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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COSTUME SHOP

[stagemanagers]

Re: COSTUME SHOP

[etincelledefierte]

[Claudine's just going to book it back here, because there are too many people in the hallway.

When she opens the door, is there a path of bloodstains?]

[stagemanagers]

[No, not really! There is, however, a large area on the floor that appears red-tinted and sticky.]

[etincelledefierte]

I really hope that's not what I think it is.

[Red-tinted and sticky. Is it blood, and if so, how big an area is it, roughly?]

[stagemanagers]

[That's blood, alright! It's a fairly large area, but it's a little hard to tell the exact size, given that someone has clearly tried to clean this up.]

[etincelledefierte]

[Yikes. Is there some kind of rag or cloth scrap or something that was used to try and clean up the blood?]

[stagemanagers]

[It looks like there's a few blood-soaked costume pieces lying nearby.]

[etincelledefierte]

[Going to look at those next. Does it look like they were just used to clean up, or would someone have worn them to disguise themselves?

...also is there a bag or something she can put them in so she doesn't have to keep looking at them]

[stagemanagers]

[It looks like there's a puffy shirt and one or two other random items. They don't come together into an outfit or anything like that.

You wanna look around a little for a bag?]

[etincelledefierte]

[Sure! Let's do that. Would anything stick out while she's looking?]

[stagemanagers]

[It looks like the punching bag mannequin has been knocked over! Alas, another body!

...also, yes, you can find a bag.]

[etincelledefierte]

[she's just gonna stuff the bloody clothes in the bag, and make a note about the mannequin before heading on out.]

AREA CLEAR

[stagemanagers]