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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: (cannot believe)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-10 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Raoul doesn't notice the sound of the rolling rack, he's too engrossed in his pamphlet entry. "The Charming Rival" - what is that even supposed to mean, he's not a rival to anyone. Though he is charming, thank you mysterious pamphlet.

It IS Hime's yell that startles the crap out of him, though, jumping as he's seated on one of the couches, the pamphlet flying up and fumbling out of his hands. He is definitely whipping around to take a look at the...blue...haired...girl?

What?]


...Dear God, are you well?!

[Because who yells like that other than people who are not well? Oh yeah, panicked people.]
rockthistown: (Default)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-10 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Eep. Hime hides behind the rack again. She takes a few deep breaths, though, and slowly comes out from behind it.]

E-excuse me! This is a theatre, right?
dechagny: (will smugly concede)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-10 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[.......

Raoul nods slowly.]


As...far as I can tell? Yes. Most likely it is a form of opera house. Now...why did you feel the need to shout and commandeer a clothing rack?
rockthistown: (distress call to nobody)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-11 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
People are scary!

[Stop, Hime, you've been working on this. She breathes in again.]

I was just surprised! I remember being invited to a celebration with my friends and we were going to perform, but I don't remember actually going there, and I don't see anyone I was with.
dechagny: (is not a total douchebag)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-11 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[...Oh wow. Now he just feels like an asshole.

Raoul sighs, getting up from the sofa proper to approach - slowly, mind, and with his hands up.]


I am very sorry, then, for my brusqueness, so do forgive me. I too am without a familiar face in this place, and I should not have been rude, especially towards a young lady.

[Even though she just screamed out of nowhere...]
rockthistown: (with... what's the rest of the saying?)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-11 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Hime gives a small bow and sighs.]

So you're lost in here, too?
dechagny: (is not a total douchebag)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-11 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately, yes.

[The two of them among like eighteen other people.]

I am the Viscount de Chagny. Who might you be?
rockthistown: (brb escaping)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-11 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! I am Himelda Window Cure Queen of the Blue Sky! I'm actually the princess of the Blue Sky Kingdom, but I've been living in Pikarigaoka in the embassy. B-but if that's too long, most people call me Shirayuki Hime!
dechagny: (cannot believe)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-11 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[...

What in the hell was any of that]


...Miss Shirayuki Hime it is, then - well met, though in such circumstances, well is relative.
rockthistown: (everything sucks rn)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-11 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I just hope we find the way out soon. There are the doors, but...
dechagny: (aint no viscount got time for that)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-11 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
But they are quite literally shut tight. [He nods. It's terrible.] And any windows are, too, it seems. Even if we were somehow at some lofty height, we could still find a way down, but without any way to determine that, we are quite stuck.
rockthistown: (this jamjar doesn't even have internet)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-12 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
This is the most complicated kidnapping I've ever seen.
dechagny: (mild disgust)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-12 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
...Have you...seen more than one kidnapping?
rockthistown: (maybe i might have screwed up)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-12 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
There was the one time with the tapirs... But that's not important right now! We need to figure out what we're going to do!
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.
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.
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: (chicken riot after this nap)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-12 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Nobody ever taught me how to do it, either. [She might have PreCards that could do it, but -- oh, wait, those aren't here, are they.]
dechagny: (is not a total douchebag)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-12 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Then, I suppose we are in more similar boats than I first thought.

[Also why would a lady need to pick a lock that's not right a lady should not have to pick a lock]
rockthistown: (told you this was weird)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-12 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe we can just find a phone to call 119...
dechagny: (aint no viscount got time for that)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-12 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Are these phones really so commonplace? Another lady suggested something similar, but where I am from, a telegraph is a much more accessible mode of communication. Or a letter, of course.
rockthistown: (told you this was weird)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-13 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe it's different depending on where you're from? I know the Blue Sky Kingdom isn't very similar to Japan.
dechagny: (mild disgust)

[personal profile] dechagny 2016-10-13 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Y...es...right...I couldn't say myself, I've...never been to either.

["Blue Sky Kingdom" what the hell is this]