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

[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.

[themuseabandonsyou]

Wow. Have you gotten to see a lot of them? I don't live anywhere near a theater, so I've only really seen one.

[comeandfindme]

Oh, definitely! Whitetail's small? But, like, there's a theater and a drive-in, and like, there's Netflix, and Hulu, and all that.

[ Wait— ]

Ways you can watch movies at home.

[themuseabandonsyou]

I guess it makes sense that there'd be more movie theaters if there are more movies being made. Do you need your own projector to watch them at home, though?

[ He hasn't really looked at the TV cart or put two and two together with regards to that or the computer screens just yet. ]

Either way, that sounds like it must be a lot of fun.

[comeandfindme]

No, it's... You know the computers? Things with screens like that, basically— you can use those to watch movies if you've got the right programs on them.

[themuseabandonsyou]

Oh!

[ There it goes, that clicks into place. ]

There must be a lot you can do, with computers. I haven't really tried using them much before now? I was sort of worried about breaking one.

[comeandfindme]

[ She cracks a relieved smile, glad she doesn't have to explain anymore. ]

They're sturdy! ...Mostly. Sometimes they can just...randomly have an error, but usually that's something in the machine not anything you did. ...I think, at least. My mom told me that when I had to take my laptop in for repairs, once.

[ ...it's possible Kathy Wells was just trying to be nice... ]

[themuseabandonsyou]

That's good to know! Maybe I'll try to figure them out later.

[ He will immediately forget about his intent to do this as soon as this conversation is over. ]

It's kind of incredible that there are machines that are complicated enough to... make mistakes? That aren't just something in their machinery getting stuck like a gear or a lever or something, though.

[comeandfindme]

Huh. I guess so. Technology's always been just something I've grown up with? Like it keeps getting leaps and bounds better, but...it's normal for me, to think about them having bugs or making mistakes.

[ this is gonna be a bad conversation in a few days when the SQUIP does the thing ]

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ haha yeah speaking of being smart enough to make terrible mistakes

It already kind of felt like I was living in a different world than the one I grew up in back home sometimes? When it comes to how fast technology moves. Cars and electricity and factories spreading everywhere. I can't imagine how it must be for you. You said you're, what? Seventy years past my time? As much as it makes sense to look at it that way, when our worlds are different.

[comeandfindme]

...Even if it's unbelievable, it'd be cool if you could see it sometime. At least the movie theaters.

[themuseabandonsyou]

I'd love to! Maybe after all of this is over, we could find a way to visit each other, even if it's just for a little while. Lord Discord says he doesn't want to be an "interdimensional taxi service," and I wouldn't want to take advantage of him and his power like that if he doesn't feel like it, but there could be some other way to do it.

[comeandfindme]

[ She hadn't thought about that. For a moment, Peregrine frowns, but... ]

We'll find some way. It was possible to get all of us here, right? We just have to keep working hard.

[themuseabandonsyou]

Right! I'm sure between all of us we can figure something out. Now that we know about each other, it should be easier for us to find each other again, whether it's with Lord Discord's help or the gods of my world or some other way, shouldn't it?