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

[holyspit]

How many times?! They- they were talking about time loops, and the motive- how many times did you do this, was it me every time?

[37773972]

[Steven, of all people, deserves a full confession. Browning pulls himself together, wiping his face with a hand and wiping that on his shirt, clearly trying to do more for the kid. Eventually he turns to face him, though he's looking down at his hands in his lap]

Just once before. The Wizard didn't want to send me back when I told him why- I had to promise not to choose another point if I won again. [His hands curl in to loose fists as he looks up] It was you before, you were...there. You were just there, Steven. [And he looks down again] You didn't deserve it. Nobody did.

[holyspit]

No! Nobody did! And now we can't help them anymore they needed us! They needed you, and now we're both just dead like the Phantom wanted!

[37773972]

It wasn't supposed to be like this. I was going to do it [is that a crack in his voice] and then go back to the beginning, damn it! [stephen don't swear in front of a kid] Nobody'd remember anything- none of the accidents, none of the trials, the executions, nothing.

[Except him.]

[holyspit]

You can't just- you can't just undo things like that! You'd just end up destroying yourself like I did!

[37773972]

If it saved you all, then it'd have been worth it!