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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Oh--!

So if we get your magic back then you can get all of us out of here!

[ Not what he said Rina. ]

...Well, I could, yes.

[Admiring the optimism there Rina.]

[at that, Salieri can't actually let out a snort]

Mademoiselle Rina, not to disappoint you, but I think that is assuming quite a lot of Monsieur Discorde. [drawled]

[. . .]

Excuse me?

Come now. As if you'd stoop to helping mere mortals such as us. [he gives Discord the driest look]

As you said--you'd turn this place into sand, or knock down the walls, and then you'd leave. But I doubt you would take any of us with you.

[Oh, do NOT--]

You know, it's the weirdest thing, I think I missed the part where anyone asked you!

It's an open discussion, Monsieur. And it would be cruel to give Mademoiselle Rina a false hope that, even if somehow your magic was returned to you, that you would think of anyone except yourself.

[WELL THAT'S NOT

...THAT'S NOT WRONG

BUT HE'S INSULTED ANYWAY]

Well, first of all, that's when, not if. Second of all, well, I know who isn't going to get magic'd out of here.

I said if and I meant if. You are as trapped as the rest of us, though you try to ignore it. [calmly, factual] You seem so upset, monsieur, but I'll point out: is anything I've said untrue?

Nothing I've said has been untrue either, for the record. I'm simply annoyed at you butting into matters that aren't your concern!

I simply said that I could take people out of here with my magic back, if that's what I wanted to do!

Ah, yes, and I am so certain that someone who has boasted and bragged about plunging a world into eternal chaos and has professed that he would happily do so again here, would that he could, would be happy to then bring everyone back to their respective homes.

Maybe I'll just take everyone but you. Though I suppose given your insignificance back home, that might not be so bad, hm?

Oh, here's a thought! I could always zap you into the ocean and we can see if you really can't breathe there.

[the look he gives Discord is just

so unimpressed] Terrifying.

[FIRST OF ALL--]

One way ticket to the sea it is! I'll remember that.

Do. By all means, continue to demonstrate your true nature to everyone attending. [he gestures at the table at large]

You come off as silly, annoying, and ridiculous. Certainly nothing to be feared. But when it comes down to it, you only have an interest in doing something if it entertains you, and helping anyone here isn't it.

And so what if it isn't! Lord of Chaos, remember! Of course I only do what I want to do, wow, you've really got me there.

What should I be doing instead, making friends? [He sounds genuinely disgusted at the mere thought of it.] Disharmony is kind of in the name here!

Far be it from me to tell you what to do, Monsieur. However, it would be a disservice to many here to let them think that you are someone that they would call friend, when you yourself have said that every single person here is below you.

Is that not what you said? [he arches an eyebrow] "People should know where they stand, and wherever it is, I'm above them," I believe.

I did say that. Because it's true, obviously!

Perhaps it was once.

But presently? You're down here with the rest of us mortals.

At least for me it's only temporary.

That's more than I can say for any of you.

Temporary. [And he just looks at him calmly across the table] If that is what you need to keep telling yourself, of course.

And just what is that supposed to mean? Of course it's temporary.

Do you have any idea how powerful I am? Magic like that doesn't just disappear into thin air!

And yet, it seems to have done so. Curious.

Ah, but perhaps you're right, and it is not permanently out of your grasp.

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[ Looks at them both... oh no... what did she start.... ]

Awawawawawa...

[ She lifts her hands up in a placating gesture. ]

P...Please don't fight...

[ Like "no fighting pose" but a bit more actually trying this time ]

[there's a flicker in Salieri's expression for a moment, perhaps a bit of guilt for bringing this up this way, however--]

My apologies, Mademoiselle Rina, that you have to bear witness to such unpleasantness. But I cannot morally allow such a hope to ride on someone who would so callously toss it aside.

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