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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[mcfife]

[Angus has seen dead bodies before, how does Jonny seem to have been killed?]

[revelfree]

[Oh, Ariel looks so relieved to see you, Angus.]

[stagemanagers]

[The front of his shirt is entirely soaked in blood, so it's probably something to do with that!

Upon closer inspection, you will find a single stab wound to the chest.]

[mcfife]

[Knives...

Does it look like it was aimed at a particular organ?]

[stagemanagers]

[The wound is right near where his heart should be - although, Jonny being Jonny, this means it's sort of just right next to the now-blood-caked Mechanism protruding from his chest.]

[mcfife]

[Stabbed through the heart with a knife for evil...

Hold on, Angus is going to check out this Mechanism.]

[stagemanagers]

[The Mechanism.....sure is a mechanism. It doesn't appear to have been recently put in there or anything like that; it's just bloody from its proximity to the wound.

Actually, if you wanna get real deep into this, Jonny doesn't appear to have a human heart at all! Neato!]

[mcfife]

[By all the gods of Dundee, he truly was a cyborg! No wonder he was fun.

And this means Angus has known two cyborgs that were tragically killed.

Does it seems it was a clean strike into his fleshy organs, or would he have bled out first?]

[stagemanagers]

[Well, it looks like that's the only wound on his chest! However it killed him, it presumably did!]

[mcfife]

[That's unnerving. Is there any other damage on his corpse? Signs he was fighting back before he was stabbed?]

[stagemanagers]

[It looks like there's some dried blood on his knuckles! Although, upon closer inspection, the splits on them seem almost entirely healed.]

[mcfife]

[That may be important.

Any sign of being disheveled form being dragged across the floor?]

[stagemanagers]

[Not at all! You could maybe check out his vest, though!]

[mcfife]

[Might as well check that while search for damage. Is it a pretty sweet vest?]

[stagemanagers]

[Reasonably sweet! It looks like there's something in one of the inner pockets.]

[mcfife]

[Time to pickpocket the dead.]

[stagemanagers]

[What has it got in its pocketses?

Oh! It's a ring!]