Description
The Grand Opera House is a beautiful landmark on the high street. The courtyard in front acts as the center of entertainment. The building's facade is covered by stone columns and intricately carved statues, some of which are gilded and sparkling. Its large doors, an impressive combination of wood and stained glass beckon visitors inside.
Backstage areas of the opera house are off-limits to visitors.
Foyer
The grand foyer of the Opera House opens up, its marble floors and walls covered in intricate bas-reliefs of floral patterns. The roof arches into a high ceiling, where demons sore through the sky in a vivid fresco. In the center of the space is a grand staircase, forming a Y-shape that leads to the second level.
Bar
This area of the Opera House acts both as the entryway for the main auditorium and as a bar where attendees may get a drink or light snack.
Glasses of wine are sold for 1 gp each, and a small bowl of nuts for 5 cp.
Auditorium
The floor is covered in velvet seats and gently sloping towards the back of the room where the orchestra pit and stage are located. Along the second story are rows of private box seats. A large crystalline chandelier hangs in the center of the room, illuminating the painted ceiling.
Stage
This large stage is where the performance takes place, which the audience pays close attention to.
Orchestra Pit
This Area of the theater is a sunken pit just before and underneath the stage. Where rows of musicians can set up to provide music for the onstage performance.
Dressing Rooms
The rooms have desks covered in makeup material, and hangers offering diverse costume and disguise kits.
VIP Boxes
These exclusive rooms overlook the auditorium and stage below, offering a private place to meet and enjoy the show. Each room is equipped with four velvet-lined chairs and a small bucket that has been enchanted to keep a bottle of champagne cool inside.
Stage Catwalks
Rickety wooden catwalks span the area over the stage, offering a unique angle of the show down below, but also of the pulleys and mechanisms that operate the lights and some of the scene shifts.
These unstable, mobile platforms are suspended above the stage and acts as a mean for stagehands to manipulate various lights or equipment during different acts. A character can safely move through the platform at half their standard walking speed, they must make a successful DC 14 Dexterity (Acrobatic) check to move any faster than that. If a character fails the acrobatics check, they must make a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw, as they lose their balance and begin to fall off the platform. On a success, they catch themselves, on a failure they fall off the catwalk to the stage below, taking 4d6 bludgeoning damage.
Stage Backdrop Mechanism
This room is filled with large wooden gears, pulleys, and other mechanisms that operate the technical aspects of the stage below
Prop and set storage
This space acts as a storage area, filled with dozens of half-assembled set pieces, shelves lined with various props, and other sundry items for the different productions put on by the Opera House.
Workshop
Everything in this room is covered in a layer of plaster and sawdust, A dozen workstations fill the space, covered in a variety of different artisan and construction tools.
This space is filled with various workstations where a few stagehands build and repair props, sets, and costumes. A few artisan's tools are scattered about the room, including carpenter's tools, cobbler's tools, leatherworker's tools, painter's supplies, weaver's tools, and woodcarver's tools.
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