Now that entertainment methods are becoming more and more diversified, drama has become a relatively niche entertainment activity. Especially for an amateur drama troupe like Jack's, if they want to rent a venue alone for performances, they will 100% make ends meet, so
Repertory troupes like this usually cooperate with other local drama troupes and share a venue for rotating performances. In this way, the audience can spend one ticket to watch the performances of several drama troupes, which can be regarded as stimulating the audience to buy tickets.
Enthusiasm, to some extent, is a win-win situation.
Of course, in addition to drama troupes, there are also some bands who will make the same choice, and this form of performance is generally called a "platter".
But having said that, outsiders are generally not invited to join in a platter performance like this, because only familiar colleagues can arrange the time and order of performances. After all, the types of programs performed by everyone are different, and the emotional impact they bring to the audience is also different.
Therefore, if a tragedy is arranged in front of a comedy program, it will be difficult to make the audience laugh unless the drama troupe performing the comedy has profound skills and excellent actors.
So, Liu Xing thinks Jack’s drama troupe will choose to refuse, right?
Then Liu Xing guessed wrong.
The reason is simple: the money given by others is too much.
Just as Liu Xing first thought, Jack's repertory troupe and several other colleagues who had already contacted each other decided to reject the request from the foreign repertory troupe because they had already arranged the program at that time, so there was not a minute of it.
Show time is redundant.
As a result, the foreign drama troupe waved their hands and said that they would be responsible for half of the venue rental this time. So the local drama troupes chose to compromise and squeezed out enough time for the foreign drama troupe, and also very considerately prepared posters for them.
with the final performance location.
Jack's drama troupe was the second to last one to perform, so when Jack came backstage to prepare, he saw that a foreign drama troupe was sorting out props, and there was such a strange scale among them.
In addition to scales, Jack also saw some strange props, such as a strangely shaped dagger, a cup filled with unknown green liquid, and several hoods that looked like fish heads.
Out of curiosity, Jack asked a member of an out-of-town repertory troupe what show they were performing, and the troupe member said that they were preparing to perform an adaptation of a dark fairy tale - The Little Mermaid and the Prince's Journey Back to Her Mother's Home.
The content of the story is actually very simple. It is to change the ending of the original work of The Little Mermaid to a good ending - the Little Mermaid's family defeated the witch together and helped the Little Mermaid get her voice back, and then the Little Mermaid mustered up the courage to ask for help.
The prince confessed his love, and the prince naturally chose to be with the Little Mermaid.
After spending a sweet time, the prince wanted to meet the little mermaid’s parents, so the little mermaid had to take the prince to a fishing village. At this time, the little mermaid’s family was already ready.
Make up as ordinary villagers and prepare to welcome the Little Mermaid and the Prince.
As a result, at this time, the unwilling witch stood up and cursed the Little Mermaid's family. As a result, the Little Mermaid's family changed from a human-headed fish body to a fish-headed human body, and finally assimilated the Little Mermaid and the prince into
monsters like them.
Hearing this, Liu Xing knew that this story should be adapted from a classic template of the Cthulhu Running Game - the protagonist himself came from a fishing village, and had to go home for some reason one day, so the protagonist himself
He stumbled back home despite the bad weather, only to find that something was wrong at home, and there was something wrong with the way his family looked at him. However, out of trust in his family, the protagonist stayed there; as a result, the protagonist soon discovered
The situation is worse than he imagined. His family seems to want to send him to death, so now he has to leave the village overnight in bad weather...
Of course, there are similar modules in the Cthulhu Run game lobby, but players generally play the role of "friends of the protagonist", and the "protagonist" mentioned above may also be standing with his or her family.
It seems that this foreign drama troupe also has something to offer.
"By the way, the foreign drama troupe mentioned that this kind of monster with a fish head and human body is called a deep diver! You must know that this is not a monster they made up casually, because this deep diver has appeared in many seaside towns, so the local
There are legends about these deep divers, and there is even some evidence left in some places to prove that they have really been there. For example, the scales they used as props are said to have been purchased from a seaside town. In short, they think that in this
There really are such monsters in the world."
Jack looked at the scales, then looked at the surrounding rooms and said: "If this kind of monster really attacked Rose, it should be able to leave the visitor center directly, and the storm outside would not have any impact on it because it is so big
You can jump directly into the sea. You must know that no matter how violent the storm is, it can only affect the area more than ten meters below the sea surface. If you dive further below, you can avoid the influence of wind and waves; and this monster called a deep diver is as its name suggests.
, naturally it can dive tens of meters, or even hundreds of meters underwater! So Mr. Goering, is there any place in the visitor center that you can leave now?"
Goering frowned, pointed to a room at the end of the corridor and said: "That room is a storage room on the second floor. The space inside is very small and full of sundries. But the most important thing is that there are several things in this room."
An exhaust fan is installed to ensure that the air can circulate normally when the visitor center enters the overall closed state to prevent the carbon dioxide concentration in the visitor center from being too high."
Liu Xing looked at the room pointed by Goring and found that this room had indeed not been investigated, because as Goring said, the door of this utility room was only a little longer than the mobile phone, which was twenty or thirty years old.
About centimeters, so Mager and others automatically ignored this small door when they were looking for the "beast".
"Exhaust fan? It is indeed possible for deep divers to enter and exit the visitor center through this opening."
As Mager spoke, she walked over and opened the storage room directly, "The exhaust fan has been damaged! All the screws on it are missing!"
Liu Xing and others immediately approached and saw that Mager had taken off an exhaust fan, and the three exhaust fans next to it were also a little shaky.
"This is enough for one person to squeeze out."
Jack leaned against the wall and said with a horrified look on his face: "Is there really such a monster as the Deep Diver? But why did it attack Rose? There is no way that Rose has a conflict with the Deep Diver?!"
Mager on the side clenched her fists and looked at the exhaust fan without saying a word, while the wind and rain outside continued to pour into the visitor center, making everyone feel a biting chill.
"Mr. Goering, are there any corresponding screws in the visitor center? I think we need to re-fix these exhaust fans to avoid future accidents."
Mager closed the door of the storage room and said seriously: "Whether the person who attacked Rose was a human or a monster, it should have left the visitor center by now, but we are not sure whether this guy will come back with a carbine, so
We also have to place some alarm devices at the door of this room to ensure..."
Before Mager finished speaking, she heard the storm outside the visitor center doubled in intensity. The sound of raindrops hitting the windows changed from AK47 to Gatling. Liu Xing also heard the sound of trees breaking.
There was a "tearing" sound. If nothing else happened, it was a tree that had been uprooted by the storm.
"It's raining harder now. That guy won't come back, right?"
As soon as Golin finished speaking, Mager said directly: "No matter what, we have to plug the loopholes in this room first. After all, we are not afraid of ten thousand, just in case."
Goering nodded and said, "I remember that there are screws matching the exhaust fan in this storage room. If not, I will go to the staff area on the first floor to find them."
Fortunately, there are matching screws in the storage room, so Golin doesn't have to go to the first floor, and Liu Xing doesn't have to worry about what Golin will do when he goes downstairs alone.
After reinstalling the screws of the exhaust fan, Mager also found a few cans from the storage room and stacked them at the door to ensure that if anyone wanted to come out of the storage room, they would knock them over.
jar.
Then, everyone who had no intention of getting together anymore went back to their rooms to rest.
Of course Liu Xing and others got together to open the secret room time.
"Tom, what do you think?"
David couldn't wait to say: "I think Göring is a deep diver! Because even if the exhaust fan can pass people, it can't complete the whole process in about ten seconds without leaking any flaws!"
"I think so too." Philip immediately agreed.
York on the side also nodded, indicating that he agreed with David's view.
"Yes, the person who attacked Rose is 100% Gorin, but Gorin is not an ordinary deep diver, but a deep diver hybrid, so he can freely switch between human form and deep diver form.
"But the most important thing is that Goering still maintains his humanity and did not kill us because of Rose's death, so I think you should know what this means." Liu Xing asked with a smile.
"What? Shouldn't we be on guard against Goering from now on? By the way, make some preparations in this room in advance, such as...well, it seems that we have nothing to prepare. If Goering comes to the door,
If so, we can just fight and be done with it." York said seriously.
Liu Xing smiled and said nothing.
At this time, David had guessed what Liu Xing was thinking and said, "Tom, do you mean that we should just ignore Göring, so that Göring won't attack us?"
"Bingo, judging from the current situation, Goering doesn't want to make the matter any bigger. In other words, his attack on Rose may have been an accident or even out of necessity. So as long as no one commits suicide before six o'clock tomorrow morning,
If we create trouble with Göring, then we can pass the module peacefully with Göring."
Liu Xing paused and continued: "So as long as we don't leave this room in the future, we can be invincible. But the problem is that if we do this, we may not get a high enough score. When the time comes, the reward will be
There is a certain degree of shrinkage, because the module has just gone through the preparation period, and it will be a while before it is our turn to appear."
Hearing what Liu Xing said, David panicked a little, "Yes, we haven't passed the judgment so far, so the real drama should indeed be yet to come, but if we stay behind closed doors, does that mean we are stuck in a bug?"
Ah? Will the Cthulhu Run game lobby cause trouble for us in the future?"
"As long as the Cthulhu Run game lobby doesn't say it in advance, then it doesn't count as a bug, or there are no bugs in the Cthulhu Run game hall. We are just making a reasonable choice."
Liu Xing doesn’t mind advertising the Cthulhu Run Game Hall, “The modules in the Cthulhu Run Game Hall are all roads leading to Rome, and you don’t have to do anything to pass smoothly, so some modules are
will give you this guaranteed choice; but to be honest, this choice is actually slow suicide, because novice players like you need to accumulate points in these novice modules and find ways to learn new skills, so that you
Only when you advance to a higher level area will you be able to do it with ease. After all, blindly escaping will only accomplish nothing."
"Been taught a lesson."
David quickly said: "Tom, by the way, will you still use this character card in the future? If possible, can you take us to participate in the next module in the future?"
Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, shook his head decisively and said: "Sorry, if I can play the same module with you this time, it is a back door to the Cthulhu Run Game Hall. You know, according to the rules, it is impossible for me to compete with you.
Matched into a module; as for why I can be matched with you today, it is because many players use white character cards to participate in the ghoul area module at the same time, so the system may not be able to allocate them, so
This includes all of you players who are modding normally."
"Oh well..."
Looking at David and others who were a little depressed, Liu Xing said with a smile: "Don't be so downcast. Although it will be much safer if I guide you through the module, the Cthulhu Run Game Hall will reward players based on their performance."
Reward, if you paddle like this, you will end up working on a module in vain; in fact, the Cthulhu Run game lobby is not as dangerous as you think. You just need to follow the plot line and don't jump into some obvious pitfalls.
In the end, as long as you have better luck, everything will be fine.”