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thebackstage2016-09-14 10:07 pm
stagemanagers) wrote in 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!
Audrey II | Little Shop of Horrors (movie- bad end)
[Perhaps you've noticed the strange and interesting plant, just sitting in the corner of the kitchen. It looks like a very, very large flytrap. The kind that would probably eat those man-sized bugs that are properly out there somewhere, right? Right?
Perhaps you haven't noticed the plant at all, but the plant has certainly noticed you. It waits until you're alone in the kitchen with it, before it suddenly opens its trap and-]
Well, well, well. Alone at last.
[3. Break a leg]
[Twoey has watched the goings on with some interest. Whatever the motivation is, it largely doesn't bother the plant at all. It has bigger plans. Bigger fish to fry. But Towey is nothing if not a schemer. It knows how to take advantage of people on the edge. And right now? People are on the edge.
It drapes a comforting vine around your shoulders, tone dulcet and gentle. Promising. Soothing. The plant is your friend. ]
I got a way to make all of this go away. Make you get out of this sittin' real pretty like.
[5. Cue music]
[Perhaps you have been made aware of Twoey's...particular dietary needs. Perhaps this is the first time you've been seduced into murder by a talking plant. Either way, It's singing at you now.]
Come on, Sweet Thing,
Just one quick jab and you'll rule this ring
Ain't no body, don't need no alibi
They got no motive they need to imply
Just off the guy and give me some grub
And you'll be skipping right out of this club
[6. Wildcard]
[Go nuts! ]
5
[Its...tempting? The Presence certainly likes the idea, at least, of offing. If not feeding this clearly hungry plant. Odd. Didn't Lilith call the Presence an ally of monsters?]
Well, she said humans were on par
to a plate of raw and bloodied tartare
But...couldn't you do it, just as well?
No alibi, you said - and I've no reason to tell.
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Maybe that was just Seymour. But hey, it'll give this a shot too.]
Well little lady you got that right
and I might just die if I don't get a bite
But as you can see I can't move anyplace
and those little legs move at one hell of a pace.
[It's not going to chase its food like an animal, gosh. ]
1
So when he hears a plant talk to him he's gonna just. Stare for a second.]
...I'm losing my marbles, aren't I?
no subject
No. And you didn't walk with me once upon a dream, neither.
no subject
I think I would remember that. And I don't remember drinking anything.
[A glass of beer would literally kill him.]
no subject
[It leans in a little closer. ]
But I'm as real as you are, Buddy.
no subject
He leans back carefully.]
Well that's... good for you, fella. [Be polite to the plant. You've lived this long by being polite to things bigger than you, why stop now.]
no subject
[Not that Twoey knows anything about morality, of course. Except it's for schmucks, maybe. ]
Could say the same for you. Ain't ever seen anything like you before.
3
[honey you done picked challenge mode on this here temptation, but go ahead]
I'm afraid I cannot take any way that won't admit all of us. How could I leave the others here?
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You say that like they'd do the same for you. You think they'd help you out if they had a chance? Or just drop you like a hot potato? That's not how the game is played here, pal.