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

[tenminutes]

Maybe even 62.4%.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

[Just... this face, Yuri.]

[tenminutes]

You look so pathetic right now, Kyon.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

What kind of look do you expect? I'm dead and I barely remember a thing about who exactly I am.

[tenminutes]

On the bright side, you're in a maid cafe.

Speaking of, don't forget to eat. Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't starve or that you don't need to breathe.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

(I guess that's true, but...)

... Why the hell do dead people need to eat or breathe anyway? I mean, it's not like we're going to become any deader.

[tenminutes]

Because it's supposed to be "normal."

[slave_of_suzumiya]

If being dead is all just "normal", then what was the point of being alive if it's no different?

[tenminutes]

Because no one here got the chance to live a normal life.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

I guess... But it's not like leaving your life behind automatically makes everything better either.

(... I wonder what kind of life I had anyway? I mean, I just started blurting things about aliens before as if it was no big deal...)

[tenminutes]

I know that. It doesn't make up for anything.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

I mean, if they really wanted to give you a chance to live a normal life, they should've sent you to wherever your siblings are...

[tenminutes]

No one gets a second chance at life, Kyon. Otherwise this place wouldn't be so bad.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

I suppose there's not much we can do about it, huh? I mean, it's not like you can go back and change how things happened...

(I wonder what she'd be like if her siblings had survived... Would she be an entirely different person?)

[tenminutes]

That's why I keep fighting, obviously.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

What do you hope to achieve in the end though?

[tenminutes]

[ That's.. not something she wants to say outloud. ]

To prove that I can show God that I have something worth fighting for.

[ That's the closest that she'll get. ]

[slave_of_suzumiya]

So, you're not planning on getting anything out of it? Other than the satisfaction of having taken on god, that is...

[tenminutes]

You can't undo the past. There's nothing else I'd want from it.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

What would you do afterwards then?

[tenminutes]

[ Maybe then she'll have made it up to them. ]

Who knows?

[slave_of_suzumiya]

... When you put it like that, it makes it sound like you're not planning to come back alive.

(... Even if we're dead already.)

[tenminutes]

[ She cracks a smile. GOOD ONE KYON. ]

I didn't know you had a sense of humor!

[slave_of_suzumiya]

What I meant was, you make it sound like you won't be coming back from it at all like that!

[tenminutes]

It's not that, I just don't know what'll happen. That's not exactly something you can prepare for!