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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Questions, comments, concerned? Reach the mods on plurk at slothbless (Lynny) and lluosogrwydd (Lu) and at our public mod plurk stagemanagers. Our official Act 3 FAQ can also be found here!

Comments

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[employeeoftheyear]

[Hello fellow aquatic friend. Spongebob listens to Mumble's "singing", expression completely unreadable.

When he stops, Spongebob gives him an enthusiastic applause.]

Woohoo! You did amazing Mumble! I'd say your music is even better than Squidward's clarinet music!

[If anyone here knew who Squidward was here that might seem like the most backhanded compliment ever.]

[prophetpriestandking]

[Aquatic buddies! Mumble taps his long and naked flippers at his side, still not used to Alien physiology. He's a little bashful.]

You really think? [An exhaled, embarassed laugh.] You're the first person to say that.

[Pause.]

What's a 'clarinet'?

[Can you eat it?]

[employeeoftheyear]

[Thank god Spongebob doesn't have to worry about having a gross human body.

He beams back at Mumbles.]

Really? I think more people should be listening to your singing in that case!

Well, you see a clarinet is a woodland instrument that has one reed and cylindrical with a fluted end, and is pretty popular in both classical and jazz! It kinda looks like an oboe if you've seen one of those.

[He prattles this off like this is common knowledge.]

[prophetpriestandking]

[No, he just has a surprisingly ripped one instead.]

An oboe? [He laughs.] Spongebob, I have no idea what you’re talking about.

[Fluted? Reed? Woodwind?]

What kind of sound does it make?

[employeeoftheyear]

Hmm, clarinets are kinda tricky to tell you what it sounds like if we don't have one here...

[Spongebob thinks for a moment before an idea springs to mind.]

Oh wait! Don't move a flipper.

[Spongebob sprints to the kitchen and runs back a few seconds later with a paper towel roll.]

Now this won't sound exactly like a clarinet but it should give you an idea of what woodwinds sound like!

[He blows into the roll and manages to play an amazingly accurate few bars of Clarinet Concerto in B-flat major. He stops soon after to hand the roll to Mumble so he can try it out.]

Of course we could always ask the guy keeping us here for an actual clarinet, but it's fun to play with these things!

[prophetpriestandking]

Woah-oh-oh!

[Colour Mumble impressed!]

Sounds...interesting!

[Mumble takes the roll between his weird, pink, fleshy flippers.]

Well...here goes!

[Mumble shoves the tube over the top of his beak and...with a big inhale....it makes a rather ...discordant toot. If you could even call it a toot. It’s more like a prpprtbbtbttbb.]

Is that right?

[employeeoftheyear]

[He claps.]

Not bad for your first try! You don't have to be so... forceful though. Try relaxing when you do it!

[prophetpriestandking]

Relaxing...right.

[He can do relaxed! Just like Mrs. Astrakhan taught him.

Big belly breath in. Relax the shoulders. Stand up straight.]

Ppppfffffffbbttttttt

[Somehow, it's worse.

He didn't do well with Mrs. Astrakhan's lessons.]