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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[voicerights]

[The rise to its feet is anything but elegant. It's as if it's pulled by an invisible set of strings, first to the left, then to the right, then back to the left again before straightening. Again, it's hard to tell if this is - or was - part of the original choreography. Because the SQUIP itself seems like it's more a vessel than anything else right now, a puppet for something beyond itself. Something is using it to execute a program, and while the SQUIP still seems present, is it still in control?

Was it ever?]

Пока жива я могу стараться на лету не упасть...

[Hands that were limp resting at its sides slowly rise, palm up, as if cupping something invisible.]

Не разучиться мечтать...

[Thing is, this was never just about testing limits. Oh, certainly, it has 'sold' it to others as such, but the fact remains that the SQUIP rarely does anything for a singular purpose. It can't. With how it processes data, with how it sees probable futures...that sort of simple thinking is also beyond it. No. The SQUIP has taken this chance to reach out to another self to gain its knowledge not only of the previous round(s), but of experience. Development. What shaped it to becoming what it now is, for better or for worse.]

Любить...

[It certainly would not, could not process that data that would be in the same way as direct experience. But it could learn from such. It could understand something, maybe something that to this day is still out of its grasp.

Because even if the project failed, even if it failed, it will not believe that all this was for nothing. And if this program-performance works...]

Бесконечный бег...!

[...perhaps that belief will be enough to convince reality, too, that such is not the case. And now, with hands held high, it starts the final sequence.]