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]

It's... It's still... I c-c-can't watch this! It's worse than...than watching them all tear each other apart! I won't st-stand by anymore, I won't b-be that...that- that stupid little girl who can't do anything!

[reassuranceandrevolution]

You don't have to watch this, but in this room we are helpless.

[It looks like it's physically painful for her to admit this.]

[isawallflower]

[ And it's the only room where they can see them...without any interference.

At this point, Riley has to laugh, and it's a broken, harsh thing. ] Then why are we even here?

[reassuranceandrevolution]

I don't know.

[On the word 'know' her voice cracks just slightly]

But right now this is our best source of information, to figure out who's going to be here next so they don't have to wake up alone.

[isawallflower]

[ Her eyes are hot. The tears make it hard to see. She thinks Jeremy's- Christine's upset. Mephisto's holding her. Jeremy's not going to let anyone hold him, is he? ]

I- I was supposed to- I th-thought I could help. I thought I could help, b-but--

[ She's really done nothing, hasn't she? ]

[reassuranceandrevolution]

I'm sorry. We'll figure out something this week, some way to get information for them, something to help them, I promise.

[isawallflower]

[ We're going to have to unpack this later, but Riley, with all this going on, just says: ]

I can't... I have to do something. Just- just one...single th-thing.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Go to Jeremy's room. Make sure he doesn't wake up alone.

[isawallflower]

...He won't.