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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.
rockthistown: (and i don't know what i'm doing)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-22 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Um! [Hime raises her hand.] Kre-- Mr. Krelborn was talking about when we found that old-timey thing from before they invented razors that don't stab you. We know they must have used the storage closet for something other than hiding their blanket and weapon.

Some things were moved around. All the cleaning products and WD-40 were just dumped back on the floor after someone used them, and that ugly arm thing was gone.
inforapenny: (underthings tumbling)

[personal profile] inforapenny 2016-10-22 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
WD-40? What- what would a murderer need with that?
rockthistown: (stop playing with the thermostat)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-22 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno, maybe they just needed to get at the arm thing we stashed behind it. I hope they destroyed it, it was really ugly.
inforapenny: (anyways)

[personal profile] inforapenny 2016-10-22 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you mean the arm thing you warned me about?

...What would they need that thing for, either?
rockthistown: (is that really gonna work)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-22 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no idea! That's why I want to know.
irreprochable: (sept)

[personal profile] irreprochable 2016-10-22 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Was the "arm thing" [can you hear the airquotes] found somewhere else?
rockthistown: (this is why people think you're erika)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-22 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know! Did anyone see it? It's some kind of scarf... clothes... thing, just with stuffed fabric arms.
irreprochable: (Default)

[personal profile] irreprochable 2016-10-22 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
When did you first see it?
rockthistown: (what does that have to do with it)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-22 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Last week. I found it in the costume room and Lord de Chagny and I didn't want anyone else to see that ugly thing, so we hid it in the storage closet behind the WD-40.
irreprochable: (cinq)

[personal profile] irreprochable 2016-10-22 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting.

[but really though]

And it hasn't been found? Did anyone else know that it was hidden there?
rockthistown: (but at least i know the canon?)

[personal profile] rockthistown 2016-10-22 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I told a few other people, I think... I forget! I'm sorry!
irreprochable: (Default)

[personal profile] irreprochable 2016-10-22 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It's alright. Just remain calm.

[children............]
onthebusagain: (Or forget that creep)

[personal profile] onthebusagain 2016-10-22 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
She told me about it- but I like, never saw it. It sounds like it should have been burned.
robitussin: (it's crystalline clear)

[personal profile] robitussin 2016-10-22 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[piping up]

It was in the laundry room. It had blood on it. ...There was a police uniform with blood on it, too.
irreprochable: (onze)

[personal profile] irreprochable 2016-10-22 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
A police uniform?