thebackstage | IT'S CURTAINS 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 sloooowlllyyyy 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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1) Curtains Up

[Seymour had only seen dressing rooms on movies. So everything felt incredibly disorienting when he woke up in one, much less in a room so much more fancy than anything he's ever seen on Skid Row.

For a moment he thought he must have died, but nothing about this room would indicate that he had died. However as he traveled the building and found no apparent exit he started to worry. Even if he was still alive something bad had to be going on.]

I... is this a kidnapping? W-whoever you are I promise I have nothing for you!

[A small pause.]

I-I mean unless it's about Audrey II but this can't be worth kidnapping a guy, right?

2) This Petty Pace

[One of the worst things for Seymour was the lack of any good plants to take care of. It was almost even worse than being trapped in a building and being forced to kill each other.

Frankly, too much of his free time is spent checking on the plastic plants in a vague hope that they turn out to be living.

Otherwise, he does spend a little time in the kitchen, mostly out of amazement with how clean and high tech everything looked than anything else. Gosh if only Audrey was here to see this...

But the moment he picks up a blender to examine it, it slips out of his hands and crashes to the floor.]

I'm not going to be punished for that, will I?

4) Curtain

[Of course Seymour was horrified when he found the body. The motive wasn't the most appealing thing to him so he had just hoped that no one else would have been interested in the motive. But now someone had died and they

Seymour almost looked a little too calm looking at the body, however. It wasn't a particularly gruesome death, to be fair, but he almost looked lost in thought rather than actually horrified that someone had just died.]

[Being kidnapped was not something that was on Twoey's to-do list. In fact, it was nowhere near. Nothing puts a crimp in world domination attempts like being taken to who-knows-where and dumped in a room by itself. It has opened the door with a vine, and dragged itself to the doorway, but for now had contented itself with staying there, peering at people as they went past.

At least it could get dinner and a show.

And then it saw Seymour. Wonderful, trusting Seymour. Okay, sure, the business with Audrey had probably soured their relationship somewhat, but it could still work with this. Seymour, after all, was a born schmuck. Twoey would always work with that. ]

Seymour! Old buddy, old pal, it sure is good to see you wanderin' around here. For a second there, I didn't think I had a friend in the world.

[By 'friend' it of course means 'willing patsy' but th feeling remains the same. Probably. ]

[Perhaps it's amazing bad luck on Seymour's end or amazing luck on Audrey II's end, but he doesn't actually remember anything past chopping up Orin and feeding him to Twoey. So, while he is shocked to see Audrey II here, he seems more confused than angry.]

You're sure looking big and... active.

[Creepily active. Did feeding it one body really make it grow that much?]

[Audrey II will absolutely not look a gift horse in the mouth. Maybe Seymour hit his head somewhere, maybe whatever brought them here scrambled something in his nerdy noggin, or maybe Seymour finally went off the deep end. Either way, Twoey knows an opportunity when it sees it. ]

Must be the fresh air. It's healthy for my roots.

[There is no fresh air in here, plant. ]

You're looking...perky.

[Not wracked by horrible crushing guilt or anything. Good for you! ]

I guess? A-anyway, you wouldn't have any idea who brought us here, would you?

[He feels awkward asking this, but hey, it's a magical talking plant, surely it should know something about what's going on.]

[Sadly not, which is, quite frankly, annoying. It had been poised, ready to do what it came to that pathetic little planet to do and now its here. ]

Ain't got a single clue. One second I was in the shop, now I'm here. You didn't sign any sketchy contracts, didya?

[It knows Seymour absolutely did not, but a little guilt tripping can go a long way. ]

IT'S CURTAINS TEST DRIVE

Seymour Krelborn | Little Shop of Horrors (1986 movie version)

why hello there, curtains up

Oh hello there!

it's so good to see anyone else playing from this gosh

Yeah it's far too rare honestly!

such a tragedy