stagemanagers: (curtains)
It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2020-08-08 10:55 am
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fifth trial

[When the investigation finishes, the lights begin to flicker on and off as that low, gentle rumble echoes through the opera house.

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

The court room looks just as it always has for you: the grand chandelier glittering above your heads, the dusty red velvet seats. In the orchestra pit your circle of wooden podiums are waiting. Jeremy and Steven's podiums are draped in black crepe with their grey scale 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. His tone is even, with none of the distraction or terse notes in the weeks before. He almost sounds curious for how this all will play out.]


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

[Gather your evidence and let's begin.]
madgiganticfeelings: (cold read)

[personal profile] madgiganticfeelings 2020-08-08 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
And I think you admitting that makes you less of a suspect to me.

I... was good friends with him, and he helped me a lot while I was here. I wouldn't want him dead, but... you can choose not to believe me if you want.
heathencall: (<:?)

[personal profile] heathencall 2020-08-08 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I want to say that I don't think you have it in you. But I would not have thought any of us had it in them at this point.

[His knuckles tighten against the podium.]

I'm tired of having to guess at who I can trust.
madgiganticfeelings: (sitzprobe)

[personal profile] madgiganticfeelings 2020-08-08 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Christine doesn't say anything for a moment. She just leaves her podium to carefully approach Mephisto's, and maybe put her hand on his, if he doesn't flinch away.]

I-I know. I am too.
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heathencall: (<:?)

[personal profile] heathencall 2020-08-08 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[He will not.]

Promise me you didn't do it, Christine.
madgiganticfeelings: (cold read)

[personal profile] madgiganticfeelings 2020-08-08 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[She holds up her hand with a pinky outstretched.]

You know I wouldn't break a promise. And you? Can you do the same?