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

[youthbuster]

What's so weird about a festival? Don't you wanna eat noodles?!

[youthbuster]

Yes. He really is. He goes far beyond what people normally go for others. I have the highest respect for him. He's really someone you could count on, for anything.

It's a shame you couldn't join our team, I would've loved to see your pitching hand. [Because you look like you could pitch something fierce!]

[sleepybuster]

[Kyousuke's just rolling with it, unsurprisingly... sorry, Leon --]

I don't think the noodles are what the problem is here, Kyousuke... [But if Leon wants to, Riki'll do it...?! I mean, Kyousuke seems so keen on this and all..]

[wwaterboy]

[Mutters:] Wwell, it's not as though it'd take long. [He sniffs faintly] Anywway, I don't wwant to wwaste your vvaluable time. I'll go find it myself.

[thneed]

What if I don't want to talk to you and - why did you steal that? You can't even play. [ He straightens himself out enough to not have to lean over when she pulls him along. Once-ler is giving her such an annoyed look and let out an exasperated sigh when she went back to running.

He could have pulled himself back. He knows he could. He could just yank his hand free from this girl and go off somewhere else. But he's not. Someone wants to talk to him and grabbed his hand. So he'll just go along and see. ...Begrudgingly. Pretending he has no choice in the matter. ]

[tsunball]

W-.. what, no, not a nickname! [ although that's more since he's too afraid it'd be embarassing, although.. maybe he should give it a chance? ]

Unless it's a cool one!

[instrumented]

[Try several thousand years after the destruction of civilization.

A shake of his head.]

Whoever that person is, they weren't a part of my world, I suppose.

[potatochips]

[ He's thinking about that. She's small and looks fragile but they're not up high enough to guarantee her neck would snap. Grass below too, not concrete. He eyes the window then motions up ]

Just thinking. We should try the roof to make sure this works.

[tenminutes]

Your world?

[ It's entirely possible that there are brain cells missing here. OR that talking to Kyon made her consider the possibility. ]

Are you an alien?

[instrumented]

[What the? ]

No.

[This is just bizarre.]

I woke in this place without any idea how or why. Nothing here is familiar. [. . . except the existence of ramen. u_u]

[tenminutes]

[ Yuri takes a few moments to consider a good nickname, then.. ]

How about just "Leo"?

[tenminutes]

I can still point you in the right direction, you know.

[tenminutes]

[ Once they're outside, she pulls him behind the building so that the teachers go running off straight because obviously that's the only direction they could go!!

And Yuri finally turns to him and answers. ]

One, it seemed like fun. Two, it got the attention of someone who wasn't an NPC. Three? It caught the attention of someone in the audience who was both a real person and an adult. Which is weird.

[tenminutes]

Oh. You died, that's why. This is an afterlife.

[thneed]

[ He lets out a breath and looks around, pausing for a second to poke at ... a vine or something on the side of the building before looking at her oddly ]

How is that weird? The entire situation is weird. And Of course, I'm a real person. I didn't even realize that was an issue.

[ beat ]

What's an NPC? A member of the Nuisance People Control?

[sulphurous]

I took a wrong turn and ended up at this school. But the most troubling thing is that I can't see to leave.

[tenminutes]

Non-player character. It basically means fake people. Most of those people you were sitting with weren't actually humans. It's weird because I"ve never seen any dead adults here before, only young people.

[ Old. ]

[thneed]

Fake people. No kidding.

[ Shortie. ]

So wait. Never? Wow. Ha! Okay. I didn't even do that right. [ claps hands together ] Congratulations on your painful death, Mister Once-ler! Unfortunately, our adult afterlife is all filled up so you have to sit at the kiddy table.

[getchanceandluck]

[He stands there and wiggles his arms. He looks pretty okay, if he could say so himself. But instead... he spins in a circle and gives Luke a thumbs up.

Now what are you doing? Burning things?]

[sunflowering]

Her heart was heavy in her chest. The sound of it filled her own ears. She stared at the scissors within his hand, at a loss for words. To begin with she had never imagined a time when he would have offered it so freely. Let alone now that he had somehow turned human. Blank faced she opened her mouth soundlessly, before it shut again.It was one thing for him to tell her he had done this only a week ago, but still another to experience it personally now.

There was no doubt that she greatly longed for and desired his blood. Her large eyes, normally brown, were flecked with patches of crimson. Full of unease, she glanced back up to him, slightly wary. Zero wouldn't trick her, she knew him much better than that. But this was more than she had ever expected.

"You're human again, but even so you still-- "

She cut off. It was his precious blood. Not something he could throw out so easily. She shook her head.

"You said before you shared your blood because of our coinciding interests, in regards to the situation at home. But we don't understand anything here." Even her abilities were gone. She was useless, but still very much a vampire. "Why now..."

[instrumented]

[Ugh.] So I've been hearing.

What's the proof? I wouldn't have forgotten dying.

[warmed]

Of course!

[instrumented]

"Because there's no other way," Zero was almost a bit too quick to respond. It was easy to pick up on why Yuuki was behaving the way she was. Why she spoke such things.

Zero understood, too, however he remained firm with her.

"Why now?" He repeated. "Because there likely are no blood tablets here, Yuuki, and—" his hold on the scissors tightened a bit at the thought. ". . . And I don't want you to have to go to strangers. I can tell you're starved, and I just know you won't do well for whatever we have to do in this place if you let yourself go crazy."

[ignites]

No - I'm not dead -- I was just - [ In district thirteen.

With Peeta's hands wrapped around my neck. Crushing it. Choking me. ]

I can't be dead.

[tenminutes]

The adults don't get an afterlife, they just have to deal with whatever it was they did and get reincarnated accordingly. So if you were a crappy person, your soul ends up as a sea snail!

[ Lanky. ]