WEEK 6

[stagemanagers]

WEEK 6

[Six weeks later, and eleven performers remain.

The opera house is much the same when Monday morning dawns this week. It seems you've truly gone as high as you can go - there is no fifth floor, and no sign of any other new areas. The air has grown colder, like perhaps someone failed to adjust the heating for the winter weather that's supposedly happening just outside. Javert and Astarte's stars are still firmly affixed to their doors; it seems you might have to try a little harder to learn their secrets.

Things seem to be building. Have a good week, everyone.]

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[ooc: don't forget to submit your memories and check into the roll call!]

Comments

[inforapenny]

So what if you break something?

[No, this is a legit question. He takes a sip of cola with interest.]

[trettende]

Well... it's be broken. Then no one else can use it.

[ Duh. ]

[inforapenny]

Well, yeah, but you'll have learned something about how it worked.

[Bruh he's been taking shit apart for weeks now do you really think he cares about whether the original is still useable?]

Just, you know, stick to things that people don't use every day.

[like maybe don't break anything in the bathroom or the kitchen.]

[trettende]

I suppose.

[ He's not delightfully creative, unfortunately... ]

Is that you do? Break things until you figure out how they work?

[pennyless]

That's what I used to do when I was still learning, yeah. Now - with stuff that's kind of advanced for the late-aughties - I can usually look at it in action and then take a peek inside and be able to get a sense for how it works.

[He nurses his cola and stares at the bar.]

I really want to get my hands on whatever it was that they used to bring us all here.

[trettende]

I guess that makes sense.

[ It's kind of like that with people too, for him... Hans shrugs. ]

You think it was some kind of machine? Not magic?

[pennyless]

[HAHAHAHA BILLY is

nooooooot that way with people at all]

It has to be. There's no such thing as magic.

[trettende]

[ He's not The Mirror for nothing.

But hold on, he's going to laugh at that. ]

You're dating Anna, right? Has she not talked about her sister at all?

[pennyless]

Uh, yeah. Elsa's the Queen of Arendelle.

[Duh.

Also he has to impress Elsa in order to be allowed to date Anna]

[trettende]

Right. And she has magical powers.

[pennyless]

Magical powers.

[Pardon the deadpan.]

[trettende]

She can create ice and brought an overnight winter to her kingdom.

[ That's magic, bro. ]

[pennyless]

...So? That's not magic, that's superpowers.

[Duh.]

[trettende]

[ Hans kind of just stares. ]

So. Magic.

[pennyless]

No. Superpowers.

I know a guy who says he can do things like that.

[trettende]

She's a lot more dangerous than just some guy.

[pennyless]

Uh, he froze the entire city's water supply.

...And wanted me to fight him in a park. With kids in it.

[trettende]

Picture that, in an entire kingdom, and with about five feet of snow, overnight.

Trust me, Elsa's magic almost froze her kingdom solid. It's magic.

[pennyless]

I mean, I'm not saying that's not impressive.

[...Normal people wouldn't use the word impressive there, Billy.]

I'm just saying that's superpowers, not magic. If I wanted to, I could probably build a weather machine to do the same thing.

[trettende]

I'd like to see that.

[ Hans chuckles. ]

So you're saying that kind of thing is normal for you?

[pennyless]

I mean, there's plenty of "normal" people, too, but... Yeah.

[trettende]

And don't you think it's possible the Management might have "super powers"? That sounds more likely than a machine to me.

[pennyless]

Uh, because there's a difference between ice powers and reality-bending? I built a ray that froze time and a ray that could transmit matter through space, but somebody with those powers would be...

[trettende]

Would be...?

[pennyless]

Totally broken? Completely unstoppable?

Honestly, if Management has powers like that, then there's... We've got no chance of beating them.