Day 2 - The Abode of Memphis

Nothing seems out of the ordinary as you survey the room. There are five holes in the wall from the swords that had pinned one of the brothers high on the wall. As you inspect it, you hear a loud metal grating sound and a thunk as a prop guillotine activates by itself.

When Charles first entered the room he could have sworn the duffel bag was just an ordinary bag and had assumed the swords were inside. But now that he looks at them again he notices the bag has been cut in several places and he can see some of the swords inside.

Most of the house is pretty normal. Ingrid walks you through the dining room and kitchen. The most impressive is the private theater and stage Memphis had built to rehearse his acts. This room, occupying two stories, is not part of the original house design. Memphis sacrificed rooms on both the first and second floors in order to construct a small but usable theater within his home. A gallery for the theater was created on the second floor at the same time by opening up one of the corridors. Heavy drapes line the theater’s exterior walls; these can be closed to entirely block the windows. There is a proper theatrical stage occupying around 50 percent of the room’s width; it is raised 3 feet off the ground with a slight incline toward the audience space. There is also a simple curtain mechanism around the stage itself and some stage lighting rigged from the second-floor gallery. The audience space has room for four or five rows of chairs; these are currently stacked to the side, against the wall. Behind the audience space, the real reason for this room is revealed: a massive mirror, as might be found in a dance studio, occupying the entire wall. Memphis can thus try out new illusions here and check the angles without assistance.

As Yuna steps onto the stage and crosses it, she notices two well-hidden trap doors in the stage floor.