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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.]
Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday
(( Be sure to submit your memory regains and your AC for this week! Hester's office hours and the merch booth also remain available! ))
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.]
(( 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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As for the vibes...there's a faint sense of familial fondness attached to it and a general desire to keep the one who spends the most time on it safe. The faintness of it feels more like it's the result of a lack of time spent here than a lack of the actual feelings.]
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Anything else to note about the bubble or the inside thereof, or is it time to look at a head? ]
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...he actually does care about her.
[That's. Hm.]
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Or at least he thinks he does.
[ That bitch!!! ]
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[Hey, something else he learned from Peregrine!]
But I don't know. That sort of thing - I never had a family, you know?
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[ She hates this! ]
Mine are decent - what I remember about them, anyway. They're not in the show, so...
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[What does that mean, for them? For her? The same thing that the vague, off-stage presence of the presidents meant for him? But then, he was never intended to know them.]
I'm sorry. [He chews on his lip, looking down over the stage for a moment.] At least for now...we're sort of getting our own little family together, I guess? I heard Farrah call Salieri dad the other day.
[He hadn't quite known what to make of it - is that how it works? But he's happy for her.]
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[ A beat. ]
I'm like three talks from calling Varian my little brother, I get it. So yeah. We're family, I guess. One big, weird family.
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[He likes that. It's enough to make him smile even while he's looking down at the terrible striped awning of the shooting - the dunking booth.
He looks up again, at Janis.]
I'll be...I don't know. [Does he fit the "dad" mold? He wasn't made to fit any familial mold, really. So maybe authorial intent doesn't matter. But it's certainly a title he feels wrong claiming for himself; it's not like Salieri told Farrah, it was the other way around. He'd hate to get overly familiar and make it weird.] I'll be your weird narration uncle, or something like that. Show you all the ropes, whatever uncles do!
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Weird narration uncle it is. Thanks, Uncle B.
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But for now, he flushes and looks away to hide his smile. This does not work; his joy is palpable.]
Of course. Anytime.
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It doesn't really look like there's a way in or out. It's just solid metal as far as she can see. But the lights in the eyes are dimmed and the head hanging so it's for sure not active at least.]
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So he's watching us from somewhere else...
[ Anything else unusual about this head? How are its vibes? ]
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This close to the Wizard's head you can feel the song rather than hear it. The soft synths, the steady drums, the pristine melancholy pop. There's no sound in the auditorium save for you and B but you feel this song radiating from where you are.
Living in the state of dreaming, of dreaming, of dreaming, of dreaming -
It plays on and on, like a record with a scratch. And again, you can feel something fraying at the seams.]
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She steps back, towards the catwalk. ]
Do you hear it too?
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Why is it skipping like that?
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[ Janis grabs at the railing. ]
What the fuck?
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Janis?!
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Better think fast, Narrators.]
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So when the catwalk starts to give out, as Janis stands there, next to Hester's bubble and the Wizard's stupid fucking head...
She freezes. And feels the start of the fall. ]
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Run!
[He starts to scramble backwards - just for a second, until he sees that Janis isn't coming.
He can make it to the ladder if he runs. He's closer to it, because he made her go up first. She said they could be family. He lunges.
His hand finds the front of her shirt, clutching at the fabric and pulling her close. But that isn't enough. The catwalk is still falling, the whole catwalk, and now he doubts that either of them could make it down the ladder in time. He's had a family member for a total of two minutes, and he can't even keep her safe? He can't protect -
His eyes fall on Hester's bubble.
The Balladeer spins Janis, almost as if they were dancing for a moment, and shoves her hard into the bubble's little seat. And then he falls. He hits the striped awning of the dunking booth below, but this is not a cartoon, and it is only a set piece. The structure collapses beneath him, in a horrible crash of splintering wood and shattering plastic.]
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Is this how Hester feels, every week? Everything looks so small from up here. So distant, suddenly, and yet... so close. ]
B!
[ It's a loud, sharp cry, but... Janis is here. She's reaching towards someone she can't reach, someone she'll never reach again if she doesn't think of something - she took down Regina George, she should be able to...
to...
The loop of the-
Thanks to the Balladeer, Janis lives. ]
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cw: dissociation
Re: cw: dissociation
1/2 cw: disassociation
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cw: dissociation, trauma
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