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

[mcfife]

[Angus' face lightens up with the new hope of a decent meal.]

Almost everyone can cook, it should be quick for me to grasp! [He dumps his pile of vegetables onto the counter, where they tumble loudly into a large mess.] What's your plan?

[whatyouwant]

Um... [Elle surveys the array of plants. She recognizes most of them, but recognition and use are two completely different things.

Still! If she was able to get in to Harvard, she can cook a...thing.]

First we should probably chop them, right? Oh! Our cook growing up would make really good roasted veggie medley. All you have to do for that is throw it in the oven with some salt and stuff.

[mcfife]

[He nods with this newfound knowledge.] That sounds simple enough. We have plenty of knives for this job!

[Many knives. More knives than they would need for cooking.]

[whatyouwant]

[The number of knives is only a little concerning.]

Right, so you work on cutting the onions and I'll start on the carrots!

[mcfife]

[Sure, onions! Angus lops off the two pointy ends of the onion and peels off the skin easily. This, he's helped with before. The cutting part's difficult. Right now, he's managed to cut it in half, then...]

...What shape are they supposed to be in?

[whatyouwant]

...Squares?

[It's obvious in her voice she isn't too confident in her answer, but it seems like a god enough shape for a vegetable.

She looks at the carrot and then the overabundance of knives. Elle isn't sure which one is best, but at long as it's sharp it shouldn't matter, right?]

Can you hand me one of those?

[mcfife]

But it's curved, how can it be a square?

[He takes the longest knife on the rack, and holds it out at Elle as if presenting a sword.]

[whatyouwant]

[A good point, but she knows she's had onions in squares before.]

If you cut off the round parts enough it should work.