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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: (wait what)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Why are there extra podiums..?

[This is fine, this is definitely something productive to focus on and not a distraction from his utter failure so far today.]
bloodycape: (pic#14089203)

[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It's like the spare room... like there were supposed to be more of us...
holyspit: (here come the pain)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Three of them... you think they managed to get away?
bloodycape: (pic#14143114)

[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Um... I followed the blood trail that started at room 20. It went through the lobby and down the east wing all the way to the costume shop. But when we didn't see anyone there, we went back to check on the others.

There was also a knife missing from the kitchen. So... either they got rid of it or... maybe they still have it, it's hard to say. But there was no sign of it in the kitchen.
inside_yourmind: (The final threshold)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It's simply the number of rooms that were available!

[he sounds kinda annoyed by this!]
revelfree: (:?)

mods?

[personal profile] revelfree 2020-07-11 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, look! He's right next to Stephen. This is fine, no matter what happens he has back-up.

And... who knows what's going to happen. He's looking about pretty warily.]



What becomes of the culprit, when we determine who has done this? [He glances over the podiums, at the faces gathering. One of them did a murder. That's fun.]
bloodycape: (pic#14143117)

[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope so. Maybe they weren't caught in the first place.
holyspit: (what is this)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
So you couldn't find three more people?

[...is he actually complaining, probably not.]
holyspit: (unfortunate)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be good for us, either way. ...Better if we knew HOW, but it's something.
inside_yourmind: (The games we played till now)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
They will be executed, of course.
holyspit: (what is this)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I, uh. Ended up in Jonny's room with Santana and Riley. It was pretty messy, and I don't think that's just because Jonny didn't clean up.
inside_yourmind: (Are at an end)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-07-11 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Would you like me to go and fetch three more participants, B-Sided?
isawallflower: (i pared down)

[personal profile] isawallflower 2020-07-11 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Riley speaks up with- well, here's a kitchen knife on her person. ]

I have it. It was in Jonny's room, Santana found it. Under the pillow, I think...?
etincelledefierte: (Overture 081)

[personal profile] etincelledefierte 2020-07-11 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Claudine takes a deep breath. Think of it like a mystery play, she tells herself, even though that only helps so much.

After she's taken a minute to try and steady herself, she takes out a medium-sized cloth bag.]


When I first stepped outside and saw the...bloodstains, I know Red and I went one way and Riley and Christine went the other. The bloodstains Red and I followed went to the costume room. I went back there to look after the body was found.

There was a pretty big area where it looked like someone had tried to clean up a bigger bloodstain, and I think these clothes are what they used to do it. There's a puffy shirt and a couple of other things in here.

[If anyone wants to look, she'll gladly pass them over, but she is not inclined to take them out of the bag herself. Not without a way to wash her hands.]
madgiganticfeelings: (sitzprobe)

[personal profile] madgiganticfeelings 2020-07-11 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Christine is hugging herself tightly, standing behind her own podium, but not at all looking happy about it. She has found some sort of ruffled dress from the costume room to replace her stained clothes, but when she could have earlier been caught up in her imaginings of being an imprisoned princess, she's stuck firmly in reality now.

She hears the Phantom's voice and searches around frantically, but when she spots him watching from above... oh. She actually glares at him. She actually looks furious...]


I don't see why I have to be here. I don't want to find out who killed... who did what they did. Can't we just move on?
revelfree: (:|)

[personal profile] revelfree 2020-07-11 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoever did this, I don't think they were making much of an attempt to hide the body. It was positioned to fall out.

[Just gonna... look at Christine. He'd go check on her but he did have to grab the body off of her so he probably still has some blood on him.]
garbageface: (at attention)

[personal profile] garbageface 2020-07-11 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a kitchen knife under Jonny's pillow. It was clean, so I don't know if it was used. Also, who sleeps with a knife under their pillow?
reassuranceandrevolution: (Default)

[personal profile] reassuranceandrevolution 2020-07-11 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sigyn takes her place between Stephen and Red]

We should start by laying out the findings of the investigation.
bloodycape: (pic#14143112)

[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Looking at the Phantom like MMMM.

So she whispers--
]

It sounds like whatever happened, he didn't like it. So we should probably remember it. We might be able to find something.
mcfife: heroic (Now it's time to)

[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Justice has to be served. It's terrible enough that they are in this situation, but it is only right to share what he found.

Angus stands with his hands gripping either side of his podium, standing straight as if addressing a crowd of many.]


Jonny was killed with a single stab in the chest. The culprit must have aimed for his heart, but I found that he is a cyborg - he has a metal heart. Either way, it was enough to kill him. I couldn't find any sign that he was dragged or fought back, save for some healed cuts on his knuckles.

There was also this in his pocket. [He places a ring on his podium.]
revelfree: (>:O)

[personal profile] revelfree 2020-07-11 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
And if we refuse to allow you to end the lives of one of our compatriots?
holyspit: (rar)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-07-11 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
No! I'm not fixing your mistakes for you, especially not for something this screwed up!
isawallflower: (there's only one more year)

[personal profile] isawallflower 2020-07-11 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She adds: ] The armoire was open and...things were just tossed everywhere. Like it'd been ransacked.
bloodycape: (pic#14143111)

[personal profile] bloodycape 2020-07-11 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe he just wanted it for protection then...?

I wonder if there was someone he worried about...
mcfife: blank (☀️so hail to you)

[personal profile] mcfife 2020-07-11 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Or was it used to kill him?

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