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]

There's this lady and she's the star of a cabaret and this poet guy falls in love with her, but this jealous creepy duke guy wants her for himself and he's paying to finance the show that's the only reason she can meet the nice guy in the first place, and then it turns out she's sick and dying anyway and-- [sniff] and it's really sad!

[robitussin]

...That sounds fucked up. Jesus.

[That sentence lacks her usual conviction, though.]

[rockthistown]

I know... Did you find any happy ones? That weren't also really bad like the Titanic one?

[robitussin]

Jezebel and I found...

[Mm. She pauses.]

Sorry, can we - talk about something else?

[rockthistown]

Okay. [She looks at the ruined pancake on the stove. Maybe it's still salvageable if she turns the flame back on.] ...Did you find anything else out about the Management? We know the original Showrunner was a woman, and she's probably still around, but...

[robitussin]

I found out you apparently don't have to even break a rule for them to fucking shoot you without warning, but that's about it.

[Yikes.]

[rockthistown]

They what? You mean they killed you and you didn't even do anything? That's terrible! What can we even do about that?

[robitussin]

It's not like they're going to execute a crew member. Just... Whatever.

Anyways - you were talking about the last Showrunner?

[rockthistown]

Um... we know she apparently likes to be in charge, and she'd never really let the Balladeer run anything, or at least that's what we heard. But I don't know anything else.

[robitussin]

...I'm worried about him.

[The Balladeer, that is.]

When I saw him last, he seemed really... Not okay.

[rockthistown]

You mean he's hurt? Or the Management started getting mad because he's so nice to everyone? He still scared me a little, but...

[robitussin]

I think he's been risking a lot, and... I think he's hurt. Not physically, but...

[rockthistown]

Everyone cares about him. I was too scared to approach him except when I was afraid for Ribbon, and even then, I know he was nice to everyone. Why does this even have to happen?

[robitussin]

He's too nice for this bullshit. Most of us are.

[rockthistown]

I don't think anyone deserves this place. Not even Hook-san, and he's mean to everyone for no good reason.

[robitussin]

Actually, everyone who killed someone can go fuck themselves, but... It wouldn't have happened if there wasn't a reason for it.

[rockthistown]

I'm still mad at them, but it doesn't mean they're bad people. Except when they are. But even then, yeah. It's the Management's fault in the first place.

[robitussin]

Actually, I'm pretty sure being a murderer makes you a bad person.

[rockthistown]

Astarte didn't even want to do it, though. D-ne thinks she's a bad person, but I know she regrets everything, and she had that cursed book that makes you die, the same one I picked up--

Um, please tell me nobody else touched that if they went in my room.

[robitussin]

Astarte didn't kill anyone, her asshole alter ego did. Regretting it doesn't make D-ne not a bad person, either.

...I don't know. Wait, what?

[rockthistown]

A book with a cat bookmark and a bunch of different ways to summon demons and things like that? I got it out of the merchandise booth. It's D-ne's and it has her name on it, and when I asked about it, she said it's cursed and everyone who touches it dies.

[robitussin]

...I really doubt that. It's just a bookmark. We died because we have shitty luck, not because of that.

[rockthistown]

You also didn't believe that the God of Earth lived in the Blue Sky Kingdom embassy and then moved with his girlfriend to go live with his brother on Mars.

[robitussin]

Still don't.

[rockthistown]

It's true, though! Why does nobody believe me? All your lives are weird too!