The show won't go on.
Ten years ago, a fire broke out in the Gaston LeRoux Theater and killed a family of performers: Stephen and Katherine Daye, and their twelve-year-old daughter Erika. The LeRoux has stood desolate all these years, occupied only by the ghosts of those who died there. Until now.
Senator Whitmore Sommerset remembers the grandeur of the LeRoux, and purchases it, intending to renovate it back to what it once was, ignoring the stories and warnings about the LeRoux curse which claims the lives of all who perform on its stage.
Actors Christian Bedford and Janae York are chosen for the lead roles in the production of Macbeth, the same play that was cut short by the fire ten years earlier. Sommerset and the cast are determined to finish the play, though it is plagued by problems; broken lighting fixtures, missing props, and equipment, costumes cut up and burned in the middle of the night. Someone or something doesn't want the production to be a success.
Events reach their boiling point when Christian Bedford is kidnapped by a mysterious masked figure, and taken into a network of prohibition-era tunnels under the LeRoux Theater. His captor turns out to be Erika Daye, disfigured by burn scars, but not dead as everyone thought. As this subterranean play unfolds, all of the players will be changed, and their lives turned in a direction they never thought possible.
"You're different from what I expected," she said softly.
"How so?" he asked, glancing at her.
"I don't know," she replied, searching for the right words. "You just... have this way of making people feel like they matter. Even here, in this... nightmare."
He was quiet for a moment before responding. "You matter, Y/n. Don't forget that."
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Y/n wakes up in the deadly Squid Game, surrounded by strangers and fighting to survive. What she doesn't know is that the mysterious Frontman is watching her every move through the cameras- and she's caught his attention.