third investigation

[stagemanagers]

[At the start of Friday, things are surprisingly calm. There’s no blood on the hall carpet, presumably no bodies ready to fall out of a broom closet, nothing especially incriminating when the cast wakes up and emerges from their rooms. It’s possible this time, even with the palpable temptation of the Phantom’s motive, that no one has taken him up on his offer to kill. Maybe later today you won't have to march yourselves into the trial room to decipher clues and watch more of you die.

But the day is young.]

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[madgiganticfeelings]

[Oh geez, like broken unnatural? Christine looks over the arm and starts to pry Claudine's fingers open.]

[stagemanagers]

[Not that much! More positioned after she died unnatural.

Claudine's right hand is covered in blood. There is a small shard of pink gemstone in her palm.]

[madgiganticfeelings]

[Well, that's odd. Doesn't look like it's from jewelry...

Christine decides to look around the room next. Any other gem shards nearby?]

[stagemanagers]

[Nothing like that, but it looks like there's bloodstains from where Claudine's body is lying to the center of the room, about three or four feet away.]

[madgiganticfeelings]

[Well, then, she's just going to carefully follow those stains. Are they only in the studio? Is there one particularly large stain?]

[stagemanagers]

[Well, there's also a bloody handprint on a mirror in here.]

[madgiganticfeelings]

[Is it, by any chance, a right handprint?]

[stagemanagers]

[Sure is!

Also, there's some stuff on the ground if you wanna check that out.]

[madgiganticfeelings]

[Of course she does! Whatever she can glean from the scene. Please, don't let it be candles.]

[stagemanagers]

[For one, there's a glove lying on the ground. It's one of those white opera gloves you can get from the merchandise booth - but this one is smeared with blood.]

[madgiganticfeelings]

[Huh. Is the blood smeared around the hand? Could it have reasonably created that right handprint, or is she off base?]

[stagemanagers]

[Nah, it doesn't really look like that at all - the blood is sort of smeared along the middle and side.

Also, hey, there's a gym bag, water bottle, and towel off to the side there.]

[madgiganticfeelings]

[Was someone working out...? Maybe Claudine was rehearsing before she was...

She wishes she would have asked for company. But Christine blinks back tears and decides to dig in the gym bag.]

[stagemanagers]

[Looks like Claudine's shoes and regular street clothes are in here! She is, for the record, currently wearing a black leotard with pink tights and soft ballet slippers.]

[madgiganticfeelings]

[Oh no... she should have had someone with her... except maybe she did

Well, time to look over that towel. Is it. Also bloody? Or is it just a regular towel?]

[stagemanagers]

[Nope, nothing here is bloody!]