itscurtains | Week One

[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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If you ask me, I'm not so sure this Wizard guy even exists. That was a neat trick they pulled yesterday with the knife, but unless I see this guy? I'm going to have my doubts.

[Varian huffs, propping his chin up in his hand.]

Hester acts like she has good intentions and stuff too, but she's really not much better.

She is certainly choosing to be the face of this so-called Wizard. She can act as friendly as she likes, but she's made it rather clear who's side she's on. [dryly]

Part of me would like to try to reason with her, but like...I'm not exactly the greatest with people...if Rapunzel were here, maybe.

[She'd be able to talk anyone into ANYTHING, of that much he's certain.]

Rapunzel? [HM that name sounds familiar. Not to anyone he knows personally, but who doesn't know the fairy tale?] Someone else from your home, I assume?

[Varian nods, his expression brightening.]

Yeah! She's the princess of Corona, the kingdom I'm from. She's really well known for getting along with basically anyone, which is why I say that. She could talk someone into un-kidnapping her if she wanted, I bet.

That is certainly an admirable skill, not to mention a valuable one. Especially if she's a princess.

Well, Rapunzel is beloved for a reason. She used to be the "Lost Princess"; back before I was born, they started having a lantern festival every year on her birthday. They'd send up hundreds of lanterns into the sky, hoping that Rapunzel- wherever she had disappeared to- would see them and find her way back home.

I thought it was just a story when I was little, but...turns out she did find her way back, eventually.

That...is quite a story. Really quite miraculous that she managed to find her way home.

[though, now he's curious...] Does anyone know why she disappeared in the first place?

[his bet is on the Fae]

[Worse!]

Well...she was kidnapped as a baby. The kingdom searched for her high and low, but it was like she'd completely disappeared without a trace. Turns out she was being kept in a tower by her kidnapper, far away from the kingdom and where anyone could find her. Using her.

[Ah, that's...somewhat similar to the fairy tale?? Hm]

Using her? [????] For what was she using her, exactly?

Rapunzel's hair was...is magic.

[He states, plainly.]

The Queen fell ill before she was born, and she was treated by a medicine made from a particular flower...and that flower had healing properties. It's magic got transferred to Rapunzel when she was born, into her hair.

There's an incantation that connects to the flower known as the Sundrop. Whenever it's spoken, the healing power activates. All her captor needed to do was have Rapunzel speak the incantation while brushing her hair to steal the power for herself...it was keeping her young, forever.

[That is....well that sure is some information. But at the same time, he's at the point where he's simply accepting a lot of these odd things from other worlds]

So she was essentially a living fountain of youth.

[Varian nods. He can understand how outlandish that probably sounds, but...when you live in a world full of magic, you have to take some liberties with the things you accept as fact.]

More or less. The strange thing is, her hair was cut, robbing it of its powers...thats how she was able to get away in the first place. But it's since come back...she came to me for help, but I couldn't cut it no matter what I tried. All of my tools broke on it.

That is certainly more than a little peculiar. And unfortunate for your tools.

Oh, don't worry about that. There's always more where those came from.

[Varian please don't be so casual with your things...]

But yeah, that's some of the last things I remember before I came here. The actual last thing was the science expo I presented at with Cass...not exactly a prime opportunity for a kidnapping, I'd have thought.

What is a science expo exactly? [????] And...what does kidnapping have to do with it in this context, precisely?

Oh! Well, it's sort of like...a convention? A big get-together?

[How best to explain.]

It's where a bunch of scientists from across the kingdoms get together to show off their inventions. And since I'm really the only one on the side of Corona where I live, it was a huge opportunity to do some networking...while also showing off what I can do, of course.

But not really a group of people you'd want to kidnap, unless you wanted us to...I dunno. Be forced to build something.

Ah...no, you wouldn't think so, would you? [he frowns a little at that, in thought] Do you suppose the Wizard might ask you to build something?

I...I'm not sure. I hadn't thought about it, actually.

[Varian huffs, looking miffed at the thought.]

Not that he could even make me if he wanted.

[Oh don't worry Varian, he easily could.]

Certainly not. [this is definitely what Salieri believes NOW]

I suppose if he did want something, he would have asked it of you already.

Yeah. No use in wasting both our times, am I right?

[He laughs derisively, looking back over at his wall of diagrams.]

...anyway, I should probably get back to work, but. Thanks for letting me vent.

Of course. I appreciate hearing your thoughts and ideas about all this. Thank you for discussing them with me.

Do keep me updated on your further projects?

I will. Everything will probably be up on the wall, so if you have any suggestions I'd be willing to hear them.

[That wall and ceiling are just going to get even more cluttered with papers as the weeks wear on, honestly.]

I'll let you know if I think of any.

[Salieri retrieves his own papers from the desk]

Until later, Varian.

[and he'll head out]

Week One

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