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!]


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! ))

Comments

[mayavericks]

Truthfully, I don't know much more than I have already told you. The competition was explained to me, with a promise that it would begin soon. I have not met my fellow competitors yet.

Though...

[She pauses, frowning deeply.] I spoke with Angus just after these photos were given to us. Without... revealing his secret, his photo contained a... creature that appeared to be adorned in the uniform that we were given to wear during competition. That includes this jacket.

I... don't know what it means.

[violentenvies]

[That'll garner a frown from him as well] That is...rather strange.

Did Angus recognize the creature at all?

[mayavericks]

Not at all. At first we thought it all connected -- my duels and his photo. But... the creature orchestrating my own trials is certainly not that powerful.

[violentenvies]

Oh? [she'll get a bit of an arched eyebrow for that]

What sort of creature is orchestrating your trials?

[mayavericks]

[She dips her head, maybe a little sheepish.]

A Kirin. A... Giraffe.

1/2

[violentenvies]

[...say what now.]

...a Giraffe.

[a moment, and then he huffs out a sigh]

Somehow, not the strangest thing I've heard here.

2/2

[violentenvies]

Is there anything...unique or special about this Giraffe that allows it to run this competition?

[mayavericks]

You mean other than inexplicably being able to summon me to its chambers in the dead of night?

[violentenvies]

[wtf]

I...[that is SO WEIRD but just...forging ahead]...yes. Aside from that.

[mayavericks]

Well. It can also talk?

[violentenvies]

I see. And has the ability to give the person who wins this competition access to any stage in the world.

[mayavericks]

I know it is difficult to believe. If I had not witnessed it myself, I would think it nonsense as well.

[violentenvies]

[he huffs out a sigh at that] To be quite honest, there are many strange things that have presented themselves to me here that I could never have imagined possible before now. Somehow, a talking giraffe holding a high-stakes singing competition fits in right beside the time and space travel.