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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.
alchemistake: (Darmstadtium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-12 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh that is a terrible thought.]

Do you think Mumble could have been bruised by something like that, though? I know scarves are soft, but I think he'd have struggled hard enough that someone would really need to pull it tight...
employeeoftheyear: (Then I can finally say I've done it)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-06-12 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
W... what if he was already starting to suffer from hypothermia...?
yourattention: (re-in-ven-tion)

[personal profile] yourattention 2021-06-12 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
No, you're thinking strangling. I'm saying like, um. Janis? Can you. So I can demonstrate.

[we've showed up and we're getting cursed]
fourbutts: (03)

[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-06-12 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Deadpan: ]

If you kill me in the middle of the trial for another murder, I'm haunting the shit out of you.

[ But anyway, she steps over. ]
yourattention: (thanks for every note you send)

[personal profile] yourattention 2021-06-12 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't wanna die that bad. But okay, so you loop and then hold but don't pull.

[He pretends to do so, holding fairly close to her neck.]

It won't strangle, but they can't move that much. Useful if you're trying to fight someone bigger than you.
alchemistake: (Caesium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-12 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmh...I guess that's a real possibility, then. They wouldn't have been trying to kill him that way, but just to keep him still...

[But to do what after that? Something else had to have happened since he had no visible wounds on him.]