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

[instrumented]

Zero, more than anyone, knew the impossibility of becoming human again. Yuuki's qhock was not beyond him.

"It seems that way," he managed; clearly puzzled just as she was. A hand lifted briefly to his lips. "It's all gone. My fangs. . . everything."

A shake of his head, that hand further went to rake through his hair. "I don't know. I don't know."

[mashou]

[ he's watching it, and even though it's kind of boring... it's sad!! it's really sad!!

so there's a kid sobbing grossly into his food watching the play now. ]

1/3

[marumayu]

I have a name!

[marumayu]

[ she turns around to address whoever said that, but when she sees that it's him, she begins to feel a strange mix of emotions. ]

You...

[ there's happiness, sadness... ]

done

[marumayu]

[ and envy OMG ]

What are you doing here? And how did you get that much!?

[marumayu]

[ Izumo bites her lip. Getting her mistakes pointed out to her... how embarrassing. ]

Tch, you may sound like a famous voice actor, but that's none of your business. [ She pulls her sleeves up, but she does take his advice in mind. ]

[marumayu]

[ Haine, you're endearing. Izumo doesn't think so, though. ]

What an idiot. They're not going to willingly jump out of the water if you call out to them like that.

[marumayu]

[ the chances are pretty much even at this point... ]

Haaaah?! I never wanted to service you in the first place! Since I'm not getting paid for this, it only makes sense that I choose whom I want to serve! And I refuse to serve the likes of you!

[tenminutes]

[ It's more like she enjoys seeing certain guys squirm when she starts accusing them of sexual harassment than actually caring. Hell, she's worse than most of the boys when it comes to saying things for the purpose of getting a rise out of someone.

Instead of pulling away this time, she reaches over and grabs his hand, trying to pull him up. It's an actual friendly gesture this time. ]

If you don't believe me then you can try dying if you want. It won't work. You'll still feel the pain and everything, but basically you can't stay hurt, injured, disabled, or dead here. As for magic, I've never seen it here before either, just Angel. But I can't find her and she hasn't tried to take me out for doing a lot of different things that she normally would have. It's safe to say that she's not here, which means we don't have any connection to God right now. Not that we know anyway. I'm definitely going to find one though.

[ Yep, just rambling right along.. ]

[sunflowering]

A hand lifted to cover her mouth. Then it was true. Wasn't it? Nothing else in this place made sense. It was like a whole different world. She couldn't come up with another explanation. But it wasn't the one she wanted to believe, either.

Her knees felt weak. Kneeling down, she shook her head while she tried to coop with the cold, hard facts. Her tongue slicked out to wet her lips.

"Y-You shouldn't be here."

[marumayu]

[ Crumpling the paper in her hand once more, she furrows her eyebrows and stands her ground. In a new place like this, one must always take caution.

This man doesn't look like he's from Japan at all... ]

I'm not even entirely sure where here is.

Go on. Aren't you here to laugh?

[onewayroad]

[Luckily, Accelerator has never seen the point in getting flustered over such trivial and possibly stupid matters, so he can't drum up enough shits to give over that sort of accusation. She takes his hand before he can pull it away, and he almost doesn't let her pull him up. A heavy frown is set on his face, still directed at her, brows knit together.]

I have only two things to say to that right now. One, I don't remember dying. I was in the airport waiting to board a flight when I woke up out here. Two . . . What's this 'angel' you're talking about? I can't say I know much about them in general, but I've met some before. What the hell would they be doing here?

[tenminutes]

No, because there aren't any. There aren't hospitals, doctors, anything like that. There's a nurse's office, but it's mostly just if you get taken out and it's less messy than taking you to your room because blood doesn't automatically clean itself up.

[tenminutes]

Yuri Nakamura! Just Yuri is fine though. [ She takes a few steps closer, examining his ears. ] So if you're a troll, why do you have fins? Are you a water-troll or something? [ It's like a sea horse, except the troll version. ]

[tenminutes]

So how did you know not to eat it?

[tenminutes]

Okay, give me a brief of your skill set so I can get you doing something appropriate.

[instrumented]

Yuuki's distress was tangible; more so than Zero would ever care to admit, even to himself. His stomach knotted. This wasn't right. Not at all.

"Yuuki. . .?" Barely uttered. Tension like fire ran through his person.

Another tentative step forward, a breath away from reaching to lay a hand atop Yuuki's head. Although it didn't. Not just yet.

Zero started again. "What. . . do you mean? Neither of us should be."

[tenminutes]

They won't make trouble. Some of them might react if you do, but they won't even remember the next day.

Who's Van and what are the Dark Wings? I told you, you're dead.

[tenminutes]

Sometimes if people die and it involves head trauma, their memories will get screwed up. I remember my death. Angel's a supernatural creature shaped like a human but she's not human and not one of the NPCs. She normally would be enforcing the rules here, violently if necessary, but I don't know where she went so she's obviously not doing anything here. [ Shortly. ] Keep up.

[wwaterboy]

[The fins spread a bit as she looks at them] Yeah, though wwe call it a sea troll, not wwater. [He draws himself up a little, pulling the cape around himself regally] It denotes my high fuckin' status wwithin our society. These fins mean I'm not only important, but a member a fuckin' actual royalty.

[tenminutes]

[ He fits in perfectly with the ocean creatures theme-- ]

As an F-Y-I, I couldn't care less if you're royalty or not. [ Not one bit. ]

[wwaterboy]

[His jaw drops, and he quickly struggles to regain his poise] Wwell, you ought a care, because I don't take kindly to rudeness. If you wwant me to followw you in your little rebellion, then you'd better givve me wwhat I'm due.

[onewayroad]

[rises very slowly on his own, eyes still narrowed at her. Nope, still doesn't want to believe that he's dead, even if only because he wants something more conclusive.]

Just how many people do you expect to believe this sort of shit easily, outta curiosity? I will admit there are a lot of unexplainable things going on, but I can't automatically go, "Oh, I'm dead, you must be telling the truth." I have unfinished business to return to.

[he can return to the topic of Angel after this, because whether or not he accepts this, angels are a sticky topic, and he doesn't like the sound of these NPCs.]

[tenminutes]

[ Raises hand in front of her. ] Former member of the upper class too. We're all the same here, no matter what you were before, unless you're better at something. Being rich or high-class or whatever doesn't mean anything.

[tenminutes]

You were miserable, right? Something precious got stolen from you, or you didn't have control over your life. Maybe you were sick or disabled or abused or forced into something before you knew how to say no.