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thebackstage2021-04-02 10:07 am
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It's Curtains Act 3 Test Drive
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
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Re: Curtain
[She wrinkles her nose. Carrying a dead body doesn't sound fun, and Lydia doesn't look exactly like she's gonna be doing much of the heavy lifting.]
Why be predictable? Do it here and some of the others might come and see...
[She pauses. Anne had been a lady in waiting for years by the time she was Lydia's age, but in this day and age, teenagers didn't seem to have proper jobs. Especially not in a medical field.]
It might be more fun here? Ooh we could play a game. Guess what he died of? Winner gets first dibs at blaming someone?
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[On the one hand, their lives were literally riding on finding the culprit, and a semi-scientific investigation would help their chances.
On the other hand, what Anne is proposing sounds really funny, and it's not often Lydia gets to screw around with someone on the same wavelength as her.]
I'm in. I'm gonna guess... [Lydia theatrically taps her chin.] It'll look like blunt force trauma to the back of the head, but he was actually poisoned and got the backside of his skull caved in to disguise that.
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[Honestly, Anne's just glad she doesn't have to lug a dead body anywhere.]
Though kinda suspicious, don't ya think? Just having a really good guess off the tip of your tongue?
[She winks though. She's not massively serious - though she also has no intention of dying (again) so she crouches down properly and pokes the body thoughtfully.]
Maybe... not poisoned. Too obvious. I think he's been suffocated with a pillow or something. Bashed to knock him out, so he wouldn't struggle and then suffocated. That wouldn't be a bad way to go, really. I think, if I had to choose again... I mean, the sword wasn't that bad. It was just kinda... knowing, right? Like, the waiting? If I could do it again, I'd ask him to just have it done there and then. Like this poor old sod.
[She snorts.] So, bashed and then suffocated. And from that, I'm thinking that the killer must have been smaller than him, worried about a fight.
[She looks pointedly at Lydia.] I'm wondering if I know any small girls who wouldn't stand a chance in a fight? [Anne smirks, as if this is all just some massive joke.]
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[Lydia notices the quarter-joking half-suspicion in Anne's tone, but she lets it slide for now. Can't exactly blame her for wondering if the girl who talks about death all the time was the culprit.]
There's no winning with how you die from what I've heard. [Lydia shrugs.] The Maitlands wished they had more time to prepare if they knew, but if you do have time, you complain about how the dread's the worst part. It's... the same when you're watching someone die, too. I can say that much. [That last part is spoken more softly, but Lydia shakes her head, forcing away the melancholy. There's a dead body to mess with, there's no time to be sad when she can deflect being sad by being morbid.]
According to the B-man, the worst part about dying is the lines.
...I don't know what he meant by that, honestly.
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[It takes a lot to leave Anne speechless but Lydia might have just done it. She stares at Lydia agog.]
Like... that's totally extra. Like, I totally got blamed for killing stupid old Aragon but I had nothing to do with that.
[Just putting it out there. Anne's a lot of bad things, but a murderer she is not!]
I... have no idea about lines. It was just... nothing.
[She looks uncharacteristically down. Her execution is a pain in the neck, literally, and it hurts her to think about any of it in anything but the most jokey of manners. After a beat, she shakes herself.]
So how do we tell who's right?