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]

What!! [ She legit sees nothing wrong with this, rip. ] He's distracted enough, if I could get over there maybe I could show him what a...however-many-foot drop is like!

[mcfife]

And what do you plan to do if you're able to get up there?

[Just casually watching her.]

[isawallflower]

Possess him. What else?

[ Hmm, maybe one of the other boxes has a better vantage point... ]

[mcfife]

[Oh, possession is fun. He'll follow her movements with amusement.]

Try flying. Then you'll finally be able to catch him.

[isawallflower]

[ She shoots Angus a sneer. ]

Haha, very funny. No, I'm not keen on-- wait. We're ghosts, can we fly? Could- can we fly?

[ LIKE SHE DOESN'T WANNA TRY THAT ONE, BUT. ]

[mcfife]

You're free to try. [He's not going to risk breaking his ghost neck.]

[isawallflower]

...Shut up, Angus.

[ took you long enough to realize he was goading you riley ]

[herwiggles]

I could probably try and get up there no sweat!

[But her powers are probably far less effective right now due to some ghost bullshit, so.]

Oh, oh! Maybe if we climb on each others shoulders!

[isawallflower]

[ Hhhh why is Spinel still talking to her all nice like- ]

Human pyramid. [ ...Hhhhhhh-- ] M-maybe! Maybe, but. It can be hard to...get the right...balance.

[herwiggles]

Good thing Iiiiiiii'm.... [God she's climbing on top of her box.] A master of balance!

[isawallflower]

Please do not do that--

[ ohhhh was this why.....evan was concerned...... ]

[herwiggles]

[She.... hops back into her box.]

Oh, yeah. Okay. Not gonna do that then.

[She's trying to be considerate now. It's a whole thing.]

[mcfife]

Oh, what else can you do!

[He may be Evil but he does like a good show.

Not that the trial is boring, but they're accusing Christine and that's obviously Wrong. Of course she didn't do it.]

[herwiggles]

Sorry, bucko. I'm not accepting requests.

[She says, while upside down.]

[mcfife]

[He claps for her anyway.]

[expertreese]

You're gonna fall!

[Evan should maybe, in theory????? be more concerned about the murder proposition???????? but I mean this guy's doing a lot of shit, so]

[isawallflower]

[ ...Her jaw tightens. ]

It's fine. [ She keeps her gaze on the Phantom's box, not anyone else, not the proceedings down below. The ground, rushing up to meet her-- ] I'm...already dead, right, what's- it's not like it'll kill me again.

[expertreese]

Yeah, but it hurts!

[let's not ask how evan knows this maybe]

[mcfife]

No, let her try. I want to watch.

cw: riley's mental state

[isawallflower]

Well it's better than just standing around watching this! [ She just. Throws a hand out, gesturing at the orchestra pit. They're talking about- memories, and sacrificing, and hallucinating, and the stupid fucking trolley problem and her head's pounding. ] I can't stay here, I can't do nothing!

[expertreese]

Sometimes it's - it's better to do nothing.

[hey remember that time he was like "oh sure i'll make connor's mom feel better this isn't gonna turn into something i escalate wildly and make entirely about me"?]

You, you can't make anything worse that way.

[isawallflower]

No. No, no- no, doing nothing didn't help, doing something didn't help, there has to be a middle ground, I have to find a- a middle ground!

[ She's talking to herself now, more than Evan? It's. She's doing fine something. ]