WEEK 5: CYOA

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[gamerbrain]

[ aoi looks for like a lil necromancer and a knight mini and pockets those.

and then she is just going over to the vent to. look inside it for herself while she waits for someone to give her instructions. hmmm... ]

[fisherwoman]

[nabbing the jacket as well! nice.

she’ll let aoi look, but also gently put both hands on her shoulders to try and make sure she doesn’t actually crawl in. bluntly:]

No.

[fergalicious]

[ If there is a will, there's a way. Medb is slinging them all over her shoulder or something. I forgot she still has the toe tag and the skull? I don't know how she's carrying all of this either. Extreme juggling. ]

You should pick an outfit, Aoi. Something you like. But don't get too close to the vent, if there really are rats.

[ (janet chanting) kill us! kill us! kill us!

Anyway, about the door that SQX is now looking at: ]

Endorsi, do you think the key you have is for the door or something else in here?

[ The desk is separate from the coffee table in the picture, right? If so, Medb is going to look at the contents on the coffee table, if there's anything. ]

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[sqx tries the door - it seemed to be jammed.

the desk is separate from the coffee table, yes! there's a couple of half written reports there, as well as a rubix cube. the reports seem to just be about maintenance and upkeep of the station, about how the doors keep getting stuck and needing to have alternate ways to get around.

aoi has her little figurines! and also there's just darkness in the vent.]

[shiftingwinds]

[mods just really out here like "get in the vent, binches"

sqx will try to unjam the door, but i have a sneaking suspicion that that isn't going to work. if in fact it doesn't, she kicks the door and looks grumpily at the vent.]

...we may end up having to go through that after all.

[gamerbrain]

[ to medb, because she is already holding all of the clothes: ] You can have them.

[ and aoi

tries to climb into the vents!

endorsi is holding her back, though? which seems to just confuse her. ]

Boop boop...

[fisherwoman]

[Frowning at the vent! And also holding Aoi back. After a few moments of thought:]

If there really is something dangerous in the vent, I think the more experienced fighters should go in front... So I can go first, then Medb, then Shi Qingxuan, then Aoi in back?

[But she'll wait to see if SQX can get the door open, though she has very little faith in this place making it so easy.]

[fergalicious]

[ Well, they can try to dress Aoi up later. They need to get out of this room first. ]

These reports say that all the doors keep getting stuck, so we might have to find alternative ways to get around.

[ She frowns. ]

If there is something in the vents, we should probably take something that can be thrown as a distraction just in case.

[ Throw the skull, make lots of noise in the vents, get wrecked.

But Medb will set the skull down, so she can pocket the rubix cube instead. ]

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[the door doesn't unjam. it is stuck like a jammed thing is stuck.

there's a moment, where all of you are standing in this room suddenly feel like this isn't worth it. maybe you should just give up? maybe you should go back to bed. it's so comfortable there. sleeping is nice.

and then it's gone. the room hums, like the way old CRT tvs do.]

[shiftingwinds]

[no, i'm kidding.

she looks down to pull her fan out of her belt, intending to use it as a weapon somehow in the vents, but - nope. it's not there.

she makes a face.]

It doesn't seem as though we have any other choice.

[time to head into the vents in the order endorsi suggested!!]

[gamerbrain]

[ aoi will comply with that order. she will head in once everyone else does! ]

[fisherwoman]

[In we go! She's pulling the black dress on over her clothes and the jacket on over that so her hands are free in case she needs them, moving into the vent first.

and since flurry is wonderful and ara holds the braincell, she's shining her phone's light in front of her.]

[fergalicious]

[ Following! With everything she picked up in the room. It's fine.

Honestly, Medb is probably trying to haul too much stuff to easily use the phone flashlight, too, but it's on for more light even if it's not shining directly in front. ]

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[you know, i don't even question how medb is getting into the vent with all her stuff, she's just doing it.

it's very dark in here, but endorsi's light manages to push the worst of it back. they have to sort of crawl to get through it, but it's not a tight fit, really. they keep going...

there's a thudthudthud ahead of them in the vents, followed by a shuddery clicking sound.]

[shiftingwinds]

[BAD. DON'T LIKE THAT.

shi qingxuan goes tense, white-knuckling her phone (which she is also using for light), and peers ahead.

does the clicking sound more like the click-clack of nails on metal, or the clicking of a camera shutter? i can't get that sound from last curfew out of my head fml.]

[gamerbrain]

The skittery monster...

[ she is in the back so she is subject to everyone else's stopping or moving. she would like to just bravely keep going though! ]

[fisherwoman]

[Pausing as well! And turning to hold a finger to her mouth as she looks directly at Aoi.

Is it possible to tell what direction that noise is coming from? And if so, are there any branching vent paths that move away from the direction of the noise, or is it completely straight?]

[fergalicious]

[ Oh, Medb hates this. She tenses as she stops behind Endorsi, looking straight ahead, too. She holds tightly onto the skull, just in case she needs to make bad life decisions and throw it. ]

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[it is much more similar to the camera shutter sound, but not quite that. just close.

it seems to come from in front of them first, and then off to the right. it's a heavy thudding noise, like something big banging around in the walls. there's a path - it goes straight, mostly, but they can probably see a path off to the right a few feet ahead of them.

also all of you roll a d20 for me, real quick.]

[shiftingwinds]

[cries in our terrible dice rolls

why is the direction of the noise changing. how can it be going from in front of them to off to the right? maybe if they're very still and quiet whatever it is won't notice them??]

[gamerbrain]

[ aoi stays still and quiet! ]

[fisherwoman]

[endorsi is hoping for the same thing as sqx, so she stays as still as she can - but she’s listening carefully, tense and ready to move at any second if she has to.]

[fergalicious]

[ Yeah, Medb hopes the thudding noise gets farther away instead of closer. She also stays still and silent but is ready to take off any moment.

laughs in terrible dice rolls ]

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[for those playing along at home, none of these losers got above a ten.

there's another thud. endorsi's light goes out. silence, for a long, long moment, and then the dinky little flashlight on endorsi's phone comes back on - and there's a monster, curled right in front of her. a monster with, uh. a fun and inviting face. the beak opens, and it shrieks, warbling and awful, and all four girls feel an intense pain in their ears as the noise rattles around in the vents. their hearing is now damaged.

the monster snaps forward and tries to take a bite out of endorsi, claws out and raking at her. the rest of the girls are right behind endorsi so it's likely they're not safe for long.]

[shiftingwinds]

[wow i wish i could be surprised that you gave us a furby monster


anyway, sqx puts her hands over her ears at first - ouch! - and then backs up rapidly, trying to block aoi in case the monster gets closer and bringing one of her hands down to tug medb back. hopefully medb will grab endorsi??]