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

[rockthistown]

[Hime doesn't recognize the smell, but wrinkles her nose and starts to walk carefully through the halls... is it stronger around the washroom?]

[stagemanagers]

[There's not no smell in the washroom, but it's actually weaker as you head east!]

[solomonjihad]

...

[She knows that smell. She knows it. And--

she's no bloodhound, but she tries to follow her nose. Its hard, though.

Does it start in the hallway? Is that where it's actually...?]

[stagemanagers]

[Which hallway are we checking here, Astarte?]

[robitussin]

Oh, fuck.

[As soon as she catches that scent, Natalie is heading towards the music room to see if anything is amiss.]

[stagemanagers]

[Woah there, tiger, you might want to slow down.

Because once you enter the west wing, it's going to become pretty clear that there is a body lying prone in the hall.]

[dechagny]

[Raoul holds his nose once he catches the whiff of blood while leaving his room. It's...kind of startling actually. Worrying. He feels the back of his neck tingling in anticipation, but for what?

It's high time the Viscount began to investigate.

His room is close to the men's bathroom, is the smell coming from there?]

[stagemanagers]

[Not at all! But hey, at least you can wash up before handling a crime scene elsewhere?]

[catliketread]

[Oh. Oh that's not good. Well, the Pirate King is not one to shy away from danger (yes he is) so!! He'll head toward the dining hall to check there first.]

[stagemanagers]

[You may want to deal with what's happening in the western hallway first, Pirate King.]

[dontfeedplants]

[Seymour is a little familiar with the scene of blood, but thanks to last night he has a killer headache and it's hard to focus on anything but pain. He's just gonna go to the storage room to see if he can get any medicine.]

[stagemanagers]

[Not before encountering this, he won't. Sorry~]

[littlegirl_littlecurl]

[Darla is headed toward the kitchen . Is the smell worse?]

[stagemanagers]

[It's considerably worse as you approach the kitchen, for immediately obvious reasons.]

[trettende]

[ Hans is sleeping in this morning thanks to that champagne he had last night. while I'm at Disneyland. Unless he's dead or something?? He'll be getting a late start, but I'm on my phone SO he's going to follow the commotion to the body— ]

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.

[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

[stagemanagers]

[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?]

AREA CLEAR

[stagemanagers]

HALLWAY

[stagemanagers]

[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?]

LAUNDRY ROOM

[stagemanagers]

[robitussin]

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

STORAGE

[stagemanagers]

[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?]

LOBBY

[stagemanagers]

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?]