02 - week two

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WEEK TWO

When the glitter settles and everyone returns to their dorms - or wherever they intend to sleep for the night, if you’re planning on sleeping at all - your first week of school officially ends. Perhaps it was better than you expected, perhaps it was worse.

Hopefully you learned a bit more about teamwork and school spirit.

Still, this course is going to run for longer than a full week, and come Sunday morning you’re still exactly as you were when you settled down for the night. Still in Estelline, still with that mark on your wrist, still connected to your partner. There are some changes, though. The bookstore has received quite a few books, and those of you who added to the bulletin board and pep rally tasks in the first week will find an envelope taped to their dorm door (or themselves, if they spent the night elsewhere). Inside of the envelope is some kind of voucher! Furthermore, the common area is covered in a bunch of glitter.

Also, there are a ton of eggs in the kitchen – at least 10 dozens.

Florence or Lorelei are still available, should you wish to speak to them.

Finally, you've got some new locations to explore.


SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

TASK LIST

CLUMSINESS AFFECT DETAILS (BEGINS TUESDAY ICLY)

W2 CYOA SIGNUPS
CYOA Signups for Week 2 close Sunday, May 29th at 6pm EST.

THREAD SURVEY
Google form for partner threads, due by Friday, June 3rd at 6pm EST. Optional.

W3 CYOA SIGNUPS
CYOA Signups for Week 3 close Friday, June 3rd at 6pm EST.

OOC NOTE

OOC: Anyone who performed in the Pep Rally (Sabo, Madara, Riku, Shizuku, Herlock, Idia, Flat, Miach) task will be able to redeem a voucher for a prize with one of the NPCs. This can be handwaved, and the prize selection is below.

-Single-serve coffee machine wither a selection of creamer. Comes with packs of coffee beans.
-Popcorn maker and kernels.
-High-quality tea kettle with a selection of just as high-quality tea.
-Carbonation machine (think Sodastream, etc) with flavored syrup.

Any coffee, tea, popcorn, etc. will last characters up to two weeks.

Anyone who participated in the Bulletin Board task will receive a voucher for your choice of two pairs colorful socks with cute animal designs. (Worry frog design available.)

FULL NAV

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Comments

[magicam]

[Cater's still not entirely sure if it's a good thing that they've taken these steps, but... well. Either this is all a strange dream (unlikely) or... this friendship will be just as brief and fleeting as all the others. It won't matter in the end, anyway, and if this course wants him to be vulnerable: here it is. With anyone other than the one person who will remember it at home.]

Hah... you could totally say that...

[People sure are almost dying in school. Often. Because that's a normal thing that happens.]

Well, someone had to...

[And yet, the fact of the matter was, he could have left it up to Sabo entirely... and didn't. He handled a decent chunk of it, and they solved it in time.]

Hmhmmm~ I think you might be totes scared of my world if I told you everything, too, yanno?

[He's teasing, sure, but also... he can't be sure that whatever is normal in Madara's world would prepare him for his own.]

[festiverogue]

[In Madara's world, it's the average everyday people who are the real monsters. Insidious stuff he wants to distance himself from... and yet, he can't. Because he'll do anything to make sure nobody else dirties their hands.]

Ohoooo? Scaaary worlds for both of us! That's not what I want to hear. Cay's world, please cut Cay a break~

[He moves in a little closer and drops a hand on Cater's shoulder.]

I'm gonna consider it a date: we'll swap stories. I can't lose, even if you are cute.

[magicam]

[And, well, it's much the same in Cater's, except... the scars the everyday monsters leave behind can breed real, actual monsters. Ideally, no one should have to deal with them, and yet...]

Haha, there's a totally normal culture fest coming up, but he just knoooows something'll go wrong there, too, yanno?

[Hopefully the worst thing that happens is that the Light Music Club fails it's audition because of Lilia being Lilia and Kalim being Kalim, but. We all know that's not the worst that happens in Pomefiore chapter.

And then Madara's hand is on his shoulder, and he's going on about a date, and him being cute, and, hey, is that a blush? Just a light one? Sure is.]

Cute? After all this? You're really trying hard to get that 'kyaa~' out of Cay, aren't you? Buuut it's totes a date.

[festiverogue]

[They'll have a lot to talk about if either of them ever find the headspace to do it. Madara's weirdly counting on that, because there's just something about Cater that makes him think too hard when he's trying to parse the guy out. It does feel suspiciously like being Seen, but he's kind enough in his heart to let it pass without pointing it out.]

After all what? I happen to think heroes are suuuuper cute and cool. And that's the role you got handed yesterday. Cay just has to deal with Mama's praise~

[magicam]

[The slight willingness to open up just a bit at a time must be the result of being Seen - and yet... he's still not entirely willing to admit that's probably what's going on, here. That would require a lot of admissions about himself... and some acknowledgements about Madara, too, that he doesn't quite want to believe just yet.

No one ever said he was selfless.]

Noooo way, Cay def wasn't the hero yesterday! Heroes totally don't break down after their missions, right?

[Ah, wait. Admitting too much, there.]

[festiverogue]

[People call Madara selfless... when they don't truly know him. Everyone else calls it like it is.

But the part of him that's selfish is also equally protective. Which is why something screws up in the pit of his stomach when he hears that Cater broke down yesterday.]

I should've talked to you then...

[Another mistake. Another thing that'll reinforce his own feelings of inadequacy. Well. He earned it.]

Heroes can cry, you know. Maybe you don't have superhero shows where I'm from, but the best heroes are honest with themselves about their limits. That's sorta how they overcome them.

[Even if heroes aren't real.

He moves in a little closer.]

Not to be weird, but... if you need somebody to vent to, I'm open.

[magicam]

[It's not like he never has before. It's not like he's never had the pressure of a life on his shoulders before, either, but here there wasn't any privacy to simply shut down. It was like being a little first year with a bright-eyed roommate that didn't actually care all over again.]

There are hero shows in Cay's world, he just never really watched them~ His sisters never liked them, and now they're more, like, Idia's territory, yanno?

[The realm of the Online And Nerdy sort instead of the Trendy Influencer sort.

It's probably for the best that he never watched them anyway.]

Hmhmmm~ Cay will totes take you up on that if you let him offer the same, okay~?

[festiverogue]

[Madara notes that little aside about Idia with a flash of a grin. Heroes are something he's intimately familiar with, from acting to his early idol unit. Maybe he ought to bring that up with Idia, find some common ground.]

I'll try not to impose, but you got it. Thanks, Cater.