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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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Rina Tennoji | Love Live: Nijigasaki School Idol Club
[ It's been a few weeks of this and well... to say Rina is getting used to it would be incredibly wrong but she certainly looks like she's gotten used to it. In fact her facial expression has barely changed at all since arriving here and she's mostly kept to herself, seemingly uncertain about talking.
Today she's sitting by herself, staring at the pamphlet with everyone's names in it. When you walk past she looks up for a moment and tries to get your attention before you leave. ]
Um... excuse me...
[ Her expression and tone of voice are the same as ever but she seems... shyer? Like she's making an effort to push herself. She's quiet for a moment, internally debating if she should actually bother anyone with this, before lifting her pamphlet up, pointing to her own blurb and the title underneath it.
Best Resting Bitchface. ]
What does... this mean?
[ It's throwing her for a real loop but she's pretty sure it's an insult. ]
2) BREAD CLUB
[ When all the bread comes down on Rina, the most she does is screw her eyes shut but otherwise she looks pretty unbothered. A little confused maybe, but still mostly the same (on the outside anyway).
Eventually she makes her way to the spreads and looks over them curiously. ]
I don't think we have some of these back home...
[ Please stop her from reaching for the marmite. She thinks it's chocolate. Or you can ask about the large sketchbook tucked under her arm that she has been carrying around lately if you feel so inclined. ]
3) Curtain
[ It had already happened once and it was bound to happen again. Three weeks in and Nana Daiba, Most Likely to Repeat a Year, is dead.
Rina had been pretty shaken up the first time someone died though as per usual her face failed to show it, most of her reaction being in her anxious body language and the way her voice faltered. But this time... well her face is still mostly the same, save for her mouth hanging slightly agape and her eyes raised in what was probably shock. But while she wasn't the one to discover the body, she wasn't far behind the one who did and the announcement hadn't gone off yet. She stands, feet frozen in their tracks as her small frame starts shaking.
Nana had always been so nice to her despite her face. Always looking out for her, always talking to her... almost like a big sister. It reminded Rina of Ai and that made her feel safe and comfortable.
And now she was dead. And she knew her face wasn't displaying the horror and grief she felt. She probably looked suspicious... she probably looked like she didn't care. But she did. She cared so much, and it was the fact she knew it wouldn't look like she did that made it hurt even more.
And so as soon as her legs remembered how to move she bolted out of there, finding herself a small little corner in the hall or another room to hide in, curled up with her knees to her chest and her face buried away. ]
4) Wildcard
[ up for anything! feel free to hmu ]
You know exactly what I'm here for.
She is... not ready to face this reality.
Yet she must. The show must go on, and the only way to live is to find the creature that did this to her her friend. And so, she reminds herself of all she is, again and again as she begins barking out orders. Her knowledge of crime scene investigation is based off of crime novels, a few films, and whenever a few details were necessary for a stageplay. She falls back into this, into her role, easily enough.
Too easily, considering the girl on the ground.
It's only once the crowd, smaller than when they started, and certainly smaller now, is dispersed that Maya lets herself feel something. She falls from the role, mask breaking, as she thinks of Nana. Nana, who loved her friends so dearly, Nana who would never stand upon the stage with them again.
The corners of her eyes burn as she turns a corner, almost back to her room. Before anything can come of it, she finds the small ball of a girl there. She sifts back in her memory -- she recalls a shock of pink hair being in the crowd and then... not.
For a moment, panic grips her. She doesn't know if she can handle a second body, not after this. But after a moment she sees the telltale signs of breathing and lets herself relax.
Or at least relax as much as she can as she slips back into the role she's set to play. The show must go on, after all.]
Tennoji-san. You're going to worry the others.
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I... I can't... I can't face them right now...
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No one would hold it against you, for being upset. [She can't tell if she's speaking to herself, or to Rina.]
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[ She finally lifts her head and looks back at Maya...
For the most part her face is the same as always. There's some signs of her grief and fear but they're all fairly small and you'd have to be looking closely or know her well to see them. Her shaky, scared voice almost doesn't fit it. ]
I don't... I don't want them to think I'm not upset. Because I am. I really am! But my face is just...
[ She averts her eyes. Maya was one of Nana's friends from school, and something about that makes her feel even worse about this. ]
I don't... want anyone to think I don't care...
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I... Believe it would be very difficult to believe someone did not care about Nana.
[But that isn't the crux of the issue here, is it? She puzzles over the situation for a time, brows pinched.]
Have you ever been in a play, Tennoji-san?
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No. I figured I wouldn't be... a good fit for that sort of thing...
[ The most she'd ever considered was the School Idol Club, but she doesn't remember if she actually went through with that yet. ]
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Sometimes, when I struggle with being myself, I try to be someone else. Do you think that would help?
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[Yuu is just cautiously sniffing a bottle of chocolate honey. Enjoy your death jam.]
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[ She's got the marmite now and is too polite to just stick a finger in and try it so she's starting to spread a generous helping onto a piece of bread. ]
But it'd be a waste not to while we're here... right?
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[She squeezes out chocolate honey and spreads it on half her slice of bread, pauses, and grabs black cherry honey for the other half. I swear these exist.]
Tell me how yours is!
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And then
Nothing.
No response at all, she just stares blankly and quietly at it. Though she isn't... taking another bite. ]
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[She shoves the plate at her and looks like she's contemplating feeling her forehead, if that even helps with food poisoning.]
1/2
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Rina-chan board says... "yuck!!"
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[She sniffs the marmite jar... and makes a face.]
You have a point... do people really eat this? I hope they're not all gross.
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[ she peeks around the book to look at Yu's plate again. ]
What's on yours?
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If you're okay with that.
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[Here you go, have bread with novelty honey! It's, well, a heck of a lot better than marmite.]
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[ She takes the bread with novelty honey. Not long as she's swallowed a mouthful, she's raising the sketchbook back to her face, this time with a much happier expression. ]
Rina-chan Board says... "yummy!"
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So color him surprised when she suddenly approaches him and speaks to him fist, asking what the title on her pamphlet means, and...]
Oh! Oh, uuhhhh...
[It doesn't mean anything GOOD that's for sure...it's hard for Varian not to look immediately pressed for an answer, because he doesn't want to upset her. God no, she's too...soft. Soft is the best word for it.
So the silence ends up stretching on for an awkwardly long time as Varian tries to come up with a kind way to...say this.]
It means...your expression doesn't really change all that much? [KINDOF] It's not...a nice way of saying it, let's just put it that way.