Week Six

[stagemanagers]

[Last week, in It's Curtains, the weather changed, and with it your fortune in Dads. Discord took Salieri out - or perhaps Salieri took Discord out - and left the survivors with that much less impulse control. Nonetheless, a visit from a new friend might have provided a little bit of much-needed hope?

On Sunday morning, you'll find that the other side of the second floor has opened up - as well as the actual intended path to reach the roof garden. You can finally stop climbing up that rope every time you want to have a picnic or secret lover's rendezvous!

Outside, the weather seems to have calmed down. It's sunny again, with rather a lot of clouds. Though it's warm, the atmosphere seems very...still.]


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

cw: implied suicidal ideation

[employeeoftheyear]

[He glances, briefly, at his broken arm when Benjamin says "unharmed". He doesn't seem like he's judgmental about it, more like he was making sure it was still there.]

... I'm really am sorry, for almost killing you, and almost killing Farrah. I know I was feeling hopeless but... I still shouldn't have taken it out on you two.

["Taken it out on them" is frankly, a bit of an exaggeration on his part, but he didn't want Farrah to get the blame for any of this. She was just a scared child, a child who was hurting. In his eyes, he should have made a harder effort to bring Farrah down, instead of actively putting her in danger.]

cw: suicidal ideation

[barberic]

[Well. just because that was his intent doesn't mean he succeeded.]

You didn't 'take anything out' on us. You've been through more in these last few weeks than many young men your age, outside of war.

It's not fair that you've had to endure all of this. It's not, it's a burden you should've never had to face. You nor anyone else here.

But you're not weak, for feeling hopeless. I've felt it myself, these last few weeks.

[employeeoftheyear]

I... I know, but...

[He's quiet, looking completely ashamed with himself.]

I could have killed Farrah. If I took the car keys away, or ran and tell one of you guys, she wouldn't have been put in danger like that. It feels pretty weak of me to put my little sister in harm's way like that.

[barberic]

Well... You're right. Either of those things would have been a better choice than what you did.

But people rarely make the right choices when they're in pain. We're just animals that way; we lash out and hurt others, or turn around and hurt ourselves. Six of one, half-dozen of the other.

[A good man isn't one who never makes mistakes, it's one who makes it right.]

...You know better now, don't you. That there are people still alive, who love and care about you just as much as the ones we've lost.