Week Two

[stagemanagers]

[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!]


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(( 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! ))

Comments

[tellthestory]

I wanna say that was French...

[Not that he's an expert, here.]

Definitely a Romance language. Not Italian. I kinda thought it would be - I thought opera just was.

[yourattention]

In what way? 'cause I'm a monolingual scrub so I can confirm I don't just automatically understand opera.

[He's actually not, but "Connor why do you speak Spanish way better than the average high school student taking it" hasn't actually come up yet so he simply doesn't know.]

[tellthestory]

Just sounds similar? Same roots and stuff? I never really learned to speak Italian, but I think I sort of know it.

[He understands some of the stuff that comes out of Zangara's mouth, anyway.]

[yourattention]

You ....... just know Italian. [He doesn't vary his monotone, but the incredulity is still obvious.] Sign me up the fuck up for that superpower, I guess.

[tellthestory]

Really, that's the one you'd pick?

[Well]

Guess it could be fun if I ever got to travel.

[yourattention]

Just knowing languages? Sure. It'd be way easier to gossip with Miguel.

[That's his concern, obviously. Petty teenage gossip.]

[tellthestory]

Oh, friend of yours? Yeah, that could be fun. I never really wanted to talk to Giuseppe, but it would've been fun to chat privately like that with someone else.

[yourattention]

Yeah, he's my best friend. [He's Connor's only friend.] He's trying to teach me Spanish, but I'm not very good at it.

[tellthestory]

Well, the conversational practice is the most important part, right? You'll get lots of that!

[yourattention]

Sure, and it goes fine when he's not siccing abuela on me and making me learn by having a very small Mexican grandmother nicely yell at me when I don't understand her complicated Spanish instructions.

[tellthestory]

[The Balladeer laughs.]

Getting thrown in the deep end! That's one way to learn!

[yourattention]

It's something, that's for sure. [Connor sips from the drink he stole from Farrah.] But for real, I think you guys were good? I guess? I'm not really an expert on this shit.

[tellthestory]

Thanks! That just makes your opinion more important, I'd think - there's no point in only appealing to "established theatre people".

[yourattention]

Yeah, I don't really understand all the [He waves a hand around.] singing? I'm not built like that or whatever, I guess.

[sometimes you're from a book and the only character who sings is your sister don't worry about it]

[tellthestory]

Not everyone is.

[He doesn't actually know about the book thing, but the Balladeer understands that different mediums exist well enough! It's not weird!]

Must be weird for you to get caught up in it, though.