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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2021-05-30 12:40 am
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once more with feeling [act 3]

You awake in an unfamiliar bed.

It’s comfortable enough, sure, but it’s certainly not yours. The room, too, is unfamiliar, especially in such heavy darkness. There seems to have been a great effort put into making it a livable space, with fuzzy rugs laid over linoleum, beds arranged as best to fit (and one bunk bed per dorm, rip whoever has the bottom bunk), and a single desk. You've also got individually labelled trunks; if you look inside yours, you'll find a yearbook with mostly blank pages, as well as a few with some interesting information. But even with all these changes it’s clear this room started it’s life as a classroom, every window hidden behind heavy dark green curtains.

To add to the strangeness of it all, your clothes have been swapped for some kind of uniform. It, though fitting your body perfectly, might feel a bit odd to some of you, as the body you have isn’t quite the same as it was before you mysteriously fell unconscious. The other important thing to note is the people in the other beds around you, all wearing the same color-coded uniform.

The hallway outside the dorms is narrow but well-lit, with fresh white walls and some scattered posters advertising some kind of midweek club meeting. The hallway goes on until, for the more contemporary of you, the pieces start to fall together as to your location: a school. Once you leave your rooms you’re free to wander as you wish but pinned up on a corkboard just outside the cafeteria there’s framed information that you might find helpful. If you explore further into the other rooms, in fact, you'll see there's an identical copy outside all of them.

In the lobby there are linoleum floors and fluorescent lighting, and a pair of glass doors that appear to lead outside. You can see out of both of them that the sun is shining brightly and there’s definitely more to see in the distance but the glass is unbreakable; you can't get out that way right now. A rolling metal sheet blocks off the hallway to the west. For the moment, both doors leading outside are locked.

It looks like you’re stuck. But hey - at least you aren’t alone.
tellthestory: (♪ cavatina ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Hm? [Sorry, he's still sort of trying to channel narration that isn't there, it really should be there...] Oh, I'm not a real person.
mayavericks: (With Your Pride On the Line)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-31 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
He's a Narrator. [Which means...]

Are you narrating right now?
tellthestory: (♪ cantata ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Not anymore. I got a little bit of it, there...

[He rubs at his eyes. That was actually kinda weird.]

I think that just proves I shouldn't be here. Not my show.
mcfife: side eye (☀️no return forevermore)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-31 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
You can see the action at such a level?

[Clearly this man is some sort of wizard.]
tellthestory: (♪ cantata ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Usually, yeah.
mcfife: AMAZEMENT (☀️I will soar)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-31 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Then it's simply a matter of obtaining the proper spell ingredients. [Because of course that's how it works. Angus nods at his brilliant deducgtion.] What else can you tell about this school?
tellthestory: (♪ treble ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Spell ingredients?

[He has no idea what you're talking about!]

Um...that's mostly it, I guess. I'm pretty sure the "high school academy university" thing isn't normal, but I wouldn't know.
mcfife: thoughtful (☀️to realms beyond space)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-31 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That is very true.

Then...we are all prisoners of The Wizard, if your vision is correct. For what, I am not sure.
tellthestory: (♪ prelude ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure, either. Except maybe putting on a show, but it sounds like that's not the only reason?
mcfife: (🔪 one thousand years ago)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-31 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
He must not be good and creating his own acting troupe if he has to kidnap workers. I've never even been on a stage.
tellthestory: (♪ capriccio ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, not saying you're wrong - but I think that's the premise of the show.
mcfife: side eye (☀️no return forevermore)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-31 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
That we are all unskilled?
tellthestory: (♪ recapitulation ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
The kidnapping part.

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[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-05-31 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[after that statement, followed up by Maya's clarification, Salieri is more confused about legitimately everything than ever before. However...]

The Narrator? And what, exactly, does that imply? [he studies him for a moment] After all, a narrator needs a story to narrate, does he not?
tellthestory: (♪ recapitulation ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[God, he came out here for...kidnapping reasons, really, and he's feeling so attacked right now.]

Well, I did.
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[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-05-31 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
You did? [Salieri arches an eyebrow at that] What did you narrate, exactly?
tellthestory: (♪ vivace ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Assassins, by Stephen Sondheim.

[The Balladeer spreads his hands a little, like it's a production, and then looks Salieri over again.]

You seem like you might not know who he is, but he's a big deal.
violentenvies: (17)

[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-05-31 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I must admit that I have not heard of the work nor the...writer? [He also has absolutely no idea what Assassins is in terms of a work so he's just guessing and hopes he's right.]

So...you narrate things, then. Including, it seems, what's going on here?
tellthestory: (♪ bass ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I think that was a one-off. I haven't seen the script for any of this, assuming there is one.
violentenvies: purrahms @ tumblr (01 How could this happen to me)

[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-05-31 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I see. [sort of. It's...strange. Very strange.] I suppose you'll be sure to announce it if you get any other glimpses of narration.
tellthestory: (♪ lusingando ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
That's kinda the whole point, yeah.
violentenvies: qu-r @ tumblr (09 That's all you had to say)

[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-05-31 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Wonderful. [dry] I much prefer to orchestrate stories rather than be a part of them, but it seems here that I have no choice.
tellthestory: (♪ vivace ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-01 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
I've never really had much choice. You get used to it, though.

[Anyway. You orchestrate?] What do you do?
violentenvies: qu-r @ tumblr (08 Well if you wanted honesty)

[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-06-01 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
[wait say what]

I'm a composer.

[HE'D GO ON BUT he's a little more concerned by what you've just said before that sir] Pardon me, but did you say that you've gotten used to not having a choice?
tellthestory: (♪ canon ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-01 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, well, sure. I started off used to it, really. What're you gonna do?

[Walk out of the show? That's not really possible - or at least, he hadn't known it was until the Player fetched him from it. She could probably get out of here just fine.]

What do you compose?

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