It's Curtains Act 3 Test Drive

[stagemanagers]

1) CURTAINS UP

You’ve just woken up in some kind of dorm 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 worse still - there's other people waking up in the same room with you, in the same state.

Talk to your roommates! Go out and meet everyone from the other rooms! 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 slowly 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 even a band 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) I LOVE PLAY REHEARSAL

It's Club Day! What's Club Day, you ask? Come to the classroom on the poster to find out! It looks like this week's club is Bread Club. Be wary, when you enter the classroom you'll face a shower of various bread slices but be rewarded with a surprisingly fancy layout of spreads and jams to go with them. Don't mind the oddly threatening poster on the far wall. He's just here to supervise.

5) 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.

6) CUE MUSIC

Feelings in a murder-school 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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Comments

Adapting

[humanitarianherbalist]

[The man in a griffin costume watching this is crouched on a bed in a catlike manner, head tilted to the side as he watches and listens to the strange vocabulary. Finally, when he outright states that last line, he stretches out before sitting up.]

This is not my body either. This is certainly an oddity.

[luolimasi]

Then there are others besides this unit who are in an odd situation here? This seems like it could be dangerous...

[The griffin costume could make this even weirder, but thankfully, ROBO_head isn't one to comment on such outfit choices.]

Have you just arrived here?

[humanitarianherbalist]

It certainly could be, especially if you look at the change in our physical capabilities.

[He nods at the second question.]

I awoke earlier than some, but that is all.

[luolimasi]

Indeed. This unit seems to still be functioning fairly normally despite my appearance, but this unit does not know if self-defense protocols will be at all hindered by my no-longer metal state...

[He shakes his head, trying to dismiss the nagging feeling of worry.]

Do you have any idea why we have been taken here?

[humanitarianherbalist]

[He blinks a few times as the other explains his situation.] You were made of metal before this? Like an automation?

[However, he also shakes his head at the other's question.] We seem to come from all sorts of places. There's no pattern I can see so far.

[luolimasi]

This unit was an automaton of sorts, yes. A robot specializing in creating music.

[He knows deep down that wasn't the main reason he was created... but it's not like he can remember, so he just frowns at the griffin man's response.]

So no one is from a place that is similar to Node 08... This unit does research on many other nodes, but... not sure if this is what this unit expected to see from other places.

[humanitarianherbalist]

Nodes? Is that another name for different countries, or continents? [His head tilts to the side curiously.]

[luolimasi]

...This unit has always known the Nodes as Nodes, though in history, before the Decommission, they were usually referred to as countries.

[Is this man somehow from the past, then?]