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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2021-06-20 01:01 am
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Week Four

[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! ))
alchemistake: (Cerium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-20 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh?

[Varian blinks, shaking his head a little. He seemed to be a bit lost in thought, looking out into the forest while Ruddiger zips around.]

Oh yeah! Yeah...I'm just. This morning was a little rough, but I'm fine.

[He shrugs one shoulder, putting his hand on it.]

Guess everything from yesterday took it's time sinking in.
mayavericks: (Now Raise the Sword Called Determination)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-20 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I can imagine.

[Still. Press 'x' to doubt.]

I remembered something from home. Another performance.
alchemistake: (Iridium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-20 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
A performance?

[Varian's brows raise, his hands going into his pockets.]

Tell me about it.
mayavericks: (Do Not Be At The Mercy)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-20 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
A Revue. [A beat.] Another duel.

I won again. That is two, now. It was another one of my classmates, as well. I... believe it stands to reason that it's meant to take place with all of my schoolmates, though I am unsure how many days it will go for.
alchemistake: (Cerium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-21 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[She won. Well that doesn't surprise him even a little.]

Man...that sounds exhausting. How many schoolmates do you have, exactly?
mayavericks: (The Heavenly Throne)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-21 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maya looks... almost sheepish.]

27, not including myself. And that is only if we include the 99th class, and from there, only the actor training department.
alchemistake: (Catalenium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-21 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
...well, that's better than the 500 Elle was talking about.

[But there's a difference between highschool and a college campus, Varian just doesn't know that.]

But let's be generous and just go with 27...if you're going to be up against that many other students, that sounds like it'll take forever.
mayavericks: (With Your Pride On the Line)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-22 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
It's... quite a lot, I agree. I'm not even sure what we are being judged on, either. Shine, yes but... It's hard to say what quantifies that.

Truthfully it's all a little hard to grasp.
alchemistake: (Cerium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-22 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Shine...that kindof sounds like a made up word so he can just pick whoever he wants.

[Varian shrugs a little, realizing only after he's said it that that might be worrying.]
mayavericks: (A Single Step Forward)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-22 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
It's not... quite like that, though maybe you're onto something.

[He gives a halfhearted sort of shrug.]

Shine powers the stage. And I have noticed that the more... passionate our duels are, the more the stage reacts. You should have seen my most recent display.
alchemistake: (Friedborgon)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-22 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Powers it? You mean like...electricity?

[He's trying to imagine it...this sounds fucking wild.]
mayavericks: (Shining Brighter!)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-22 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I... suppose that's one way of thinking about it.

You can see that I hardly understand the process myself.
alchemistake: (Krypton)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-23 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I mean...honestly, it sounds sortof like a kind of magic, if you want to look at it that way.

[...]

Assuming you want to call that giraffe, uh. ...magic.

[Magic as opposed to a hallucination, perhaps.]
mayavericks: (The Star Soaring Down is But One)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-23 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It's... a better explanation than anything I could have come up with. [Magic. Huh.]

Truthfully, I would have believed it to be a hallucination or... my imagination, if I had not fought others that I knew. It's all been just as real to them, too.
alchemistake: (Yttrium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-23 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, that's...a good point, actually.]

Have you asked any of the others about it? Or...is it something you're supposed to keep a secret?
mayavericks: (There is no Time to Spare)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-23 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
We were told not to speak of it, on the grounds of disqualification.

[Which... reminds her.]

That's why the execution bothered me so much. The fact that there was a giraffe present... It is probably only coincidence but --

[She worries nonetheless.]
alchemistake: (Rhenium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-23 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
...yeah. I noticed that too.

[It probably didn't hit him as hard as it did her, but...it seemed far too pointed to just be a coincidence.]

The Wizard might have just been taunting you, since he knows about your situation with the Giraffe. I can't see him passing up an opportunity like that.
mayavericks: (Show Me Your Fury)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-24 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope that's all it is. It... does not bode well if it means anything else. It... worries me, to say the least.
alchemistake: (Erbium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-25 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah...he can imagine.]

I guess the best thing for it is to try to not think about it, for right now. Being able to go outside like this is...better, at least.
mayavericks: (Come Climb Up Here)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-25 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
It is. Seeing the sky, breathing in the air...

I didn't realize I had missed it until now.
alchemistake: (Cerium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-26 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah...me neither.

[There's a pause after he says that, though.]

It just...feels too easy.
mayavericks: (Of the Beast That Lies Within You)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-26 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Easy?

[Her laugh is a little bitter.]

Four people died for us to get this far.
alchemistake: (Lawrencium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-27 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Varian's teeth grit, a chill rushing down his spine.]

Y...yeah.

[YEAH...]

I guess I mean more like...I'm surprised he's let us outside at all. It's too much freedom, somehow...
mayavericks: (The Cogwheels Have Started to Turn)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-27 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps he wanted to give us an inch, before we took a mile?

[A beat.]

Besides, how can it truly be freedom if there is no means to truly escape?
alchemistake: (Querite)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-28 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It can't be. It's taunting us...showing us what we could have, but never will if he has anything to say about it.

[Varian pushes his hands hard into his pockets.]

It does make me wonder...how much more of this place there even is. It's been four weeks...it feels like he's going to run out of stuff at some point.

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