week 4

[stagemanagers]

WEEK 4
[Another week has passed in the opera house and things are looking grim as ever. With Gabe and Hime gone, the performers are down to 16 of them.

On Monday, the opera house is still heavily decorated with a few new additions. There are more cottony cobwebs, a few small ghosts hanging from the ceiling made of cheesecloth, even more pumpkins here and there. A few more candy bowls have been set out in places like the dining room and a few others and only a few of them are only filled with candy corn. In the dressing rooms the stars on Gabe and Hime's doors have fallen off, leaving behind a patch of star-shaped wood slightly lighter than the rest of the doors on Hime's and a different star underneath on Gabe's.

Like the previous week, the door on in the second floor lobby is unlocked and a new floor is ready to be explored. Have a good week, everyone.]

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Investigation/OTA

[dechagny]

[Another Monday, another night of too-real dreams. Raoul wakes disgruntled and more confused than ever, almost certain he still had a letter in his hands to crumple and Carlotta's operatic whining ringing in his ears.

The Angel of Music...it's not anyone he's met before, that Raoul is sure of, but from what he's learned from the others trapped in this opera house and his own suspicions given thought, he's certain they are no angel - and that the longer he and Christine are separated, the more likely it is that they could cause her and the entire Opera Populaire serious harm.

He's got to get out - but he won't kill to do it. No, there has been too much death here already, and the management is their real foe.

Raoul will come by Hans' party later. For now, he's going to check out two places on the new floor that's opened up - the Paint Room and the Game Room. If anyone is to find him here, they'll see he's actually making an effort to examine what's been offered to them, whether by checking out the shelves behind the paint cans in the former or by physically opening up every game in the latter to make some sense of the pieces and see if there's anything of note besides the games in the cabinets. Feel free to come send his little investigation off the rails, or help him, whichever you see fit.]</small.

[irreprochable]

[yeah this is way more javert's style than the party so i hope you're ready for someone else also snooping about on the new floor. he seems particularly interested in the locked room, of course. which is why he eventually wanders into the Game Room and notices Raoul.]

Any luck?

[dechagny]

[Oh he'll go there later, when he's dressed properly and has made a quiche, but for now he wants to know things and get answers. And...try to forget how much of a spoiled woman Carlotta is. Even if insisting she play a mute part in an opera is rude as all get out, Raoul has his biases. He just doesn't pretend to be opera ghosts or try to run the place he's only giving money to.]

Nothing yet, Inspector. Though it might help if I knew what I should be looking for...I would rather not find something important and then disregard it on accident.

[irreprochable]

That is a difficult part of the task, especially when the things they have here are so out of the ordinary to start with.

[dechagny]

Out of the ordinary and unfamiliar - for instance!

[He picks up a few nearby items: a container of dice with varying amounts of sides, the floorplan of a dungeon sketched out on large graph paper, and a book with a fire breathing dragon on it.]

What use could any of this have for playing a game? It seems far too complicated.

[irreprochable]

[javert examines the d&d set]

Why do these dice have so many sides?

[dechagny]

I am not sure - is it some sort of new way to gamble? I am not a gambling man, but surely six sides are enough of a risk...

[irreprochable]

I cannot begin to imagine the justifications of gambling logic.

[dechagny]

[SHRUG. He really doesn't know.]

[irreprochable]

This room seems cluttered enough something could be hiding in plain sight.

[dechagny]

Or...perhaps, hidden, but not particularly well?

[irreprochable]

I'll help you look. Maybe the key will turn up in the process.

[dechagny]

They key?

[Tell him about the locked door Javert]

[irreprochable]

There's a locked door near the room with all the paint.

[dechagny]

Ah - I did not notice it, though now I wish I had.

[Raoul what are you gonna do, schmooze at it with wine and burnt quiche]

Perhaps there might be some way to pick the lock?

[irreprochable]

Perhaps. That's not a skill I possess. Finding the key might be faster.

[dechagny]

It could be anywhere, though - this opera house expands in size by the week, and there are rooms enough where the clutter is incredibly thick.

[irreprochable]

Then we work together.

[stagemanagers]

[There is a folded piece of paper inside one of the board games! It's folded a few times and a smells a little musty but could be something interesting?]

[dechagny]

[Really? Huh. Sure, why not, let's open up that musty paper. But with care, because who knows how old it is? It might crumble if you're not careful.]

[stagemanagers]

[The paper isn't nearly so old it would crumble. It's pretty basic white stationary in decent condition. The note is written in ink, in a messy script that's just barely legible and several words have been crossed out and rewritten. Whoever wrote this wasn't terribly used to writing.

I'm sorreey I caled you a son of a hor whore. YoU put a rober robber on my property so you dezserved it. But I'm still sorry.

p.s. barr helped me Write this and also made me write it]

[dechagny]

[Still, let's not damage it.

Raoul reads it a couple times to make sure he's got all the words right, brow furrowed.]

"Barr"...? What sort of name is that?

[It's all he says aloud, but there's a lot of other questions this thing raises. Who wrote this? Why were they here? Who was this message for, and why did they then proceed to stick it in a board game? And who was this Barr person who helped the writer? It's three mystery people all in one instant.

Raoul double checks the back of the paper to see if there's something else there, just in case he might've missed it.]

[stagemanagers]

[On the back of the paper are printed instructions for a game called Settlers of Catan. There are a few notes scribbled in the margins, in pencil and in much neater and better-spelled handwriting than on the back.]

[dechagny]

[Well that's not helpful. Still, the other stuff is, so he'll be taking this note with him and discussing it with someone soon. Probably tomorrow, and definitely if the lot of them have a meeting.]