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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.
aflatouttahell: (03)

[personal profile] aflatouttahell 2016-10-10 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is not her beautiful bed. This is not her beautiful... okay, Hell is hardly beautiful, but! This is a dressing room, and she doesn't live, you know, in a dressing room. And certainly not with an ominous blank playbill full of... headshots and profiles? Including her own, which... okay, "The Hell Princess" is a little on-the-nose, but it's not inaccurate. The implication that her skin and horns are just makeup bugs her, but if it's a matter of "this is what it would take for someone to pretend to be you, Jezebel Mephistopheles" then it's probably not wrong. There are plenty of Devils, but they're mostly ugly jerks.

But after a moment to collect herself, she'll poke her head out of her room and call out:]


Hello? Is anyone there?

[Later, once she's been emboldened a little further, she'll make her way to the lobby, either pacing back and forth in thought or examining the rules.]

... Dad would be way more straightforward, but who else would set all this up...?
sunshineprincess: (♣ When can we do this again?)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't remember any place named Harmonia in her geography lessons.]

..... [Oh no!] .... I think we were kidnapped.
rockthistown: (is that really gonna work)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-10 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't know you could become a king by downloading a bunch of things you didn't pay for. Harmonia is strange, huh?
superboyisalive: (charming)

[personal profile] superboyisalive 2016-10-10 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It's part of a country. A small-ish part of a really big country.

[A princess? Now that's something he never thought he'd come across. He grins largely, bowing deeply to her. He'll stick to Pennsylvania for now. It's easier than trying to explain states.]

It's great to meet you, your highness. I haven't had the opportunity to meet a real princess before. My country is... rather lacking in them. Our leaders are mostly assholes.

[...welp.]
catliketread: (☠ TRUCE TO NAVIGATION)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
A castle?

[. . .]

Oho, so that's why you asked about my kingship! Kingliness. Are you a queen, or perhaps a princess?
rockthistown: (very concerned over here)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-10 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
What? But there's no way! We would have been able to-- [Hime shuts up and looks herself over. As she pats her pockets, she pales.]

...no way!
catliketread: (☠ IN SILENCE DREAD)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[...what.]

No, I'm the Pirate King. Pirate. Piracy. You know, sailing the seas and sinking ships and all that? I don't know what this "downloading" thing is, but I've never done any of that! Probably.
dontfeedplants: (What am I saying?)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-10 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hey Anna, here's a guy who couldn't help but notice you crumbling up your booklet.]

S... shouldn't you be more worried about why they know so much about us?

[He had not looked at Anna's profile in detail but the fact that this booklet knows about their life and personality kind of creeps him out.]
sunshineprincess: (♠ Oh oh oh oh)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[The closest thing she can think of is a village or maybe a territory?]

A country without royalty? That's- [She looks mortified, putting a hand over her mouth. She's never heard someone swearing in her life!] That's... not a very nice thing to say...
solomonjihad: (☥/☆ I can't...hold on...)

Shiva Shingetsu Astarte | OTA~

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-10 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[The first thing that rings a warning bell isn't the fact she's in a room she doesn't recognize, and doesn't recall coming to. That does come, but not until she opens her door and sees the Opera House in full. When she does, the terror she's already felt naturally multiplies.

No, its the blue clothing and headdress she wears. Its not her school uniform. She's supposed to have a school uniform. She's supposed to be in school with all those humans and the sailor soldiers who defended them. Then, if she is here, not in school, and not in school clothing--

Where is she?

Even the voice is silent, as she begins to pace frantically in the lobby, clutching her head as she slides the headdress off of her head. Her breathing becomes frantic. She feels nothing. There's no Lilith - no mother - behind her to tell her this is all right. No Brinvilliers in sight. No one she knows. Nothing she'd prepared for.]


This...

[Her hands shake.]

this isn't part of the plan!
Edited 2016-10-10 19:54 (UTC)
sunshineprincess: (♠ Joined at the hip)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods before curtsying.]

I'm Princess Anna of Arendelle. It's nice to meet you.... Pirate King.

[Why is that your name? Why can't it be something like Agnar, Erik, or Bob?]
dontfeedplants: (You know the book doesn't lie)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-10 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
If I had, I didn't notice them. [You can practically hear Seymour mentally scolding himself as he rubs the back of his head awkwardly.] Maybe we're still in New York somewhere? I've never been to the opera houses there so I wouldn't recognize them either way.

[Seymour just because you live in New York does not mean everything is in New York.]
dontfeedplants: (It's not demand and supply)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-10 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well that sure is a complete stranger grabbing him. Seymour just kind of... stares there stunned for a little moment before responding.]

Thanks? ... And I'm sorry, but do I know you?

[Because why would a complete stranger care if he runs into a wall?]
robitussin: (feel like i feel too)

[personal profile] robitussin 2016-10-10 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that really your first question? Numbers on the doors?

[To her, it seems much less important than how and why they were brought here, so she gives Anna a curious look.]
solomonjihad: (☆ again its happening...)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-10 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[What in the world is...is that a clothing rack? And its moving?.......perhaps...oh. OH.

An Undead!

Astarte quickly makes her way towards it, certain that the creature - the poor creature, bound to such an item! - might have answers. What she got instead was a human's head poking out and screaming right in her face.]


Ghk--

[She flails a bit as she tries to jump backwards, unfortunately catching her foot on her dress. The result is her landing on her behind back in a very ungraceful manner, arms still flailing.

The savior of the world, everyone. ]
sunshineprincess: (♠ And the roadmap)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[It would explain why Anna wasn't in her coronation gown and in these peasant clothes instead. Peasant clothes clearly meant for the winter time. It wasn't even winter when she left home!]

Did they take something of yours too?
catliketread: (☠ SO STEALTHILY THE PIRATE CREEPS)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Arendelle... Never heard of it. But 'tis an honor to meet an actual princess, miss Anna!

[And he'll give a sweeping, over-the-top bow. It's... actually a proper bow? It's just really exaggerated.

...AND WHO NEEDS NAMES ANYWAY.]
sunshineprincess: (♥ There's something in the air)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm? [Anna thinks it over before shaking her head.]

Not really. I'm a princess so of course people are going to know about me. Isn't it like that for everyone?
aflatouttahell: (02)

[personal profile] aflatouttahell 2016-10-10 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah!

[SHE WAS JUST TRYING TO WALK BY, AND NOW THIS......]

Are you alright? Um... [She flips through her program guide.] Hime?
catliketread: (☠ WE NEVER SPEAK A WORD)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I doubt that. You may have heard of me, though! For I am! [he steps back and then points dramatically skywards] The Pirate King!

[...he's very famous, you know.]
sunshineprincess: (♥ Go see the world)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's curious about her surroundings.]

No. I had plenty of questions when I was still in my room, like how those candles are in glass but they don't have a flame. Or why I was in a room that doesn't even look like the servant quarters back home. But the numbers have to mean something!
superboyisalive: (slightly sad)

[personal profile] superboyisalive 2016-10-10 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Natalie, please.

[He winces a bit, and in his pleading, just for a moment, sounds quite a lot like Diana.]

I know it's hard to get your head around, but I am Gabe, I'm your brother, and if we're going to get out of here, it'll be better if we work together.

[As dysfunctional as their family is, they are stronger together.]
sunshineprincess: (• When can I see you again?)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[She giggles at that. He doesn't seem like a bad guy. For a pirate.]

Well, whoever made that plaque for your door wasn't really creative mentioning your name twice.
dontfeedplants: (They say the meek are gonna)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-10 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
A princess? [Oh gee that's someone famous. Luckily he is worried enough that he is able to ignore being flustered over the fact she might be meeting royalty.

There was a small chance she could be lying anyway.]


No, I'm just a florist! I mean, I discovered a plant that a lot of people seem to like, but that's not enough for someone to be able to write up this much about me
dontfeedplants: (My future's starting)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-10 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Seymour continues to stare, before finally saying something.]

Are you an actor?

[He tried.]