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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[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?]

[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.]

[rockthistown]

[if the arm monstrosity was involved in this murder, I swear]

Do you think there was something important in here?

[dontfeedplants]

[Seymour could feel his heart almost stopping when he hears Hime's voice all the sudden.]

Oh, um, maybe?

[Read: "No I just want to leave"

Still, he goes to look for the headache medicine that he wanted to get.

... He doesn't actually know where the medicine is, so he'll probably run into something else while he's looking.]

[stagemanagers]

[The medicine would be packed away in one of the boxes with the other medical supplies. They might be hard to find though, what with the boxes having been moved around from their usual spots.]

[rockthistown]

Is it me, or does everything look like it was moved?

[She's going to look in the back. Is the arm thing still stashed behind the WD-40? ...is there still WD-40?]

[stagemanagers]

[The WD-40 is still in the closet but it's been moved to the floor, along with a few other cleaning products. How peculiar.

[rockthistown]

Weird. Lord de Chagny and I put these on the middle shelf earlier to hold back that ugly arm thing we found in the costume room. A bunch of the cleaning things are on the floor, too... was somebody trying to clean in here?

[dontfeedplants]

M... maybe they were trying to hide evidence?

[Blood. He means blood.

He might as well check all the boxes now. Is there anything missing from any of the boxes?]

[stagemanagers]

[Nothing looks to be missing from the boxes but in one of them there's a blanket that feels damp for some reason.]

[dontfeedplants]

[Oh eww, Seymour is just going to instantly drop that.]

Um, I think someone used this recently. [Although he can't help but wonder why they would bother to put it back without at least letting it dry first.]

[rockthistown]

Gross, gross, gross, gross, gross! Is that blood?

[She's going to look it over. Is it?]

[stagemanagers]

[Wait, nevermind, it is not blood! It seems to just be water, in fact.

Since you're picking it up to look at, though, you may see something else was lying beneath it in the box.]

[rockthistown]

It's soaking wet... ewwwwwww.

[Well, the arm monstrosity is apparently MIA, so it could be worse. What's under the water blanket?]

[stagemanagers]

[Beneath the blanket, there is a folded-up silver straight razor tucked into the box.]

[dontfeedplants]

Do you think they used this to...?

[He's just gingerly going to pick it up, trying to examine it.]

[stagemanagers]

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

[rockthistown]

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

[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?]

[stagemanagers]

[Nope, the meek have triumphed here!]

[dontfeedplants]

[Great, Seymour is just going to stay here for awhile with his medicine then.

There is still a body outside and he's not exactly looking forward to seeing all that blood again.]