itscurtains | Week Two

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Week Two

[Last week, no murder happened! Instead, a lot of students started work on Salieri's school play, which sounds pretty cool even though it's gonna be short, several people destroyed Bigfoot and got a few mysterious clues, and Orpheus started a fire in the kitchen! All in all, not a bad first week!

Though some people might have gone to talk to Hester, she hasn't made any more public announcements. There's some new papers posted up around the cafeteria, but it looks like it's just your upcoming lunch schedule. Seems like nothing's driving you towards Rule Five except, perhaps, all of the kidnapping and how criminally boring some of you are finding the school. Maybe the Balladeer is right, and you really can just wait this out? Only time will tell!]

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

(( No new locations this week, since y'all haven't paid in blood! Hester's office hours are still open, as are regains! Make sure to complete your first activity check by Tuesday! ))

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What stupid thing are you planning? 'cause I will tell Eurydice on you if it's dumb enough.

[Connor's in here to grab gloves to keep under his pillow in the event that the awful racoon that now lives in their dorm gets any ideas about other people's beds.]

Oh. [ Orpheus immediately goes sheepish and apologetic-looking as he snaps out of his ruminations over the knife, looking over at one of the last few people here who he hasn't really talked to yet. ] Um, I was just thinking -

[ Wait, the camera. Orpheus glances up at it, unsubtly, and turns his back to it. It's a film camera, right? So it can't record sound, obviously. ]

If things get bad enough here, and it doesn't look like the Wizard is going to let us go... could we fake it, somehow? Killing someone. I don't think it's a good idea, and I'm not sure how it would work. But it has to be better than actually doing what they want us to do.

[Connor follows Orpheus' gaze to the camera and he could say something about how there's probably microphones too. Instead, he looks back at Orpheus.]

I don't think it works like that. [That's not a yes or no, but.] There's magic fuckery here, who's to say they're not monitoring our life force or some other spooky shit? Besides, we never really got an answer about what happens after the person dies.

[ Orpheus sighs. ]

You're probably right. If the Wizard is as powerful as they seem, they're probably not that easy to fool. [ He puts the prop knife away in the cabinet and shuts the door, leaning against it momentarily with an uncharacteristic sense of exhaustion. ] I was thinking maybe what they really want is a show, and they just think trying - this is the best way to go about it? But that's probably too much to hope for.

Didn't realize television had degraded enough to air literal snuff, but I guess that was inevitable after Serial's bullshit. [Connor leans against one of the work tables.] Listen, there's nothing wrong with hope. If you wanna be optimistic, Peregrine and I can be pessimistic enough about this for everyone.

What? [ Orpheus caught - some of that first sentence, but not enough to really grasp Connor's meaning. He's heard of televisions, even if he's never seen one, but everything after that kind of escapes him. ]

So you really think someone's going to try to get out of here by - doing what rule five says? [ It feels a little childish to euphemize the situation like that, but it's surprisingly hard to say it out loud. He frowns, looking put out. ] You and Peregrine aren't the only ones, but I just can't imagine it.

I told Varian this last week, but I think at some point they're going to start changing the variables. Maybe we'd break eventually, go stir-crazy enough to kill or whatever, but I'm pretty sure that they'll, uh. Incentivize us.

[He played Dangan Ronpa. He knows how a murder school works.]

Right, that makes sense. Eurydice and I were talking about what might happen if food runs out, here. It seems like someone brought in more on Saturday night? But if that doesn't happen every week...

[ He grimaces. ]

... Yeah, I don't really want to think about what'll happen then. Not that people starve quickly, but who knows how long it'd take us to turn on each other in that case? [He breathes out, not quite a sigh.] Discord's a fucker.

We both know how to make food last in an emergency, and I think Peregrine might too? But I really hope it doesn't come to that.

[ Not least because a lot of that relies on ability to supplement supplies by foraging and they sure can't do that right now, what with being stuck inside and all. Anyway, Orpheus frowns a bit at that last comment. ]

He doesn't seem to um. Take anything to do with other people very seriously, does he? I guess that makes sense, given his nature, but...

[ That doesn't mean Orpheus has to approve of any of it. ]

Yeah. Must be nice to be able to cause chaos without giving a shit about other people. [He shorts.] I'm an asshole, but not that kind. Anyway, the walls have ears—maybe literally, who knows—so you know. Be careful about any bright ideas you might have in the future.

[Just saying.]

I told him that people and their relationships aren't playthings and he just told me that I wasn't the first.

[ It was very frustrating! He wrote him a song about it and everything! ]

That... makes sense, though. I guess if the Wizard is really as powerful as they seem, they probably don't need cameras to keep track of us. [ He pauses, then, thinking about that. ] But then, who do you think the cameras are for? Miss Hester?

I think the cameras are for accountability. Like I said, we never really got a clear answer about what "get away with it" means.

[He shrugs. Video evidence is king when he's from, so it makes sense to him that avoiding them would be part of the challenge.]

[ Orpheus stares a bit blankly for a moment, before putting the pieces together. ]

Oh! So if something happened in here, it wouldn't count as "avoiding detection," because the camera would see it.

[ But that makes him wonder - what about the spot under the table the President pointed out? Is that out of the camera's view? Maybe it would be a good place to hide things. He'll have to take a closer look later. ]

So in a way, maybe it's a good thing if we find more of them? I still don't think anyone's likely to try anything? But having more obstacles in the way means they're even less likely to, right?

Something like that, yeah. If it keeps us accountable, that's not a bad thing.

[He could say something about the myriad of stupid crimes that get committed in plain view of cameras, but nah. He meant what he said about hope and shit: he'll keep that to himself and let Orpheus have whatever hope he can find in this shitty situation.]

[ Orpheus is blissfully unaware of the phenomenon that is Dumbest Criminals Caught On Tape compilations, and will hopefully remain so for the rest of his life. ]

Right! Eurydice and I were trying to see where the rest of them were, earlier, if there are any others. If we tell everyone else where they are as we find them, maybe that would help.

[ Or it could just make it easier for a potential killer to find the blind spots, but that sure doesn't occur to Orpheus. ]

.... Yeah, I wouldn't tell everyone, maybe.

[God, he's about to play "who don't I trust" and the answer is.... actually, he doesn't trust a single person here but he believes some of them would actually kill.]

I don't trust a single motherfucker in Ambassador. [A beat.] Except for Princess.

That's the ones in purple, right? Not even Prince Angus? Or Mister Barker?

[ Orpheus is inherently a pretty trusting person, but he guesses even he can understand not being sure about the Balladeer. The remaining three are a bit of a mystery or Discord, though. ]

Male royalty are inherently untrustworthy. Benji is on thin ice as a father-type.

[Trust a father??? Absolutely not, not for Connor Murphy.]

I guess that makes sense? About royalty. Prince Angus has always been really nice to me, though. He helped me put out one of the pies that came out of the vending machine on fire.

[ Orpheus is still a little unclear on how that works, but he sure didn't like it. ]

But what's wrong with being a father-type?

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