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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.
dechagny: (protects vulnerable maidens)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-12 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Well, to be honest, I've merely been skimming these...profiles. It feels a bit impersonal to glean information about strangers this way. But, Miss...D-ne, is that how you pronounce it?

[If saying it as "Dee-neh" is wrong, please correct him.]

If my last name is difficult for you, then you may call me Raoul.
solomonjihad: (absolutely a normal human!)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-12 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
You...

[Now this is...huh?]

You've never heard of a computer?

[Even she knows what it is!]

Its a machine, and you turn it on and...and the screen comes on, and you use the keyboard and the mouse to...um. Control the computer and what it does for you.
dontfeedplants: (What am I saying?)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-12 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh gosh did he upset her?]

S-sorry! It's just that everything here is so overwhelming right now.
dechagny: (mild disgust)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-12 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
[God and to think he's actually sort of willing to warm up to a pirate]

No, it doesn't sound like it would be common. I...suppose that if I someday have a son, I should remember it is a possibility for him.

[A possibility he is not allowed to take, dear Lord no]
rockthistown: (okay never mind that)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-12 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
[She slowly emerges again, shaking like a leaf, and nods.]

Why did they even kidnap all of us? How much ransom money do they even need?
allicareabout: (EHHH Δ it's not going to pay for itself)

[personal profile] allicareabout 2016-10-12 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
If you're looking for answers, you're going to have to take it up with higher management.

[...Billy, holy shit, do we have to start out this way.]

I'm just as lost as you are, kid.
dechagny: (will smugly concede)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-12 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Not before today.

[And...yep, he's totally lost even with that explanation.] If you happen to find one of these...computers, would you show it to me so I could try it for myself?
solomonjihad: (absolutely a normal human!)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-12 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Oh!

[Taking a step forward, she nods.]

I can, and I'll show you the Internet you can use, too. Its very easy, you can do all sorts of things on it!
solomonjihad: (absolutely a normal human!)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-12 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[She continues to stare at the girl. Why is she so nervous? Is she hiding something?

As opposed to...hiding behind something?]


Harmonia...?
dechagny: (here to help)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-12 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Isn't a tapir some kind of exotic beast...?]

Ah - I agree, yes! We should definitely make some sort of plan. Perhaps when more of us emerge, we can begin to piece something together.
dechagny: (just got introduced through song)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-12 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Wonderful!

[He is also glad that you're not as upset as you were before, so, whatever any of this is, he's going to try it.]

Now...what is the Inter-net?
allicareabout: (ASSURE Δ huge reward or some shit)

[personal profile] allicareabout 2016-10-12 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[It's probably really fortunate that Billy's currently experiencing 1924 back home - and not, you know, about ten years past that, lest the first words out of his mouth be "Great, they've actually captured Shirley Temple."

As it stands, we are going to be spared the...that, in favor of him just flipping through the program a little more before he glances up at her.]


Right, the child star. Because that's exactly what a place like this needs - kids.

[...Okay, so that's really not any better than anything else he could have said, go ahead and sue. He's not good with kids.]
allicareabout: (INFORM Δ look if jesus christ had $5000)

[personal profile] allicareabout 2016-10-12 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[...Hi, Hime.]

Bit of healthy sarcasm, honey, because it looks like reason's not going to get us anywhere.
breakingbread: (bread dad bread sad)

[personal profile] breakingbread 2016-10-12 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Sweet Jesus, this is the youngest one yet]

Cola? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with it, mademoiselle.
rockthistown: (told you this was weird)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-12 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
It's the-- the country we were going to perform in! For the King and Queen's festival! The theme is "39 Fairies!"
allicareabout: (LEAN Δ they call it a royale with cheese)

[personal profile] allicareabout 2016-10-12 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, good, someone who actually gives a damn about appearances in this place.

That said, though, he'll glance over to see what the hell Raoul is doing over there, and it's really...it's really something, anyway.]


Good to know they're breaking their own rules early.

[He tips his head toward the rule sheet up there.]

Locking us out of places is hardly letting us explore at our pleasure, is it?
breakingbread: (bread dad cannot believe)

[personal profile] breakingbread 2016-10-12 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Is that what it is called?

[Well that answers that]

What is making it so cold? There's only a small tin of ice inside.
rockthistown: (brb escaping)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-12 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[yes, and in this world they're also part magical vacuum]

I hope someone here knows how to pick a lock.
rockthistown: (with... what's the rest of the saying?)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-12 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Does it really say that someone's going to have to kill someone else?
solomonjihad: (absolutely a normal human!)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-12 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, let's...

[And to those doors she goes to! She starts to push...]
allicareabout: (INFORM Δ look if jesus christ had $5000)

[personal profile] allicareabout 2016-10-12 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[...Well, this one isn't a doctor by a long shot, he's kind of a member of the other ridiculously-well-paying professions that all good mothers want their children to go into. But you know what, that's neither here nor there, and this guy is...

He's.

...Well, he certainly is, all right. Billy could do with a little less of the sudden appearances out of nowhere, but you know what, as long as we're limiting all contact to the pamphlet then it's whatever.]


Yeah, that's me, all right.
allicareabout: (LEAN Δ they call it a royale with cheese)

[personal profile] allicareabout 2016-10-12 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Only if we want to bring "the show" to a close - whatever that is.
dechagny: (done with this letter bullshit)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-12 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
[They must rack up a hell of a high ENT doctor bill]

That is sadly not a skill which I have thought to pick up.
rockthistown: (okay never mind that)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-12 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
The program talked about actors pretending to be us. Maybe they're putting on something about us, but then why would they kidnap us?
solomonjihad: (absolutely a normal human!)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-12 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Well, its a...thing computers do.

[SHE IS TOTALLY AN EXPERT]

And you can use it to connect to other people and...shop for things.