November Event/tdm
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.
✽ 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.
OOC
✽ 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.
✽ 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.
Harleen Quinzel | DC Comics | Just here to cause a bit of chaos <3
[She's no stranger to her head feeling all kinds'a funny, and while she's very much not sure about what's going or why she's here... The festive atmosphere is real contagious, and there's no broody bats in sight to stop her from having fun, which means she's joining in. Weird fake memories and all that mumbo jumbo can be dealt with at a later date, thank you.
So what if she technically ain't allowed to be runnin' any booths or nothin' without the proper type of permissions? Harley has a bad streak of not listening to authority anyway, which means them fancy rules and regulations don't mean squat when she really wants to put her mind to it. Which is precisely why she's stolen a table. It wasn't exactly like she'd bothered to be all stealthy-like about it either; she dragged the thing scraping and banging all the way down from the second floor to the first, setting up right in front of the library and claiming the spot for herself.
There's glitter... Everywhere. Various hues of pinks, reds, and blues that have been haphazardly dumped around the area, both on the table itself and the surrounding floorspace. It's going to be hell to clean up afterwards, but later problems are for a later Harley to deal with. There's a construction paper sign hanging on the wall behind the table that reads, "hOROSCOPES and tRAuMA THERAPY!" The letters themselves cut out from various sources and glued onto the paper itself like some sort of love letter to the serial killer trope.
She herself has modified the school uniform to fit her needs; the white uniform shirt has been cut and tied to be more fashionable and show off her middriff, the waistband of the skirt rolled up a few times so that the hem rests higher up at the mid-thigh. She has on a pair of knee high platform boots, a mismatched pair of thigh high stockings - the left being pink and the right one black, and her two cross ties have been repurposed into accessories for her twin ponytails. She is also covered in glitter, though this is less of a fashion choice and more of a side effect from her "decorating."
She's sitting behind her table, visibly bored and waiting for someone to walk up and talk to her. This doesn't seem to be occurring naturally, and after clearly getting fed up with the lack of customers she pulls a bean bag - totally not stolen from another game booth - out of her stocking and chucks it at the nearest loitering person.]
Hey! You! Get ov'a here, I'm givin' ya a readin'.
⬙ Two Of Hearts ⬗
[Later in the week she can also be found up in the fourth floor rest area, sprawled out on her back one of the rugs with her legs propped up perpendicular on the wall. She's got the white cat on her chest, and she's just idly petting the kitty and feeding it treats while she babbles on to the animal itself.]
An' then he says to me, "You always take shots from folks who just don't get the joke!" [Her normally high pitched voice turns all low and grumpy as she quotes the sentence, clearly doing an impression.] An' then he tosses me out the window! Can ya believe it? Men. They have no respect for us broads who know how to do things bett'a than they ev'a could.
'Course, we stayed togeth'a for a while longer afterward. Mist'a J always did know how to sweet talk a lady into stayin' loyal. Ya put up with more than ya should when you're in love, ya know? [One finger comes up to poke the cat right on the nose as she talks. They're bonding.]
please horoscope and therapy my noah thank u
A horoscope reading? [Why is her sign this way.] I... I like that kind of stuff.
disrespect the sign and you'll get the fine
What'cha name, sweetheart? Ya know all ya star-signs and stuff?
he has 5 yen :(
Noah Ebalon, and... uh-huh. I'm a Sagittarius.
[KoG didn't give Noah a canon birthday so I'm using his KR release date as his birthday :') December 17th baybee.]
get your sugar brother to pay your legal fees
[It's not, it doesn't mean that at all, and she's absolutely bullshitting. Similarly, she reaches into the bust of her shirt to pull out a crumpled up paper. She rubs it against the edge of the table a few times to straighten it out before she's hiding it under the table, still visible to her but not for Noah. She pauses to read the words on the page, then leans forward to prop her chin up on her palm and give him a bright smile.]
So. I'm guessin' you've been havin' a hard time lately, yeah Noah? It's written all ov'a your stars.
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Y-yeah, I guess I have been. I mean... that's usually the case with me, though.
[Why did he have to get the fucked up stars? Why couldn't he get the cool stars? The ones where his life is fine?]
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Hearts, I'm back to annoy you on my TDMer
Ventus has had his share of bad dates too (do not tell anyone) (if someone he knows pops up he's going to get in trouble for that), so he's listening with actual keen interest on what this lady is saying to him, sitting criss-cross nearby with his chin propped up in his hand.]
"Men" indeed! [He can say that because he is a men. And because he agrees.] Personally, if I knew a man who tossed a pretty lady out a window, I might have to fill him with arrows.
[He's winking but he's also? Serious? About that? Don't toss girls out windows? Jackass.]
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She's actually not sure if the cat is a girl, but it can be an honorary girl regardless.]
He got what was comin' don't worry. Me an' a few others have beat his ass more an' a few times since. [Her tone isn't unfriendly, but it's certainly unimpressed.] You an arrow guy too, huh? We got a few'a those. Greeny don't got the pointy ears, but he sure has a dumb lil' beard thingie.
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Arrows and wind magic. Coincidentally, I'm also fond of the colour green.
[This is necessary information that she needs to know. Maybe hilariously, those pointy ears of his flick a bit when she brings them up, though. Elven ears emote and in this essay I will—]
How dumb is the beard, exactly?
remedial treatment lets go
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C'mere sweetie! We can talk boys! Or girls, both are real swell. Anythin' ya like really! The... The stars have a message for ya. They really want'cha t'a hear it!
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so
sure.
why not. nene slips into the chair, looking up at harley with those big doe eyes. whatch'a got, lady.
... oh but first, nene taps her throat and then makes an X with her arms- no voice, sorry! )
remedial treatments
Ah well, not his problem. ]
Huh? I don't need anything like that.
[ But Ranger wanders over all the same. ]
Re: remedial treatments
[She's flashing him a big toothy grin as she gestures to the chair across from her with a small hum.] Come on. First readin's on the house! Guy with as nice'a reflexes as yours has'ta wanna know what the stars have in line for the future.
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Yeah, sure, why not. I guess I shouldn't knock it til I try it. Let's see what they got to say.
Jason and Harley do therapy
She wouldn't recognize him, of course, but the stunned expression was plastered to his face nonetheless as she addressed him.]
What in the world are you doing here, Harley?
[He hadn't meant to outwardly ask that, but now he has and he just shoves his hands into his pockets and walks over to her table.
Did the Joker finally kill her?]
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I'm assumin' ya can read, right birdbrain? [No correlation to Robins or other various members of the thrush family; she genuinely doesn't know who he is outside of the helmet.] Horoscopes an' therapy. Ya seem the type to need both.
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Even as his time as a crime Lord he didn't do that.]
Yeah, sure. Though I don't know if you're still qualified for either. Didn't your license expire?
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Daddy issues.
[It's said so deadpan, so matter-of-factly.]
Yeah. You reek of 'em.
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Two hearts and a cat
So, while he hadn't been trying to track her down, he did find it a little pleasing to know that she wasn't all that hard to find.]
You sharing bad ex stories with the cat?
treats
... wait. words were said.] Really? Which one?
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[sometimes you passagg read horoscopes to your town hero because you're trying to hook him up with your friends' daughters, you know how it is.]
horoscopes and anxiety
Me?
two broken hearts
He's got half an ear on someone talking in the background just by habit, and as is the way of things upon hitting a dry patch of text he ends up tuning out of the book and into the sound and the last second or two mentally catches up to him.]
O-out the window?
[Wait, is this any of his business? She's just talking to... Lily May, apparently. His eyes flick away from any drawn attention, but that... it hits a little close to home, like a stitch in his chest.]
Ah, s-sorry... That sort of person... it's disgusting how they can do that, isn't it?
[It's almost like some kind of superpower, really, to seize people's hearts... and people fall for it, he fell for it; he still doesn't quite understand it.]