itscurtains | Week Four

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act 3,
week 4

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! ))

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...That's what I meant, when I said...this wasn't a story. It— it shouldn't be. If we're alive...we should have some control over what's happening to us. Even a choice. Goes for me, goes for you too.

...yeah. Yeah.

[He nods to himself for a second, hand drifting down to rest on the body of his guitar.]

I think I'm gonna try. I mean - worst comes to worst, I just...don't save anyone again. I'm already doing that now.

You gotta...give yourself more credit. You're doing a lot more here than you realize, like—

[ ... ]

I mean... I know...I couldn't do this alone.

[The Balladeer turns his head to look at her for a moment, then leans over to nudge her shoulder with hers companionably. (He totally would've offered a fistbump if he knew what those were.)]

Thanks. That's really nice of you to say.

I'm saying it 'cause it's true, Bal.

[A smile breaks across his face.]

You guys keep on giving me little nicknames like that. I kinda like it.

Well... Yeah. Of course. We can't just keep calling you "the Balladeer" all the time, like... That's like your job. It's not all that you are.

[He shrugs lightly.]

I don't know. I get what you're saying, but I never thought much of that prat before - the Player goes by her role too. She's the Leading Player, technically, but that's kinda long.

[Now, though, that he's gotten a chance to be called something else...] I wonder if she'd like something closer to a real name, too?

You could ask her! Next time you see her, uh...when we get out of here... [ It's...harder to sound so certain of that, but. She's trying. ] Ask her if she wants, like, a nickname. That's a normal friend thing.

I should! Yeah, I should. She sort of keeps to herself, outside of her acting troupe, I don't know how many regular people she's friends with.

Well... Whatever people say, no one really...wants to be alone. She's probably the same way.

I think so. She...didn't come and save me just for the show, I'm sure she could have found someone to help a lot easier than that.

[Let's believe that, at any rate.]