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]

[Waves back?]

Hi, I'm the Balladeer. [Has LP been talking about him...?]

1/2

[musacal]

[ Her faces lights up. ]

Oh! I've heard about you! It's nice to finally meet you!

[ SHE SURE HAS B

........ ]

[musacal]

Wait, what are you doing here!? Did you and Boss make up or something?!

[tellthestory]

[Looks at Nana.

Looks at the Leading Player.

..........

Looks back at Nana.]

The Wizard threw me off a catwalk and I died.

1/2

[musacal]

[ ............. ]

[musacal]

The Wizard did what!?

[tellthestory]

I think he did? It seemed very sturdy before that!

[musacal]

[ ............. ]

Were you trying to stab him?

[ Riley's legacy forever lives on ]

[tellthestory]

We broke into the stage to look around. We were checking out his giant head thing.

[If it were a stabbing mission, he certainly wouldn't have been on it!]

[musacal]

Oh.

...Huh why didn't we ever think of doing that? Angus-san just threw Riley-chan up there and she stabbed SQUIP-Phantom.

[ Those sure are a string of words. also maybe we did break in and i just forgot it's been a hot minute. ]

[voicerights]

The what.

[musacal]

The SQUIP-Phantom!

[ YOU SAYING THAT AGAIN DOESN'T EXPLAIN ANYTHING NANA. ]

[voicerights]

Elaborate.

[musacal]

Uhhhh, well...

It's kinda complicated but um... we thought our game was being run by the Phantom of the Opera? But it was actually the SQUIP-- the same SQUIP Jeremy-kun had but from a different timeline, only he was in Evan Hansen now who was uhhhhhhh... brain dead? [ Listen it's a lot, this whole thing was so much she might recall some of it wrong. ] And it turned out the SQUIP was working for the Wizard who had saved it from Mountain Dew Red Death and manipulated it into thinking he cared about it? And the Phantom thing was the Wizard's idea.

...Wizard's a bit of a nerd, now that I think about it!

[yourattention]

[checks back in to conversation]

Wait, Evan Hansen? Like my supposed best friend, Evan Hansen?

1/2

[musacal]

[ .............. ]

[musacal]

[ A lightbulb clicks on ]

Oh, you're Connor.......

[ I actually do not remember if Connor ever came up during that whole end game and I don't want to check but who knows what happened in a year and this is funnier. ]

[yourattention]

[Connor's having a whole lady doing math.gif moment over here before he says:]

Are you fucking telling me Evan Hansen wrote all those trashgarbage fanfic emails to me and then ran a murderschool about it?

[I MEAN.............. IS HE WRONG THO]

[voicerights]

Are you telling me that I had implanted in a new human after Jeremy betrayed me only to be used by another one?

[musacal]

I meaaaaaaaaaan... yes? To both? Kind of?

Hansen-san was pretty dead though, the others said he was in this after life area with them the whole time.

...Oh Jeremy-kun was also there by the way. Still with his SQUIP. So we had two versions of the same SQUIP.

They're a crystal gem and a haro now though. Maybe you could... meet yourselves? Some... day?

[voicerights]

[Any other time, the thought of syncing up with other SQUIP units would have taken priority. But you know those pesky emotions that have been bothering it tonight, YEAH...]

He used multiple copies of me?! And Jeremy!?

[Angry? Indignant? Something else mixed in?]

[yourattention]

[i can't gagtag you with my squip account in deadland so just know i am spiritually gagtagging you with my squip account screaming about personhood and how it's its own person THANK YOU VERY MUCH]

Evan Hansen probably deserved it at least. [He's still a little salty about the murder thing.] The Wizard's the real problem here, though.

[musacal]

Yeah, I didn't get to talk to him much but he seemed kind of like a creep? I know the others came to care about him while they were dead with him but like... he looks like a 30 year cop pretending to be a student and being really bad at it? We more felt bad for his mom honestly.

[ She

She does not know about Anne and Heidi hooking up but-- ]

I agree though. The Wizard is definitely the big problem.

[musacal]

Y-Yes.

...It was really awful of him. I'm pretty sure he manipulated me too. [ But well she covered that in song already. ] So I'm... sorry he did that.

[tellthestory]

Well...we both had some narration ability left, so it was a lot easier...

[Sorry, he's distracted with this entire SQUIP-Phantom thing also]