It's Curtains Act 2 Test Drive

[stagemanagers]

1) CURTAINS UP

You’ve just woken up in a small dressing room, which is certainly not where you went to bed last night. Actually, do you even remember going to sleep…? Regardless, this isn't where you last were, and if you leave your room you’re going to find a lot of other people in the same state.

Go out and socialize! Most of these people may be strangers, but you’re gonna all have to get used to one another. And who knows? There may actually be a familiar face in the crowd.

2) THIS PETTY PACE

By now, you're acquainted with everybody here and you're slowly growing bored. Bored enough to kill? Hopefully not. You'd better try to find something else to do. You can always go hang out with your castmates, or maybe try and whip something up in the kitchen! There’s also a music room to keep you busy! I sure hope you like music.

3) BREAK A LEG

Comedies are fun and all, but that’s not quite what we’re about here. You’ve all just been handed this week’s motive. What do you make of it? Is it one that might actually tempt you to kill, or did you get off lightly this time? Either way, maybe you’d better look around the room and see who else is having a rough time.

4) CURTAIN

It was bound to happen eventually. Someone is dead, and now it's time to go off and investigate. Were they close to you? Are you, perhaps, feeling guilty? Either way, it's probably best not to leave anyone alone right now.

5) CUE MUSIC

Feelings in a murder-opera can get pretty gosh darn intense. Sometimes you’ve just got to let it out. And hey, if you sing a song about whatever’s going on in your head, maybe someone will hear and come help you? Either way, this is a musical – there’s not really any reason not to sing.

[Mod Note: The song mechanic is meant to be fluid and simple. You do not have to produce your own song lyrics, nor are you required to use show tunes (although we do encourage it!). If you want to rewrite existing lyrics to fit the situation, go for it! Anything goes - if Mumford and Sons expresses your character’s current emotions, then break out the banjos. We want to keep the musical mechanic as fun and simple as we can to encourage our players to use it as much as they like.]

6) WILDCARD

Make up your own prompt!

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Comments

[recessives]

[ ... you know, it being her blood is an option she hadn't actually considered. ]

I don't... think so?

[ She looks at as much of herself as she can. ]

I mean... I have a blood condition, but I'm pretty sure this isn't how it going wrong works.

[justmeheere]

Okay. Okay, good! [Jeremy laughs a little nervously and then abruptly stops.] Um, well. We've all been kidnapped?

[His voice breaks on the word "kidnapped" and he clears his throat.]

That's what the note made it sound like, anyway.

[recessives]

Kidnapped? I... but that doesn't make sense, none of this...

[ Wow, okay, she's getting stressed! Why isn't her monitor going off? Hang on, where is her monitor? Okay, this is all a lot, deep breaths, Shilo! Which just sort of lets a bunch of words fall out of her mouth, but that's better than what she's been doing. ]

I shouldn't even be outside, let alone kidnapped! Or covered in- dad's gonna kill [ Someone. ] - have you seen him, is he here too? His name is Nathan, he's a doctor. He takes care of me.

[justmeheere]

Hey, calm down okay? We're - [He cuts himself off then tries again:] I haven't seen your dad, but we can go look for him, if that would make you feel better.

[Pause.]

Do you want to [vague gesture] clean up first?

[recessives]

[ Okay, that at least gets her to like. Chill for a second. She nods. ]

Right. I... wherever we are, I probably shouldn't go around covered in blood.

[ Like it's probably less weird in the wild-ass Playstation 2 cutscene she lives in, but. ]

I'll... there's a bathroom in there, I think, I'll go shower up. Wait here?

[justmeheere]

Yeah. Yeah, I'll be right here when you're done.

[like six people in the bg, probably: SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILOOOOOOO]

[recessives]

[ Oh that's just constant at this point, probably.

After a bit she emerges in... well, she just has the one dress, so it's that, but like. At least it's the only thing with bloodstains. ]

Okay. Did I get everything?

[justmeheere]

Y-yup! All clean now, except for - [Jeremy, shut up. Stop babbling.] Anyway, let's go look for you dad, huh? I think I saw people going this way.

[He points in a direction. Presumably the place everyone is going to meet at.]

[recessives]

[ Shilo nods, sort of pulling her own arm tight against herself with the opposite hand. ]

Right. Seems like a good place to start.

[ People! What a normal day! ]

[justmeheere]

[At least Jeremy is respectfully leaving space for the holy spirit between them.]

Oh! I'm Jeremy, by the way. If, um. If we're really stuck here, we're at least here together, right?

[We're All In This Together.]

[recessives]

[ Gotta leave room for Paul Sorvino. ]

Shilo - Shilo Wallace. And I guess so, yeah.

[ There's... sure a lot of people here, huh? Golly. ]

[justmeheere]

Oh, are you - do you need a minute?

[Anxiety . . . is rough, and Jeremy recognizes the signs of it enough that he doesn't wanna stress her out if she needs a moment!!]

If you want, you can wait here and I'll go ask everyone about your dad?

[recessives]

Uh... yeah, that sounds good.

[ Like she doesn't have the full Anxiety but by god she has A Fear rn!! ]

[justmeheere]

Okay. Don't worry, I'll be right back.

[He's just gonna go talk to some people! Presumably, since I'm playing Jeremy, nobody is playing Nathan. He's not here and it's very sad. Unrelated, but I just remembered that Alexa Vega is an inch shorter than me so Jeremy "Tall-Ass" Heere, who is not actually that tall, is probably looking down at Shilo all the time.]

Sorry, Shilo. Nobody's seen your dad, and it doesn't look like he's on the [He stumbles over saying this next bit:] cast list.

[recessives]

The... what?

[ Her dad not being here takes a second to sink in, so she just kind of. Clings to that, because What? ]

[justmeheere]

The cast list.

[He kind of just. Gestures at the wall of this room, where everyone's profiles sure are, because he doesn't really. Like, obviously he knows what a cast list is, but he doesn't really understand why there's one here. And why it's so detailed - it's a little creepy, honestly.]

It's a list of everyone that's here. I think. I'm pretty sure that's what it's for.

[recessives]

Sure, but... is this some kind of GeneCo thing?

[ She looks it over. ]

Is that... there's someone here just called The Spider? That's not even his weird title, his name is just The Spider?

[ His title is, naturally, The Lamp-Averse. ]

[justmeheere]

Yeah, I talked to him. He's [como se dice] an interesting guy.

[Read: he was super creepy and kept touching Jeremy and trying to convince him he was special. Which: weird! Bad! He's not sure he likes that!]

I don't really know what GeneCo is, but um. I don't recognize anyone else here. Do you?

[recessives]

[ She shakes her head. ]

No, no one.

[ A beat. ]

Wait, how do you not know what GeneCo is?