OOM: Set The Stage

[merryeccentricities]

Someday Joly will actually invite Autor for a visit, but the Cherub Room is not a kind thing to spring on someone who's just getting to know him. Instead Joly leaves a note for Autor at the Bar-- I'll be in the Infirmary studying, come by if you want to go theater-hunting-- or rathers, asks Bar to leave a note, so it's actually legible. Then he really does head to the Infirmary, figuring on studying the machines for a while.

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[herr_bookman]

"It should only be for a day, so I'd be fine," Autor says, grinning at Joly's reaction. He beckons him close and whispers. "But do you know what would be even funnier? If we didn't even tell him."

[merryeccentricities]

Joly sighs and shakes his head. "It would be very funny, but I'm afraid I can't keep anything from Bossuet." He holds up a hand to forestall protest. "Not won't, mind, I have tried! But I can't. We all arranged a surprise party for him one year and the others made the mistake of telling me, and it was awful." He shudders at the memory. "I am of course prepared for subterfuge! But not against Lesgle."

Joly looks around the inn's hallways. "You've been here longer than me; have you any rooms in mind?"

[herr_bookman]

"Ah, all right," Autor says, inclining his head. "I'll keep that in mind."

His gaze follows Joly's around. "Hmm. To be perfectly frank, I haven't explored the inn portion of the bar as much as you have. We could always ask the rats."

[merryeccentricities]

Joly grins. "Yes, I have explored the inn a bit, when we were looking for our room. And there were some I couldn't believe Bar was suggesting as a habitable space but--" he taps the pocket where he keeps his notebook "--I remembered them. And today I got the key."

He leads Autor down a couple of odd halls, and to a door that looks like all the others-- except for the paint looking as if it was perhaps put on over plaster. "Do feel free to say exactly what you think."


The door opens on ...a cave. There's really no other way to describe it, because it is a cave. A large, indeed cavernous, rock room, with opening to other smaller rooms branching off.

There is odd, clashing, horrible upholstered furniture in various colors of eye-sear, and candles guttering along the wall, and a small waterfall on the far side of the cavern.

Joly laughs, looking at it; he'd begun to think he had only imagined the place. "It is, I was thinking...roomy?"

[herr_bookman]

"Joly," Autor says, his stomach dropping as he lays eyes on the room. "Would you like a waterfall in your movie theater?"

His grin is slow in coming, but bright and boyish. "Because I think this is a brilliant idea."

The boy cups his hands around his mouth and shouts, "hello!" to test the acoustics. The word bounces merrily off the walls and echoes back to them, and Autor laughs--which also echoes. "Oh, this is perfect! We should christen it with a proper, pretentious name. The Cave of Wonders seems about as ridiculous as it is."

[merryeccentricities]

Joly joins in with Autor's laughter, enjoying the echoes. "An excellent name! I don't know what a movie theater is, exactly, but I think no theater of any kind in Paris could boast a waterfall!" He starts walking off towards the other rooms. "Maybe the players could use this for a changing room? And Rae was saying she might want to serve food here, if she does she could have that room...ah, I think. Did you have any friends that might want to help plan this out?"

[herr_bookman]

"A movie theater is exactly as it sounds--a theater that plays movies," Autor says, "but we should work on plays first."

Autor follows him, clasping his hands behind his back, and amused with the way his steps echo on the rocks. "We should make sure that room is clean for her. And, ah, I could ask around; I haven't been as vigilant as I should be, my apologies. But think of it, Joly! We could set the stage out in the main room, and chairs, and blankets if people were cold, given the lack of insulation--oh, it's wonderful."

[merryeccentricities]

Joly laughs again. "What's a movie?" He puts an arm around Autor's shoulders for a moment. "It'll be fine, of course. We've spoken to a few people, after all. And Bahorel's here now, he'll help for certain-- he'd hang me out a window if we didn't let him get involved. Oh, I like the idea of blankets, and lots of pillows! We have so many people of all sorts of shapes, regular chairs would be a problem. Oh, think what we can do for lights here, with the technology we have!" He presses Autor's shoulder in excitement before splashing over to look at the waterfall. "We could make this glow!"

He doesn't know why they would, but they could!

[herr_bookman]

"Yes, and change colors on a timer!" Autor says, leaning into Joly's arm, and wrapping his arm around his friend's shoulders as well--before letting him go to look at the waterfall. He grins, thoroughly excited with all the possibilities. "Yes, we absolutely have to get Bahorel involved."

He curls his hand around his hip. "A movie is a moving picture, with sounds--it's like a play on a screen, with music and costumes and settings and props, and then you can pause it at any moment, and start from the beginning," the boy explains, and turns to the cave floor. "We should get a nice carpet in here for people to sit on, to pad the rocks."