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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] curtainsdown2021-06-12 11:09 pm
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the mark of those who cannot be saved

[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, that's no excuse for truancy! Which is to say: you are still in the school.

For those executed, you will wake up in your beds. The dormitories look exactly as they did when you first arrived, without any of the changes or personal effects you and your dormmates might have made. The only real difference is that the little cot in Ambassador isn't there.

For those who were victims, you will wake where your body was discovered. All of your injuries are gone, and you feel fine. It's almost like you're still alive - but you remember what happened to you. It couldn't have just been a dream, could it?

The school looks much as you remember it, save perhaps for a few key differences. For one, there's no groundhog murals anywhere. Where things were green on the other side, like banners or paint, you'll find that here they're blood red.

The doors, for the moment, are still locked. Looks like even death couldn't free you.]


Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4
| Week 5

(( ooc: Welcome to deadland, everyone! It mostly resembles the school here, and new floors will be revealed after new people die. For example, the second area will unlock after the week 3 dead arrive, and so on. Also, all dead characters will wake up at their actual canonpoint, with all lost memories restored. Have fun being dead! ))
wanderlusttitania: (keep walking)

[personal profile] wanderlusttitania 2021-06-30 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Well if...there's anything we can do to help, we will. For the sake of everyone still living, including mademoiselle Hester.
guardianofsplendor: (humor handled by a master)

[personal profile] guardianofsplendor 2021-06-30 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's her girl.]
voicerights: (why do you keep me from certainty?)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-30 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Just...looks at her.

Looks at Varian.

Takes a few steps off to the side, but doesn't...outright leave the group. Just...having a moment, don't mind it.]
yourattention: (disappear)

[personal profile] yourattention 2021-06-30 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure. It's actually fun now that I'm not trying qualify for championships.
guardianofsplendor: (illusion - fantasy to study)

[personal profile] guardianofsplendor 2021-06-30 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Not at first. I'm not thinking the cast list was quite settled when I showed up. And once it was-

[She shrugs. Not much she could have done at that point anyway.]
guardianofsplendor: (romance (sex presented pastorally))

[personal profile] guardianofsplendor 2021-06-30 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[if Janis dies we'll really have a party]
tellthestory: (♪ pizzicato ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-30 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[The Balladeer opens his mouth as if to speak, then thinks better of it and just looks at the Leading Player instead.

She didn't control the casting for their show. He knows that, he knew it way back then. So, does the Wizard...?]
guardianofsplendor: (deedle-ee-dee)

[personal profile] guardianofsplendor 2021-06-30 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
How do you feel about a little espionage?
guardianofsplendor: (kings and things)

[personal profile] guardianofsplendor 2021-06-30 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[She gives the Balladeer a sidelong glance and shakes her head slightly. They might have control once the ball gets rolling but the casting is out of their hands. Including, if he really is like them, the Wizard's.]
alchemistake: (Xenon)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-30 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
...I'm sorry, Nana.

[He truly, genuinely is.]

If it helps at all...Maya is really important to me. To all of us. She's been keeping us together, and protecting us at every turn...

I want to help her just as much as I'm sure you do.
musacal: (16)

[personal profile] musacal 2021-06-30 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Family.

She's quiet for a moment at that, looking down (and finally no longer rattling that DAMN SWORD LIKE MUSASHI TRYING TO PICK A FIGHT). ]


...I understand. Believe me, I understand.

[ She thinks for a moment, shifting her weight as she debates how much to say before finally deciding to just be honest. These are people that have gone through the same hell she did, so she can... open up a little. ]

I didn't... have a family at all. Back home. Well, my friends - the other girls at Seisho like Maya-chan are my family but...

[ What she's getting at is parents. The real reason she never went home during summer break at Seisho... there was no home to go back to. ]

But when I went through all of this last year... I had one. I finally had the family I wanted along with the friends I always held so dear. It... gave me salvation. And the Wizard too even, he... I tried to reach out to him back then, and I was told that he actually cared for me. But it was probably just always manipulation...

[ She thinks about it too much some days, even though she tries not to. That last conversation in text messages, how it seemed like the Wizard truly cared about the SQUIP but then so easily abandoned it. How the SQUIP told her that even though it felt the Wizard cared for her like she was caring for him despite everything, he would still let her die. It kept her up at night, made her feel foolish and yet she still chased that closure.

She thinks about how her 18th birthday is coming up. She thinks about that cupcake with the little frog on it. The first birthday note she could remember receiving in what amounted to more than 60 years of endless cycles. ]


He is a "sentimental man",
And I had always wanted to be... a daughter
So because of who I am
I couldn't help projecting onto him... a father


[ She takes a deep breath and looks back up into Varian's eyes. ]

Still I'd like to help raise you back up high
Because I think nobody here deserves to die


...You said before that I'd been missing? Since the end of the last game? That's because I left with the Leading Player here.

I left so I could stop him for good. I'm going to help you. No matter what. This is the last time he's going to do this.

For I am a sentimental woman.
musacal: (132)

[personal profile] musacal 2021-06-30 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

...Huh why didn't we ever think of doing that? Angus-san just threw Riley-chan up there and she stabbed SQUIP-Phantom.

[ Those sure are a string of words. also maybe we did break in and i just forgot it's been a hot minute. ]
yourattention: ('cause all that it takes)

[personal profile] yourattention 2021-06-30 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
No one deserves to disappear
To disappear
Disappear


[Unfortunately, the leitmotif.]
voicerights: (but then your need turns dire)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-30 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
The what.
musacal: (76)

[personal profile] musacal 2021-06-30 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
The SQUIP-Phantom!

[ YOU SAYING THAT AGAIN DOESN'T EXPLAIN ANYTHING NANA. ]
voicerights: (and you thought you wouldn't dare)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-30 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Elaborate.
alchemistake: (Ruddigaron)

1/2

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-30 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[...the rattling of the sword stops, and Varian listens to the tale of a girl who has been through far more than he could possibly imagine. Not only has she been through the same game, but...she's been willing to lay her own happiness and safety on the line so that she could ensure this never happened again.

He can't imagine being that selfless. Everything he'd done leading up to the day of his execution...it was selfish. He'd only thought about his own goals, trying to save his dad but at the cost of everything...

Varian will close that gap between him and Nana after a moment, once she's looking at him directly again. He doesn't know Nana personally, but...he feels like he's known her much longer, simply by virtue of shared experiences. They're all seeking escape from this hell, and the only way they're going to break the cycle is by working together.

He knows he can't reach out to her right now, at least not physically...but he hopes that the message gets across regardless.]
Edited 2021-06-30 19:43 (UTC)
alchemistake: (Indium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-30 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't you worry, whatever it might take, I'm finding a way
And I swear right now, that no matter what comes of me...

Anybody who stands or has stood in my path
They're going to pay


[His gaze narrows, still holding Nana's eyes with his own.]

Whatever you need us to do...I'm not going to rest until I see this through to the end. Even if it means spending an eternity in this afterlife.

I lived my entire life with regrets. I refuse to let the afterlife be the same.
Edited 2021-06-30 19:43 (UTC)
tellthestory: (♪ bass ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-30 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Well...we both had some narration ability left, so it was a lot easier...

[Sorry, he's distracted with this entire SQUIP-Phantom thing also]
musacal: (98)

[personal profile] musacal 2021-06-30 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Like a Solid Banana?! I'm down!

[ baby girl i missed playing u so much u beautiful disaster-- ]
musacal: (57)

[personal profile] musacal 2021-06-30 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She sighs and just runs her hands down her face. Calm, calm, come on calm down, she's not dead at least. ]

Okay... okay. At least she's alive right now.

[ Sword's still fucking rattling though SHE'S GONNA CUT THAT WIZARD ]
musacal: (59)

[personal profile] musacal 2021-06-30 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ IT'S FINE SHE'S FINE ok no she's not but whatever IT'S FINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE she'll just shank a wizard later or SOMETHING ]
guardianofsplendor: (join us - sit where everybody can see)

[personal profile] guardianofsplendor 2021-06-30 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly like a Solid Banana! [this woman is a Mephistopheles proxy and you've got her saying "Solid Banana" with excessive enthusiasm.] I might not have a box for you to hide in but I can do you one better: a whole mascot costume.
musacal: (124)

[personal profile] musacal 2021-06-30 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Uhhhh, well...

It's kinda complicated but um... we thought our game was being run by the Phantom of the Opera? But it was actually the SQUIP-- the same SQUIP Jeremy-kun had but from a different timeline, only he was in Evan Hansen now who was uhhhhhhh... brain dead? [ Listen it's a lot, this whole thing was so much she might recall some of it wrong. ] And it turned out the SQUIP was working for the Wizard who had saved it from Mountain Dew Red Death and manipulated it into thinking he cared about it? And the Phantom thing was the Wizard's idea.

...Wizard's a bit of a nerd, now that I think about it!
yourattention: (we fought a war where)

[personal profile] yourattention 2021-06-30 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[checks back in to conversation]

Wait, Evan Hansen? Like my supposed best friend, Evan Hansen?