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!]


Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday


(( 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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[comeandfindme]

[ The music has her fully. The motif isn't one she's familiar with...but it feels right. It feels like hers. ]

No, no, no,
You want to believe that the fight will be fair,
That someone will come, or that someone will care,
But that's not the truth and I've got to prepare.

[tellthestory]

[That's...but he's not alone anymore. Is he? The Player came and got him, and even now he's here with these people. Even if the Balladeer often feels strange and alien among them. Even if he knows he's not really the same as them, as kind as a few people have been about it.]

I've got one job in life, and this time I'm prepared
If they need my help, maybe I could be there
I could be there...

[But he sounds anxious, uncertain. Because he's not there. And even so, will anyone be there for him?]

[comeandfindme]

[ Everyone here is...relatively nice. Even the ones that aren't, exactly—but if she can't trust people she's known her whole life, just about, what hope does she have with them? ]

Do I do it
Alone, alone, alone?
Should I go and doubt them?

[ All of a sudden...it's not just about back at Whitetail. It's here. The people around her. Including the Balladeer, who has her attention again. ]

Alone, alone, alone!
Am I fine without them?
Mm...

[ ...Are they fine without her? ]

[tellthestory]

[The Balladeer, at least, seems much more visibly worried than he did when he walked into the shop. That must have all been lingering under the surface already, for a song to drag it out like that...but he hadn't been thinking about any of it before.

The song sounds like it's ending. He lets the music fade, idly running his fingers over the top of a table saw, pretending that he's looking at it.]

Sometimes you're just alone. But I wouldn't go looking for it. Lots of good folks around here.

[It is, ever so slightly, an exclusion of himself; a step back. That comes more naturally than being a part of the group.]

[comeandfindme]

[ Oh... Oh, they're finished, huh? Peregrine sort of comes back to herself, hearing what the Balladeer's saying but taking a few moments to process it.

She wets her dry lips. ]

...Means I have to be able to count on 'em. That's...something I'm not really...

[tellthestory]

[He pauses for a moment, still turned towards the tools.]

I know we've all only known each other for a little bit. But we're all in the same boat, here.

[comeandfindme]

Yeah, I know. You guys want out just like I do.

[tellthestory]

We want to get out together. There's no reason to turn on people stuck in the same situation, when we all know who put us here.

[well, more or less]

[comeandfindme]

No reason we know of right now. ...I don't really know any of you. Who knows who'd try and stab someone in the back?

[tellthestory]

I don't think most people are like that. Especially not after a week.

[Like, he knows mostly murderers, but most people don't shoot others! Right?]

Who knows who could help you out?

[comeandfindme]

[ Positive thinking like that feels so foreign. The only thing she has is determination. But... ]

...I guess.

[tellthestory]

...just give it a thought, you know? I doubt anyone's getting out of this on their own.

[Unless, you know. They do the whole murder thing. But this is week one we don't gotta take that super seriously.......]

[comeandfindme]

I'll do what I can to get out of here. Without playing by their dumb rules. That's all I can say.