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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2020-07-11 11:52 am
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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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[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone who's afraid of being murdered, I think.

But he didn't have it with him so... maybe he really trusted that person.
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[personal profile] garbageface 2020-07-11 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe. Or maybe he just didn't have time? The room was super messy, so things could've gotten really hectic.
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[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe there was some kind of fight... or he tried to run-- I know I'd try to run.
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[personal profile] isawallflower 2020-07-11 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...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.
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[personal profile] revelfree 2020-07-11 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps he saw something while trying to enter his room? And dropped everything to pursue?
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[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
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?
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[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Then the culprit closed the door to his room?

...How easy do you think it would have been for them to find that knife?
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[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
...it probably wouldn't be too hard, right? It wasn't very well hidden.
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[personal profile] revelfree 2020-07-11 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
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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[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Right... then... If he left the key in the door then.. maybe they got in after to look for-- whatever they were looking for.
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[personal profile] madgiganticfeelings 2020-07-11 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think he would have left the key in the door by accident. We said already, he was paranoid, right?

Someone must have caught him just before he went inside, and maybe he... chased them to the costume room?
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[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Right— something big must have happened if it threw him off enough to leave his key in the door. He would have had to notice it was still there unless he didn’t have time to think about it at all.