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

[alchemistake]

Way more than just 76. There was 76 when Maya used it, then another 76 when I used it...they're probably stacked up in the corner of the cafeteria somewhere.

[Because he sure as hell didn't bother to try to clear his up.]

[comeandfindme]

Can I just say I hate magic? I think I hate magic.

[alchemistake]

Now you know how I feel!

[He doesn't hate it, but boy does he not prefer it most of the time, and this is exactly why.]

But yeah...that vending machine has a lot of stuff in it. Maybe other peoples' stuff, too. I'm not sure. I assumed Ruddiger was a fluke, but I could be wrong.

[comeandfindme]

[ Right. Right, the raccoon. Peregrine comes back around to him, studying the little guy severely. ]

Okay, yeah, him. You do know that raccoons are like, wild animals. You really took one for a pet? Messing around with nature never goes well, you know.

[alchemistake]

Oh, yeah, I know! I mean, I didn't want him.

[Wait, what]

He kept breaking into my lab, getting stuck in my pest traps. They're all harmless, but I had to keep freeing him every night...and he'd just come right back looking for food. Eventually I just stopped trying and unhooked the traps, and he never left after that.

[comeandfindme]

[ Slightly skeptical: ] He's never bitten you? Rabies is, like, really serious, and you really need to watch out for it in most wild animals.

[alchemistake]

[Varian shakes his head no.]

Nope, he hasn't. I mean, I wear gloves back home most of the time, so I hadn't considered it...

[Varian just because you have gloves doesn't mean you don't have plenty of other exposed skin to munch on.]

[comeandfindme]

[ She gives him A Look. ]

Varian... You gotta be more careful. Nature's nothing to take lightly.

[ ...But— ]

...What's his name?

[alchemistake]

[If nothing else, Varian looks appropriately apologetic. BUT...it's a little hard to just release a raccoon into the wild who is used to subsisting off people food at this point.]

He's a one-and-done thing, I promise. I have no intention of collecting woodland creatures, believe me.

[That won't stop him from petting Ruddiger though, scratching behind his ears.]

His name is Ruddiger.

[comeandfindme]

[ Hearing this isn't a habit seems to calm Peregrine significantly. She gets a little closer, debating if she should follow suit and pet him. ]

Ruddiger... It's cute. [ Sloooowly reaching out a hand. ]

[alchemistake]

[Peregrine's (albeit cautious) offering of a hand will be rewarded basically immediately. Ruddiger is a glutton for affection who really isn't bothered by strangers for some reason- he's a weird raccoon- so the moment he realizes he's getting pet, he's just going to...squash his face right into her hand.

Yes hello pet him please.]

[comeandfindme]

[ Oh. Oh, well, that's a full raccoon face in her hand. ]

...He's soft. [ Peregrine can't help but smile. ]

[alchemistake]

Wild, isn't it?

[Varian laughs, watching Ruddiger act more like a cat than raccoon as Peregrine pets him.]

He definitely keeps me warm at night, that's for sure.

[Oh, he sleeps with him...]

[comeandfindme]

[ She gives him a look. ]

Are you sure he’s a raccoon and not an overgrown cat?

[alchemistake]

I'm pretty sure! But I mean, I'm sure you know wild animals better than I do- maybe he's been an ugly cat this whole time and I just didn't know?

[Ruddiger hisses, prompting Varian to shrug LOOK HE'S SORRY BUT IT'S TRUE]

[comeandfindme]

[ That hiss... Peregrine scratches him...behind the ears.

Oh no, she's smitten. ]

At the moment? I think it could go either way.

[alchemistake]

[Varian rolls his eyes good naturedly, watching Ruddiger immediately soften back up when Peregrine scratches his ears. He's become a furry little puddle, now.]

Yeah, right. He's all bark and no bite...and he's rarely ever any bark.

[comeandfindme]

Just hissing, right, boy?

[ Oh no, she is SMITTEN. ]

Never had a pet before. ...Dad was allergic to fur, and then, well...Mom's always working. Couldn't really help us acclimate anything.

[alchemistake]

Not even a goldfish?

[Varian is only half joking as he runs a finger under Ruddiger's chin.]

I never had any pets either, before Ruddiger. I mean, I guess we have a couple animals on our farm, but they're not like...cats or dogs or anything like that.

[comeandfindme]

[ She shakes her head. ]

We had...some other things to focus on. [ But she doesn't get into it. Instead— ] Where'd his name come from? Don't even know what I'd call a pet if I had one.

[alchemistake]

Oh, you know I don't know? It doesn't actually mean anything really...I just like the way it sounds.

[Thanks canon for not giving an EXPLANATION FOR IT]

Don't you think he looks like a Ruddiger?

[comeandfindme]

He looks like he's had one too many apples.

[ HE'S SO CHUBBY AND SHE LOVES HIM ]

[alchemistake]

[HE LOVES YOU TOO PER look at him loving all of these pets]

Oh, of course. He loves apples. It kinda makes me wish this place had more of them.

[comeandfindme]

[ She shrugs. ] Maybe there's a tree out there somewhere.

[alchemistake]

Hm...well that's what we'll do first thing when we get those doors open, right Ruddiger?

[Varian grins at him, said raccoon still very lost-in-the-sauce, pets wise.]

So many apples you'll be eating them for weeks.