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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.
holyspit: (then perish)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
No! You're just hurting more people the way you've been hurt! That doesn't fix anything!
inside_yourmind: (Beyond the point of no return)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes, things must be broken before they can be fixed.
holyspit: (rar)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That is the opposite of true!
inside_yourmind: (Beyond the point of no return)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that so? A strange perspective, for a child of revolution.
holyspit: (it might be fine)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
...shut up about my mom.
herwiggles: (Why)

[personal profile] herwiggles 2020-07-11 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[hmmmm

why does she feel. odd about watching this?

Weird.
]
musacal: (85)

[personal profile] musacal 2020-07-11 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...

...

...

Quietly, mostly to herself: ]

"Wouldn't you rather see new things"...
inside_yourmind: (Past the point)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[...the Phantom seems to look at her for a moment. But he doesn't say anything, and it's sort of hard to tell where he's looking anyway, between the distance and his mask.]
bloodycape: (pic#14143135)

[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
No! What have we done to deserve this? We all had our own lives... our own stories.

I don't know your story-- I barely know any of theirs. But I know that no one deserves this. Not you, not us...

None of this would have happened if you hadn't brought us here. Is this what you really wanted?
inside_yourmind: (The games we played till now)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
This? Not exactly. But I am used to working through less-than-ideal circumstances. I am making the best of the situation, and you should try to do the same.

[The white mask turns slightly, towards the other crisis that seems to be happening down there. Boy, that's a lot, huh? But at least Jeremy is doing what he ought to and just casting his damn vote!]

Or, to steal a phrase, get with the program.
bloodycape: (pic#14089207)

[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[She bites her lip, but before he goes--]

I haven't given up on my wish-- and you shouldn't either Mister Phantom.
bloodycape: (pic#14143112)

[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I'll wish hard enough for both of us. I hope we both get them.
inside_yourmind: (What sweet seduction lies before us?)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm certain that we will.