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

haunting

[mcfife]

[Well. Angus isn't needed here anymore. Jeremy and Shilo aren't worth his time, not when they no longer matter to him anymore. But now he just wants something to eat.

Without anyone to cook for him, he relies on himself for comfort food, and without his friends, no one can make a meal for him. At least he's learned to make neeps and tatties when he was alive, though his first attempt in the land of the dead did not go well. Lesson learned: don't boil eggs with the potatoes and turnips at the same time.

What he ends up with in the kitchen is a lumpy mash of partially-soft turnips, potato mush, and too much parsley. It's barely considered food, but at least it's something. Christine would laugh at this attempt. Or be intrigued.

Why not share it with her, then?]

in the hallway outside the dressing rooms

[superbeliever]

[Richard stays uncharacteristically quiet when he sees Angus come down the hallway with some kind of bowl of... well, honestly, it looks a little like Mashed Potatoes But Made Bad.

He watches Angus go into Christine's room, and while Angus is in there he approaches to meet him as he leaves.]

Making sure she gets something to eat?

[mcfife]

[Angus startles when King Richard approaches him and immediately sets to getting out again.]

Do you always have to do this? [Avoiding the question for now.]

[superbeliever]

Whatever do you mean?

[Said completely innocently. He follows, with no intent to physically block Angus from proceeding.]

[mcfife]

Stop trying to stop me from leaving a cell. And I’m not poisoning her.

[Just making her suffer with mediocre food.]

[superbeliever]

[Richard raises his hands defensively.]

I never said you were trying to poison her. In fact, I think you were worried about her.

[mcfife]

I need to get rid of the food somehow.

[So of course he feeds it to the one person that still believes in him. A great way to dampen her spirits.]

You want something. What is it?

[superbeliever]

Mmhm.

[His expression is getting closer and closer to smug, as he follows Angus.]

I want you to admit you were being nice just then.

[Richard hasn't given up on Angus becoming Good again, he's just. Also willing to stop him if it comes to that.

[mcfife]

I wasn’t.

[He’ll never admit such a falsehood!!!]

Now move, or you will be the one facing the shard end of a knife.

[superbeliever]

[Richard gestures, indicating that he hasn't been doing anything to prevent Angus from walking right past him.

Of course, there's also no rule against Richard following him, either.]

Why didn't you stay to see if she liked it?

[mcfife]

[Time to power walk away! Richard has to stop existing around him!]

Why bother! I have better things to do than watch someone eat!

[superbeliever]

You worked hard on it, didn't you?

[Fun as this is, it's undignified for a king to power-walk to keep up so he'll just call after him:]

I'm sure she'll love it!

[mcfife]

She won't! It's a disgusting monster from hellllllll...!

[And he runs upstairs.]