Week Four

[stagemanagers]

[Last week, Gershwin High School Academy University saw its very first intentional murder! What a milestone! And right after Spongebob's No Murder party, too - that doesn't seem like it bodes very well for anybody's future.

You all wake up this morning with yet another new memory returned to you. You'll also find that the school's external doors have now unlocked. Congratulations! You're free! Unfortunately, you also seem to be entirely in the middle of nowhere. So maybe it's more of a symbolic victory.

Still, you should look around and do some investigation! Maybe you'll find a fun surprise.]

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(( Be sure to submit your memory regains and your AC for this week! Hester's office hours and the merch booth also remain available! ))

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[tellthestory]

What's on your head?

[He CANNOT believe Spongebob is unaware of that thing, it is ENORMOUS]

[tellthestory]

...I don't know. Depends how we get out, I guess. I mean, say that thing with Discord actually happens - god knows what he'd do.

[alchemistake]

[Rina wanted to back out...that doesn't surprise him, so he's glad to hear that her friends were able to help her like that. Ten girls all working together to make this idol group what it is...it's kindof ironic that someone so shy as Rina ended up with so many friends, he thinks.]

Well, if I ever get to meet these friends of yours, I'll have to thank them for helping you out so much.

And compliment them on their singing of course, because wow.

[alchemistake]

[The worst part is he's probably not actually going to throw it away, but keep it...along with the other piece he received. So he can keep an eye on it.

When she asks about bringing him lunch, though...his expression does soften a little, as he realizes he should maybe try to calm down at least a smidge.]

Of course. I'd like that a lot.

I'll probably be in the scene shop most of the day today, okay? So you can just...find me there.

[samefacesyndrome]

O-Okay.

[ ....... ]

Um. Varian-kun?

[alchemistake]

...yeah?

[samefacesyndrome]

...Sorry.

1/?

[samefacesyndrome]

[ "Since when could it have been?
My ideal self seems to be closing by
Yet your wish being the first is fine for me
I am really fine with this. It should be that way... but why?" ]

I'd really like it if you could meet them. I don't know how it could happen but... they're all really precious to me, heehee. When we're together it's like we make a beautiful rainbow.

[samefacesyndrome]

[ Though maybe it's best she doesn't think too much about the future. What would happen when they got out of here? Could they even stay together?

"My dearest
I can't push myself into your heart
But if you were to indulge me, just a little
Then hold me within your arms
The real me, who is weak until I fall apart" ]

photo!!!

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine isn't out much today? But if Discord finds her, it's probably when she's making her own trip to the vending machine. She has just...so, so many coins.

She catches him after the Owl Fiasco, so— ]

Wow. What happened to you?

[samefacesyndrome]

[ Instead of thinking on it too much she turns her attention back to the song. ]

Um... this one is Karin-senpai. She's...

[samefacesyndrome]

[comeandfindme]

Be as not great as you need, okay?

[ She's fine just sitting with Janis, until Maya gets back. It's a little...awkward, at least for her, after all.

That's a lot of water for just Janis, thinks Peregrine, before her brain catches up with her and she realizes why Maya brought it all. Quietly, she murmurs a thank you and takes one of the bottles. ]

[alchemistake]

[Varian feels the knot already in the pit of his stomach twist painfully, at that. If only he'd just...]

Me too.

[Not good enough. But he'll turn and leave for the scene shop anyway, the amber burning a hole in his pocket.]

[samefacesyndrome]

[ How........... do you even explain Karin..........

........ ]

done

[samefacesyndrome]

[ In a completely dead pan voice: ]

She's super hot.

[ RINA... ]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Yeah.

[It's hard for her to ask. Varian... How would he react if he knew? Did he already? How many of them had known all this time, while she had been held back, told she wasn't ready? Left in the dark?...

...No. No. Varian couldn't know. He's too young. At least he was safe.

Her hand curls into a pocket on her uniform, and she pulls out, in the palm of her hand... a music cylinder and other assorted mechanism parts.]

This is, uh... parts from a music box that came out of the machine. I was hoping you could do something with this.

[comeandfindme]

Yeah, no, it's fine. [ A little sharp, a little brittle. ] ...We can take a day.

[comeandfindme]

Right. 'Cause...that's what this is, huh?

Don't want that.

[fourbutts]

[ Janis takes a bottle and takes a sip, eyes definitely wet and face definitely a mess, but words are getting easier. ]

Thanks. For the water, but also like... you know.

[ For all of this. ]

[comeandfindme]

Me? [ Oh! ] Well... No... No, I guess I need to try my hand at this eventually... But I've never done it before, so, there might be some trial and error.

[tellthestory]

I am, yeah.

[He seems pretty downcast today, honestly, but he makes the effort to perk up a little. He really does like the whole outdoors.]

I mean, look at it! There's trees, and the sky. The light's pretty through the leaves.

[tellthestory]

Someone committed a murder. On purpose.

[His voice is hollow as he relates it.]

I told her exactly what would happen, and all the reasons she shouldn't. But she still did.

[mayavericks]

[Maya smiles faintly, cracking open her own bottle as she does. She takes a slow sip.]

I am almost certain that somewhere in the last few weeks I swore to take care of you both. This is part of that.

[alchemistake]

[R I N A]

H-h-

[Varian would have choked if he weren't just sitting there doing nothing, good lord.]

I mean...she- definitely sounds like it...