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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.
reassuranceandrevolution: (As now it is clear to me)

[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, someone did murder Jonny.
revelfree: (>:O)

mods?

[personal profile] revelfree 2020-07-11 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
How do we know it wasn't the Phantom? [He turns his head upward.]

How can we trust that you are not attempting to pit us against each other for a crime you committed?
reassuranceandrevolution: (They'll birth the world anew)

[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
A good point.
inside_yourmind: (What warm unspoken secrets)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I will not harm any of you while this is ongoing, save in case of executions for murder or punishments for other rule-breaking. That would go against the point.
reassuranceandrevolution: (As now it is clear to me)

[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
So as long as we don't attempt to hurt you, that is?
inside_yourmind: (Beyond the point of no return)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
...indeed.
holyspit: (i don't want this)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
They- wouldn't have done that without his stupid rules and motive, though!
reassuranceandrevolution: (But our chains are weapons too)

[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
It's true, but unless he forced them in some way, they still committed the act itself.
holyspit: (oh schnikeys)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
And we can deal with that without killing anyone else!
reassuranceandrevolution: (But our chains are weapons too)

[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know how much say we have in the matter.
holyspit: (why this 2)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a lot of us that can fight, he can't stop us all together.
reassuranceandrevolution: (We strike tonight)

[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
He may not have to fight us. There are more ways to kill someone than a physical altercation.
holyspit: (hello darkness)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
...Like how he captured us all to begin with.

[dangit]