curtainsdown | 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.]

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(( 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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I...I did.

[Her memory is still hazzy, still resolving, but she knows she fell. She knows she hit the ground.

She knows she died.]

Orpheus, I think we're dead.

You... did?

[ He stares at her for a moment, trying to catch up with what's going on. ]

But - [ you look fine, he almost says, but then he remembers that it's not like the shades in the Underworld bore the marks of their deaths. But, no, this doesn't make any sense. If they're dead, then he's here because Maya killed him while Eurydice was watching and he can't accept that. He shakes his head. ]

No, I... maybe it was just a hallucination, from the fever. Maybe we're still hallucinating? We should get you to the nurse's office. Do you need help walking?

Orpheus, I remember hitting the ground, I...

[More memories resolve. Someone did push her, but it wasn't Orpheus.]

What's the last thing you remember?

[ Orpheus looks away at her question, not liking his answer. They can't have both just coincidentally hallucinated dying, could they? But that has to be what happened. It has to. ]

Maya... I saw her come down the grappling hook's rope after you. I thought she was there to help? But she - she drew her sword, and she told me to fight, but I ran, and she - [ He swallows, remembering the taste of blood. ]

But Maya wouldn't do that. Unless - unless she'd thought I'd hurt you. But that's still - she wouldn't.

Unless she realized I was already dying.

[Maya, Maya....Now that Elle's heard her name she can see her there, on the roof. Approaching as Elle talks to the apparition of her mother.]

You were - what?

[ That comes as a complete surprise to Orpheus, who'd missed the berries in her hand and staining her lips in the darkness of the courtyard and the shock of the moment, and probably wouldn't have immediately made the connection even if he had. ]

Did someone attack you? Is that why you fell?

[Elle grimaces and shakes her head.]

I ate the nightshade that was on the roof. I thought if I could just make it one person, then they wouldn't have to loose anyone else... [Clearly she failed that though.]

No, you - but Elle, we could've - I'm so sorry.

[ He says, like he legitimately does feel it's at least in part his fault she got to that point, because he kind of does. He shakes his head. ]

So maybe Maya saw you on the ground while I was standing over you, and thought I'd killed you. Maybe she was... trying to spare me the execution? Like she tried with Varian.

[ He hasn't quite caught onto the idea that Elle was pushed just yet, and this is the only logical explanation he can think of. Maya wouldn't just kill him. She wouldn't. ]

[She remembers the shove, the blank look on Maya's face.]

No, she pushed me. I'm sure of it. She might have been hallucinating, but I know what I remember. [Elle frowns. So not only did she fail, it looks like there would be three deaths rather than one.]

She... pushed you? [ he echoes, shocked. ] But - you were already dying, she didn't need to - she could've gotten you help.

[ The horror's starting to set in, here. Did Maya really kill Elle? And then him, not of some sense of mercy, but to silence a witness? And Eurydice saw her, from the roof. What if she's -

No. He shakes his head and runs his hands through his hair. In a small voice, he asks, ]

What do we do now?

[She wants to give a peppy reply, something about not loosing hope and keeping a smile. All of it feels so hollow now that they're dead.]

I don't know.

[ Orpheus is quiet for a long moment, just staring at the ground as he tries to process everything. Maya... killed him? Maya killed Elle, after Elle was in the process of committing suicide to try to save them all? Why? But something else occurs to him, and effectively derails that particular train of thought. ]

Do you think the others might be here? Mumble, and Elisabeth and - all the rest? Should we look for them?

Yeah...yeah. That's a good idea.

[Yeah, this sucks, but at least she isn't alone.]

So we probably don't need to eat right? So why am I hungry?

I don't know? I know the dead in the Underworld can still eat and drink, at least where I come from. Maybe hunger is just - force of habit?

[ He'll start heading back into the building, though he'll wait at the door to see if Elle follows. ]

Do you think there's still... actually food in the kitchen, here? It would have to be a separate supply, right? Eurydice and Peregrine and I were taking inventory every day, and we didn't notice anything disappearing that shouldn't have been.

[ In other words, no hungry ghosts were taking anything. ]

the mark of those who cannot be saved

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cw discussion of suicide

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cw: it's suicide talk again sorry

It's the whole thread with these two

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