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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[stagemanagers]

[On the costume rack there are several pieces on hangers, all with small paper tags attached. As far as the costumes themselves go, there's a pretty wide range of fancy to casual for how few of them there are!

Most notably between the red hoodie and the Venetian coattails and mask.]

[fourbutts]

[ ... And these wouldn't happen to seem to be the same two as the executions, would they? At least plausibly? And uh... how are the pockets? ]

[stagemanagers]

[They sure look like it!

And pockets in the hoodie are some nice deep hoodie pockets. Pockets in the Venetian coat are less impressive but damn, that's a sexy coat.]

[fourbutts]

[ Nothing in them, I assume?

... Are there any outfits here that she would recognize from home, or are they all executions 1 and 2 chic? ]

[stagemanagers]

[Nope, they are all empty.

And nope, nothing obviously familiar! There are no literal Plastics lurking around, probably.]

[fourbutts]

[ Interesting! Alright, then... she'll move on to the work table. Any projects left out? ]

[stagemanagers]

[Funny that...there certainly are.

On the table there's a little desk lamp and three sort-of half-boxes. It's hard to really get a good look at what they are in the dark.]

[fourbutts]

[ Half boxes? Well, time to fully look in them! What do we got? More hands? ]

[stagemanagers]

[It looks like someone has put a lot of meticulous attention to these dioramas! One is some kind of ballroom, with little paper figures poised to dance in a circle around little pink and grey paper dolls. The other is a little carnival, complete with a tiny dunk tank made of a cardboard tube and red crepe paper, with a little purple paper doll sitting on the seat.]

[fourbutts]

[ ... Hey what about the third? ]

[stagemanagers]

[The third is empty.]

[fourbutts]

[ Well at least we know Gunnar Maelstrom isn't involved and using Saturdays to rig the system.

I suppose that leaves the ladder - does it look like it leads up to another full area, or like up to a shelf or something? ]

[stagemanagers]

[It looks like it leads to a catwalk!

But before you leave the table, Janis, there is one more thing.]

[fourbutts]

[ Oh? What thing, pray tell? ]

[stagemanagers]

[It's less something you physically see and more just a feeling that there's something to see under the table.]

[fourbutts]

[ A FEELING YOU SAY.

What's good, what's down here. ]

[stagemanagers]

[On the underside of the table, pretty far back and close to the wall, theres a word carved into the wood:

help

And then again, several inches away:

hElp

And once more, right in front of where she's crouched:

HELP ]

[tellthestory]

[The Balladeer, meanwhile, is still examining the weird dioramas! He turns to frown at Janis when she crouches down suddenly.]

Janis? You got something?

[tellthestory]

[The Balladeer takes the hanger with the blue hoodie from last week off the rack and holds it up to himself.]

...oh, look at me, I'm Billy Harris.

[fourbutts]

Who's Billy Harris?

[tellthestory]

He goes by Doctor Horrible?

[fourbutts]

... On purpose?

[tellthestory]

Yeah. He's played by Neil Patrick Harris too, so.

[fourbutts]

Well at least he has the one thing going for him.

[tellthestory]

[He chuckles and puts the hoodie back.]