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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2020-08-01 11:54 am
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fourth trial

[When the investigation finishes, the lights begin to flicker on and off as that low, gentle rumble echoes through the opera house. Again for those investigating the grounds the outdoor lights illuminating the still night flicker to get their attention.

Your intermission is ending. Please return to your trial room.

The court room looks just as it did before: the grand chandelier glittering above your heads, the dusty red velvet seats. In the orchestra pit your circle of wooden podiums are waiting. Angus, Riley and Shilo's podiums are draped in black crepe with their greyscale funerary portraits, just like your friends before them. The ghost light glows softly behind the podiums.

The curtain is closed, waiting to open when a decision has been reached and the execution can commence.

When everyone is in their places, the Phantom's voice echoes loud and clear through the theatre from his place in box 5. He still sounds distracted, just as he was for his other public appearance this week, like there are other things weighing on his mind.]


You must now determine who was responsible for the death of Shilo Wallace. Submit your vote on the podiums when you are certain of your choice.

[Gather your evidence and let's begin.]
madgiganticfeelings: (call time)

[personal profile] madgiganticfeelings 2020-08-01 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
...I'm sorry, Stephen. I wish I could have thought of something.
37773972: ('cause i'm not waking up)

[personal profile] 37773972 2020-08-01 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It's fine, it's not your fault. [He can't see Christine attacking anyone, anyway. Then again, he couldn't see Riley, either.]
madgiganticfeelings: (exeunt)

[personal profile] madgiganticfeelings 2020-08-01 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not, but... but we have to solve this. The threat of us dying apparently isn't going to make whoever did this confess...

[Forgive her, she's trying to talk through what she knows.]

They planned this out, planned to attack Shilo from the start. They attacked her in the barn... using that weeder, and a cloth to maybe catch the blood or clean it up. They moved her to another spot to... display her? And then went to clean up.

Then they lit the candles for us. Is that all we know? Or am I getting something wrong?
37773972: (stuck in my head for eternity)

[personal profile] 37773972 2020-08-01 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd like to know how the hammer got involved. And the shovel. Unless they're red herrings?
madgiganticfeelings: (cold read)

[personal profile] madgiganticfeelings 2020-08-01 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
It's possible they are red herrings. Whoever did this definitely had the intention of... misleading us.

Might also be misleading us in this trial too...?

[Hey did the motive illness come back? Because she feels sick.]
37773972: (i reach into the darkness)

[personal profile] 37773972 2020-08-01 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's quiet for a moment, and then;]

I don't think this was an accident. If it was- then we wouldn't be here, would we? [He glances at the Phantom] There wouldn't have been a murder if someone else hadn't been involved. Someone at least knows more than they're sharing.
musacal: (14)

[personal profile] musacal 2020-08-01 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Red and Richard were an accident, weren't they?

I don't know, with all the hallucinations and stuff, I don't think the possibility of an accident is necessarily out of the question... maybe the killer panicked and is scared to die...

[ ... ]

...Or maybe I'm just hoping for too much.
37773972: (and i don't think)

[personal profile] 37773972 2020-08-01 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
They were, but Red was still involved. As opposed to someone finding Shilo dead, and trying to cover it up. Why would they even do that, if they weren't involved?

[He lets out a breath]

Either way, they're betting the rest of our lives.
musacal: (69)

[personal profile] musacal 2020-08-01 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Fear of dying? Panic? I don't know.

I just don't want to assume the worst automatically. Not when all of us weren't even in the best frame of mind.

...Again though, maybe I'm just being optimistic.
37773972: (and i don't think i'll escape)

[personal profile] 37773972 2020-08-01 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
The Phantom said the sickness stopped when she died. Which means if they did this because of the sickness, then they had time to realize what they'd done.

...I don't blame anyone for being afraid to die, but I don't want to, either.
madgiganticfeelings: (sitzprobe)

[personal profile] madgiganticfeelings 2020-08-01 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
With... with the candles for each of us, I don't think this person really didn't intend to kill someone.

Because they're, they're prepared to kill all of us.
inside_yourmind: (Are at an end)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-08-01 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Sound enough logic.

[He still seems a little quiet, maybe distracted.]

Motivations have nothing to do with whether or not a trial occurs. Red did kill Richard.
likemypicture: (Head back for a round of croquet)

[personal profile] likemypicture 2020-08-01 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
What's with you lately?
inside_yourmind: (Past the point)

[personal profile] inside_yourmind 2020-08-01 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you mean?
likemypicture: (release the bitches)

[personal profile] likemypicture 2020-08-01 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You're weirder than usual.

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heathencall: (Default)

[personal profile] heathencall 2020-08-01 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't forget the engraving tools.

...

Do you suppose they intended to bury us all once it was over? Etch our names into the graves if there was no one else to carry on the formality?
Edited 2020-08-01 21:26 (UTC)
37773972: (am i just a ghost)

[personal profile] 37773972 2020-08-01 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[This face]
likemypicture: (Not very prim and proper)

[personal profile] likemypicture 2020-08-01 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[THIS FACE]
madgiganticfeelings: (sitzprobe)

[personal profile] madgiganticfeelings 2020-08-01 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
That's... terrible. Who would go through all that work to mourn us, and still wouldn't tell us they were responsible?
heathencall: (:) ?)

[personal profile] heathencall 2020-08-01 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone who felt they had everything to lose back home?
37773972: (and there's nothing to hold)

[personal profile] 37773972 2020-08-01 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't all of us?
heathencall: (>:|)

[personal profile] heathencall 2020-08-01 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Not necessarily. Are you saying your life and what you are dealing with is enough to make you willing to damn seven people?
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37773972: (my salvation's)

[personal profile] 37773972 2020-08-01 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[I MEAN ALL TOLD...but Stephen just makes a face.]

Trolley problem. Maybe it isn't about damning seven, but saving more.

[He still looks distinctly uncomfortable with the thought]
holyspit: (what is this)

[personal profile] holyspit 2020-08-01 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
...You probably don't mean literal trolleys, right.

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heathencall: (>>:???)

[personal profile] heathencall 2020-08-01 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what I was thinking.

[A beat.]

We remember new things every week. Perhaps this killer remembered something even more dire. The needs of the many versus the needs of the few.

[You've never even seen Star Trek Mephisto, how tf do you know that line.]

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