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

[nobodysbismuth]

[She knows blades, at least. Checking out the wound involves a little more...up-close-and-personal with a human wound than she's used to, and she winces at the blood running over her fingers, but:]

Not a big blade. Sharp, narrow point...it's probably one of the kitchen ones.

[Even when you don't eat, you get to know about the kitchen knives in any murdergame pretty quick.]

See one of those lyin' around?

[recessives]

Hmm...

[ She looks around, and then, stabbed into the dirt of one of the potted plants??? ]

Oh, I think this might be it.

[nobodysbismuth]

Didn't try too hard to hide it.

[They could've at LEAST tried to flush the thing!]

Got him in the front, too. [So...she lifts one of Will's hands, carefully holding his tiny fingers between hers. A case or two ago she wouldn't have known to look for signs of a fight - not like a Gem's body would show many - but we've been through this. There's none of that purple-black coloring. Squinting, she peers at his fingernails for any lingering traces of anything.] Not sure he did much fighting back...I guess he would've been an easy target.

[Possibly not the easiest - Shilo herself comes to mind - but the guy wasn't a fighter. He didn't even look very strong.]

[recessives]

[ Her sole self-defense mechanism is just looking too sad and confused to murder, it's true. ]

Yeah... I guess he was.

[ Big Yike! ]

Hm... there's some paint on the knife? Is there any paint on him?

[nobodysbismuth]

Paint, huh...?

[She sets down that hand and leans over to grab the other.]

Yeah, there's a little on his hand here. Didn't strike me as the artsy type.

[recessives]

Me neither.

[ She moves the knife into better light. ]

Green paint?

[nobodysbismuth]

Yeah. Is it on the blade, or the handle?

[Will Schuester...well, Bismuth didn't know him well enough to have much read on whether or not he'd go at someone with a knife, but she can damn well imagine someone taking it away from him if he tried. Or maybe he really was just the victim, plain and simple. Not sure how the paint comes into it either way, but there's doubtless more to find in other rooms.]