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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.
robitussin: (there will be light)

[personal profile] robitussin 2016-10-10 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh, it's called a lightbulb. Electricity. You do know what that is, right?

[The idea that they could be from different time periods hasn't crossed her mind yet, despite the odd (to her, at least) clothing some of the other people here are wearing.]

Even if they matter now, they aren't going to matter once we find a way out. I would start thinking about that instead.
solomonjihad: (maybe I can be friends!)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-10 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Astarte looks up at Anna as she speaks her protest about her level of dishevelment. She had been looking at her own entry how could it know that part and she quietly closes hers.

...Right, this...human? She looks human. She's looking distressed. Fit in with the humans was her mission at the school, right? Spy on them, learn about them. She can do the same for this human. She can be perfectly normal for a human!

So, she takes a breath and speaks, as confidently as someone who has just met humans in this kind of unexpected situation can be.]


Its ok to be disheveled slightly.

[...Did that work?]
Edited 2016-10-10 20:04 (UTC)
sunshineprincess: (♠ To take it slow)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[The rules drew Anna's eyes until she sees who else is reading them.

.... that was some rather elaborate makeup. Sorry if she's staring at you, Jezebel. She thought the booklet was wrong.]
dechagny: (will smugly concede)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-10 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Raoul nods, acknowledging the grave error in these pamphlets. The information in these is creepy.] Nor I an actor - and I am fairly certain this must be some sort of opera house, but none I am familiar with in the least.

[He sighs, and slips the pamphlet into his coat pocket.] Ah, but, where are my manners? Charmed to meet you, miss, I am the Viscount de Chagny.
dontfeedplants: (Stick with that plant)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-10 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[... Okay, are those horns real? He had briefly looked at her photo while looking through the booklet, but Seymour had just assumed that it was makeup.

Sorry Jezebel, there is going to be a lot of staring.]


I guess I'm here?

[Awkwardly waves while staring.]
sunshineprincess: (♠ Leads you)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! I'm Princess Anna of Arendelle. Though I guess my sister would be a lot more well known. [Which she isn't bitter about. Her sister is the first born after all.]

Florist? That sounds more like a botanist to me.
aflatouttahell: (03)

[personal profile] aflatouttahell 2016-10-10 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[She notices Anna staring after a moment, and looks over.]

This... sure is something, huh?
superboyisalive: (whut)

[personal profile] superboyisalive 2016-10-10 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh... whoops, I'm sorry.

[He looks sheepish for a moment. Who is this girl, a Disney Princess?]

I swear a bit too much sometimes. I'll try to stop.

[He smiles, charmingly.]
dechagny: (is not a total douchebag)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-10 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
That's alright. Perhaps they are in rooms of their own, back in that dim hallway. [Though, Raoul does pause at mention of a city he...knows? Hasn't been to, but knows.] Do you suppose we could be in America? I was under the impression that we must be in Paris.
dieformymusic: (Sad cawing)

OTA

[personal profile] dieformymusic 2016-10-10 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[The day had ended well for Winslow, he was planning on visiting the Juicy Fruits concert and maybe giving an audition for Death records, the records owned by the Swan. Who knows, maybe Swan himself may show up.
But that was another day. Winslow woke up to find something vastly different. Winslow felt like he was wearing something different, like a cloak and a black outfit. It was weird...did someone dress him up? Some kind of weird prank? His head felt heavier than usual--he had the misfortune of looking into the mirror.

A helmet. A gruesome helmet almost birdlike fitted on his head. Something was blocking one eye, maybe if he took off the helmet--no.

What happened to his face. Horrified he put the helmet right back on. What happened to his head?! Winslow attempts to make a shout, only to find nothing but strangled noises coming out. His voice...his face...someone took these from him...

Someone who KNEW him...this was some gruesome joke. Why did they want him in a show?! Was it for his song-writing ability? He had to find the way out, get out of here before these other cast members saw him and this hideous visage.

He's rushed off from his dressing room in a flutter of a cloak to the lobby, desperately rapping against the box office windows. Someone has to get him out of here! Someone is in charge they have to be!]
aflatouttahell: (01)

[personal profile] aflatouttahell 2016-10-10 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Awkward wave back!]

Hi! Do you... know where we are?
sunshineprincess: (♥ 'Cause your future's)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
... no. We use oil lamps back home. We don't have any of those things.

[It's kind of a neat idea though. You wouldn't have to smell the burning whale oil all the time. It could make you nose blind rather quickly.]

Find a way out? Why wouldn't they just let us go? It's not like we're supposed to be here.
solomonjihad: (☆if only I knew...)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-10 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Your dad?

[...Wh...what? Is this the daughter of the responsible party?]

Why would your dad do this? I don't even know your dad...

[Or any human male aside from...one. Sort of. As far as she knows he was once?]
aflatouttahell: (02)

lobby

[personal profile] aflatouttahell 2016-10-10 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[She sees him trying to work on the shutters, but... if he can't get them open, she's not going to be able to.]

Stuck tight, huh?
dontfeedplants: (They say the meek gonna get it)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-10 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
... Arendelle? Sorry, I don't think I've ever heard of that country. [Evidence that this woman is lying about the princess thing: 1.]

Actually, botanists study plants, I just help sell them.

[Okay the selling part was kind of a new development but still.]
dechagny: (cannot believe)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-10 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah, he IS being brazen, that's not right. And towards a lady no less! He stops immediately, holding his hands up.]

Sorry - sorry, I do apologize, miss, it was not my intention to frighten you. I merely wish to know where I am and why I am here - questions that, perhaps, you too ask yourself?

[No one's going to get any answers if they get upset, and the last thing Raoul wants to do is upset a lady he's never met before now.]
aflatouttahell: (04)

[personal profile] aflatouttahell 2016-10-10 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, he is Satan.

[She gestures at the rules.]

He wouldn't be coy like this, though. Theatrical, yes. But he'd make sure we knew it was him.
sunshineprincess: (♥ It's just a matter of time)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[She jumps a bit and looks over at the person who spoke. With a quick flip through the booklet she notes that this girls name is Astarte. The rest sounds really weird.... so she's going to skip over that for now.

She lets out a sigh and tries to fix the clothes she doesn't even remember putting on.]


Easy for you to say. A princess is supposed to look prim and proper all the time, not disheveled.
solomonjihad: (☆ again its happening...)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-10 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[She stares at him, still reticent, as he holds his hands up. He's...not trying to attack her. She looks down, then back up, then back down.

She simply nods at his question.

None of this is right.]
catliketread: (☠ WHILE THE HOUSEHOLD SOUNDLY SLEEPS)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It's as though they don't want anyone to forget who I am! Not that I can blame them, I do have a whole musical number devoted to piracy. Several, actually. We were singing a different one shortly before I woke up here.

[But there's only one Pirate King song. Probably. Though they've probably got at least five hundred variations on it since they sing it a lot.]
sunshineprincess: (• But I'm somewhere in that zone)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
An opera house? [She's read about them, but this is her first time being in one. It's grand, but creepy without a lot of people in it.]

A Viscount? [She clasps her hands together in front of her and gives him her brightest smile.] I'm Princess Anna of Arendelle. It's nice to meet you as well, Viscount de Chagny.
catliketread: (☠ WOULD BE DISTINCTLY HEARD)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
An actor? Of course not. Do I look like a actor to you?

[...well]
solomonjihad: (☥/☆ the personalities fight)

[1/2]

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-10 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
...............

[Satan. SATAN. AHA-

The stare that Astarte gives to Jez at her response is...well. Something. Its a combination of wide-eyed surprise, and barely-held back contempt.

This girl? This girl is claiming to be the child of Satan.

Fool. What a joke, what--]
sunshineprincess: (♥ And the stars shine for you)

[personal profile] sunshineprincess 2016-10-10 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sorry about this next part.]

..... are those real horns? And wings?
catliketread: (☠ A FLY'S FOOT-FALL)

[personal profile] catliketread 2016-10-10 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
It's almost as though they don't want us to leave!

[...though the window, I guess??]

I haven't looked around much yet, though. I do have a crew and a party to return to, so I should get going. Have you seen the exit?