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

Bread Club

[whatyouwant]

[Elle cocks her head at the poster. She's only had once slice of flatbread with some hummus on it, but those jams do look really good...]

I don't know. He looks super grumpy, though.

Re: Bread Club

[green_sleeves]

He needs to get a life. Old codger!

[Anne grimaces once more at the poster, before laughing.]

Have you tried this one? I'm straight up loving this marmalade thing. It's like sugar on bread. Totally my jam!

[whatyouwant]

Oh, no thanks. This room is like carbs and sugar over load. I'm going to need to do so much cardio after this.

[green_sleeves]

Seriously? You've woken up in some weird place offering free bread and jam as their poxy compensation and you're worrying about your weight?

[Anne snorts laughter]

Hell, you only get one life... actually, scratch that. You get maybe two... or three lives to live and I intend to make the most of it this time. It only means there's more of me to love anyway!

[whatyouwant]

Well yeah. I don't want all my clothes to not fit anymore after we get out of here. Plus carbs totally make me bloat.

...But I mean one more isn't going to hurt anything.

[She takes one of the small cuts of baguette and considers the jam.]

This one?

[green_sleeves]

I know -

[Anne smiles devilishly. She goes to use her fingers again to taste the jam, thinks better of it and takes up a knife. She sticks it in a strawberry jam and spreads it on a bit of bread. Then she takes a tiny bit of chocolate spread and adds it to the jammy bread.]

It tastes just like the chocolates from those boxes. God, they’ve improved in this century. Anyway, I dare you to try it!

[whatyouwant]

Well a Delta Nu never backs down from a dare!

[Elle smiles and mirrors the way Anne has prepared her bread. She takes a bite and smiles.]

This is so good!

[green_sleeves]

See?

[Anne grins, satisfied.]

Stick with me. I know how to have fun!