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
[Galileo looks around, a very confused look on his face. This is ... way too cluttered to be anywhere on Planet Mall, that's for sure. He stands quickly, pinching himelf to make sure he's not in one of his dreams. He winces at the brief flash of pain. Okay, so awake then]

W-where...?

[He goes out of the room, there's no where to go but out, after all. He can see a lot of different people. They... they all look different, which has him staring. Where are the Zone Clones?]

3) Break A Leg
[Have all your dreams come true... ]

Wh-who sent me this? I wo... I can't do that!

[Galileo's eyes are wide, wild and panicked. He longs to have his dreams be real, to not just be the mad boy in the corner muttering to himself, and to have that handed to him, as long as he does this one thing... He's shaking, looking down at his hands as though he's scared of what he might do. He is muttering, softly to himself]

So you want to be free to live your life the way you want to be...

5) Cue Music
[Galileo singing? Nothing new there, then. No, but, seriously, he's been watching the people here. They're all so different, no one else seems to be from Planet Mall, and none of them have heard of Globalsoft or of C.R.A.P. He's somewhere where he doesn't stand out in theory, and yet he still does. Having noises running through your head all the time does wonders for a person's sanity. ]

[He doesn't see it like that though, as his quiet singing makes clear]

There's something wrong with me, chemically,
Somethin' wrong with me inherently
The wrong mix in the wrong genes

IT'S CURTAINS TEST DRIVE

Galileo Figaro | We Will Rock You