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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Thanks! [ he says, brightening back up a bit. Not fully, though. ] I think she mostly seemed kind of upset about her own performance. I'm a little worried about her? I didn't see anything wrong with it, but I guess I'm not really familiar with this kind of thing.

She's upset about it? [that'll garner a mild frown of concern] I could make note of one or two things to improve, but nothing that is wrong, per say. In fact, I thought it was a brilliant performance.

[ Orpheus nods. ] You might want to talk to her about it. She'll listen to your opinion and feedback.

[ More than she did his own, at least. He's not terribly hurt by it, though, knowing he's not necessarily as cultured as some of the others here and also being familiar with the feeling of having made mistakes in your craft that no one else can see. But Maestro Salieri surely has something he can say to make her feel a little better about it, at least. ]

I really did think it was amazing, though. Everyone here is so skilled and talented. I'm glad for the opportunity to have met you all and seen you work, even if the situation isn't, um. The best, overall.

[he nods to that] I'll have a word with her. Hopefully my reassurances will calm her worries.

[and then they DIDN'T. They did just the opposite. But anyway--]

That stands for me, as well. The circumstances are far from ideal, but...nevertheless, I'm glad I've gotten the chance to get to know and work with many people here. That, at least, is a blessing.

It is! And hopefully, for me and Eurydice at least, being here and talking to all of you about things will mean I can finish the song I've been working on more quickly and better than I would have by myself. We get other musicians passing through the town where I live sometimes? But usually they don't stay for long enough for me to really work with them. Being here, surrounded by other artists has been really inspiring.

I would agree. Being here, surrounded by these people--despite the circumstances, it's been very nice to be surrounded both by other musicians and lovers of music. That, at least, has been quite the privilege.

[ Orpheus nods, grinning. ] It really has been. For all that being here is - confusing, and kind of scary? I'm really grateful to have met all of you. I hope we can find some way to keep in touch, after we get out of here.

I do as well. I haven't the foggiest idea of how we might, but it certainly must be possible, if we were brought here in the first place.

Lord Discord and Prince Angus have both traveled between - dimensions, or universes before. So we know it's possible for people who aren't the Wizard! So I guess it's just a matter of finding each other again, in all the universes that must exist out there.

In that case, it certainly must be possible to keep in touch.

And I must admit, I'm curious about the worlds of other's here. Some of them sound simply fantastical.

Right! If it's at all possible, I'd really love to visit all of you, or take you to see my and Eurydice's world. I haven't actually seen much of it myself? But it would be nice to travel and see all of it with friends.

I would enjoy that very much, as well.

If it was done here, then there certainly must be a way for us to use it for our own benefit.

Right? For my part, I'm sure I could ask Mister Hermes about it. If anyone I know can move between worlds, it would be him.

[ He already kind of does, going between the surface and the Underworld to guide the dead, but those are more closely linked than most. ]

Oh? [Hermes??? he knows the god, of course, but to have contact with them, well...he can't say he's not curious]

And...what is he like, might I ask?

Oh, he's very wise, and clever. He likes to say he isn't kind, but he works harder at looking after the people under his protection than anyone else I know. And there are a lot of people under his protection these days.

[ Beggars and liars, travelers and thieves. ]

He took care of me, after my mom left, and even though he's always really busy with work he made time to teach me things and tell me stories about his travels. I owe a lot to him.

[Salieri listens with interest, though his expression softens as Orpheus describes how this Hermes has taken care of him]

He sounds like a wonderful man. [wait]--er, God.

[ Orpheus beams, clearly full of fondness for his surrogate father figure. ]

He is. He does a lot for all of us, and it may not... always be enough to save everyone? But I know he's trying.

[well that feels...relatable right about now]

...sometimes all one can do is continue to try, I think. I feel I must admire him for that.

It is. [ says Orpheus, nodding. ] It's a hard world sometimes, and what kindnesses we can do are important.

["-what kindnesses we can do are important."

It almost seems like a naive thing to say. Were he in Court, Salieri might inwardly scoff at that, and refrain from answering. But...he's not there. Instead he's here, in this terrible place, with people he's quickly learning to trust at a rate in which he never has. There's a comfort here, oddly, despite the situation. A safety that he hasn't experienced since he was a boy. So instead of perhaps taking it with derision, he pushes past the long-ingrained instinct and just

maybe

allows himself to believe, a little, in the kindness of others. In the kindness that Orpheus himself has show him. In the kindness of everyone here.

Salieri swallows, hard, and nods]

It, ah...[he clears his throat]..it is, indeed. Very important.

[ Orpheus just smiles at him, oblivious to the inner journey he's going on. ]

Speaking of, thanks again, for doing all of this. I'm going to go congratulate some of the others now? But I'm sure I'll talk to you again soon.

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