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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SUNDAY

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MONDAY

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TUESDAY

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WEDNESDAY

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[It's Wednesday! Welcome to this week's school club!



The Husbandry Club is meeting on the football field at noon! Upon arrival, attendees will find:

- A small flock of chickens. Feed them. Do it. Fucking do it.
- One goat! This is a female goat, and can be milked if you're so inclined; you've even got buckets! Unfortunately, she seems to live for Mischief.
- A pair of friendly donkeys! They would like to be pet.
- Three piglets! They would like to be held and fed, but with fewer implied threats than the chickens.

By the end of the day, all of these animals will be gone - with the notable exception of the goat! If not taken in by anyone, she will henceforth live in the woods and/or the corn field and be a menace to all.]

THURSDAY

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INVESTIGATION...?

[stagemanagers]

[Sunday afternoon, there is a loud crash from the direction of the kitchen.]

[brokeforgood]

[Farrah resists the sirens call to explore. While normally, she’d be the first to whoop and cartwheel through the grass, she has more important business at hand. she can be found in the band room, seated at the piano, frowning at a beginner’s book. It’s.... not great, but she keeps at it all day long. Over and over again, she tries to teach herself the keys, to match the notes. She’s never taken music seriously as anything other than something to dance to, never tried to sing along by following actual notes on paper—- but she stays there, hunched over the piano, completely devoted to her work. She’ll take visitors throughout the day—- her poor wrists need a break, and if the visitors can help her play, then that’s even better.

Finally, shortly after dinner, she goes to find Salieri.]

Hey— I have something I want to show you! [And, if he lets her, she’ll grab his arm and pull him towards the band room.]

Here. Sit— not at the piano. Anywhere else.

[If she counted right... today is father’s day. Salieri has done so much for her. He believed in her before anyone else— and even when she tested him, he did not fail her. He says she’s already made him proud— but she wants to give him more than that. She wants to take something new, something she knew nothing about— and really try. She wants to learn, she wants to try. And even though today has been full of failures, even though she knows she won’t be perfect, she wants to try again. She wants to fuck up completely, then try again, and again, and again. This kind of thing would have been impossible a month ago.

She would have given up. She would have thought—- known that a hopeless loser girl had no hope. But there’s something here that makes her want to do the very opposite of giving up.

She wants to fly. So after taking a deep breath, she seats herself, and starts to play.]

[Flying comes soon after, when she runs through the football field, whooping and cartwheeling.

Then she can be found in the courtyard, knocking allllll the chess pieces down.]

FUCK CHESS!

[samefacesyndrome]

[ Uhhhhhhhhh

Rina was heading there because she wanted to look for something and maybe do some cooking but she hears that crash and uh... assumes someone's hurt. ]

Are you okay...?

[ ...is it Ruddiger ]

[sugarlumps]

Oh glob, not again! It's ONLY BEEN TWO DAYS, YOU MONSTER!

[Hi Rina, LSP is here and assuming the worst.]

[samefacesyndrome]

[ Ah.....

It's okay she's slowly gotten used to this. ]

CRYING YELLING CAT EMOJI

[violentenvies]

[Salieri is surprised when Farrah finds him, to say the least, but of course he'll follow her anywhere.

He is a little confused when she leads him to the band room, but can't help but smile when she bids him sit]

Alright, just a moment--

[and he finds a chair to settle into, leaning back a bit, arms folding over his chest, watching her as she goes about situating herself at the piano with a mix of fond amusement and curiosity]

[howtheworldwas]

[ Is anybody listening?

This time, when Eurydice wakes, she does not go to the kitchen. She does not take inventory. Instead, she wanders the school, her typically razor-sharp gaze replaced by something more vacant, almost lost. if you cross paths with her, she’ll startle a bit, very nearly confused.

Eventually, her wanderings take her to the woods. She can feel the sun on her skin and the wind in her hair. Eurydice drops to her knees, and she can feel the cold, soft earth beneath them. She is staining her skirt, but she does not care. Eurydice takes fistfuls of the grass — real grass! — and just holds it.

Eurydice turns her face towards the sky and smiles. She is on the surface, above the ground. She is crying, a little, and so, so grateful. ]

[stagemanagers]

[Good afternoon, ladies.

The first immediately noticeable thing is a shattered ceramic mug on the floor and an overturned kettle of water that is thankfully still cold water.]

[samefacesyndrome]

...Huh?

[ Was someone making tea?

What else.... might be noticeable... ]

[stagemanagers]

[There's no fat raccoons in sight first and foremost.

But if Rina turns the slight corner around the island counter in the middle of the kitchen she'll find a still form laid out flat and facedown on the floor and before you have to wonder it is not a mannequin.]

[brokeforgood]

[Its nothing impressive in the grand scale of things, but considering she had no interest in music before this—- it’s a big deal, for Farrah at least.

She manages to play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, like Varian showed her last night. Since she’s been at this all day, she can actually do it the whole way through now, without messing up, or pausing to try and remember what she’s doing. Then— after—-]

You’re always—- I wanted to learn, so I could—- Like you do——[Then, quickly, before she can chicken out, she blurts—-]

It’s Father’s Day.

[samefacesyndrome]

[ Oh.

Oh no.

No it couldn't have happened again, right? Not so soon?!

She rushes over to the body without a second thought. maybe they just fell?!? ]

Hey! Are you okay!?

[ WHO IS IT MODS WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?? ]

[stagemanagers]

[Laid out flat on the kitchen floor is the broad form of Benjamin Barker. There's not any blood or obvious wounds on him at first glance but let me ask this...

How closely are we examining him, Rina?]

[samefacesyndrome]

[ Not... toooooo closely? She's really hoping he just fell. But she is going to put a hand on his shoulder and shake him a little to try and rouse him and.... look closer??

I am never been more terrified of tagging something back in my life I'm going to murder you both I swear to god. ]

[violentenvies]

[For the first time in three weeks, when Salieri wakes at sunrise, he does not immediately get out of bed.

Instead, he simply opens his eyes and just...stares at the bottom of the top bunk for a very, very long time.

Eventually, he’ll drag himself out of bed and get ready, moving to step outside his dorm, where he runs straight into Discord, which I’m sure is going to go so well.

Finally, after whatever happens with THAT, he’ll end up in the Library. There he can be found pulling every single book on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart off the shelf, stacking them on a table and starting to read through them, one by one. Discord is probably also there, annoying him.

This is fine, I’m sure :)

At some point, perhaps, he does leave the Library and head outside (still unfortunately with Discord in tow,) and head towards the greenery...more specifically, the gardens, where he can be found strolling through there, observing whatever plants and animals are about.

Eventually he winds up in The Courtyard with Discord (again,) in the middle of some kind of chess match. ]

(ooc: if you would like both Salieri and Discord in your thread, please specify and this terrible draconequus will pop in to said thread as well o/)

[sugarlumps]

Not the cocoa man!

[Yeah she's gonna be kind of useless here, sorry.]

1/2

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[Immediately upon touching him, Rina will notice that he doesn't feel cool to the touch. In fact, he feels burning hot.

And when she tries to shake him-]

Wandering

[violentenvies]

[Salieri is on his way to explore the outside himself (with Discord hovering somewhere, don't worry about it,) when he comes across Eurydice--and he pauses, blinking]

Eurydice? [he's moving towards her, then, expression morphing into a frown at the look on her face]

Eurydice, are you quite alright?

2/2

[barberic]

[His face scrunches up and his shoulders tense, and he gives a miserable moan.]

Lucy...

[samefacesyndrome]

[ As he moans, Rina finds herself sighing with relief. He's alive. But now she's worried he might have a fever or something. ]

Barker-san...!

[ She turns back to LSP ]

Lumpy-san, can you go get someone? [ Preferably some other adults ] He's burning up, we might need some help...!