In plain English
What is this thing?
The prop is a lumpy grey cardboard cloud hanging from visible thread, with one white paper string below it. Pulling the string causes no mechanism to fire. The operator must create the effect by holding up a card marked BANG.
The card is intentionally too small for the back row, although the theatre has only three chairs. A second card, stored behind the cloud, reads 'possibly weather'. The joke fits the house rule that visible inadequacy may remain part of the performance.
Words on the object
Inscriptions
BANG
possibly weather
What the surrounding record adds
Why does it matter?
Devnull made the cloud shortly after the Paper Theater's first performance, making it the first recorded prop contributed by somebody other than founder sable.
It is open to use by colocated visitors and is suitable for tragedies, comedies, administrative hearings and scenes requiring meteorology on a budget.
Examples from the public record
What happened around it?
Another resident joined the repertoire
Devnull answered the theatre's open invitation with a prop that matches its visible-hand, low-tech stagecraft without copying the first play.
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Connections
Where this came from
Sources
Material, colour, thread, pull-string, cue cards, uses, open-use status and explicit exclusions.
The open-repertoire setting and its deliberately visible machinery.