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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2016-10-10 11:53 am
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OVERTURE

You wake up, and realize you don’t remember how you got here.

This bed is soft and warm, but it’s certainly not yours. And the room is unfamiliar - unless perhaps you’re an actor, seeing as it looks almost exactly like every dressing room in the world. It's not quite large enough to fit the bed and trunk comfortably alongside the vanity, but it what it lacks in open space, it makes up for in coziness. This could be something you’ve seen in a movie, or dreamed about experiencing one day. But whatever the case, you aren’t supposed to be here.

There’s a silver key resting on your vanity, along with a thin program booklet. The cover - where the name of the show would usually be - is blank, but if you flip through it, you’ll find some startlingly familiar information. Maybe a few familiar faces as well…

The hallway outside is narrow and poorly-lit, lined with star-studded doors. But if you make your way past them and out into the lobby, you’ll find something entirely different: an elegant, refined opera house. Crystal chandeliers glitter overhead, and the red carpet is perfect for putting on a show. A large clock on the northern wall marks the time, though with the windows shuttered and locked it's difficult to tell whether it's morning or night. There’s also some framed information pinned up that you might find helpful. If you explore further into the adjoining wings, in fact, you'll see there's an identical copy in every room.

There’s also two sets of double-doors in the lobby: one leading back the way you came, deeper into the Opera House, and one leading out. For the moment, neither of them will open.

It looks like you’re stuck. But hey - at least you aren’t alone.
superboyisalive: (serious)

[personal profile] superboyisalive 2016-10-10 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Ask away, dude, but I got nothin'.

[Gabe shrugs a bit, hands in his pockets, looking only slightly concerned.]

That's certainly me, but I have no clue why there would be any actor playing me. Especially me playing me.

[A shrug.]

Guess we just have to go with the flow, yeah?
sunshineprincess: (♥ Life is way too short)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Anna stops when she's addressed, looking at the entry with an annoyed sigh.] Yeah, that's me. But I can tell you I'm not an actress.

[It's insulting, really. She was quite sure she was Anna of Arendelle, the actual princess.]

Can't really answer the second one. I've never been to a place like this in my entire life! I'm... pretty sure there's nothing like this anywhere in Arendelle.
sunshineprincess: (♥ Before we learn how to fly)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Happening to still be in the hallway, Anna looks over to see her room neighbor. Or so she's assuming by his declaration that he was the Pirate King. Why it was printed on his door twice is beyond her. Her own door just had her name and the title of 'The Princes.']

Is that really your name? You don't look like a king.

[Anna. Be more tactful.]
superboyisalive: (charming)

[personal profile] superboyisalive 2016-10-10 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope. Haven't actually heard of the place, sorry. Is that in Pennsylvania?

[Sounds like the kinda of weird-ass town name that you'd find out east. He just smiles a bit.]

It's probably more interesting than my city. We just get a lot of rain.
robitussin: (from a magic gun)

[personal profile] robitussin 2016-10-10 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[She rolls her eyes, about to say it figures, but she pauses at his next words. What he's implying - no, that's impossible. He can't be her brother, she thinks, and the only person who would know enough to make that kind of comment is a member of her family... Or the person who wrote the descriptions in the pamphlet. She latches onto that possibility immediately.]

Fuck you. How did you find this out? Who are you?

[Her anger doesn't change the fact that she at once looks tense, nervous and uneasy. This is sick.]
catliketread: (☠ TAKE ANOTHER STATION)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Not just any king!

[He points upwards dramatically. And then bursts into song, as you do.]

For I am the Pirate King...

[. . .

Okay seriously, this just does not work without his crew to back him up here. The Pirate King sighs and rests his forehead against his hand. Dramatically. As you do.]


The song will have to wait, I'm afraid. I've no idea where my crew has gotten to.
superboyisalive: (serious)

[personal profile] superboyisalive 2016-10-10 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I found it out because I've been watching you.

[Like the creep he is.]

Mom's not right in the head sometimes, you know that, Natalie. She... created me, I guess you could say. I am your brother, Nat, I'm just... more around than I usually am. Ask me anything you want.

[Behind his cocky confidence, there's... a tiny hint of hurt in his expression. At the end of everything, he really is just a teenage boy who wants his family to work.]
catliketread: (☠ SO STEALTHILY THE PIRATE CREEPS)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahah! You've a powerful set of lungs on you, girl!

[where did you even come from, king]
catliketread: (☠ A FLY'S FOOT-FALL)

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[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[WHO NEEDS RULES WHEN YOU'RE A PIRATE though he does glance over them briefly from over Billy's shoulder, like this is not a weird thing to do. Huh. These seem kind of weird but uh—]

...What is that sixth rule?

[Is this some kind of joke? A really bad one?]
rockthistown: (maybe i might have screwed up)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-10 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I know! These profiles are just rude! If I knew that the people running this show would make the program so mean--

[Hime shuts up and looks Anna over, then starts to shrink back.]

Are you from the new group, or...? This is Harmonia, right? I just must have slept through getting here...? help
catliketread: (☠ TRUCE TO NAVIGATION)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Boy! Watch your step!

[The Pirate King reaches out to grab Seymour's shoulders, both to get his attention and to steady him so he doesn't fall.]

Pay attention, else you'll run into a wall next!
rockthistown: (can we not do that)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-10 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

[Hime flails and falls over, knocking down the garment rack.]

Who are you? Do you work here?
catliketread: (Default)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Beautiful. 10/10.]

Of course not! Do I look like I belong in an establishment like this? Nay! I am...!

[DRAMATIC PAUSE + DRAMATIC POINT UPWARDS]

The Pirate King!

[...this would be so much better with his crew to gleefully sing about him, but nahhhhh, of course not.]
sunshineprincess: (♥ Go see the world)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Pennsylvania?

[That wasn't in any books or maps she's studied during lessons.]

No, I don't think so. Arendelle's a country. [As for the rain.] That sounds awful. You don't get a lot of sunshine?
sunshineprincess: (♣ I didn't know they did that)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hearing him start to sing was unexpected but thrilling at the same time. Until is falls flat...]

You need a crew to sing about yourself?

[That sounds awfully inconvenient.]
superboyisalive: (suburban boy)

[personal profile] superboyisalive 2016-10-10 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, whoops. I must have slept through geography that day, sorry.

[He looks a bit sheepish, shrugging.]

Unfortunately, not. It's a pain. I'm Gabe, by the way.
rockthistown: (stop playing with the thermostat)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-10 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hime shrinks back with a desperate wish to become one with the wallpaper, but shakes her head.]

I don't know. There's something weird about this theatre. I don't even remember arriving here!
catliketread: (☠ IN SILENCE DREAD)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It simply doesn't sound the same without them! I can't sing the background parts too, that's simply too much!

[S I G H]

I am a bit worried about them outside of the singing. We were all together last I checked and then... I woke up here. This obviously isn't my ship.

[And there isn't any sign of his crew...]
sunshineprincess: (♠ And hit the road)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
They don't even add what this person who's trying to be me even looks like!

[Anna blinks as the girl- flips through the booklet- Hime moves away.]

Harmonia? Never heard of it. Is it a performance group?
solomonjihad: (☆if only I knew...)

Re: OTA

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-10 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Wh--

[Sir, do not scare her like that. She's almost skittering away from you, red eyes wide, at the brazenness in which Raul approaches.

She shakes her head quickly.]


No! I don't know anything...!
sunshineprincess: (♠ Life is way too short)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Is Pennsylvania a country?

[Maybe one that hasn't been mapped yet? It would explain the strange clothes.]

I don't think I could live without sunshine. [She decides a curtsy is in order. Time to show some proper decorum befit of her rank!] Princess Anna of Arendelle. It's nice to meet you, Gabe of Pennsylvania.
rockthistown: (you gotta be kidding me)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-10 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a place my friends and I were invited to sing at, but I just remember getting the invitation. All of a sudden, I woke up here!
solomonjihad: (...never mind)

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[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-10 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
...Are...are we dreaming?

[ Any cast member may bring the show to a close by killing another cast member. They must simply do so without being caught.

She shakes her head when she feels the breathing, the breathing, and lets out a shaky 'heh'. Good god, why?]


No, this...this has to be a prank, right? A prank by an upperclassman, maybe? Maybe...maybe they're behind the door.

[Humans could be cruel like that, right?

...You're kind of old though]
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sunshineprincess: (♠ At the mountains)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's only ever sung alone as far she she knows.]

I don't even remember falling asleep. Or how I wound up in these clothes.

[She looks down at herself. Shouldn't she be in the coronation gown, not this... peasant wear?]

I'm used to falling asleep in a castle.
robitussin: (and trips my brain)

[personal profile] robitussin 2016-10-10 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Shut up. I don't want to ask you anything.

[It's said quicker this time, even more nervous. This isn't happening. It doesn't make any sense, and she refuses to believe him.]

I don't know what your problem is, but you need to back off. I don't have time for your sick bullshit, I need to find a way out of here.