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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.
solomonjihad: (Default)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-11 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
...Or my school clothing...

[This is...just weird. Really weird...]
dechagny: (will smugly concede)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-11 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[...This just got like 75% more creepy. Who is this guy, where is he, can Raoul please punch him for assaulting ladies.]

In...any case...I do hope you are able to get your belongings returned to you.
solomonjihad: (well I don't know...)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-11 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
You too...were you here for this place?

[Because tickets, right?]
dechagny: (is not a total douchebag)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-11 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head.] Not this place. I had just attended a production at the Opéra Populaire, and though I do not know it intimately, I know that this is not that same opera house.
solomonjihad: (maybe I can be friends!)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-11 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Opéra Populaire...

[Meanwhile Astarte looks like she could be in an opera with her dress.]

Is that in Tokyo?

[She...they're still in Tokyo somewhere, right? Why not? There's...no reason they can't be, somehow? Maybe? Perhaps??]
dechagny: (is not a total douchebag)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-11 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Tokyo? That's...that should be in...Japan...ish? He thinks it is.]

The Opéra Populaire is in Paris, France - though I cannot say if we are even there anymore.
solomonjihad: (...never mind)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-11 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Paris? But...I was in Tokyo.

...

So...we're not in your Opera...and maybe not Tokyo...
dechagny: (cannot believe)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-11 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Truthfully, miss, we could be anywhere.
solomonjihad: (...never mind)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-11 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
.......

[She bites her lip. Damn this hurdle. What hurdle--she starts to pace a little.]

Maybe we should find a...phone. They must have a phone. A way to talk to people back home.
Edited 2016-10-11 20:41 (UTC)
dechagny: (cannot believe)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-11 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
A..."phone"? Do you mean a telephone?

[Those...are a thing he's heard of, they're still being worked on and it's not likely for one to just be left around in an Opera House, but...]

Would we not be better off with telegraph? Those, as I'm aware, are more ubiquitous.
solomonjihad: (absolutely a normal human!)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-11 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, a telephone. They're really common, especially the cell ones, though I don't have one.

I don't see a...a computer? So we can't use an Internet. And telegraphs....I haven't heard of people using those...
Edited 2016-10-11 20:54 (UTC)
dechagny: (cannot believe)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-12 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[He's just...shaking his head. Common telephones? "Cell" telephones? And what the devil is a computer?]

I'm afraid, miss, that you've lost me completely. I've not heard of a computer before.
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.
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!
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?
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.
dechagny: (will smugly concede)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-12 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Shop for things...[He shakes his head. Nope, no, you can't put money into a magic machine and have it pop out fine goods, you need to go directly to the store for that sort of thing.] That does not sound like a smart way to purchase goods.
solomonjihad: (absolutely a normal human!)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-12 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
But you can get anything in the world with it. Really, I got an airplane ticket that way once.
dechagny: (here to help)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-12 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
An...airplane?

[Oh boy you're throwing out a lot of words Raoul hasn't heard of before]

And what does one do at an airplane?
solomonjihad: (absolutely a normal human!)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-12 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
...You fly on it.

[Obviously!!]
dechagny: (aint no viscount got time for that)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-12 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
...How do you...

[He shakes his head.] I believe there is something I'm not understanding here. The things you talk about, this computer, this airplane...they sound like absolute marvels, and yet they are commonplace for you, yes? What sort of world do you live in?
solomonjihad: (maybe I can be friends!)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-12 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I live on Earth.

[...But...so does he, apparently? It can't be the where....can it?

.......

Wait.]


Its all common for the 21st century.

[Wait--]
Edited 2016-10-12 22:15 (UTC)
dechagny: (protects vulnerable maidens)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-12 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wh

Hold on, that's

That's a hell of a jump in time right there]


The 21st? Is...is it not the 19th century?
solomonjihad: (well I don't know...)

[personal profile] solomonjihad 2016-10-12 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
...Its 2001.

[Uuuuuuuuuuuuuh]

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