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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.
isawallflower: (when i realized)

[personal profile] isawallflower 2020-07-11 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
...Oh, Hamilton? I've seen it. It's good.

[ children. ]
justmeheere: (i tune them out)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Really? Michael and I tried to do the lottery but as you know, tickets.
isawallflower: (i don't wanna wonder)

[personal profile] isawallflower 2020-07-11 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, they weren't that-

[ Riley's Privilege Rising Up To Bite Her. ]

...Oh. No, yeah, I get that.
justmeheere: (but i know that i'll be fine)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Riley, he's middle class but he's not UPPER middle class.]

Yeah. Exactly. Michael thought it would help with our US History test but all that happened was I literally couldn't get the songs out of my head and I forgot all the actual US history.
isawallflower: (stuck on)

[personal profile] isawallflower 2020-07-11 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Cai just wanted to have a weekend in the city and dragged me along. [ of course she went with cairo ] They were stuck in my head for weeks.

[ have they just forgotten how to be helpful. has the anxiety just eaten them. ]
justmeheere: (there's)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Right? [They have totally forgotten how yo be helpful.] They're so catchy. Must be why it won all the Tonys.
isawallflower: (you've got to say)

[personal profile] isawallflower 2020-07-11 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Under her breath but not too much so: ] Why do you write like you're running out of time...

[ GREAT NOW THIS IS GOING TO BE STUCK IN HER HEAD THE WHOLE TRIAL. ]
mcfife: side eye (☀️no return forevermore)

[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, what this about?

[Hello neighbor, he can't help but be confused about alternate American history.]
justmeheere: (i'm finally gaining ground)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
American history?

[Sorry, he doesn't understand the question.]
mcfife: heroic (Default)

[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't recall any of this happening. Why would some place like Britannia rule anything?
justmeheere: (i already know what it's like to)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
They're Britain. That's just, like, what they do?
mcfife: side eye (☀️no return forevermore)

[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
They can barely survive as a country.
justmeheere: (and there are voices in my head)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
No? They're, like, a world superpower?
mcfife: side eye (☀️no return forevermore)

[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[???]

How does that even happen?
justmeheere: (i guess these never disappear)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
You do a lot of, of conquering and you make everyone speak English?

[??? YOU KNOW, THE NORMAL WAY.]
mcfife: concern (☀️clouds beneath)

[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Didn't they almost destroy themselves with all of the infighting?

[To be fair, Fife kind of rules anything but details.]
isawallflower: (you start to realize)

[personal profile] isawallflower 2020-07-11 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Revolution, a man attempting to accomplish as much as he can before his own mortality catches up with him, and the inherent problems with building a government.

[ there are two kinds of people. ]
mcfife: thoughtful (☀️to realms beyond space)

[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It sounds like an interesting tale. [The themes are familiar, at least.] So it's a dramatic retelling of your history?
isawallflower: (but it's no surprise)

[personal profile] isawallflower 2020-07-11 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh. Everyone raps. It's...innovative, I hear.

[ At least that's what Cairo said the reviews said?? ]
mcfife: heartfelt (☀️all that I've known here)

[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose I should see that one day.