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.]

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! ))

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small investigation

[comeandfindme]

[ Today is...a day of recovery. That means Peregrine spends most of her time in Broadhurst, with Janis and Maya. However, at some point she does return to Rodgers Dorm, if only to collect whatever coins she may have mother of fucking god why are there so many?!?!


So after she counts up all seventy-nine coins, you can find Peregrine at the vending machine! She's inserting them with a pretty blank face, sighing and moving things aside as more pop out. Another Sonic for Rina, another lizard with no name, a law book, a Krabby Patty, a phone, multiple pies and flags... By the end of it all she has a big of a mountain of things to sort through and carry back to Rodgers Dorm, though all the food is going to go right to Broadhurst where Janis can cry into some fucking pie if she needs to. ]

All that...and not a single new skin...

[ Yeah, she's grumpy. And doesn't seem to notice that the mound of snow she pulled is following her?!

She takes a quick detour into the teacher's lounge to simply check on the carving she left the other day, and then she's off.

The other place you may find Peregrine today is back outside, doing the deerskin smoking detail. Campfire off to the side burning down, hole in the ground with a bunch of charcoal, sewing an old skirt onto some clothespinned deerskin... Yadda yadda yadda.

It's more going through the motions right now than anything. In fact, she looks almost distant and idle. At some point, she may quietly pull the phone she got earlier from her pocket, where she'd slipped and forgotten about it. ]

What good's a phone gonna do any of us here...? [ Still... A curious girl, she starts looking through it. That's when she finds the video.

...Oh.

Oh, no. ]

[brokeforgood]

Hey! [Farrah shouts from a nearby doorway, finding Per looking at a very familiar phone.]

Where did you get that?!

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine looks up with a start, from the phone where, on the screen, Farrah had just taken an incredible fall. ]

Uh— just the vending machine! [ Back. Back out, back out of it— ]

[brokeforgood]

[She can hear the crowd laughing. It’s terrible—- it takes her several seconds to realize she’s not just remembering it, but that the laughter is coming from the phone. Farrah reaches to try and wrench the phone away from Peregrine, her face a mixture of shame and fury.]

Give it to me!

[comeandfindme]

[ Even when they're disagreeing over something, Farrah never sounds this...heated. There's something different about it, and it means Peregrine doesn't even try to hold onto the phone. ]

I'm sorry! I didn't— I didn't even realize—

[brokeforgood]

[Farrah tears the phone away from her—- she doesn’t apologize, or try and tell Peregrine it’s okay, she just stares at the phone herself. She rewinds it a bit, to watch Chess’ movements, to see exactly where the other girl fucked up— and then to watch herself fall. To listen to the crowd laughing again.

Her cheeks are scarlet when she locks the phone and jams it into her pocket.]

Congrats, now you’re one of several million people who have seen Epic Cheerleader Fail.

[comeandfindme]

[ This is awful. Peregrine winces when Farrah rewinds, she stammers. ]

I just... I was just trying to figure out...who it belonged to...

[brokeforgood]

I get it. It’s not your fault, or whatever. [She groans, keeping her eyes averted from Peregrine.]

It’s nothing that other people haven’t seen before. Janis has seen it, and Connor— [Her voice catches. Connor hadn’t watched it. She loves him for it.] Connor knew about it.

[comeandfindme]

[ … ]

It still sucks. That’s what everyone…was laughing at? It’s not funny. It’s… it’s just cruel.

[brokeforgood]

It looks funny, I guess. Less funny, when you’re the girl who gets dropped. [Farrah pulls the phone back out, watches again, and snarls.]

I forgot Riley was in this fucking thing.

[comeandfindme]

[ Riley? ...Her captain. The girl who— ]

Hey... Maybe...you should just put that thing away, right? It can't be good to just keep watching it.

vending machine

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Whoa.

[An understated reaction. Cassandra's just watching it all come and go.]

It just goes on and on, doesn't it?

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine doesn't even look over, just drawls: ]

Seventy-nine coins.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[The shrill sound of air sucked in through her teeth.]


Well... It could be a whole lot worse.

[comeandfindme]

Yeah. They could be spitting out trombones at me for everyone one.

[ Can you fucking IMAGINE?! ]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[She CAN! She hates it]

Totally. That would probably destroy the hall, if not the school.

[comeandfindme]

...Wouldn't be so against that but then the Wizard would probably just make us sleep outside.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Oof. Of course. No telling what kind of animals are out there. Or annoying bugs.

At least a few of us would probably be excited about camping out.

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine corrects: ] There’s no animals, actually. Not any real ones. Found a bear, still fake. All fake.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

A fake bear in the woods. [Beats real bears, but still.] I'd ask who would even go through all the trouble, but we're currently trapped in a school run by a wizard, so I guess that answers that question.

[comeandfindme]

[ She shakes her head, clueless. ] I don't...understand it. It's all wrong.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

The whole thing in general, or just the vending machine?

lil a investigation

[stagemanagers]

[The carvings have not changed!]

as a treat!!!

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine frowns. ]

How can we reach you...?

[ But, she doesn't have any specific ideas. So, she leaves, emptyhanded. ]

[stagemanagers]

[How, indeed]