coax a confession out of someone else through indirect means. If he had tried that... no. That wouldn't be fair to Inaba.
... ]
I don't know what I should say.
[ Before he can think of anything stupid to do-- ]
Can... I have some time?
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[ God, what a coward he turned out to be. ]
I uh, think I'm going to go grab myself some coffee. Feel free to keep looking or... [ He gestures, brain clearly fried. ] Anything, while I'm gone.
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[ She'll give him some time. And some space. It'll give her a chance to think about what she should do next.
There's going to be a lot of thinking to do. ]