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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.
breakingbread: (bread dad cannot believe)

[personal profile] breakingbread 2016-10-13 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Fascinating. [Let him just. Do it again. Okay he's good now.] You have seen one of these before? I've never even heard of such a thing.
dontfeedplants: (You know the book doesn't lie)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-13 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well that's weird.]

Yeah, they're all over where I live.
breakingbread: (bread dad looks to god)

[personal profile] breakingbread 2016-10-15 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
And where is that?

[He can't think of anyplace likely to have such things as commonalities...]
dontfeedplants: (By and by)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-15 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm from New York, but I think most places in the world has refrigerators.
breakingbread: (bread dad outside)

[personal profile] breakingbread 2016-10-15 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
We certainly do not have any in Paris. Anyone with the fortune to own such a thing would surely not keep it a secret.
dontfeedplants: (They say the meek gonna get it)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-16 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
It's not much of a secret, at least as far as I know. I feel like Paris would have known about them by now.
breakingbread: (bread dad cannot believe)

[personal profile] breakingbread 2016-10-16 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm afraid not.

[god they're talking at such cross-purposes]

I wonder if we are somewhere in America, then...
dontfeedplants: (It's not demand and supply)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-16 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
We might be. But if we are, this must be a really nice part of America. I don't think I've ever seen a refrigerator this nice.

[Seriously he couldn't even dream of a refrigerator this nice.]
breakingbread: (bread dad is disappoint)

[personal profile] breakingbread 2016-10-16 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't say I know that much about different parts of America...I have never traveled outside France.
dontfeedplants: (My future's starting)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-17 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Me neither, I can't say I've done a lot of traveling before coming here.

[Or any, for that matter.]
breakingbread: (bread dad is disappoint)

[personal profile] breakingbread 2016-10-17 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Travel can be quite difficult. I can't imagine how they could have managed to bring us all here so quickly - wherever we are, surely someone must remember some of the journey?
dontfeedplants: (It's not demand and supply)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-18 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't remember mine at all. That's why I have a hard time believing this isn't a dream.
breakingbread: (bread dad is good)

[personal profile] breakingbread 2016-10-19 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
I don't believe we would all have the same dream.

[It's an understandable response, but not a helpful illusion to cling to.]
dontfeedplants: (What am I saying?)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-22 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Of course, that's just silly. But everything here feels so strange it's hard to convince myself that I'm awake.
breakingbread: (bread dad is sad)

[personal profile] breakingbread 2016-10-23 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I can understand that. This pamphlet...

[He holds up the playbill, still in one hand.] Who would make something like this?
dontfeedplants: (What am I saying?)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-23 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know, it's really creepy.

Do... do you think they've been stalking us this whole time?
breakingbread: (Default)

[personal profile] breakingbread 2016-10-24 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
They would have to have been doing so for decades, to gather all this information about me.

[At least since he started this most recent life in Paris. No one else knows who he is; they couldn't have found it out from anyone else, or the police would have been after him by now.]