[Is the baby still clinging to Sasazuka? I'm assuming so, but even though she's already hidden, when she sees this creepy head come through the door she's - not grossed out, because necromancer. She's seen so much grosser. But she suspects something dangerous. So rather than staying in her hiding place, she'll creep back to the edge of it and reach out her hand to try to pull Sasazuka and the baby behind the furniture as well.]
harrow, sasazuka and jingle are hidden behind a desk. sheila and vira end up behind a bookshelf, quiet. there's a long moment as the creature turns its head to the left... and then the right... and then twists upside down to look under a desk directly to the right of sasazuka and harrow.
but it doesn't find anything, so it slowly pulls its head back into the other room with a disgusting slurping sort of sound.
now that you guys are properly in the room, you can see that this room too is very rusty, and metallic. there's a chalkboard on the far wall, or at least, there's half of one. the other half is on the floor. there are eight desks in the room, some bookshelves, some large toys and a toybox pushed into the corner of the room, and a piano in the other corner. above the piano is a vent.
the clicking footsteps resume in the room next door.]
Sheila doesn't move for several seconds after the creature retreats, holding her breath — and then she finally exhales. Vira is the one closest to her, so it is to her that she whispers:]
What the fuck was that?
[Everyone okay? Is our baby still crying...? Very important questions. While the others presumably start checking other shit out, she will look at the bookshelves. Is there anything on interest in them? Above, on the shelves, or behind them? Or are there only saucy novels in here?]
[ is that shit going to try to eat them too?? he hates it here.
but he gives harrow a look that basically just says "what" but yeah. they can't just stay here forever, so he'll adjust his hold on jingle and will go to check out the chalkboards. first, the piece that's on the floor to see if there's anything written on it, and then he will try to read what's on the other half.
[ she goes very tense and very still as the monster swings to close to comfort, before it disappears again. she doesn't have an answer for sheila—she has no idea what's happening here, or how they'll escape. ]
I'm not sure, and I'm in no hurry to find out.
[ which really goes without saying, but she probably can't hear sasazuka.
with sheila checking out the bookshelf, she'll look over some of the desks on their side. anything sticking out that they could use or might be interesting? ]
[Giving a look right back at Sasazuka. Be careful, idiot. She's answer him in an equally quiet voice - ]
We ought to figure out how to get up there, quickly.
[There's still other areas to check out, but she wants to secure a route for a quick escape first. So she's going to creep over to the piano, to see if there's an obvious way to climb it. If they stood on top of the piano, would they be able to reach the vent?]
[baby seems to not be crying anymore, at least! they also cling to sasazuka as he very quietly makes his way over to the chalkboards - they seem exhausted. there's nothing written on the chalkboards, but there are long claw marks through both halves.
the bookshelves are sparse. there are a few books, but they seem to be children's books, ones specifically meant to help kids learn how to read. next to one of these books is a delicate looking fan, made of jade. it seems like it's glued to the bookshelf, unfortunately.
there's a piece of paper sticking out of one of the desks. another desk has a bunch of arrows carved into the metal. they don't point in any particular direction, it just seems like maybe someone liked to draw the arrows part of a bow and arrow.
the piano has a bench! it seems like the easiest way to climb up. the vent is in fact reachable from the piano.
and also, as you're exploring, a sharp pang of hunger hits you.]
Sheila is just going to casually bite at her index finger. There is probably still leftover salsa on her hands, going into her mouth? It's fine. If the jade fan can't be removed and there is nothing poking out of any of the books or hidden around them, she will quietly shimmy over to check out the toys and toybox. Is there anything interesting over here?]
[ she grips her stomach, taking a deep breath to steady herself before she takes the paper, trying to remember that she is completely covered in gore still and this is an unnatural hunger.
is there anything by the toys of note? otherwise, she'll go regroup with the others at the piano. ]
[She's hungry. But she also hates having something unnatural fuck with her brain. Her body, those base needs, even the pain of her broken bones - she is the one Emperor's fists and gestures and she's above such things.]
Help me onto the bench.
[She certainly can't climb it on her own in this state, but she can bear it if she's boosted.]
[the claw marks are Big. you can assume that yeah, they're probably from the tall creature.
they gather by the piano, and jingle rattles quietly, trying to slide down to the floor, if sasazuka will let them. they are... going to try and boost harrow up? which is funny because again they're like two feet tall, but they are stubborn and trying.
the toybox is destroyed by the same clawmarks as the chalkboard. except for one of the toys in the front. sheila comes close, and that toy box clicks... and the handle on the outside of the box starts to slowly turn. hm.]
Backing away from the box, inching closer to the piano. If something springs out of the box and it makes any kind of sound, she is absolutely going to fucking book it for a hiding spot.]
[ oh, bad. she can hear the winding of the box, whipping her head towards it before quickly scurrying over to the others at the piano. if anything happens, she is going to help their tiny baby up to where harrow is. ]
[The box is. Bad. Her head whips around and looks at it, and then she'll grab onto the piano bench, broken arm be damned. They need to find a way out now.]
Hide. I'm going to get the vent.
[The piano seems like a way to be very exposed. If she and baby are both boosted, she will hurry towards the piano, rather than try to pull Sasazuka and Vira up - it just seems more important to try and open an exit as soon as possible. It seems like getting up there without touching the keys will require being on the side of the bench, right? So she will try to head to the side.
This would be a lot easier if she had bone constructs. She hisses in frustration, wishing she could just turn her outside bones into a construct that would lift them up to the vent, just in case that does anything.]
vira manages to help the baby up to the piano bench, and harrow too, if that's what's going on. they carefully make their way up the side of the piano, and jingle helps harrow to the very top where the vent is, if she lets them. unfortunately wishing for outside bone help doesn't work. but jingle does reach up to make grabby hands at her. pull them up!!
meanwhile. tick, tick, tick, tick - and the handle stops. a beat of silence, and then the toy box's lid explodes upwards, and a jester joyfully bounces around very loudly, laughing at top volume. the laugh ends with a moan? gross.
there is a shriek of a sound from the other room, and the door to it slams open as the creature with the very long neck snakes its way into the room, wide eyed and drooling.]
Farewell, guys. It was nice knowing you. She's just going to do what she already planned to do the moment the box started ticking, and fucking hide. Sorry for bringing Hisoka into our lives.]
there really isn't a lot of places to hide here? sasazuka instead just runs more underneath the bench and hope the freaky neck monster didn't like... look down. ]
[Meanwhile, Harrow will hoist the baby up, and will start trying to pry the vent open when the friend comes in, and will try to shove baby up the vent, provided it's willing to let her and isn't being stubborn.
She's just going to stand on top of the piano, then, holding her super cursed dagger, and start shouting at the top of her lungs at the snake lady, trying to draw its attention away from the others.]
Here we are! If you want to devour us, too, you're too late, abomination!
[And then she's going to try to climb up into the vent before it can get to her.]
[well, it isn't happy that harrow is shoving it into the vent. but jingle goes, making a very alarmed sound and trying to pull harrow into the vent with them.
here's the good news: the monster is distracted! it takes two staggered footsteps towards the piano, shrieks, and its neck extends again, snaking across the room. the bad news is that it wants into that vent. and it is going to bash its head against the vent opening over and over until it makes the vent big enough for its horrific face to fit.
so uh. there's that. harrow and jingle are now trapped in the vent.]
Sheila presses a hand over her mouth to stop herself from screaming when the creature chases after Harrow and Jingle, halfway moving out of her hiding spot try and catch a glimpse of Vira and Takeru now that it's distracted. She doesn't have a weapon herself, but — she has an idea. And if she manages to grab Vira and Takeru's attention, she will point at Vira, point at the creature, and make a throat slitting motion. If they both end up needing assistance to make it happen, she will lend a hand. Or, like, if they have a better idea in general? Sweats.
They gotta rescue their lesbian and baby. Let's go, guys. Let's go.]
[ there are a lot of things wrong with this plan sheila??? how the FUCK are they going to do that, they need to climb up first to each the neck??
there's a pause as he peeks from under the bench to look up at what's happening up there. then, he looks back to vira. does she still have the knfie i don't remember. if they can't get up there safely, they could at least maybe stab?? the feet??
he points at the legs. do they want to make the journey. ]
[ vira does have a dinner-knife-sword. but in her condition there's no way she'd be able to get to anything vital alone. they will also almost certainly be vored if this goes awry.
still, they need to help their trapped pair, and all of them need to get to the vent eventually too, so they're going to have to deal with this somehow. she nods at the other two and starts scampering over to the horrible creature's main 'body.' quietly.
it's possible they could get to the vent from the neighboring room, but they'll need to get past the body regardless. ]
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harrow, sasazuka and jingle are hidden behind a desk. sheila and vira end up behind a bookshelf, quiet. there's a long moment as the creature turns its head to the left... and then the right... and then twists upside down to look under a desk directly to the right of sasazuka and harrow.
but it doesn't find anything, so it slowly pulls its head back into the other room with a disgusting slurping sort of sound.
now that you guys are properly in the room, you can see that this room too is very rusty, and metallic. there's a chalkboard on the far wall, or at least, there's half of one. the other half is on the floor. there are eight desks in the room, some bookshelves, some large toys and a toybox pushed into the corner of the room, and a piano in the other corner. above the piano is a vent.
the clicking footsteps resume in the room next door.]
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Well, that was horrifying.
Sheila doesn't move for several seconds after the creature retreats, holding her breath — and then she finally exhales. Vira is the one closest to her, so it is to her that she whispers:]
What the fuck was that?
[Everyone okay? Is our baby still crying...? Very important questions. While the others presumably start checking other shit out, she will look at the bookshelves. Is there anything on interest in them? Above, on the shelves, or behind them? Or are there only saucy novels in here?]
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but he gives harrow a look that basically just says "what" but yeah. they can't just stay here forever, so he'll adjust his hold on jingle and will go to check out the chalkboards. first, the piece that's on the floor to see if there's anything written on it, and then he will try to read what's on the other half.
he talks veeery softly. ]
Do we need to escape through the vent again?
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I'm not sure, and I'm in no hurry to find out.
[ which really goes without saying, but she probably can't hear sasazuka.
with sheila checking out the bookshelf, she'll look over some of the desks on their side. anything sticking out that they could use or might be interesting? ]
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We ought to figure out how to get up there, quickly.
[There's still other areas to check out, but she wants to secure a route for a quick escape first. So she's going to creep over to the piano, to see if there's an obvious way to climb it. If they stood on top of the piano, would they be able to reach the vent?]
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the bookshelves are sparse. there are a few books, but they seem to be children's books, ones specifically meant to help kids learn how to read. next to one of these books is a delicate looking fan, made of jade. it seems like it's glued to the bookshelf, unfortunately.
there's a piece of paper sticking out of one of the desks. another desk has a bunch of arrows carved into the metal. they don't point in any particular direction, it just seems like maybe someone liked to draw the arrows part of a bow and arrow.
the piano has a bench! it seems like the easiest way to climb up. the vent is in fact reachable from the piano.
and also, as you're exploring, a sharp pang of hunger hits you.]
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Sheila is just going to casually bite at her index finger. There is probably still leftover salsa on her hands, going into her mouth? It's fine. If the jade fan can't be removed and there is nothing poking out of any of the books or hidden around them, she will quietly shimmy over to check out the toys and toybox. Is there anything interesting over here?]
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but if there's nothing else to find here, he will wander over to the piano. ]
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is there anything by the toys of note? otherwise, she'll go regroup with the others at the piano. ]
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Help me onto the bench.
[She certainly can't climb it on her own in this state, but she can bear it if she's boosted.]
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they gather by the piano, and jingle rattles quietly, trying to slide down to the floor, if sasazuka will let them. they are... going to try and boost harrow up? which is funny because again they're like two feet tall, but they are stubborn and trying.
the toybox is destroyed by the same clawmarks as the chalkboard. except for one of the toys in the front. sheila comes close, and that toy box clicks... and the handle on the outside of the box starts to slowly turn. hm.]
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Backing away from the box, inching closer to the piano. If something springs out of the box and it makes any kind of sound, she is absolutely going to fucking book it for a hiding spot.]
Guys...?
[WHAT IS THE BOX DOING.]
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[ he says, despite knowing this tiny child is stronger than all of them, but he has Concerns about the power use.
he steps forward to try to also help harrow, and while this is happening, the toy box clicks and starts doing its thing. he looks over at sheila. ]
Did you do that?
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We need to get moving.
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Hide. I'm going to get the vent.
[The piano seems like a way to be very exposed. If she and baby are both boosted, she will hurry towards the piano, rather than try to pull Sasazuka and Vira up - it just seems more important to try and open an exit as soon as possible. It seems like getting up there without touching the keys will require being on the side of the bench, right? So she will try to head to the side.
This would be a lot easier if she had bone constructs. She hisses in frustration, wishing she could just turn her outside bones into a construct that would lift them up to the vent, just in case that does anything.]
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vira manages to help the baby up to the piano bench, and harrow too, if that's what's going on. they carefully make their way up the side of the piano, and jingle helps harrow to the very top where the vent is, if she lets them. unfortunately wishing for outside bone help doesn't work. but jingle does reach up to make grabby hands at her. pull them up!!
meanwhile. tick, tick, tick, tick - and the handle stops. a beat of silence, and then the toy box's lid explodes upwards, and a jester joyfully bounces around very loudly, laughing at top volume. the laugh ends with a moan? gross.
there is a shriek of a sound from the other room, and the door to it slams open as the creature with the very long neck snakes its way into the room, wide eyed and drooling.]
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Farewell, guys. It was nice knowing you. She's just going to do what she already planned to do the moment the box started ticking, and fucking hide. Sorry for bringing Hisoka into our lives.]
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there really isn't a lot of places to hide here? sasazuka instead just runs more underneath the bench and hope the freaky neck monster didn't like... look down. ]
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there's not much else to do but hide beneath the bench, edging towards the piano where they might be able to squirrel away somewhere better. ]
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She's just going to stand on top of the piano, then, holding her super cursed dagger, and start shouting at the top of her lungs at the snake lady, trying to draw its attention away from the others.]
Here we are! If you want to devour us, too, you're too late, abomination!
[And then she's going to try to climb up into the vent before it can get to her.]
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here's the good news: the monster is distracted! it takes two staggered footsteps towards the piano, shrieks, and its neck extends again, snaking across the room. the bad news is that it wants into that vent. and it is going to bash its head against the vent opening over and over until it makes the vent big enough for its horrific face to fit.
so uh. there's that. harrow and jingle are now trapped in the vent.]
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Sheila presses a hand over her mouth to stop herself from screaming when the creature chases after Harrow and Jingle, halfway moving out of her hiding spot try and catch a glimpse of Vira and Takeru now that it's distracted. She doesn't have a weapon herself, but — she has an idea. And if she manages to grab Vira and Takeru's attention, she will point at Vira, point at the creature, and make a throat slitting motion. If they both end up needing assistance to make it happen, she will lend a hand. Or, like, if they have a better idea in general? Sweats.
They gotta rescue their lesbian and baby. Let's go, guys. Let's go.]
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there's a pause as he peeks from under the bench to look up at what's happening up there. then, he looks back to vira. does she still have the knfie i don't remember. if they can't get up there safely, they could at least maybe stab?? the feet??
he points at the legs. do they want to make the journey. ]
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still, they need to help their trapped pair, and all of them need to get to the vent eventually too, so they're going to have to deal with this somehow. she nods at the other two and starts scampering over to the horrible creature's main 'body.' quietly.
it's possible they could get to the vent from the neighboring room, but they'll need to get past the body regardless. ]
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