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! ))

Comments

[tellthestory]

What the hell did you do to him?

[guardianofsplendor]

I don't know! He was too old to be a Pippin so that rules him out. And I've been mostly well-behaved since your little friends drenched me, so it can't be anything recent.

[tellthestory]

Do the Pippins ever age afterwards?

[Or is there no fanfic or whatever about them that might make that reality happen? Still, he knows what happened there now - the Balladeer frowns. He doesn't think that sounds much like an old Pippin; as much as she does to them, they come out on the other side with an intact life, even a family.]

He had something against me, too. But he never said why.

[guardianofsplendor]

Mmm, not that I've ever seen. But I never see much of them afterwards. [The Leading Player frowns. It's...odd in a way she doesn't care for, how much venom the Wizard has for the Balladeer.]

I can't see you angering any Pippins of your own personally. And all the Assassins are all safely contained in whatever mess is happening in that show without you.

[tellthestory]

Oh - god, I hate thinking about that...

[As terrible as it all was, he feels sort of...bad? About leaving his show? It certainly isn't out of any concern for the assassins themselves, but...that's the show he was meant for, you know? That's why he exists at all. And he just...left. The place must be a mess.]

I don't know. I don't know, it's weird. I can't think of anyone either.

[guardianofsplendor]

[Oh it is but John Wilkes Booth is miserable so it's fine.]

It might just have to be a mystery for them to solve. Meanwhile, we're going to fetch them a helping hand.

[tellthestory]

Not like we'd be able to say if we did know. Not here.

[God, imagine if he really HAS met the guy, and he just doesn't remember now for plot convenience? That'd be a bit of a contrivance, but anything's possible.]