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

[solomonjihad]

...Its all right. You had a right to be upset.

[robitussin]

Yeah, but you were just trying to help, so... You know. We're square.

[solomonjihad]

Square...all right. I'll...just go, then.

...

Is that a good book, at least?

[robitussin]

No, I mean - you don't have to leave if you don't want to. I mean, not that you have to stay, but... Do whatever you want.

[Nailed it.]

Yeah, it is. Another one you haven't read?

[solomonjihad]

Mm, that's right.

[Frown.]

What is it about?

[robitussin]

A lawyer and his kids. It's pretty good, you'd probably like it.

[solomonjihad]

...I think I'll read it when I'm done with the book I'm on, then. That one's called The Stand.

[robitussin]

Yeah? What's it about?

[solomonjihad]

A superflu created by the United States called Captain Trips wipes out almost everyone on Earth - 99% - and the survivors who had immunity either stand behind Mother Abigail, the elderly woman, or Randall Flagg, the walking dude in order to rebuild civilization.

[She's definitely invested by the way she describes it.]
Its a battle of good and evil after humanity is wiped out by their own hubris.

[robitussin]

Wow. That sounds pretty depressing.

Who are most going with?

[solomonjihad]

Most...they're going with Randall. He's rebuilt Las Vegas--a town in the Mojave Desert--into his capital and it has all of the technology people miss. He draws them in with the promise of civilization, and he destroys anyone who questions him and he's also looking for weapons to kill off the people led by Mother Abigail.

[robitussin]

...Wow, he sounded great until the last ten seconds.

[solomonjihad]

Yeah, he's the bad guy.

[robitussin]

Why does he want to kill them?

[solomonjihad]

Because they oppose him. And he's evil.

[robitussin]

So it's like... A political thriller, kind of?

[solomonjihad]

With some magic, yeah. I think Randall's also a raven.

[robitussin]

Huh. Maybe I'll check it out once you're done.

[solomonjihad]

Mm, I definitely recommend it. I...I want to also see if this author has other books, too. He's a really good writer.

[robitussin]

Who is it?

[solomonjihad]

Stephen King.

[robitussin]

...Yeah, I would say he does. If we have The Shining here, you should check it out.

[solomonjihad]

Oh, you've heard of him, then?

[Her ears definitely perk up in the metaphorical sense at the reveal that Stephen King has more books.]

[robitussin]

Yeah. He writes a lot of horror, I think?

[solomonjihad]

Oh. The Stand isn't so horrible, I don't think.