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ain't no time for moping when we're working and we're coping

[ Here we are, another meeting! Noon comes fast (sorry to the stake-out folks!) and Riley's got everything...well, there's not much to set up besides food and drink (no Mountain Dew this time) but she has a clipboard and a cheery attitude, nevertheless. Hosting Mode is on. ]

Welcome, everyone~! I know we've all been looking around into...everything. So! I thought it would be important to share anything we've found with the group, so we can all put our heads together, to try and. Solve this whole thing!

[ #NailedIt ]

Let's try and keep this civil and relaxed, okay?

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No, no. Like the. Like the movie! You know, it goes like Bloody Mary: Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.

[I am so sorry to the mods, who have to deal with me constantly.]

DO NOT SUMMON MARY!

I don't. There's no mirrors so I couldn't summon her anyway.

Don't even suggest it! If she shows up and starts cutting off people's heads, I'm going to have to be a good catholic again!

Wh - why would you have to be Catholic?

[Clearly that's what we should be focusing on here.]

That's how she got known for being bloody! She kept cutting people's heads off and putting certain ex-step-mothers in very precarious positions to keep their heads on, which included converting back to Catholicism.

Trust me, we do not need that drama.

Oooooooohhhhhhhh. Sounds bad. I do not vibe with that.

[He shakes his head for emphasis. We do not vibe with a lot of things here, apparently.]

[The air in the dining hall goes completely still as soon as the third "Beetlejuice" leaves Jeremy's lips..]

[The walls, ceiling and floor of the room seem to darken and lighten at the same time, as if black and white stripes have spread through every corner of the dining hall. The temperature drops and for a second every exhale of breath fogs in the air-]

[Day light come and me wanna go home...]

[And then all at once it stops. The lighting and temperature normalize, the music abruptly stops. It's as if none of it even happened.

That was sure weird, huh!]

[ A beat. And- ]

Jeremy! You are not allowed at my meetings anymore!!

[ THIS IS A GATED COMMUNITY WE DON'T HAVE BEETLEJUICE HERE!!!!! ]

How was I supposed to know it would happen here??? Beetlejuice isn't a musical!!!!

YES IT IS IT JUST WENT TO BROADWAY A FEW MONTHS AGO!!!!

[ Oops, time discrepancy ]

Wh - how was I supposed to know that? I'm not. I'm not a psychic!

YOU LIVE IN JERSEY, YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THE- oh wait youuuu said it was 2018....

[ losing steam, but still aghast. ]

It is! It's 2018! Why would I know about your weird future musicals based on random old movies? Next you're gonna be telling me that, I don't know, Sing Street is being turned into a musical!

[I got bad news, Jeremy.]