now let's skip the tears and start on the whole-

[stagemanagers]

[You remember dying. Maybe the memory is clear and bright and your body still aches from the cause. Maybe it was fast enough that you didn't feel it and don't remember what you went through. But no matter how you went out you're still trapped here.

When you open your eyes it might take you a minute to recognize your surroundings. For the executed, it's your dressing room. For the victims, you startle awake in the place your body was discovered. But no matter where you are nothing is where you remember it. It's like everything has been picked up and moved to the other side of the room. The entire room has been perfectly mirrored from what it used to be and, upon leaving, it seems the rest of the opera house is just the same. If you remember one room being in the east wing, it's now in the west. If it was in the west, it's now in the east.


Welcome back to the Opera House, friends. Even in death you're still in the woods.]


WEEK 1 | WEEK 2 | WEEK 3 | WEEK 4 | WEEK 5


[ooc: Welcome to deadland, darlings! It's a perfectly mirrored version of the Opera House and each week, as new people die after new floors have been revealed, the stairwell doors will unlock and allow you to reach them. For example, week 3 victims will unlock floor 2 and so on and so forth. Also, all dead characters will wake up at their actual canon point.

Have fun because we have some fun things planned for you.]

Comments

[reassuranceandrevolution]

[She's so caught up in her memories that she doesn't even realize they're singing]

And if I never held her
I would never have a clue
How at last I'd find in her
The missing part of me

[superbeliever]

In this place so full of fear
She's my guiding light
When I close my eyes she's there
and it's right
It feels so right...

[reassuranceandrevolution]

And I'm so grateful for her
My whole life'd have been a blur
Lost forever
If I never knew her

[superbeliever]

[The non-diagetic music fades out into silence, as Richard falls silent, a soft smile on his face.]

...God, I hope she doesn't go back to Spinster Island.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Spinster Island? [That...doesn't sound like a real place]

[superbeliever]

Her great-aunt lives there. With, I'm told, a whole bunch of cats.

I'm... eighty percent sure men aren't actually allowed on the island.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Well in that case it doesn't sound half bad.

[She grins, clearly teasing]

I hope when we get to move on from whatever the place is you get to meet Loki.

[superbeliever]

I'm sure I'll love her, if she's as you say.

And maybe one day you'll meet Roberta, when she comes.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

I'd very much like that.

We should really find a way out of here so we can meet them when the time comes.

[superbeliever]

You're right. But...

[He cares about the people still trapped in the opera house, too.]

Now that we know that we can... you know, reach the others, we can't. I can't think about escaping here without knowing they're okay first.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

I have a feeling if we can get them out, it may provide our own escape.

[superbeliever]

I hope you're right.

I mean, I have to make sure there's someone to take care of Tad Cooper for me.

[Yep that's enough Maudlin Feelings for one day!]

In the meantime - how about some soup? You know, get our energy up for some more hauntings! Being a ghost is kind of fun, when you think about it.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

[Sigyn nods and goes back to check the contents of the pot. Seemingly happy she ladles out two bowls, passing one over to Richard]

It is. If I weren't so worried about them, I'd suggest we play some pranks on our living friends