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adsum ([personal profile] adsum) wrote in [community profile] yogen2021-05-01 07:12 am

May event/tdm


Golden Week (closed to current characters)

On the 28th, Aiko Okane's body is returned to the auditorium, rotten and still thawing when the first student walks in upon her and screams themselves hoarse. She is swiftly removed and the auditorium is closed for the rest of the day for deep cleaning, the smell of disinfectant lingering for days after. In honor of the late student council president, a gorinto is later set up on one of the windowsills in the art room, stones perpetually damp and causing those who touch it to experience vivid flashbacks of flashing strobe lights so bright it's nauseating, a spinning room, hands covered in soot, a shadow moving from behind a bookcase, sharp pain in the back of the head—-

The school empties out for Golden Week starting on the 29th, and just like during spring break, the faculty office and nurse's office are locked and unavailable without the staff present. The library and club rooms remain open, but what supplies there were at the start of the school week won't be replenished until the end of break two weeks later— and there are many more mouths to feed now. At least those mouths don't include two cats, both of which make themselves scarce on the morning of the 29th and cannot be found at school for the remainder of break, possibly spooked and in hiding due to the arrival of a dozen repairmen who phase through the front doors to repair the ceilings and pipes. Faces obscured with gas masks, carrying bags of plaster and lugging toolboxes, the repairmen work tirelessly from six in the morning to six in the evening over the next three days, appearing not to see the others in the school— they do not hear anything said to them, and, if somebody tries to touch them, their bodies pass through one another like the shadow students through the doors. But the school looks a lot better by the end of the three days, the ceiling tiles secure so that they're no longer in danger of falling and must be forcibly pushed through to access the crawlspace, and entire sections of pipe replaced from underneath the fourth floor bathroom and the clog with it, resulting in slightly clearer water, though still very very lightly tinged pink.

The repairmen finish and leave the evening of the 1st, and that night, the sound of hissing can be heard just before the usual midnight silence. Even through gift fairy or homemade gas masks, the air smells slightly sour, heavy and hard to breathe, a white mist seen hanging around the school and in the courtyard outside that doesn't dissipate with the sunlight the following morning. Those unprotected start to feel ill, cold and feverish, uncomfortably bloated despite empty bellies. Out of the corner of their eyes they see glimpses of the person they miss the most, but nobody is there when they turn around. Their heads fill with whispered accusations of all their shortcomings, chiding and blaming and mocking in the disembodied voices of the people dearest to them until the constant white noise finally tapers off and disappears on the fourth night, and the mist lifts with the rising sun the morning of the 6th.

Skittering can be heard in the ceiling overhead. The rats are still alive.

05/06 06:00 (open to all)

You open your eyes.

Whether you're standing in the middle of the locker area or sitting up from under one of the classroom desks, the school feels a lot... brighter... than you remember in the last handful of years (years? somehow, it feels like years) that you've attended this school. Bright sunlight shining through the windows is almost nauseating to look at, as if on the cusp of a migraine, and words swim on textbook pages and is twice as difficult to understand. Maybe it's just back-to-school jitters, the nurse sympathizes if you visit the nurse's office, offering a mug of ginger tea to settle the stomach and a soft cot to lie down on for a few minutes, but break is over and there is so much to be excited for at school, especially the charity auction coming up in the next couple of days.

Donations are displayed in glass cases all around the auditorium, including items and services, a box of """cursed chalk""" that's surprisingly garnered a lot of interest, and a human body that unsurprisingly has not garnered much if at all. A skinny black cat can be seen lounging on top of the lattermost case, staring down at the students milling around the auditorium as they check their PDAs for merit points and murmur about it being too late and that they'll have to make do with what they have until the auction date on the 10th. More information about the auction can be found on the bulletin board, which also displays a new poster announcing an open seat in the student council in which all are encouraged to apply starting the 10th, and to run their campaigns until the 31st when an assembly will take place for approved candidates to debate.

Also updated on the bulletin board are the class rankings, current as of the start of the month, with class 1-B leading the pack and 2-C following close behind. With the weather as nice as it is, students of these two homerooms occasionally hold their classes outside in the courtyard this month, seated on the grass or on blankets around the wisteria tree as they balance chalkboard slates on their laps and listen to the lecture in the fresh air and warm sunlight. As long as they're with their teacher, characters in class 1-B and 2-C are able to exit into the courtyard this month, although if they stray too far out of the courtyard towards the pool area, their consciousness will start to fade until they leave the courtyard and black out completely.

For everybody regardless, there are classes to attend and quizzes to take and blood to pour out of your shoes because— uh?? You're in the middle of a quiz and pick up your eraser, but it's been replaced with one so dry and hard that all it does is smear the graphite and tear a hole in your paper. You get up from a long hour of class and nearly chip your teeth on the edge of the desk falling over because somebody's tied your ankle to the desk leg with quadruple-knotted twine. You're washing your hands in the bathroom and instead of liquid soap, the dispenser pours out silver glitter all over your hands and pants and shoes to coat for the rest of the month. You open your locker and are met with a face full of bees that burst out and causes everybody to evacuate the area until the janitor can coax them all outside. You're walking up the stairs and feel a tap on your shoulder but there's nobody when you turn around- nothing to explain the hard shove against your back or why the handrail is slicked with oil. All the while, snickering can be heard from somewhere behind you, little shadows darting away in the periphery of your vision, just out of reach.

Somebody has it out for you, but be glad it's just little things and not... well.

05/08 16:27 (open to all)

After school on the 8th, when Clamor is headed up the second floor stairwell to the clocktower, he'll find that the door doesn't push in easily, as if there were something blocking it. A harder push and he dislodges something heavy, dark red blood pouring out from the open door to soak through his shoes and those of anybody nearby as the world spins and pitches and falls apart.

The vertigo passes and you open your eyes. You're standing in an old schoolhouse with scorched walls and broken floorboards that creak as you walk through the halls, breathing air so cold it constricts your lungs and leaves in visible puffs. The body on the ground has turned wispy black, unmoving, while those around you— there were other students around you in the hallway, you swear, but aside from one or two, the rest have all turned into shadow, faceless and intangible as they move silently down the halls and through the walls. Two of them approach the body on the ground and lift it up by the armpits to drag away down the stairs towards the auditorium—- what's supposed to be the auditorium, but instead the doors open to reveal a gaping void, darkness as far as one can see as if nothing else exists past this door.

You were looking for a way out, weren't you? ...

The body is unceremoniously tossed into the void, never to be seen again, and with the creeping dread that comes with staring into the darkness for too long, you get the sense that the same will happen to you if you step past the threshold to nowhere. It's dark and quiet enough already in the rest of the school, with the lights off and the sky a perpetual dusk. This school evokes the same feeling of nostalgia as it always has, the same old building but so much older: books in the library prone to falling apart in your hands, all the food in the home economics room rotten and overgrown with mold, the wisteria tree in the courtyard gnarled and completely barren. But the water in the bathrooms and drinking fountains run clear and fresh, and in the mirrors hanging above the sinks you can see somebody else's face— you can see familiar people washing their hands or chatting with one another or smoking a joint or getting caught smoking a joint- you can see them but they can't see you, gazing through this portal to a normal high school life.

The glass feels warm when you place your palm against it. The glass tears and burns when you put your fist through it, painful enough to make you wince.

You open your eyes.

You're standing where you last remember before the world turned to darkness, floor sticky with blood but there is no body at your feet. Edgar? There is no student called Edgar Valden at this school, just like there is no Abel Nightroad or Makoto Naegi, their names not showing up anywhere on the class roster and their seats filled by another student that has always been part of the class. You're overthinking, or maybe you're just tired or hungry. Luckily for you, there is a lot of fresh meat stocked in the home economics room this month, thick rich slabs that cook like beef but taste like a mix of veal and pork and hope.

OOC

    ✽ This event log doubles as a TDM, with new characters experiencing the recurring feeling of drifting in (school life) and out (canon life) of sleep up until they "open their eyes," after which they will have full awareness and come to their senses. Pre-established cr is possible to some extent, as a varying degree of familiarity may remain, but all characters will be strangers to one another unless they know each other in canon.
    ✽ A new closed prompt will go up on the 10th for auction results and body investigation, and on the 31st for the student council assembly.
    ✽ After the 8th, any blood spilled in the school will result in characters in the vicinity seeing its transformation into a dilapidated version of the same building. Nearby npcs turn into shadows, while nearby pcs are brought into the other world together. Finding a mirror and breaking it will return the character to where they originally were, as if no time had passed.
    ✽ The layout of the transformed school is exactly the same as the original, with inaccessible locations remaining inaccessible. The exception is the auditorium which has been replaced by a void, and fully stepping into the void will result in permadeath and a drop from the game. TDM characters may step into the void as their "exit" any time during the month, but if they are apped into the game, that death will not be considered canon.
    Applications are always open on a rolling basis. The player cap is currently set at 40, but will lowered to 30 in June.
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( this place is strange, and yet, komaeda can only find himself invested in its secrets and what it has to offer, and of course — it offers well. the halls are silent, different from what he's used to, where back home the other students wandered the hall as if part of them — the one's here are blended into the world, unable to be touched. that's information recorded in his mind, and he passes them by without a care. someone stands out among them though in this twisted world that seems it could fall into dust by the faintest touch, and it's not because of how different they appear to the others — he can feel it, their hope. )

You.

( he calls out, his eyes falling behind someone that's coming out the bathroom, and their pace much faster than his own. they probably have somewhere to go already, and komaeda can understand considering how different this place is. he finds it very close to the simulated world he had trapped himself in accidentally, he figures that it's happening to him again — it's why people are kind to him, why he's surrounded by a mix of talent and the untalented, but he plays along. as long as hope can be birthed by their efforts, nothing truly matters outside of that and nothing matters outside of this. this person's talent makes his heart beat faster and faster, and because of this, he finds himself calling out again. )

You shouldn't go any further.

( because moving forward is bad luck, considering there's good luck komaeda has found by stumbling upon an ultimate. he doesn't say that, but this world seems too flimsy, of course it would be when the floorboard nearby seems to have cracks sprouting from it, and they're hard to see considering everything looks so rundown. )
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[personal profile] detectivetheory 2021-05-03 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the decrepit, dying hallways are more than enough to keep kyouko from progressing forward on her own, but when she is called out for, she stops, raising both of her hands to prove to whomever was speaking to her that she was of no threat. she isn't, unless she has her gun, and that has been confiscated from her alongside any solid memory of whom or what she really is in this world. slowly, as komaeda speaks to her, she turns to face him, relieved to see a familiar face. ]

' komaeda nagito-kun. '

[ she breathes his name like a prayer: he isn't togami, or naegi, mind you, but the fact that she is not alone - that there is someone who knows her and her reputation and what she is capable of; someone she knows and knows his reputation and what he is capable of, in the same breath - relieves her. she goes no further, as he advises, and her hands lower down to her sides. this is not kibougamine, that much is for certain: jin's legacy would not have allowed such ruin. ]

' you speak as though you're familiar with this place. do you know where we are? '
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( the relief she gains from seeing him may be mutual, but it's hard to tell considering he responds to her like he would do any ultimate. he may not know her personally like some, but he's aware of her existence from the future foundation's book and during the remnant's transportation. it's enough for him to be comfortable himself, laughing softly as he takes a few steps towards her. he could call this a lucky occurrence for both of them, for both of them to be here at the same time without any difficulties limiting them — it might as well be seen as one. he raises his left arm to wave, it's mechanical whirring echoing within the hall that they stand. )

Kirigiri-san, it's a pleasure to finally meet you face to face.

( his voice continues to have that same lighthearted tone, acting as if he's never been a stranger and hasn't seen her in awhile. how could he forget someone imbued with so much hope as her, considering she's one of the few that managed to succeed within the mutual killing game with hope himself. ) Well... I'm familiar, but this side of the world, I'm not.

( he pauses, something coming to his mind as he looks towards her, and then down to the floor where he notices a few cracks. that seems dangerous, he thinks. ) Tell me, is this another program orchestrated by you and your friends? ( he means the entirety of this school from start to finish, because she would know, right? sadly, her own question that she spoke towards him moments ago makes his own seem rhetorical. )
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[personal profile] detectivetheory 2021-05-04 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
' i wish i could say it was. this is nothing like what we orchestrated for the remnants some time ago. '

[ it had been naegi's idea, the whole thing, but of course she followed him into the decision. never had kyouko done anything blindly, but he needed her to pull off what it was he wanted to do. they had been so hopeful in their rehabilitation processes, though jabberwock in its entirety left a bad taste in her mouth with what had transpired during and after it. ]

' this is... wrong. different. i'm simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar with this place, though i cannot tell if that is because i remember being here or if this school reminds me so vehemently of what transpired at kibougamine '

[ the weight of hope's peak sits on her bloodied hands moreso than it should: did kirigiri jin get a chance to atone for his sin before he became less than a wrapped up taunt for the surviving detective? sure, where she is from, she has not thought about her father in some time, but just speaking the name of their alma mater pulls that memory out of her like a plucked string. ]

' i can say with certainty the future foundation did not do this. we have all but since sworn off using technology like the neo world program, after makoto-kun's trial. the only people who would know how to use it at this point is myself and alter ego-san. i've yet to find a computer with some personality, though, so... '

[ she jokes. it's funny, see? an AI joke? it's her attempt at lightening the mood. ]

' who all else is here? '
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( it's a little disappointing to hear that, learning that none of this is an actual simulation — it's probably something they wished they were all in. part of him doesn't if he should fully accept her words, but who is he to deny her claim and one that comes from an ultimate. instead, he watches what she does first, before moving closer to her person, but he makes sure to keep his distance. her words sound believable, it's the tone she carries that makes komaeda blink slow as she grooms through her thoughts. )

It's been awhile since I've heard that name.

( he mentions, that was the beginning of his life — everything started there for him, his obsession, his happiness and his hope. the memories though are complicated, but he still smiles at the mention of it. despite what has happened so far, it still sits with him in a different way than it does the detective that's beside him. crossing his arms, he speaks softly, exposing his goal as if it's just came to him. truth be told, he's always been like this. )

With you here, our path to hope will grow exponentially! So I'm not worried! ( he chuckles softly, though, only for a moment as a certain name crosses her lips, and there's hesitance in his actions as he dares to look away. the one who defeated despair with the hell of his allies, one of them being here, but makoto naegi in general is...

he lifts his mechanical hand to start counting names on every digit that he can recall towards ultimates. )


Ishimaru-kun, ( he starts off, already knowing that they're familiar because of the future foundation's black book, and even he thinks that piece of information is a nice place to start with. ) Hinata-kun, ( he taps on a second finger, but there's something different about him, his memories compared to komaeda's doesn't add up properly. ) Ouma-kun, and Saihara-kun. The latter two I don't recall from the book unless they were marked out on purpose, but they are ultimates, their hope is pretty strong so I trust them!
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[personal profile] detectivetheory 2021-05-05 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ the names come easily - ishimaru kiyotaka DECEASED VIA HEAD TRAUMA , hinata hajime OR, MORE APPROPRIATELY, KAMUKURA IZURU , and then two names she had never heard of before. he claims they are ultimates, which turns her stomach: there should have been no more super high school levels after them. was that not the purpose of their existence? ]

' thank you, komaeda-kun. '

[ it is a good place to start rather than any. violet eyes settle onto the mechanical hand, watches it whirr, watches it move. future foundation tech, to replace the horrible thing that had been done to him. it's for the best, she had been told: so long as he has function of both hands, in a way, she supposes it's alright. ]

[ it's a sick joke, really: someone so hell-bent on knowing hope and witnessing it, and someone who had been so close to genuine hope only before having it be taken from her again and again. i was just a girl, she thinks, the first time i felt hopeless. never once did she allow herself to fall into despair, though: she refused to be like those who took the world from her. ]

' and are you well? given current circumstances. if you and hinata-kun are together, that means at least you've had someone to lean on. '
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( they're all peculiar names, some meaning more than others, and between the two, there's one name he doesn't mention at all. she thanks him, but he keeps information to himself because even he doesn't know if he can admit that he lost hope — no pun intended. he finds that saying anything about him won't do anything good because even komaeda doesn't know where to start in his location, and normally he can find hope and talent just like that...

he does notice the simple things, like the way her eyes watches his hand, and with a small chuckle. )


Does it bother you? It's kind of like I'm not really human... well, trash can't be.

( being near her only causes komaeda's thoughts to wander, and part of him wants to ask her the same question as well: "who all else is here with you." would she be able to feed into his curiosity of where was naegi makoto? their meeting was only brief, but if anyone would know... she would, right? he does want to ask, but it's her question that beats his — hinata hajime?

komaeda's lips purse into a straight line, slightly bothered, but he manages. )


Why would I lean on him? ( brutal honesty, though he has a few conflicted problems regarding him. it's not like he's the hinata-kun that he knows. ) Just because he's Hinata-kun (derogatory), doesn't mean he's my Hinata-kun.
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[personal profile] detectivetheory 2021-05-10 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
< she debates this internally for a moment: just because he is hinata hajime does not mean that he is the same hinata hajime that is kamukura izuru. this stamps some papers in her head, a deduction drawn. she waits to vocalize this to komaeda for now, though, choosing instead to deflect. >

' i don't know if you're ever going to outgrow that habit of referring to yourself as subhuman, so i'll leave that be for now. '

< who all else is here with her now? there was togami and naegi and hagakure and asahina and tsumiki (who was very adamant that kyouko just rest, already, as she'd just been poisoned) and everyone from the future foundation setting up inside kibougamine. there had been some semblance of hope, and naegi was heaven-bent on turning hope's peak into something that really could have been a beacon of restoration for humanity. kyouko envied him: she couldn't bring herself to work on the project any more than the kirigiri name had already done. >

' you have reason to believe he isn't your hinata-kun. ' < she carefully places a pause here. > ' why? i know just of how important he is to you in the time where i am from. what makes this hinata hajime-kun different? '
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( it's a bad habit, one that komaeda doesn't think he can actually let go because it's the truth. he's nothing compared to the ultimates around him, and even with kyouko here, he knows his place. she is one of the many beacons that light a path for others, and while she may not be "hope" in raw form like her companion — she is still an ultimate. they are what's important to the construct of living, so to be in a world without them is a painful thought. if ultimates didn't exist, or the concept of hope, maybe komaeda wouldn't talk so low about himself. luckily for him, a world like that doesn't exist, or we'll, shouldn't exist — and as long as he guides them all towards hope, it'll remain that way. )

...

( he raises his brow at her claim, curious as to where this concept of his "importance" comes from. he stares at her, his attempt to read her expression before looking off to the side, the pause is what makes it for him. she's waiting for a specific answer, but komaeda's never been the type to explain everything. he analyzes the burn marks on the wall make the decoration, causing the ambience this place offers to make him inspect things once, then twice. )

Kirigiri-san.

( he raises one hand, waving off the topic coolly. )

If you're concerned about those here. ( it's friendly advice, but he manages to keep up a good personality considering who he's with. ) You'll do great in establishing hope within them, it's bad to lack something so important, don't you think?