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

[comeandfindme]

Right, but— okay, I have a theory, right? So, your years are different...but if you know Disney, there have to be some things in common here. So, if America was founded 150 years ago for you...and that was 1776 for me, then that'd be... 1920s? Ugh, I wish I knew more about when they started showing cartoons before movies, but we usually didn't watch ones from that long ago...

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Orpheus nods. ]

The 150 year celebration happened when I was around twelve, so it'd be more like... 1930, for you? If you count straight instead of the years going in cycles.

[comeandfindme]

[ She nods, keeps nodding. ] Mid 1930s. There were... I think think movies were starting to become more, you know, widespread then? At least— there were theaters, and stuff, oh, maybe they'd have something in the history section of the library.

[ It's a puzzle and she wants to figure it out. ]

[themuseabandonsyou]

Right, I didn't hear much about them until I was a teenager, and the only time I got to see one was when I was visiting one of the big cities. A friend took a bunch of us to see one.

[ And he'd sort of been too nervous about the upcoming Boat Quest to pay much attention to it, unfortunately. ]

But maybe! We can go check, after you're done sorting this stuff. I can help, if you want? I'm not doing anything right now.

[comeandfindme]

Yeah! [ Oh, she doesn't have that much stuff— ] Lemme just get it back to the dorms and...yeah, let's do it.

[themuseabandonsyou]

Sure! I'll meet you there?

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine nods, gathering up her things. Honestly, this is exciting. She's excited!!!

And she'll meet Orpheus in the library, to dig through literally every nonfiction book until she can find one about or with a section on film history. ]

Okay, so we're probably not going to find a section on it, but at least if we look through nonfiction there'll be something. Probably in the textbooks area. Maybe there's a miscellaneous area—

[ She is just. Going to keep talking to herself and to Orpheus if he cares to listen but it's 100% mostly to get her thoughts out. It's sort of in the same way she gets when she talks about survivalism, so. Good luck getting her to stop? ]

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Orpheus just kind of smiles and nods, because he doesn't really understand how libraries are organized or what might be found in them other than what he's managed to stumble across on his own. He'll let Peregrine go on for a while, tuning out for... probably more of it than he should, until there's a gap in conversation where he can slip back in. ]

This is the most books I've seen in one place in a really long time. [ he says, about this tiny school library. ] I'm sure we can find what we're looking for somewhere.

[comeandfindme]

[ Without missing a beat: ]

You'd be surprised. Some places don't have really specialized books in certain areas. It depends, but, if this place is modeled after a really fancy private school—like this is like three times the size of the library back in Whitetail High School, but like, we've got less than a hundred kids, so if you want something focusing on like, anything they don't have an elective for? You gotta special order it through the librarian and that's just a pain. They always ask, "Oh, now, why's someone your age lookin into something like that, now, don'tcha know, you can find just as much at the pamphlets at the Forest Center"—

[ She has, for the record, exaggerated her own accent to a ridiculous extent.

Peregrine rolls her eyes. ]

Anyway. We won't run into that here, I don't think. [ As she's tapping on various book spines, skimming the shelves. ]

[themuseabandonsyou]

I guess that's happened to you a couple of times? [ Sounds like it, from the way she talks and how she sounds like she's quoting or paraphrasing someone there.

In any case, Orpheus pulls an encyclopedia off the shelf and begins to flip through it, rather than... looking at the index, or anything. He's... doing his best. ]

What exactly are we looking for?

[comeandfindme]

Only too many times to count.

[ Peregrine grumbles as she's looking through. ]

I...am not sure. ...Could you maybe— [ She looks up at him flipping through the encyclopedia. Oh, Orpheus... ] New idea. You figured out how to work a computer? See if one of the ones up front's got a search feature. Just...enter the word film.

[themuseabandonsyou]

Oh, okay. [ says Orpheus, putting the encyclopedia back on the shelf and giving the computer a slightly hesitant glance. ] I... think I can do that?

[ Probably! He's watched the others use the computers by now, he thinks he can figure it out. He heads on over and gives it a look, and mercifully it's already turned on and set to the library's index page. It takes him a while to hunt-and-peck the word film into the search bar, but he does it.

And then he stands there, not knowing that he has to hit enter to make it go. ]

Now what? [ he calls over to Peregrine once it becomes clear that the computer isn't doing anything. ]

[comeandfindme]

[ ... ]

Is it bringing anything up...?

[themuseabandonsyou]

No! I'm just looking at the word 'film' in a long rectangular box. What do I do now?

[ look Peregrine Orpheus isn't even a boomer he's technically greatest generation or something, you're gonna have to give him a bit ]

[comeandfindme]

[ ...... ]

Hit the enter key, Orpheus. The little...the one that says enter.

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ It takes Orpheus a moment of searching, partially because Peregrine said 'little' so he looks at the smaller keys first, but thankfully for the sake of her sanity he does find it eventually. ]

Oh! It gave me a list of books that it thinks might be relevant? [ And he'll read off their titles and where they can be found. ] This is really useful! It's like a little librarian.

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine breathes out. This is on her, she thinks, if he's from sometime in the 1930s then, well, of course he doesn't know how to work a digital catalog. ]

Yeah. It's so the librarians don't have to know everything, you know. [ She scoots down the shelves, to find one of the books that sounds most promising. ] Aha! Here we are. Wow, can't believe there's actually a movie textbook here.

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Orpheus scurries on over, leaning over her shoulder a bit to take a look. ]

Oh, that'll probably have whatever we're looking for, right? I can't believe there's whole textbooks just on movies now.

[comeandfindme]

It's a field of study. There's whole schools just for film now.

[ She pulls it out and starts flipping through. ]

Disney, Disney... [ Here's an early history of film, Orpheus! In fast motion, because she's looking for something specific. ] Aha! 1928! 1928 was when Mickey Mouse debuted.

[themuseabandonsyou]

Wow. I guess that makes sense? It's an art form like any other.

[ He sort of wonders what his aunts think of it, and if any of them have claimed dominion over it yet, or if they'd divvy it up by genre like with stage plays. ]

And you said you thought I might be from something like the 1920s or 1930s, right? So that would make sense. I didn't pay much attention to movies or cartoons most of the time, but I think Disney was pretty new.

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine nods, reading it over. ]

It was new. Their big hit was in 1927 with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but...it sounds like there were copyright issues...and then Mickey Mouse came along. He's like, the mascot for the whole company now. If you've seen a cartoon before a movie, it's probably—

[ And she's gonna just. Whistle. ]

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Orpheus snaps his fingers in recognition and whistles along. ]

That's it! That's the one I saw. With the boat, right? I don't really remember a lot about the movie that came after it, but I remember the cartoon pretty well.

[comeandfindme]

And that's why they're still around today. In my time. Like 70 years later.

[themuseabandonsyou]

That's a really long time. [ says Orpheus, sounding wildly impressed. ] And they're making their own movies now? I can't imagine how much work it'd be to draw a whole movie's worth of animation.

[comeandfindme]

[ She nods! ]

It's not just animated movies, either. There's some live-action ones. I couldn't even list them all, there's so many.