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

[isawallflower]

Oh, great, you've tried going over it too.

[ SIGH. ]

Yeah, that's all I got.

[expertreese]

Oh. Yeah, I - I couldn't get through the gate. But, um...I don't know. Things were...

[...]

Bad. They were bad. Back home. But it wasn't, um, magic and ghosts bad??? That stuff's not real. Except it is now, I guess.

[isawallflower]

It wasn't real for me, either, but apparently, you can get used to a lot of things. Aliens and space travel and magic and ghosts and fallen angels!

[ ...She makes a face at that last one, and. Well, she looks away, back out onto the forest. ]

One of the others... He thinks we're stuck in a...wormhole thing. An event horizon. Every time I tried going over, I couldn't get farther than a stupid door.

[expertreese]

I have...no idea what that means.

But, uh. Yeah. It's pretty much the same thing here.

[isawallflower]

Join the club~ None of us know what it means.

[ She kicks the wall with her heel. Stupid wall. ]

...At least I don't have to waste time looking through the forest again.

[expertreese]

Heh, yeah. I, uh, gave up on that pretty fast.

[..........]

[isawallflower]

Just. Gave up? Just stopped trying?

[expertreese]

..........................yeah?

[isawallflower]

I looked...extensively. How many times did you go over the wall? How can you know for sure there's nothing else?

[ am i about to apologize to evan hansen? maybe. ]

[expertreese]

Uh.......well, I wasn't counting, but Beetlejuice kinda...dragged me through it a lot of times. While he was singing this song. And, um, he had these lights, and a whole dance thing...and he made his neck stretch really far so he could be going in and out of the door at the same time?

[He gestures vaguely. Look, it's a set-up for some ridiculous Scooby-Doo musical number shit, BJ made a whole meal of that.]

[isawallflower]

You- he-

[ Every time someone take about Beetlejuice Riley has to mentally recalibrate for like a full minute. ]

Did he tell you anything helpful? ...At all? Just- anything, besides, “oh, you’ve got a lot of bullshit coming your way!”

[ Bitching on the wall about Beetlejuice, that’s today’s mood. ]

[expertreese]

I - um. He said there was some other guy here before. Like, his best friend before he met me, but he said I was his best friend after like, one second, so. Um.

[he's not super convinced BJ and this guy were actually a thing]

[isawallflower]

[ Okay why the hell didn't he say that sooner- ]

Another guy? Did- did he mention a name, or what happened to him, or why, or anything?

[expertreese]

He said he was here for like, five seconds, four years ago, and then he left. Actually he said he ditched him?

[isawallflower]

He who. Which he- use some names.

[expertreese]

The - the guy, I don't know. Beetlejuice said a guy showed up here like, years ago, and he was here for a few minutes maybe and then he was gone!

[isawallflower]

B- Beejs has been here for four years?? [ look it's not. spoken unbroken but she doesn't want to fucking risk it. ] Did you- ohhhh, I do not want to ask him questions again, he's so annoying...!

[expertreese]

He, um, I guess??? I wasn't - I mean I don't know how long it's been but it doesn't feel like even one year. You'd have to ask him.

[isawallflower]

Did he say it was one year--? Ohhh no!! No, this is a dumb game of telephone!!

[ Screaming On The Wall. ]

[expertreese]

It was, uh, four. For him. He didn't really say for me but I really don't think it's been more than a few months.

[isawallflower]

.......A few months. With just that guy?

[ oh f ]

[expertreese]

Yeah..............

[it's what he deserves honestly]

[isawallflower]

............Sorry.

[ In the same tones as you’d hear That’s Rough Buddy ]

[expertreese]

Ye...ah......

[well he probably deserved it]

I guess it's, um. Better than being here alone. [maybe? probably? like, in the long run]

[isawallflower]

[ Okay, she would have to agree- ]

Probably. Yeah.