week 5

[stagemanagers]

WEEK 5
[Five weeks, three trials, seven deaths and thirteen performers left.

Monday the opera house has been cleaned top to bottom of any leftover traces of Halloween. No pumpkins, no cobwebs, no cheesy paper skeletons, not even a hint that there the decorations has been there in the first place. There's a slight chill in the air this week, like someone forgot to shut off the air conditioning on for a bit too long. Luckily there are plenty of sweaters in the costume room should the performers get chilly. Three more doors are lacking in their appropriate stars now but, as with Hime's, Eliza and Darla's doors have different stars stuck tight to them with different names on them.

The door on in the third floor lobby is unlocked and a new floor is ready to be explored. Enjoy your week, everyone.]


[Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday]

[ooc: put in your memories and get in your activity, lovelies, and let's have a stellar week.]

Comments

kitchen

[dechagny]

[A glass of wine really does wonders for a man - just one glass, mind you. It gives Raoul enough motivation to try his hand at cooking again, but any attempt out of his cookbook of nasty midcentury recipes has been thrown out the window for...

...Oh. Mac and cheese. From the box no less. He's taken out some other cheeses to add to it, though, so it'll be super cheesy. He gives Billy a nod and a smile when he registers the other man's presence.]

Ah, good evening.

[Look at this guy. He's cutting up pre-sliced cheese into little bits.]

[inforapenny]

...evening.

[Billy returns the smile, though it quickly slips into a puzzled look at the cheese slicing.]

Uh, what's...that for?

[dechagny]

[Points to the pot of boiling noodles! Not with the knife of course.]

The macaroni and cheese. I want to see if adding other cheeses to it improves the quality.

[inforapenny]

Oh. I've...never heard of adding actual cheese to the boxed stuff before. I think people usually just use plain noodles for that. Guess there's no reason you couldn't, though...

...surprised you're not making something out of that book. [And possibly a little relieved?]

we actually do that in my house, put cheese in the boxed stuff

[dechagny]

Well, I thought it might be worth a try. And...I am not feeling up to following something complicated tonight.

[We are not doing tipsy cooking on hard mode here]

we just melt cheese over shells mostly

[inforapenny]

No, I get that. Mondays, right?

[He laughs awkwardly and quickly trails off into silence. Mondays are terrible!]

You, uh, doing okay?

that sounds good too

[dechagny]

Mondays are indeed difficult things.

[Hm, looks like the noodles can come off the heat. Raoul takes the pot and pours it out into a strainer that is conveniently waiting in the sink.]

My most recent memory is...disheartening, frankly.

[inforapenny]

Yeah?

[He busies himself with his own noodles rather than make eye contact. The egg's ready to go in with the ramen.]

I hope it's not too bad. Not that that's really any of my business, but...you know.

[dechagny]

[He appreciates that you're not pushing for details, at least, and shakes the noodles in the strainer before pouring them back into the pot. In goes the weird cheese powder~]

I honestly don't know what to make of it. I have...so little context for what happened, but...it has certainly been a blow to my morale, I suppose you could say.

[inforapenny]

W-well, but that's better, right? If there's no context. Maybe it's not as bad as it looks right now.

I don't... [He hesitates, just for a moment.] I don't know if we know if the people in charge are giving these back, or if we're just remembering on our own? But if it is them, they'd probably try and make it seem worse. It's more dramatic.

[dechagny]

[He pauses before he pours in the milk and butter to listen to what Billy's got to say.]

...Do you think they have that sort of power as well? To defy time and space, and...reveal our own memories when they please?

[inforapenny]

[His hands still over his cooking for a moment.]

I...don't know. They - they must've taken them somehow. [Shaking his head, he returns to his preparations. Add the veggies in, that's right.] If they can do that, who knows?

[dechagny]

[Getting all smart and theoretical - deeply theoretical - is not really Raoul's bag, but he's doing his best to try and fit that bit of conversation into his brain as he sprinkles the cut-up cheese into the pot, stirring carefully. Hm, it's looking pretty decent.]

It all feels...so incredibly beyond anything that I understand. Not just the management, but the technology here as well, at times. At home, things like this were easy to scoff because I felt for certain there were rational explanations, but here? There is so little rationality for me to find...

[inforapenny]

It's just a different kind of rationality.

...well, the technology is. But...they say magic's just what people call science they don't understand yet. So there must be some logic behind it all. We just...need to figure out what it is.

[dechagny]

[One he's sorely unfamiliar with, and he knows it.]

Do they? I suppose...that could be true, yes. There is sense to it. But some of the others have talked of magic as if it alone were truly possible without any logic. You can see why I might be confused on a few things.

[inforapenny]

Yeah. I don't really...have any guesses about how it could work either. But it has to have rules. So...don't worry too much. They probably just wanna get you down.

[dechagny]

[Raoul nods. That he can understand, at least. Drive someone deep enough into despair, and they will do whatever you want them do. Even kill.

Up yours, management, he won't hurt a soul.]

So the ideal thing to do...would be to keep busy.

[inforapenny]

Yeah. Yeah, that's probably best. Idle hands and all that, right...?

[He trails off, stirring his noodles.]

Maybe we can all do something together. I think stuff like the parties is...you know, helpful? Good for us.

[dechagny]

[That gets a weak chuckle out of Raoul.]

Eventually we are going to run out of conversation topics at them, but...the parties do make the atmosphere a bit lighter.

[inforapenny]

Yeah, they're, uh. Fun. As much fun as you can have with all this, which isn't a whole lot, but...

[yeah]

I think it might help if people have something to look forward to. Even if it's n-not that much?

[dechagny]

[yEAH FUN]

I can't argue with that.

[Mix mix mix the mac and cheese...hm, looks like there's probably a bit too much for Raoul to eat on his own. He'll take two bowls down.]

Would you like some of the macaroni and cheese? I do not think I could eat all of this by myself.

[Plus you saw him make it so you know it's poison-free]

[inforapenny]

Oh, sure.

[He's got a decent serving of ramen himself, but he can always take any leftovers back to...his dressing room that he, a legitimate member of this cast, definitely has.]

You want any of this?

[dechagny]

[Yeah of course]

Ah, no, I think I'll be fine with this, thank you. [Scooping out equal shares into the bowls.] A small supper should be all I need.

[inforapenny]

That's fine. We can always just leave the leftovers for other people. Save them some cooking...

[He takes his bowl and starts to circle around towards the dining room. Nowhere to sit in the kitchen, really.]

[dechagny]

Yes, of course, I did that with my creations last week! Though, sadly, they were not taken to very eagerly. I wonder why...

[Hope you don't mind a Raoul coming to join you for dinner Billy]