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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] selfportraiture 2025-07-21 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, and you're supposed to keep it close by pretty much all the time.

[She shrugs a little.]

I've never had one work in my favor back home, but I'm not going to turn my nose up at this one.
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-21 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm...

[ Yeah, it's probably not going to do any harm to keep it on them. And if it was actually evil or something, surely someone would have sensed something weird by this point. ]

Yeah, may as well, right? I'll try to always keep it with me, then. Thanks.

[ With that in mind, she tucks it away again. ]
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-21 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
No problem. It's common knowledge back home, so we may as well pass it along.

[Not like it's difficult.]
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-21 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm...

[ Glancing away to see if she can find Usagi in the crowd, but it's chaos here right now, so she can't immediately spot her. ]

I wonder how common these are, then. I'd never heard of them before.
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-21 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Back home you can get 'em at any shrine you pass.

[So pretty damn common.

She shrugs.]


And at least on my team, most of us are from Japan or... a Japan-adjacent place. I don't really know why, though.
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-22 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shrine...?

Before she can ask about that, though, Japan is mentioned. ]


Oh! Usagi from my group is also from Japan.
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-22 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Assuming this is from after Mafuyu jumped her--so Ena nods.]

Yeah, she's from the same place as me. We're friends back home.

I don't know why she ended up in a different class, though...
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-22 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
It's the same with me and Rose. You would think they'd put us together, but I don't really know why we've been split up like this in the first place...
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-22 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
But they put me and Blossom together... it really doesn't make sense at all.

Maybe it was just random?

[Just tossing shit at the wall, honestly.]
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-22 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It might take us some time to figure out if there was any rhyme or reason behind it.

But, I guess what matters most right now is we're out of those rooms.
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-22 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
That's true...

[She groans a little, and shakes her head.]

Okay. Okay! I should... start looking around, since I'm not as rough as some of these other people look. We still need to find an exit.

[She has to stop stalling and look around the spooky school.]
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-22 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! I can go with you, if you need a buddy? It's probably not a good idea to wander around here alone.
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-22 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Really? You don't mind?

[She perked up immediately, honestly... it's 2spooky out there.]
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-23 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It is 2spooky but Tifa does better at handling the spooks when she has to look out for others, so... ]

Not at all. It's better to know what we're dealing with sooner rather than later, right? No more nasty surprises that way.
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-23 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Right... ideally, there won't be any nasty surprises at all, though.

[Out into the gross, spooky hallway outside of the gym with them!

Ena jumps with a startled noise when she accidentally brushes a spiderweb with her hand.]


Ew--!
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-24 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ It would be one thing if they were going through a monster den or something. Tifa wouldn't have blinked at most anything in that case. But the added threat of ghosts just makes her jumpy.

So when Botan startles, she does too, yelping in a similar way as he grabs for the other girl's arm and tugs her away from whatever spooked her.

(She has gotta stop making contact with Shiawase girlies, rip.) ]


A-are you okay?!
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-24 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[She really does. Tifa reaches out and immediately she'll get a proper wave of Ena's emotions--fear, and embarrassment to have jumped at a spiderweb, and exhaustion, and a simmering anger over the entire situation, lingering always.

She yanks her hand back quickly, swallowing.]


I'm fine! I'm fine. Sorry, it was just... just a spiderweb. It just startled me.
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-24 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That does answer Tifa's question about whether or not the members of Yuffie's group also have the same strange affliction to them. She's pretty sure she's handled other people here and not felt this weird overflow of emotion, so is it really split up by class?

Huh... ]


After those spiders from before, I don't blame you.

[ The girl yanked her hand back pretty fast, so she won't call her out just yet. Better to ease into it when she's more calm. ]

But it does seem like this place has been abandoned for a while, huh...
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-24 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I mean, it's not unusual for schools in the countryside, I think, but...

[She steps on a piece of floorboard that creeks ominously, and carefully takes a different path instead.]

... They're not usually this--you know. Haunted.
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-25 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hey now — her schooling hadn't really involved attending a school so much as learning from some of the town elders or some of the other adults, but! There hadn't just been spiderwebs or creepy vibes like this. ]

... Right. I mean, how could you have classes when there's ghosts around? Maybe it only ended up haunted after it was abandoned?

[ As they continue down the hall, she notes that some of the doors are labeled. The "Music Room" catches her attention, though when she tries the knob it's locked. ]

Hmm...
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-26 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[That's such a pragmatic approach. "How would you go to class when ghosts are happening?", instead of "wow, wouldn't it be fucked up if a school was haunted?".]

I don't know... it's a really popular horror trope, though.

[... Oh. Ena's brow furrows at that.]

It's locked? Why would the music room be locked?
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-29 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A horror trope? Tifa's not quite sure what the girl means by that, but she's a little more focused on the door randomly being locked. ]

Yeah, of all things... Seems kinda strange, doesn't it?

[ And then she goes stock still, because... it's faint, but she's pretty sure she can hear music from the other side. ]

Wait...
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[personal profile] selfportraiture 2025-07-30 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
... Hm? That's piano, isn't it?
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-31 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It definitely sounds like it.

[ Tifa feels herself tensing up, and breathes out a low breath to try and calm herself. ]

Do you think it's...

[ A ghost? ]