don't stop believing

[stagemanagers]

[Streetlights, reveals] | [Vision Statements] | [Mass Resolution: CONNECT] | [A little touch of the sun (Revival)] | [They do this bullshit like 8 times a week (Rescue)]


[It's a pleasant afternoon in the garden. Maybe not emotionally, but physically - isn't it nice when you get to have class outside?

As your voices rise, singing defiance in unison out for the Wizard, there's no immediate response; at least, nothing that clearly is a response. But there's something. Amidst the sound of your song, it may be hard to hear at first; Janis will likely be the first to notice, but eventually everyone is able to hear. It sounds as though other voices are rising along with yours.

There's something on the air - no music, or at least no instrumentals, just a disembodied sort of lyrical chant. You don't recognize any of the voices. They aren't singing the same song as you all are. Maybe they can't; they sound long long ago, and far far away now. Still - despite everything - the trees around you move lightly in a sudden soft breeze. It feels as though you have invoked something, old and entirely beyond your knowledge.

But first. Haven't you forgotten something?

It's Wednesday.

Welcome to this week's school club!]

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[stopbelieving]

G L E E C L U B

[There is no grand entrance. One moment, there is no one there. The next, a man is standing on top of the water in the center of the reflecting pond. He's dressed in white pants and an off-white shirt over a white...unfinished jacket? Oh, no - that's a vest. Despite everything, all the yelling and shouting, his expression seems almost unnaturally calm - or maybe just detached? But then -

Will smiles, just a little bit.]

There is something so pure, how you see the world.
As if music could be our reprieve...

[Mmmm. But no.]

I used to have faith
In love or in grace,
But there's just one way out,
There's no room for doubt, or...

...belief.

[The song dies before his voice does. After long enough, a few things can change.]

I'm right here. I always have been. Now let's end this.

[It goes on, and on, and on, and on and on and on and on and - ]




(( OOC: Believe me, I understand the impulse, but any attempt to physically charge William right now will meet with the same kind of barrier keeping Nana out. You cannot enter the pond. ))

[comeandfindme]

[ He's here. He's just here. He's— ]

Stop singing that right now! You don't get to!

[sugarlumps]

[She is running face-first into this barrier and uselessly attempting to shoulder-check through it, I'm not sorry.]

[barberic]

[Schink!]

I agree.

[And, despite that lovely OOC warning, he...charges the barrier with a razor extended.

Shocker - he hits it full speed.]

[brokeforgood]

Dad--- [And LSP--- jesus christ are they all slamming into that think like fucking birds?]

[sugarlumps]

[solidarity, cocoa man]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[Solidarity. All Three of them.]

[mayavericks]

[Maya's right behind him and -- well. Thanks, Dad, for being her warning. She skitters to a stop, dust rising from her boots and calf screaming from the sudden exertion.]

Coward!

[barberic]

[Yeah unfortunately he hit it hard enough to get knocked back on his ass, so he skids to a stop at her feet.

But he gets back up, razor still extended, and points it at the man.]

You said it's time to end this - let's start with you!

[mcfife]

[OH THIS GUY LOOKS VERY EVIL.

Angus grips the Gloryhammer.] Oh, you don't believe how long I have awaited this day.

[stopbelieving]

[Sigh]

Hi, Angus. Someone out there really likes you. Or they hate you - I'm not sure what it all means.

[mcfife]

I sure don't! [Yeah actually, this is the confrontation he's been waiting a year for, let's figure out this bastard.] How in the 58 circles of hell did I end up with you again?

[fourbutts]

[ the single most unimpressed look she could give a man. ]

Wow, you really were a hack the whole time, huh?

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[WHAM

Cassandra rattles against the barrier, driving her fist into it for good measure, but no dice.]

Oh, of course you'd pull some shit like this.

[mcfife]

[Lesson one from Album 3: DON'T run at the villain when you don't know what he can do-

Oh gods they're all really going at it.]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[Listen.... Listen.




They're not smart.]

[employeeoftheyear]

[Spongebob isn't angry when he shows up, he isn't sad.

He's just kinda disappointed that it's just some guy. No theatrics, no evil laughing about his plan.

Just some guy.]

Why did you do this? Why did you think that making us suffer like this would ever be worth it?

[stopbelieving]

It's necessary to fix the multiverse. Didn't you read that in...the notes you found, after you somehow broke into my office?

[also hey how did you break into his secret office]

I don't like it any more than you do, but I didn't make this system. We're playing by their rules now.

[employeeoftheyear]

... So you're the one...

[He had

Really hoped that he didn't have to worry about sympathizing with him.]

But why does it need fixing? Why does continuing what they started fixing it if it caused the problem?

[mayavericks]

This is fixing?! You've killed people. You have let people die for this game. How does it help!?

[sugarlumps]

You didn't count on my raw lumping power with your stupid door, did you.

[She totally broke it off its hinges, that's how she remembers it anyway.]

[brokeforgood]

[Welp.

She whips off the backpack-- the one that only has special stuff in it? That she told Peregrine she got rid of all of her rations from?

She pulls out and cracks open a can of strawberita.]

It was a dude in white pants all along.

[employeeoftheyear]

[He's not going to ask for a drink but.

He will stand by Farrah in complete disappointment.]

I gotta admit I kinda expected the Wizard was a little more intimidating than this.

Or at least less like someone who wouldn't plant scales on his Krabby Patty and say that I did it.

[musacal]

[ uh ]

[defyingfrigidity]

[He just looks like... a guy. Elsa is almost confused. The big bad Wizard is just... a normal-looking man?

But then she remembers Hans. Hans had seemed so normal, so kind. But he turned out to be a monster through and through, and that's all she needs to remember to steel herself again.]

You're not going to win.