SCHOOL FESTIVAL

[afterlifer]

WHO: Everyone!
WHAT: School Festival / Arriving in the Afterlife!
WHEN: 9/30/2012. Morning through evening.
WHERE: All around! Mostly at the school, since it is a school festival!
WARNINGS: Potential violence, but since everyone's already dead it's not like it matters, BUT FOR THE MOST PART HUNKY DORY PG! So PG+V? That works.
SUMMARY: A school festival! Details here!

No matter where it is you woke up, if it's near buildings the sounds of merriment are all around. The shouts of people rooting for the winner of a game, students trying to pull in attention for their booths, adults laughing as they trip over themselves during a sport or someone screaming at the haunted house...

It's then that you realize you're at some kind of festival, everyone's invited, and no one seems to be bothering with money.

Then the realization that you're not even in your clothes. What the hell is this outfit? A school uniform? A janitor? A store clerk? Waitress?

No, no, the bigger question is deinitely "What the hell is going on and where am I?" With nothing but forest and mountains visible in the distance, it's kind of--

POP POP!

..Are those fireworks?

If your character isn't at one of the events and are elsewhere in the town/forest/school/dorms/exploring the buildings/wherever, feel free to just comment with their own thread at the bottom.

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[tenminutes]

I already told you like fifty times that I don't know you.

[superhacker]

O-out...field?

[ Wait a sec is he gonna play baseball... he didn't sign up for this!

Then again, if he says no now, the girl will be angry for sure! He doesn't want to make anyone angry... people are scary when they're angry! ]

[tenminutes]

We'll put you way in the back so it's less likely to go all the way out there, okay?

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Yeah, I know that. I was just confirming that your name doesn't sound familiar at all.

(Nothing wrong with a confirmation, is there?)

[tsunball]

[ Yeah, this is what it comes down to in the end, right? It's all because of his execution that this whole situation is weird. He knows he's supposed to be dead too, but at the same time he can't exactly find this situation bad since he's at least alive, but..

.. How is he supposed to explain something he doesn't even get? ]

Since.. I'm dead, right? [ He's uncharacteristically quiet, rubbing his hair somewhat awkwardly. ]

[loserthug]

[ ...Important, huh? Yuri's expression softened a bit, though he continued to look away. Jeez, he really did look like a girl. ]

...You've got a reason, right? ...Won't it be hard getting in and out of the dorms dressed like that?

[tsunball]

I never bothered to think about that shit before. I mean.. look at me, we're probably about the same age, right? Does anyone at our age even think about dying? I was supposed to last at least seventy more years or so!

[ He lets out a vague whine-like sound. ]

[superhacker]

[ ...

So he knows. Leon knows of his own death. It should make things easier, but instead, it weighs down on him that Kuwata-kun must be suffering because of that. He must have remembered how he died... unlike Chihiro himself. It must hurt... and because of that, Chihiro feels guilty for even slightly making him remember that. He can't help but emphatize, even if Leon marked himself with a terrible crime that earned him the execution. He sniffles again, new tears coming out.

Despite how confusing this whole situation is, he still... can't help it. ]

I'm sorry, Kuwata-kun... I'm so sorry.

[superhacker]

...

...

Okay...

[ It won't be too bad, right? Right...? At least he doesn't get to throw or receive balls... ]

[loserthug]

[ ...He was about say something like it was almost too easy to get killed on any given day. But he had a point. Normally, you wouldn't think about death till your hair was gray. Yuri finished up his bowl of ramen, starting on the one handed to him by the boy. ]

...Guess it'd be useless to ask which one this place is to you, then. [ It felt too unfamiliar, and not welcoming enough to be heaven...but it wasn't bad. He didn't like it, but objectively speaking...Argh, this was all too confusing. ]

No point in thinking about it on an empty stomach, though. [ If he was going to figure this all out...no sense in pushing himself. Even it was still uncomfortable. ]

[wwaterboy]

[His mouth works for a moment, but then his facial fins droop sadly]

I nevver wwould a thought this wwould be wwhat happens after I died. Wwhy all the humans? Wwhat kind a place is this, evven?

[superhacker]

I... I know that. I'll have to find a way, but- I can't let everyone see me here.

[ Because this is all new and he apparently got here a few hours ago, he didn't have the time to think about that. ]

[tsunball]

... Shit, I'll show you alright! [ CAN'T BACK DOWN FROM A CHALLENGE, RIGHT. ] Right now, if I have to!

[slave_of_suzumiya]

[Kyon'll notice Otonashi shooting the corks...]

... Huh, you're pretty good at this.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

You're never going to catch anything if you're that rough with the scooper.

[loserthug]

[ ...He wasn't going anywhere, at this rate. Meaning these dorms would be his place to say for who knew how long. His face contorted into a confused expression, for just amount, before he sighed.

...Well, he said it was important. As bad as his mood was, he couldn't just ignore the boy now. No way he could pull something off like this himself. He didn't look like he had a single muscle on his body. ]

...Guess we can always sneak you in and out. If it came to that.

[sulphurous]

[ baseball isn't mukuro's type of game to begin with, much less baseball in an unidentified location with strangers. he can't tell if this is a dream, or why there is a creeping feeling in the back of his mind that says there's something more pressing that he should be doing.

which is why it takes a moment for him to respond-- ]

What is it?

[tsunball]

[ Honestly, he still feels incredibly crappy about dying. Maybe deep down he realises he has some blame for the whole situation too, but he doesn't dare to consciously admit it - it's a whole can of feelings that he doesn't want to open. It's easier to blame Maizono, just think of her as some sort of crazy monster who attacked him. It's her fault, because of her he died, and he even died.. in a way like that..

He was still so young..! He had a lot of dreams left to fulfill, and--.. and now he's alive again? All of a sudden? And Fujisaki's there and oh god 'she' is going to cry again-- THIS IS NOT THE FUTURE HE HAD PICTURED FOR HIMSELF.

Still, just standing here and watching Chihiro crying makes him feel.. incredibly awkward. So slowly (so to not scare him) he walks over to his classmate, and reaaally slowly and awkwardly he moves his arm to give Chihiro the most awkward headpat ever. N-now better?! ]

.. Don't worry about it. It's.. all that retarded bear's fault, isn't it? [ that, and Maizono's, but he isn't going to yell about it now or he'll just freak Chihiro out all over again.. ]

[tsunball]

[ .. He actually thinks about it at that. Which one it is, huh.. .. It's got to be hell, definitely hell. Despite not agreeing with the fact that what happened was his fault (at least, not consciously), he knows murderers don't go to heaven. But he doesn't voice it out loud, like hell he's just going to discuss his insecurities with some stranger. ]

But if you don't think it's weird as shit that I'm supposed to be dead, then you're probably the same, right? [ At least Leon has enough common sense to figure that out, apparently. ]

[tenminutes]

I'm guessing somewhere in your memory there are a whole lot of traumatic events right? Normally I've never seen anyone but humans here but-- things were a lot different when I went to sleep yesterday. It's like everything changed overnight, people who I knew were here are gone, and now there are a bunch of newbies, a school festival, and all sorts of changes. But I'm pretty sure it should be the same basic rules or people who get into here: Something was wrong or unfair with what happened during your life and now you're stuck here, because you've got a will to live on, even after you died.

Also it's a school because pretty much all of the real people here were young enough to still be in or just out of school.

[nopinkyswears]

['Fake people'? Does she mean replicas? It isn't common knowledge, which is more than enough reason for Asch to remain on his guard. Sobering, he pulls himself to his feet, keeping a wary eye on this girl.]

What are you talking about? Do you know something about all of this?

[wwaterboy]

[His fins quiver a little at the mention of unfairness] Wwell I can sure say categorically that a lot a unfair things happened in my life. But is this a place wwhere I can make up for that? Or get revvenge, or...wwhat?

Trolls don't havve schools...

[tenminutes]

Say it ten times backward then to make sure.

[tenminutes]

Okay. I'm still working on a team so we don't have to start just yet, but this puts us at me, you, Haine, Leon, and Kyon. Only two more to meet the minimum!

[tenminutes]

Well wait until we've got the rest of a team so you can show me during a game. What's your name?