fifth investigation

[stagemanagers]

[Oh, what a night.
Why'd it take so long to see the light,
Seemed so wrong, but now it seems so right.
What a time, what a night.

What a night last night was! Dancing under the stars, romance, family...all the things a good school dance should stand for. Even with everyone being sick it could still, overall, be considered a hige success.

But on the subject of the sickness thats spread through the school...when people start to rouse from their dance-fuled exhaustion in the morning all the symptoms seem to be completely gone. Which should be good news but knowing what day it is.

Maybe you should leave your dorms and investigate.]

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[fourbutts]

[ While that happens. ]

... We're not sick. If she's okay and we're not sick.

[ Janis swallows. She looks down at Maya. Peregrine's got this. She has to have faith that Peregrine has this. And she's going to have to step up while Maya's out. ]

We need to keep looking. Everyone who's not currently saving my girlfriend's life, we need to keep looking through the school. Now.

[ And she's going to go check uh. The photo dungeons, because those seem like an ideal place, narratively, to do a murder. ]

[stagemanagers]

[Narratively, this place is pretty fucked, huh? But there's nothing new to find here!]

[fourbutts]

[ I cant believe we managed to not use them.... whats ur fuckin excuse doomfist!!!

Anyway, she's going to head to the darkroom next. ]

[stagemanagers]

[Peter Howland is -

Well, who knows what he is, really, other than not here. The darkroom's empty!]

[fourbutts]

[ IN THE DAAAARK WITH HIM

God that would be wild tho. How about the pool and associated environs? (Locker rooms, storage, secret compartment where Sara Berry lives when I'm not gagtagging with her, u know). ]

[stagemanagers]

[Well, there's some concerning stuff going on in the area of the pool, but for expediency's sake, there's no bodies here!]

[brokeforgood]

Well—-

Shit. Why follow the rules now?

[To the courtyard we go!]

[stagemanagers]

[There are two things you need to know -

Number one: there's a body lying nearly immediately in front of you, within arm's reach of the doors. They are covered in a length of teal fabric, though their feet are sticking out the bottom.

Number two: there's a body beyond that, further into the courtroom, entirely covered in lime green fabric. Like the first, it is unmoving.]

[brokeforgood]

[She’s screaming, bending to tear away the teal fabric.]

HELP! OH MY FUCKING GOD HELP!

[employeeoftheyear]

[Thats Farrah’s voice. Spongebob doesn’t waste another second and goes to the grappling hook and propel down to the courtyard.

He doesn’t care that he doesn’t have a working hand. He doesn’t care if this gives him horrible rope burns on his good hand

He has to be there for Farrah.

When he’s down and his fears realized, he swallows and looks at Farrah, scared but determined. ]

I... I can see who it is. For you

[brokeforgood]

Check the other one—— [Shes ripping away that fabric]

[employeeoftheyear]

[Spongebob mods, before running to the other body and tentatively removes the cloth.]

[stagemanagers]

[From the amount of blood pooling around his head and throat, there is no ambiguity to be had here. Maybe you should have waited for Spongebob - he's coming. Wait, and he'll be with you.

But Orpheus is dead.]

[brokeforgood]

[No. No——

She kneels over him, weeping, stroking his hair back, trying not to think about how kind he’d been last night——

And then looking up at Spongebob and the other body. Please. Please let it be Eurydice.

She doesn’t want her to be dead. But she doesn’t want her to have to be alone even more.]

[mcfife]

[Peregrine and Spongebob has it handled. Knowing that Maya will be well, Angus has a lot of people to worry about. He runs off to the gym first.]

[stagemanagers]

[The gym is clear!]

[mcfife]

[Not as relieving as he thought he would be. He then checks the boys' and girls' locker rooms real quick.]

[stagemanagers]

[All clear there!]

[mcfife]

[A quick peek into the weight room before he'll probably be alerted by the screaming and rushing out to the courtyard.]

[stagemanagers]

[Also clear!]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[A silent node, and then Cass gets up to join in the search, prepared with a fresh stomach full of roiling dread.]

Let's start with the cafeteria]

[stagemanagers]

[Nothing here!]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[And just gonna poke her head into the kitchen... Just to be sure.]

[stagemanagers]

[Also clear!]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[Wonderful! fridge-related deaths averted!

Time to head down to the costume room]