productions | the theater

Entry tags:

graveyard

the theater - part ii

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?

Threaded | Flat

[Well they're alone again. Ukraine looks around.]

So....does anyone have any ideas on what we should do now?

[Lithuania finds a spot in the back. He's composed and calm--carefully so; it's a perfectly constructed framework and he's not going to put it away now because then he might have to express some of the thoughts in his head. That's not an option for him.

Appearing calm makes him feel calm, at least, in a way that disconnects him from the situation.

It's fine. Everything's fine. After all, from the start he was dead. Nothing's really changed.]

That was too cruel... I knew it was too good to be true...

Um. [What is this suspect list?] "Dead" people can be the real mastermind?

So. That person even if they 'died' they can go back and totally just screw over everyone else?

[Poland hadn't considered this as a possibility.]

[A stick suddenly appears in the theater.]

[ With all of the sudden revelations, Sonia is just reeling. ]

It's been-- Felicia-?

[The doors in the back open, and Marlow is standing there. She's surrounded by the same wavy energy that appeared in the servant's room earlier, and she seems to be holding on to something that is invisible to those in the theater. But she holds out a hand.]

Lithuania, and Lithuania only. If you're going to live, come take my hand.

Everyone else, I would advise you to stand back, or it isn't going to be pretty.

[Felicia Marlow, what the actual fuck.

Kanaya stares at the space the living girl just vacated for several seconds, processing the sound of Lithuania's voice coming through the speakers indicating his location. Still disoriented, she speaks like in a foreign language:]

If she is ultimately executed, won't we have ten?

I suppose Miss Bernkastel and myself have no hopes of resurrection then.

[Kaoru is just watching speechlessly for the time being, looking to be in genuine shock.]

[The doors at the back open again, and Felicia is standing there.]

Sonia, and only Sonia. I'm sorry to everyone who wasn't nominated!

[And she extends her hand.]

Edited 2013-12-07 05:51 (UTC)

[The doors in the back open this time to reveal Stiles. He looks completely stunned for a moment to see everyone there - even after Lithuania and Sonia, he hadn't fully believed they were all still alive - before guilt floods his face as he holds out a shaky hand.]

Poland, grab on! Everyone else...I'm so sorry, we're going to try to save as many of you as we can.

( Mother Mary, they're all really here. For a brief moment, Spain looks shocked to see everyone but as quickly as it shows, it's gone. He has a purpose right now. There's no time to react. There's just acting. )

Latvia! We're going now.

( That came out a lot bossier than he meant it to sound but it can't be helped. He's switched from lazy and casual mode to a more aggressive and determined one. No time to reassure the others with promises right now. It's time to go. )

[The doors open again, this time on May. Her gaze darts over everyone frantically as she swallows, not wanting to look at the people she's condemning to die. She forces herself to fix her eyes on the ones they've agreed to leave behind anyway. She knows she is making a selfish decision here - the least she can do is own up to it instead of hiding from the consequences of her decision.]

I'm so sorry...I'm so sorry, everyone--!

Kaoru, please take my hand....

[Annie slides in as if following a drill, twisting her body forward so her arm is extended as as it can go. Her gaze is clear and focused, not lingering anywhere, resolutely so. She shields her emotions against the familiar glow at the corner of her eye.]

Miss Takami, grab onto me. Now. [The order is strict and direct, even as she grits her teeth through it.]

[They were getting down to the final ones now. Susan doubts she will be entering the theater again, and so for a few moments, she allows herself to take in these faces, the faces of those they are condemning to die.]

...We couldn't succeed, in the end. We can't ask your forgiveness or your understanding. This was... all we could do, and it wasn't enough.

Ukraine, please come with me.

[There is one thing Annie's taken for granted when the door slides open once more: she has no idea what Daves looks like by sheer virtue of having slept through his trial.]

I need a Dave right now, and if any of you pretend to be him you'll be in a world of pain.

[Alice enters in and immediately scans the room to find Beat. She doesn't let her eyes flicker to anyone else, not even once, and reaches her hand out and sets her sight dead on Beat.]

Beat, come with me, now!

[He'd expected it to be easier the second time around. He'd come prepared this time to look upon the faces of the dead.

He didn't expect to be the last one going through. To be the one who would personally shut the door on the nine people left remaining and extinguish any little hope they had left.

He doesn't apologize this time. There's nothing he can say that could possibly make this better. Instead, he just holds out his hand, pathetically grateful that at least he can't see their faces clearly through the tears.]

Lydia.

Edited 2013-12-07 07:19 (UTC)

[Moments after Stiles and Lydia vanish, the lights suddenly go out, the screen goes dark. The air goes bitterly cold, and the sound of a storm rages from somewhere far off.

The walls of the theater shudder, and then vanish. Everything inside it, slowly, begins to vanish.

As it goes, the nine left behind inside begin to vanish as well.]

Threaded | Flat

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject