week 5

[stagemanagers]

[That was...an absolute shitshow. More beloved friends are dead in a mess of a trial that's left Angus half the man he was, Riley in a free fall and the Phantom...somehow still standing despite taking two stabs to the torso.

When you wake on Sunday, you'll find that you've recovered another one of those memories - or had another dream, if you still wanna be in denial about it. The door blocking the stairwell on the second floor has been unsealed. You can now venture up to the third floor! You have so much space now, it's just a shame it's all come at the cost of eight lives.

But despite the tragedy you have made progress! The trip into the Phantom's lair yielded some hints to the past of the Opera House, your house manager's apparently grim hobby and the possibility of an ally outside the Opera House. Who knows what this week will bring?]

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday


(( Welcome to Week 5! Please remember to submit your AC and your memory regains, as well as your coins! You can also still contact the Phantom. ))

Comments

[madgiganticfeelings]

We... we have ghosts...

[Christine listens, and she's pretty sure the guy isn't the only one trying to choke back tears. These people suffered losses, just as they had. They were singing about it, trying to keep their spirits up. And maybe, maybe part of the reason for that was because they knew the people who they had lost were watching over them.

She looks at Steven, eyes wide.] Do you think the Phantom banned seances so we wouldn't find out?

[holyspit]

[Ooh boy yeah does that hit close to home. Steven has joined the Crying Music Friends club.]

He would, if he knew!

[Oh. Oh no.]

...After. After the trial, on Friday. I tried getting him to- give back Spinel's shards.

[As you do.]

He said something about helping her get better, like- he was gonna bring her back somehow. I was so mad I just kept yelling at him, but what if he's telling the truth? What if he's- doing something with all the ghosts of everyone that's died, or something?

[madgiganticfeelings]

Then if that's the case, then trying to summon them would interfere with his plans.

[Christine is pacing around the room now, maybe looking for any buttons that maybe could give her more clues, or some hidden tapes. She's back in detective mode, at least for now.]

But can we trust that what he's doing is helping? We discussed the possibility of this being some sort of ritual, didn't we? Where he's sacrificing souls?

[She doesn't want to believe that, but...]

[holyspit]

I don't trust him with anything.

[Just. Flatly.]

He keeps saying this is about fixing something, but if that includes bringing back everyone that's dead why would anyone have to die in the first place?

[madgiganticfeelings]

I-I don't know. I wish he'd open up enough to tell us what's going on. Maybe then there'd be a way to fix this, without anyone dying.

[Christine looks uncomfortable then. She doesn't want to admit that she's still holding out hope for the Phantom. She definitely doesn't want to mention it's because of Spinel that she believes that.

...She shouldn't be talking like this. She lowers her head and falls silent, going back to looking around at the recording equipment.]

[holyspit]

If he was doing something good he'd want help, right?

[Can you imagine someone just shouldering all that on their own and ignoring any possible support network, ridiculous.]

[madgiganticfeelings]

He might think he has to deal with it alone. Maybe he thinks it'd hurt us. Or... hurt more than us killing each other.

[holyspit]

That'd be a lot of hurt.

You think he was involved in-

[Steven gestures at the recording equipment.]

These guys?

[madgiganticfeelings]

It's hard to say... They don't mention him, and he did say he didn't originate this "play" or whatever he calls it. I wonder if he knows these are here...