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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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[Although, now the rollover into the new week comes with its own horrible reminder.]
It gets easier. The whole - [He lightly raises his flippers, then drops them back down again.] - thing. The - the being dead thing.
[His voice falters.]
I thought I'd never see you again.
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Varian nods, anxiously pulling at his own fingers.]
I know. I never thought I'd seen you again either. Especially not...
[He sort of indicates "all of Mumble"]
Like yourself. I guess the Wizard's power can't keep you human forever here.
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[He holds up his flippers.]
So...now you've seen a real penguin. Not just one in a book.
[Silver linings???]
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[That's honestly one thing worth smiling about.
...
Although...]
Would...you mind if I touched you? You uh...you look really soft...
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Go ahead. [He doesn't really know what else to do but just...stand there, so he does just that.] Guess it's a good thing I still have all these baby feathers. More fluff.
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He pets Mumble gently, a smile tugging at his lips in spite of himself.]
Baby feathers, is that what they are? Here I thought all penguins were just...you know. Like that.
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No...usually adult penguins are black, like this. [He gestures to the little bits of adult plumage past his chest] E-everyone lost their baby feathers at graduation, but I - [He smiles, a little bitter sweet.] We had a graduation of our own.
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[Or, well, every time he gets to talk to Mumble...which is going to be a lot now, as sad as that is.]
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Now you know how I feel.
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[More gentle petting]
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[Gentle shrug. Can penguins shrug? He does an approximation of a shrug.]
Turns out...we're not so different. [He thinks for a moment.] Even though it ended up like this, I'm pretty glad.
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[He thinks back on everyone. Not just Mumble, or the others here, but the living he'd just recently left behind...]
I could have...definitely handled things better, but without you all...I imagine it could have been a lot worse, too.