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! ))

Comments

[mayavericks]

Exactly.

1/2

[violentenvies]

I...want to say that I would be the kind of the person who would say yes. I should be. But honestly...[his brow is furrowed]...I don't know. I want to be that selfless. To be able to give up everything that matters to me now. But I don't know if I would be.

2/2

[violentenvies]

[he looks back up at her, then]

...is this a purely hypothetical question, or does the thought come from a specific example?

[mayavericks]

I'm only curious.

[She gives a shrug.]

I told Peregrine about an idea I'd had some weeks ago. She seemed upset at the idea of losing all of the time we have had to one another. I will not pretend to not understand her reservations but... If it meant knowing you were all safe, I would sacrifice the memories, I think.

Besides, with luck we would not even remember what we had lost.

[violentenvies]

Perhaps...[he trails off, contemplative] ...but I think...even if we lose the memory, the emotion would still linger. Connections forged this deeply and the emotion that comes with it...we remember that kind of love not only in our memories, but in our bodies, as well. Our heart remembers, even if we do not.

I might forget everyone I feel close to, here...but that doesn't mean the sense of loss wouldn't be felt. I wouldn't know what I lost, but there's things here that I've gotten used to--physical touch being the most foremost. Everyone here is so free with it that even I've adopted it as a habit. I can't imagine going back to Court with those kinds of tendencies...I wouldn't survive a day.

[mayavericks]

I suppose that is true.

... And of course, I have forgotten those of us who were not alive before they came here.

[He's looking at you, Farrah.]

[violentenvies]

[that'll make him grimace a bit] ...there is that. To make the choice to send them back into...whatever is waiting for them. To take away this second life that they have, no matter how terrible the situation, is another difficult thing to consider.

[mayavericks]

Then there is no other option. I will find another way.

[violentenvies]

[. . . . one moment, he's putting two and two together]

...your possible wish, then?

[mayavericks]

My wish would have been to win the revues. Turn back the clock and stop the Wizard before any of this started.

[violentenvies]

[Salieri nods]

I...can understand that. It's a tempting wish.