Week One

[stagemanagers]

[Yesterday, everyone woke up in a strange place and realized that they'd been kidnapped, and also that everyone else around them may or may not be kinnies? Wow, what a weird escalation of kin drama! Given what some people have seen of Spongebob's freaky arm thing, though, maybe it's not that at all?

Your Assistant Director, Hester, showed off her stuff and immediately had her life threatened by Lumpy Space Princess, who got her life threatened right back. Maybe you should keep that in mind if you decide to pay Hester any more visits! She won't be making another public appearance this week, but as promised, she'll be available for visits and consultation in the Principal's Office during business hours.

If you don't want to chat with Hester, there's always the school to explore! Some of you might also be receiving mysterious coins next to your bedside this week - those must be useful for something, right? There's lots to do, and you all seem like a group who can make your own fun, so enjoy your first week of school!]


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(( OOC: This will be the last mod post for this week! Feel free to start submitting regains for any threads that aren't with Hester. Remember, song threads mean an extra coin! This is a peace week, so get all that CR while you can! ))

Comments

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Ugh, this is pointless!

[Okay. Okay! Cass is up and taking a stand - literally.

Time to start looking for a weapon.]

Let's just pick one and take them out!

[wanderlusttitania]

All right, all right, I just-this is simply a bit abrupt-!

[Deep breath.]

If it’s in my power...I shall...aid the president, then!

[themuseabandonsyou]

Are you sure we can't just - try to separate them until they calm down?

[ Asks Orpheus from where he's put himself between Eurydice and the two brawlers still duking it out. He doesn't like anything about what's going on here, but surely adding more weapons to the situation would only make it worse. ]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Do you really want to get between them?

[She's watched some fights in her time, and... Boy, those two are going at it.]

They'll probably hurt us more than they'd hurt each other.

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Orpheus thinks about that a moment before shaking his head. No, he's pretty sure he'd literally die. Fighting is not his strong suit, and he doesn't feel comfortable asking someone else to step in if he's not willing to do the same. ]

You're right. [ He doesn't sound happy about it, though. ] I guess you should probably help the president? I don't know much about the other one.

[barberic]

[All things considered, he ought to get in there. As one of the men and seemingly token adults, it's his duty to protect the others.

And besides, if he can't stop Lady Elisabeth from charging in, he can certainly tank the retaliation for her.]

Stay back. Find cover, and maybe something to throw if you must. The more people in the fray, the more likely it is someone will be hurt.

[And then he hefts a 4x4 with a grunt, and swings it low at the back of "Big foot's" knees.]

[wanderlusttitania]

All right! FOR THE END OF SLAVERY!

[ E L J E N BITCHES

She is rushing towards the back of Bigfoot, swinging her plank as hard as she can-!]

[mcfife]

[Ending slavery sounds like the good choice. Angus follows up Sissi's battle cry with a loud high:] For the president!!

[And goes for a flying leap with a swing to Bigfoot's head.]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[OH- Wh, OKAY. WE'RE DOING THIS.

Well, while they're doing that, she's going to try and pull the president out of harm's way.]

[stagemanagers]

[Holy shit, fam. When y'all decide to go, you go hard.

Anyway, between hitting Bigfoot in the head and the back of the knees simultaneously, I think it's fair to say that you have knocked the cryptid down and are now thrashing him.

Lincoln, meanwhile, seems as fine as a shadowy human-shaped figure can be when Cass moves to pull him away. Touching him feels a little odd, sort of chilly, but he nods to her, sets down the plank he was wielding, and moves as if straightening out his lapels. Seems like he's aware of your presence; maybe you can communicate a little?]

[barberic]

[Benjamin pins the end of the four by four against the shadow's...chest. Area. Leaning as much weight against it as he has to to keep it down.]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[That's weird! Ohhh, that's so weird!! Even as he seems to come with her rather easily, it's as if her fingers are grasping at something only vaguely solid, and definitely not human.

But he's aware of them now, even acknowledging Cassandra's effort. Maybe this was the right choice?]

Uh... Your "presidency".

[She offers a small bow of respect, her hands clasped together.]

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Oh, good, so he was just looking to see that the Sasquatch was incapacitated rather than being possessed by a divine fury or anything like that. Orpheus hesitates, a moment, then steps forward. ]

Mister President? Are you... all right? Do you know what's happening here?

[ Might as well ask, right? ]

[howtheworldwas]

[ Eurydice is way too cautious to get involved, but she will give Sissi a thumbs-up. ]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

And I don't know much about either of them. Or, what a "president" is supposed to be. [Sounds important though. Maybe. He fought for slaves, apparently? That's a good thing.]

But if we're helping the president, it means we'll need to deal with Bigfoot.

[She hefts in her arms a folded chair.]

Think this might do anything?

[themuseabandonsyou]

The president is the leader of the United States. Every olympiad we vote for a new one. I think Lincoln was the president something like 100 years ago?

[ Orpheus looks at the chair and gives a very stressed-out shrug. ]

Probably! It looks heavy?

[feudalladyshandmaid]

So... basically a king?

[She tests a swing with the chair. That's what it sounds like.]

[themuseabandonsyou]

Kind of? A new president replaces the old one if they get more votes at the end of their term, and Congress and the Senate and the Supreme Court can tell them they're not allowed to do certain things? And I don't think anyone could tell most kings what to do, or replace them easily.

[howtheworldwas]

[ piping up from behind Orpheus: ]

There's no way those two are going to calm down. When do you think they'll stop? When someone gets knocked out?

[themuseabandonsyou]

You don't think they're actually trying to kill each other, do you? [ he asks, voice high and strained with the stress of the situation. ]

Should we... leave? If we aren't going to join the fight. [ He doesn't want to get in the way (or witness a brutal plank murder), but at the same time it's kind of hard to stop watching. ]

[howtheworldwas]

I don't know. I've never seen a creature like that in my life.

[ Seriously, what the fuck. Eurydice lowers her voice. ]

We can leave if they're gonna turn on us. Honestly, I kinda wanna see what these guys are capable of.

[themuseabandonsyou]

The Balladeer said it was called a Sasquatch, but I've heard some of the others calling it Bigfoot. I guess they're some kind of forest guardian or spirit? Like a cross between a satyr and an ape.

[ The Sasquatch takes a particularly wild swing at Lincoln, and Orpheus backs up, throwing an arm out protectively. ]

I wonder what it's doing here in a school like this. Or what President Lincoln is doing here.

[howtheworldwas]

Maybe that's not really a Bigfoot? Could be an actor in a suit and stilts, pretending to be Bigfoot.

[ There's a costume shop and everything, which means that explanation makes more sense, right? ]

[themuseabandonsyou]

Maybe! And that would probably make more sense than President Lincoln's shade being here. Him being an actor too, I mean.

[ who ever heard of a shade leaving the Underworld, right ]

[howtheworldwas]

[ lmao

Eurydice just nods, and continues watching the fight. ]