Week Three

[stagemanagers]

[Last week, some shit went down! Salieri's scene went off without a hitch, but the good mood didn't last. The first motive was a bit of a doozy, and yet it didn't even have anything to do with the eventual accidental death of Mumble Happyfeet! At least Sissi was already pretty much dating Death anyway, right? She's probably fine, wherever she is.

This week, new menus have been posted in the cafeteria. But, more importantly, it seems that other new information has emerged. Everyone wakes on Sunday with some new memories - or are they old ones? - floating around in their heads. Maybe there was something to your discussions of time travel after all. Maybe there was someting to the Wizard's knowledge of the future.

Regardless, you're still stuck in here. At least there's some new places to explore this week. Maybe you'll find something helpful.]

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

(( Be sure to submit your memory regains and your AC for this week! Hester's office hours and the merch booth also remain available! ))

Comments

[samefacesyndrome]

[ Rina is avoiding Mime Club thankfully. Unfortunately it's because she's still thinking about yesterday's motive.

All of that previous confidence and energy she had the last few days from using her newly made Rina-chan Board? How her true self started to finally show under all those layers of shyness and insecurity? It's all gone today. It's like someone pushed a reset button on her, and it's all because of that picture.

She stays in the Rodgers Dorm for most of the day, curled up under her bed covers, looking at her photo. Eventually though she starts to worry she'll bother people by just staying there like that and so she goes wandering, envelope in hand.

Eventually she finds her way into the scene shop. After absentmindedly looking around, she comes across some cardboard boxes.

...

...She's not sure she understands this impulse, or why it feels so comforting but she ends up... turning it upside down and hiding inside it.

So this is just here in the scene shop now. It's... one way to find some privacy? It's fine. You don't hide in a box when you're stressed and upset? It's fine. ]

Scene Shop

[fourbutts]

[ janis is in here because... well, there's no art room. this has paints, and she's still sort of working on the same horrible sculpture she started last week.

But like. That sure is a box. Janis just sort of watches it for a while, but eventually she sort of heads over and pokes it. ]

Oh shit, uh- ...hi?

[samefacesyndrome]

[ There's a squeak when Janis pokes it and a bit of the rustle but the box doesn't lift up. ]

H...Hello...

[fourbutts]

Oh! Uh...

[ This is awkward. Quick, a joke - wait, she's only played Smash, uh. ]

Heyyy there, uh... Snake. You good?

[samefacesyndrome]

[ She Understood That Reference.

Th box rustles again. ]

N... Not really...

[fourbutts]

Yeah?

[ Janis sort of. Lies down on the ground next to the box? ]

You wanna talk about it?

Scene Shop

[alchemistake]

[So like...Varian is in the scene shop a lot, that's not a question. So he's familiar with the boxes and things around in the place, sometimes uses them to transport tools and materials when he's working. It's fair for him to assume this is just another box that got left out in the middle of the floor, so...

He's going to try to pick it up and move it aside before somebody trips on it.]

[samefacesyndrome]

[ As soon as Varian picks it up, little hands reach out and grab the rim of the box, trying to pull it back down.

There's a person in here, Varian. You can see her little shoes now. ]

[alchemistake]

[OH...it's probably a good thing he recognizes those shoes.

He lets go of the box, letting it be pulled back down. He isn't going to leave though, instead moving to sort of crouch down in front of it.]

Guess this one's occupied, huh?

[samefacesyndrome]

[ She's quiet for a moment, now realizing it's Varian... and feels bad. ]

S...Sorry...

scene shop

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[Cassandra's doing a patrol of the rooms in the school, because.... she's got nothing better to be doing with her time than that. Keeping an eye out for any strange happenings, and the general safety of the group, was an important task. It's just a little... strange that she enters the scene shop and... there's a box there.

Smack dab in the middle of the room. Huh.

...She'll just. lightly tap it with her foot.]

[samefacesyndrome]

[ The tap gets a surprised "ah--!!" from inside the box and then... nothing else. As if the person inside is hoping that by being quiet whoever's out there would have forgotten about that noise that definitely came from a person. ]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[..!]

...Hello?

[You mock Cassandra's persistence. She's going to crouch down on her knees and, ever so lightly, rap her knuckles against the box.]

Any room in this cardboard box for two?

scene shop

[disharmonizes]

[Oh, well, random box, upside down, in the middle of the room? Yeah, that seems normal.

...Gonna just, knock against it?]

[samefacesyndrome]

[ O-Oh, that's a knock...

Quietly after a few seconds: ]

Y... Yes...?

[disharmonizes]

[Oh, there's a someone in there. A someone he actually likes, for that matter. So maybe he'll just plop down onto the floor next to the box.]

Ah, ah, you're doing it wrong, you're supposed to ask "who's there"?

[samefacesyndrome]

Oh!

[ ... ]

W...Who's there?

[violentenvies]

[Salieri is in the Scene Shop mostly to drop off a couple items he got from the vending machine, and he moves over to do so, not really paying attention to the lone cardboard box on the floor, stepping around it to get to the tools on the wall. He has to reach a little bit higher than he expects however, stretching up on tip-toes to hang that Utility belt on an open rung--

--unfortunately, his balance is not as steady as he would like it to be and he wavers, stumbling back. Which would be fine, if not for the cardboard box. The back of Salieri's knees hit that box, and he goes tumbling backwards over it with a startled yelp, hitting the floor with an `oof!` that knocks the wind out of him and definitely knocking that box askew]

[samefacesyndrome]

[ Rina shrieks in alarm when she realizes someone fell over her box, and after the initial shock passes over she cautiously lifts it all the way off for a peek. ]

Are... Are you okay...?

[violentenvies]

[Salieri groans a bit, slowly easing himself into sitting, rubbing the back of his head as he cracks an eye open at the voice]

Ah--Mademoiselle Rina? [???] I'm...well, I believe I'm well enough.

[samefacesyndrome]

[ Oh no it beign Salieri makes her feel even worse. ]

I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be in anyone's way...!

Scene Shop

[tellthestory]

[To his immense regret, the Balladeer has been to the mime club! So instead of saying anything when he finds the box, he just sort of leans down to pick it up and put it somewhere a little more convenient. In fairness, it's not like he has any particular reason to think there's someone in there - who does that?]

[samefacesyndrome]

[ As with Varian before Rina very quickly grabs the bottom of the box as it starts to get lifted off here, doing her best to pull it back down. ]

D...Don't...

[tellthestory]

[Oh! He lets the box go, apologizing - except, of course, no sound comes out. The Balladeer frowns. She can't even see him under there, so...?

He just leans down to awkwardly pat the top of the box. His bad.]

[samefacesyndrome]

[ Oh no... that's cute... ]

Thank you... sorry.