second investigation

[stagemanagers]

[One week out from the first deaths in this place, now. When you wake up on Friday morning, everything seems pretty quiet. There's nothing immediately, obviously amiss when you leave your dorms - and if maybe not everybody is in their beds at the moment, well, that's not so strange, is it? Maybe the No Murder party worked! Nobody wants to shatter Spongebob's poor little heart, right?

But, you know. Maybe you should make sure.]

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[comeandfindme]

[ It's another morning, so it's another workout in the gym. ...And, you know, she'll have to get changed in the girl's locker room too, but, we start here first. ]

[stagemanagers]

[The gym is safe! And so is the girl's locker room!]

[comeandfindme]

[ ...If, for no other reason than...curiosity, let's say— if she peaks into the boy's locker room is that also...you know, clear? ]

[stagemanagers]

[Peregrine. Honey. Sweetheart.

It looks like someone's laying on one of the benches again. Is this going to be a weekly thing with you people?]

[comeandfindme]

[ ...OH no. Oh jeez. Oh dear.

Well, immediately she's gonna just forgo all sense of decorum and go see if that person's okay?? ]

Hey- hey, uh...

[stagemanagers]

[Peregrine, why...

Anyway. You're familiar with this sort of thing. From his stillness and his pallor, you hardly have to look at this body at all to make a determination. Connor Murphy is dead.]

[comeandfindme]

[ She recognizes him just as she gets closer. How could she not? ]

Connor? Hey... C—

[ She knows. She knows but still she starts shaking him. ]

Connor, no— hey, hey, come on—

[ She left the door open. Her frantic pleas echo through the gym. ]

[brokeforgood]

Peregrine, you went into the wrong —— [ FARRAH SCREAMS]

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine doesn't even react to the scream! She's a bit busy, still trying to get Connor to wake up. ]

Connor— come on, you said— you said—

[alchemistake]

[Hey, guess who heard that scream and didn't stay paralyzed with fear this time? It's Varian, who literally booked it from the auto shop through various halls and doors to try and find where that scream came from. He no doubt arrives long after some of the others, breathing heavy, but it's...

Probably for the best he did.]

Farrah! Farrah what's wrong-!?

[He's not going into the room proper just yet. Something tells him to stay put with her.]

[samefacesyndrome]

[ Rina heard the scream and then saw Varian running and she's taking off as well right after him because oh no. Oh no oh no.

She's right behind him but she can see a little into the room and she just goes completely white, hands over her mouth. ]

[brokeforgood]

[Oh Jesus. Varian doesn’t need to see this. There’s no helping Peregrine or Conner at this point, but Farrah still has a chance there. She whirls on Varian, a look of terror on her face. She puts both hands on his arms, and pushes with all her might, to shove him back, away from the door.]

We need to get out of here.

[sugarlumps]

[Yeah, once again, screaming kind of carries. So once more here comes a knife-wielding bunch of grapes to stop whatever assault is clearly happening.]

NUH-UH, SQUIP'S NOT KILLING ANYONE TODAY-

[That's about when she sees the body. It takes a second to register, the knife clattering to the floor.]

[And good news! Farrah's not the only one screaming now.]

WHICH ONE OF YOU-?!

NOT HERE

[voicerights]

[but fucking RUDE]

[themuseabandonsyou]

Princess, please put the knife away. [ says Orpheus, with as much authority as he can command. Which isn't much, but. ]

[mcfife]

Shit!

[There's screaming - someone's in danger, he can't let someone else die. Angus runs into the boys locker room, already filling up with other people, and notices the dead body. He's too late.]

He can't...is he...?

[mayavericks]

[It's kind of suspicious to see a girl go into the boys locker room so Maya will step in and --]

Murphy-san?

[Hello, here she comes to put a hand on Peregrine's shoulder.]

[comeandfindme]

[ But Peregrine roughly shrugs it off. ]

Wake up! Connor—

[ You may actually want to stop her from wrapping her arms around the body. It might make the investigation a little more difficult. ]

[mayavericks]

Peregrine --

[Maya would, unfortunately, have the sense to do it. Even if it pisses Per off.]

You can't. We have to --

[She's going to wrap her arms around Peregrine instead.]

We must figure out who did this, Peregrine.

[fourbutts]

[ Hey what's going on in- ]

Oh shit.

[ Well! Here's three corpses! She's going to just. Run over. ]

Shit, shit, shit.

[ There's nothing she can do here, is there? ]

[mayavericks]

[If nothing else, Maya looks relieved to see her, y'know... Alive?]

[fourbutts]

[ Same, but also the possibility that someone could kill Maya while she has a sword may just not have occurred to Janis. ]

[tellthestory]

[The Balladeer comes rushing in at the screaming, but he seems disoriented even as he stops in the doorway, where he can only just see the body. It feels like...a scene playing itself out again, like everything ended and started all over again without him even noticing. Just like before.]

Is...what?

[employeeoftheyear]

[Despite the party last night, Spongebob was not eager to get up the next morning. He hoped that it would turn out alright, that his party worked.

When the PA announcement came however, Spongebob felt his heart stop. Hester couldn’t be right, could she? Clearly this was another wacky misunderstanding.

But despite it, Spongebob finds himself running out the dorm room towards wherever there was a crowd. When he makes it to the Boy’s Locker Room, he freezes when he sees Connor’s body.

Nah, I don't think Bikini Bottom would be destroyed. You wouldn't let it. Right? You'd figure it out.

Those words kept ringing through his head as he stares at Connor.

Suddenly he collapses to his knees and starts wailing in complete despair.]

I’m so sorry Connor, I’m sorry...

[He keeps whispering apologies between sobs.

You were wrong about him, Connor.]

[whatyouwant]

[Elle hears the noises from the boys locker room, dread fills her stomach.]
No no no, please no-

[Yep, that sure is a body.]

Connor!