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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.
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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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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?
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[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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[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-06-01 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[WELL THAT'S...ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT IT Salieri is trying to wrap his head around this but that second question is far easier to answer, at least]

I've been working on an opera that the moment, but I've done some secular and instrumental as well.
tellthestory: (♪ verismo ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-01 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
That's so neat! I'm just from a regular musical, we've got plenty of spoken dialogue. I don't get any, though.

[So he's practically operatic???]
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[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-06-01 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
I...see? [he does not really see, but this feels a bit like when Rosenberg will say something out of the blue that makes very little sense (the most recent about someone named Mariah Carey,) and most of the time, Salieri just lets it pass and doesn't comment. So he's just...going to let that lie.]

That's a pity. If you don't get any of the spoken dialogue then you sing, I suppose?
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-01 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm not called the Balladeer for nothing!
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[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-06-01 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[. . . .]

Yes, I suppose that does make sense. Certainly calling a spade, a spade.