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]

[Hime quivers, her eyes starting to tear up.]

No! I don't want you to be dead too! Stop being dead!

[She clings onto Astarte and wails.]

[solomonjihad]

[There there, Astarte hugs Hime.]

I'm sorry, Hime.

[rockthistown]

Who killed you? I'll punch them! I-I know I can't do anything, but still!

[solomonjihad]

...

The Balladeer did.

[rockthistown]

What? But he only...

[solomonjihad]

That's right.

[rockthistown]

But you've never hurt anyone! What happened, Astarte? That's not right at all!

[solomonjihad]

The other me...killed Javert.

[That realization...it had been one of the worst moments in her life. Really, tied with losing her mother.]

When I realized it, there was no helping what had to be done.

[rockthistown]

[sniff] And, and they couldn't just purify you or-- that's not fair! Why did any of this have to happen?

[solomonjihad]

No. Its all right, though. Everyone else is safe. They'll find a way out.

[She's sure of that much.]

We also found a lot of things...since you've been gone.

[rockthistown]

A lot of things? Maybe the man from the party knows about them!

[solomonjihad]

Man from the party? Its...well, it is about people who were in the house before. People from a time before the Balladeer was brought in.

[rockthistown]

It must be the same! Judas-san was brought here with another group to be in a show like ours. He died, and he's worried that not everything was fixed in the end.

[solomonjihad]

...Judas?

[She frowns.]

That's...hmm. I don't remember seeing that name.

What about Burr? Or The Nightman?

[rockthistown]

I didn't ask him about the people from his show. I'm sure he'd answer if we asked, though! I mean, it's still hard to approach people, but everyone's been helpful. Except Hook-san's still a gross jerk, even after he showed up here weird-looking and senile.

[solomonjihad]

...Its his syphilis.

[rockthistown]

His what?

[solomonjihad]

He has syphilis. When he was executed...I think he turned into what he'd look like if he hadn't stayed in Neverland.

[This is Astarte's canon now]

[rockthistown]

...Okay? And that's why he looks all weird? What in the world happened up there.

[solomonjihad]

...I think the execution took away the protection Neverland gave him. Then he turned into dust.

[rockthistown]

I didn't think syphilis turned you into dust.

[solomonjihad]

I don't know. Maybe it does.

[rockthistown]

[sigh] D-ne suggested trying to haunt people, since Valjean-san says we must be stuck in this weird mirror afterlife for a reason. I guess it isn't working so far, though. Did anything weird happen to you all?

[solomonjihad]

No, not that I can think of. I was busy looking in your guys' rooms.

...

People from a..I guess the previous show had things in there.

[rockthistown]

They left their stuff in there? What was in mine? I didn't see anything, but I suppose I didn't look... Wait, my room! D-ne's book!