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

[robitussin]

Yeah? Have we figured out a way to stop this from happening again, then?

[She sighs.]

Yeah, I also really wish that. Trust me, nobody's more pissed about it than I am.

[solomonjihad]

...I'd have stopped your murderer myself if we could go that far.

[Not so far, in other words.]

But, I have been learning about the previous cast and a little of the showrunner, at least. One of them - Judas - he's here.

[robitussin]

That's what I thought. I just... Knowing that is great and all, but how do we use it to actually help people?

[solomonjihad]

I've been practicing trying to influence the living world. Right now, its not very strong, but I'm hoping somehow to get a message of some kind to those still alive. An actual message, not just...rolling the moldy onion and moving the quilt or...anything like that.

[...Well, you now know why that janky stuff happened in Astarte's room]

[robitussin]

And if we do manage to do that, what are we going to be able to tell them that can keep them alive?

[solomonjihad]

Aside from not giving up, probably the information we figured out. And, that we're still trying to help them, even in death.

[robitussin]

You're not - you're not listening, you don't get it. Even if we tell them that, it isn't going to stop this!

[solomonjihad]

Then, we keep looking for a way to stop it, don't we? I know we're not in a position to do much, and I know I'm not exactly...well, smart when it comes to these things. Still...until everyone is here, until everyone is dead and there really is no one left, we shouldn't get frustrated. Maybe not for our sake, but for theirs.

[She's not going to let her death be in vain, drat it all.]

Besides, the fact you weren't killed by a cast member, but by the crew. Do you know why they killed you?

[robitussin]

I think I am totally allowed to get frustrated, given the circumstances.

[She runs a hand through her hair, stressed.]

No. I mean - I didn't even break a rule, I don't... It doesn't make sense.

[solomonjihad]

...Oh, I meant...ah. Never mind what I meant.

[No, that's fair. Natalie's death...its not right. Not like her own. She'd accepted her own death.

She can't accept Natalie's death. Especially since she didn't break a rule. So...]

If you didn't break a rule, you shouldn't have died. If you're right and a crew member can't or won't be punished for killing someone, then there's no way for them to be culpable for the crime.

...

[She might be pacing a little.]

Judas said that the showrunner can be very tricky and cruel. That he died because it was apparently the only way to save anyone from the showrunner's scheming. So if you didn't break a rule, but still died at the hands of a crew member...then the contradiction alone would have to lead to a canceling out.

[Using hand motions of canceling out.]

A double negative. A...an unpunishable crime?

[robitussin]

Honestly, I don't... I doubt they'll even have a trial. I mean, who would they even vote for? There's no option on the podiums for crew members.

[solomonjihad]

...Exactly.

[Nod nod nod! You're getting it no]

Exactly!

[robitussin]

So... Does that mean someone else is going to be showing up here soon, too? They they'd only have the mole kill someone if nobody else died, but if they can't hold a trial otherwise...

[solomonjihad]

No, I mean-

[wah wah, let her try again]

I mean maybe, but--you didn't break a rule, but you still died, right? And the person who killed you was a crew member, and...we assume they have immunity.

But because you didn't break a rule, doesn't that mean you could still considered to be murdered? Whether or not it was a crew member?

[robitussin]

I guess, but... In that case, there's no way to vote for the right person, and if they don't vote for the right person, they—

Okay, I'm not going to think about it. Nope.

[solomonjihad]

Its ok. I'll just think about it.

[They'll probably figure it out soon enough if everyone else shows up anyhow, right?]

But if that's the case, then, it means that maybe no one was going to kill anyone else after all unless the showrunner interfered. And if that's so, they really are tricky like Judas said.

[robitussin]

...So that's why they didn't wait until I actually did anything wrong.

[She sighs.]

I guess that makes sense. Assholes.

[solomonjihad]

...I'm sure they'll do the right thing. Everyone alive is smart. I'm certain they won't fall for it, whatever the showrunner tries to do.

[robitussin]

Yeah, except - it's literally impossible for them to make the right choice, since the right choice in this case has never been an option for them to vote for.

[solomonjihad]

I guess we'll find out soon enough.

[Then they can all haunt the ever-loving hell out of the showrunner if they all end up in this place, too.]

Ah...do you want me to show you how to 'haunt' something, in the meantime?

[robitussin]

...I guess so. Can we talk to them? I mean, I know we obviously can't see them, but...

[solomonjihad]

Not directly. But, we can manipulate objects. You have to concentrate while you move something.

[To demonstrate how she does it, she goes and gets a chair in the lobby, and starts dragging it across to the hallway. Her look of concentration is such that she is dragging this as hard as she can in her brain.]

Like that. That's...that's a simple exercise.

[robitussin]

And then they'll be able to see it? If that's the case, can't we leave them messages somehow?