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]

Oh? And you'll let me be free after everything? Will you and the doctor and Mesphisto want me to come back to life like nothing had happened?

[Angus's posture straightens as if he has suddenly remembered something important.]

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Honestly, I just expect we'll stay dead and get to move on to Valhalla. Pretty sure none of our friends can raise the dead.

[mcfife]

[???]

Is that what you call the afterlife in your world?

[reassuranceandrevolution]

One of them, yeah. I think dying in a firey train crash trying to hold off elder gods qualifies us well enough.

[mcfife]

Well, I'll be a Hootsman and ask where do other people go when they die if not a general otherworld.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

The Realm of Ran for those who are lost at sea or space, Hel for those who caused meaningless suffering, or the fields of Folkvangr for everyone else.

[mcfife]

...

"Hell" I understand. [Otherwise how can he sing about terrible weapons of war or of volcanic graves?] But that sounds better than whatever this is.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

[Something about how he says "Hel" doesn't sound right. Like an extra letter? Whatever, probably nothing.]

Loads better.

[mcfife]

We might as well ask to have the Phantom take us there if he wants us to suffer so much. There is little left we can do here.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

I don't know if he wants the dead to suffer. Seems like he doesn't quite know what to do with us.

[mcfife]

He executed us while taunting us. That is an intent to cause us to suffer.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

...You have a point.