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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.
musacal: (43)

[personal profile] musacal 2020-07-11 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Nana looks up at box 5 where the Phantom is when he speaks and then back down at the podium. ]

Do... Do we really have to...?

[ Because this is all bad fam. ]
Edited 2020-07-11 20:11 (UTC)
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[personal profile] herwiggles 2020-07-11 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Guess who's also looking at her podium like this sucks. because it does.]

What happens if we do...?
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[personal profile] musacal 2020-07-11 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
He... he's going to kill her...!
Edited 2020-07-11 20:20 (UTC)
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[personal profile] etincelledefierte 2020-07-11 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Claudine's just going to go around the podiums and put a hand on Nana's shoulder. Her face is teary, but she can be strong a little longer, she thinks.]

None of us wants to do this. It is -

[She shakes her head.]

- it's the worst.

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[personal profile] musacal 2020-07-11 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Her eyes are getting teary too and her voice is quiet as she speaks. ]

C-Clau-chan...

I-I don't think I can do it...
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[personal profile] etincelledefierte 2020-07-11 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's going to pull Nana into a hug.]

...if you can't. I - I...

[She's trying to say that she can do it for her. It's not that she takes any kind of joy in it - it's the opposite - but she's been doing her best to stay strong for everyone during this whole thing and if she needs to do it a little more, she will.]
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[personal profile] musacal 2020-07-11 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She is easily pulled into the hug and even puts a hand on one of Claudine's arm to cling to it. She shakes her head. ]

No... I can't put you through doing it for me as well. I can't...

[ And thankfully Sigyn has successfully convinced her but fucking ouch. ]
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[personal profile] etincelledefierte 2020-07-11 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Claudine nods. She was willing to do it, but she's a little relieved that she doesn't have to.]

...if you ever do need it, the offer's there.

[She says, in a shaky tone. Fucking ouch is right.]
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[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Please, Nana. Don't die on my account.
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[personal profile] musacal 2020-07-11 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
B-But...!

It's too cruel! I.. I can't...

I'm supposed to protect people! I...
Edited 2020-07-11 20:42 (UTC)
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[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
You still can. Protect yourself and everyone here and then go find a way out of this mess.
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[personal profile] musacal 2020-07-11 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's strange. Hearing those words makes her think of another's. The words belonging to a certain deep voiced animal who really shouldn't be talking.

...

She nods then and hovers her hand over the podium before finally: ]


>The Ascended Extra

[ She sniffles back her tears. ]

I'm going to... I'm going to fix all of this and protect everyone.

I promise.
Edited 2020-07-11 20:59 (UTC)
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[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I know you will.