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curtainsdown2021-06-12 11:09 pm
stagemanagers) wrote in 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! ))
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.]
(( 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! ))
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The catwalk?
[But that soon becomes irrelevant, as curiosity takes a sharp left for concern.]
Janis? What happened to Janis?
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[...]
Oh, you never...Hester has a little...mechanical bubble she sits in up there.
[...]
I just wish she didn't have to see that. I should've...come by myself or something.
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It's okay. You can't change what you've done now, and besides - you saved her.
[He holds up an arm for him to take. Time to get off the floor.]
I-I wouldn't worry about it now.
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Thanks. [...] Are you still human-shaped?
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[He's come to terms with it.]
Which makes me think that something's up. If I died, I'd be a penguin again, right? It was just that world making me a human, like you said. Because they expect it.
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[He sits up and looks down at his hands, turning them over and flexing his fingers.]
Do you want to be a penguin again?
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[Mumble's answer doesn't come out of him immediately. And if The Balladeer had asked him before he came here, before he died and remembered everything, whilst he still knew himself to be the unwanted un-penguin shame to his family and kind, he probably would've said no.
But things are different now. He's embracing who he is, and all of it.]
Yes.
[He wriggles into a straighter posture.]
Turn me back, Mr. Balladeer.
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[He claps his hands together, seeming something other than downtrodden for the first time since he got here. He can do this!]
I'm pretty sure I can do this. I've done it in the other direction before, and I doubt he's paying too much attention here...
[Turning Jezebel human wasn't that hard. This way...might a little more complex, but...at least it's where he started out? He speaks, and this time, it's in bold text - that's how you know it's both important and true.]
Mumble turns back into a penguin.
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- Good thing it paid off.
Mumble lets out a gasp, incredulous, as all of a sudden he's less flesh and more fluff.]
It worked! Haha! You - you did it!
[Sure, penguins can't smile, but Mumble's beaming. It hasn't been that long to go without his body, but - it's been a long time to not feel like yourself.]
Thank you, Mr. Balladeer! [He bobs his head down, then back up.] Thank you. I - I feel so happy, I could -
[Dance? His foot begins to twitch. Toes start a'tapping.]
Oh - I - I'm sorry. [He stills himself.] You, uh, you just died.
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[The Balladeer knew what penguins were, like, generally? But he's sure never seen one in PERSON!]
Oh - yeah, yeah, I did. [...] Not my first time, though. Don't...don't worry about it.
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[...]
Is that...normal for you?
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[Nod nod. Despite the turn in conversation, Mumble's pretty buzzed. He's really on that high of being fluffy again.]
...How did you do that, anyway? Turning me back into a penguin.
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[Is it????]
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[yay...?]
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[Is this too deep for a 'just woke up from being dead' convo?? He's not really bothered about it.]
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[He's not like, freaking Zeus or anything.]
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[But hey, what does he know about humans? Despite it all, he feels like the answer is 'not much'.]
What was your show?
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[he can't believe he has to explain this to a penguin]
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[He says it with interest.]
So you weren't one of them? I-in your show, I mean.
[But if you want to confess to any irl assassinations, B, by all means go ahead.]
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