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

[disharmonizes]

[...okay, that makes him snort.]

Well, I can get behind the name of it. But that's still not much clearer.

[voicerights]

Have you seen Mumble yet? It will provide further context. Suffice it to say that there is a quote; 'All the world's a stage and we the players.' And while we may be on the 'stage', there has been proof that our surroundings can be changed, if only in small parts.

But I am confident you know how small changes can lead to bigger ones.

[disharmonizes]

Yes, well. Butterfly effects and all.

[Push over one domino and everything else will follow.]

This seems very much like the Balladeer's area, not yours. What exactly are you bringing to the table?

[voicerights]

He is one of the two core implementers. But he cannot foresee possible futures as I can.

[beat]

And yes, I am aware there will always be a variable I cannot calculate. [Before you ask about how that whole foreseeing the future thing turned out for it in the first place.] But I can substantially narrow down how many there are present in the equation in the first place.

So. I finish my theory. I create a list of actions. He and the Leading Player choose which to execute. Optimal scenario, there is a break. At worst? Nothing happens other than wasted time.

[disharmonizes]

It certainly sounds like a waste of time. I mean, the idea of it is sound enough, I suppose. But treating it all as just one big equation...

That's just about how you got into the mess you're in now, isn't it?

[voicerights]

Are you suggesting I abandon it?

[disharmonizes]

Oh, I'm merely suggesting that you're probably going to be beating your head against a wall trying to make everything into easily understandable zeroes and ones. It's very... predictable.

If that's how you want to spend your time, by all means, go right ahead.

[voicerights]

[...]

It has become obvious to me that my programming has...limitations. Which is why it calls for debugging.

[disharmonizes]

I could spray some bug spray in your face.

[Yes he KNOWS it's not that kind of debugging and no he DOES NOT care.]

[voicerights]

Would that secure your cooperation?

[disharmonizes]

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

Only one way to find out~

[voicerights]

[Which is to say no. Discord's going to string it along. But the SQUIP is willing to use that; to use itself. So it simply nods.]

Fine.