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. ))

Comments

a disney does weed

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[Cassandra, as a Disney protagonist, doesn't know what "hotboxing" refers to. She's a fairly straight-lace woman who would have difficult explaining drugs to a princess. Must be a good thing though, if Peregrine's... very loud excitement meant anything.

But, hey, if everyone else is going, she should at least... check it out, right?

Cut to later, where Cassandra's convinced to give it a try and... Yeah, she's on the floor now. Fully limp. The ordinarily hypervigilant woman stares up at the ceiling with that same relaxed look in her eyes Peregrine carried.]

...I can't move.

[And she doesn't particularly mind.]

[employeeoftheyear]

[Spongebob is laying near her. Silent for a long time after Cass speaks, before eventually replying with:]

I can't speak.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[She turns her head to look at Spongebob... Or. She tries to. It looks like she's trying, anyway.]

You're speaking right now, Spongebob.

[employeeoftheyear]

[He pauses for about a solid minute before he responds.]

... But hard.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[half a minute passes.] ...Yeah. It is.

But I've got a lot I want to say, all the time... about... so many things.

[employeeoftheyear]

Haha, me too.

...

Like... like I love you guys...

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Awww! I love you too, buddy!

I feel like I don't say that enough... Or, like... Ever?

[comeandfindme]

Does your hands feel like...vibrating? But like softly? Like really softly vibrating.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

I'm... not sure. I thought that was the floor.

[comeandfindme]

No, it's definitely my skin. It's definitely something attached to me. I don't think the floor's attached to me.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[snrk]

You think? Hey, maybe we're all attached to the floor.

[comeandfindme]

Yes. [ Wait. ] No. No, floor's different.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

It definitely feels different to me. [Drums her fingers against the tile.] It's soft. I think I could lay here forever.

[comeandfindme]

How's the dingy floor so soft...? Hey. I don't think I've seen you smile like that.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

It's like, magic. I don't know. [Maybe alchemy?? Too bad Varian's not around to explain it.]

Smile like what? Wait... am I smiling??

[comeandfindme]

Yeah!! You're really, really smiling! Like, big!

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Aww, that's so sweet, Per! [Is that a nickname for Peregrine? Is Peregrine her name? Oh god, she has to remember.]

Normally people call me ice-cold, or... [She concentrates] "Madame ice demon" with no personality, or something.

[comeandfindme]

[ It seems like Per is a nickname! Peregrine grins at it, for a moment. ]

What? No! That's so wrong. Like...really wrong, you're just serious. You know— Jacob was always serious. You're just, you know, like Jacob.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[It's like a nickname! Nicknames are a thing, Cassandra's brain tells her. She's got one herself, after all.]

Oh, pfff. I'm way cooler than Jacob. And serious. You said serious.

...Do I know Jacob?

[comeandfindme]

Wha— no, no, you don't know Jacob, he died before we met— he was really cool, though, so...

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Ohhhh... [Understanding. Then, disappointment.] He must have been really cool. He knew you.

[comeandfindme]

...He was the best. He was the best big brother.

"Come and find me..."

That's what he'd always say. Whenever I needed...anything.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[Ah.] Sounds like he was a good brother to you. Helpful.

...I know... [she doesn't.] It's hard to lose family.

[defyingfrigidity]

[Elsa took a little convincing. Peregrine wasn't very subtle at all when explaining to her what hotboxing meant, and Elsa was a bit nervous; not just because this was a drug, but because she was afraid of how it would interfere with her powers. But her powers have been dampened for weeks, and she honestly was... curious, to see how relaxing all of this was.

Which is how she ended up here, laying next to Cass and staring up at the ceiling.]

Neither can I. But I feel like I can... breathe better?

[Which is weird because she'd had a hard time with the smoke when all of this first started.]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[Not terribly subtle at all. Sun and Moon, when did Cass get so susceptible to the influence of others?

Oh, yes, there was a time; nearly two years ago, after she nearly hit a princess with a metal ball. It was all downhill from there.]

Yeah. It's... weird, right? Just being like whatever this is? Am I relaxing?