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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.
etincelledefierte: (quelle surprise)

[personal profile] etincelledefierte 2020-07-11 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hmm...]

Hey, everyone? Come take a look at this. The shirt I found in the costume room and the dress Jeremy found have about the same amount of blood on them, but the patterns are different. I think the dress got bunched up when it touched blood. So maybe someone wasn't wearing it, but used it for something else?
37773972: (and i don't think i'll escape)

[personal profile] 37773972 2020-07-11 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
...for wiping blood?
bloodycape: (pic#14089211)

[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Maybe they tried to clean it up. So maybe they did want to try and hide it...
37773972: (is this real?)

[personal profile] 37773972 2020-07-11 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly.
reassuranceandrevolution: (Default)

[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Trying to clean up the scene? But the body would have been found eventually, why bother?
37773972: (and there's nothing to hold)

[personal profile] 37773972 2020-07-11 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
On them? To make the scene look different? [Helpless shrug hedefk]
reassuranceandrevolution: (Odins world must burn)

[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe to make us believe the closet was the scene of the crime.
justmeheere: (then make up my own mind)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
More, uh. More importantly why just wash the dress if Claudine found other bloody clothes?
reassuranceandrevolution: (As now it is clear to me)

[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe they were in a hurry? Possibly someone who isn't use to cleaning up evidence.
justmeheere: (and there are voices in my head)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[You watch a lot of crime dramas, you get weirdly obsessive about Cleaning Up Evidence.]

So, so maybe this was accidental?
reassuranceandrevolution: (We strike tonight)

[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
How does one accidentally stab someone in the chest?
etincelledefierte: (Overture 006)

[personal profile] etincelledefierte 2020-07-11 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
...if there was a fight in the costume room, maybe during that? Don't ask me exactly how it would work, but...
reassuranceandrevolution: (They'll birth the world anew)

[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It's possible he attacked whoever it was and they acted in self defense.
etincelledefierte: (Default)

[personal profile] etincelledefierte 2020-07-11 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
That's true, especially since we know Jonny was attacking the mannequin before.
37773972: (stuck in my head for eternity)

[personal profile] 37773972 2020-07-11 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
And I'm guessing self defense still counts as murder. [A tired glance at the Phantom]
inside_yourmind: (Are at an end)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[The Phantom, who appears to have been distracted with something, looks up.]

That's correct.
mcfife: concern (☀️clouds beneath)

[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
He would have had more wounds on him if it were in self-defense. I only found those on his hands, and nothing more. It takes effort to go up to someone and strike them in the heart.
justmeheere: (i'll let 'em squeal and i will deal)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Is. Could, um. If you were a person who gets into knife fights, could you take the knife from the person attacking you, maybe, and then stab them in the heart?

[Jeremy's version of this trial is "well it works in Scribblenauts so that can be real life."]
mcfife: side eye (☀️no return forevermore)

[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
...Then we'd have to look at the highly trained fighters.

[Looks at Sigyn.]

Which includes myself.
justmeheere: (i guess these never disappear)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ah. he doesn't like this train of thought anymore.]

Ok, so. Probably not an accident? Or self defense?
isawallflower: (you start to realize)

[personal profile] isawallflower 2020-07-11 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ hey what the FUCK happens in scribblenauts ]
justmeheere: (but i know that i'll be fine)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[listen sometimes Death is real and if he touches you, you die. anything can happen in scribblenauts.]
etincelledefierte: (Overture 054)

[personal profile] etincelledefierte 2020-07-11 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
...maybe, or maybe for something like holding over the...

[she shudders.]

...the stab wound while being carried?
musacal: (3)

[personal profile] musacal 2020-07-11 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Good catch, Clau-chan!
etincelledefierte: (Default)

[personal profile] etincelledefierte 2020-07-11 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, Banana.

[A tiny flash of a smile.]