A few years ago, you wouldn’t ever believe where you are now.
Living in the City of Artists and getting your biggest role after so many years of waiting for a big break as a theater actor, things seem to finally be going the way you dreamed of. It doesn’t matter if this play is your producer’s last chance of saving her family legacy or if you’re the last one to get casted and barely has time to fit in, you’re not letting any of this get you down.
You’re going to make yourself proud, make all of your work to get out of your hometown seem worthwhile and…
A few years ago, you wouldn’t have blood on your hands.
As an accident with one of your castmates results in a death of your conscience, seeing the theater packed was the last thing you expected to happen. It looks like whoever said people are intrinsically drawn by tragedy was completely right. Now, you have to balance your rising, potentially brilliant career with sleepless nights leaden by guilt.
All while hoping all of these new accidents happening backstage are nothing but coincidences.
Backstage is rated +18 for explicit language, violence, mentions of addiction, drug use, alcohol use and non-explicit sexual content. Things might be added or changed in the future.
FEATURES
Customize your MC and their personality! Decide on their personal feelings, how they interact with others and how well they’re coping with everything that happened ever since they came to town.
You’re one of the lead actors now and every day is a chance to decide how you act around your castmates, the stage crew and with the media’s sudden spotlight on all of you.
Have the opportunity to deal with fame or renounce it. Help the people around you or mess them up even more.
Also, you never know when romance will shine! Have the chance to meet these five people and establish a romantic or platonic (or even destructive) bond with them.
Cassandra/Callahan Ralph (24 | F/M) - Fun and bright, as you remember them to be. Once your best-friend/partner, it feels like just yesterday they left your old town behind to go to college and you watched as all contact between you was cut. Now they’re back and both of you are sharing a stage like nothing ever happened.
Neil A. Sadecki (25 | he/him) - Son of two renowned actors, Neil has known the ugly parts of this industry for longer than any of you and tries to stay out of its spotlight whenever he can. The youngest director you ever worked with, you wonder how much of his indifference is real or simply part of an act.
Spencer Caetano (27 | they/them) - You have reasons to keep your distance from Spencer now, even if they aren’t aware of it. However, all of this keeps working against your plans as you have to pretend to be in love with them every show for the sake of art and running from their easy friendship is starting to be more and more difficult.
Johanna 'Joy' Pham (25 | she/her) - Living up to her name, Joy is a breath of fresh air. Currently the only person who is doing fine and not crumbling under pressure among your colleagues, it doesn’t take you long to notice how she seems to remember every small thing about everyone and, still, you don't know much about her.
Ameera/Adarsh Bhandari (25 | F/M) - Your castmate’s #1 enemy, they’re the one who ended up opening a spot in the play for you. Since day one, you’re confused about why they decided to pick on you out of all people, and also why they seem to be always around instead of with their own cast mates.
my favourite thing is characters who just met the person theyre literally going to be wildly in love with for the rest of their lives and theyre like “:/ they’re not all that” this is so embarrassing for u
do you ever hear yourself talking and one word comes out very pronounced in you regional accent and you get irrationally embarrassed because oh no now people are going to know i’m from a place
For some reason, my browser wasn't letting me update my files 😔 had to open another one to fix it. Saw it happening with other authors. I quickly play-tested it just now and it's working fine for me.
Hello! I'm trying to export the game to cogdemos, but even though everything works out fine in my choicescript app, I keep getting this message. Anyone?
It seems to be working now!! I'm having a quick surgery tomorrow, but when I'm allowed to use my computer again I'll properly test it and decide if I'll add or not my prologue updates.
Hello! I'm trying to export the game to cogdemos, but even though everything works out fine in my choicescript app, I keep getting this message. Anyone?
Hey I just saw a post on reddit that Dashingdon may be going down soon, really like your IF thought you might need the warning.
Thanks to everyone who sent me a warning! I haven't checked out the forum in a while 😭
I know the wip has been... quiet, but I have no intention of deleting it or anything (and if I ever do, I'll definitely make a post about it). I'll look into the new hosting space after work! 🩷
As the minutes pass, you finally realize that you might’ve made a mistake.
During the rest of the week, you’ve avoided thinking about what it actually is. You’ve tried to convince yourself that it isn’t wrong for you to want to hang out with two of your friends for the evening, just intending on doing some mindless shopping for Halloween costumes. Huh. 'Friends' might not be the most accurate word there is, sure — but what is the issue if both of them asked if you were free to help and you didn’t want to turn any down for the sake of the other? You were only trying to make most of your time!
Well. Only it might be an issue, when the friends in question are Neil and [A].
i love you female characters who make selfish choices they know will be bad for everyone. i love you female characters who think they're making the right choice but make things worse. i love you female characters who are making the right choice but noone else understands it.
