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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2021-05-31 11:43 am
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Week One

[Yesterday, everyone woke up in a strange place and realized that they'd been kidnapped, and also that everyone else around them may or may not be kinnies? Wow, what a weird escalation of kin drama! Given what some people have seen of Spongebob's freaky arm thing, though, maybe it's not that at all?

Your Assistant Director, Hester, showed off her stuff and immediately had her life threatened by Lumpy Space Princess, who got her life threatened right back. Maybe you should keep that in mind if you decide to pay Hester any more visits! She won't be making another public appearance this week, but as promised, she'll be available for visits and consultation in the Principal's Office during business hours.

If you don't want to chat with Hester, there's always the school to explore! Some of you might also be receiving mysterious coins next to your bedside this week - those must be useful for something, right? There's lots to do, and you all seem like a group who can make your own fun, so enjoy your first week of school!]



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(( OOC: This will be the last mod post for this week! Feel free to start submitting regains for any threads that aren't with Hester. Remember, song threads mean an extra coin! This is a peace week, so get all that CR while you can! ))
tellthestory: (♪ accentato ♫)

Cafeteria

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-04 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, man, are there books around here?

[In his defense: all his stuff was just piled beneath his cot, and he hasn't really got down on his hands and knees to dig everything out from under there.]
barberic: (pic#14925156)

[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-04 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[To his credit, he doesn't startle, although it seems like you successfully snuck up on him, sir. He looks up, lowering his hand from where he was starting to worry his curls absently.]

Oh- Perhaps, but this is the one that I believe we all have a copy of. The one with our information in it.

[Fun fact the Balladeer is on the page right before Benjamin! Somehow, despite that, there's minimal suspicion in Benjamin's voice as he nonetheless slides the yearbook across the table, now open to the Balladeer's face.]

...You photograph well, Mr. Balladeer. As if you posed for it, almost.
tellthestory: (♪ recapitulation ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-04 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[The Balladeer comes over to take a look!]

Oh, huh...I don't think I got one.

[The photograph isn't the odd part to him. That's pretty common, really. The quote seems reasonable enough, too. But the rest...]

What's that supposed to mean? [Whether he means his title or the fun fact is unclear!]
barberic: (pic#14925162)

[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-04 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Which, sir? That you've collaborated with 'many murderers,' or that apparently they may have rubbed off on you?
tellthestory: (♪ beat ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-04 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
The title. The rest of it's just about my show - it was called Assassins, of course it was full of murderers. Booth would say assassination's different, but it's just a political murder, he just wants to pretend he's a Shakespearian hero...

[He's just gonna flip through a couple pages. Mostly to see if Mumble and Spongebob have human portraits, admittedly, which they do. Then, because he's starting to sense some potential hostility here, he's just gonna slide that back.]

But I guess I already knew Hester's not a fan.
barberic: (pic#14925161)

[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-05 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Benjamin takes the yearbook back without taking his eyes off of the Balladeer.]

I'd say calling you `Most Likely to Murder Innocence and Hope` is a bit more than 'not a fan.'
tellthestory: (♪ custos ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-05 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
It's pretty dramatic.

[He rolls his eyes in agreement.]

She acted like I barged in here on purpose to screw things up. All that stuff about how they didn't want me - it's not as if I want to be here, either!
barberic: (pic#14925133)

[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-05 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Right, your other show.

And you're certain you have no idea how you could have ended up here instead?
tellthestory: (♪ lontano ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-05 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
No. I don't even know where we are - and anyway, I've never gone between shows on my own before. I only got out of my first one because the Player came and got me.
barberic: (pic#14925129)

[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-05 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
The Player... You mentioned them before, didn't you? They chose you because they thought you would have a talent for talking people out of killing.

Because of the assassins?
tellthestory: (♪ verismo ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-05 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
She. The Leading Player - she's like me, but...better?

[He's pretty sure she wouldn't have ended up in this mess, however it happened to him in the first place. Anyway, she did mention that she didn't want him to tell their cast about her, but this is a whole other affair, and he's naturally a honest man; it doesn't occur to him to lie this time.]

But yeah, that's why. I spent half my time there trying to talk them down. It never really worked, but that's because it was doomed from the start - they already did it. That's history, that's the story. She thought that if I had a real chance, though, I could actually do some good.
barberic: (pic#14925161)

[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-06 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Noble of her to give you that kind of chance.

As noble as can be for somebody who kidnaps people to see if they kill one another, that is.
tellthestory: (♪ bene ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-06 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that's just the premise of the show. Not much to be done about that. Between the two of us, though, we're gonna get through with no one getting hurt.

[And that's the important thing, right?]
barberic: (pic#14925161)

[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-06 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Perhaps it's on him to expect a man from a show about assassins to understand that maybe it's the existence of a show where the premise is homicide that's the problem, here.

Pot, meet kettle.]


Is the premise of your show then for people to kill one another, or for people to not kill one another?
tellthestory: (♪ etude ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-06 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
The premise is that they'll be tempted. That's why I need to be there at all - if it were just, I don't know, Cinderella or something, they wouldn't need someone like me around. It'd actually be pretty weird.

[Cinderella needs some murder ballads!]
barberic: (pic#14925129)

[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-07 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but stories have to have an ending going in, don't they? The author knows how it ends before the actors even take the stage.
tellthestory: (♪ lusingando ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-07 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Well, maybe, but I'm not the author. I don't even really know who is - the Player says it's sort of different, that way.

[So maybe it's predetermined still - but it sounded like it wasn't. If there's even a chance, of course he has to try.]
barberic: (pic#14925162)

[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-07 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Are you certain that she isn't the author? The- grand designer, at least.
tellthestory: (♪ lusingando ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-07 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
I...well, I didn't have anything to do with setting my show up. I've been surprised by how involved she is in this one.

[So maybe she had some design input.]

But the author, no. I don't think it'd be possible for me to meet her, if she were.
barberic: (pic#14925133)

[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-07 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Really? Why is that?

[Don't actors meet the authors of their plays all the time? Well, unless the author is dead, that is.]
tellthestory: (♪ accelerando ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-07 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno, that sounds really post-modern.

[not that his show is a shining traditionalist example, but you get him]
barberic: (pic#14925162)

[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-08 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
...

[How can something be post-modern- no actually he doesn't want to know.]

Fair enough.