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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.]


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! ))
brokeforgood: (farrah27)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-26 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Farrah spends most of thursday evening tucked away where she thinks no one will ever find her— in the library, sitting on the floor amongst the bookshelves. She’s got a book propped up on her lap, like she’s reading something— but the noise emitting from behind the book makes it clear that she’s up to something else. You can hear a group of girls chanting—- then shrieks, and the roar of the crowd laughing. Then she winds it back, and the sound cycles through again.

This is healthy.]
alchemistake: (Ruddigaron)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-26 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Varian honestly wasn't planning on leaving the scene shop at all today, but...well. He just kindof recently showed his ass over his own unhealthy memory, and he ended up hurting the feelings of someone close to him over it. He doesn't plan on leaving things that way of course...but he needs to go cool off somewhere. He needs to not have to think about himselfand his own problems for a minute.

That's when he happens to pass the library, near enough to hear the distant sound of voices he doesn't recognize. Curiosity is enough to finally encourage him forward until he reaches where Farrah is sitting, one hand on one of the shelves.

He doesn't need to ask what she's watching. Oh no.

He'll wait until the sound restarts before he steps over, moving to kneel halfway beside her while also angled towards her. He's mostly trying to make it so he can't see the video directly.]


You shouldn't watch that, Farrah.

[No sense in hurting yourself even more, right?]
brokeforgood: (farrah17)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-26 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
If anyone has a right to watch it, it’s me. [Farrah snaps at Varian, her voice much more hostile than it normally is. She’s never spoken with him that way— never spoken with anyone at the school this way. The closest she’d been was when she’d talked about the SQUIP, or the Wizard— but not to Varian.

She instantly regrets it.]


Sorry— fuck. It’s not you. It’s fucking Chess.
alchemistake: (Lawrencium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-26 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
...it's okay.

[Being snapped at like that...of course it stings, a little. But he also feels like, hey, eye for an eye. It's not like he hasn't been doing his share of that today.

He settles down a little more, his hands pressed hard against his knees.]


I just...I know how much it hurts you, is all.
brokeforgood: (farrah9)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-26 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Farrah blatantly turns the phone so he can watch. She’s paused it, and is pointing at Chess.]

See? Right here. She completely misses me. [She clicks play.... And the tiny phone Farrah falls.]
alchemistake: (Zhantirium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-26 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah...I see.

[Well...since he's not going to be able to convince her not to watch, he'll let this happen. He'll even settle to sit beside her more, so they can see it together.

Varian winces, seeing Farrah fall.]


I just...I don't understand why they would laugh. You could have gotten killed.

[Plain and simple. She's lucky she escaped with just a concussion.]
brokeforgood: (farrah14)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-26 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
They don’t show any of what happened after. Apparently, the ambulance shows up.

[She pauses the video again, and though it’s mid-shaky cam, you can still see Farrah on the field, Annleigh leaning over her—- Oh, there’s Riley, on the other side of the shot, staring in horror as if she herself had either dropped Farrah, or been the one to fall.

Chess— the one who dropped Farrah, is being escorted off the field by another girl who had been in Farrah’s motive photo on week two.]


Millions of people saw this.
alchemistake: (Tennessine)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-26 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Varian thinks about the villagers crowding around when Quirin had confronted him about the boilers beneath the surface of the town nearly going nuclear. It had felt like the whole world had his eyes on him, in that moment.

He can't imagine how Farrah feels.]


...do you know who put this out there?

[Chess is a big part of the cause of the problem...but what about it being uploaded in the first place?]
brokeforgood: (farrah7)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-26 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
No. It’s passed around so much that it’s hard to tell who started it all. [Farrah shrugs.]

People repost it on different places... There are remixes, with different music, with playbacks of the fall and zooms on peoples faces... The whole nine yards. [She tries to sound distant. But she sounds like she’s going to be sick.]

Ugh. I need a drink, watching this.
alchemistake: (Plutonium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-26 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[...this is one thing Varian hates about newer technology. It's too easy to be cruel.

He wishes he could understand why Farrah keeps watching it, if it upsets her and makes her want to turn to a bottle...but it's for the same reason he keeps reaching into his pocket and thumbing the amber hidden in there. It's like watching a car wreck. You just...can't get yourself to look away, no matter how hard you try.]


I don't blame you.

[He's not discouraging her, at least.]

I don't think those people in that video would be laughing if they were in your position. Or if they weren't anonymous.

[He looks down at his gloved hands in his lap.]

People are mean. ...and cowardly.
brokeforgood: (farrah12)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-26 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[She sets the phone down. There’s no use in making him watch it any more— it’ll still be there for her later. Then, she lets out a quiet groan.]

You’d be surprised. Plenty of people continued to laugh about it, to my face. But... Yeah. People are mean. And cowardly. Especially high schoolers.
alchemistake: (Protactinium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-27 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maybe...he shouldn't be so surprised by how cruel people can be anymore.

Yet somehow, he still finds himself wanting to think differently.]


They'd better be glad I'm not there to catch them laughing at you, then. I might not be from your time, but I could put together some things that'd scare their pants off.
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[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-28 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
That might be kind of hard. [A beat. Then. She smiles, and bumps against his shoulder.]

Some of them are wearing skirts.

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[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-06-26 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
[There's absolutely no shame whatsoever involved when Discord just casually leans over Farrah's shoulder to take a look at what she's got there.]

Now, what've you got there?
brokeforgood: (farrah14)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-26 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Surprisingly, it’s Discord that she expresses the least amount of hostility to. Maybe it’s because he doesn’t try and tell her to stop, or try and apologize, or stumble over his words— he’s just here, watching it with her. She turns the phone so he can see it.

It’s a group of cheerleaders on a football field. Depending on how much of a look he got at Farrah’s photograph the second week, some of the faces are familiar— a girl with a red ponytail, the sunny looking girl with long chestnut hair, and a slightly smaller, cheerful Freshman Farrah. It starts off okay, but chaos quickly descends— and when some of the girls are launched into the air, the girl below Farrah does not catch her.

Farrah falls, and the scene is chaos all at once—- the camera shakes and zooms in, as the girls shriek and scream “Ohmygod Farrah!” The sunny looking girl is leaned over her, and Farrah’s holding her head—- and the crowd is laughing, the people in the stands are laughing, and the real Farrah, in the library—- she rewinds the video back to the start.]


Epic Cheerleader Fail.
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[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-06-26 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
[He watches, confused at first, until it clicks what he's seeing here. He tilts his head, just, leaning forwards a little.

And then, of course, the fall.]


Oooooh. [It's a sympathetic noise, at least, as that happens.] Not exactly the best home movie I've ever seen. The production values could use some work.

[Idly glancing her way, though, just to get a gauge of her mood during this.]
brokeforgood: (farrah9)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-26 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[When he glances her way, he may notice that she’s playing the same game as him—- gazing at his face, trying to read his reactions. When she catches his eye, she jerks her gaze back to the screen, trying to keep things steady and unreadable—- but she’s definitely upset. The fact that she’s trying to keep cool just proves that she’s upset. And for a moment, when the other girl bends over Farrah, Farrah’s throat emits an awful sound.]

Yeah. It could use some work. Like, come on dude, tripods are so cheap now.
disharmonizes: (009)

[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-06-27 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe if you'd kicked the girl below you, it'd be something. Like this it's definitely lacking.

[Just, crouches down a bit. Yeah, he definitely noticed all that and boy, kid...]

Just how many times have you watched this?
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[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-27 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
God. They’d have suspended me— Olympic Chess can do no wrong, even if she can’t pass a drug test. [She sighs, dropping the phone onto her lap.]

Today? Twenty-Seven.
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[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-06-28 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
My, my, and still not tired of it? You and Salieri should talk about extremely healthy obsessions sometimes, you have so much in common.

[Like father like daughter.]
brokeforgood: (farrah70)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-28 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey. [She strikes a stern expression, and points a finger at him.]

Be nice, about him. He's going through some shit. [Then-- looking back down at the phone.]

But, yeah, my thing is probably a little fucked up.
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[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-06-29 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, he's always going through something, and I'm always giving him a hard time over it. I think he'd be more concerned if I stopped.

[This is just ~the dynamic~ now.]

I wasn't going to put it that way, but. Probably. But at least you're self aware. I believe that's an important first step or something like that.
brokeforgood: (farrah20)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-29 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Just don't make him sad, or I'm going to have to take your trophy back.

[Farrah shrugs.] Yeah. There have been a lot of first steps lately. Which is weird, because you think those would come before death, but whatever.
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[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-06-29 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I would never.

[He means to say it as a joke and then it has to come out a little too sincere for his liking. Damn.]

Dead or not, no time like the present. A sort of second chance thing instead?
brokeforgood: (farrah65)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-29 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[She'll take it. She smiles up at him, but doesn't retort back. That's all she needed to hear.]

Yeah. A second chance. That's... a pretty good way to frame it.

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