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

[thneed]

What? [ Why is she running towards him? He doesn't even have enough time to properly get up. ]

Hey wait-! [ He almost faceplants into the floor and gets dragged. ALMOST. He didn't. Thank Seuss for that. He does slip once and got up before it stopped her running off or anything though. It's hard to run with someone when they're yanking you out of an awkward sitting position (and are also like an entire foot shorter than you) ] What the heck are you doing?

[tenminutes]

Grabbing you and running because I want to talk to you but I don't want the teachers to bust me and steal this bass I stole from the music room! Obviously. [ She gives him about half a second to recover after that at least, glancing at him because wow you look.. older than she's used to for non-NPCs. Huh.

Well, she'll deal with that later. Back to running. ]

[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. ]

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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. ]

[thneed]

No? Maybe I'm not old enough to qualify as an adult. Or more likely, I don't deserve to be a snail so- [ tiny shrug ] Here I am. Yay me.

[ Midget ]

[tenminutes]

You do look kind of scrawny, but you're definitely older than you should be. If you don't want to be a snail, then don't go around doing things normally like participating in school activities. Do you have a key to a dorm room or are they making you stay outside? Check your pockets.

[ Tree killer. ]

[thneed]

The last thing I want to be doing is participating. I just want to be left alone. [ A sigh. He empties his pockets. Just the key to the apartment that is not a dorm. ] Whatever that's too.

[ Vase breaker. ]

[tenminutes]

I spent most of my life alone and I'm sick of it, so you'll just have to deal with it. What's your name? [ While she examines this key. Really, what the fuck is this for? She's never seen anything like it.

Lorax's reject. ]

[thneed]

It's better if I'm alone. What do you care what my name is? [ plus he already said it. if she wasn't listening that's her fault. He's looking at the key then taking the bass she stole, idly tuning it ] So where's that go? You're the expert on being dead, I'm guessing.

[ Life's reject ]

[tenminutes]

[ Like hell if that sounds like a real name to her. ] No idea. I'm dead too, I've just been here longer than... most people today, actually. Did all of you just die in a giant tragedy or something?

I'm Yuri and if you don't tell me your name I'm going to come up with something.

[ You're dead now too, loser. ]

[thneed]

[ Mother made it up. Sob. ] If everyone else did, I know nothing about it.

I told you my name already, Yuri. Keep your nicknames to yourself.

[ Oh yeah... ]

[tenminutes]

No you didn't, you gave me some stupid made up title you came up with. [ The fuck is a once-ler anyway.

Yuri thinks for a moment. Hm, foreign names 'cuz he's obviously not Japanese. ]

How about Jared? You look like a Jared.

[thneed]

It's not a made up title. That's my name. Take out the 'mister.'

[ slouches and gives her a dull look ]

I'm not a Jared.

[tenminutes]

I don't know, Jared Once-ler's got kind of a nice ring to it...

[thneed]

Why Jared?

[tenminutes]

I told you, you look like a Jared. You called yourself "Mister Once-ler" anyway right? That implies it's your last name.

[thneed]

The Once-ler. It's not a Jared Once- ...You know what I don't even care. Fine.

[tenminutes]

Your first name is The?

[thneed]

Yes. Can we move on?

[tenminutes]

Sure, The. What were we on again?

[thneed]

Don't call me that. We're on key. What do I do with that key?