and I know things now, many valuable things

[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 you're still trapped here.

When you open your eyes it might take you a minute to recognize your surroundings. It's your dressing room, that much is certain, but nothing is where you remember it. It's like everything has been picked up and moved to the other side of the room. The entire room has been perfectly mirrored from what it used to be and, upon leaving, it seems the rest of the opera house is just the same. If you remember one room being in the east wing, it's now in the west. If it was in the west, it's now in the east.

Welcome back to the Opera House, friends, you're not out of the woods yet.]





[ooc: Welcome to deadland, darlings! It's a perfectly mirrored version of the Opera House and each week, as new people die after new floors have been revealed, the stairwell doors will unlock and allow you to reach them. For example, week 3 victims will unlock floor 2 and so on and so forth. Also, all dead characters will wake up at their actual canon point.

Have fun because we have some fun things planned for you.]

Comments

[rockthistown]

The Balladeer told us Halloween was coming, and everything was decorated with little fake spiders and cobwebs. Astarte really liked them. There was a plastic skeleton. Hans was going to throw a party, and I think he and Anna are fighting?

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

Mm.

[She considers this. Halloween and decorations, how nice. That's a bigger thing in the West, but as a member of an occult club, D-ne knew at least about many legends from all over the world and their practices. Then...]

I'll get to Hans-san and Anna-san in a moment, but... Astarte-san, she was herself? Her dear Impostor left once more?

[rockthistown]

You mean her other self? She told me that she sometimes comes out sometimes, but the usual one can't remember what the mean one does. And she's always hungry after. I guess her other self doesn't eat. It's pretty scary.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

Like a demon possession. The poor girl. That sucks. [...she's still D-ne, she doesn't sound upset or empathetic, but there's a touch of kindness there] For the sake of the rest of them, I hope the other stays asleep for longer. Having such a person acting so arrogantly and all-knowing, and cold...

[Her eyes narrow.]

Even the shy girl's more of a help.

[rockthistown]

[Hime gulps and goes to open the tea room. She looks at the floor, then up by D-ne.]

Do you know a lot about demons? I-I guess you would, they were in your haunted book, that's a stupid question, don't mind me.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[...]

I've had some experience. I'd rather not explain it, Hime-san. It... If it comes to be relevant to you, I will, but it's not an easy or nice thing to discuss.

[rockthistown]

It's okay. [Hime looks back at the floor.] There are things I haven't talked about, too.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

And I won't ask you to speak of them. [She busies herself with the tea.] It was only because I wasn't sure how the Game was working that I shared so much at my... ah, when you all cornered me. I wouldn't have otherwise.

I'm not allowed to. I know how that works. So anything you can or can't say, I won't push.

[rockthistown]

I'm not allowed either, but some people already found out... [pouts] Right now, I wouldn't even mind if God came here to lecture me about it.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

You're acquainted with God...? Which...one? Or, are you...?

[after she just said-]

Never mind. I won't pry. [She's heating up water.] What flavor would you like?

[rockthistown]

Oh, that part's not a secret! His name is Blue, the god of Earth. When I left the Blue Sky Kingdom to live on Earth, he was watching over me. Natalie doesn't believe me, but I think that's normal for her world.

Um... Anything that's not really bitter and gross.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[D-ne stares, parsing this and just.

Slowly nods.] There are...many differences between the places we all come from, I think.

I'll get you sweet osmanthus. It's the kind I like.

...What was this about Hans-san and Anna-san? How was he acting?

[rockthistown]

I have no idea. I was too scared to ask, but they weren't talking to each other. Maybe he used her shampoo or something dumb like that.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

Hm. ...I guess I'll just have to wonder. [yeah it totally wasn't something like that but it's impossible to tell the severity, anna did seem to take things...personally]

So, then... How, ah... Raoul-san? How was he? Or Pirate King-san?

[...just going to work up to, um]

[rockthistown]

Lord de Chagny misses you. He and I were trying to look for a way out on the second floor, but we never found anything. Mr. His Majesty the Pirate is still loud, and I'm not sure how to talk to him, but he's always trying to keep things positive. I think that's good? I think.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

Misses me? [She's got her back to Hime as she prepares the tea.] What a silly man. He's going to get hurt, for sure. What a foolish person.

I'm, ah...relieved to hear Pirate King-san's still in high spirits, though. I'd expect nothing less of him.

[rockthistown]

I don't know. [Hime sits down and shifts in her seat.] I think it's good to care about people. Even if people scare me a lot.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

It depends on the kind of people you care for, Hime-san.

[rockthistown]

Do we have to? I don't think you're a bad person. Maybe I'm still mad you tried to kill us, but you're still my friend.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

You can believe what you like. If you want to be my...friend, though, you're going to have to accept I'm not a very nice person.

[rockthistown]

Even if you make fun of me or make me eat fish for breakfast and do my own laundry. i'm probably gonna complain still but That doesn't matter!

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

I'll still think you a foolhardy and overly-trusting girl, then.

[She brings over two mugs of tea.]

If you drink it now, you'll burn your tongue. [...the closest to "be careful" you can get from her]

[rockthistown]

[Hime pouts at the warning. She stirs a heap of sugar in and nods.]

Thank you. Do you like tea a lot?

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

It's not bad. It's easy to make, so I drink it.

[rockthistown]

I guess. I only learned how to cook last year, a while after I first arrived on Earth. Ribbon did all the cooking around the embassy before, but we had a fight because she made this gross fish for breakfast and I wanted pancakes, and I ended up going to Yuuko's and she talked about how your feelings go into your food.