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

[employeeoftheyear]

[He beams back with absolute confidence.]

Sure! I mean all we need is sugar and cream and ice, right?

[He has never made ice cream before.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[They can be lost together! This clearly won't spell disaster!]

Really? That's it? [Well, if they're just making plain ice cream...] Oh! We should probably use vanilla too. If you can get that, and the cream and sugar, I can get the ice.

[... And by "get the ice" she means she'll grab a bowl from one of the cabinets as Spongebob fetches the other ingredients, twirling one hand in the air and tapping just slightly into her magic, summoning a small pile of ice cubes, all neatly cut and settled into place.]

[employeeoftheyear]

Aye-aye, captain!

[Spongebob salutes and goes to grab stuff from the fridge when he notices

You know I've been meaning to ask you. Are you some kinda sea witch? I've never seen anyone do ice magic back home!

[defyingfrigidity]

[Elsa flinches, barely noticeably, at the term witch. She's come a long, long way in embracing her powers and not assuming everyone will hate or fear them, but that word still has.... certain connotations to it. Witches were always evil in the stories she read after all.]

Not exactly. I'm more of... a nature spirit?

[She doesn't sound too certain of herself as she says that. After all, this whole... fifth spirit thing is new to her. She still feels human, so it seems almost wrong to compare herself to Bruni or Gale. Hm.]

The spirits of nature blessed my mother, after a selfless act she performed many years before I was born. I'm still a human, as far as I'm aware, but I just.... have something a little more special about me as thanks for that. [She laughs.] To be honest, I'm still trying to figure that part of myself out.

[employeeoftheyear]

Ooooh, that's cool! I thought maybe all royalty had power over the elements. I've only met King Neptune but he rules over the entire ocean! So I figured you just ruled over icy places.

[He's slightly disappointed at her implication that not all royalty have magic powers tied to the place they rule.]

But hey, I can tell you already that you're a great person and friend, so you've got that figured out!

[defyingfrigidity]

[Aww, that gets Elsa to blush a little - wait. Waaaait wait wait wait.]

.... King Neptune? You mean... the god?