itscurtains | [mingle, backdated to Wednesday] What always ends in bloodshed begins as just a game

[So that certainly was a little afternoon adventure, wasn't it? Those hanging around the ballroom might have noticed two absolutely drenched teen girls just... appear out of the floor, shivering and shell shocked. Christine, once they get on solid ground, pretty much falls to her knees to just... stare into space for a minute.

What is this week, honestly?

But as crazy as this all is, Christine knows they have to talk about this with everyone, as soon as possible. So once she helps Nana find some dry clothes and has a little destressing session with The Dads (TM), she's pinning up a note in the hallway.]

Time for another meeting! Nana and I will meet you all in the ballroom around 7. A lot happened these last few days that we need to discuss. Refreshments will be provided, but bring something if you like!

[Christine will be in the ballroom in her Juliet dress (sadly, her cloak is still in the dryer), holding her binder and a weird old flip phone. Hopefully, this goes at least a little more smoothly than past gatherings!]

((Feel free to make prompts before or during the meeting, depending on if you're unlucky enough to see the gals ascending from the trapdoor. I'll be making a few comments myself to cover all the conversation topics. Have fun!))

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[There is one text chain saved in the phone!

It's between the Phantom, presumably, and that single nameless contact. "Between" may not really be the operative word here: it looks like these are far from friendly and barely qualify as exchanges. The Phantom seems to occasionally send this person mean, vaguely threatening messages - you know, basically the way he communicates with most of you, most of the time?

The other party has not responded to these for a while, but if you scroll back, you can see one response from over a month ago:]

I blocked ur number like four times wtf???

[Don't mind Stephen, he's thinking. THINKY FACE, THINKY FACE, WHILE THE OTHERS CHAT ON BY...

and he's gonna send a text. Give him a minute, though, he's doing this by keypad so it'll take some time]

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Stephen? Everything okay over there?

We've got a line out of here. He's been texting someone. I'm going to see if they'll call the police to track this thing.

[!!]

That's the best news I've heard all day. If they're willing to call the police for us, it would be amazing.

If I can convince them it's real...

[this is going to sound really weird
but we stole the phone from the guy who's been texting you
and he's been hurting people
can you call the police to track this?
*please*]

[Just looking at the phone, hoping for a response that's good.]

[It's going to take a little bit for a response to come, but eventually one does:]

nu phone who dis

[you have got to be fucking kidding her.

she's just gonna grab the phone and answer back:]

You literally said you were trying to block the number, so there's no way the whole 'new phone, who's this' thing is going to work. You were trying to block the Phantom from texting you. If I say that we're in the old Opera House, does that ring a bell?

[Given that you are using a flip-phone from like a billion years ago, the response looks something like this.]

[pinching the bridge of her nose really hard with one hand...]

...look, if you're not going to be helpful and actually call the police, can you at least be helpful and give us the wi-fi password?

wtf are you outside my house
is it that white van
that's so cliche

[it's possible you haven't even begun to clear the "if they believe us" hurdle]

Oh, for crying out loud.

[it's a minute before she sends her next reply. she's looking to see if the phone has a camera, but it does not.]

Hey, Jeremy? It's your old buddy from last week.

[literally tossing the phone his way]

My, my what?

[Does Jeremy look athletic? Why would you throw something at him. He fumbles the catch but doesn't drop it, at least. Seeing the text messages makes it immediately clear what went happened though.]

Oh, uh. Why. Why do I have to talk to him?

...because you guys actually got something useful, if terrifying, out of him.

[wait for it.]

And because I'm done with the stupid things he's trying to do. Look at the messages and see what I mean.

[it's clearly not because she's scared, why would you say that]

That's. I mean. I guess? Uh.

[He squints down at the screen and very carefully sends:]

thx 4 falling rocks heads up

Uhhhhhh I don't think. I don't think this is Beej. [He's just gonna keep saying that. He's just decided that's what Beetlejuice's nickname is.] Hang on.

[He's just gonna send another text:]

sry im jeremy n i stole this phone from erik whats ur name

lol ok? whatever
i'm not doxxing myself to my stalker-slash-attempted-murderer

who is erik supposed to be in this whole thing?

[??? ?? ???????????????]

the phantom of the opera original gangster?

[I'm sorry, phone friend. Jeremy was the wrong person for this.]

is this some kind of new marketing thing where you try to kill someone a couple times before dragging them into your weird arg?
are they doing a dark gritty phantom of the opera reboot?

yeah you know saw? imagine that but jigsaw is the phantom

[He's not wrong ok.]

sounds dumb
i'd watch it

actually no, that sounds great, it'd be a whole thing

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Any luck?

No they, uh. They definitely think I'm trying to, uh. Fuck with them?

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