The band head up to the Stage Loft
Delaney wants to recreate a scene from Oreadʼs favourite play, Roper and Bulette. He imagines Oread standing at the stage balcony while he makes his declaration of love from below.
When they are on the balcony, Delaney made his declaration from the stage. Oread was touched, but they kindly turn him down.
Painted backdrops hang from a network of ropes above two large openings in the floor that overlook the stage below.
A partition separates the loft from an audience-facing balcony. On the sides of the room, two ladders disappear into the floor.
The band listen out and can hear sighing noises.
Xlixi sneaks off to investigate, seeing a male tabaxi holed up in the stage loft, sighing and plucking petals off of a daisy.
Xlixi questions the tabaxi and finds out it is Delaney
He wants someone to help him ask Oread out on a date, but there have been no takers so far.
Xlixi brings Delaney back to the rest of the party and asks him about the gnome costume
Hydrica asks Delaney if Cleave is a doppelganger, at which Delaney laughs at the ridiculousness of this, when pressed further Delaney peers into Hydracs eyes as if reading his mind and continues to laugh while stating "Of course Cleave is not the doppleganger, I am"
Delany asks why they wish to know this, and on mention of Lady Carla, he sneers and hisses that he stole Lady Carlaʼs signet ring as revenge for hurting Oreadʼs feelings.
He is willing to give it back in return for a favour. He will suggest that the party help him with his romantic spectacle.
Delaney wants to recreate a scene from Oreadʼs favourite play, Roper and Bulette. He imagines Oread standing at the stage balcony while he makes his declaration of love from below.
If the band agree to help me stage this scene, I will retrieve the signet ring for you.
But it needs to be romantic.
The Band head down and Bardo fakes a script change that they hand to Biscuit, that they need a balcony scene.
After much grumbling Biscuit tells they band they can make it themselves from bits in the store.
The Band set to creating a balcony out of ladders, a deck between them and a frame of canvas as the balcony (Xlixi did manage at first to get more paint over himself than on the canvas, but then used himself as a brush to transfer the paint onto the canvas as much as possible, after which the others "fixed" Xlixi's "artwork" and made it look less like a toddler painting more like a theater prop.
All the while Delaney kept popping back exclaiming more, more more
More Romance and Magic
Xlixi snuck up to Oread's room and stole all there flowers, to dress the balcony
Hydrica practiced creating orbs of light to mimic the moonlight and soft lighting
More Romance and Costumes
Heironimo sought out and convinced Lorelei for new costumes for Oread and Delaney
More Music and confetti
Xlixi created some confetti from flower petals and climbed up to secure a drop cloth with them in.
The band then sought Oread out for the new "dress rehearsal"
Convinced them to get changed and Heironymo teleported her to the top of the balcony, where they almost promptly fell off (as they were not ready for that), Xlixi quick thinking and grace stopped them from toppling backwards off the balcony.
When they are on the balcony, Delaney made his declaration from the stage. Oread was touched, but they kindly turn him down.
Heartbroken and sobbing Delaney leads the band into and then across the Pit
The Pit, surrounded by fortress walls and open to the sky above, the audience courtyard faces the raised stage. There are no seats, and peanut shells and old programs crunch underfoot.
This is where the audience stands to watch the operaʼs performances.
Then out to the Foyer where posters from past productions line the walls of the entrance to the opera. Open doorways lead out into the audience pit, and there are bathrooms at the east and west ends of the hallway. Inside towers at the southern corners of the foyer, staircases spiral up to the second level. A sign by the staircases reads, “Gold ticket guests this way.”
When the theater is open, ushers show guests to either the ground-floor pit or the upper balcony.
Delany leads them up the stairway to the Upper Foyer
Gaudy tapestries of battle scenes decorate the second story foyer. Signs point “honored guests” to the concession booth and balcony.
The seating balcony slopes towards the stage, filled with rows of plush theater seats.
For a higher price, well-heeled guests can sit in the balcony overlooking the stage. At the concession booth, they can overpay for cheap wine.
The Pit, surrounded by fortress walls and open to the sky above, the audience courtyard faces the raised stage. There are no seats, and peanut shells and old programs crunch underfoot.
This is where the audience stands to watch the operaʼs performances.
Then out to the Foyer where posters from past productions line the walls of the entrance to the opera. Open doorways lead out into the audience pit, and there are bathrooms at the east and west ends of the hallway. Inside towers at the southern corners of the foyer, staircases spiral up to the second level. A sign by the staircases reads, “Gold ticket guests this way.”
When the theater is open, ushers show guests to either the ground-floor pit or the upper balcony.
Delany leads them up the stairway to the Upper Foyer
Gaudy tapestries of battle scenes decorate the second story foyer. Signs point “honored guests” to the concession booth and balcony.
The seating balcony slopes towards the stage, filled with rows of plush theater seats.
For a higher price, well-heeled guests can sit in the balcony overlooking the stage. At the concession booth, they can overpay for cheap wine.
In the Upper Foyer Delany goes to a castle wall block that looks no different to any of the others, prises it out and retrieves the Ring, handing it sobbing over to the Band.
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