stagemanagers: (curtains)
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.
justmeheere: (but now they're just the normal kind)

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[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[He has it clutched to his chest, because if. If he gives it back, that makes it real. That means this is really happening.]

No. No, I don't wa -
justmeheere: (might still have)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jeremy suddenly straightens, cutting himself off mid-word and walking around the podiums and handing the ring back wordlessly.]
musacal: (77)

[personal profile] musacal 2020-07-11 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ as someone right next to him: the fuck ]
holyspit: (this is fine)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's definitely just stress and nothing sinister.]
reassuranceandrevolution: https://thecolorsdukethecolors.dreamwidth.org/287.html (In the face of Asgard's scorn)

[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sigyn takes the ring, seemingly revealed to have it in her grasp again]

Thank you.
justmeheere: (jeremy)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course. [There's a strange neutralness to the tone in Jeremy's voice.] It's important to you, after all.
reassuranceandrevolution: (At this point of no return)

[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even through her grief, something seems off]

Jeremy, I'm sorry, I never meant to hurt any of you.
justmeheere: (jeremy)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, Sigyn. You did what you had to do. I don't hold it against you.

[The words are clearly enunciated and he doesn't stumble or trip over them once, which. Kind of weird, for Jeremy.]
madgiganticfeelings: (cold read)

[personal profile] madgiganticfeelings 2020-07-11 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Jeremy! Stop talking like that! Someone is going to die, what is wrong with you?

[Yeah, Christine has been watching all of this is shock and she doesn't even know what she can possibly do, so she lashes out at the one thing she might slightly have a suspicious about.]
justmeheere: (might still have)

[personal profile] justmeheere 2020-07-11 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing's wrong with me. I understand how this game is played. Maybe you should all get with the program.
madgiganticfeelings: (Default)

[personal profile] madgiganticfeelings 2020-07-11 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nope. Nope! Fuck this! Christine recoils away like she's been slapped, and chokes on a sob.]

This is just a game to you?