the theater - part ii

[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?

Comments

[vytis]

We could try to guess who killed me. [Not that it would mean anything here.]

[motheringnation]

I still think its someone no one would suspect.

Like Stiles.

[notyetlost]

It's not Stiles. He would never.

[motheringnation]

It's just a guess.

[notyetlost]

I know but.

[Poland looks thoughtful.]

...He wouldn't be my pick.

[vytis]

I hope it's not him--Poland really liked him. I tried to figure it out once I learned, but of course they weren't exactly leaving clues about in regards to the situation, whoever they are.

[motheringnation]

Me too.

I mostly guessed him because he'd never been considered a real suspect but was in two trials. Also he was always high on the popularity list. And no one would suspect a normal teenage boy of planning all this.

[vytis]

I was thinking it might have been Miss Marlow for similar reasons. There is the matter of her person being selected the week people were an incentive, but that could have been staged easily enough--if she was willing to participate in a game that was going to kill twenty-nine people, one more wouldn't really mean anything.

[motheringnation]

The moment we start thinking one thing is a lie it brings everything else into question. It could have been faked like people seemed to think. Or maybe someone she didn't even know.

If it is her.

[vytis]

There's precedent for them lying. My entire situation was a lie on a couple of levels.

I'm inclined not to think it's anyone who committed a murder. There were clues pointing to them, even if we didn't see them in time or deliberately ignored them.

[He's not ruling them out, though.]

[motheringnation]

Do you think there will be clues for your murder as well?

[vytis]

That would be fair, but fair doesn't mean anything here. [He tried to be as fair as he could as the Mastermind specifically because of that.] What we have to go on, so far, is "someone the producers are favoring who hasn't been in real danger of dying and had the resources to blow me up when I said too much about them".

[motheringnation]

Maybe Alice.

[vytis]

I don't know if they would be on the lower lists so often. I was told to encourage the designated killers to target the lower lists, and I was never told to have them avoid selecting anyone in particular. If none of the regular players had committed a murder and one of the designated killers had to be prevented from going through with their kill, we would have missed a week, right?

[motheringnation]

That's right....

How would anyone have gotten a heart bomb into you anyway? It doesn't seem like something any of them could do.