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The Directors ([personal profile] productions) wrote2013-09-26 11:43 am
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the theatre

the theatre




You awaken in a darkened theatre.

In front of you is an enormous cinema screen. On it plays everything that's currently happening in the mansion, accompanied by appropriate sound effects and background instrumentals when fitting. The seat you're sitting on is large and plush, and while there's many of them, there's enough room in the theatre for you to fully recline the seat into a comfortable bed if you wish. Under each seat is a sleeping mask and noise-cancelling headphones, in case you'd like to take a break from watching the show.

Follow the stairs up and you'll reach what should be the projection room. There are no projectors in here, however; it is simply a large and well-lit room above the main seating area, and a good place to hang out with your fellow eliminated contestants if shouting at each other across the aisles proves too much to handle.

If you leave the theatre through the door in the back, you'll find yourself in a hall. On one end is a concession stand. It's stocked with standard movie snacks - popcorn, candy and the like - but if you're feeling the urge for something else, you'll be able to find it stocked somewhere in the back. On the other end is a table with thirty wrapped bags and a placard reading 'A star for our stars! Please accept these lovely giftbags as a token of appreciation for your hard work, sponsored by [illegible smudge]'. Each bag has a tag bearing the name of someone in the mansion; you will only be able to open the bag with your name on it. As soon as you open it, any memories that have been taken from you, including those of the other people in the mansion that you may have forgotten, will be returned in their entirety. Within the bag are also objects from your home that you may want for your stay here, though you will find no weapons.

There are no other doors in the hall save for the one leading back into the theatre room. There are also no windows; it is impossible to tell where you are and what is going on in the outside world. Any attempts to break out will fail. So in the meantime, why not sit back and enjoy the show?

Oh, and one more thing. At midnight following each execution, once all those who've died that week have woken up, a video will begin to play on screen.
balzams: (Uneasy ● Unwanted)

[personal profile] balzams 2013-11-08 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
That's true... it seems odd to have a human majority, with several nations but then only one or two aliens. It's not a particularly big sample size either.

At the very least they could tell us everything after we 'die'. It's not like we have any way of leaking the information to the general public.
speakveryclearly: Kanaya with pursed, green lips, looking up at the sky skeptically. Offscreen her hand is on her hip. (Tch)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-11-09 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Don't they want us kept in suspense to an extent? For example, the victim's late arrival means we have to solve the mystery at the same time as the living cast.
balzams: (Uneasy ● Unwanted)

[personal profile] balzams 2013-11-09 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Do we have to...?

Ugh, if Mr. Tanaka gets executed I don't know how I'll be able to stand it. Can you imagine him ranting day-in, day-out about this whole thing? Honestly it's difficult enough just to watch him in the trial.

They could have at least given us a bigger place to wait in. Maybe somewhere with windows...

[It's been less than a week and Latvia's already starting to get stir crazy]
speakveryclearly: Kanaya with faintly upquirked lips and eyebrows at a whimsical Terezi. (Uncertainty)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-11-09 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Pace a little. It will do you good.

...I almost hope he hangs just to be spared whatever terrible execution they have dreamed up in the not-improbable event he ends up guilty later on.
balzams: (Upset ● Worked up)

[personal profile] balzams 2013-11-09 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Why can't someone just mass murder everyone else already and get it over with? Surely that'll be the dramatic end they've been hoping for! Wouldn't some kind of twist like that get more ratings?

[Yup, definitely stir-crazy. How everyone else has been able to stand it so long he'll never know. With a quiet groan he holds his head in his hands]

I want to but there's nowhere to go. I want to walk outside...
speakveryclearly: Kanaya holds sleeping Karkat's head in her lap, petting his hair, and looks down at him somberly. (Dedication)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-11-09 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Didn't you read the rules? Maybe not, I don't think you ever had that sort of malicious intent.



Only two a week are allowed.
balzams: (Upset ● Complaining)

[personal profile] balzams 2013-11-09 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
That's too long...

[And he jolts up, suddenly remembering something important]

I'll have to spend my birthday here! I can't spend my birthday here!
speakveryclearly: Kanaya sits at a vanity table pursing her lips to apply lipstick. (Indifference)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-11-09 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Your birthday? Oh, you mean--

Princess Nevermind crossed that river traversal guidance structure already, you know.
balzams: (Uneasy ● Confronted)

[personal profile] balzams 2013-11-09 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
E-excuse me?

No, that has nothing to do with it. I-I guess independence day would be more accurate. I really need to spend it at home. It would be wrong not to celebrate with everyone.