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]

[That doesn't sound right, but she doesn't know enough about demons to say any different]

I'm glad he was there for you. I wish I had gotten the chance to meet the real man...demon behind the mask.

[isawallflower]

...He's not that different. Not really where it mattered.

[ Riley curls in on herself, just a bit. The warm feeling he'd been giving her, now it's accompanied by a swift shot of cold, too. ]

[reassuranceandrevolution]

That's good.

[Sigyn gives Riley's shoulder a squeeze]

Can I give you a hug?

[isawallflower]

[ All at once, she finds she can't speak. Riley simply nods, choked by...well, all of it, really. All that comes out of her is a soft whimper. ]

[reassuranceandrevolution]

[As soon as Riley nods both of Sigyn's arms pull Riley into a hug. It's tight, but not so tight as to make it hard for Riley to breath. She'll stay like that as long as Riley needs her to.

It's not like they need to eat anymore.]

[isawallflower]

[ She's dead. She's dead, and she failed, and she has- she's nothing. Cairo was right, that's just what she feels like. She took everything from herself, even the second chance she didn't know she had. She has no one to blame but herself.

So. Riley's going to just let herself fall apart again. With someone, because maybe- maybe that's okay? She's going to let it be okay, at least for right now. Weeping in Sigyn's arms, Riley finally fully lets herself go. ]