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! ))

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cafeteria

[mcfife]

Madame Empress?

[Angus stops by the cafeteria table. He hasn't used the vending machine just yet and all of this is new to him.]

What have you here?

[wanderlusttitania]

Monsieur!

[She nods to him.]

I found these coins at my vanity this morning, and I managed to figure out that they can be exchanged in that little booth near our rooms.

[She gestures to the stuff.]

This was what I received, and...I really have no need or use for most it, unfortunately!

[mcfife]

[Angus looks over the trinkets - food, coins, small things.]

Toys, it seems. It's how they keep us from getting bored. [He does pick up the plastic crown.] They would make excellent souvenirs.

[wanderlusttitania]

Well, I don't know about most of these things being anything I'd bring home with me...

[She goes to touch the flower in her hair.]

This, though...this reminds me of home. I think I'd prefer something like that over a portrait of some man, no matter how handsome he might be.

[Brings her chin up.]

My husband's more handsome, after all!

[mcfife]

[The man is rather handsome, he agrees. Someone in his dorm would appreciate it.]

Your husband would be proud to know you think so highly of him. I imagine that he must look grand if he is an Emperor.

[wanderlusttitania]

Oh goodness, he does! You should see him in the uniform of a dragoon officer!

I have~

[little blush!]

[mcfife]

[And Angus has nothing else to say about the man. It would be easier if he know anything else about the Emperor.]

Just one question. Where is Austria? I have not heard of an empire with that name in my universe.

[wanderlusttitania]

You haven't?

[Hm.]

Do you know of France, perhaps? Or Russia? Great Britain? Europe?

[mcfife]

I know of the land of the Francs and Europa. [Russia sounds familiar, but it might not mean the same peoples.] I know of the Britons, if that is who you're referring to. They don't have anything that could be considered "great".

[wanderlusttitania]

Francs and Europa...

[Huh.]

Austria is in the center of the continent, north of the lands of the Italian states. Its capital is Vienna-that's where my husband was born. I was born in Munich, in Bavaria.

Does...any of that also sound slightly familiar?

[mcfife]

Bavaria are a group of people in central Europa, with a main city as Munich. There are many smaller kingdoms throughout the country, but in my time, Bavaria is the ruler of the city of Vienna.

[wanderlusttitania]

Oh, I-

[Huh.]

Well, it's true, there are many German states. But were I come from, it is Austria that rules its empire from Vienna.

[mcfife]

If you are indeed from Monsieur Salieri's timeline, it appears the smaller kingdoms have united to form larger kingdoms throughout Europa. First the Francs and now the Bavarians.

...It does make sense that they cooperate, if Fife is no longer as powerful as we are. [Maya recognized the name. What happened that Scotland isn't so big of a deal?] What of Fife and the surrounding kingdoms? What becomes of England?

[wanderlusttitania]

Oh, England? They call themselves Great Britain, and are a part of the United Kingdom, which is ruled by Queen Victoria. They have an empire.

But yes, Monsieur Salieri is correct, though Bavaria is independent of any other country now.

[mcfife]

[AGAIN with England becoming an empire. What has happened to these universes that magic does not exist and and England is powerful?]

How odd, these timelines are. It would seem most of us come from a world similar to yours rather than mine.

[wanderlusttitania]

Well, they are not so different that I can't recognize any of the names...though, may I ask about what Fife is, in your world?

[mcfife]

Fife is a kingdom, north of Engle-land. It covers the cities of Dundee, Crail, and Glasgow. It's a rather large area, compared to its southern neighbor.

[wanderlusttitania]

A kingdom north of-oh! Could you be...from Scotland?

[Oh, she is so silly! Why didn't she think of that?]

[mcfife]

...Yes, I believe so. [If the geography of their planets is roughly the same.] It is rather comforting that our worlds are somewhat alike. The timelines we were taken from have to be close in the space-time fabric.

[wanderlusttitania]

Space-time...fabric?

[wut]

[mcfife]

[Does he have to explain basics of the fourth dimension?]

The fabric of the cosmos. Encompassing both time.....

...and space. [The pause was deliberate.]

[wanderlusttitania]

...Like a quilt? Space and time are...quilts, then.

[You might be forgiven for thinking Sissi is looking at you a little funny for the comparison.]

[mcfife]

It's the right shape.

[It's flat and has bumps, why not?]

But it's a cosmic quilt.

[wanderlusttitania]

Huh. I...how does one know that's correct, though? How do you even prove something so...strange-sounding?

[For lack of a better word.]

[mcfife]

Our space wizards have studied space-time for centuries. I believe there are a set of mathematical equations that prove how it works, but I can't recall off the top of my head.

[Vague hand gestures. By his time, everyone assumes that the universe just works.]

We first study how the sun and planets move, then move onto the stars, then all cosmos. From there, we learn how to use these movements to our advantage, and that involves understanding space-time.