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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[fourbutts]

[ "This is a cautionary tale..."

Janis wakes up, well, where she went to sleep. In Maya's bed, with Maya, in Broadhurst. She doesn't wake up with a start, but she seems to be... mulling something over? Either way, there's a sleepy: ]

G'morning.

[ That, well... anyone in the dorm is welcome to hear, I suppose.

After she's kissed Maya goodbye for the morning, however, the first thing she does, actually? Is seek out The Balladeer. With a distinct purpose, actually.

After that, it's time to take a look at the new area, which... is outside. Hm. Alarming. She's going to assume the Wizard just couldn't keep Will Graham caged up and decided it would be easier to let them all out. The baseball field calls to her, for reasons she can't quite articulate, but... that's not where she goes. She actually goes to hang out in The Garden and just kind of. Sketch. If someone comes in, she'll wave. ]

It may be part of the extended murder school campus, but I cannot lie, this place kind of slaps.

[ And later still, she's in the library with a... book about New York City in front of her? ]

Yeah, that looks right... Jesus.

garden

[comeandfindme]

Yeah. Kinda.

[ Peregrine's a little quieter than usual but— well, that may be to be expected, after this weekend. ]

Uh, I kinda have something for you, but...if this is a bad time, it can wait.

[fourbutts]

[ Looks around a little. ]

Uh... Nah, lay it on me.

[comeandfindme]

[ She holds out a sketchpad. On top of it, there are two friendship bracelets of familiar colors. ]

There's a letter in it. It's from Connor.

[fourbutts]

[ Oh.

Janis takes it, opens up the letter. Reads through it. ]

Heh. Idiot.

[ She said, incredibly fondly. ]

[comeandfindme]

[ Despite it all, that makes her smile too. ]

Yeah. Yeah, that's kinda mine too.

Broadhurst I gotta

[alchemistake]

[Varian has been in bed since he woke up probably too early, sort of still trapped in bed with his thoughts. Too many of them to be precise, so he'd been trying (and failing) to make himself go back to sleep. It should be so much easier, with Rina at his side, but...

...wait.]

...Janis?

[That's a hushed whisper from the top bunk where Varian sleeps, Rina probably against the wall so there's less chance of her falling off (and if anyone DOES it'll be Varian first).]

[fourbutts]

[





... ]

... Hi, Varian.

[alchemistake]

[Varian squints a little into the semi-gloom of the room. Important: which side is Janis sleeping on?

Can he, like

See Maya...

Like he knows where Maya sleeps but LIKE]

[fourbutts]

[ I don't know the exact layout but. She and Maya are fuckin tangled up together probably so if he can see one he can see the other.

Janis waves. ]

[alchemistake]

[Varian blinks. Then blinks some more. Then he remembers what Maya said the other day.

...

......he waves back, his brows raising even higher.

Time for more hushed whispering.]

I didn't, uhh- wake you up, did I?

Oh you know

[mayavericks]

Morning.

[Maya... doesn't actually want to get up right away. If Janis allows it, Maya will curl just a little tighter against her. She hasn't shared a bed, let alone a dorm room for some time (you know... other than this dorm room).]

Stay for awhile?

[fourbutts]

[ ... About corruption and betrayal-"
"And getting hit by a bus!"

Janis internally shakes it off, then smiles. ]

I got nowhere else to be.

[mayavericks]

I will not keep you too long, at least. [She says, even as she tucks her head over Janis's chest. World hard and cold, tiddy soft and warm.]

I would hate for you to neglect your care of Graham-san.

[fourbutts]

He can wait a while.

[ It's valid, Maya is valid. Janis has no objections. ]

[mayavericks]

Good.

[She's quiet for a bit. Long enough to seem as if she might have fallen asleep. But then --]

I had another dream. A memory.

the balladeer!

[tellthestory]

[This morning, the Balladeer is sitting gloomily in the cafeteria! He got up late enough, and spent long enough in the shower after, to more-or-less entirely miss the incident with Benjamin; he's just sitting here not really drinking his tea.

Still, when Janis enters, he manages a:]

'Morning.

[fourbutts]

[ ah. she moves to stand near a chair near him. ]

Is... this a bad time to talk about something? I'm not. I'm not sure anyone else here would get it.

[tellthestory]

No, it's fine. I'm not doing anything.

[He seems a bit more interested in the possibility of being helpful, at least?]

What's up?

[fourbutts]

Um, well...

[ She sits down. ]

Last night, I remembered... we put on this show about the stuff I was going through. And I remember talking to the audience. And when I think about that, I can remember that the audience wasn't actually freshmen, it was...

[ A breath. ]

It was the audience at the August Wilson Theater in New York. Eight shows a week.

[tellthestory]

Oh.

[His eyebrows shoot up nearly to his hairline, and he straightens immediately, leaning forward with his elbows on the table.]

Oh...my god, Janis. Are you - really?

Broadhurst

[violentenvies]

[for once, Salieri is not out of the dorm at sunrise. So that greeting will make him blink a couple times, not recognizing the voice. He turns his head slightly--though he has to lean out of the bottom bunk a bit to look up at the bunk across the way]

Good...morning? [hm????]

[fourbutts]

[ oh god. now all of historical composer antonio salieri knows shes gay. ]

Uh... hi!

[violentenvies]

Mademoiselle Janis. [he's just going to sloooooowly arch an eyebrow at her]

Forgive me, I wasn't aware you slept here last night.

[fourbutts]

Oh, uh... sorry. Probably should have announced myself better.

[ she made no attempt to do this, see above comment re: all of historical composer antonio salieri ]