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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[stagemanagers]

[Luckily (or ominously, however you take it) the yikes isn't immediately apparent.

All the computers in the lab look to be either powered down or in sleep mode...except one.]

[disharmonizes]

[...immediately making his way over to the turned on computer. Any chance someone just left their game of solitaire running or...]

[brokeforgood]

Do you even know how those things work? [Its said very judgmentally, because Farrah’s somehow still Farrah, underneath all the trauma. Look, she and Salieri were just trying to get as far away from the locker rooms as they could, but... maybe this can keep her busy, as she follows Discord to the computer that’s on.]

[violentenvies]

[Salieri follows behind her, a little out of his depth in the computer lab to be honest, but getting Farrah away from all that was paramount anyway.

He arches an eyebrow at Discord, but that's all the greeting he'll offer at first.]

They certainly are a mystery to me.

[disharmonizes]

I'm sure that goes for many, many things, for you.

[But he'll just... glance over at Farrah. Back to Salieri. Raise an eyebrow, just... giving him a look that seems maybe a little meaningful.

All good over here?]

[violentenvies]

Yes, well, being from an earlier time period than most will do that. [dry, but he will meet that look with one of a bit of...well. His lips press together, but he does nod slightly.

Good? Not really, but stable enough, yes. Both of them.]

[disharmonizes]

I'm not breaking it.

[IMMEDIATELY defensive. He knows computers! Ish. In theory. He's. Seen other people use them.]

[brokeforgood]

You sure? [Shes just gonna plop into the computer chair next door, to supervise. Alright, what’s goin on here? If there are any fun pipe maze screensavers, she’ll even helpfully nudge the mouse.]

[stagemanagers]

[There is a colorful fun pipe screensaver running! It's very fun and great for child brain developmemt probably.

When she nudges the mouse the screensaver blips away and leaves behind and error message:]

Macrosoft Word is preventing the system from shutting down.

Would you like to save your progress and continue shutdown?

>Yes >No

[disharmonizes]

[.....okay fine maybe it's a good thing a Computer Teen is here.]

...Oh, see, it was already pre-broken.

[brokeforgood]

[Farrah’s just gonna turn around and—-]

Salieri, move. [And then she’s just gonna. Shove Discord’s chair back, hard. Just in case.]

YEET!!! [And then she’s returning to the computer, to click no.]

[disharmonizes]

[AND THERE HE GO

spinning across the room

bye]

[violentenvies]

[Salieri blinks, watching Discord go spinning off--before he smirks, reaching out to take another one of the chairs and slip it behind Farrah so she has a place to sit]

Here, my dear. Sit.

cw: suicidal imagery

[stagemanagers]

[YEET A DAD

Great! The warning vanishes and underneath it is, well, a letter.]

[brokeforgood]

[Farrah beams at Salieri, and takes a seat, before propping her chin on her elbows.

Well. This is weird. She scrolls through the suicide note, to see if there’s anything else. Any cool file names?]

Things have been so difficult... Jesus. [She looks over her shoulder.]

It’s another creepy Evan Hansen note. A suicide note.

[violentenvies]

[Salieri frowns at that]

Creepy Evan Hansen note? [hm???] There have been more of these?

[brokeforgood]

Yeah--- [She calls over her shoulder.] Sorry for yeeting you, Discord, you can Yote back. [She's just.... saving this file as "CMurphySupposedSuicideNote.txt"]

The vending machine kept shooting out these creepy emails. And--

Ugh. I have a lot to tell you guys. But I think it's better if we wait until we're all together.

[violentenvies]

[it's honestly a crime that Salieri has no idea how hilarious that "yote" sentence is. But he frowns, slightly.]

Ah, right. [the Trial] It is certainly better to wait, then.

[disharmonizes]

I wanted a look around the room anyway, it's fine.

[...

just, slowly rolling his chair back over

give him like a minute]

[brokeforgood]

Super fun, right? [She's trying to pull it off as a rad thing.]