the mark of those who cannot be saved

[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, 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! ))

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[tellthestory]

[The Balladeer doesn't find his way out to the garden until well after Varian has gone. Though he ran into Varian first, he simply hadn't had the heart to ask where he'd left Rina's body. Instead, he walked around the school on his own, checking all the rooms starting with the dorms.

Naturally, the garden is one of the last places he goes. He stops up short when he sees the little figure draped in pink, curled up in his usual spot beneath the tree. Why did she end up covered in fabric, too...?

Not important. He enters the garden, but stops short of coming within arm's reach of her, perching himself on the edge of Mumble's bench instead.]

Rina?

[samefacesyndrome]

[ She wasn't crying anymore at least, she had worn herself out pretty hard and was mostly just in a state of pure numbness. So numb in fact that she doesn't even notice the Balladeer coming until he speaks her name.

At first she sits up in alarm but as soon as she sees him she relaxes again. It's Rina so like, her face still doesn't change much but you can still from a glance how relieved she looks.

Relieved to see someone that she sees as a friend and also as someone safe. Someone whose departure was still too fresh. ]

B-Balladeer-san?

[tellthestory]

Yeah, it's me.

[At the sight of her, the Balladeer shifts forward, closer, to kneel on the grass instead. He thinks she wants company, but he can't tell if he ought to try to hug her; he'll just make himself available.]

I'm here. Everyone is.

[samefacesyndrome]

Everyone...

[ There is something about hearing that that both... makes her so sad but also relieved. That it's not just her and Varian. That she's not... alone.

She can't help it - she's breaking down crying again, and the Balladeer doesn't need to wonder if he should hug her or not anymore because she is going right in for one, clinging to him desperately. ]

[tellthestory]

[The Balladeer holds her close, running a hand over the back of her hair. At least, with all of his memories returned to him, he's not quite so awkward around hugs anymore.]

Shhh, shhh. We're all here. We're gonna be here for you, I'll be here.

[except like the squip probably]