week 2

[stagemanagers]

WEEK 2
[It's been...

One week since you woke up here
Met your house manager and said "We’re angry"
Five days since he laughed at you saying
"Write me some letters and you’ll never see me"
Three days since the mirror room
You realized there’s more the Opera House wouldn't tell you
Yesterday you'd bonded more
But it'll still be two days till you get your motive


Welcome to week 2, performers.]

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[ooc: happy week 2, everyone! Don't forget to submit your AC and your regains! Regain rolls are done Sunday and Tuesday nights.]

Comments

[37773972]

[There's a short, humorless laugh, and a helpless shrug]

I'd imagine that he'd just- give us more and more reason to actually do it. Go ahead and grab those, will you?

[He nods at the letters]

I tried talking with him, but I didn't get much. Just enough to know that he's set on this.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

[Sigyn takes the letters and scans through them, her eyebrows drawing together as she reads]

It doesn't sound like he made the rules. Do you think it's possible he isn't working alone?

[37773972]

I don't think he can be. If he's really the Phantom of the Opera - or maybe the one the story's written after? - then that kind of technology doesn't exist in his time. Hell, it doesn't exist in my time. Angus thinks some sort of magic might be involved, but - magic is just technology that isn't understood, right? There has to be some sort of logic.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

So someone else has given him this power, perhaps even brought him here like we were brought here.

[Power...]

But what kind of technology can erase memories like that? Stephen, he made me forget Loki. I didn't even realize when it happened until they came back.

[37773972]

[A nod. And at her question...he reaches up to self-consciously scratch the tattoo at the side of his head] I'm missing the past six weeks, myself. But it was like that before I got here. They were just...erased. [There's some hair growth, now, but they're still fairly visible.]

I don't know if it's related. If you're asking for proof, well, I guess there's at least something in my world that can do it. If you're asking how...I can't tell you that, because God knows I'd like to know that, myself.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

[It's hard to tell if that news is good or bad, even for Sigyn. On the one hand it's good that there is an explanation, but on the other no amount of explanation can make someone messing with your mind any easier to handle. ]

If we were able to figure it out, could we protect against it?

[37773972]

We could try. [What sciences are behind it? Messing with the brain? He's an astronomer, not a brain scientist. Nonetheless, she looks so worried, he can't help but try and be reassuring to her in this;] It's step one of the process, anyway. And you know what they say - knowledge is power.

[Attempt at smile?]

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Right. All we can do is try.

[She tries to smile back. It's clear there is an effort, a desire to smile, but she still struggles]

I'm sorry, you probably have your own issues right now and I just come in here and unload on you.

[37773972]

[the first rule of Adulting; Fake It Til You Make It. But he smiles a little more honestly, reaching up to touch her shoulder]

It's fine. Most of mine are pretty small, in comparison to what's on your plate.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

[Sigyn puts her hand over his and squeezes.]

Thank you. I felt like if I didn't talk to someone I was going to explode.

[37773972]

[A squeeze back- he won't keep it there if she tries to move, but if she wants it to stay there, he'll keep it]

Don't worry. I'll keep it to myself.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

[The physical contact is nice, so she stays where she is.]

We haven't even been here two full weeks, but it feels like an eternity.

[37773972]

[And if they're to believe the rules, they'll be here until someone kills another. He doesn't say that, instead shrugging]

There's worse places we could be stuck.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Our fellow prisoners definitely make things better.