imeeji_frontstage | Entries tagged with !graduation

Who: Emet-Selch, Five & Klaus Hargreeves, BARiTONES, Taisho Roman Revolution, certain criminals
Where: Mitsukoshi Ginza
When: Day 512, afternoon

( cw blood, food, gore )

idolpro

Who: W, Tea, various idols, and !A SPECIAL GUEST!
Where: Yoyogi Park
When: Day 492, morning

[ Out in an open part of Yoyogi Park, between a set of unassuming picnic tables, is a jungle gym.

Obviously there's something going on, because that wasn't there before and now the tables are set up with checkered tablecloths with various kinds of tea and fruit water, teacakes, biscuits, scones, and finger sandwiches. It'd seem like a fairly light affair except there's like also buckets of fried chicken and plates of sushi and yakitori and pudding wraps and also cup noodles and potato chips and pasta salad and various fruits???

The tables are laden enough with food there's not really room to sit at them - so bean bags have been provided for seating. There's also...volleyball? There's just some sandpits with volleyball nets set up. As one approaches there's a quiet background noise coming from nowhere in particular (or maybe everywhere at once), ethereal and beautiful despite the fact that it's just a bit difficult to actually make sense of.

One might assume this is a graduation, and they'd be right - there's a banner that announces who it's for put up on poles! But the second anyone actually shows up to read it and see who's graduating, the background noise is overtaken by SICK BEATS as a WCDONALDS® CLOWN CAR DOES A SICK JUMP OFF A FRESHLY DEPLOYED PORTABLE WCRAMP™ (now available for only 300 MONIES at a store near you!) STRAIGHT THROUGH IT, SHREDDING IT TO TINY LITTLE BITS. All screens near Yoyogi Park and in the hotel lobby focus on the area, and there's commentary now over the speakers now? Something about "OH MY GOD IT COULDN'T BE!"

The car lands on the other side of the picnic, and out of it comes none other than Lonard WcDonard, 20-30 invisible clowns, and one lawyer.

One of the commentators gasps - "It is! I can't believe this!"

She adjusts her glasses, looking lazily at a set of documents in one hand. Her other holds an Imeeji Productions branded microphone that she's speaking into. ]

Mr. Extra-Crispy Family Value Meal (henceforth "W") and Ms. UNITED ♡ HEARTS (henceforth "Tea"). I am Saffron Sativus, Talent Support Services, Ltd., and today I am representing one Lonard WcDonard™ (henceforth "WcDonard"), tortured prisoner/CEO of WcDonalds®. WcDonard claims that W and Tea are guilty of corporate espionage, fraud, abuse of the Employee of the Month system to generate unlimited MONIES, property destruction, aggravated assault, burglary, and quote unquote being more popular than me. As such, WcDonard is now taking action to acquire a remedy in the form of -

[ Lonard snatches the microphone from Saffron - ]

ENDLESS HONKS AND ENDLESS BONKS! W, I WARNED YOU TO NEVER LEAVE THAT HOTEL AGAIN! BUT HERE YOU ARE! CELEBRATING! WELL, GUESS WHAT, W? PARTY'S OVER! I'VE BROKEN OUT OF THAT QUARANTINE COTTAGE THESE PATHETIC IDOLS SHOVED ME IN, AND I'LL TAKE BACK MY MARKET SHARE FROM YOU.

HEAR THAT, LOYAL CUSTOMERS? TODAY I'M INTRODUCING NEW ITEM ON THE WCDONALD'S® VALUE MENU - THE EXTRA-CRISPY WCCHICKEN (NOW WITH REAL CHICKEN)!

VS. LONARD | The Actual Graduation

idolpro

Who: D.Va, Heart Soldier Senshi, everyone invited (everyone is invited)
Where: Chapel nearby the Hotel
When: Day 484

[ Everyone receives an invitation by text! It reads:

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO

SPONSORED BY MOUNTAIN DEW® & DORITOS® & OLIVE GARDEN®
&
?$@!!!$*********

WEDDING

CATERING WILL BE KOREAN & HEAVENLY
THERE WILL BE ALCOHOL
PLEASE DRESS FORMAL-CASUAL, PREFERABLY IN PINK

It's not hard to find the chapel; even if one were to ignore the address listed on the invitation, there are only so many buildings within viewing distance of the hotel that has an array of pink and dark-red balloons, sparklers, and boom boxes playing the wubs—which is to say, there's just the one.

Outside is where the catering is, clearly—there's an outdoor stage set up with a microphone, and across from the stage are several chairs and long tables available for people to sit at. Primarily available on the menu is Korean and Japanese fusion cuisine, leaning heavily toward meat and fish and carbs. Veggie lovers will have to find their own meal somewhere else, or subsist entirely off of the vegetable side dishes like the 5 varieties of kimchi that are available. And, as promised by the invitation, there's plenty of alcohol for people to drink—makgeolli and soju and sake and wine and beer, all sorts.

The chapel doors are closed, but when the ceremony begins, they'll open to the following:

The interior of the chapel are dark mahogany pews covered in bubblegum upholstery with dark red lace. From the walls hang stained glass windows depicting flowers and fruits (pomegranates, split figs, branches of olives) entwined with serpents, and the ground is carpeted with Heart Soldier Senshi copper that gradates into a swirling pattern of bubblegum pink and dark red.

The altar is cream-colored beech wood, olive flowers decorating the table. Rather than a priest, there is a single apple on the altar table. The whole chapel smells of spiced smoke.

Behind the altar stands one more mural: the serpent, wrapped around Eve, as she takes a bite of the apple. ... if "Eve" was wearing a cool bunnymech armour, that is. ]

idolpro

Who: EVERYONE
Where: Heaven Graduates Visitation Center
When: Day 476
(note: cw food)

( cw food )

idolpro

Who: ☆ZRAEL, invited CR, random passerbys
Where: Heaven Visitation Center
When: Day 473, just before/during midnight

( cw food )

idolpro

Who: BAD END=DEAD END, BE=DE graduates (both heaven and hell!), invited CR, everyone
Where: Heaven Visitation Center
When: Day 460, evening

[ Everyone in Tokyo-F* receives a text invitation to an old, worn down warehouse floor in the Heaven Visitation Center mall. "CONGRATULATIONS" banners wrap around the front of the floor, along with "PARTY HERE" and "NO KNIVES ALLOWED (VALOR EXCEPTED)" banners.

(*Some may not have received the text due to bugs in the messaging system, for those who need plausible deniability for not being able to attend.)

Inside, it seems to look quite familiar to members of BAD END=DEAD END—isn't this the vengeance roomm?—which starts with a front desk and a ledger for visitors to sign in. Also within the ledger is a well organized and orderly list of every single grudge that the person reading the book has experienced, heard about, or carries themself (full details available in the vengeance roomm link). At the bottom of each grudge's entry is a line for each side so that the guest can choose become a participant in whichever side of the grudge they want, signing the line with that which best represents them.

The walls of the reception room are completely glass, SHAFT Madoka Magica-levels of transparent where warehouse walls should be, but rather than seeing Tokyo-F beyond the panes, one may see the distant forests, pools of water with crumbling and abandoned bridges; despite the clear daytime it was outside the warehouse, it is eternally night through this glass. The stars light the sky—at least, what can be seen of it, for clouds of smoke fog the air, and in the distance, one can see the sight of wildfire.

Beyond the reception room—with entry only accessible when one signs into the ledger—is an indoors stadium, with an arena and benches for people to watch as wisps of smoke transform into their grudges to start duking it out in the ring. It is, perhaps, a little unsettling as a party location, but at least there are some key differences from this and the real vengeance roomm: for one, nobody has to fight if they don't want to; signing into the ledger was truly just accepting the party invite and not signing up for bloody fight club, it seems (though it might be cathartic to get into it). For the other, the wisp-smoke losers will find the floor opening up beneath them as though the space were a blooming flower, opening up to falling stars and blue flames. ...Well, that's maybe scarier than the actual vengeance roomm, but no idol will fall through even if they lose their respective fights, at least.

When Kiri is ready to leave, a door with vines and certain flowers wrapped around the frame is available to her, at the farthest end of the warehouse.

Like all graduations, there is catering available—almond tofu and other favorites of BAD END=DEAD END. The taste seems to be familiar, like it's a specific chef's handiwork...

Upon passing reception into the stadium, idols will find the wisps of smoke clinging to their skin, shaping into scars they have or had in the past (regardless of if they'd been bought off or not). Though easily brushed away, they do persist on returning until the idol leaves the stadium. ]

idolpro

Who: Kino, pep!pep!, invited CR
Where: Mitsukoshi Ginza, 9th floor
When: Day 445, afternoon

[ Friends and unitmates of Kino's will receive invitations earlier in the day to something called a "multi-world tour," hosted on the 9th floor of the Mitsukoshi Ginza.

When they arrive, whether by staircase or by elevator, they'll find the whole floor has been rented out for the ultimate multicultural foodie experience: numerous food stands line the floor with representative dishes, not just from modern Earth but from different planets and, indeed, different Earths. (Watch out for the space booze—it's strong enough to knock a person out!)

Each order of food is just a small sample, about two or three bites, sized such that one can go around experiencing the various gastronomic delights, and there are also smaller take-out boxes if one desired bringing back souvenirs.

Speaking of souvenirs, at the stair and elevator entrances are goodie bags with each guest's idol name on them, along with unnamed extras in case any outer visitors decide to stop by. Within each bag are little candies that correspond to each food stall along with a plain gold chain; as one tours the area they'll receive a small pendant to attach to the chain to serve as a reminder of the food they tried.

The whole area flaunts a blue and dark green color scheme in ribbons and streamers, save for each stall which has decorations reminiscent of that culture. There's also a path of dark green footprints that go to each stall before ending up in the terrace, where plenty of tables and beverages are available. There's a microphone available on one of the tables, should one feel like making a speech.

At the far end, nearest the garden, is the door for whenever Kino is ready. However, the dark green steps aren't painted here—that next step is for Kino to take themself. ]

idolpro

Who: WILD CITY, AlcheME!, avante en garde, invited CR
Where: Nearby gymnasium
When: Before Ideal Worlds

[ Members of WILD CITY, AlcheME!, avante en garde, and CR of B, Gold, and Silver all receive an invitation to a local gymnasium. It doesn't look very fancy on the outside, but there are banners hanging from the doors to say "CONGRATULATIONS" and "GRADUATION PARTY".

Inside, half the gym has already been set up with a volleyball court, a stack of squeaky clean balls available in a box for those who'd like to play a game or twelve. For those who would prefer to watch, the tiered benches are set up.

Next to the seats are the tables of refreshments: sports drinks, sodas, and bubble tea are available for drinks. As for food, it's . . . varied? Petit fours and other small, bite-sized fancy cakes are available in tiered trays, but there's also a lot of WcDonald's delivery, all chicken tenders. Moreover, there's barbecue, but like big eater mukbang levels of meat—a veritable barn's worth of meat. . .

There are also blood drinks, if someone. If someone wants those. If someone's an obligate vampire. Yanno.

The other half of the gym has been set up as a sort of . . . pool? bouncy house? Except it's a bouncy house of pudding. Like, creme caramel pudding. Flan. It's just a big-ass flan.

There's also a table next to the pooldding with various creme caramels and derivative snacks, like creme caramel bubble tea. Hopefully someone likes flan this much.

A couple microphones are available on the first tier of benches, for anyone who would like to make a speech. At the farthest end of the gym are three doors: one is silver, one is gold, and the third is AlcheME! purple, for when Gold, Silver, and B are ready to leave. ]

idolpro

Who: Ordine, BAD END=DEAD END, invited CR
Where: Local abandoned(?) warehouse club(?)
When: Day 425-426, midnight

[ BAD END=DEAD END and invited CR receive text invitations throughout the day to a place that is apparently only open at midnight exactly: it's a grungy warehouse, looking as shady as the invitation itself—like this place might be used as someone's secondary location. There are also what seem to be invisible bouncers at the outside of the warehouse club, because the shadowy Damned are hanging around the entrance but not entering—those who do try are bounced off somehow, by some invisible hand.

Despite the outside being the way it is though, the warehouse's insides have been renovated to look like a club . . . sort of. There's still broken cement and exposed iron beams, but there are also colored lights, a dance floor, and what definitely looks to be a diner.

Unexpectedly, orchestral music plays in the background, though very much BAD END=DEAD END-esque. Very much fight music. Is this a fight club?

The diner looks beaten up, just like the rest of this place, but the food looks pretty good anyway—idols can serve themselves from a buffet of fast food, primarily deep fried seafood or fish burgers, or alternatively vegetarian versions of such dishes. None of the options are exactly healthy since it's all greasy food, but it's good greasy food.

The soda machine is dented, and the menu is on the fritz. Sometimes the menu it gives is sodas, and sometimes it's alcohol, and sometimes it's both. Sometimes it gives the wrong drink. It's drink roulette.

There's one microphone for speech giving, and a blue carpet runs to the end of the warehouse, where a door awaits Crow whenever he's ready to leave. ]

idolpro

Who: Bell, future is now, invited CR
Where: Shinjuku Gyoen
When: Day 411

[ Everyone in future is now receives a text that primarily contains a location: the northern part of Shinjuku Gyoen's park. Though, even if they're not good with directions, they've got a guide for them: wherever they are, a thin path of flowers begins to bloom, even in places impossible for flowers to grow—inside buildings, on pavements, anywhere and everywhere. The flowers disappear into soft glows of light upon reaching them, though they'll reappear upon stepping off the path, as gentle but persistent guides to the park.

The northern park has been transformed for this graduation: the normal benches have been done away with to make room for a vast, colorful meadow. Felled tree trunks shape out to make tables and chairs for the guests, but even those have flowers sprouting from the sides. Weather and time of year clearly don't seem to matter here; though it's a chilly October day everywhere else, the area here seems to be a warm spring day, with tulips and daffodils and azaleas in full bloom—even the trees are full of life, peach and cherry blossom flowers brightening the skyline.

The spread available for invited guests is—well—similar to the atmosphere, in that there are a lot of things here that don't quite seem like they should exist during this (or indeed, any?) period of time. Honestly, it seems like someone took a bunch of food and drinks and Gadgeteered them together. What does a blue raspberry soda burger taste like? Aren't you excited to find out?

If a guest is not keen on the synthesized food, there's also traditional Japanese food available to eat, as well as a couple carts full of vegetables, looking like they were freshly pulled from the earth—they glisten under the light, as though having just been washed before being put out on display.

A carpet of blue flowers spirals out from the center of the meadow, leading to an archway of flowers, under which is an opaque white light—like a portal to another world. ]

idolpro

Who: People
Where: One of those fucking moon shrines that are everywhere now
When: Day 406, Night

[ In the midst of the moonlit festival, there's...another festival! At one of the shrines (which, for some reason, nestled in a thick taiga forest that seems to have appeared out of nowhere?) is a feasting table with several types of blood food and also some other Chinese and Yakutian dishes if you're like a coward or something.

More importantly, while this seems to be a festival, it actually apparently doubles as a...book...fair? There are shelves full of books for purchase, as well as catalogues with lists of Other Books You Might Like!. Most of them are philosophical and religious texts and exciting children's fables featuring Moral Injury, but there's also young adult romance novels and stories about little engines that could and big red dogs.

Strung across the shrine's awning is a banner that reads:

CONGRATULATIONS WYLD ♥ HUNTER, ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD!

Oh! It's a graduation. Probably you'd have been able to tell if you're someone who received a several paragraph long invitation from one of the native hellhounds. ]

idolpro

Who: Cobalt, Thorn, Senpai, and anyone else who would like to attend
Where: Mitsukoshi Ginza (Heaven Graduates Visitation Center), 9th floor terrace
When: Day 400, later evening

[ Today, the garden terrace of the Heaven Graduates Visitation Center has been transformed.

The lawn has been replaced with overflowing riots of colorful blossoms, like a wildflower meadow. It’s composed primarily of blue cornflowers, red crocosmia, and teal roses with extra-long thorns, all mixed together with a wide variety of sunflowers. In the center is a little patch of grass with picnic blankets spread out, just large enough to accommodate everyone.

Nearby, on the patio, is a long, rectangular grill the length of a picnic table, where anyone can grill their own snacks, Korean BBQ style. A nearby table is piled with all manners of meats and veggies, sliced into easily-grilled strips or already speared into kabobs, ready for the fire. Here you can find such delicacies as behemoth tenderloin, garula steak, gighee ham, and even marlboro tentacle (delicious!).

There is also alcohol. Lots of alcohol. Good alcohol.

The sun is well on its way to setting, leaving the sky a beautiful gradient of blue-pink-orange-yellow; the light is warm and blanketing—the light hits everything at just the right angle to give everything metallic a pleasant glow. A gentle breeze occasionally blows to keep the terrace on the cooler side.

At the far end, there's a carpet of flowers in Cobalt's, Senpai's, and Thorn's unit colors, directing the three of them to their respective graduation doors once they've finished saying their goodbyes. ]

idolpro

Who: Tequila Sunrise, Cypress, BARiTONES, LiliS, invited CR
Where: Heaven Graduates Visitation Center: Mitsukoshi Ginza
When: post all the trauma aftermath (day 397? 398?)

[ LiliS, BARiTONES, and invited guests are directed to the 9th floor terrace of Mitsukoshi Ginza, which has been decked out in a modestly fancy party. Most notably, though the sun is out, the balcony has a dome-like roofing of vines and leaves, little ambient lights and flowers hanging from above. The balcony's gardens are decorated with a few green-and-claret reflective streamers, and there's lace tablecloth for every table, but other than that, it's rather humble, with naught more than a "CONGRATULATIONS" sign hanging over the graduation door that sits in the far back of the balcony for Sunny and Cypress to leave when they're ready. There's no red carpet, no microphone, and the music that plays is a soft piano melody.

Though the venue is humble, the menu is not—the variety is strong, ranging from Japanese to Mediterranean to American to Italian, and it's all easily restaurant-quality. The menu's strongest point is easily the desserts, both in variety and quality—and LiliS might notice that the menu and flavor profiling tends to skew to their preferences. The food might even taste familiar. ]

idolpro

Who: Glacies, Sorrel, pep!pep!, LiliS, invited CR
Where: Shinjuku Gyoen
When: Day 388, afternoon (post-fanmail)

[ Invited guests to Glacies' and Sorrel's graduation party won't have to go far to get to it—it's at the familiar Shinjuku Gyoen! Interestingly, despite the season being at peak heat, today is a pleasant warm with a cool breeze, making the outside graduation party bearable. The party space itself is a garden maze of bushes that reach about waist-high—tall enough that you couldn't jump over the maze but short enough that you can very much see the party—with the occasional tall bamboo stalk. Each stalk connects to the next with pep!pep! blue and LiliS green streamers, and they all notably have wish tags on them—perhaps with previously-written wishes on them, though all of them skew toward some sort of wish for happiness.

Enter the garden maze and you'll see the ground is indeed dirt and grass and stone pavement, but with an overlay of the night sky similar to Tanabata in Tokyo-F—this time, however, the stars are all colors of imeeji's idols. You'll primarily find green and blue stars, but every color is there (with the darker colors encircled by white halos)—even BARiTONES. The star flooring is broken up by a number of gazebos set up for people to mingle and party, the gazebos themselves arranged somewhat like a Milky Way patterning.

Within each gazebo you'll find a variety of foods that would accommodate anyone and everyone with whatever diets and preferences they have, including but not limited to burgers, ramen, sushi, vegetarian hotpot, yakisoba, and more. Plus, one gazebo, dedicated entirely to beverages, has a tea station for anyone to mix leaves to make their own blends, pick out a pre-made blend, or even get tea drinks like bubble tea if they want!

One gazebo stands out from the rest: it stands taller, with twin staircases—with rails that are covered in white cosmos, morning glories, and lisianthuses— that rise to a second level of gazebo where Glacies' and Sorrel's chairs—fashioned like thrones that look reminiscent of the one in Absinthe's party, to those who went—are set. They're less pushed together and more a single throne with two seats, and here they can view all who enter their domain of party. Before them is, of course, their table, which has a standing microphone should either of them like to give a speech.

There are no graduation doors in sight, nor really any congratulatory message that would indicate as such (though one could guess this was probably beyond the budget of eccentric party-havers). The single graduation door is, instead, situated on the back of the throne itself, only able to be opened from behind so that, whenever they're ready, the two disappear behind the throne like a magic trick. ]

idolpro

Who: Moxie, pep!pep!, invited CR
Where: Local parking garage
When: Day 383, late afternoon

[ pep!pep! and invited CR are given a location on Goregle Maps, which turns out to be fairly close—a parking garage near the hotel, it looks like!

At the entrance of the parking garage are both the staircase and elevator, of course, but there's additionally a cage-like elevator with a sign on the outer shell: NO COWARDS. This platform, rickety and creaking while not in motion, is surprisingly stable when you pull the lever—there's only one option—to send it up. As it climbs, you can hear the clicks and scrapes of metal wheels turning, until it stops with a creak and a hiss on the 9th floor.

The outer shell unlocks, ready for you to unlatch it and enter the party—though maybe a more accurate word would be exhibition. The entire floor has been turned, effectively, into a museum, featuring various steam-powered inventions—including replicas of things that Moxie might have worked on herself in the past, or things she'd like to get her hands on in the future, or even things that might not have ever been thought possible with current steam technology. They're all grounded—any vehicles and weapons are sturdily secured onto the floor, so they can't be shown off in any test runs, though other appliances are free to be studied and played with. Each "aisle" of creations are divided by a blue and celadon-green carpet.

Every few paces, there's a large arcade-booth sized lotto machine, though there's no place to insert currency. Instead, there are a variety of smaller pulleys on the side of the machine with various tags—pictures depicting different kinds of food, anything from burgers to pizza to noodles, as well as labels for appetizers, sides, desserts, and drinks. Pull down the pulley a half-inch and it'll click, and pull the lever and the whole machine will shake and rumble before a loud bell ding!s and the lotto image wheels spin, repeating the order back to you in picture form while a tray spits out underneath the images. It's an infinite food machine—no amount of ordering seems to stress the appliance—and there are least a dozen of its make spread along the exhibition floor.

At the center of the exhibition is a circular stage facing iron chairs, where people can sit and eat if they like. Here, if Moxie likes, she can stand upon the stage and give a speech into the microphone and have her voice amplified by what amounts to brass speakers hanging from the ceiling, shaped like many gramophones to project her voice to the whole floor. There's a door at the back of the stage for Moxie to go through when she's ready. ]

idolpro

Who: Arya, Sabre, Aster, Kohime, future is now, ☆ZRAEL, Heart Soldier Senshi, avante en garde, other invited guests
Where: Heaven Graduate Visitation Center
When: Day 381, before the game

[ The 7th, 8th, and 9th floors of the Heaven Graduate Visitation Center are closed today! VIP invited guests only have the QR code on their phone invites that'll grant them access to the 7th floor, where they'll be sent through to get fitted in appropriate wedding attendance clothing—nothing that would outshine the brides, of course.

For the bridesmaids—that is, the graduate visitors—their outfits might be particularly . . . distinctive. Which is to say that a few of them may have been assigned french maid outfits. Well, like, they're maids, so …???

After getting dressed for the occasion, guests may go to the 8th and 9th floors, but guests might want to get gifts for the brides first! The 8th floor has ~wedding souvenirs and merchandise~, including a wedding-themed purikura booth and also wedding gifts for people to "purchase" (it's all free) if they forgot to get gifts for the brides. It's mostly, like, cat treats and military equipment (sans weapons) as well as pony-themed stuff. There are also, in case anyone actually cares anything for it, themed gifts, e.g. old things, new things, borrowed things (oh is THAT where your socks went), blue things. . . and of course, there are plenty of flowers.

Once guests are well and fully ready, they'll be able to go to the 9th floor, which has been decorated appropriately both inside and out in the garden patio to look like a church, or at the very least a wedding venue. There's a display of foods available for guests if they like, but it's all, uhmm . . .

( food )

Out on the balcony is a red carpet, and little plaques for Arya and Aster to stand when they're ready for their brides to come out. Whenever Kohime and Sabre do decide to go out to the balcony, trumpets sound and canned recordings of cheering voices play, along with rounds of applause and their names chanted on repeat, like there are crowds of adoring fans just out of sight.

There's a microphone at the end of the carpeted path, where Arya and Aster stand, and behind them are two doors—one is black and silver, and one is bronze and gold—for when they're ready to leave. ]

idolpro

Who: Chrysanthemum, LiliS, invited CR
Where:
When: Day 375, morning

[ LiliS and CR are invited to a small graduation party at the karaoke lounge. Well, it's certainly "small" relative to other graduations, but it's a proper party by its own right: the room is spacious, with green and silver reflective streamers and balloons decorating every wall and corner and "CONGRATULATIONS IZANAMI-NO-MIKOTO" hanging just above the karaoke TV.

Anyone can connect their phone to the karaoke TV to load up a song, but at least in the beginning, a classical piano song is playing. Just left of the TV, in the corner of the room, is a grand piano, or at least a piano that's that big; it's hooked up to the speakers to reverberate its chords throughout the room. Helpfully, the keys are also labeled with what note they are—the preloaded songs available on karaoke include vocal and piano duets, as well as piano solos.

As for the food, perhaps uncharacteristic for the graduate is the heavy presence of food that's on the unhealthier side—grills and various meats (though there's plenty of vegetables available to grill as well) are available, along with the makings of okonomiyaki. At the dessert table, there's a variety of cakes big and small, though suspiciously there isn't any chocolate (and interestingly, none of the ingredients available to be grilled are toxic to dogs?).

Behind the piano is a silvery door, ready for Chrysanthemum when he's ready to go through. ]

idolpro

Who: Absinthe, BARiTONES, invited CR
Where: A warehouse(?)
When: Day 374, early evening

[ BARiTONES and CR will receive a text message—an invitation to Absinthe's graduation, and a location on Goregle maps. When they get there, they'll see the orange sky burn against the building—or, no. Wait. That might actually be fire on the building. It's perfectly safe though. The fires don't seem to be spreading, instead staying in their spots as though they were more like idle animations rather than actually fire.

The decor inside the building completely clashes its outside—there are also fires here, self-contained (but still hot! don't touch them!), but the interior is wrought iron twisted into grand statues and staircases, and the walls are carved marble. The whole place is in shambles—the staircase rails are bent and rusted, the statues are dented and flaking, the marble walls are cracked and chipped, and all of this doesn't look great for the structural integrity, but it's fine, really. The roof, as earlier noted, is on fire, and also punctured: the junkheap fires inside the warehouse seem to correlate with the holes in the roof, as though there was a small meteorite shower localized entirely to this specific building. There's a microphone on the collapsing throne chair, if anyone would like to make a speech.

( dubious food )

At the base of the centermost staircase is a false tile marked as such; Absinthe needs only to stand on it for the staircase to invert, descending rather than ascending—black-marbled and shining without a single crack, rather than dented and rusted metal—and red carpet rolls out with a bounce, paving the way to the latticed glass door with an eerie blue glow, reminiscent of Amaurot's architecture.

What looks like a fanciful coat rack stands at the first descending step of the staircase, and hung from it is a certain dark robe, along with a mask. ]

idolpro

Who: avante en garde, ⭐ZRAEL, invited guests
Where: Buildings nearby the hotel
When: Day 371/370/whenever is most convenient

[ All members avante en garde and ⭐ZRAEL have received a set of invites, both with separate places listed but the same time. Travelling to either of the listed addresses leads to two buildings across the street from each other - one is a mostly empty warehouse, filled with graffiti and mural painting supplies. Tarps cover portions of the floor, and from floor to ceiling are elaborate murals that are a mix of grunge and graffiti with gothic catholic classic detailing, which depict scenes of hell and demons and angels and battle various types of birds (coincidentally(?) only birds that members of avante take their names after). The murals are illuminated brightly, almost seeming to glitter in the sunlight that filters through a single window in the far back wall of the warehouse. Despite it being just one window, the light touches every surface in the warehouse and no matter what angle an observer is at, they can see the sun bright in the sky through it.

The other building is a towering gothic style cathedral, halls filled with constant ominous chanting of daemonic poetry™️. There is all the expected Christian finery, though the shadows gnawing at every corner of the architecture utterly inescapable no matter where one is in the building - with one exception. The altar room, the beating heart of this cathedral, seems to have been converted into a ballroom with an ostentatious and bright crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling, bordered by planters full of morning glories and blue roses. Ravens roost in the chandelier, cawing along to whatever music happens to be playing over the sound system.

In the street between the two buildings is a sectioned off street fair, connecting the two venues. A large banner is strung across the street, hung from the parapet of the cathedral and the rafters of the warehouse, bearing the words:
FAREWELL, CHILDREN OF SPARDA

The market itself contains a wide array of foods - there are traditional Japanese dishes, as well as food that resembles but is not quite similar to Thai and Laotian cuisine. Somehow, there is also exactly as much spaghetti as there is any other food. As in, roughly half of the food available is just spaghetti and literally nothing else. For dessert there are sweets from all the world over, and at the center of the market is a colossal cake, featuring DANTE FROM THE DEVIL MAY CRY™️ SERIES.

Or...it's just an animatronic, actually? An animatronic Dante bursting out from the top of the cake, dressed in a shirtless sexy cowboy outfit, unceasingly spouting prerecorded lines at regular intervals with such classics as "JACKPOT!", "You can call me Dante the demon killer!", "You cut your son's arm off for this?" and of course, "I was supposed to fill your dark soul with LiiIIiGhT!"

There is a fireworks show on display at regular intervals as well, and every instance of this show ends with Cowboy Dante screaming about light - sometimes even interrupting whatever else he was saying at the time.

This sure is a thing that's happening here. ]

idolpro

Who: WILD CITY, future is now, Jason, Talon, friends
Where: One of the parks
When: Day 364, evening (backdated to pre-murder mysterium)

[ Those informed of Talon and Jason's graduation will find an invitation sent to them via drone delivery - oddly, however, the invite does not actually have a place or time listed. Instead there's simply a message that reads "WATCH THE SKIES", and an attached pair of 3D glasses. Wearing the glasses and scanning the horizon reveals a bright light in the sky, which is otherwise invisible.

Following the light leads to an isolated caves smack dab in the middle of one of Tokyo-F's lesser parks. It's largely unassuming, but strangely there are flocks of Hellbats™ constantly streaming out of the cave's mouth, as if some sort of omen. Upon entering the cave, however, one will find that it's actually
a very cozy place - there are still bats present, but these ones quietly hang about the ceiling, minding their own business. Despite the sprawling complexity of the cave network, every path is very well lit and maintained. Everything is strangely clean - and following the main route forward finds one in a wide open atrium covered with an elaborate skylight, where the cave floor is levelled out and comfortably tiled over.

In the center of the atrium are several serving tables, covered in a wide range of food to be prepared as hotpot and barbeque, with separate sections for vegetarian, vegan, and meat-based dishes. Sweet fruits are available in the dessert section, as well as a firepit and ingredients for s'mores (with chocolate and marshmallows in multiple different flavours!). At the back of the atrium is an old-style American diner counter with plastic food baskets containing pre-prepared overpriced freeway diner fare.

By the counter is a jukebox, loaded with Best Hell Hits 1980-20XX. By default there's nothing playing - but once an option is set it will play over the cave's extensive, high quality sound system.

A garage door provides exit out the back of the cave, for when the graduates are ready to take their leave. ]

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