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

[marumayu]

Let's just say I've had a lot of experience with things that aren't of this world. I am from a long line of shrine maidens. [ and proud of it. she stopped walking as soon as he did. ]

... What about you?

[sleepybuster]

[A nod.] Yeah. I'll see you later then, Kamiki-san.

[fortepian]

[That is just rude. Frederic was attempting to be polite and with treatment like this that just goes away.]

Being in such a situation is scary in the beginning. Enjoy the show.

[And he does walk back to his own seat. If that's how he will act then Frederic won't make any big show of trying to help. This isn't his own dream and if this is some place after death, Frederic doesn't know the rules. He won't help someone if this is how it goes. Not that he's even sure he can help.]

[fortepian]

I'm afraid I have never heard of such places. [They're nothing even like his own dream.] Does this strange place hold more than one...? [That was mostly muttering to himself.]

If you wouldn't mind a question for yourself, could you tell me your last memory? I'm sorry for such a personal question.

[asquiet]

[Nezumi takes one of the hoops. He needs to keep his accuracy up go for with perfect aim. Gives it a toss after a few moments and guess what?

It reaches its target. Nezumi turns around.]

Simple. [That smirk on his face won't leave any time soon.]

[asquiet]

So why should we pity him? Including the fact he does not exist.

[tsunball]

...

[ there's just a stare. you're being judged by a guy who sort of looks like a rooster, rin, just imagine that.. ]

Dude, aren't you confused at all?!

[asquiet]

[He will rain on her parade all he likes.]

Whether or not I believe in gods or if your gods are wonderful doesn't matter. That thought process is old and tired. I'm not interested. Unless you have reasonable proof your gods are here I think your gods are worth as much as someone's shit right now. Or they view you as that.

[Oh yeah, he's being unreasonably mean right now.]

[sunflowering]

"If it's not what others have said it is, then who is responsible?"

That was the most pressing matter. At least, in her mind, at the moment. Despite whatever her body or anyone else might say. She stared at the ground, a look of concentration clear on her face.

"The chairman? At the very least, I can't imagine anyone else would have as many answers."

It didn't account for how she couldn't recall an interuption to her life. She had only just seen him, and had been within the middle of a conversation with Maria. Eyes shut, she lifted a hand to rake her fingers through her long hair. It gave her a moment to pause and think. This itself was odd, wasn't it? She swallowed the itch within the back of her throat and glanced back up to him.

"You're fine with this...? I mean, working together to figure this out... "

[sunflowering]

'God', huh...

[She's not sure what to make of that. If Yuuki thinks about it, she's never been overly religious.]

[loserthug]

[ A shrine maiden, huh? Yeah, his guess was on the right track. Of course she'd feel like this whole thing was wrong. However, when she directed the question right back at him, he hesitated. Not because of what he was, but...

The memory was still all too vivid. He caught himself, turning to answer her. ]

...I was a knight. That's all. I didn't do anything religious, didn't need to.

/plays dirty.

[nopinkyswears]

[The motion does little more than snap Asch back to the here and now. If that's supposed to make him think twice, it really isn't working. The return glare he shoots at Luke is one of undisguised contempt, and an obvious challenge. Just try it.]

I think I know very well who I am!

[Asch snorts, his scowl transforming into a mocking sneer.] What's the matter, "Luke"? Does seeing my face bother you?

[nopinkyswears]

More than one what?

[Really. Is everyone in this place cracked or is this all part of some elaborate scheme that makes no sense? Or maybe...they really don't know? That still doesn't seem possible. How could anyone not know about one of the two major countries of the world?]

[Asch raises a hand to his chin contemplatively. He might be able to learn something if he plays along, as much as he dislikes revealing things about himself. How much should he say?]

It was nighttime in Baticul. I was...discussing an important matter with my superior.

[instrumented]

"I have absolutely no idea who could be responsible," Zero replied. It was the flat out truth. Who had that kind of power, anyway?

He watched her for a moment, mulling over what she just asked him. Hadn't they already decided to work together?

"Yuuki." He started. "What is the last thing you remember, from home?"

[sunflowering]

It wasn't like it had been all that pleasant. Even Maria's words had left a bitter taste in her mouth. Watching him, she shrugged, a touch uncomfortable. For her, it had been a little awkward.

"I was talking with Maria-san. Prior to that you had delivered a message to me that Ichijou-senpai wanted to talk."

[instrumented]

"That's—" His eyes visibly widened. (What in the. . .)

A shake of his head. "That happened at least a week ago, for me."

[sunflowering]

She blinked. That didn't make sense. Could he just be mistaken?

"It isn't like before. I shouldn't have any sort of amnesia."

And absolutely nothing out of the ordinary had happened. There was nothing-

"Except..."

No. She shook her head. That was more of a feeling, regardless. She hadn't ever been shot. She would have remembered that clearly.

"Zero, that can't be right. Time couldn't just stop for one of us."

[instrumented]

"It shouldn't be right, but it is. Just like we couldn't have been dragged to some weird new place without being aware of it, but we were, and now we're here."

How to even begin this. . .

"Tell me. So you don't remember when I brought Maria back to her dorms, then took you out by the forest's edge to give you my blood?"

[sunflowering]

That was enough to definitely alarm her. Wide eyed, she stared up at him in shock. Slowly she shook her head

"I would definitely remember something like-- "

Again she blinked.

"You offered your...? But..." Last he had been awful cold toward her.

[instrumented]

The flow of time had most certainly been skewed. He was sure of it, now.

He offers a single, perhaps solemn nod. "I did. For our coinciding interests. You.—" Zero glances away briefly, frowning some. "I offered my wrist, but you took from my throat. You were rather unsure about the whole thing, but admitted to needing help, and. . . that you craved my blood."

[sunflowering]

A touch of red flushed her cheeks. He said it so calmly, yet something like that would definitely be major for her! She opened her mouth, but only accomplished a faint stammer.

"W-Well..." She didn't have a response to that. If she protested it would be a lie. And he had already experienced it, apparently.

"I see...?"

Their coinciding interests? To stop Kaname? She turned away, arms wrapped back around herself. It didn't help that at that very moment, she was starved for blood. His crimson life that flooded through his veins echoed in her ears. Ignore it, Ignore it...

With a breath, she tried to steady herself.

"That...what I last remember, when you saw me before Maria-san's unpleasant interruption..." Her words tumbled out, slightly jumbled. She wasn't sure exactly what she was trying to get at either. "That time was my first time taking a blood tablet. Because it had been forbidden before, so it was...difficult for me." She bit down on one of her nails, before her fingers curled in against her mouth.

"Naturally Zero smells very tempting." ... "Err...smelled tempting," she tried to correct. Her breath released in a sigh. It was best to just be honest right now.

"At the manor I always thought about home and you. So even though leaving the manor had been out of the question, I did, especially when hungry, crave Zero's blood."

[instrumented]

"I know," he calmly replied. Her confusion, Zero supposed, was only natural. It was okay.

Zero understood what she was saying, as well. He clearly remembered seeing Yuuki when she was taking the tablets.

"A lot of things have happened since then, Yuuki," Zero finally met her gaze again, brows knit. Kaname Kuran was a large part of that, too.

"If you want. . . " He started, a little unsure at first. Zero let the words linger as he glanced around the room again. There was a desk near the front corner by the darkened window. He made his way over and began to rummage through one of the drawers. Most of its contents was pens, paperclips, a stapler—

A letter opener and a pair of scissors, too.

Zero picked up the latter. They were sharper than the rather dull blade of a letter opener.

"Yuuki." He walked back over to her, resolve settling in as he gauged her reaction while he began to roll up one of his sleeves.

"You can see what has happened, if you want." A heavy pause. "I know you're thirsty right now, especially if you're truly from when you say you are."

[tenminutes]

I told her to smile to prove she was human and she wouldn't. She hasn't denied it at all.

[ Because she's too awkward to keep up with Yuri, but.. ]

[tenminutes]

Were you living under a rock or what?

Or are you from a different time? What year was it?

[tenminutes]

Well that's who'd be in charge of an afterlife right?