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

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[employeeoftheyear]

Maybe if we sing "kumbaya" really loudly...?

[Spongebob, however, looks noticeably shaken up looking at his own photo of a dopey looking man with a pink pompadour.]

[yourattention]

That's not what I f—

[Man, he can't yell at Spongebob?? That's a sin.]

I don't really think it's gonna make anything better.

[employeeoftheyear]

[The only reason Spongebob is even alive at this point is because it feels like a horrible crime to even be rude to him.

Which is why Squidward has no soul.

Spongebob looks again at his photo, looking like he's about to cry.]

...You're right, but killing each other to save our friends isn't the answer! I mean you are all my friends too; and we lost a lotta you guys already!

[yourattention]

[Part of Connor wants to scream, to yell about how absolutely none of this is solvable. That's the whole point. It's a Kobayashi Maru: a scenario you can't win unless you cheat.

The rest of him is just tired.]

Shit's fucked, Spongebob. [He runs a hand through his hair.] We—it's just gonna keep going, you know? The best you can do is fumble your way through it until it's over.

[employeeoftheyear]

... Yeah, I know it's fucked.

[Spongebob has zero idea what the word means but this kid who's younger than him is using it a lot so it's probably cool.]

But... but I still don't want any of you guys to die, even if it is to save our friends. I don't know if I could ever face Patrick again knowing that he's only alive because I killed an innocent person.

[yourattention]

[BLANK NO I CAN'T BELIEVE I CORRUPTED SPONGEBOB]

I know. It's—M would be so fucking mad at me if I went for it, but I know not everyone's gonna feel that way. People die and we. We just gotta live for them until we can figure out how to undo this shit.