Week 7

[stagemanagers]

[Last week, on It's Curtains...boy, that sure was a year-long week, huh?

But despite it all, you've gotten through it with less death than there might have been. Spongebob and Farrah both survived their ill-conceived plan; Maya, with the intervention of Janis and Hester, survived her triple murder. Since the failed execution, there has been no sign of the Wizard or of Hester. It seems like you may have gotten away with that cleanly!

When you wake up on Sunday, you remember everything. All the gaps, the missing pieces, entire chunks of time from back home - they're back and neatly fitted where they should be in your heads. Elle, Orpheus, and Eurydice have also been given graves alongside the others in the garden. These ones were filled in for you; after all, you were all pretty occupied over the weekend.

Other than that...it seems like some unusual posters have been put up around the school. Sounds like something's going to happen this week. You'd better prepare.]

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday

(( As per usual, endgame will ICly take place on Wednesday, so get those last threads in! As this is the last week, all characters should be at their true canonpoint memory-wise. Feel free to continue submitting regains and...well, you can certainly try to visit Hester. No AC this week, but be sure to check in for endgame! ))

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SUNDAY

[stagemanagers]

[Come Sunday morning, you'll find posters hanging throughout the school. Or perhaps they've always been there, and you simply missed them? They look like they've been stuck there for a long time; some are only hanging by a corner now, and the walls behind them are tacky with old adhesive.

The posters themselves are faded with age, nearly yellowed, and often creased or even torn. The only words legible are:]

CLUB MEETING
WEDNESDAY

[brokeforgood]

Wow. [Farrah wakes up Sunday morning and… remembers everything. Thankfully, we already remembered the worst bits. So instead of like… this being traumatizing?]

That really was the worst sleepover ever. And that’s before the murder.

[Farrah spends the rest of the day bustling around. You might catch her in the kitchen with a bowl of veggies, or in the library studiously bent over books—— but wherever you find her, she’s in the company of a furry little rabbit that’s alive. Sometimes Ruddiger’s there, sometimes he’s not, but she actually seems concerned about both animals health. It’s a step in the right direction.]

[mcfife]

[Angus walks past Farrah in the hallway, holding his hammer and with the Legendary Enchanted Backpack strapped on, which still has the bow Elle left on it before she-]

Where did you find that? [Since when did the Wizard give out rabbits?]

kitchen

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine remembers food at some point. It's a little funny how in and out of her own head she is. She expects to see other people around, but what she certainly doesn't expect is a live rabbit as well. ]

Hi, Far— what. [ She looks at the cute little bunny, nibbling away. ] Where— vending machine?

[mayavericks]

[Perhaps unsurprisingly, Maya spends most of her day in Broadhurst. The door is propped open, and she has several mattresses on the floor for anyone to join her with. She's left any undelivered letters out in the hall throughout the weekend, so feel free to handwave that!

At least when she wakes up, she seems pleased enough? The memories she's regained... feel warm. Despite the tragedy she had witnessed, everything has panned out well enough. And even if she lost the lead role in the end, she was still with her friends.

She tries not to think about how that happiness must have been disturbed by her disappearance, by the disappearances of Claudine and Nana. She doesn't want to think about that, not after all of this.

In the end, she leaves her room twice. The first is to go to the Principal's office. Judging by the sounds of pounding and yelling, that... search doesn't go particularly well. So unwell that she emerges and promptly... slides down the wall in a heap.

Don't mind her.

Before long, though, she does manage to go to the makeshift graveyard. She brings with her some flowers (difficult though it is with her crutches), laying each of them on the graves -- ones that she had created. Before long she kneels on the ground. It feels like ages since she's prayed, but she tries it now.

And when she finishes, she just stares at the dirt.]

Can you hear me? I hope you can. You do not... really need my permission to be angry, I'm sure. But I want you to know that it's okay. I accept it. Deserve it, even. Even if my actions were not my own, I still... did that. Separated you from loved ones.

I should be there, with you. If anyone deserved mercy, it certainly was not me. I apologize for that as well. I... tried.

Broadhurst

[brokeforgood]

Maya! [Farrah basically busts down the door to Broadhurst pretty early in the morning. She’s got that plastic rabbit Peregrine brought inside under her arm—— Only. It moves.]

I brought you a visitor!

principal's office

[comeandfindme]

[ They have the same idea. Peregrine just gets there after Maya. Seeing her curled up against the wall terrifies her. Her brain's already switching into doctor-mode, when she rushes up to her and kneels down. ]

Maya? Maya, are you okay? Did your stitches open up?

[sugarlumps]

[Sunday morning LSP wakes up in the Ambassador Dorm as usual, except- kind of giddy? And laughing.]

AHAHAHAHAHA, I KNEW IT, I'M A HERO, I SAVED THE WO-O-ORLD- ...oh glob I am so tired.

[And just. Slumps back down in her bed for a while.]

[Once she's actually up and active she's just. Kind of actively checking on everyone? Like literally everyone, unless you're hiding. She's got a prop sword from the costume room at her waist and an armful of stuff from the kitchen.]

Okay, so Friday lumping fucked in the worst way, but that is why we need to stick together and be prepared so we can kick the Wizard's stupid butt before he tries anything else. Being a hero's about being prepared and junk. Hero time.

[dot dot dot]

[And then she's gonna shove a piece of fruit or a biscuit or a cold waffle at whoever's she's talking to. Possibly directly into their mouth, if she can.]

SO KEEP UP YOUR LUMPING STRENGTH, THIS IS IMPORTANT.

[mayavericks]

[Maya is. Quite literally, a captive audience. And even if she tries to protest, well -- There's now a cold waffle in her mouth, so...]

Mmmff mmmm mfm?

check-in

[barberic]

Wha- [When he opens his mouth to ask what she's doing with a sword, she shoves something dry and crumbly like a scone in his mouth and he has to deal with that now.]

ONE LAST INVESTIGATION

[comeandfindme]

[ She remembers high school graduation. She remembers summer. She remembers moving into her dorm in St. Paul, remembers meeting her roommate, remembers her first month, remembers—
"Peregrine: You can't change what happened."
...
"Where’s the other half?"
"I don't know. I was thinking maybe he took it with him. Maybe he wants you to find it."

She remembers planting two trees. She remembers the fourth annual turkey drop. She remembers her mother sharing the news, remembers already making plans, remembers the excitement and joy, remembers finally finally feeling like maybe she was ready, ready to live her life—

And it abruptly ends. When she wakes for the first Sunday in weeks with a strange, almost incredible calm. Clarity.

It gives way to a heavy weight on her chest almost immediately and she untangles herself from Janis's sleeping form. It's so very early in the morning, but she feels rested. Once making sure someone else is with Maya, she decides it's time to finish something she'd started two weeks ago.


So. You know photoquest? It's back on and ohhh she is taking pictures everywhere. The lobby, east hall, west hall, the grounds (besides the woods), the entirety of the second floor, the roof— Peregrine is going to photograph every room, until she's out of film. She'll develop those in the darkroom and take more if she needs to. Feel free to find her in any of these places, taking some meticulous photos!

One last chance. What do these photos old?

Peregrine spends much of the day taking care of Maya. She changes her bandages, checks on her stitches, does everything necessary. But...at some point, she needs a break. It's late in the evening when she retrieves...something from the library, something that she then sets up in the band room. For quite some time, she can be found attempting to play something that is far beyond her skill level.

But still. She tries. ]

photoquest

[mcfife]

[In the afternoon, Angus takes itupon himself to see what the others are up to. Fewer friends means it's easier to keep an eye on all of them. Unfortunately, he cannot determine what Peregrine is doing.]

Do you take pictures as a hobby?

band room

[barberic]

[Benjamin is finishing up a lap around the academy late in the evening, headed back toward the dorms after making sure that every head is still accounted for.

Until he hears the sound of piano music, coming from the band room, and for a second he thinks- but no.

There's a soft feeling that unfurls in his chest to see Peregrine at the keys of the piano. Not disappointment, because that would require that he'd gotten his hopes up in the first place. But still there's something familiar about it, about finding her here now. The way he'd found Antonio at the very same seat, feverishly composing, the night that Connor was killed.]

You're good at that. [He says softly, when she comes to a rest.]

photoquest

[stagemanagers]

[You have found two photos of interest! Which do you want to see first - the lobby or the roof?]

[fourbutts]

[ "And so, freshman, the moral of our story is thus: calling someone stupid won't make you any smarter."
"And even the people you don't like at all are still people!"
"SO GET OFF THEIR DICKS!"

Janis wakes up in Broadhurst late in the morning, after being asleep for a solid 36 hours, and spends a while just. Looking up at the ceiling. Peregrine is awake early, of course, and she hasn't gotten the courage to look over yet, but she knows Maya is here. She did that. She saved Maya, and now she remembers all the way up to curtain call and knows more about how she did it.

Janis extends a hand towards the ceiling and snaps. Nothing happens, of course, but... the memory is nice. ]

New morning
Feels different than before
It's dawning
This thing I've been waiting for
And I'm flying
My feet won't touch the ground
And I'm ready
To turn our lives around

[ Outside of the room, her step is light - lighter than it should be, perhaps, after three bodies yesterday, but she feels like she's earned it - as she heads up to the art room. She eyes a canvas for a while, then shakes her head and grabs some paint.

Then she heads to a hallway and pulls out a brush, cracking her knuckles as she does. ]

Let's do this.

[ And before long, in massive curly letters, she has written:

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

And yes. I'm not doing the html for it, but rest assured: it's in a beautiful rainbow of colors.

After that, she's going to slide over to the library and grab a bunch of scripts to plays - they do all have something in common, if you know plays and care to look, but at the moment she's reading Our Town with great interest. ]

Damn, this guy rules...

[ And, later still, she actually... tracks down Peregrine. ]

peregrine!!!

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine is in the band room! Trying to play a piano concerto by one Antonio Salieri! ...She's not doing too great at it, but she is persistent. ]

No— wait, shoot. [ She starts the phrase she was trying over again. They'd barely gotten to two-handed playing before he'd—

She takes it slower. Hasn't even realized Janis is there yet. ]

hallway

[barberic]

[Benjamin was coming down the hallway when he sees Janis painting on the wall, and stops to watch her, approvingly.]

Very colorful. Really brightens up the place.

[mcfife]

[Angus wakes up exhausted in Ambassador. So many deaths, so many lost friends and broken promises. The Phantom - no, the SQUIP - is now a friend among them, and he was posessing none other than-]

Evan Hansen?!

[He runs out into the dorm hallway.] The Wizard was using Evan Hansen?!

[He's got some things to work through. First he's dropping off the terrarium with all six of Ambassador's lizard in the cafeteria before heading into the garden. Elle is with the dead now, and he won't let her believe that he's moved on for a second. All of his old gifts to her, the hairpins, any living rose bouquets, the eidelweis encased in glass, that belongs on her tomb. He also has a flower crown made from thistles resting on it. He hopes she can make use of them.]

And even if you can't see me...know that I'm waiting for you. We will have the most epic wedding, all of us will be there. I swear on it.

[For the rest of the morning, Angus is training in the woods while Bruiser sits in a pile of pillows and naps. It's time he prepares to kill the wizard, no more waiting. The trees make for fine dummies as he throws his wright behind each swing of the Gloryhammer, denting the bark.]

Ambassador

[sugarlumps]

Uuugh, fuck that guy.

[Said sleepily, from under her covers.]

woods

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[She can't judge Angus, he's been through a lot, including losing the love of his life. On her approach, she notes Bruise and his pillow pile, and the hard dents Angus' hammer is making in the trees. It's so much... more. Not like the sparring session they had in the gym.]

You're going to be ready when a fight happens.

[Not if.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[Waking up with all her memories is... a lot. Most of it is incidental, like how she'd first met the Northuldra and wound up in the forest. But there are some important things - finding out that she and Anna were a part of the Northuldra, thanks to their mother, the near destruction of Arendelle, Kristoff's proposal! - that sets her reeling a bit. It's... a lot to process, how much her life has shifted in only a few days, so Elsa spends a little bit of the morning in Rodgers Dorm just. Staring at the ceiling.

Eventually, she gets up, feeling much lighter than she has since she'd dreamed of her own death weeks ago. That feeling doesn't last long, though, when she spots Orpheus's trunk. Her heart sinks, but... she still moves, getting up and out of bed and moving over to his section of the dorm. Elle had left letters behind, so maybe he did the same. She shuffles through clothes, neatly sorting out what little he has in there, before she glances over to the desk. There, she notices his songbook, and gingerly picking it up, like it was a precious treasure made of glass, she notices some paper sticking out.

Ah. There.


A little while later, Elsa sits in the cafeteria, a warm cup of cocoa in her hands and a piece of paper set out before her. Judging by how her eyes are staring down into her mug, rather than the paper in front of her, it seems like she's read it already. But it's still set out flat on the table, where anyone else will be able to see.]

Cafeteria

[mcfife]

[Angus has a lot on him today, between the Gloryhammer, Bruiser, and the nonfunctional jetpack, but he's not walking around unprepared when the Wizard can strike at any moment. He goes to sets Bruiser by Elsa so he can prepare a meal for himself, but his eyes catch on he paper.]

Queen Elsa?

[There's a long letter there. Angus inches forward to request for a peek at its contents.]

cafeteria

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine goes to say hello to Elsa while getting something to eat, but she pauses when she sees the paper in front of her, the one she's not looking at. ]

Elsa? What's wrong?

[feudalladyshandmaid]

["I love you, Raps."

"I love you too, Cass."

Cassandra wakes in Rodgers Dorm, eyes blinking away the last bits of sand to behold the ceiling, and...]

I'm not dead. [Her cot is also conspicuously empty of a queen, but that's being set aside briefly. Her mind is abuzz, thoughts flying left and right, no longer lost. It's as if the holes in a net had been filled in. A whole picture that she can see now, and Cass loves it.] I'm not dead!

[And unless someone's in there to become the focus of her joy, she's very quickly rushing out of the dorms to search for... who else, but Elsa?

Cassandra spends the rest of the day hard at work. Whether it's practicing her sword hand in the dance studio. Or enjoying lunch outside in the courtyard with Owl and Fidella. There just seems to be a renewed vigor in Cass. A newfound spirit that's risen from the dead. Hope does seem to be contagious.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[It doesn't take long to find Elsa - she's set up in the cafeteria, a small stack of red paper set beside her. She's fiddling with the paper, sheet by sheet, folding them over and over until she sets a small, finished flower in front of her. They're a mix of roses and lilies, but all in similar shades of red.

She doesn't notice Cass entering the room at first, so concentrated on her work that she is.]