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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2016-10-22 12:25 pm
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First Trial

[Just as everyone is starting to finish their investigations, there's a slow ominous sound from the lobby.

The gilded doors on the northern wall have opened.

This time, the space behind them is lit; you're free to enter. There's one more set of doors to pass through, and then you're all, finally, in the House. There's one grand chandelier above, glittering crystal, and the seats around you are made of fine red velvet. Those don't seem to be for you, though - all the way down in front of the stage, where the orchestra might sit, there's a circle of wooden podiums. They're arranged so that everyone can face each other, and are fixed into place. Each one bears a metal plaque with a cast member's name engraved on it. There's also a metal panel on top, with twenty ivory buttons paired to everyone's name.

Among these, only Jean Valjean's podium is different - that one is draped in black crepe, with a larger greyscale version of his headshot from the playbill framed and sitting at its foot like a funerary portrait. Standing where he might have stood, a bare lightbulb glows faintly atop a metal pole.

Right here, you're very close to the stage. But the curtain is closed, and it's a little too high to easily clamber up. You may not want to try. You've got more important business right now, after all.

As everyone is finding their places, the Balladeer's voice suddenly sounds loud and clear throughout the space.]


Okay, guys, here's how we do trial. I've...never actually been involved in something like this before, but you can do it. Just take all the time you need to talk it out - I'll be right here the whole time. You don't need a unanimous vote, we go by majority rule.

Oh, and don't mess with those buttons until you're really ready to vote. You won't be able to take it back.

...good luck.
dontfeedplants: (Stick with that plant)

[personal profile] dontfeedplants 2016-10-22 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Some people need to shave, Winslow.]

I just want to know why the blanket itself got wet. They could just use a towel instead of a blanket to get the blood off.

... Do you think they got blood on the blanket somehow and that's why it's wet?

[Why didn't he think of that second possibility first.]
Edited 2016-10-22 17:19 (UTC)
blackstache: (020)

[personal profile] blackstache 2016-10-22 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Blood doesn't tend to come out of things that easily. It could serve as a possibility, however.
rockthistown: (brb escaping)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-22 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Either way, they don't know how to use the dryer. Besides! Everybody knows how to get blood out of things! And we had cold water and buckets, right?
inforapenny: (anyways)

[personal profile] inforapenny 2016-10-22 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
If-if it's fresh enough, you can get blood out of almost anything.

[...Objection?]
irreprochable: (deux)

[personal profile] irreprochable 2016-10-22 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
You have experience with this?
inforapenny: (underthings tumbling)

[personal profile] inforapenny 2016-10-22 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I-

[I wear white a lot and my nemesis is a tool]

N-nosebleeds. I used to get a l-lot of them.
irreprochable: (huit)

[personal profile] irreprochable 2016-10-22 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[the law thinks you're lying son.]

Nosebleeds.
inforapenny: (Laundry day see you there)

[personal profile] inforapenny 2016-10-22 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, nosebleeds. ...Sir.
blackstache: (016)

[personal profile] blackstache 2016-10-22 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The captain has had mighty nosebleeds before.
blackstache: (021)

[personal profile] blackstache 2016-10-22 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Do we have a general timeframe of when the murder was committed, then? Supposing that the culprit had enough time to wash it.
irreprochable: (Default)

[personal profile] irreprochable 2016-10-22 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Astarte has indicated that she believes it was not long before the body was found.
inforapenny: (underthings tumbling)

[personal profile] inforapenny 2016-10-22 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone's saying it happened early this morning, like right- right before we woke up.
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[personal profile] dieformymusic 2016-10-22 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's a good possibility.

"Must be why they were in the washroom.

They were trying to get the blood off."]