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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[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?]

[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...?]

[robitussin]

Oh, fuck.

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

[stagemanagers]

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

[stagemanagers]

[Which hallway are we checking here, Astarte?]

[rockthistown]

Okaaay...

[Moving back west towards her own room, then. Where is it strongest?]

What's going on in here?

[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?]

[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.]

[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]

[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.]

[stagemanagers]

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

[stagemanagers]

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

[littlegirl_littlecurl]

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

[solomonjihad]

[...Well, how about towards the dining room? Its where everyone had been, last night...]

[stagemanagers]

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

[robitussin]

[She is the least qualified person to handle this. Why.]

Shit. Fuck, okay...

[She's going to go towards it to see who it is, trying not to panic too much. Her hands are still shaking, though.]

[stagemanagers]

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

[dechagny]

[Nah that's okay, he's good.

Let's go out the west hallway then!]

[stagemanagers]

[Ding ding ding]

[catliketread]

[NEVER FEAR THE PIRATE KING IS HERE oh god oh man that is an actual body what the fuck]

...Oh. Well. That's...

[A thing?? He was so convinced no one would kill...]

[solomonjihad]

Huh--

[Astarte had been going down that way, but...apparently, she doesn't need to go to the dining room...]

Oh no......

[Dead. Someone's really really dead and--no, maybe its just blood, just blood--one doesn't have to die to bleed---]

no...

[dontfeedplants]

[Oh god he just wanted to get medicine why this.

He's just going to stand here frozen in horror.]

Am... am I seeing this?

[stagemanagers]

[Go get 'em, Raoul]

[allicareabout]

[Good morning, where is everyone going - thaaaaat is a body, okay.]

...So much for peace and unity.

[littlegirl_littlecurl]

[Euuuugh.

She doesn't want to approach too closely. Is this person recognizable?]