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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Curtain Up

Scaramouche wakes up swearing. It only continues as she actually takes in her surroundings. And then she shuts up.
"Have I actually been turned into a GaGa Girl?" she wonders aloud. To reassure herself, she stands up and peers down at her costume. Arm tie. Check. Skirt. Check. Red corset - squee! - check. So no. She's not been captured.

She goes to the door of the dressing room and sticks her head out. "Oy! Gazza! Are you here?"

To anybody giving her even the remotest strange look, she gestures eloquently with her hand, and snaps, "Do one!"

This Petty Place.

Scara doesn't do friends. It's not that she doesn't want to. It's just that every girl she knows is a brain dead, mindless sheep, humming the same sound, and clacking on about their identical makeup and hairdos.

So Scara sits back, openly hostile, with her arms folded and a deadly glare for anyone who so much as glances her way. As soon as anybody does approach, she bristles. "Go away - bitch."

"What are you on about?" comes a very, very, agitated reply from the strange man with four legs.

"Obviously, you're the one responsible for sticking me in this boneafide death trap in the first place!" Squidward hisses, accusingly. "So how about you wave your wand or whatever it is you people do, and send me back to my tiki this very second!"

IT'S CURTAINS TEST DRIVE

Scaramouche - We Will Rock You

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