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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[themuseabandonsyou]

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

[sugarlumps]

He was the hottest one here! The only one as hot as me AND SOMEONE TOOK HIM, ORPHEUS!

[Yeah, you, uh. Might be getting clung to and cried on a little. Or a lot. Sorry.]

[At least the knife lies forgotten on the ground.]

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ That's... a reaction to have? If anything it kind of confuses Orpheus out of his own state of shock, so there's that. He pats the Princess awkwardly on the back, eyes on the body. ]

It's - we'll figure this out. We have to.

[sugarlumps]

We shared a pie.

[It was a deep and meaningful moment, perhaps matched in intimacy only by the forging of hundreds of emailed messages.]

We will! We'll figure out who did this and LUMPING SEND THEM TO GLOB.

[themuseabandonsyou]

Maybe it was another accident. [ he says, distantly. ] It- it has to have been, right? Who here would do this?

[sugarlumps]

I don't know! He was perfect, and- oh glob, what if someone saw how close we were and flew into a jealoys rage? CURSE MY IRRESISTIBLE LUMPS!

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ All at once Orpheus feels himself grounded by having someone else's upset to focus on dealing with in the face of this and a million miles away as he tries to figure out what the fuck her highness is talking about. ]

I... I guess we'll have to find out.

[sugarlumps]

[her sexiness is a curse of mythical proportions orpheus, you should understand, this kind of thing happens to the greek goddesses all the time right]

[She takes a big sniffly breath, looking up at him.]

Orpheus. Orphy. When we do- you're not gonna stop me taking revenge, right? I can trust you to do that?

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Look he gets that she's pretty cute if not much his type (he likes them a little less knife-happy) but he's not sure Connor had been that interested? Anyway he shakes his head. ]

Revenge doesn't help anything. It just opens new wounds on top of old ones.