first investigation

[stagemanagers]

Your second Friday in the gilded cage that is the Opera House feels very much like the one before. The only real exception is that today is the deadline for the Phantom’s offer, to erase a single person from existence in exchange for one of their lives. The morning is quiet as you all filter out of your rooms with no immediate signs that anyone’s taken your house manager up on his offer.

That is, except for the very small, dark stains on the carpet of the dressing room hallway but that’s probably unrelated.

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[madgiganticfeelings]

No no no no no no...

[Christine immediately throws open the door, trying not to step in the blood or... whatever it is?]

Hello? Is anyone there?

[revelfree]

[There's been a lot of noise out in the hall, so despite Ariel's best attempts at sleeping off both Santana and Stephen's breakdowns, he's trudging out and.... ah boy.

Time to go... stand guard behind teen squad #1?]

[etincelledefierte]

[And that's when teen squad #2 comes running up.]

There are bloodstains leading to the costume shop, but we didn't find anything else...

[bloodycape]

We made sure there was no one else-- it was just the stains...

[stagemanagers]

[Oh, Christine.

Dear Christine.

What happens next is very reminiscent of her first time opening the closet: she pulls open the door and something heavy comes falling out, possibly on top of her...but it's not a fresh new Arm Thing. It is, in fact, a body.]

[madgiganticfeelings]

[Oh f-

Poor Christine wasn't anticipating anything like that, and she's not a very strong girl. She screams as the body falls on her, and ends up pinned underneath it as they both fall. She's shaking hard as she struggles to try to see who it is. Does she want to see who it is? She has to.]

[revelfree]

[Don't worry, Christine, he will save you.]