itscurtains | first trial

[Within a few minutes of the performers is finishing their investigations, the lights in every room flicker on and off several times. For those in or close to the lobby, they hear a faint rumbling. The gilded doors across from the heavy wooden front doors (which have always been there, the showrunners may have gotten to indicate them on the map) have opened.

Your intermission is ending. The show is about to begin.

The space behind them is lit; you're free to enter. It's a very short hallway, decorated in the same way as the lobby with the light walls and red carpet. There is one more set of doors to pass through and then you're all, finally, in the House. There's one grand chandelier above, glittering crystal, and the seats around you are made of fine, if dust-caked, red velvet. Those don't seem to be for you though - all the way down in front of the stage, where the orchestra might sit, there's a circle of wooden podiums. They're arranged so that everyone can face each other and are fixed into place. Each one bears a metal plaque with a cast member's name engraved on it. There's also a metal panel on top, with twenty ivory buttons paired to everyone's name.

Among these, only Jonny's podium is different - that one is draped in black crepe, with a larger grey-scale version of his headshot from the playbill framed and sitting at on top like a funerary portrait. Standing where he might have stood, a bare light bulb glows faintly atop a metal pole.

Right here, you're very close to the stage. But the curtain is closed, and it's a little too high to easily clamber up. You may not want to try. You've got more important business right now, after all.

As everyone is finding their places, the Phantom's voice suddenly sounds loud and clear throughout the space. If anyone is to look up, however, they'll see the dark suited figure of him and the whiteness of his mask peering over the edge of box 5.]

You must now determine who was responsible for the death of Jonny D'Ville. Submit your vote on the podiums when you are certain of your choice.

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Um... I followed the blood trail that started at room 20. It went through the lobby and down the east wing all the way to the costume shop. But when we didn't see anyone there, we went back to check on the others.

There was also a knife missing from the kitchen. So... either they got rid of it or... maybe they still have it, it's hard to say. But there was no sign of it in the kitchen.

[ Riley speaks up with- well, here's a kitchen knife on her person. ]

I have it. It was in Jonny's room, Santana found it. Under the pillow, I think...?

Maybe he just wanted it for protection then...?

I wonder if there was someone he worried about...

He did seem paranoid, or if nothing else, wary. He did not seem to appreciate my question about secrets last week.

Do you think it had something to do with his condition? About the fact that he's part metal creature.

It's hard to say. Anyone here could have any number of secrets, and we would be none the wiser.

[That was the point of all the games they played but... that didn't work out, huh?]

Or was it used to kill him?

It's possible he kept it there himself as some kind of protection?

But it seemed like it was clean so he probably didn't take it with him when he ran into the culprit.

There were probably people he trusted at least.

Perhaps he was just afraid of someone attacking him in his sleep.

I suppose that is when we're most vulnerable...

We know there are secret passageways through the Opera House. Jonny might have feared use of those to enter his room.

Whoever did this, I don't think they were making much of an attempt to hide the body. It was positioned to fall out.

[Just gonna... look at Christine. He'd go check on her but he did have to grab the body off of her so he probably still has some blood on him.]

That's odd... but true, there was probably no hiding it anyway with that much blood everywhere.

I-It was all over the floor in front of the door. There were stains around the hallway, but it feels like that was one of the places the most blood was lost...?

[She's trying her best, Ariel. She doesn't sound very excited about this, but she's trying to do her part.]

There was a kitchen knife under Jonny's pillow. It was clean, so I don't know if it was used. Also, who sleeps with a knife under their pillow?

Someone who's afraid of being murdered, I think.

But he didn't have it with him so... maybe he really trusted that person.

Maybe. Or maybe he just didn't have time? The room was super messy, so things could've gotten really hectic.

Maybe there was some kind of fight... or he tried to run-- I know I'd try to run.

[ ...Riley shakes her head. ] I don't think he was in there. His key, it was...it was in the lock. The door was closed. Doesn't sound like something someone trying to run would have time to do.

Perhaps he saw something while trying to enter his room? And dropped everything to pursue?

Did... the culprit maybe steal something from his room? They said the room was in bad shape like maybe someone had rummaged through it. Maybe he caught them and tried to run after them?

Then the culprit closed the door to his room?

...How easy do you think it would have been for them to find that knife?

...it probably wouldn't be too hard, right? It wasn't very well hidden.

How would the would-be thief have gotten in, then? If the keys are the only way to open the doors, that is.

I think it's more that this culprit was doing something elsewhere and Jonny caught wind of it.

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