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thebackstage2021-04-02 10:07 am
stagemanagers) wrote in 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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Breaking our legs
I couldn't...
[She sighs.]
Surely no one else can truly...?
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Is it so surprising, that a man capable of summoning us from across time and space could do the same with our friends?
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[She sighs and looks back at her photo. So young, compared to how she somehow looks now. She doesn't understand it.]
If we were in Austria, my husband would be able to rescue us quite easily. He has an army, he wouldn't let my disappearance go without a fight.
[That's right. That's right! Her husband would absolutely look for her, especially after they got married so...recently...?
It was recent, right? Never mind that she looks, and feels, so much older. Sissi's jaw sets.]
If our captor can bring us here, perhaps we can find a way to bring him and that army here with the same means, couldn't we? Then no one would have to die!
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If we are to survive, it will need to be by our own hands and resources. It won't do you any good hoping for someone else to do what you can.
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[She falters, looking away.]
...You're right, perhaps. But we should still look for the means that brought us here. At the very least, when we find it, we can bring someone who can aid us, isn't that right?
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Would it not make more sense to use it to leave this place? Why not seize the means instead of waiting for someone else to do it for you?
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Of course I would do that. But wouldn't you also want the Wizard to be brought to proper justice? And...well, I'm certain my husband would at least make sure of it.
[He can do anything. He's the Emperor.
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[She shrugs.]
You don't need to rely on someone else, you know.
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We shouldn't be alone on this, though. Even if my husband can't come, we can't just do this on our own. We should work together-and if we can connect to people on the outside, we could at least give someone warning of our situation, couldn't we?
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He's still my husband, though, and we just married. I feel it would be foolish not to think he's looking for me right now, with everything he's got...
[
"Just married" says the 60 year old with the memories of her 17 year old self currently
]Anyways
That's just what's expected from a man, isn't it?
[She pauses.]
Ah, but I keep forgetting...not everyone is from where I'm from. I suppose it's a little different for you.
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[Ah yes, lesbian problems.]
You don't need a man to save you. You are perfectly capable of saving yourself, I can promise you that.
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But...well, it's just when you're married to an emperor...it's...
[He promised. He did. He'd be there for her.]
I think it is different, yes.