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]

[What the heck.]

Upset but...? Your kindness is going to get you- ...ah... Well... I guess it may have already gotten you into trouble...hasn't it?

[rockthistown]

How did I even die? I remember he said there was trouble upstairs, and I ran up and I think I stumbled on something, there was a rope like to trip over and I reached out for Heather but it was just a dummy and... then I woke up and my head hurt.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[She thinks, with these little bits of information. She studies Hime.]

It appears to me... You were tricked, Hime-san. I think... You said there was another incentive, hm? A... Secrets? Something someone would kill to keep quiet?

[rockthistown]

[nods] Natalie made most of us tell ours to her or to the group, so we wouldn't be pushed to kill over it. It looked like it was going to go well, even if I was really scared of what people would think when the deadline came, so I spent Thursday morning baking a big cake for no one dying.

Hey! I bet it's not even here, like my chicken! Who doesn't get to eat their own cake? Unfair!

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

You made a cake...? [Hime's such a pure girl it almost makes her dizzy.] You are, without a doubt, much too good for any of this.

[She pulls back and then takes her hand, pulling her along, down the hallway to the lobby.]

It sounds like...she made an amazing effort, didn't she? Natalie did. But... It sounds like that boy set a trap and you got caught in it.

[rockthistown]

[Hime lets herself be tugged along in a daze.]

So everyone's going to have another trial?

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[Really, D-ne just wants to get them moving.Come on, Hime-san, into the lobby.]

That's what I would assume... But, if it's how I... They should be able to figure it out, I would think. If someone's familiar with the...culprit, as I suspect.

[rockthistown]

[walk walk walk]

I hope so. I don't want anyone to die, but... Um, where are we going?

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

Simply somewhere else, though... What you said gave me pause, ah-

[And there's the stairs, unlocked.]

...Mm. It looks like this is a reflection in more ways than one. Hime-san, let's see the upper floor. There should be somewhere relaxing there to sit, should there not?

[rockthistown]

[nod] There's the library, the chapel, the tea room... If you want to see those, we can look at them. What do you like?

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

A chapel... [She smiles, tight.] Valjean-san will like that, then. I think it's not for me, however. Let's get some tea. That should be relaxing. It would be nice to relax after...such an ordeal.

[dying sucks she got you]

[rockthistown]

Okay. [la la up the stairs we go] Everything up here is backwards, too? I'm going to get so lost!

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[Hopefully going up the stairs isn't weird for Hime considering uh] I've, ah, gotten used to it. It's strange but...nothing very much has happened here. There's time to adjust.

[rockthistown]

Still, it's totally unfair! They shouldn't do that in the first place, everyone's just going to run into walls.

[She stares at the second floor lobby for a moment before pointing towards the tea room.]

It should be over there!

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

I would argue it's the least of what's unfair.

[Down the hall... It feels weird to be leading.]

...How... This past week, ah, how was... What was it like, for the bunch of you?

[rockthistown]

The Balladeer told us Halloween was coming, and everything was decorated with little fake spiders and cobwebs. Astarte really liked them. There was a plastic skeleton. Hans was going to throw a party, and I think he and Anna are fighting?

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

Mm.

[She considers this. Halloween and decorations, how nice. That's a bigger thing in the West, but as a member of an occult club, D-ne knew at least about many legends from all over the world and their practices. Then...]

I'll get to Hans-san and Anna-san in a moment, but... Astarte-san, she was herself? Her dear Impostor left once more?

[rockthistown]

You mean her other self? She told me that she sometimes comes out sometimes, but the usual one can't remember what the mean one does. And she's always hungry after. I guess her other self doesn't eat. It's pretty scary.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

Like a demon possession. The poor girl. That sucks. [...she's still D-ne, she doesn't sound upset or empathetic, but there's a touch of kindness there] For the sake of the rest of them, I hope the other stays asleep for longer. Having such a person acting so arrogantly and all-knowing, and cold...

[Her eyes narrow.]

Even the shy girl's more of a help.

[rockthistown]

[Hime gulps and goes to open the tea room. She looks at the floor, then up by D-ne.]

Do you know a lot about demons? I-I guess you would, they were in your haunted book, that's a stupid question, don't mind me.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[...]

I've had some experience. I'd rather not explain it, Hime-san. It... If it comes to be relevant to you, I will, but it's not an easy or nice thing to discuss.

[rockthistown]

It's okay. [Hime looks back at the floor.] There are things I haven't talked about, too.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

And I won't ask you to speak of them. [She busies herself with the tea.] It was only because I wasn't sure how the Game was working that I shared so much at my... ah, when you all cornered me. I wouldn't have otherwise.

I'm not allowed to. I know how that works. So anything you can or can't say, I won't push.

[rockthistown]

I'm not allowed either, but some people already found out... [pouts] Right now, I wouldn't even mind if God came here to lecture me about it.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

You're acquainted with God...? Which...one? Or, are you...?

[after she just said-]

Never mind. I won't pry. [She's heating up water.] What flavor would you like?