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

[stagemanagers]

[The scene in the orchestra pit changes abruptly again- Santana sobbing, whatever is happening with Stephen and Christine.]

[mcfife]

...

Is he...taking us through time?

[isawallflower]

[ ... ]

He's... He already...

[ Oh. ]

[herwiggles]

[Well, once Spinel has enough mind to look back at the trial...]

Time... travel?

[maybe, or.... hm]

[isawallflower]

They’ve been talking about— this week. It’s to undo a mistake.

[ Riley has a letter in her jacket pocket that’s been burning a hole through to her heart. Weighing on her mind. Thinking, if she was— ]

I think Dr. Browning’s already done this...because he won.

[justmeheere]

..... That's why you couldn't haunt them. Time wasn't moving right.

[beejfq]

...Well shit. That's a plot twist I didn't see coming.

[isawallflower]

He couldn’t- I couldn’t tell tell him not to whatever I did, because- have. Have we lived this before? Or- seen- is it all just catching up with us now?

[justmeheere]

Um, I mean. It's. I don't really know how it works, but if. We're in one dimension and they're in another? But we're, like. Seeing through the veil, right? If. If he kept looping through it would. There would be an infinite number of timelines and, uh. That would make our. Our connection to their dimension, um. Unstable.

[That was almost coherent, for Jeremy.]

[holyspit]

...OH COME ON! We talked about the grandpa paradox thing and everything!

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Steven, what was the Phantom's offer this week?

[holyspit]

Go back in time and get the chance to fix something.

[Or do the same mistake twice? Apparently??]

We all hated it.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Maybe we're seeing an alternate timeline?

[superbeliever]

Tch. Sigyn, please. Everyone knows time travel isn't real.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

You say that, but we're all clearly from different times, if not different universes entirely.

[superbeliever]

Well, that's different. None of us are from the opera house, either, so it's just. Travel-travel.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

But if this Narrator has that much power over things outside the house, enough to bring us here, who's to say he can't affect time in here as well?

[superbeliever]

...What if none of this is real?

No, listen: I visited a magician once - well, technically he wasn't legally allowed to call himself a magician anymore, but anyway - he had this potion, that when you drank it you could all revisit someone's memories.

[itsfromjapan]

It would appear so, although it's unclear how. I wasn't aware he had that ability.

[Aren't we all glad the SQUIP is here.]

[mcfife]

No, he...he does this every game! We saw this before! This is repeating!

[He's stuck. They're stuck. And now they can't do ANYTHING---]

[itsfromjapan]

That does beg the question of where we fall into the timeline. Obviously we're viewing this, but it seems to span several different iterations.

[mcfife]

How long has-

He knew. [He grips the side of his cape.] He knew all along, didn't he? Then-

[What can Angus do? What can he do against someone with power over time?]

[isawallflower]

Stop. We don't know how long he's been doing this. We could still talk to them before Tuesday. This is all that's changed, don't- don't start getting in your own head now.

[ Is it...weird, that she's freaking out but keeping a relatively level head? That's weird. ]

[expertreese]

[not even looking at the squip bc evan finds that thing kinda freaky tbh?]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh is this what Jeremy Bearimy means?

[beejfq]

[BJ's head jerks in Evan's direction, wide-eyed, before very suddenly blinking to his side and dragging him into a tight hug.]

Of course! We're still in the dot of the i, that's why time is so fucked!