final investigation

[stagemanagers]

[It’s Thursday, and so you might very well expect nothing to happen today. Sure, there was no motive handed down on Tuesday, and the Phantom claims that his patron has chosen to end this show early. But he said by the end of the week; you’ve got a few more days yet before that.

So it may come as something of a surprise when all of the mirrors in all of the dressing rooms swing open simultaneously.

Nobody is there, and there is no announcement. But the intention seems clear. Gather your group, and bring anything you don’t want to leave behind. This means your important items and also your pets! Except for the horse...it seems he isn’t in his stall today.]




(( Welcome to the final investigation! You may all proceed together for right now - we’ll toss up toplevels for the separate groups when you reach your investigation areas! ))

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[musacal]

[ Oof. So Riley's trial...

Getting closer to the end now she figures, so going on. Oh god there's still like two other contacts to check the messages of, jesus. ]

[stagemanagers]

[I swear we're almost done and the other two are way less involved-

Text 13 and text 14, both dated 7/27.]

[musacal]

[ BLESS--

Oh but this is interesting though. The phantom didn't know what a ghost is? And also died? Hmm.

Scrolling... ]

[stagemanagers]

[Text 15, dated 8/1.]

[musacal]

[ Jeremy's trial...? Given some of the previous texts maybe he was upset about the SQUIP...

Scrolling... ]

[stagemanagers]

[Text 16, dated 8/2.]

[musacal]

...Huh?

Speak with the ghosts? You mean our friends...?

[ continuing on. ]

[stagemanagers]

[Text 17, dated 8/2.]

[musacal]

[ Ah. Must be how the encounter with the ghosts went. Saw that coming.

Scrolling on and getting closer.. ]

[stagemanagers]

[Text 18, dated 8/2.

After this one it's the first text you saw. That's it for this text chain!]

[musacal]

[ Man leave it to Nana to jump head first into the meatiest thing right away tbh.

She's going to wordlessly move onto the next text chain, the middle one. She'll leave the oldest one for last. ]

[stagemanagers]

[Thankfully, the next text chain is much more simple with fewer links.

It looks like a series of detailed weekly reports of all the cases. They're all use very clinical language and each and every finished report text has Read with various times next to it.

Someone's really out here leaving the Phantom on read, huh?]

[musacal]

[ Huh, that's interesting. She would have thought something like that would be sent to the first contact, assuming that's the wizard. Is there actually a third party involved...?

Okay now for the oldest text chain. ]

[stagemanagers]

[There's something familiar about these texts...this text chain is much shorter and all seem to be vague threats directed at someone who actually answers with annoyance, confusion and sometimes memes. Their writing style reminds you of someone you've also been recently texting with!

Based on the dates these all seem to have been sent in the few weeks before you all woke up here and stop just before.]

[musacal]

[ Ah... so they were threatening Chewie with this one too. Now she wonders if the other phone was used because this number was blocked, or if they were double texting him.

Okay unless there's anything else to see with the text messages she's going to move onto the downloads folder. ]

[stagemanagers]

[It's all audiobooks! Most of them look to be non-fiction travelogues and historical books about the late 19th century but the more recently downloads ones (like in the past 2 weeks) are all about ghosts.

Most notably though is an audiobook copy of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.

It's Curtains Round 2: Sponsored by Audible.]

[musacal]

[ Hmm, okay... these line up with the text messages. She wonders why the idea of ghosts is so interesting to him though...

She's gonna go back to check the browser tabs now. Guessing there's more about ghosts or maybe something else...? ]

[stagemanagers]

[Not exactly, Nana.]

[musacal]

[ Oh

My

God

Okay she is closing the browser right away because nope.

Some last things to check out:

1) is there tinder

2) can they download tinder

3) ACTUALLY MORE SERIOUSLY AND MOST IMPORTANT FOR NANA’S PURPOSES is the camera function fine can she take pictures with the phone ]

[stagemanagers]

[1) No.

2) Yes, it is connected to the wifi.

3) Yes.

And you're pretty much done here! The only thing left to really notice since Anne took care of the scrapbook is how cute the phone case is.]

[musacal]

[ Oh sweet, will fuck around with wi-fi and maybe idk download Love Live and Fate/Grand Order or something

For now she's going to admire the phone case and also take pictures of e v e r y t h i n g ]

[likemypicture]

[hey nana, hey nana--- anne taps on her shoulder. oh god anne's face. Has she been ugly crying? Maybe a little.]

I'm going to check on the next room, ja? When you finish up here-- there's weird stuff in the trunk. I don't know if you know what it is.

[musacal]

Oh! [ She jumps a moment, a little too engrossed in all the texts. ] O-Oh, okay-- sure! I'll take a look after.

Be careful okay? Shout for me if you need anything.

[ a pause ]

...Do you need a handkerchief or something?

[ She noticed her face ]

[likemypicture]

I’ll do this if I need you! [SHE PRESSES DOWN ON THE AIRHORN.]

... No, I’m fine. Just a little emotional.

what other icon could i even use for this BUT nanachu tbh

[musacal]

[ OH SWEET LORD THAT'S SO LOUD. ]

Okay, okay that works!!

[ That'll definitely. Get her attention. OKAY BACK TO THE PHONE. ]