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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[isawallflower]

[ 'Kay, fucking fine. Riley's pissed, beyond all belief, and Jonny's room is close and...and she probably won't be any help with assisting Christine.

What's up here? Door open? Closed? What's it look like inside? ]

[stagemanagers]

[The door is closed, but the key is sitting inside the lock. You'll be able to use that to get in.

Which is great, because there goes Santana!]

[isawallflower]

[ Okay, well, let's just open the- oh hi santana.

She's checking the bed, what about. Okay, no, the armoire? ]

[stagemanagers]

[The armoire is open, with some items strewn about - indeed, it looks like the entire room has pretty much been ransacked.]

[isawallflower]

[ Ransacked? Hey, did someone. Kill Jonny, stuff him in the storage room, and then steal his stuff? That's.

Jeez, the guy was A Bit Much but he probably didn't deserve all that?

What kinds of things are strewn about the armoire? Like...anything distinctive? ]

[stagemanagers]

[Looks like just junk from the merchandise booth. There might be a couple trombones.]

[isawallflower]

[ oh, not 76 of them, huh

Okay. Uh...to avoid doubling-up, it doesn't look like a fight, so...what other places in the room to look at, what about the vanity? The mirror? ]

[holyspit]

[At some point, very quietly-]

Someone actually did it.

[isawallflower]

[ ...Shit. ]

Steven... [ She can't...really say it'll all be fine. Can she? ] ...Yeah. Someone actually did.