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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.
violentenvies: revoltebend on pinterest (27)

[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-06-19 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[It'll get a frown for that]

That was not a feature that I was aware of. It was my first encounter with the machine.
mayavericks: (Show Me Your Fury)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-19 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her eyes narrow.]

At the motive, you looked at each and every one of us before leaving. You yourself told me that you would kill any one of us -- all of us even, if your "human," Jeremy, was threatened.

So. Answer me one more question.

What photo did you receive?
comeandfindme: (🌲 i'm climbing up every wall)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-19 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you find it?
feudalladyshandmaid: (Unsure)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-19 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Spongebob...]

He didn't deserve to die like that. Nobody does.
fourbutts: (50)

cw suicide discussion

[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-06-19 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean... yeah, you're right. He didn't seem like he was going to kill himself. Which... doesn't always mean anything in something like this, but...
brokeforgood: (farrah54)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-19 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
You don’t have to be. It’s whatever. [She stares at her fingernails, simultaneously grateful and frustrated she had done her own nails.]

It was... a really big thing on the internet. They were trying to save some apple orchard, because I guess Evan was like, oh, Connor was super into—- [Apples. The apples in the vending machine. The pies he’d made. She’d always thought it was bullshit— but she hadn’t really ever thought about Connor when she dismissed it. She was always thinking about herself. But now— she knew Connor. He was real. He was funny in the same ways that she was. He was a good listener, and he tried to look out for her. About a hundred apples tumble out of a vending machine, and then he made them into pies for them.

Her elbows drop to her podium, and she lowers her head down, clenching her braids in her fists.]
voicerights: (it starts with almost nothing)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-19 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[To that? It reaches in to a pocket once more, pulling out the envelope. It methodically removes the photograph from such, and places it neatly on the podium.

It appears to be a school.]
voicerights: (you don't know where it came from)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-19 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
No.
sugarlumps: (that sounds lame)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-19 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably because they're really pathetic and lonely and know deep down they're awful.

[Spoken with zero irony]
samefacesyndrome: (37)

[personal profile] samefacesyndrome 2021-06-19 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She nods. ]

It's something you don't really think about. You just click shut down, get up and leave and assume nothing stopped that.
alchemistake: (Neptunium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-19 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[When Farrah doesn't finish her sentence, instead bowing her head over her podium, Varian puts his free hand on her shoulder.

This is the cool kid's corner, but cool kids don't have to be okay.]
mayavericks: (Do Not Be At The Mercy)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-19 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Jeremy's, I presume?

[I mean, why tf is the SQUIP going to care about a school otherwise?]
voicerights: (and you don't know if you care)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-19 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I have spent much of this week attempting to datamine. This includes exploring the capabilities of the programs available to us. While I was able to confirm that they were all first activated on June 13, 2021, I was not able to find wiped partitions, nor access any sort of network.
voicerights: (do you feel the commotion?)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-19 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Correct.
comeandfindme: (strike!)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-19 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]

Do you have to answer everything truthfully?
mayavericks: (That is Pride)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-06-19 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
There was some concern that those located in these buildings might disappear along with them.

Seems a viable enough threat to me.
employeeoftheyear: (Then I can finally say I've done it)

cw suicide discussion

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-06-19 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah... I... I admit I'm not super familiar with the signs or what goes through someone's head when they feel like that, but...

["I thought I tried my best to make sure everyone was happy here" He can't bring himself to say that. He didn't want to make it all about him, not when a good friend of his possibly killed himself. He should have been more attentive rather than focusing all on himself.]
violentenvies: vicious-mongrel @ tumblr (10 I never meant to let you down)

[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-06-19 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[hhh everything is awful about this, actually, and he's going to reach out and touch Varian's shoulder to get his attention before handing him a handkerchief to pass off to Farrah]
voicerights: (where do you think this will lead?)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-19 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
While I will not dismiss that I had the same concern, I will point out I am not the only one who came to that conclusion.

If you are going to try and implicate me in this, I would suggest you refine your own data, and be very confident in such. Because if you are wrong, we will die.
sugarlumps: (lump off)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-19 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you lumping use it anyway though?
alchemistake: (Promethium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-19 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[THANK YOU DAD...that's happening now, here Farrah.]
voicerights: (you don't know what will happen)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-19 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Is that a twitch of its lips?]

I answer in the best interests of my human.
comeandfindme: (🌲 never gonna stop until we)

[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-06-19 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Your human isn't here. So I don't think I can believe anything you say.
violentenvies: (18)

[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-06-19 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
And would it be in your human's best interests to save that place in your picture?
voicerights: (but then your need turns dire)

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-06-19 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
You can believe me as much as you can anyone else here. What is keeping the rest of you from lying to me?

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