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

[loserthug]

...I got three years on you. Eighteen for me. [ She still had a point, though...it didn't make any sense. Not...that really believed in anything way. But even if he didn't have anything to expect...she was right, this didn't feel right. He stopped walking. ]

I'm gonna guess you were religious or something, huh?

[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?

[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.

[marumayu]

[ Her understanding of a knight is different from his. Knights were a certain class of her own kind - that is, ]

Were you... were you an exorcist?

[loserthug]

[ A...what? He gave her a weird look, a mix of sort of surprise and annoyance. Did it sound like he said that? ]

I said I was a knight. I don't believe in spirits or ghosts or whatever. [ He sighed. ] Those things don't even have anything to do with each other--well, I guess I fought monsters.

[marumayu]

A knight is an exorcist, you moron. [ Duh, Yuri, get it right. ] And those monsters were most likely demons.

[ He can't mean the sort of knights that served their lords, right? That's so 12th century. ]

[loserthug]

[ Was this girl listening to a thing he was saying? ]

No. Just a knight. No exorcism. Just armor. Serving the empire. That kind of stuff. [ He sighed. ] You don't have that stuff wherever you're from, huh?

[marumayu]

[ Okay, she snorted at "serving the empire". ]

No, empires don't exist anymore. [ Izumo is looking at him and trying to imagine him in bulky armor. It's not helping - the whole idea amuses her. ]

[loserthug]

[ ...Anymore? Well, he was right that she obviously didn't have them wherever she came from. ]

...You mean they're gone for you? [ Jeez, what kind of place is this? It was the after life, right? But every time he talked to someone, they always described a home that sounded nothing like where he lived... ] So we come from different times. Maybe even different planets, huh...

[marumayu]

[ Back to frowning. ]

Before you say anything, I'm not an alien. [ Just because she has weird eyebrows doesn't mean she's not human! ]

[loserthug]

Wasn't gonna say that. [ Though that was kind of what he implied with his words, huh? ]

...Either way, it doesn't matter. We're stuck here. I've tried leaving before. It's just had me going in circles.

[marumayu]

You've got to be kidding.

[ Maybe it's a demon, she almost says, but then she remembers she's already dead.

Possibly dead?

She doesn't remember the details too well, but that memory of falling really stands out for her. ]

Then what are we supposed to do? Stay here until we rot? [ Wait, they can't do that. ] Ah. Well, if this isn't heaven, there has to be a way there from here. Common sense.

[ She turns around and starts walking back to the school. Weren't they looking for the dorms, though... ]

[loserthug]

[ Don't look at him like he's behind all of this...before he can even get another word out, she's already turning back to the school. He was going to say something about the dorms but...whatever. He didn't care either. With no where else to go, he just followed behind her. ]

This is assuming heaven and hell even exist. For all we know, this is it.

[marumayu]

[ She instantly - and rather harshly - replies, ] I told you, I can't accept that.

[ And she never will. ]

It's getting late, so I'll look for the end of the barrier tomorrow.

[loserthug]

[ He sighed. ]

I just said. It doesn't end. You don't think I've tried?

[marumayu]

Idiot. There has to be a spell stopping us from leaving.

[ Not that she knows much about spells like those, but she feels as if her mind will be more at ease if she takes a look at it. ]

Besides... I want to confirm it for myself.

[loserthug]

[ ..He had to admire that, at least. Not just sitting down and accepting this whole stupid situation. ]

Hm. You good with barrier magic or something?

[marumayu]

N-no! But I know a thing or two! [ That may or may not be a lie. She'd hate to admit she didn't know anything about it now that he asked. ]

[loserthug]

[ Hm. Well, a thing or two was better than anything he knew. ]

If it'll get us out of here, I won't complain. [ He highly doubted it was a barrier, or an illusion. But then again...he came here out of no where too. How would he explain that? ]

...so how would this spell be working, then?

[marumayu]

I've seen barriers created with the help of spiritual energy. Some need to be concentrated on for them to be in effect. Others are made with ofuda, pebbles, bamboo, rope - have you heard of this? We should have them around our shrine back home. [ should because she can't even remember if they had one ] But you know, I've never heard of a barrier that loops around.

[loserthug]

Hmm...I don't think we really had that. Our barriers were made of magic. I'm not sure how they really worked...but no looping here either. [ Sounded like they were just walking back to square one. ]

...I guess it'd be hard to examine anything, in this darkness.

[marumayu]

[ Subsequently trips. ]

Y-yeah! I'll do it tomorrow...

[loserthug]

Yeah. Sounds like a good idea. [ Though he turned to look at their surroundings. Unfamiliar buildings, didn't help it was pitch black with lampposts far and in between. Looked like they had wandered onto the baseball field while talking. ]

We're lost, by the way.