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

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Thought you knew everything about us.

[inside_yourmind]

Yes. But I know that none of you had the ability to leave behind incorporeal copies of yourselves, so that has very little to do with this.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

[So he isn't the reason they're here?]

Why should I tell you anything? Will you answer some of my questions?

[inside_yourmind]

There is no reason for you to answer. But, similarly, there is no reason for me not to ask.

[Shrug; if he doesn't get any answers, well, he just has the same amount of information he started with.]

The same goes for you. I cannot promise to answer, but there is no harm in trying.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Well let's try.

[It takes a minute for the next writing to appear]

Who are you working with?

[inside_yourmind]

I believe everyone is calling him the Wizard, now? It seems we have Angus to thank for that - he found that letter exchange entertaining.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

[She waits for a moment, wondering if he will ask a question in turn. When he doesn't, she writes again.]

Why did he bring us here?

[inside_yourmind]

He did not select you specifically. I believe he was...less than pleased with several of the choices.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

[She almost asks "Why are we here?" but that seems almost like the wrong question]

Why do they want us to kill each other?

[inside_yourmind]

He is attempting to succeed where a rival failed.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Failed in getting people to murder each other?

[inside_yourmind]

[shrug]

At something related to this. It does seem that at least a few people died.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

What are you getting from going along with their plan?

[inside_yourmind]

The ability to change a great many things for the better.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Changes in the past or future?

[inside_yourmind]

The future, of course. Changing the past would...

[He falls silent for a moment.]

It might spare me a great deal of pain. But then, I would not have come here.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

[Emotion. Interesting.

Let's poke at that a bit]

If you could change one thing in the past, what would it be?

[inside_yourmind]

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

I was imprisoned, once.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

By the Wizard?

[inside_yourmind]

No. He has only ever been considerate of me - as very few have.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Is that why you work with him, even when he does these horrible things?

[inside_yourmind]

Yes. That, and his ability to provide a great deal of aid.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

What could you change that would have prevented your imprisonment?