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itscurtains2016-10-22 12:25 pm
stagemanagers) wrote in itscurtains2016-10-22 12:25 pm
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.
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.
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"You think I did it?"]
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"I only have one eye. How could one monocle make my ruined vision better?"]
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My good man. I...do not believe you are the murderer. Therefore, if a vision test is what we need to determine the culprit, even ensuring one name to be clear is of great help.
[You can do it, Winslow. Nobody wants anybody here to be the murderer even if it's true. The more innocents we find, the more easily we can smoke out the guilty.]
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"Then I will take it."
See what a trooper he is?]
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This is stupid.
"Why would I kill a man who shown me kindness for something that may not be REAL?"]
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[Surely he didn't even have that many years left anyway, they could have just waited it out! Just let an old man enjoy his hard candies and pray like he's cramming for finals in peace.]
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[This is relevant, he promises.]
You weren't too forthcoming about that earlier.
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[Forget people acknowledging his opinions, being addressed by name throws him for a big loop. He looks across the circle at the other Billy, and blinks hard.]
I- No, not really.
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Besides, you have to admit the one-eyed man is a bit less likely to put things in his remaining eye...and if his vision was that bad, I doubt he'd be "speaking up" - as it were - as much as he has been.
Is there a reason you're so adamant about pursuing him?
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[But he demurs with a few hard blinks, shrinking into his hoodie.]
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[Kind of fucking irritated, yeah, but maybe that's understandable.
Either way, he seems decidedly less worked up, a bit more like he's considering something. Either way, come on, Billy H, don't be a disappointment to our mutual name here.]
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What, um. What do you think, so far?
[While he waits for the Founding Mother to administer the eye test.]
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