1st victim

[stagemanagers]

[The performers have been in the opera house for nearly two weeks now. Overall, despite the captivity, the experience has been a mellow one even with the introduction of the motive. Peaceful almost.

It's 7 am Friday morning. As everyone starts to putter out of their dressing rooms and begin the day, something feels different. A certain heaviness in the air, a sense of dread...oh, and then there's the metallic smell of blood coming from the hallway.

Investigate?]

Comments

[solomonjihad]

[Sorry Raoul that's just how they roll]

Now, I believe we have a death to investigate?

[Not that she sounds particularly sad]

INVESTIGATION START

[tellthestory]

[Again, the intercoms throughout the building crackle to life. If the Balladeer sounded sobered on Tuesday, he's downright grim today.]

Jean Valjean is dead.

You'd all better get investigating. The trial's due to start soon, and you're gonna need to figure out who did this. It's you guys against the guilty. Get prepared.

And you... [His tone goes icy.] ...I hope you're happy.

[rockthistown]

Then what are we supposed to do?

[bestof]

[oh no, oh no]

Monsieur De Chagny, what happened? Is someone hurt? [Please tell her someone just hurt themselves making breakfast.]

[trettende]

[ Hans has heard the commotion by now, the smell of blood is awful, but the body— ]

Oh, no... not... [ His hand flies to his mouth in shock. Valjean had seemed so helpful. So kind.. ] How could this be?!

[stagemanagers]

Evidence List

TOTAL - 19/19

DINING HALL - 5/5
- Starting this game off right - with a big blood trail
- At least someone can drip blood neatly
- Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
- Blood on the altar, that's just rude
- What's this mysterious object?

HALLWAY - 5/5
- Bread Dad has been bread stabbed
- That's not how you slit a throat
- Eponine did it with more style
- The blood trail drags on
- And drips on, jesus

LAUNDRY ROOM - 4/4
- Valjean fought the law, and the law won
- Looks like this culprit...was armed
- The epic conclusion of Blood
- Don't be finks, clean the sinks

STORAGE - 4/4
- Those weren't there before, were they?
- Did someone want to wash their soul clean?
- Okay, who wet the bed?
- Somewhere, someone's arm is incomplete

LOBBY - 1/1
- The trail continues

DINING HALL

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HALLWAY

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LAUNDRY ROOM

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STORAGE

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LOBBY

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[allicareabout]

[WELL, APPARENTLY - ]

...You have got to be kidding.

[solomonjihad]

You can all stand around, if you'd like. I'm not going to let a body frighten me.

[She's going to go check out the body. Because she can. So there. She'll even turn it over if she wants. What will all of you do?

...

Anyways, any obvious injuries on his back?]

[aflatouttahell]

[OH...

She only talked to him once, but... he was so nice? Like, really nice. He definitely didn't deserve to be on the receiving end of a murder.]

No...

[catliketread]

[WELL NOW THAT WE'VE HAD THAT FUN MOMENT, the Pirate King will head into the dining room as originally planned. He just needs to be away from the body for a bit and we're supposed to investigate, right? Right. So. This is absolutely helpful and not at all ditching a terrible situation because a leader would never do that!!

...Anyway. Is there anything immediately off in here?]

[dontfeedplants]

[Eventually, Seymour finds himself going into the storage room. A voice in his head reassures him that he wanted to go there anyway, but he knew he just wanted to get away from all that blood and horror. Anything immediately noticeable about this place?]

[dieformymusic]

[Winslow recognizes the body now. The convict who showed him kindness.

He stumbles away, deciding he'd rather not look at it. What person would kill him for such a childish thing as a wish?

Perhaps they were in for longer than they thought.]

[robitussin]

[After finding the body, she comes here to investigate. Someone else can examine the body properly. She's checking inside the washer first.]

[stagemanagers]

[His back has no obvious injuries!

...frankly, um, it's sort of unique in that regard.]

[solomonjihad]

[Well, then. She's just going to turn the body over.

Let's see.

Anything obvious on the front?]

[dieformymusic]

[Winslow rather not deal with the body right now. Finding anything the killer and wringing him with his bare hands bringing him to justice, that's more productive than thinking.

If anyone wanted to wash evidence away, they'd do it here. He'll take a look at the sink, to see if anyone left anything in there.]

[stagemanagers]

[Valjean's front is absolutely soaked in blood.

His face and torso are covered in what appear to be stab wounds. They are pretty obvious, yes.]

Re: LOBBY

[dechagny]

[God...he can't. He can't be there with Valjean's body just. Just laying there. Raoul retreats to the lobby, aghast and pale, head spinning.

Though he's in this state, is there anything immediately unusual about the lobby?]

[stagemanagers]

[The most noticeable thing about the storage room right away is that things look a little out of place here and there. It's at least clear someone's been in here fairly recently.]

[solomonjihad]

[Well then.

Now, to take note. What kind of stab wounds? Knife, sword, a pattern in the stabs...? Perhaps something else? Is there any particular wound that would have been the fatal one?]