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

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ That's understandable. Orpheus doesn't sound terribly thrilled about her either, even if he's still polite enough to call her 'miss'. ]

You won't have to try alone, at least? We're all looking, and I'll tell you about anything I find that seems important.

[comeandfindme]

[ For a moment, Peregrine stills, almost bristles. Then she sighs and shrugs. ]

Yeah. I guess that's one positive about all of us being stuck here. ...We have to work together.

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ That's not a reaction Orpheus was expecting, and he looks at her with a bit of confusion. The tension passes, though, and he decides to just shrug it off. ]

We do. I'm sure we'll think of something together? There must be some kind of way out of here.

[ He hands her another can. ]

For now I think taking stock of what we have is a really good idea, though.

[comeandfindme]

[ It's a weird reaction, that's for sure. Peregrine doesn't seem inclined to give any hints as to just what's going on, either, as she just takes the can and starts looking over it. ]

That should've been my first step... I'll start on that next.

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Orpheus nods. ]

Eurydice and I are working on taking an inventory of the kitchen right now, actually! [ he says, gesturing to where his wife is currently examining the contents of one of the refrigerators. ] If you want to help us after you're done with this, you can. It's a big kitchen, and there's a lot of things to keep track of.

[comeandfindme]

[ She wonders if more than one person doing inventory could get confusing. She almost voices as much, but pauses. ]

...Alright. I'll take the lower cabinets?

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ It might, but that doesn't really occur to Orpheus, who's just happy for the help. ]

Okay! I'll take the upper ones.

[ where Peregrine and Eurydice can't reach-- ]

There's some pretty exotic stuff here? Things that I've never seen back home. Like this. [ He pulls out a can of pineapple rings in syrup. ] I don't think I've ever had pineapple before?

[comeandfindme]

Pineapples are exotic? [ Peregrine asks this and then frowns lightly. ] ...They're pretty standard for me. But, I know a guy who mostly eats canned food and hunts for the rest, so... I guess I get how it might not be, for some.

[themuseabandonsyou]

It's hard to get most things, out where I live. Pretty much everything has to be shipped out by train. And there's been a lot of trouble with the harvest recently, so a lot of different kinds of food are scarcer than they would be otherwise?

[ It's god stuff, but he refrains from mentioning that explicitly this time. ]

[comeandfindme]

[ Train. That's weird to hear, if he's...actually Orpheus and not just some guy way too into LARPing. It's a point in the second column at the very least. ]

That's why you two...took to the kitchen. You're used to scarcity...right?

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Orpheus nods, glancing over at Eurydice again. ]

Yes. I think this is the most food either of us have seen in one place in a long time? And it's hard not to worry about what might happen if it runs out and we're still stuck in here. We both know how to make things last if it gets bad, but...

[ It wouldn't be pleasant, and it wouldn't last forever. ]

[comeandfindme]

...I know how to hunt. And some...things to help with harvests. But it'd require us to be able to go outside. And I don't really wanna consider we'd be here long enough to grow crops.

[themuseabandonsyou]

Hopefully we won't be.

[ That's not a notion that had occurred to Orpheus before, but he definitely doesn't like it, grimacing a little. ]

Maybe they'll let us go outside eventually though. Or open up the parts of the school that are blocked off? You've noticed those, right? The locked doors near the gym, and the scene shop.

[comeandfindme]

Yeah. [ Her lip curls. ] And they seem just as sturdy as everything else around here. No forcing our way through.

[themuseabandonsyou]

I wonder if it's because there's something secret in those rooms they don't want us seeing, or if they're just trying to keep us all in a smaller space. To make us easier to keep track of. They're definitely not locked and reinforced by normal means, though.

[ Again, Orpheus suspects it's because the Wizard is a god, but he's... not going to mention that to Peregrine, even if she did apologize after seeing what happened with the knife and the earthquake. ]

[comeandfindme]

...She said something about letting us out, didn't she? Later... Was that real, or was it to try and mess with us?

[ Peregrine more mutters this to herself than anything. ]

[themuseabandonsyou]

It sounds like they have this all planned out? So I wouldn't be surprised if she was telling the truth. But I don't think it'll be simple as just walking out of here. Elisabeth and Elle and I are all from completely different years, and I think Elle and I are from different... versions? Of Earth? So if one of us could walk home from here, the rest wouldn't be able to.

[ Probably. He thinks that's the logical conclusion to draw from this incredibly illogical situation. ]

[comeandfindme]

[ Different years, different Earths, this is all just— ]

...Well make that three of you. 'Cause I'm definitely from Earth too.

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Orpheus nods. ]

What year is it, where you're from? And you said you're from somewhere called Whitetail, right? Where is that?

[comeandfindme]

Minnesota. I'm from Whitetail, Minnesota. It's 2016.

[themuseabandonsyou]

Elle said she was from 2007, I think? And Elisabeth said it was eighteen-something. But it was spring of 678.2, for me.

[ So that's a problem. He frowns, thoughtfully. ]

And you're from Minnesota, and Elle's from California, but both of you said the gods I know are just old stories, even though I've met some of them and they're definitely real.

[comeandfindme]

[ Her face scrunches up even further with confusion. ]

And I've never heard that way of telling time or the year or anything.

[themuseabandonsyou]

It doesn't seem like anyone else I've talked to about it has? But people have been using that calendar for something like twenty four thousand years. Not everyone uses it day to day, but it's what the temples and the government in the US use to keep track of holidays, so it'd be really strange for someone from the same United States as me not to have at least heard of it, even if they don't know the exact year.

[comeandfindme]

The same United States... I keep hearing it, and it keeps sounding weird.

[ She rubs her temples. ]

Like- like this is something outta a sci-fi movie.

[themuseabandonsyou]

It's the best explanation I have. [ says Orpheus, shrugging. ] But it does make things much harder. Even if we break out, where can we go? I can see a road out some of the windows, but where does it lead? If it goes somewhere Eurydice and I know, then it'll be somewhere unfamiliar to the rest of you, and the other way around. So we probably have to find a way to either get the Wizard to send us home or find some other way.