[PC Game] Halforums House 3: Halforums Academy Semester 1 Complete!

In a city in Japan without a name, there's a school that caters to the fairly well-to-do middle class. It's a fairly liberal school with permissive ideas about things like affording students free time to socialize and wander around between activities, as well as a tendency for the faculty to be a bit absent or uninterested in policing the student body.

<--- The student body.

This is the story of Halforums Academy, Year 1, Class 1. Each day will be told from the point of view of a different student. In honor of the creator of the concept of the Halforums House, the first day of school shall be seen through the eyes of Gusto. (Click on thumbnails for full size images, does not navigate away from this thread)


Day 1: Gusto

Gusto heads off to school. Pretty much anyone going to or from the school passes by the river here. The statue has a keen eye and knows more than its silent, stony lips will tell.



Arriving outside the school, he meets someone.


Her name is MindDetective. But she doesn't seem very interested in socializing with Gusto.



Heading inside, he sees a large fellow gaily chatting up a tall redhead. Keen to meet his new classmates, he introduces himself to the boy when the girl leaves. His name is Cheesy One.



Then it's off to the locker room to get ready for the start of class. It's a little crowded as the students rush about.



In the classroom, Gusto meets Dei Skates:



And Bhamv Three.



The bell rings. Gusto is an attentive student, and performs well in the morning classes. The lunch bell rings, and as they get up, the dark haired fellow next to him makes a comment. "All these girls..." says Jay Sirius, "... you can't help but feel it well up in you.. when they even brush against you casually!"



Gusto calls out to the whole class, and suggests, in the interest of all getting to know each other, they should all go eat lunch together! But they're an introverted lot for the most part, and only Bones and Ravenpoe go with him to the roof to eat, and I forget my camera. But it isn't much longer before they start coming up there in ones and twos. The roof is the place to be, for eating lunch, after all.

Jay sees Gusto among the rabble and gives him the "I was right, right? Eh? EH?"



Jay's not interested in talking about much other than sex and girls.

While there, Gusto also meets Lana Karron. They exchange pleasantries.



Feeling the call of nature after lunch, Gusto heads for the restrooms... and bumps into Frank "the Tank." Frank barely grunts monosyllables to him. Gusto can't figure out if Frank just doesn't like him, or just doesn't communicate much.




On the way back from the bathroom, Gusto meets Ashburner X,




and Klew DuckPirate. They're a little on the shy side, but nice enough.



Back on the roof, he finds most everybody else has wandered off having finished eating, but he meets one girl there, her name is Shakey, "The Well Known." What an odd moniker.



Coming back down from the roof, Gusto notices Cheesy talking to that same tall redhead again. What's that guy's secret?! When she leaves, Gusto asks him if there's something going on between the two of them... but Cheesy gets embarrased and clams up.



Gusto decides to try it from the other angle, and follows the redhead back up to the roof. There, he meets Eve Steinman,



Justine Me,



And the redhead herself, named Dirona, who introduces herself as "the Team Cleric." Gusto isn't sure what to make of that, and writes it off as "MOON PEOPLE" stuff. She also isn't saying what's between her and Cheesy, if anything.



The bell for afternoon classes rings. Gusto finds it hard to concentrate, with having met all these new people. When classes adjourn for the day, he checks the roster and finds the only other person in the Baseball club besides him is the blonde he ran into first - MindDetective.

He confidently walks up to her, explains what he's discovered, and cheerfully says they should go practice together!

She's skeptical.



But, he talks her around eventually. The only two Baseball club members can't exactly ignore each other, can they? So off to the ballfield they go.



Having someone to practice with inspires Gusto to higher feats of athleticism. He thinks he's doing pretty well! Then he notices someone watching from the stands. It's Frank.



Frank tells him, "I think you'd be better off sticking to studying." Gusto is crestfallen.

Before heading home, Gusto goes up to the roof one more time to look around. There he meets Little Kagsin.



And in the hallway coming back down, he meets Tin Whistler.



This is about all the new people he can take for one day, so he heads home.

END OF DAY ONE - SCOREBOARDS

klew said:

I'm popular and sporty, just like real life.

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Brother, you ain't seen nothing yet.

~~~FORESHADOWING~~~....

Ravenpoe said:

WHY AM I SO POPULAR?

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You rolled a shameless bisexual hussy and wonder why you're popular?

In all seriousness though, folks, it's too early to be calling it on popularity, by far. You're all practically neck and neck. Poe has a slight edge because of sex appeal, and Klew has a slight edge because half of you put down the Wallflower type in your personality preferences.

Dirona said:

So Cheesy and I are already on our way to being a thing? I'm not sure what to say - if only it had been so easy in real life!

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It was interesting that the same two people had more than one conversation in a day on the first day, but don't start picking out wedding china yet. After all, Jay talked to Gusto twice... and so did Frank. It doesn't mean both encounters went positively. It's hard to tell from the outside.

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DAY 2: SHAKEY

Shakey, self styled "The Well Known," leaves for school on day 2. On the path past the river, she sees Klew.



Seeing an opportunity to win a friend by being wacky, our own resident Osaka says something incomprehensible. But Klew seems to think it is funny.



Shakey got to class WAY earlier than she thought she would. Barely anybody else is there yet.



Shakey meets Bones NoBeard.



Shakey confounds Bones NoBeard.



Shakey meets Dei. It's going alright but then Shakey says something that embarrases the hell out of Dei, who runs from the classroom blushing.



Dirona counsels Shakey that maybe she should study some before class starts.



Morning classes progress, Shakey does reasonably well. Lunch time rolls around, and Shakey decides to try the same gambit as Gusto did yesterday, and invites the whole class up to the roof for lunch. She's even less successful than Gusto was - only Dirona accompanies her.

However, after eating, she sees Raven Poe, and goes over to introduce herself. But barely has the first few words gotten out of her mouth before Klew bolts over and interrupts them. Shakey is pleased to be in such high demand, as Klew walks her away from Raven, chatting about school. She doesn't catch the secret, shared look between Klew and Raven.



The talk of scholastics attracts the current ranking brain among the student body, Lord Rendar, and Klew ducks away.



While Lord Rendar chats up Shakey, there's a commotion on the other side of the roof. Shakey can't quite see what's going on, but she could have sworn she saw Raven with her arms around Klew, and whatever was happening, Terrik ran over there and broke it up. Bored of talking about studying, Shakey decides to wander around a bit.

When she wanders outside the gate, she runs into Cheesy, who looks very depressed.



Shakey tries to cheer him up, and really makes an impression! But just as he's starting to come out of his shell, she makes the mistake of asking him about what's going on between him and the redhead everybody's seen him talking to. Suddenly he clams up again, and before Shakey can pry further, the classbell rings.

Shakey passes afternoon classes normally. When they end and it's time for Tennis practice, she of course immediately gravitates to Klew.



Klew agrees to practice together, and off they go.



Practice goes very well! The two continue chatting as they walk home together.



END OF DAY 2.



POSTSCRIPT: The end of day scoreboards tell the tale. The ruckus on the roof was Raven Poe confessing her love to Klew, and Klew shot her down. The whole school is buzzing about it, and Klew gets a popularity boost.

Jay said:

Are you using 15 minute classes cheat or choosing the time upon your discretion between periods?

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The only cheats I'm using is the triple interaction value cheats. The audience demands the days be action packed!

That said, I don't always exhaust all my moves in every time period, sometimes I just feel like it's time to move the story along.

DAY 3 EDITING IN PROGRESS... STAY TUNED, IT'S A WHAM EPISODE

DAY 3: RAVEN POE

Ravenpoe woke up still smarting from the rejection she received at the hands of klew yesterday, but thinking back on it, she realized her mistake - she confessed at lunch, on the roof, in front of everybody! A wallflower like Klew was sure to be flustered and reject anyone in a situation like that. While she thinks on this, walking to school, who does she see on the road, but Klew.



Her resolve restored, she zooms over to Klew, and acting as cheerful and casual as she can, convinces Klew to follow her off somewhere a little more private. Klew doesn't take much convincing.



In an empty, unused classroom, Ravenpoe starts off casually enough to begin with, how you doing, aren't sports dull, yadda yadda, and slowly turns the conversation to the concept of love, and when Klew seems to be warming up to that, the topic naturally shifts to sex.



Ravenpoe notices with predatory glee that Klew is suddenly very flushed, and breathing very hard. Ravenpoe wraps her arms around klew, who sighs happily into the embrace... she experiences her first kiss...



...one thing leads to another. A mess is made.

Afterwards, Ravenpoe wonders if she didn't see the briefest glimpse of spikey blonde hair around the doorway at some point when she was too lost to passion to care...



Understandably, Poe sleeps through most of morning classes.

As class breaks up for lunch, Gusto notices that Raven is rather... worked up. He tries to talk her down to earth a little.



Ravenpoe zeroes right in on Klew again, and whisks her away to the roof for lunch.



It goes very well, but after klew heads off to the restroom, Ravenpoe makes smalltalk with Jay. No sooner has a word left Ravenpoe's lips than LittleKagsin ZIPS over in a flash and demands to know what the hell is going on here, and forces a confrontation in which Jay must choose either her, or Ravenpoe.



Jay tries to have his cake and eat it too, responding he's enough man for both of them.



Kagsin does not appreciate this answer.



The atmosphere on the roof takes a decidedly frosty turn. After Kags storms off, Poe asks Jay what Kags is to him, and he replies enigmaticly, "She's someone I'll always protect, and that's all there is to it."

As Ravenpoe leaves the roof, Gusto catches her in the hallway and asks what she thinks of Justine Me. Ravenpoe tells him she doesn't know her very well.



Ravenpoe elects to take another nap during afternoon classes.

When classes are over, Tinwhistler suggests they all go to practice as a group.



Poe just goes along with the flow. Next thing she knows, she's in the Kendo clubroom warming up with him, Eve Steinman, Dei, Bones, and Klew, and Frank is wondering what the tennis and track plebes are doing in his dojo. They all seem to get along pretty well, though.



Of course, as the genki gets flowing, Poe just has to whisper something to Klew and the next thing you know they both slip out the back and head for the Gym storage room. A few randy words, a quick kiss, and Klew is putty in her hands.



But just as hands start going under clothing, JAY barges in and ice water is doused on the whole situation.

Out of time, Poe heads off to Track practice frustrated. The only other girl on the track team is LittleKagsin, and she's not having any of what Poe's selling.



So after track practice, Poe tries to get a moment to talk to Klew again, but Shakey has decided to be a pest and won't leave them alone for more than a sentence. Suddenly, Poe remembers her parents won't be home until late that night. She invites Klew home with her. Barely has the "ye-" gotten out of klew's mouth before Poe drags her off by the wrist.



Alone in the confines of Poe's room, with nobody to interrupt, the two finally find release in each other's embrace, and Klew finally agrees to become an official "couple" with Poe.



She leaves Poe's house breathless, but happy.

END OF DAY 3



Epilogue: According to the scoreboards, somebody confessed to LittleKagsin off-camera today, and she didn't turn them down. Who is it? Surely not that philandering Jay, is it?!

Ravenpoe said:

DAMMIT JAY!

Also... I've created a monster.

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That's what I said when you turned in your sheet, remember?!

Anyway, that's all for tonight, kids. You might get another episode out of me tomorrow, I am pretty sure.

From what I've seen, Jay probably thought he might could just jump right in and join. But Klew's too shy for PDAs, much less threesomes.