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Seven Horrors ([personal profile] sevenhorrorsmods) wrote in [community profile] sevenhorrors2025-07-19 09:00 am

[physical education 101]

Who: transfer students
When: July 1̷̝̤̳̙̫̭̻̝͓̄̇̾̀̕͝9̸̙̱̹͍̮̈́́̀̅͛̐̔̋ 20
Where: the. . . gymnasium?
What: an ice breaker
Warnings: moderate physical injury (not debilitating), psychological horror (absolutely debilitating)

[The school is empty. The school is quiet. The only sound that cuts through the silence is the soft ticking of the hallway clocks that mark the passing of each second.]

[. . .]

[At least. . . until a stiff breeze whips through the classrooms, scattering dirty papers and jerking the curtains aside. The clock strikes 6:00 a.m.]

[The school bell chimes.]

[ Team rooms | Endgame | Rewards ]
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[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-21 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
[The way his interest sparks in his eyes, and his brow, is hard to miss.

Fishes his out, too, or at least begins to-]


If was suggested to me that these were-

[But when he flicks his eyes up, just beyond her, down the hall, he catches sight of… one of those awful dolls? He cuts himself off in surprise.]
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-21 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[...?

It's like a horror movie, the way dread immediately crawls down her spine when he freezes.

And slowly, she turns to look.



?

She spins back around with a scowl.]


Don't do that! Are you trying to scare me?!
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[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-21 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Again, that lightning-quick flicker of his gaze from that awful doll to her, then back again.]

You don't see it?

[He is saying this quite seriously, not a hint of a jest in his question. A second later, and just like that, in his own vision: the doll is gone.]
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-21 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Nnnnooooooooo she haaaates this.]

There's. Nothing. There.
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[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-21 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn’t like it much better!!

In fact, he rather hates it. To not be able to trust his own senses, so keenly relied on up until this point. What is this, then? A case of delusion?]


No. It was.

[He points, precisely, where it had been standing.]

One of those wretched dolls from before. It seems our failures are not fully behind us.
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-21 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[STOPPPPP.

She drags a sharp breath in--

And then lets it out again, closing her eyes.]


... Fine, then. You're cursed. Super cursed.
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[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-21 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
“Super cursed.” Is that your official diagnosis, doctor?

[Okay, he should ease up on the sarcasm because this is just a teenage girl, but so much social politeness always feels thrown out the window on day one.

Pulls out his omamori. It’s pink! This seems a good segue...]


This is an amulet of sorts, isn’t it?
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-21 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd want a priest for curses.

[Smartass.]

But yeah, it's an omamori. A good luck charm. They sell them at shrines and different sorts are supposed to give different effects.

Yours is Kin'un, which is specifically for financial good luck and success.
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[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-21 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[WE'VE GOT A SMARTASS ON OUR HANDS HERE, HUH

But he will forgive her. He is far more interested in this new information that he is otherwise oblivious to, hailing from the wrong side of the globe.]


Financial good luck... [That's right, the journal. What was written there flashes across his memory again.] Well, now. There is an irony to that.
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[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-21 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[He says this, as though he were reciting from memory:]

"I've never been a very greedy person. After all, practicality suits me well. But lately I have found myself coveting the possessions of others. It feels a bit strange, to want for something other than what is logical! And yet, I also can't deny the thrill...."

[ ... ]

That was written in the journal we found. I'd say that relates very much to financial success, if one were to twist the blessing around into something more unflattering.

[surely this will not become relevant in a future thread]
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-21 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Incredible foreshadowing.

Ena just blinks at that.]


Oh, I see. Yeah, I guess ours was pretty similar. I don't remember the exact wording, but Shiawase charms are happiness charms, and ours was about spreading happiness and warmth, or whatever.
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[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-21 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Terrible foreshadowing.

Brow raising as he tucks his charm away.]


Spreading happiness and warmth. Were that the reality, I'd call you fortunate.

[But surely by now they realize it isn't going to be that.]
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-21 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[A heavy sigh.]

Yeah, we're definitely not that.

Anyway, all of these are for good fortune, so it's not like one's better than another. Unless someone here got Anzan or something.
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[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-21 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[what do you want to bet someone got anzen]

And why is that?
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-21 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's not taking that bet, because:]

Anzan's for good fortune in childbirth.
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[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-22 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ … ]

I can only hope that one doesn’t apply for myriad reasons.

[please it’s not that type of horror game]
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-22 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what I'm saying!

I am curious what the other classes are, though. Maybe there's some commonality between which charms we all got sorted into.
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[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-22 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Silent for a long moment, thinking. Thinking.

Then suddenly-]
Then! We should focus on learning that much. A round of the school grounds, first, but after... [THINKING] Everyone is sure to finally come out of that gym and explore, as well, and it's likely they'll gravitate towards their assigned groups after. It should be easy enough to inquire then.

[this is going to be another ic reason for him checking up on so many dorms]
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-22 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oops. In the end, Ena was also at fault...]

... Huh. I guess so. You're kind of an exhausting guy, huh?
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[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-22 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[He is definitely in his "a shark must keep swimming or it will die" mode, though that is thankfully not always the case. But she has no way of knowing that.

Besides, someone had to get all the energy in his family.]


Others have said so before.
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-22 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Just agrees with it... ok.jpeg.]

Then... I'm gonna leave you to it. I'm exhausted. I don't want to go running around the haunted school.

Good luck with all of that.
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[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-22 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[What, already done? They've barely left the gym, and there's increasingly more to see. (please free yourself ena)

But this isn't awfully surprising, nor deterring. He is used to striking out on his own in the very, very early days before he had a partner at his side — sometimes, he still does. And he's going to now.]


Then you recoup.

[And that's. Really all he has to say as he strides off, questionably on his own but renewed via second wind thanks to their conversation.]
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-22 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[good luck, dude]