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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! ))
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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[There's cameras in the library though, aren't there...?]
That could be neat! I could take pictures of...people around here. [...] Not that we've got anywhere to send the film, anyway.
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[He hasn't actually looked either; his show just only covers up to the Reagan presidency!]
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...The dead President Reagan?
[ Peregrine has never asked what B's show is about. ]
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[He asks in a tone that would be really inappropriate for almost anybody other than Ronald Reagan. Assassins might not express any particular opinions towards him, but the Balladeer has a gay dad and like, a sense of morality, so!]
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[Neato!]
I only know about the time John shot him. Hinckley, that is, not...obviously not Wilkes. [People mostly called them both John - as different as those two are, the context pretty much always made it clear.]
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[He spreads his hands, waggling his fingers a little.]
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On the nose, isn't it?
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Sure, I guess. It's descriptive!
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[.....]
No...four. The Kennedy assassination is the climax of my show, and that's after they're supposed to get rid of me, so I didn't know about it 'til now. [...eh. He smiles, trying to be light-hearted about it.] Isn't that weird? But before that - Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and then a bunch of failed attempts.
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I didn't realize there were so many.
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[You know, normal regular people you can totally casually reference.]
No one shoots a president without wanting to be famous. Not always the main motivation, but it's in there.
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[It all seems obvious enough to the Balladeer. Even with people who might've had a point somewhere, like Leon "Eat the Rich" Czolgosz, it was just...violence for violence's sake, at the end of the day. Didn't change anything except to make the world a bit worse.]
Heck, Garfield's vice-president hated him, but after he died, the guy turned around and pushed through all of his civil reforms.
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[ This has officially become a history lesson. Much like with Salieri and his music lessons, Peregrine turns her attention to the Balladeer, though she does have to keep watching her deerskin. Is it almost done on this side...? Ah, yeah, time to flip it inside out. ]
Wow. You'd think that'd be a deterrent for like...a single person trying this.
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You'd think. But those guys...
[He's quiet for a moment, mulling over that last song. It was easier to parse when he was just reading it in a script, in the safety of a dorm with Benjamin and Angus two feet away.]
They feel like the world owes them something. Attention, fame, whatever. They should get what they want - and if they don't, someone's gotta pay for it. [...] I don't really know why the real Lee Harvey Oswald did it, though. I think his scene in the show was a metaphor. Probably about the same thing.
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[ It's weird thinking about. He knows historical figures but...as represented by a play? A musical? Does that mean the historical figures are...fictional versions of them, or somehow...something else? Peregrine never thought she'd have to think about these sort of things outside a movie. ]
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[The Balladeer's gaze goes a little unfocused as he recalls it. Though he only read that part once, it's easy to remember the words - maybe because it's still a part of his show, even if he wasn't there.]
"You think you can't connect. Connect to us." [His fingers curl absently in the front of his flannel.] "You think you're powerless. Empower us."
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Uh… Bal?
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