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.

Comments

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Why should I say it backwards!?

(Riyu Ramukana doesn't sound familiar either though.)

[superhacker]

[ While in the midst of trying to wipe at his eyes in vain, Chihiro feels something that's been placed on the top of his head... it's warm. When he opens his eyes again, he sees that Leon got closer and now he's... patting his head. Between feeling scared or relieved to feel the touch, have the proof that indeed Leon Kuwata is alive and well... he struggles to choose the latter. He's still one of his classmates, and it means Chihiro is no longer alone here. They can stick together and find out what's going on... together, right?

He finally finds some little courage in himself to look up at Leon, shaking like a little scared rabbit. ]

Monobear's fault... [ ... That's definitely it. They didn't accept to be locked in the school and psychologically tortured. It all happened because of their kidnapper's sadistic idea! He nods weakly, sniffling. ] It's- it's true...

[superhacker]

[ Eh? Did he just imply that he's... going to help out? ]

You will...?

[nopinkyswears]

[Well, that does it! Asch instinctively leaps to his feet, looking around for the first something - anything - he can use as a weapon. That something turns out to be a(n) plastic axe yanked out of one of the skulls scattered across a table, but the axe is too light in his hands. Absolutely useless!]

Hey! What the hell is going on in here?! Where--!

[That's when Asch is knocked backwards by the near-collision. He fumbles for a handhold, and ends up grabbing onto the edge of a black sheet hanging from the ceiling. It promptly gives, spilling sunlight into the room.]

[tenminutes]

Geez, isn't there anyone besides me who's been around for more than a day? You're in the afterlife. Most of the students aren't real people. They're like.. robots, or NPCs from a video game. They also might be flesh, I don't know, but there's a chance they won't just recover if you hurt them like we will so don't interfere with them.

[tenminutes]

That's tough to say. There's no access to the world of the living, not that I know about at least, but... we can't die again. So if there were ever a time to get revenge, it'd be now. I'm personally aiming a little higher than a regular revenge plot though-- I want rebel.

Of course, if you want to just disappear and let your soul get reincarnated into whoever, go for it.

[tenminutes]

Well you're definitely going to get it stuck in your head that way right? Because you'll be consciously thinking about the characters in my name, only backward. That way you definitely won't forget from here on out.

late afternoon just outside the forest

[onewayroad]

[Accelerator can't stop staring at his hands. Something is seriously wrong here. For one, the choker and wires he normally has to wear to remain functional are gone, and same with his cane, and yet he's able to move, think, speak, and calculate normally. What the ever loving hell? For another, when he tries to use his ability, nothing comes of it. He can see the calculations in his head, but nothing happens to the reality around him. Something's wrong with his Personal Reality. Or maybe his AIM field.

And third . . . his hands and face/throat are covered in sunburn. The latter he hasn't seen yet, but he can feel it when poking at his face. Jesus fucking Christ what the hell.]

Tch.

[he gives a tree on the outskirts of the forest a healthy kick, trying to shatter some of the wood in the trunk. Nothing happens.

You can probably find him kicking the tree over and over, slowly growing more irritated until he finally stops.]

[tenminutes]

[ Yuri had been off to go take a look at something, but when she saw this dude just going around kicking trees, she had to stop and take a seat on a tree stump nearby.

AKA: She's popcorn.gif'ing without the actual popcorn. ]

[onewayroad]

[At first he's too occupied to notice her, but once he stops he happens to turn around and . . . well, there someone is. Someone who had better provide him with answers. He holds up one hand and wags a finger at her]

Who the hell are you, what are you doing here, and what the hell is going on?

[The last he remembered, he was waiting in the airport for his flight to board. Just what the hell sort of trick was this?]

Are you from GREMLIN?

[perhaps too direct, but they already knew who he was. Might as well not beat around the bush.]

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Like I could forget an eccentric like you anyway...

[tenminutes]

Do I look like a gremlin to you? I could tell you but with you being so rude and angry I think I might just pass. [ She shrugs, nonchalantly. ]

[tsunball]

.. You can't just fire me up like that and then make me wait! [ GEEZ, YURI. But fine, Leon will wait a little bit more, he's.. lazy either way.. ]

And it's Leon, Leon Kuwata. Haven't you heard of me before? I'm a big star, y'know!

[ .. slightly exaggerated, when it comes to baseball, but.. ]

[tenminutes]

Well obviously you forgot whoever it is I remind you of.

[tenminutes]

Not even once! I'm Yuri Nakamura. Yuri is fine though, unless you want to go with a nickname in which case it's Yurippe, just because I don't want to find out what kind of dumber nickname someone could come up with.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

You said yourself that it'd be a side effect of dying, right? It's not like I'm going to get double amnesia or anything.

{ SEMI-OPEN / Yuuki } nightfall / around campus

[instrumented]

It was akin to a dream. Hazy, befuddling, awkward. The only sure thing was the fact that this was not home, at all. Not the Academy, nor the Association.

Not even the air about the place was familiar, and that was possibly the most unnerving.

The ramen eating contest from early only held Zero's attention for so long. The copious amount of wasabi in his fourth bowl was where he decided to draw the line. Since then, he'd begun to scope out the campus.

It was bound to happen at some point or another. The very real fact that his fangs were gone began to sink in not long after he began to eat. Now, apart from the not recognizing his surroundings, it was by far the most curious thing Zero has likely ever experienced.

Not to mention, the lack of bloodlust was profound. To think, he actually forgot what it used to be like to not have any cravings. . .

It's almost enough to make Zero grin with delight, if it weren't so confusing.

He's a ways away from where the festival was being held - maybe around the library building or so? - when he's hit with a very peculiar (however familiar) scent.

( Yuuki? Where. . .? )

Newly determined, Zero quickens his pace a touch, seeking out what he believes to be her.

Had she awoken in this strange place as well?


[ooc: Again, this is a thread for Yuuki and Zero to meet up for the first time, but it's also open if anyone else wants to come across him as he explores!]

[onewayroad]

[gives her one hell of an eyeroll and starts walking toward her]

They're not literal gremlins, brat. Quit wasting time and tell me.

[he reaches out to grab the front of her uniform. Just because his powers appear to be inaccessible for the moment doesn't mean he can't use a bit of force.]

[loserthug]

[ He looked to the boy, who responded with surprise, before scowling. He wasn't just gonna let his secret get revealed. Not if it was important. ]

I'm only gonna do as much as I can. You gotta put some effort into it too, you know.

[tenminutes]

It could be a side-effect of dying. Or you could secretly be part goldfish, I barely know you so it's not like I know.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

I thought you said you knew how this place worked?

[tenminutes]

Hands off or I'll give you the answer the hard way. [ She doesn't seem to be threatened at all by that movement, but she's definitely going to poke his eyes out if he doesn't move. ]

[tenminutes]

I said I've been here a while and I've seen enough to know what's going on. I know the basics, but it's not like I'm an expert in brain death. [ That's what he's got, obviously. ]

[loserthug]

[ ...Dead. Yeah. Soon the images that he had seen, just moments before passing away, flooding into his head like the water in to his lungs...tch. He looked at the ramen. He understood why the guy didn't want to eat now. ]

...Yeah. Something like that.

[onewayroad]

[Accelerator chooses not to heed her warning, and closes his hand around the material at the front of her uniform, trying to tug her close]

Threats don't work on me. Just spit it out. The quicker you do, the quicker we can be done with this bullshit.