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]

His name is Judas-san, and I think he likes the guitar. He's from the last show. The Management's done this before, so you could call him our senior.

[irreprochable]

He's still here? But no others?

[rockthistown]

Uh-uh. He said his last cast might... um, I didn't really understand it all, but maybe that some were still around? Though he didn't recognize anyone's name from our cast. I was worried, because he talked about a charming enemy and that's part of Lord de Chagny's role, but there's no way he'd be a mole for the Management, he's too nice!

[irreprochable]

A charming enemy who is a mole?

[hmmm charming...like a prince??? charming?? maybe???]

Have you seen anything the mole has done?

[rockthistown]

[Hime shakes her head.] How come? Did you see anything suspicious?

[irreprochable]

No. I was wondering how you arrived at the conclusion that there was a mole at all.

[rockthistown]

Judas-san thinks some of his cast is still back there, and it sounded like they're going to do something. And-- and the Balladeer's boss is a woman! I mean, that has nothing to do with the mole, but it's something we learned.

[irreprochable]

[she really is trying bless her]

That is all useful [if a little disjointed] information. You've done a good job of listening.

[rockthistown]

Thank you! ...Um, does Hook-san really have some kind of disease? He showed up wasted away and senile.

[irreprochable]

I don't know. He's a pirate, he could be infested with all manner of things.

[rockthistown]

I suppose that's rude anyway. Um, sorry. ...Did you see anything new in the last week? I mean, after the last three came here. We're trying to figure things out.

[irreprochable]

There was a...[how does he describe this] a haunting? I suppose? It knocked over a drink and broke a light.

[rockthistown]

Really? You mean it works?

[irreprochable]

You didn't know? I assumed it was Valjean.

[rockthistown]

Maybe it was Judas-san. He told us we should start trying to haunt you, before you appeared here. And I don't think Valjean-san would go around breaking lights.

[irreprochable]

That makes more sense, yes.

[rockthistown]

Um... Are you okay? Wait, that's a really stupid question. I'm sorry.

[irreprochable]

This wasn't the first time I died. I don't think it's supposed to end like this.

[rockthistown]

You died at home? And then you came here? How does that even happen?

[irreprochable]

It was one of the memories I gained back. I didn't understand before, but now...

[well. obviously.]

[rockthistown]

[Hime fidgets with the end of her sleeve.]

I'm sorry. None of this is fair. Life shouldn't have happened this way for any of us!

[irreprochable]

[he's more melancholy than angry at least she kind of pulls him out of it. (for now)]

It shouldn't have, you're right. I'm very sorry about what happened to you.

[rockthistown]

That's not even your fault! It was... [Hime goes quiet and looks at the floor.] It wasn't even the first time I've been tricked into something that hurt anyone.

[irreprochable]

What do you mean by that?

[rockthistown]

The Phantom Empire, the enemies we used to fight before -- they're the whole reason I came to Earth after they took over the Blue Sky Kingdom. I was the one who let them out. They'd been trapped for centuries and I wasn't supposed to touch the box, but I heard a voice calling for help... I didn't know anything.

[Hime sighs and looks apprehensively up at Javert.]

I know it all turned out okay and they were all just angry because of the hurt in their own lives, but I still should have known. And now, too, with the fake Heather dummy and the box. I'm really sorry.