Realistic or Modern [Info] Carnage Toilet (惨殺便所)

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Carnage Toilet
惨　殺　便　所

"Just who is in the toilet?"
「便所の中には何者だ？」

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Narukami High School
私 立 鳴 神 高 等 学 園​

History
歴史​

緑間　征次 教授
Prof. Seiji Midorima
1890 - 1978

本城　貴将
Kishō Honjō
1926 -

火楽井　優馬 博士
Dr. Yūma Kagakui
1953 -

Narukami High School was founded in 1923 by 33-year-old Japanese-Dutch literature professor Seiji Midorima, who became its first principal, a post he held from 1923 till his retirement in 1967; its initial intake consisted of just 113 students. It is the second oldest high school in Narukami City, after Kanno North High School.

As Narukami City was spared from the intense firestorms rained upon Japan by the United States during the Second World War, Narukami High School's building, constructed partly with Professor Midorima's personal wealth and partly by donor money, managed to survive the dark period in Japanese history. Following the end of the war and the temporary occupation of Narukami by American forces, Midorima was allowed to keep his school open; his pacifism and opposition to Japan's participation in the war were widely known to both the Americans and to the local rulers.

After Prof Midorima retired in 1967, leadership of the school passed on to Mr Kishō Honjō, a vice-principal for 12 years, whom Midorima had hand-picked to succeed him. Under Mr Honjō's leadership, Narukami's enrolment rates slowly grew over the years, as the school's reputation as a premier institute for high school education became known to the city's inhabitants. Aside from maintaining high academic standards, he also introduced an extracurricular programme to ensure the holistic development of all students, requiring all students to take up a sport or a performing art in addition to their academics.

It was also during the 32-year principalship of Mr Honjō that Narukami High opened a partnership programme with two other schools in 1982: Fu-Chih High School of Taiwan and Yonebayashi High School of Okinawa. Under this partnership programme, each of the three schools takes turns to send one batch of students to each school every year, beginning with Narukami High in 1982.

Honjō stepped down from his post in 1999, and a third principal was appointed: Dr Yūma Kagakui, a PhD holder in Global Environmental Studies from Kyoto University, himself a former student of Narukami High School.

Dr Kagakui has, to date, held the post of Principal for almost two decades, and has overseen a great many changes and improvements, including the construction of a second cafeteria to cater to the school population's growing numbers, as well as the installation of AC units and projectors in all classrooms.

Unfortunately for Dr Kagakui, he is also the principal responsible for keeping the latest toilet incident under control.

School Building
学校建物
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Narukami High School consists of three blocks, each being four storeys high.

Block A, the South Block, contains classrooms. Three of the four levels contain ten rooms, nine of which are classrooms lettered A to I; the last room is an extra room, kept empty for when an empty room is needed for one reason or another. The topmost floor contains six empty classrooms used for subject specific remedial lessons as and when teachers require it.

Block B, the East Block, contains science labs (of which there are six), home economics rooms (two), and studios for dance, martial arts, or any other extracurricular activities (ten). The remaining rooms are used for the faculty offices and, where adjacent, have had their walls removed. Block B, being the middle block, is also the entrance of the school, and houses the locker room on the bottommost floor.

Block C, the North Block, contains the school hall, used to conduct morning assembly on rainy or snowy days. This hall takes up three of the four levels; aside from the ground level, the two upper levels act as observation levels. The topmost level is used as a storeroom for miscellaneous equipment.

Each block contains one set of male and female bathrooms for students to shower after PE and for general ablutions; faculty bathrooms are located within the staff rooms. As of the incidents, all bathrooms are unusable due to whatever is lurking inside them; fifteen portable toilets have been set up in the school field.

There are also two separate cafeteria blocks; one houses a standard cafeteria, while the other has a small café that sells mainly desserts and drinks. The latter was built only in 2011.

Extracurricular Activities
課外活動​

Upon entering Narukami High School, all students are required to choose an extracurricular activity; this policy was implemented by Principal Kishō Honjō in 1994, to ensure that all students were holistically developed by the time they left the school.

All extracurricular clubs and groups are led by Year 3 students: available positions include the Chairman, Vice-chairman, and the Secretary, all of which may have different names depending on the group (for example, the volleyball team has a Captain, a Vice-captain, and a Quartermaster). The exception is the Student Council, which has a much more extensive leadership structure.

The list of extracurricular activities is as follows:

Performing Arts
• Orchestra (オーケストラ, ōkesutora)
• Choir (聖歌隊, seikatai)
• Kabuki (歌舞伎 kabuki)
• Drama (演劇, engeki)
• Military Band (軍楽隊, gungakutai)
• Dance (ダンス, dansu)

Sports
• Baseball (野球, yakyū)
• Volleyball (排球, haikyū)
• Basketball (籠球, rōkyū)
• Football (蹴球, shūkyū)
• Gymnastics (体操, taisō)
• Table Tennis (テーブルテニス, tēburu tenisu)
• Karate (空手, karate)
• Judo (柔道, jūdō)

Others
• Student Council (生徒会, seitokai) *
• Western Chess (西洋将棋, seiyō shōgi)
• Literature Society (文学会, bungakukai)
• Debate (討議, tōgi)
• Art (美術, bijutsu)
• Entrepreneur Club (企業クラブ, kigyō kurabu)

* Students who join the Student Council are allowed to join a second extracurricular group; however, they may not take up leadership roles in that other group.

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Narukami City
鳴 神 市​

Spoiler: Subway Map

Apologies for the long names on the leftmost portion of the map getting cut off. The two words on the left read, from top to bottom, "Manbonzakura" and "Hakujinnokaigan".

Narukami is a coastal city located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. It lies on the Northwest coast of Honshū, 19km northeast of Niigata City.

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Population: 526,000 (3 significant figures)
Mayor: Yoichi Tōjō (東城　與一)

Area: 857 sq. km
Density: 613/sq. km
Time Zone: Japan Standard Time (UTC +9)

Official Tree: Cleyera Japonica (Sakaki)
Official Flower: Peach flower (Momo)
Official Bird: Kingfisher (Kawasemi)

 

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A Quick Guide to Japanese Names
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Seeing as this RP takes place in Japan, most of the characters (if not all) are going to be, obviously, ethnically Japanese. Here's a brief guide on how Japanese names work.

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Japanese names, like most other names, consist of a surname and a given name. As per the Asian naming convention, the surname is written before the given name, as can be seen here:

山田　太郎
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In the above name, 山田 (Yamada) is the surname, and 太郎 (Tarō) is the given name.

However, this applies only to Japanese names when written in Japanese. Nowadays, it is very common for Japanese people to arrange their names in the Western format when writing in English. As such, the above name, if its bearer chooses to render it as such, can be written as "Tarō Yamada" instead of "Yamada Tarō", though both are acceptable. Do note that this only works in English or in other Western languages; when written in Japanese, the surname will always come before the given name.

Surnames

The vast majority of Japanese surnames consist of two kanji (Chinese characters), though it is not uncommon to find surnames with one kanji or three kanji.

Many surnames are often descriptions of geographical features. Some commonly seen examples include:

山下, "Yamashita" ("At the bottom of the mountain")
岡田, "Okada" ("Rice field on a hill")
田中, "Tanaka" ("In the middle of the rice field")
石川, "Ishikawa" ("Stone river")
小林, "Kobayashi" ("Little forest")
高橋, "Takahashi" ("Tall bridge")

Some surnames also have historical origins. 佐藤 (Satō), for example, means "Lieutenant of Fujiwara", and was originally a title granted by the Fujiwara Clan to its most loyal servants. Similarly, the surname 有馬 (Arima) means "to own a horse", referencing the fact that horses were status symbols.
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There are a few surnames which have more than three characters, like 勅使川原 (Teshigawara) and 久多良木 (Kutaragi); however, there are very few of these.

Given Names
There is a wide variety of given names in the Japanese language, both for males and for females.

As a (very) general rule, male names often contain characters like 郎 (son), 彦 (son), or any of a number of masculine characters that can be read as "o". Some examples of these include 野田佳彦 (Yoshihiko Noda, former PM of Japan), 石井四郎 (Shirō Ishii, WWII war criminal who escaped prosecution), and 石黒一雄 (Kazuo Ishiguro, British writer).

Another common practice with male names is to number the order in which sons are born. This is done by including a number in the name, followed by 郎. The list is as follows:

一郎 Ichirō (First Son)
二郎 Jirō (Second Son)
三郎 Saburō (Third Son)
四郎 Shirō (Fourth Son)
五郎 Gorō (Fifth Son)
六郎 Rokurō (Sixth Son)
七郎 Shichirō (Seventh Son)
八郎 Hachirō (Eighth Son)
九郎 Kurō (Ninth Son)
十郎 Jūrō (Tenth Son)

Though this practice is becoming less common, it is not at all uncommon to see people with this name pattern, but with different characters or with prefixes added. An example of this is 加藤清史郎 (Seishirō Katō, actor).

There are also a number of single kanji given names for males, many of which carry heavier symbolic meaning. Some examples are:

学　Manabu (to learn)
守　Mamoru (to protect)
智　Satoshi (wisdom)
武　Takeshi (military strength)
光　Hikaru (light)

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Female names have slightly less freedom than male names. Unlike male names, which can have various different numbers of syllables, almost all female names have either three syllables or fewer. In addition, the kanji used in female names tend to carry more feminine meanings, or are used to depict such traits as beauty, gracefulness, and gentleness.

A common practice is to put the character 子 (child) at the end of female names. Pronounced as "ko", this has given rise to a large number of common female names, such as:

花子　Hanako (The daughter of flowers)
清子　Kiyoko (The clear daughter)
速子　Hayako (The swift daughter)

Nowadays, it is becoming increasingly common to see girls whose given names are written in hiragana or katakana instead of kanji; this is often done either out of an unwillingness to ascribe a predestined meaning to one's child, or simply because it allows for more phonetic freedom.