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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! ))
alchemistake: (Cobalt)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-30 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
...Nana?

[Varian can like. Almost physically feel his brain screech to a literal halt.

Daiba Nana, one of the women who was in that game, is now missing. Neither the Wizard nor Hester know where she is.

He approaches both her and the Leading Player, though his eyes don't quite leave Nana's.]


...are you...Daiba Nana?
yourattention: (we fought a war where)

[personal profile] yourattention 2021-06-30 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
[really quietly:] Her name is just "Big Banana."
musacal: (123)

[personal profile] musacal 2021-06-30 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ Be glad she chopped her dumb banana pigtails off Connor ]
yourattention: (every night after dinner)

[personal profile] yourattention 2021-06-30 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
[It's true. He would simply die if she also had banana hair. He's already gonna die the first time she says "bananice."]
musacal: (129)

[personal profile] musacal 2021-06-30 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Ah! Yes, that's me!

[ Hey Varian, you know how Maya always had a sword?

Nana

Has two swords attached to her hip ]


How'd you know? Did Boss talk about me?
Edited 2021-06-30 06:37 (UTC)
alchemistake: (Thallium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-30 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[KOWAI...

Varian's gaze definitely briefly shifts to them because uh, yikes, but that's not important right now. All he can think about right now is how upset Maya had looked at that meeting when she brought her up...she hadn't even stuck around for it, after that.]


No, it's...

Maya Tendo is one of your classmates, right? She...she's one of the people from our group. She's still alive, and...she mentioned that all of this had happened before...and that two of her classmates were involved.

You...Nana, had gone missing afterwards.
musacal: (36)

[personal profile] musacal 2021-06-30 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Despite the swords, Nana has a very different energy than Maya. Not that Maya isn't a sweet and warm person but it can take time to see that. Get past the top star exterior. Nana is completely different, she's always exuding warmth and kindness, like a big sister or even a loving mother as she sort of became to their friend group. If Maya were like the moon then Nana was like the sun.

And so right now feels like an eclipse. Because as soon as Varian says Maya's name, says she's from their group, all that warmth drains and Nana's face goes cold and steely. Even her tone of voice has completely shifted. ]


Did you just say... Maya-chan is in your group...?
alchemistake: (Nihonium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-30 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Varian doesn't know Nana. He only knows her by name, and by Maya's brief mention of her. He knows she was one of her classmates who was involved in a similar, previous game...but nothing else beyond that. Before he'd died, he knew Maya was trying to figure out what happened to her and why with little clues to go on.

Seeing Nana here...well, that should be a relief, in some ways. She seemed to be present in some space beyond theirs, where the dead resided, so maybe that meant Nana was okay? But then...

She becomes cold, and Varian actually takes a physical step back from her. He doesn't go far, but he's like...subconsciously putting himself in front of Rina who ended up a foot or two behind him, despite knowing good and well that if Nana decided to actually do something he probably couldn't stop her.]


Y....yes, she...she was in my dorm.

[Attacked him with a lamp on the first day, the usual.

...he really hopes that wasn't the wrong thing to say.]
musacal: (109)

1/2

[personal profile] musacal 2021-06-30 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Nana's head lowers and she feels some shame in watching Varian react like that. It's not his fault - he's not the one she's angry at - and so she tries to reign it in, pull back in the mama grizzly side of her.

She grits her teeth and hisses: ]


That bastard...

[ And her katana even rattles as the hand on the hilt starts to shake. ]
Edited (Pronouns ) 2021-07-01 02:41 (UTC)
musacal: (135)

[personal profile] musacal 2021-06-30 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ But she takes a deep breath, her face and tone still seeming stony but less.... intense. More tired.

Her words at aimed at LP: ]


Boss... did you know?
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.]
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[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: (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.]
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 ]
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: (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 ]