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

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[For a moment, she looks interested, almost...hopeful.]

Yes, ah- I know. Pirate King-san, I would imagine. He was...a kind soul. And some of the others, but...the more I think... How does it work, wouldn't it be..."kinder" to let them hate?

I'm never going to see any of you again, after all.

[robitussin]

Kinder to let them - why? Do you know how much it sucked to be as pissed as you as I was?

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[using the past tense you're going to make her cry]

A-ah-- well... ...if I do, they can't know what I'm going back to. I already regret telling you and Hime-san.

[robitussin]

Why?

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

Because seeing someone you don't completely hate off to a fate like that can't inspire any good feelings. I imagine, with how good some of them are, it would be...troubling, to know the circumstances.

[robitussin]

Yeah, but at least they would know the truth. Maybe they could help.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[She looks confused.]

Help? But...there's no way to.

[robitussin]

You don't know that for, like, 100% sure, do you?

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

The story was paused, for...no foreseeable reason...a-and there were missing pieces, things we couldn't figure out no matter how hard we tried.

[...that's not a yes]

[robitussin]

So maybe someone here could help you figure it out.

...Look, I'm no good at optimism either, but it can't hurt, right?

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

It... Maybe.

...This place...it sure has...changed things, hasn't it?

[robitussin]

...Yeah. It's kind of good, but also terrifying?

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

Absolutely. I never thought I'd get attached to...anyone else, before here.

[robitussin]

Yeah. And... I know I said I'm not one for optimism, and that's true. But if you're right and there is a way to bring us back, I wouldn't trust anybody else but them to be able to pull it off.

[She even smiles a little? Gross.]

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[WOW that is disgusting, absolutely horrible. She giggles, lightly.]

Really...? Well, if you say so, I might be inclined to believe you. You're the one who knows them best, between us.

[robitussin]

I do say so. I mean...

[You know what time it is? It's time for a Hopeful Reprise of that one song she got really mad at the Balladeer for singing during a motive announcement!!]

They won't fail us now
And they won't desert us
Won't turn back, now that we're here
People always say, life is full of choices
No one ever mentions fear
Or how this place can seem so vast
Still, their journey's to what's next

Somewhere down this road
I know they'll be waiting
All of them, they won't do wrong
Their arms open wide
We'll be safe and wanted
Finally back where we belong
Well, starting now, they're learning fast
On their journey to what's next...

[Sing with her, D-ne!!]

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[Oh my God no this is Fine- she'll do one better, as Natalie starts singing, D-ne, who is still seated at the piano, starts to play along.]

Friends, love, freedom.
Will there be a time, when I could have them too?
Friends, love, freedom.
Could the world be so much more
Than I ever knew...

One step at a time,
One hope, then another.
Who knows where this road may go?
Back to who I was,
On to find our futures,
Things this heart still needs to know!
Yes, let them see our sign!
Let this hope be mine,
Let it be destined to last...!
Give them strength for...
What's next...!

[this is the most earnestly hopeful thing she's ever sung ever what the-

Well. That is pretty nice.]

[robitussin]

[She smiles again despite herself, reaching out to lightly shove at D-ne's shoulder.]

See? Told you that you could play something different.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[Maybe being around Hime and Eliza has toughened her, because D-ne doesn't even flinch at the friendly contact. Her smile in return seems a little strained, but more real.]

M-maybe...there's more new songs in store for the future, still, Natalie-sa- ah...Natalie.

[...that's okay, right? She...hopes it's still okay.]

[robitussin]

...Yeah.

[It's both an agreement to the first statement and using only her first name.]

I think there will be, especially when we go back.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[The smile doesn't falter, but her eyes gleam for a second.]

Oh? You're saying when now! I think that's the biggest surprise of them all!

[robitussin]

The if was implied.

[no it wasn't]

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

Oh, if you say so.

[yeah she don't believe you]

[robitussin]

What's that supposed to mean?

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

It means you've turned around and given in to optimism too, all the way, and you can't fool me! [if we burn in hope we burn together]