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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.
inside_yourmind: (The games we played till now)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
If a majority of you do not vote correctly -

[The Phantom sweeps his cloak aside and plants both hands on the railing, leaning slightly over it. He does not shout, but his voice seems to grow deeper.]

- a disaster beyond your imagination shall occur.
37773972: (the more i lose control)

[personal profile] 37773972 2020-07-11 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[...]

>>THE ASCENDED EXTRA

[He breaks the hug only long enough to vote, then goes back to holding Sigyn]
mcfife: angry (☀️with speed of light I'm to rise)

[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Do not threaten us! Who are you to hide in your box like a coward and act as if you are lord of the castle?
inside_yourmind: (Default)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I am the lord of this particular castle.

[He's the Phantom of the Opera and this is the opera, my dude, come on]
mcfife: angry (☀️with speed of light I'm to rise)

[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
By overthrowing the original owners!

[He knows how conquest and evil overlords work!]
inside_yourmind: (Past the point)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[The Phantom chuckles quietly.]

Oh, I had nothing to do with that.
revelfree: (>:|)

[personal profile] revelfree 2020-07-11 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Catch him quietly muttering some things about self-made gods.]
superbeliever: (♚ ⚔ 030 ⚔ ♚)

[personal profile] superbeliever 2020-07-11 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
This isn't a castle, get over yourself. I want to speak to your king!

[King Karen]
inside_yourmind: (What raging fire shall flood the soul?)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
What a withering retort.
superbeliever: (♚ ⚔ 017 ⚔ ♚)

[personal profile] superbeliever 2020-07-11 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
You're a withered old-

[...Right. Children. Also network censors, probably.]

...Bat.
inside_yourmind: (What warm unspoken secrets)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
And you are a king with no castle and no kingdom, whose only desirable trait was the wealth you no longer possess. Your own flaws are the reason you have always been second-best.
superbeliever: (♚ ⚔ 080 ⚔ ♚)

[personal profile] superbeliever 2020-07-11 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, well- [His voice breaks and his lip wobbles as he tries to recover.] Well you're a mean, ugly wizard, and you'll die alone in a big empty castle because- [His voice catches weird and pitchy around the lump in his throat as he gets hit by his own verbal double edged sword.] because you're a gross bully and nobody l-loves you!
bloodycape: (pic#14143117)

[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Your Highness... it's okay. Please don't let the things he says bother you-- you're not alone.

[She doesn't know why those words soothe her when she says them, but they do, and she puts a hand on his shoulder.]

We're here beside you.

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herwiggles: (Found)

[personal profile] herwiggles 2020-07-11 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[N........nailed it?]
mcfife: somber (☀️riding on the astral fire)

[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[You've got the spirit, at least...]
likemypicture: (With the gold lace trim)

[personal profile] likemypicture 2020-07-11 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Anne's hand finds her way to Richard's other shoulder, so he's just.... surrounded by a small girl and a tiny woman, comforting him]

Keep your head high, cousin. He knows nothing of Kings.

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holyspit: (you did this)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
That's not an actual answer!
herwiggles: (What)

[personal profile] herwiggles 2020-07-11 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[mmmmmMMMMMM SHE DOESNT LIKE THAT]

I think something bad's gonna happen if we don't do it, Steven...!
holyspit: (FINN)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Something bad's going to happen if we DO!
herwiggles: (hhhhh)

[personal profile] herwiggles 2020-07-11 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I know!

I don't wanna do any of this... but maybe we have to. [it's starting to sound like they have no choice.]
holyspit: (this might not be fine)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
No! We don't- we can't just-

[Sigyn is telling him to vote. Tall Stephen is talking about what refusing really means. And now this, Spinel, who his mom's already hurt so badly, who he hurt-?]

[He hates this, this is awful, he wants to kill the Phantom and it's not a good feeling.]


...Do you want me to put in your vote for you.

[hate hate hate hate hate]
herwiggles: (Funny)

[personal profile] herwiggles 2020-07-11 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[mmmmmm a bit late for that, buddy]
holyspit: (no really this is actually fine)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[it's fine this way they can really share the trauma for like a day before the memory regains hit]