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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2021-06-19 11:34 am
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second 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. Elisabeth and Connor have joined Mumble in having theirs draped in black crepe and with a framed monochrome photo of them on top.

When you reach the podiums, the lights above the stage finally come on. the Wizard is once again waiting for you. Beside it Hester is slowly lowers in on her bubble. Her dress this week is a purple monstrosity, more akin to a voluminous prom dress than the simple outfits she usually wears.

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 second trial, everyone. It's time to determine who was responsible for the murder of Connor. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves and work together - you'll have to show teamwork if you want to leave this room alive.
brokeforgood: (farrah52)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-19 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
It’s more like I know of him.

Not from Connor. From... the internet. I didn’t really— I didn’t know that he was that Connor.
comeandfindme: (🌲 i'm climbing up every wall)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-19 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Her jaw tightens. ]

Farrah. Who is he?
mayavericks: (Do Not Be At The Mercy)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-19 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
They... Could be afraid. Last time was very clearly an accident, yet Elisabeth-san still met her end. The Wizard is underhanded. Who knows what stipulations he might enforce. If Connor was even holding on to the barest fragment of life, and someone moved him just enough to make him lose that last bit of blood, the Wizard might have assigned them as the culprit.
voicerights: (do you see the confusion?)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-19 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Consider last week's events, where an unintentional action was nonetheless enough to be considered 'guilty'. Who is to say they do not believe the same will happen now?
samefacesyndrome: (35)

[personal profile] samefacesyndrome 2021-06-19 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I think... if that's the case...

[ ughhhhhhhhhh she hates even thinking this so saying it is rough but... ]

It could be someone just wanted us to think he killed himself... to make it easier for them to get away with it...
disharmonizes: (129)

Re: cw: suicide discussion

[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-06-19 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That reminds me, that little error message...

Do you think whoever wrote that note just didn't notice it? Or just didn't care?
voicerights: (it starts with almost nothing)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-19 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Irrationality, of course.

[H u m a n s.]
alchemistake: (Caesium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-19 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't either, Angus.]

Is...there any way for us to tell how much there was used? I've been in the Nurse's Office a couple times, but I don't know to the exact number of how much of everything should be in there...someone else might have a better idea.
sugarlumps: (lump off)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-19 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Shut the lump up, we shared a pie! You don't just lie to someone after something like that!
voicerights: (do you feel the commotion?)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-19 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Error message?
voicerights: (where do you think this will lead?)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-19 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Was told to shut up, is not even so much as looking at her]
fourbutts: (43)

[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-06-19 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I... I mean, the signs do sort of point to "murder that someone tried to make look like a suicide," you know?
brokeforgood: (farrah51)

Cw: suicide, cw: Evan Hansen

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-19 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Connor? He’s — [Oh. We’re not talking about that. Farrah sharply inhales.]

He went viral last year. But—- [She looks at Connor’s podium. She doesn’t want to say. This all feels wrong. Her arms wrap around her waist, hugging herself.]

It was this bullshit thing— it was after my fall went viral, so I wasn’t super into it. It was like, an anti-bullying, pro-mental health thing—- “You’re not alone, reach out to someone, Blah Blah Blah, You’re not alone—“

It all started after a boy named Connor killed himself.
defyingfrigidity: (too late for second guessing)

[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-19 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Guilt, perhaps?

[Though if this was intentional, if the person who killed Connor - if it wasn't himself - planned this.... why only feel guilt after?]

There are... stories. Fictional and reports of real murders, where the culprits will do things like cover all the mirrors in the house of their victim, out of some sense of guilt, or their way of apology.
samefacesyndrome: (20)

[personal profile] samefacesyndrome 2021-06-19 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ At Varian mentioning the water she holds up the bottle. SHE BROUGHT IT IF WE NEED IT she's got nothing else to add. ]
comeandfindme: (strike!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-19 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been keeping inventory.

[ ... ]

Every week, every few days.
tailor_made: when by the Wizard, you're acclaimed (and all of Oz has to love you)

[personal profile] tailor_made 2021-06-19 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hester glances down at him, her eyes locking on his. There's definitely a grimness to her expression and posture but more than that there's a determination to see this through without breaking down again.]
disharmonizes: (010)

[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-06-19 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
When we found the note in the computer lab, the computer was in the middle of trying to shut down. But the note was still open and unsaved, so it couldn't.
Edited 2021-06-19 16:40 (UTC)
alchemistake: (Cerium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-19 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I...really hate to say this, but with that kind of injury...there should have been a lot of blood, right?

[Like, that's completely unavoidable he thinks, which is where the cleaning up might have come in.]
fourbutts: (25)

[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-06-19 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You got it, kid.
brokeforgood: (farrah20)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-19 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It was —- you know how you try and turn off the computer, but you haven’t saved your history essay, and the computer automatically saves you and is all “Oh no, I can’t turn off, Word’s still open!”?

It was like that. It had been all typed up, but the computer didn’t shut down, because word was open.
voicerights: (and you thought you wouldn't dare)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-19 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
What an idiotic program.
violentenvies: (31)

[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-06-19 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[he frowns, considering this]

So washing away the blood could have been symbolic for them somehow, in some terrible way? A way to atone for what they'd done?
disharmonizes: (071)

[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-06-19 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
You must feel such a kinship.
themuseabandonsyou: (profile)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-19 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Orpheus nods, solemnly. ] That would make sense? In an awful sort of way.

[ Not that murder isn't awful enough by itself but, why this? ]

But why go to all the trouble of cleaning it up, when that just makes it obvious someone else was there?

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