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11/08 - 11/13 Cultural Festival

The school campus opens its doors to the public early Monday morning, with family, friends, neighbors, and strangers arriving to fill up the halls, each visitor having eyes of gold and wallets full of cash. Festival events run from 8AM to 4PM, and pamphlets are handed out by students lining the locker area, which include a schedule and a map of the campus:

✽ The opening event on Monday is an idol performance in the auditorium by the twin star unit GEMINI, consisting of Natsume Sakasaki and Subaru Akehoshi. On Thursday afternoon, the music club will hold a performance in the auditorium, featuring the typical choir with piano accompaniment, a capella performances by smaller groups of members, as well as solos, with requests taken in between performances so members can switch off and take a break.

✽ The student store is open every day up until noon on Saturday, and while the absurdly high prices are still absurdly high, there is a sign up in front of the rock gacha that one of the prizes is an all day pass to any of the school's events for one day of the festival. The odds aren't worth the price, but it's not like the shopkeep reveals the odds.

✽ Class 1-B is hosting a themed cafe in their homeroom.

✽ Class 1-D has turned their homeroom and neighboring classrooms into escape rooms, which runs from Tuesday to Friday.

✽ The robotics/programing club and the gaming club have set up a variety of video games in 2-A, and are hosting a competition between visitors and their AI.

✽ Class 3-D is hosting a kissing booth in their homeroom.

✽ In the home ec cooking room, the cooking club is hosting a cooking contest, with student judges and prizes for the winners.

✽ The sewing club and the art club have put together a photo booth inside the home ec sewing room, featuring all sorts of props and costumes imaginable to try on and pose in front of a number of hand painted backgrounds. Photos are taken by an instant camera for visitors to take home a keepsake. In the art club room, the art club has a gallery set up, with paintings hanging from the walls and sculptures set up in front of them, and a strict no touching policy or one of the members threatens to scoop your eye out with a palette knife and she doesn't look like she's joking. There is a large open canvas, however, for visitors to try their hand at paints or charcoal or pastels on what will become a collaborative art piece done by an entire week's worth of visitors. Occasionally throughout the festival, an art club member will have a space off to the corner for portraits or face painting.

✽ The sewing club has also contributed plush toy prizes for various other class' game stalls throughout the school, where visitors can pay to play for a chance to win small prizes, and are able to trade up several smaller prizes for larger ones.

✽ Out past the courtyard, various sports teams host games throughout the week, including relay races and obstacle courses and tug o' war and """soccer""". Basically it's sports day, because there had been a sports day on the calendar but I never look at the calendar so it was already halfway through the month before I realized.

✽ The fourth floor hallway has been cleaned up and turned into the rest area, with rugs laid out across the ground and comfy chairs scattered around the room and little bags of cat treats for sale to entice the fluffy white cat into hanging out in this space all week. Even without treats, she is content to sit on people's laps and rub against their ankles and let them bury their faces in her stomach. Healing.

✽ In the evening on the final day, after all the visitors leave, a large bonfire is set up in a non-flammable area between the courtyard and pool building and left to burn late into the night for those students who choose to remain on campus until around 8PM, when the festival culminates in a small fireworks show that lights up the sky overhead in reds and golds, while on the ground, sparklers are passed around for a quiet moment appreciating the beauty, and transience, of life.

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✽ Throughout the school year, merit points have occasionally been earned through interactions between students involving strong emotion, whether positive or negative. This month, characters may notice that this happens much more frequently, and the amount of merit points earned is also sometimes more than the typical one point. Please report threads of strong emotion below, as this will minorly affect December.
✽ On 11/23, Yogen sees its first snow of the year, a light dusting across campus that does not stick when the sun rises again the next morning, but it will snow on and off until the end of the month.
✽ 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.

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bro u look like such a mastermind i cant

is that a compliment?

looking and acting is two different things, i'm sorry.

sick and twisted

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Edited 2021-11-11 00:40 (UTC)

At eight a.m. the fourth floor is entirely empty, every door along the hall shut, and there's something large down in the middle of the hall — no amount of squinting will help. The empty hall now echoes with approaching footsteps signaling one person that another has arrived. Before either individual can catch sight of the other by turning around, there's a loud tap of a cane against the ground, the sound bouncing against the walls, and the lights go completely black.

[ BANGS THE DOOR OPEN ]

GIVE ME BACK YACC—-

[ The lights cut off and they freeze in place, scarcely daring to breathe. If whoever else is here is within arm's reach they are getting reached for and whatever the shopkeep can grab onto is getting caught in a vicegrip with both hands, it's like when a crab pinches your finger and the harder you try to pull away the tighter it squeezes even after you rip its arm off. ]

[Hhhhh loud door slam and yell and then someone's grabbing him what's happening he knew this was a mistake and a trap-

After like. Thirty or forty odd seconds of being vice-gripped and not eaten or anything else... that probably would have happened already if that was what they wanted, right?]

...Are you alright? Who's there?

[Do you need like, his arm for something, specifically? He's on high alert, body posture tense and head turning as he strains his ears, because the dark by itself doesn't bother him but that indistinct large shape he caught a brief blurry glimpse of sure does.]

[ His arm is their comfort object now, and they press up against his side, silent and tense as if waiting for the lights to switch back on, like if they wait and wait and wait it'll have to happen at some point.

...

A little whine escapes them. Why aren't the lights turning back on? It's been almost a minute. ]

[good, the group is here. instead of the lights going on, there's another little tap tap in a certain direction, a signal in the darkness, and then a crack of light that spills into the room like paint - and a certain other shape that slips out through the door with the light, leaving a little gap in their wake, a sign of where to go so obvious it might as well be highlighted like a video game.

don't worry. it's all part of the plan.]

11/08 - 11/13 Cultural Festival

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ESCAPE ROOM

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RULES | UPDATED: 11/09

FLUFFIN' PUFFIN' BABYSITTIN'

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FEEL FUZZY, GET CLINGY

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GAME 2: NENE & ADD & NATSUME | FLOORMASTER: ???

KEEP MOVING!!!!

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GAME 3: DITO & SARA | FLOORMASTER: ???

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TOUCH FUZZY, GET DIZZY