week 4

[stagemanagers]

WEEK 4
[Another week has passed in the opera house and things are looking grim as ever. With Gabe and Hime gone, the performers are down to 16 of them.

On Monday, the opera house is still heavily decorated with a few new additions. There are more cottony cobwebs, a few small ghosts hanging from the ceiling made of cheesecloth, even more pumpkins here and there. A few more candy bowls have been set out in places like the dining room and a few others and only a few of them are only filled with candy corn. In the dressing rooms the stars on Gabe and Hime's doors have fallen off, leaving behind a patch of star-shaped wood slightly lighter than the rest of the doors on Hime's and a different star underneath on Gabe's.

Like the previous week, the door on in the second floor lobby is unlocked and a new floor is ready to be explored. Have a good week, everyone.]

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Comments

[allicareabout]

[Well, that was...delightful? No, really, that motive was delightful for a lot of reasons, not least of which because it doesn't involve literal magic or people apparently knowing things that they shouldn't know. It's basic and it's simple and it makes sense, and if nothing else that has massively lifted his spirits.

So thank you, opera house management, for not completely fucking up his day.

However, once the motive announcement is done and over with, he'll be upstairs for the better part of the day; he'd taken a cursory glance at the rooms on the third floor yesterday, but for now he's actually going over them in a bit more detail.

The game room has his interest perhaps a bit more than he'd like; he's not really one for board games, but chess is something that tends to entertain him and so he'll be checking out the tables there, looking the pieces over like he's trying to figure out what he thinks of the quality before setting up one of the boards for the sake of having something to do. If you're interested in a game...well, he certainly won't say no.

...Otherwise, those d20-game books are interesting, given that he is from the 1920s and what the hell are games like this. He is going to be in here for a while, is what I'm saying.

The workshop also has his interest, though he'll be in there later in the evening when he presumes less people will be wandering around; he's got his suit jacket off and slung somewhere that it won't get in the way, and his sleeves are rolled up while he works – it's hard to say what he's going to be working on, but he's got a pencil out and a few tools arranged in a vaguely purposeful manner like he at least somewhat knows what he's doing, and he's currently marking up a couple of boards and occasionally leaning back a bit like he's trying to visualize something, so who knows.

He's humming sort of tunelessly to himself while he works; whether it's because he's actually enjoying this or just enjoying having something to do with his goddamn hands is difficult to say, but at the very least today isn't terrible and that's more than can be said for the entirety of the past weekend.]

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[catliketread]

[Well, that motive sure was a thing. A stupid thing. But just because the Pirate King finds it stupid doesn't mean everyone else will, and at this point he's not willing to rule it out as something that no one will act on, simply because he doesn't know everyone here. While he'd love to believe the best in everyone... D-ne killed Valjean and Hime was murdered, so the Pirate King doesn't feel too optimistic here. Money may not be the best motive in his opinion, but money can push people to do terrible things. Like murder!

Anyway, he's been wandering the building aimlessly while he tries to figure out something to do (that isn't painting, though he does enjoy that) and guess who he's stumbled on!! Hiya, Billy, hope you don't mind some company at the chess table.]

I would ask if you play, but I doubt you'd know how to set up the pieces if you didn't!

[allicareabout]

[...He doesn't mind at all, actually. Hey, you.]

So the next logical question is whether you do.

[catliketread]

But of course! I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't interested in a game!

[...the pirate king has some very non-piratey hobbies.]

[allicareabout]

[...You have some excruciatingly non-piratey hobbies.]

I wouldn't have set up the board if I wasn't interested in challengers. So why not, let's.

[catliketread]

[AND SO WE HANDWAVED A GAME OF CHESS in which Billy won because seriously.]

You're very talented at this! I was expecting you to be good, but I hadn't anticipated you would be this good!

[He sounds really pleased with it though, so there's that.]

[allicareabout]

It's all about reading people, my friend - something I've made sure to be good at, my career depends on it.

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[robitussin]

You interested in a game, or just staring at the chess board and thinking deep thoughts?

[She's inspecting a board game curiously as she asks the question, but glances towards him as she waits for a response.]

[allicareabout]

Hey, I welcome all challengers.

[And that's delivered easily enough; he really doesn't mind, from the sounds.]

Do you play a lot?

[robitussin]

Play a lot? No, I'm not really the chess club type. It's not like there's much else to do around here.

[She's not the school club type at all, really. She does put down the board game and take a seat, though.]

You?

[allicareabout]

Everybody's got to have hobbies; this just happened to be one of mine. I was never really the sports type.

[robitussin]

Yeah, you don't really seem the quarterback type.

[A small smirk.]

So. You want to go first?

[allicareabout]

Sure thing.

[We are going to handwave the hell out of this game as the conversation goes on, because I am a quality roleplayer and also I really suck at chess.]

The reason you gave for playing - that the same reason you're in here? Nothing better to do?

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[dieformymusic]

[Wrong because Winslow is constantly wandering all hours of the evening and day. He picks up a sort of tuneless hum which leads him to investigate the room he hadn't seem before because well. Memories and that fun stuff.

Turns out Billy is there. The right Billy this time. He has some questions on his mind and he may as well ask since he's here.

Winslow appears (with his face on), alerting Billy with a wordless gurgle.]

[allicareabout]

[Oh, hey, buddy.

He'll look up once he notices the sound coming in his direction; he doesn't seem bothered by the interruption, if it can be called that, though he does twirl the pencil he was working with idly around his fingers before pocketing it.]

Something on your mind, or just wanting to say hello?

[dieformymusic]

[Once he sees that he has his attention Winslow makes his way in, much like a cloak of darkness.

"I had some questions I feel you're best qualified to answer."]

[allicareabout]

[Oh, what's this now.]

And you know what, if I've got answers, I'll give them to you.

What've you got in mind?

[dieformymusic]

If is good enough for him!

Winslow scribbles on his paper again.

"How do you tell if a contract has any hidden terms? And if so is there any way you can get out of it? Like say it was a record deal?"]

[allicareabout]

[oh, good, common law - ]

Do you have a copy of the contract itself?

[It's kind of a long shot, but you never know, people pull some weird things out of the merch booth.]

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[aflatouttahell]

[Jezebel very critically (ha ha ha) eyes a d12 as he looks at the tabletop games.]

They're all so... medieval. Except for the dragons.

[allicareabout]

[...Oh, it's you, hello. He doesn't know Jezabel, really, but she's a little hard to miss at trials and the like.]

The dragons are considered pretty medieval too, depending on who you're asking.

[At the very least, they suit the era; we've also got all sorts of timey-wimey bullshit floating around this place, so who knows, maybe somebody's got dragons too.]

[aflatouttahell]

[Probably somewhere. Saints Row doesn't actually have dragons, though it has most everything else.]

Probably. I feel like I should be more offended at how many of them have you fighting devils and demons than I am, but I mean... [A "what're you gonna do" shrug.] Hell.

[allicareabout]

...You know, I'd ask you what it's like down there, but I'm not altogether sure I want to know.

[aflatouttahell]

Me being here already kinda ruins part of the Great Mystery, but... it's probably not entirely what you think it's like?

[allicareabout]

It ruins it for your world, maybe - but fine, I'll bite. What about it do you think would surprise me, here?