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LOCATIONS

First Floor | Second Floor | Third Floor | Fourth Floor

FIRST FLOOR



The Main Lobby

The Opera House is a fine establishment, all dark wood and golden accents. It looks vintage, but it’s been kept very clean; you won’t find a speck of dust or rust anywhere! The lobby has a plush red carpet and a smattering of cream chairs and sofas in little groups for patrons to rest on. There’s a few small crystal chandeliers on the ceiling to provide lighting. They look quite stable.

The Merchandise Booth sits off to one side. Unlike most, it’s always closed up; the metal screen is pulled down and locked in place. But there’s a small box with a coin slot sitting on the counter, along with a sign that reads “ONLY ACCEPTING COINS - NO CREDIT CARDS” in very nice handwriting. If you put a coin in, a smaller door will open and your merchandise will be shoved out. There doesn’t seem to be any way to pick what you get...you’ll just have to try your luck.

The Box Office is a smaller room in the southeast corner. Its large front windows, once meant for purchasing tickets, are now shuttered tight, but there is a side door. Just come here and knock anytime you want to speak with your showrunner.

Two small doors at either end of the northern wall blend neatly into the wooden walls, and bear small signs reading “CAST AND CREW ONLY” in the same nice handwriting. They lead back to the dressing rooms, and the east and west doors go to the east and west wings, respectively. The front doors would presumably lead out of the opera house, but they’re locked up tight; no amount of effort is going to open them yet. There’s also the large double-doors in the very center of the northern wall. Gilded and ornately fashioned, they’re quite the sight - but for now, they are locked.



The Dressing Rooms

Here’s where you’ll stay for the duration of your time in the good old Opera House. Each dressing room contains a bed, a trunk for your belongings, and of course a small desk facing a well-lit vanity mirror. The rooms aren’t particularly large, but this is a theatre - it’s not made for your comfort.

These hallways also sport larger bathrooms with shower facilities. What, you thought being an actor meant that you got privacy? Just show your castmates some common courtesy in there, please, this isn’t that kind of production.

There’s a set of worn steel doors on the southern wall between the two bathrooms. Shockingly, they’re locked.



West Wing

Dining Hall
The dining hall is meant to host large groups like you, with a long mahogany table that could easily seat twice your number. The ceiling is high and lined with more small crystal chandeliers. A few small cabinets tucked away in a corner contain a few long white tablecloths and different sets of cloth napkins in white or red. There’s also a few small wheeled carts, probably meant for transporting food and dishes back and forth between here and the kitchen.

Kitchen
The appliances here are quite modern, almost in defiance of the antiquated decor surrounding them. There's no dishwasher, but the rest of the appliances are clean to the point of looking brand-new. The dishware and cooking implements are pretty fancy-looking; that silverware may legitimately be silver. The knives in the butcher block look to be quite fine steel as well.

The food here is quite good. There's a lot of basic necessities, but the cuts of meat are excellent and there's some flashy gold-wrapped candies tucked away in a few of the cabinets. No alcohol, unfortunately.

The Kitchen is off-limits during Intermission.

Costume Shop
This room contains everything you could possibly need to play dress-up. The wardrobes lining the walls contain old costumes of every type imaginable; you’re sure to find something in your size. There’s also some fabric and one or two sewing machines, if you want to put yourself to work while you’re here. Those mannequins standing around ought to be useful for helping you make clothes. Don’t worry, they’re probably not alive!

Music Room
This seems as though it may have once been some sort of rehearsal space. There's a small stage on the back wall, if rather bare-bones, and the instruments are well-tuned and in good condition. Anything you might expect to find in the average orchestra pit is here: the usual assortment of brass, woodwinds and strings, an upright piano off to the side, and even a harp and a few drums of varying sizes. No electric instruments, sadly, but the acoustics are great in here.

Storage Closet
This room is full of shelves, which are packed with boxes of assorted supplies. We've got your basic items like duct tape, rope, candles and matches, extra blankets, small toolkits, cleaning supplies, WD-40, batteries...essentially, anything you'd need in a disaster situation and then some.

Bathrooms
Surprisingly, there’s not much of a line outside the ladies’ room!



East Wing

Ballroom
This room looks fancy. The high arched windows are sealed off tightly, preventing any glimpse of the outside world, but a large crystalline chandelier above lights the room perfectly. There’s a grand piano in one corner to provide music, and a small stage if anyone wants to put on any other kinds of performance.

Laundry Room
Aside from the kitchen, this seems to be the only room with any signs of modern technology. Washing machines and dryers line the room, for all your costume-washing needs! There’s also a few very large sinks, in case you prefer to handwash. Luckily, the floor is plain tile, so you don’t need to worry too much about making a mess; this is possibly the only room that looks more utilitarian than lavish.

SECOND FLOOR



Second Floor Lobby

The layout of the secondary lobby is near identical to the main lobby. The same chandeliers, the same dark wood and gold accents and carpeting. The only differences seem to be the distinct lack of a box office and merchandise booth, both having been replaced by lush red velvet couches and chairs placed around the room, and a lack of doors to the courtroom. Instead, there's two doors to the north, labelled “Boxes 1 - 4” and Boxes 5 - 8” respectively. Shockingly, they’re locked.



Second Floor West Wing

Garden
What a luscious indoor garden! And what a strange thing to have in an opera house. The garden is by far the brightest room in the opera, flooded with artificial sunlight so the variety of plants inside can thrive. Fixed to the ceiling is a sprinkler system that's set to go off every six hours to water the plants. There are dozens of flowers, a few small trees, some shrubbery, even a patch of vegetables and fruit bushes. A certain botanist is sure to be happy as a clam in here.

Library
A library: the perfect gift for girls or kidnapping victims alike! The walls of this room are lined entirely with books, save for the large stone fireplace. There are a few books you’ll recognize here, but they’ll all in the realm of fiction - most of the books are fictional, in fact, and a lot of those are plays. Of the few non-fiction books, there’s nothing much about science, or indeed any technical matters. There’s some medical texts, a few books on botany, quite a few about various long-ago wars - and, strangely, an oddly specific cluster of books about the assassinations of American presidents tucked behind the plush armchairs.

Tea Room
This room is filled with fancy tea sets of various styles, and contains everything else you’d need for an elaborate tea service. Between all the china and the vases full of fake flowers, it’s honestly pretty cluttered in here; you’d better be careful not to break anything. The tables are too small to seat all of you, but there’s enough of them that everyone could probably take tea all at once. The teas, sugar, and everything else will be replenished nightly, though this room is not locked during intermission.

Chapel
A room with a large raised area at the front of it, set up with several rows of pews flanking a center aisle and several of abstract stained glass windows (lit from behind by bulbs) lining the walls. There aren't any actual religious artifacts in here, but you’re free to set things up. The walls are soundproofed in here as well, for the sake of peace and privacy.

Bathrooms
These bathrooms are a little nicer than the ones back near the dressing rooms. No showers, though.



Second Floor East Wing

Prop Room
This room almost seems like a larger version of the storage closet downstairs. But where that’s filled with practical, useful tools, these shelves and boxes are overflowing with a truly hodge-podge collection of random stuff. There’s nearly any random item you can think of in here - fake weaponry, a collection of old-fashioned typewriters, even a few oddly detailed fake heads. The organization here is haphazard at best, but the metal cabinet in the back seems to have the most delicate items, including little bottles of fake blood, a few mismatched sets of fine china, and several pre-made prosthetic facial features.

Media Room
Let’s go to the movies! This is a fully-functional movie theatre, complete with giant screen, working projector, and slightly sticky floors. There’s a collection of DVDs in a cabinet below the projector - they all seem to be filmed versions of musicals. You don’t recognize any of them.

THIRD FLOOR



Third Floor West Wing

Dance Studio
This room has shiny wooden floors, and one long wall is lined entirely with mirrors. It's got a bar along it too, if you need to hold on while you practice your pointe technique. For anyone perhaps wanting to do some other form of exercise, there's also a pile of mats in one corner, some thick enough to cushion a fall and others thin and probably meant for yoga.

Game Room
There aren't any video games in here, but there are a lot of tables set up and several large cabinets set against the far wall. Most of them contain a hell of a lot of board games - nothing flashy or requiring batteries, but anything that can be done with dice, a board and maybe scorecards are kept in here. One of the cabinets contains decks of cards on the higher shelves, and books on the lower ones - the books are all rulebooks for various d20 games and tabletop RPGs. Most of the tables in the rooms are blank-surfaced, but a few are not - some of them have built-in chessboards, with the pieces stored in drawers built into the tables themselves, some of them have markings for various card games like poker and 21 inscribed on the tops of them, and there are a pair of tables with gridlines on them for the sake of playing Go.

Bakery
This seems to be...a bakery? There's a counter in the front with an empty display case, some tables and chairs for the customers, and even a coffee machine behind the counter. Also behind the counter, there's a thick metal door that's cold to the touch. It's fastened securely shut, but not locked.

Cold Storage
This is where materials for the bakery are kept, apparently. There's a lot of frozen dough in bags, labeled with the kind of pastry it's meant for, and some milk and frozen fruits as well. Dry ingredients are kept near the door, where the temperature is the least chilly. The walls, shelves, and everything are made out of shiny steel, and it feels a little eerie in here...

Bathrooms
Second verse, same as the first.



Third Floor East Wing

Workshop
A large open space, with benches along one wall containing all sorts of woodworking tools, and wood ranging from variously-sized boards to large sheets of plywood sorted neatly in one corner. There's no power tools to be seen, despite the outlets along the walls, but you've got everything you need to take up traditional carpentry!

Paint Room
What it says on the lid. This room has shelves with a lot of paint cans on them. Each one has a dab of color on its lid rather than a written label, and there's some brushes, trays, and dropcloths to make any projects you do a little neater.

?????
The metal door in the back of the Paint Room is shut with a padlock. It's scratched and scuffed, but it's still holding strong. You'll probably need a key to open it.

FOURTH FLOOR



Fourth Floor West Wing

Art Studio
If you wanted to do projects a little too delicate for the workshop downstairs, this is your place! This room has its own supply of paint, as well as actual canvases and other arts and crafts materials. It doesn't look quite as scrupulously clean in here as the other rooms - the tables still have some stray glitter on them, as if it was just too difficult to get out. There's also some sculpting clay and a kiln, though be warned that a kiln is not exactly ideal for burning evidence.

Tech Studio
This room seems to be more for storage than anything - the walls are lined with sturdy metal shelves, hosting a wide array of technology that most of you will probably totally understand! The shelves are carefully organized, with lighting equipment to one side, sound to the other, and all sorts of special effects equipment together in one corner. There's a lot of fog machines here, as well as a few things that look they could shoot sparks or fireballs. Most of this stuff needs to be plugged into an outlet, but the battery-powered devices - mostly body mics, but also some of the smaller fog machines - are all fully charged and operational.

Recording Studio
Want to make it big while you're stuck in here? This is your chance! This recording studio comes with its own recording booth in the back, and all the sound equipment seems to be working just fine. The lights on the panels are all on, at least, and things definitely change if you press buttons or turn dials. But there's no instructions to be found anywhere in the room, so you're sort of on your own.

Bathrooms
They're still here!



Fourth Floor East Wing

Bar
At last, alcohol for the taking! This bar is fully stocked, if a bit old-fashioned; there's a piano in the corner rather than a jukebox, and the only food available in here is a few bowls of mysteriously replenishing peanuts. But the alchol is quality. You'll find nearly anything you can think of, though for some reason there's quite a lot of a certain brand of spiced rum on the shelves.