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

[mcfife]

I don't know who they are.

[But anyway, he peers into the room.]

Can't you calm him down?

[itsfromjapan]

I do not have control over him in death, apparently.

[The SQUIP would shrug, if this form was capable of it. Jeremy has stopped screaming though, and is just repeating oh my god in various inflections.]

[mcfife]

[Jeremy looks fine now, everyone else can deal with him.] That is rather fortunate. You are two separate beings, after all.

[Squint.] Unless you are an AI given form and not a living computer.

[itsfromjapan]

I'm a quantum learning program. [A beat.] I am part of Jeremy. Was.

[It hasn't quite adjusted to this new state of things, even if it's not freaking out like Jeremy. They're not the same anymore, but they were.]

[mcfife]

Strange that you have your own ghost here. Usually you'd need a soul to do that.

[But this is Angus we're talking about. What does he know about the intricacies of unliving?]

And what is your plan now that you are no longer part of him? Find a new host?

[itsfromjapan]

You misunderstand. I didn't make Jeremy. Jeremy made me.

[That is to say, uh. The SQUIP actually doesn't know. How to be anything but Jeremy. Which it is not necessarily the best at, but it tries. It's trying.]

[mcfife]

He...gave you life? [Like some kind of wizard?]

[itsfromjapan]

Not as such. But I learn from Jeremy. I'm shaped by his desires. What I am is made up of a combination of that and my basic knowledgebase.

[Which is Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary, basically.]

[mcfife]

Then what is your plan now that you are free?

[He's not exactly Jeremy Too anymore.]

It would be difficult to implant you in any brain now.

[itsfromjapan]

I don't know. My programming does not include a plan for these circumstances and I don't have desires of my own.

[mcfife]

Then use your abilities to their fullest. Are you not eager to manipulate the behavior of others without needing to be in contact with their bodies?

[Or, like the Roomba of Evil-]

Can you learn to fight?

[itsfromjapan]

I can learn anything and am equipped with karate. However, I do not possess a form suitable for fighting.

[mcfife]

...What about wielding a taser? A knife? Magic? Hacking?

[itsfromjapan]

Magic is incompatible with technology. However, I have the ability to hack whatever I want.

[Knife has the same problem as martial arts. The SQUIP would need arms for that and it hasn't figured that out yet.]

I suppose in the event that I remain in this form, I could be outfitted with weaponry.

[mcfife]

Both are one and the same. Any robot can use magic. You have some sort of magic powering your AI. [Gestures at the SQUIP. A space wizard could come up with it with enough time and help.]