the theatre

[productions]

the theatre



You awaken in a darkened theatre.

In front of you is an enormous cinema screen. On it plays everything that's currently happening in the mansion, accompanied by appropriate sound effects and background instrumentals when fitting. The seat you're sitting on is large and plush, and while there's many of them, there's enough room in the theatre for you to fully recline the seat into a comfortable bed if you wish. Under each seat is a sleeping mask and noise-cancelling headphones, in case you'd like to take a break from watching the show.

Follow the stairs up and you'll reach what should be the projection room. There are no projectors in here, however; it is simply a large and well-lit room above the main seating area, and a good place to hang out with your fellow eliminated contestants if shouting at each other across the aisles proves too much to handle.

If you leave the theatre through the door in the back, you'll find yourself in a hall. On one end is a concession stand. It's stocked with standard movie snacks - popcorn, candy and the like - but if you're feeling the urge for something else, you'll be able to find it stocked somewhere in the back. On the other end is a table with thirty wrapped bags and a placard reading 'A star for our stars! Please accept these lovely giftbags as a token of appreciation for your hard work, sponsored by [illegible smudge]'. Each bag has a tag bearing the name of someone in the mansion; you will only be able to open the bag with your name on it. As soon as you open it, any memories that have been taken from you, including those of the other people in the mansion that you may have forgotten, will be returned in their entirety. Within the bag are also objects from your home that you may want for your stay here, though you will find no weapons.

There are no other doors in the hall save for the one leading back into the theatre room. There are also no windows; it is impossible to tell where you are and what is going on in the outside world. Any attempts to break out will fail. So in the meantime, why not sit back and enjoy the show?

Oh, and one more thing. At midnight following each execution, once all those who've died that week have woken up, a video will begin to play on screen.

Comments

[speakveryclearly]

[Kanaya has just turned to Kaoru and her face has stopped working. She is not sure at whom to be angry now either, or whether she should be angry, or how angry she should be, mostly because her anger has been tainted by confusion and general distress. Her glow is going haywire, basically.]

I don't think I can take any more of this.

[souredsweet]

[it's okay Kanaya, he has plenty of anger to make up for her waffling anger.]

To think, from the very start... From the very start we had been fooled.

[speakveryclearly]

We were actually just being manipulated...



I still kind of want to punch him, a little, I think it might make me feel a little better. Do you think he would mind too much.

threadjack

[motheringnation]

Don't you dare.

[souredsweet]

[POINTS]

Even if he was not the true Mastermind, he is still responsible for the organization, deployment, communication and command of our group. His motives may have been the same as ours, but that does not clean his hands entirely, just as our motives do not excuse us of our kills. [IN SHORT] A punch is the least we can do.

[motheringnation]

Is that why you were running away from the person you killed when he tried to hit you? Or does this justice only happen when you're the one being manipulated?

[souredsweet]

I let him have his one hit, in case you missed that. ["let" okay kaoru...] His pursuit after that was excessive.

You should be happy that everything but a single punch will be saved for whoever the true Mastermind is.

[motheringnation]

He surprised you and then you ran away while insulting him.

[She was in the room you know.]

You should save everything for the true mastermind. The one who is actually to blame for all of this.

[souredsweet]

He still got his punch. [and therefore Kaoru deserves one of his own! flawless logic, yes.

still, even in his state of agitation, he knows that Ukraine does have a point.]

I will save nearly everything. It is all I will promise.

[speakveryclearly]

[She starts to get up, to open her mouth to say something, and then sinks back into her chair and does not look directly at Ukraine.]

My race is still dead. That's never stopped being a thing that's happening.

[motheringnation]

[And the harshness on her face just falls.]

I know....and....I'm sorry ....but ....Lithuania was just as manipulated as the rest of you. Punching him won't help anything.

You'll just be taking out your anger for the mastermind on someone also being forced to act.

[speakveryclearly]

Okay.... okay........

I just - don't know how we're going to get to the truth now, and -- and he's admitted to being that person, who did actually say the lines that led us on a string, and... I know we can't trust that we'll get home on "good ratings" now, but there's not exactly a whole lot for me to go home to, anyway, you see?

I had wanted to see Doris take up knitting... she doesn't deserve to get shot like this, I think. I wish there were a reason for all of this.

[Never liked mysteries.]

[souredsweet]

I would not be opposed to it. [mostly he's just buttmad that he's on the receiving end of a very manipulative group of people rather than being the manipulator for once. IT'S WEIRD ON THIS SIDE he doesn't like it... wow, there is probably an important life lesson to take away from this.]

But I would like even more to deliver that pain to whoever is responsible.

[speakveryclearly]

I thought it was over. I thought we finally knew why the producer did what he did and it didn't excuse him. It was so cathartic. I don't know how I'm going to handle more twists. What if whoever is employing Lithuania is employed by someone else. The actual mastermind could be Felicia Marlow and I couldn't bring myself to transfer my resentment over to her.

[souredsweet]

[on one hand, he definitely gets what Kanaya is saying.

on the other, he doesn't have much qualms with transferring his massive fury over to whoever is revealed as the true culprit.]

It cannot be more than one, can it? A chain of command that complex would be... [feasible, after what they've seen, really.]

[speakveryclearly]

Can we all go on a real vacation after this is over? I feel like the movie theater has been inadequately relaxing.

[souredsweet]

Being here has almost been more stressful than being there. [though the lack of pressure from having to maintain his careful facade will always be a bonus of the theater to him...]

...I wouldn't be opposed.

[speakveryclearly]

What's it like in that "Japan"? [She's not pronouncing it right but I can't even come up with a funny way for her to be doing so right now, actually the phonetics probably aren't even that incorrect maybe just the stress] I'll have to master a whole new form of fashion to be presentable there...

[souredsweet]

[something like that would normally manage to get a wan sort of amused smile from him, but he's still kind of reeling from the whole whoops they've been targeting the wrong person the entire game thing. at least he's managed to choke back most of his frothing anger...]

It is a pleasant place to be... [he had never really been hugely prideful of his country before, but he's feeling a little homesick.] To be honest, I still don't understand much of the customs of the West, even after living here for two months. It isn't at all like home... Should you visit, I'll lend you my wardrobe, though. I have no further need for my old clothing.

[speakveryclearly]

That's right, isn't it? [SHE HAS NO IDEA HOW A JAPANESE MAN DRESSES... after all Gundam and Beat were fairly Western-influenced in their style.] I'd be... [A little creeped out] Honored.

[souredsweet]

It is something of a relief, really. [okay now he does crack a smile though, he's a master at reading awkward pauses...]

I say so because high quality garments are expensive and difficult to find. Perhaps the pinks and reds would not suit you well, though...

[notyetlost]

... you know for someone who was all "it has to be a simple train of clues to culminate into the final mystery at the end!"

I think you're just purposefully over thinking this now. Liet was a scapegoat, the real mastermind is one of the other nine people. Suck it up.

[speakveryclearly]

The object of my deepest contempt finally admitted to his identity and then recanted said confession. I need a minute.

[notyetlost]

You don't get to touch Liet.

[Poland will end you.]

[speakveryclearly]

I swear I am never experimenting with your sarcasm again after this. Not that there is much after this left.