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! ))

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Cafeteria

[mayavericks]

[Maya is actually on her way for some tea, but.... A collection of papers near Angus draws her attention.]

Ah -- [She steps closer and, without asking, picks it up.] McFife-san, where did you find this?

[mcfife]

[Angus removes his hand from the terrarium, where he had been arranging the rocks to give the lizards better hiding spaces.]

All this was given in exchange for coins. That is the performance script you are holding, is that correct?

[mayavericks]

Yes, it is. [She holds it up to him, pointing to her name.]

It is from my school. It's a copy of the play we perform every year.

[mcfife]

Well, now I must hear of this. We could perform it while Salieri writes more of his opera!

[mayavericks]

Well, if you wanted, I suppose we could?

[Never mind the fact that it only has female characters. It's fine. She picks up the script and starts to read the opening few lines aloud.]

This is the story of a nearby and distant Planet. It is an epic of ancient times, a drama of the far future.

There once stood a tower. No one knows when, by whom, or for what it was built for. The tower stood under a starry sky. Standing straight, it stood as if to pierce through the moon. Standing in secret, it stood as if to refuse the Starlight.

[mcfife]

[Angus lifts one foot onto a seat and rests an elbow on his knee, listening intently at this dramatic setting.]

[mayavericks]

[Maya doesn't continue past that, at least. She doesn't want to bore him with the scene setting.]

It's a tale of two lovers, Claire and FLora, that are separated by tragedy. I played the lead last year, and I intend to do so again this year.

[mcfife]

I hope you do get play the lead. I would love to witness a performance after all this! [There's so many actors and musicians here. What a lucky group.] At least The Wizard had the decency to let you have it again.

[mayavericks]

I should be thanking you as well, McFife-san. You were the one that found it. It is... very important to me.

[mcfife]

Oh? Is it your favorite performance?

[mayavericks]

It's... A marker of my progress. At Seisho, each class is assigned a play. They will perform it three times -- once at the end of each year. It's a measure of how much we have grown as actresses.

[mcfife]

Ah, so a play for your entire class. [It must be nice, training with a large group of people instead of private tutors and a few knights.] Do you play the same roles each year, or must you prove your role as a lead actor?

[mayavericks]

We host auditions every year. Previously, I --

[She shakes her head.]

My name is Claire
I committed the sin of the stars

[mcfife]

Claire...And what sin does she commit?

[He has to know the full story if he won't see the performance here.]

[mayavericks]

Both she and her lover, Flora, ascended to the top of the Starlight tower. Their hope was to grant a wish, a wish to restore Flora's memories after she forgot the bond they formed the year prior.

Instead, they, like many others, failed. Flora was blinded and fell from the tower, while Claire was doomed to be locked away like the vengeful goddesses before her.

[mcfife]

Ah...a tragedy to hear as a summary, but the performance itself must be beautiful to witness. Perhaps that is how we can bear sad endings.

[mayavericks]

There is beauty to be found in tragedy. Nothing is more compelling than displaying true emotion on stage, after all.

[mcfife]

[He would would hate meeting a tragic end himself!]

The stage is different from life. The things that happen in tales can be so outlandish that one cannot believe it could ever happen to themselves. War and strife are real, but are more...personal. They store tragedy in one or two people, but not in an entire kingdom.

[And honestly...the sad end of two lovers is something that Angus can use after everything in the third album.]

[mayavericks]

I suppose that is why I enjoying doing what I do. Having the chance to do the impossible, to make these outlandish stories believable? It is a treat that I relish.

[mcfife]

And I will bear witness! I know much of battles, but of romances? That will be a show!

[mayavericks]

With all that passion, perhaps I will conduct a performance of Starlight. I imagine you would make an excellent Flora.

[mcfife]

Me? Would my mannerisms not fit the role? [He's never acted before, he swears!]

[mayavericks]

We could always see. Though... The question would be, who is your Claire?

[mcfife]

Hm.

[He hasn't formally flirted with anyone yet? Just threw a few nice compliments here and there. Who here is around his age?]

Someone like Elsa or Cassandra...or Elle would fit the role best.

[mayavericks]

Hmm...

[She looks at Angus, and then off into the distance. No, Elsa and Cassandra wouldn't work, not with him playing the lead.]

Elle it is, then.