Week Five

[stagemanagers]

[Last week, you had your very first minor body pileup! Granted, the Balladeer's death was entirely unrelated to anything, but at least he died as he lived - getting completely fucked up in some kind of carnival-themed hellscape. Only two days later, another terrible accident took Rina and Varian both from you. It's just been one of those weeks, huh? At least you got to add both of their corpses to your weird growing collection!

Again, you'll wake up this morning with another new snippet of memory. You'll also find that the stairs in the lobby are no longer blocked. You can only access one part of the second floor, but it seems like there's some neat stuff up there!

Outside, a few things seem to have changed. For one, the weather has turned - it'll be overcast this week, with periodic rain and even scattered thunderstorms. For another, the bushes around that rock out by the football field have bloomed. That's nice.

Get to it, friends! I'm sure everything will be fine this week!]


Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

(( Be sure to submit your memory regain and your AC for this week! As always, Hester's office hours and the merch booth remain available. ))

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[mcfife]

[Angus's marker comes to a halt in the middle of Wizard's goal]

And what of it?

[They're open about it now, stop making it weird! It's a shame that no matter where they sleep, someone's going be watching them cuddle.

Anyway, there's another topic he can change this one to.] Scissors would work better. The string's too loose to be cut quickly by a blade.

[brokeforgood]

I'm a cheerleader, Angus! It's my job to sing and spell things.

-I-N-G! [She does a little flourish, like she's got a pretend pompom.]

The knife's more accurate.

[mcfife]

[Shhhhhhh let's focus on the board.]

Okay, I will bring a knife if we have to cut anything at the meeting. [Which he hopes they won't.] But first I want to figure out what's the connection between this game and the one I was trapped in. There are too many links for it to be a coincidence.

[He attaches yarn from one R2 name to its corresponding R3 name. The fact that there are more than 2 connections is grave cause for alarm.]

It's like he's aware of what happened, despite Hester's answer.

[brokeforgood]

Angus, you are clearly missing my bad joke here. It's because Riley cut me, with a knife. It's funny, except not.

[mcfife]

[He turns around and stares.]

It's not funny at all, Farrah. I can't do that to you.

[He imagines that stabbing jokes aren't great when you have been stabbed. He doesn't know, he doesn't even remember that time he was stabbed.]

[brokeforgood]

It's a little funny.

[mcfife]

...Only if you do the honors of handling the knife during the meeting.

[In front of everyone else? If Angus did that, it'd come off as being in bad taste.]

[brokeforgood]

We can skip the joke. [She's not touching any knives.]

It is weird, though. Why Riley? Why me?

[mcfife]

Hester says it's all random. At least, that's what she believes. [He's come to realize that she doesn't know a lot about the Wizard's plans.] It may have been random the first time, but if we all lived, some of you may have been taken as revenge. You for Riley, Maya for Claudine and Nana.

[He taps Jeremy's name.] I remember destroying the SQUIP that was controlling his boy. The same teenager ours was serving. The Wizard took one from another dimension instead. I don't know why I was kidnapped. Perhaps my friends were too powerful for the Wizard's claws. Perhaps he only wanted those with a close connection to the escaped.

[There are other names on the bottom, those without strings attached to this group of people.] But those are all the connections I can think of. There was a pink alien who likely may be the same species as the one in my photo, but she was no fighter. And there was a girl...

[He grips onto the red riding hood he wears.] She was looking for this cloak. We were planning to escape together.