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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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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?