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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] thebackstage2016-09-14 10:07 pm
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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!
dechagny: (is gonna fuck the phantom up)

Curtains Up

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-09-15 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, so he's a bit calmer than he was when he burst into this place yelling for Christine, but Raoul is still relatively nervous. How can he know that this isn't some plot by the Phantom to confuse him? Or if there was some noxious gas wafting through the catacombs underneath the opera house that were making him hallucinate a whole other building and an entirely new group of people, to make up for the lack of oxygen in his lungs?

It certainly seems like that's a possibility when a dressed, talking cricket walks past. Raoul's not even sure he's seeing things correctly. He makes a strangled noise of alarm and stumbles back as the creature crosses his path.]


What the devil-?!
whistlenotchirp: (Come again)

[personal profile] whistlenotchirp 2016-09-15 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[He jumps in surprise before wildly looking around.]

Where?!

[In his defense, he lives in 1880 Italy. Seeing the Devil is a concern.]
dechagny: (cannot believe)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-09-16 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Eeeeey time period buddy]

It spoke again!!
whistlenotchirp: (Where does that fall morally?)

[personal profile] whistlenotchirp 2016-09-16 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
[It takes a moment for him to stop looking around.]

...What spoke when.
dechagny: (aint no viscount got time for that)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-09-16 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pointing at the friendly cricket,] You! You - spoke!
whistlenotchirp: (Come again)

[personal profile] whistlenotchirp 2016-09-16 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jiminy looks around again in bafflement before realizing he's pointing at him.]

...Yeah. Sure am.

You alright there, fella?
dechagny: (aint no viscount got time for that)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-09-16 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
But you're a cricket!

[Explaaain]
whistlenotchirp: (The cricket is suprised)

[personal profile] whistlenotchirp 2016-09-16 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
...Yeeeeeeeeeep. Born and raised.

[Is this a problem????]
dechagny: (is gonna fuck the phantom up)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-09-17 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
How can you speak?!
whistlenotchirp: (Come again)

[personal profile] whistlenotchirp 2016-09-17 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
...With... words.

[??????????]

Listen, do you need to lie down? You don't seem well.
dechagny: (is not a total douchebag)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-09-17 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I...yes, I think...I think I do need to lie down.

[Turning right the fuck around to...wherever he came from, and begins talking to himself.]

Talking crickets, talking plants, kidnappings...I'd go in search of a drink if I did not think that I wasn't already under some sort of soporific influence...
whistlenotchirp: (Don't be swayed by bad advice)

[personal profile] whistlenotchirp 2016-09-18 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
[You know what pal, he's just gonna follow you to make sure you find a pillow.]

Easy there. This place seems a little bad, but you just need to keep your head on straight.
dechagny: (is not a total douchebag)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-09-18 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh God it's following him, he must be more oxygen-deprived than he thought. Raoul rubs the back of his neck subconsciously.]

That is proving to be more difficult than I anticipated.