the final threshold

[beejfq]

[The entirety of the past week (at least you think it's only been a week) has been...odd, even for you dead folks. Seeing between two different timelines, not being able to haunt your friends, seeing your own murder play out before your very eyes, BJ still exists- it's, quite frankly, A Lot.

But today things feel different. There's a stillness to everything, an absolute silence to the Opera House that feels empty and alien. Even if you focus you can't see or hear the living. It's like they're gone completely.

If that's not weird enough you suddenly hear BJ's voice echoing through every inch of the Opera House.]

Guys? HEY, YOU GUYS! YOU MIGHT WANNA GET OUT HERE TO THE CEMETERY!

Comments

[isawallflower]

[ Well. This happens! ]

Ooookay, I haaaate this~! But. Give me a minute, I can- I can try and say something, maybe-

[ And she...tries to get close to her body, to possess it but? She? Can't? It's like something's...pushing her back. ]

...It's...like with the Phant- with Ev- with the SQUIP. In the graveyard, I can't. I can't get close.

[37773972]

...is there a way we can help you?

[holyspit]

We could try singing again?

[mcfife]

What about a distraction? Get the SQUIP's attention!

[reassuranceandrevolution]

I have a feeling it isn't the SQUIP stopping us.

[herwiggles]

M-maybe if we all get behind Riley and push her?

[etincelledefierte]

[just going to put a hand on her shoulder.]

...maybe we just need to try together, to push back against it. Or one of us tries to push it back to give you an opening.

[isawallflower]

We can't get anywhere if that...whatever it is keeps stopping us. It's like the thing that kept me from even touching that guy.

[ THANKS CLAUDINE this is appreciated she kind of. Hates watching everyone hovering over her dead body??? ]

[etincelledefierte]

[she'll be here as long as Riley needs it.]

...it's got to be the wizard keeping us back. The SQUIP doesn't know how, I don't think.

[superbeliever]

What kind of sorcery? What are those blue things? Magic? Our souls are here-

[isawallflower]

No, it- it's technology! The SQUIP doesn't...understand magic, souls, any of that. It thought- I'd be fine, if...

[ THIS SUCKS!]

[superbeliever]

Well, that's insane! Of course a body can't function without a soul, it just rots! I'm from the thirteenth century, and I know that much.

[justmeheere]

...... It's a puppet.

[superbeliever]

........

[Ding! goes the DVD screensaver in Richard's head, right into a corner.]

The magic of the theatre.

[holyspit]

So we can't possess our own bodies because of what the squid did to them?

[That feels so gross, somehow.]

[herwiggles]

I almost definitely did not agree to this.

[She says, having possessed Mephisto several weeks earlier.]

[holyspit]

I definitely didn't!

[etincelledefierte]

I don't think that's it.

They just tried to summon Beetlejuice and he couldn't get through. I don't think the SQUIP would know how to block him. I think this is that jerk wizard being a jerk again.

[holyspit]

...Is it bad if I feel like that's somehow better?

[Better than, like, his body and gem REALLY no longer being his because they've been so radically changed by mad science shenanigans.]

[etincelledefierte]

Only if it's bad that I think it's somehow better.