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?]

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[sunshineprincess]

[Ah! Good. Going to just back away a bit and kneel down by the object. What is she looking at?]

[stagemanagers]

[The straight razor flicks open easily. It is not bloody, though like the blanket it appears to be slightly damp.]

[dieformymusic]

[Well what a tangled web of blood they weave.

He scrawls again on the clipboard.

"Blood on the floor. What did you find?"]

[stagemanagers]

[The object doesn't resemble anything Anna's seen before. It looks like a tiny transparent disc. That's why it was so difficult to see. It's also slightly concave - right now it's sitting with the curved part facing down, like a bowl.]

[rockthistown]

Maybe, and then they washed it after... Um, what is it, exactly?

[dechagny]

[Blood on the floor - a murder weapon would be more helpful, but they take what they can get.]

I too found blood on the floor - a small trail of droplets through the lobby. Whether they go from the east hall to the west, or west to east, I cannot determine.

[solomonjihad]

[Is the gash deep enough to potentially sever arteries?]

[sunshineprincess]

[She is going to gently pick it up and look it over.

She has opera glasses. Is the disc made of glass like they are?]

[dieformymusic]

[So they know that at least someone passed through the lobby to here after the murder.

"Hard to tell. We need to examine around here. See if the murderer tried to cover anything here."

Unless there's anything of interest around the sink, is there anything of interest round the drying machines?]

[stagemanagers]

[You may want to look at the sink a little more, actually.]

[dieformymusic]

[Winslow starts to look elsewhere before the sink catches his eye. The songwriter decides to examine said sink, looking even into the drain]

[dontfeedplants]

You use it for shaving, actually. I have something like this back home.

[He looks around the room once more. Anything else off about this place?]

[catliketread]

[Well that's good! He'll take that with him, then! Let's get a closer look at the blood here - is there anything to note about it?]

[stagemanagers]

[It's pretty deep, but not quite that bad.

This has nothing to do with the mods not knowing there were arteries in the hand to begin with.]

[solomonjihad]

[Sorry bro say hello to Asshole Dickshit!!]

[stagemanagers]

[The sink is empty. There's nothing in the drain either.

However, it seems like there must've been something in here pretty recently - there's a pale reddish stain left on the basin, forming a ring.]

[solomonjihad]

[Nah, it's cool, Jerkface Le Poophead just has the experience of those kinds of stabby stabs to know that stuff. Usually because she did it, but anyways.

Nevertheless, amusing wounds of death aside she's gonna give the body one more once-over. Anything else she should look for?]

AREA CLEAR

[stagemanagers]

AREA CLEAR

[stagemanagers]

AREA CLEAR

[stagemanagers]

[stagemanagers]

[Nope, the meek have triumphed here!]

[stagemanagers]

[Other than the sheer everywhere of it, not really. No handy footprints or anything like that.]

[catliketread]

[What a shame. Anything else to see here at the shrine?]

[stagemanagers]

[Well, you've been touching him, so maybe you should know that while his skin is cool, he's not entirely room-temperature yet.]

[stagemanagers]

[Just the desecration of something the victim held sacred!]