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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2021-06-12 12:00 pm
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First Trial

[As the investigation ends, you'll hear Hester's voice inviting you to the auditorium. As this happens, the twin doors on either side of the concession stand, across from the gym, will click open. You can enter on either side; both go to the same place.

When you enter the auditorium, it's dark. There's only the small lights along the walkway behind all the seats, just enough to illuminate where you're going. There's a central path between the seats, down towards where you know the stage must be. That's where you must be going, right? As you pass each row of seats, the lights at their ends flick on, marking your procession and slowly making more and more of the room visible. Shortly, you can see your destination: a circle of podiums stationed in the orchestra pit, below the lip of the darkened, curtained stage. They're all identical, labeled with a cast member's name, save for Mumble's, which is draped in black crepe and has a framed monochrome photo of him - Elijah Wood him - on top.

When you reach the podiums, the lights above the stage finally come on. It's time to meet the Wizard.

The mechanical head, with glowing green eyes, is installed above the stage and the still-closed curtain. Even if you were standing on the stage, it'd be well out of reach. It peers down at all of you, its motions fluid, and speaks with a booming, artificial-sounding voice:]


Welcome to your first trial, everyone. I am the Wizard. It's time to determine who was responsible for the murder of Mumble. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves and work together - you'll have to show teamwork if you want to leave this room alive.
themuseabandonsyou: (looking down)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-12 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
If it's cold enough, it can take less than an hour. [ says Orpheus, hollowly. ] If he was in the freezer, then...
defyingfrigidity: (pic#7198551)

[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-12 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Despite being a master at ice and snow magic, things like that are still a little hard for Elsa to understand. It makes a stone settle in her gut, too, thinking about how much she must have hurt everyone in the aftermath of her coronation...]

But he was bundled up, correct? Shouldn't that have helped?

[She didn't really think the freezer was that cold. Then again, she isn't really the best judge at that.]
howtheworldwas: (thin lipped)

[personal profile] howtheworldwas 2021-06-12 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
He was damp, too. [ Eurydice's voice is flat, distant. ] That can make it worse.
defyingfrigidity: (pic#13696049)

[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-12 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
.... Oh...

[Oh that. Yeah. That'd do it.]

Could this... really have just been an accident? Maybe he took a shower, and... got stuck in there, somehow.
howtheworldwas: (thin lipped)

[personal profile] howtheworldwas 2021-06-12 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't he know better?
tellthestory: (♪ declamando ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-12 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe not. He...told me once that the freezer reminded him of how he liked to stand in the ice cracks, back home.

[Something in the Balladeer thinks he ought to be putting it to song, but he doesn't have a melody, can't think of one right now with everything happening.]

It's not like he would have had to worry about that before.
defyingfrigidity: (pic#8859273)

[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-12 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe!

[Elsa's tried to keep herself calm and composed since they all got stuck here. But now - now her voice cracks, revealing just how panicked she feels right now.]

But that... it makes a lot more sense than someone killing him by... by locking him away in the cold? That's... [She swallows hard. This is really bringing up some uncomfortable memories.] That's not a death anyone deserves to suffer through.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Unsure)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-12 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
In the freezer?

[Cassandra's uncertain of the events. She's trying to map it out right before her eyes.]

If... he was in the kitchen, maybe he got wet because of the sink? It could've been an accident.
sugarlumps: (that sounds lame)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-12 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, pretty sure you can't, like, die from being frozen.
comeandfindme: (take every weakness down to the floor)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-12 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you stupid? Don’t talk about things you clearly don’t understand.
sugarlumps: (Default)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-12 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, it happens. You just kind of thaw out afterwards.

[dot dot dot]

I guess if you were stuck in, like, a block of ice for a SUPER long time you probably couldn't breath or whatever? But that'd be, like. A LONG time.
comeandfindme: (drop down into the beast that you become)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-12 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Shut up!! Shut up, stop it! This isn't a fucking joke!
sugarlumps: (lump off)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-12 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not joking! That'd be a really dumb thing to joke about! But people get kidnapped and frozen all the time and it's super cold and grody but they're fine afterwards!
tellthestory: (♪ rubato ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-12 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Just stop. Not everyone has the same rules.
sugarlumps: (wweh)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-12 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not doing anything! I'm a good person and people are yelling at me for no reason!
tellthestory: (♪ enfatico ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-12 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god.

[He leans on his podium, hand passing over his face for a moment.]


Look, I know you're used to the way your world works, but it sounds like it's really different from everyone else's. People...do die like that. Someone has.

[And though he doesn't say so, it seems pretty clear that for Peregrine, someone has before.]

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mcfife: (🦄 over mountains into the unknown)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-06-12 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Magic Ice, princess. Wizards freeze prisoners in magic ice. That's how they keep them alive for so long. Trust me, I know the tale of my ancestor Iona McDougall.
sugarlumps: (that sounds lame)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-12 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Ice is basically ice even if it's made by magic, though?

[R-i-ight?]
mcfife: (🦄 of an ancient and powerful wizard)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-06-12 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Not all ice is created equal. You have normal ice, liquid ice, frozen liquid ice, imprisonment ice... [He's not a wizard, he can't name them all.] This was simply the cold you would experience on the highest mountains.

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themuseabandonsyou: (looking down)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-12 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Orpheus just stares blankly, looking a little dead inside. ]

No, um. People definitely can. Humans, at least? I don't know if you are one.

[ His knuckles are white as he holds onto the podium in front of him with the hand not currently holding onto Eurydice's. ]
sugarlumps: (judging you)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-12 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Finn gets frozen all the time and he's fine.

[cartooooooooooon logic]
sugarlumps: (that sounds lame)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-12 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The human? He's a super hot hero guy, he saves people all the time. And he's totally in love with me but he won't admit it, it's kind of embarassing.
themuseabandonsyou: (profile)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-12 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Orpheus is going to ignore most of that for the sake of trying to stay on track. ]

Is he a demigod? Maybe that's why he can survive being, um. Frozen.

[ He doesn't know if divine heritage would actually save you from that, but he imagines Heracles would probably last longer in the cold than most people. ]
sugarlumps: (idk my bff turtle princess)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-12 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think so? He's just a guy. A super hot guy with a sword.

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