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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2021-07-02 11:58 pm
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fourth 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. Varian and Salieri, side by side, now have 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. There's no flashy costume this time, just a plain black dress belted with green satin around her waist. She sits in her seat with her head down and her hands in her lap like she's trying to make herself as small as possible. As if, if she tried hard enough, she could just disappear despite the lights on her.

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 fourth trial, everyone. It's time to determine who was responsible for the murder of Salieri. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves and work together - you'll have to show teamwork if you want to leave this room alive.
disharmonizes: (127)

[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-07-03 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm... Let me take a look at it?
fourbutts: (13)

[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-07-03 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hands it over! ]

Careful of the, uh. The blood.
disharmonizes: (136)

MODS?

[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-07-03 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I have plenty of blood on me already as is.

[Sure did hold Salieri's body at the scene and hugged Farrah who is also bloody. Oops.

But he'll take that. Does this look like one of Salieri's handkerchiefs?]
disharmonizes: (009)

[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-07-03 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[welp alright]

...It's Antonio's.
fourbutts: (93)

[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-07-03 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you think he... used it to try to deal with one of his wounds?
disharmonizes: (138)

[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-07-03 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe.

...Perhaps from the cut? I don't know if... if he could've even had the chance, with the other wound.
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[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-07-03 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean it's that or the killer did.

[ Actually, mods, a question! Is the handkerchief like... absolutely soaked? Basically is there any way to tell, if it was used for one of those two wounds, which one the amount of blood on it matches? ]
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[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-07-03 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
... Yeah, I would have tried to put something if my hand got cut, too. So that puts at least the hand wound in the library.
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[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-07-03 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That's why there's no trail, 'cause he got to it fast enough. Mopped up the blood...and then ended up in the cafeteria. [ Clicking her tongue— ] Maybe he got that note, showed up in the library with the wine... Ugh, but why all the other wine in the kitchen?
themuseabandonsyou: (looking down)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-07-03 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Picking out a wine that seemed right, maybe? And just, not putting the ones they didn't choose back after.

[ This particular incident doesn't seem all that organized, in some ways. But in others... ]

I'm still not... really clear on how this would have happened, though. Not - why anyone would do it, but. Why bring him all the way to the cafeteria, whether it was before or after he died? Why put him on the stage? That had to have been on purpose, if he was laid out like that.
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[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-07-03 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe... They thought he belonged there. On the stage.
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[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-07-03 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Something clicks. ]

On the stage. On the stage, laid out— you said it was...respectful, almost? I think that's true. I think— he organized that play for us, first week. On that stage. There's no sign that there was a...a struggle, or a chase. So whoever did it put him there, deliberately, you're right.

As a sign of respect. [ She has a very bad feeling, about all this. ]
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[personal profile] howtheworldwas 2021-07-03 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ KILL BILL SIRENS ]
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-07-03 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Looks at Peregrine. Looks back at Discord.]
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[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-07-03 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
But he was killed! H-how in Neptune's name could you still respect someone if you...?

[He can't finish it. He's been crying enough as it is that he can't bring himself to say it.]
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[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-07-03 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe whoever did this thought they had no choice. That their fear was just...too great to risk. That they had to do this alone. That's...why this happened, right? Because of those pictures?
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[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-07-03 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
B...but we all had fears! What possible fear could they have that would be so much more important than our fears? Our lives?

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[personal profile] mcfife 2021-07-03 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
That his music deserved to be heard, above Mozart's.

[not a good image]

But his entry in the yearbook stated just that, didn't it? That his music was forgotten.
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[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-07-03 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
It-- was one of the photos. All the composers, remembered, but... not him.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-07-03 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
But it wasn't. [Maya will distract herself momentarily.]

Les Danaïdes -- what we performed. I had heard it before. Perhaps it wasn't as popular but Salieri-sensei was still well-known. It was... one of the many reasons I looked up to him.
mcfife: side eye (☀️no return forevermore)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-07-03 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
But did the killer know that?
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[personal profile] comeandfindme 2021-07-03 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
...The yearbooks are misleading. Most of his music, that's what it said. It's like...like how Connor's said he only had one friend, and made it sound like it was that Evan whoeverthefuck. Another one of the Wizard's fucked up tricks.

[ She spares a glare for the head. ]
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-07-03 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Orpheus nods, looking like he's trying very hard not to start crying again. ]

My mother taught me about a lot of different composers from throughout history, and I learned about more from people passing through town after. But not him. I'd never heard his name, until we came here.

It - it doesn't make sense. We all heard his work. It was incredible. Why wouldn't he be remembered?