thebackstage | It's Curtains Act 2 Test Drive

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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[ Jeremy, could your Greek Chorus be any more ill-timed. ]

Of course I wouldn't. He's... Oh, my God, he's just- [ She turns away from Mr. Hill sharply. Someone didn't just kill him, they went to town on him. It's a little sickening. Okay, a lot sickening.

With a small eyebrow raise and a forced scoff, she looks at him. ] Do you investigate a lot of murders, or is this new for you?

I play a lot of Clue with Michael and I've read Encyclopedia Brown.

[So that's a no.]

I, uh. I can look at the body and you can look around for other clues?

[ He's offering to step in. So, she won't have to do it. ...Because she needs to stand on the sidelines. Because she's too scared. ]

N-n- [ Riley freezes up more than when she found the corpse. Force through it. ] No. [ Deliberate and clear. ] I'm not going to shove that onto you. ...But, um, maybe if we look together...

[Girl??? Close to girl???? gIRL??????]

S-sure! Sure, we can look at it together. That. That way we'll be sure to remember everything!

[ All we gotta do is stick together! Teamwork, you know?! ]

Exactly! Exactly what you said. [ Man this is a fucked up universe where the bodytouchers are two seventeen-year-olds. ] Let's just...get started then.

[ .......we're gonna have to kneel down in harold hill's blood, aren't we. ]

[Should he offer Riley his jacket to kneel on? No that's like. Contamination. Also he likes this hoodie and he doesn't want to wash blood out of it.

........................... We're gonna have to kneel in Harold Hill's blood. So he's just gonna. Do that. Ohhhhhhhh, where are the adults. Why can't the adults be here.]

Whoever did this was really angry. [He sounds vaguely queasy now that he's looking at it up close.] Do you see any, um. Wounds or anything?

[There Is So Much Blood Why Did He Suggest This.]

[ HELLO? ADULTS? ANYONE???

Riley holds back a small whine, and she holds it back remarkably well, for, you know, kneeling in a grown dead man's blood!! Is she getting paler? This sucks. ]

Jeremy. [ Her voice wavers. But she still has the energy to sound slightly incredulous. ] His whole body is like, one giant wound.

[ THERE IS A LOT GOING ON HERE. ]

I know, I know. But - see, the way the blood's positioned? [You know, the blood they're currently kneeling in?] It's mostly pooled here, which means these were done afterward. So there has to be a, a. Starting point?

[If you're wondering why Jeremy just knows this, well. He watches a lot of cable TV. It's fine. Everything's fine. WE'RE FINE, DAMNIT.]

...

[ From how she's kind of staring, she's definitely wondering why Jeremy knows this! But, let's- let's go with it. ]

Are you telling me someone just k-kept stabbing? After he died? [ #YIKES ]

[It's fine. He just watches a lot of CSI. There's definitely not a supercomputer in his brain helping him or anything.]

Yeah, um. Fresh, uh, fresh wounds? Are more [He makes a hand motion trying to indicate "gushing."] but, um. There's not a lot of that. Here.

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