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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.
rockthistown: (someone shut up the neighbours)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-11 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
It looks like one! And I was supposed to be going to one, just... probably not this one because we've been kidnapped and that was not what anybody was planning.
blackstache: (016)

[personal profile] blackstache 2016-10-11 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed. Then perhaps we're forced to wait for our captor to show up to find a way out of this pla- oh, swoggle me eyes. What am I saying?

My dear, have you seen anything that might allow for a quick exit? Bombs, guns, structural weakpoints, something that would allow us to pick locks. Speak up.
rockthistown: (leave before they see us)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-11 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
N-no! Well, uh, the place where you're supposed to buy tickets is closed, but maybe when it opens...
blackstache: (024)

[personal profile] blackstache 2016-10-11 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe what when it opens? Are we supposed to buy tickets to leave?
rockthistown: (no way that must be wrong)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-11 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Of course not! But maybe we can get whoever works there to tell us! And, and there's got to be a phone in there, right?
blackstache: (016)

[personal profile] blackstache 2016-10-11 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Have you considered the possibility that nobody works there. Tell me that.
rockthistown: (you gotta be kidding me)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-11 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Well, then maybe we'll just talk to the janitor! Or whoever serves the concession food! There's probably a concession, what kind of theatre would it be if there weren't?
blackstache: (001)

[personal profile] blackstache 2016-10-11 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
The theatre is most likely abandoned, if that were not obvious enough.
rockthistown: (brb escaping)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-11 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Well, somebody brought us here!
blackstache: (020)

[personal profile] blackstache 2016-10-11 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
And by doing that, they've made themself our enemy.
rockthistown: (stop playing with the thermostat)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-12 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
W-well, yes, but we can't fight back if they took all our stuff, right...
blackstache: (025)

[personal profile] blackstache 2016-10-13 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Captain Hook always triumphs in his duels, regardless of what was or has not been stolen from him.