C-TPA05 (Jan 25, 1996)
Puzzle
“I’m wearing red today with a smile painted in place.”
#1313 Trivia | 2 Words
Clue
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Clue 1: The phrases 'wear[ing] red today' and '[smile] painted in place' are two separate lines from the same song.
Clue 2: The band's name is mentioned in TPA07.
Clue 3: Mephisto Walz.
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Mephisto Waltz
Explanation: This song has the lines “Catch carousel smiles painted in place” and “The strange girl, she wears red today”.
Summary of Receipt
With Wilson High fully descending into religious fervor, tensions are rising, and worsening as the 'big assembly' draws nearer. The three teenagers will be prepared for Pleasant, as 'Abigail Hawthorne', to attack them (or at least something to happen), while 62 scouts out the assembly to check any signs of demonic influence.
Transcript
RECEIPT #005
FILED UNDER: CAFE-TPA
DATE: 1/25/96
EMPLOYEE #1313
Pleasant has done a wonderful job ruining our school lives. Seriously, top-notch work. Between our principal and the preps, every second of every day has become a moment for spiritual reflection. Everything, everywhere, all at once, is a holy miracle, and God forbid you don’t fully take them each and everyone in. Ugh. It’s getting exhausting. Pile on to that an absolute fear of anything that even whiffs of the Satanic or other, and it’s become such a fun learning environment. And things are only getting worse as the tension builds to the big assembly we’ve been promised.
It was supposed to be like two weeks ago, but the whole cheer-bus-accident delayed it to next week. 7 A.M. sharp. I couldn’t possibly imagine a better start to my Monday, could you? And it’s been made very clear to us that there is absolutely no skipping, ditching, or otherwise avoiding this event. You’ll need a thrice notarized doctor’s note stamped by the Pope to get out of this one. So, I guess we’ll at least all get to suffer together. Yay. Originally, we were going to have #53 sneak in with us, but conveniently, he’s off chasing Necromancers in Wyoming.
At least we aren’t going in totally unprepared. #62 says she’ll be keeping a close eye on the assembly for any indications of demonic influence. Real demonic influence, obviously. If Red is right, and she usually is, we need to be ready for a very brash Mothman to finally seal his disastrous deal on Monday. If we don’t get a full blast of his paranoia and fear magic, I wouldn’t be surprised if he somehow causes the auditorium to collapse or something. I guess I’d rather be dead than at a Monday morning assembly, though.