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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Probably. [She shrugs] If not, we all die and they loose their source of entertainment.

It would be a lot better if I wasn’t dead, but...

[He wipes off some cookie dough.]

This makes for a strange rebellion.

Sometimes the most effective acts of rebellion are the most unconventional.

[Yeah she's still eating. It's unclear if she doesn't think it's dangerous or if she just has a very low disregard for her own life]

At least it's tasty.

[Never would he had thought that eating late-night snacks would count as protest.]

We can't fight against the stage managers if we are hungry. We should take some extra cookies for morale in our next meeting.

[As if on cue the oven timer beeps. Sigyn hops off the counter and peers through the glass in the door]

My thoughts exactly. Looks like they're done.

[She dawns a pair of oven mitts and opens the oven to pull out the two sheets inside.]

[Angus steps back to finish his portion of the dough.]

Is this what you do in your spare time? Bake?

My mom taught me when I was little. Ironically I didn't have much time for it till the stage manager brought us here.

[Or resources, really.]

We have more time to not worry about our regular responsibilities, that is true.

[With this, Angus' face falls. He has been going on for weeks about saving his kingdom and doing actual princely duties, but with the time spent here, his hopes aren't high anymore.]

Do you suppose anyone knows where we have been taken?

[Sigyn's face falls for a moment when she thinks about the train, her fellow rebels there among the Asgardians, waiting for the signal that will never come. Did they complete the plan? Did Garm take over? Or did they just ride out the train to the triumphant arrival of the train on Midgard?]

Maybe, maybe not. Maybe we'll go back and time won't have passed at all.

[They have to keep hope somehow]

You can never tell with time wizards. [Obviously, the stage managers has someone skilled with temporal manipulation on their team. Of course they have one. How else can he return to a still-whole home?] Though I have traveled through another dimension once, it was only created by accident. We might need another lucky break to find our way back.

Oh really?

[The cookie sheets are laid on the stove top, the cookies on top a perfect golden brown]

Where did you go?

I found myself in Fife [His kingdom.] in the distant past, only history had been altered by Zargothrax so he could take control over the land.

[The horrors he witnessed descend upon Dunkeld...those zombies and the eagles he had always believed to be allies...a man without a magic weapon would easily give up at seeing such a sight.]

I don't know what he plans to do with all that power, but it cannot be good.

Very few who gather that kind of power use it for good things.

[A small grimace pulls at the corner of her mouth]

Did you make it back?

No. I don’t think I can ever return to my own timeline.

[Ralathor had stated as such. If it were possible, it would require a powerful artifact of their own.]

But this is still Fife, and even in the past, I consider it my home. I swore I wouldn’t turn away until I finally defeated that wicked wizard.

That is very noble of you.

[She seems like she means it. Sigyn understands devotion to a cause, no matter how hopeless others think it to be.]

But don't give up hope, perhaps there is still a way to return.

Perhaps.

[He strides to the sink and drops the spatula, then looks at the wall before him, blocking whatever view he has to the outside world.]

I am the final defender
The last hope for my galaxy
Dundee will arise from evil demise
I'm the one with the power to win
The Battle for Eternity

[He steps back and turns to face Sigyn.]

Everyone in the land of Fife depends on me. The resistance, the peasants suffering under the rule of Zargothrax, the peaceful creatures of the land...I can't stay here forever!

And you won't

[Sigyn takes a step beside him, holding out a cookie]

We will get out of here, alive. We'll get back to those people who need us. They can't hold us forever.

It's Curtains Act 2 Test Drive

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