[Tamamo likewise is going to give the bloody table one last look over, the top and under it, before she goes to join the others, JUST IN CASE. Gotta make sure they don't miss an important clue before they open a goddamn demon on the table.
And her mouth thins at what Dick writes down but y'know, given what she knows of bullshit quests, that sounds about right. She'll nod to indicate she understands what he means and then gestures to the demon. She's not really one to wait and honestly she doubts they can keep the demon quiet unless one of them has something to shove into its mouth... Is there some kind of sheet around they can use as a gag?
Which, y'know, if anyone wants to get near those teeth]
it's why he steps back and hangs around the entrance, so that he can keep an eye on what's going on inside but maintain a lookout outside as well. it would probably be very bad if they were all trapped in this cell when the creature comes to hunt them down?]
[They don't find anything else on or around the tables! They're just medical tables, covered in old blood and demon goo. Gross. These tables don't really have sheets, either... they're more operating-table style.
The demon is still making noise and struggling against its bonds while they're in here deciding what to do, so, that's a thing.
Since Kagachi is near the entrance, though, he'll be able to hear an echoing sound from the northern hallway... that quickly fades. More quickly than it has before.]
[ that thing is too loud. that thing is too loud, and they have to make a decision now. he takes out the hint tamamo gave him as well as the watch he got that tells him the current day to double check because i'm paranoid.
dick writes, quick.
"Think I have an idea for the code. Take care of the heart."
and distract the other thing while he's at it, ha ha. he's not really leaving them much choice as he starts to move, where i assume kagachi warns him about the northern hallway because he darts out the opposite side around to the security office. the good news is he can run extremely quietly! the bad news is if he manages to get to near the center hallway without crossing the thing, he grabs the fork (why has he had it this long) he's got in his belt and throws it so it bounces off a few walls as loud as possible, hopefully landing somewhere near cell 3, before continuing on his path.
if he crosses path with the thing then he's going to see how far his ninja skills take him ha ha ]
Right, so. Dick is gone. They need the heart. And while she trusts Dick enough to distract the monster as much as possible, that might not be relevant if this demon screams and kills their chances of escape.
...
She's going to shoot Kagachi an extremely apologetic glance before she takes the scalpel he loaned her and just, takes the blade to the topmost tail she has, literally reaching over and sawing it off -- and with an efficiency as if she's done this before. Because she has. Eight times before this.
There's probably blood trickling down her chin as she bites down on her tongue to keep from screaming, but she doesn't make a sound and takes the tail and literally shoves as much of it as she can in the demon's mouth?? Hopefully without it biting through her fuckin hand.
kagachi is... not exactly surprised that dick would do that either, though now he has multiple places to be worried about! thanks! but honestly if there's anyone who can wrestle a demon and cut out its heart, it's probably tamamo? also, like, if she's in danger, it will probably get noisy and he'll hear them anyway.
so unless the demon's about to break its bonds and eat tamamo right this moment, he leaves the cell entirely, heading down to the junction between the righthand hallway and the central hallway—mainly to try and keep an eye out if the creature heads down the (vertical) central hallway.]
[Good news: Dick can still hear the echoing sound as he yeets a fork into the hallway, but he does not cross the monster! The sounds get faster afterward, though. Good thing he's continuing on instead of waiting to find out what happens.
Kagachi's excursion... well. He hears the same thing. He can't see shit in the central vertical hallway right now, but the echoing shuffling sound is clearly faster. Nothing in view right now, though.
Meanwhile, Tamamo's fucking hardcore decision does, in fact, result in the demon being gagged. Its sounds are muffled by the fur of the tail crammed down its throat.
Now that she's close to it, she can see a little better that... this demon was already opened up. The scalpel lodged in its chest is holding it open, it was just hard to tell because its body is all inky blackness.
It's possible to tell now because that glinting thing is, in fact, the demon's exposed heart. Despite being made of some sort of glass or crystal, it somehow beats. There's nothing else visible inside the demon's body.]
[ WELL I GUESS DICK MAKES IT TO THE SECURITY OFFICE THEN? because that is where he's going. and he doesn't run into the beast. god i hate that he's a ninja.
anyway once he's there he's. going to try a code! 391150-- for the days they've been here, the days left, and the day they have to perform the ritual. can't wait until it beeps loudly that he's mistaken and kills me instantly ]
[Despite the stupid amount of pain she's in and that her beautiful tail is being thrashed to bits in a demon's mouth, the moment Tamamo sees that heart, she lets out a triumphant grin.
And because she still has a bloodied scalpel in her hand, gonna use it to remove as much goo resistance from around the heart before she yoinks it the fuck out.
Assuming she succeeds, she then shove the heart deep into her kimono sleeve before tying the whole thing shut. Once again, her poor kimono is gonna get stained from both her own blood and demon blood but sometimes a bitch just gotta do what a bitch just gotta do.
Time to run then... Or in this case, she'll poke her head out of the room and glance right, where Kagachi is lurking at the intersection of cell 6 and the med cell. There is absolutely no way she can take a monster when she's busy convincing her body not to go into shock, so uh. She'll slide up behind him assuming said monster doesn't eat her face off immediately, and give him a thumbs up. Heart acquired.]
[they should probably deal with tamamo's injury with actual bandages but also probably not right now.
he gives a nod at the heart, and thinks for a moment. well, since they need to regroup with dick anyway, no point in waiting around here (unless to, uh, be bait).
provided they have not run into the monster right now, he beckons for tamamo to follow and moves as swiftly—and silently—as he can down the righthand hallway and across the bottom hallway to the security office.]
[As she removes the heart, the demon convulses, attempting to scream-- it's heavily muffled thanks to the tail, but it still makes some noise in the creature's death throes. Fortunately, it's very short-lived, and it quickly dissolves into black goo that is definitely getting on Tamamo's poor kimono. The heart tied into her sleeve is still pulsing.
Dick's distraction was only a fork and he did specifically send it right on the opposite side of the medical cell, so when the initial clatter has failed to produce any new results? Yeah. The limited noise is still enough to catch the monster's attention. Tamamo's plan means they are not Super Dead immediately, but as she and Kagachi move down the right-hand hallway... well, it turns out it wasn't far. It enters the right-hand hallway through the horizontal center hallway... before they've turned the corner into the bottom hall.
Sneaking is unlikely to be an option.
Anyway! Back to Dick!
He inputs 391150 into the keypad, and....
The door silently swings open. (:
Inside is a messy desk with a computer on it, the monitor's screensaver set to the creepy eye gif. It's one of those large office desks, for the record. There is also a closed, rusted locker on the opposite wall.]
[ bingo! but it turns out i can't read maps and killed my companions. that's fine. you win some, you lose some?
anyway dick is going to go through the messy desk as fast as he can! looking at evidence quietly is one of his specialties. i hate bats. he's looking on top of, around and under the desk, going through any drawers as well. also if he touches the mouse what's on the computer screen once the screensaver eye is gone. if there's nothing on there he'd go to the locker but i am assuming there's something so i guess i'll finish the tag there ]
Tamamo shoves at Kagachi's arm to get him going, worried the damn fool will attempt to distract the monster with his own body if it comes to it. She'd rather he not, thanks, and is going to flee down the right-side hallway and take that corner as quickly as possible, sprinting along that bottom corridor.
but he follows her, and honestly since things are very bad now either way, he might as well hiss—]
Away from Dick.
[he'd rather tell her to join up with dick, period (especially since she HAS THE HEART), but he gets the feeling she wouldn't listen to him! for some reason! but it'll be pretty fucking bad if they lead the monster right to the security office and they all die there.
assuming the monster follows them into the bottom hallway, he turns right to go back up the vertical central hallway.]
[All right, well, we're hitting up Dick first! If he touches the mouse, a password entry box pops up. So. Have fun. There's a microphone on top of the desk, plugged in and lit. There are two drawers: in the top one, there are some old sticks of chewing gum, stacks of unused post-it notes (some smeared with blood), and an unlabeled blue key card. In the bottom drawer is a folded page:]
“Made it in. I got a message to the others ...to her. We’re meeting at the medical cell to get what we came for and get the hell out of here.
God, I hope we can get the hell out of here. I just want to go home.”
[That's all you get in a single tag round Zia /:
MEANWHILE, IN THE HALLWAY... well. Dick will notice this along with them as well, but the lights all go out, because congratulations.
[The hallway is dark. As Tamamo and Kagachi run, they'll find it hard to tell where exactly the turn to the next hallway is, though they might make it if they work well off of pure memory or hold a hand out to the wall.
Behind them, they can hear the creature chasing them, unhindered by the darkness-- it's already blind. It can follow them perfectly, as long as it can hear them run and breathe. It has the advantage, now, and if they listen, they can hear it quickly gaining on them, the shuffling of many, many limbs growing louder, a harsh snarl echoing off the stone.
Kagachi can feel its heavy breath brush his back.]
[ the lights flickering concern dick but they turn back on and he doesn't hear horrifying screams so? possibly nothing? wow wonder what happened. surely nothing weird
dick looks longingly at hacking the computer but doesn't want to waste too much time guessing a password, since the monster is clearly still around 😒, pocketing both the note and the key card before moving to the locker and see if he can open it to check what's inside. ]
[So much just happens all of the sudden -- Kagachi hissing at her to avoid leading the creature to Dick, them running down the hall and attempting to flee up the middle hallway, the lights cutting, Tamamo nearly yanking the heart out and giving it to Kagachi because he's the uninjured between them, he can run faster to victory--
And then just as suddenly, the lights are back on and there is a salt statue towering just centimeters away from where they were fleeing.
Tamamo, unlike their dear friend who wrote the letters, is not interested in examining the creature. Mouth thinned from exhaustion, adrenaline, and irritation, she grabs Kagachi's wrist and starts tugging him in the direction of the security office.]
[the one bright side, at the time, was that if anyone should die here, better him and tamamo than dick, for reasons. except for the part where tamamo had the heart, that would've been the bad part.
but also, what.
what the hell just happened.
after the initial shock, kagachi tugs his hand free. he follows, but he doesn't take his eye off the monster, instead stepping backwards as they head towards the security office.]
[ hey jan what the fuck was that. anyway dick is swearing mentally at that loud noise and grabbing the first aid kit, tucking that away
now he has replenished his depleted stash uwu stealing is good
getting a knife out just in case as he quickly goes through the uniform to check if there's anything inside of it and looking through the pockets keeping an eye on the door and an ear out for any noise. he can maybe hide under the desk or climb on top of the locker if the monster shows up-- something something bats sneaking quietly in shadows something-- but dick would rather get out as fast as he can.
[SURPRISE BITCH it's just feral, angry fox wife with eight tails, having to lean against the doorframe because running for her life while injured is not great for one's health.
Anyway she is... honestly she's still too cautious to speak, salt creature or no, so she'll gesture for Dick to give her a piece of paper (WHEREVER HE IS HIDING) so she can write:
It turned into a stone creature. Don't know if it's dead, let us leave regardless.
Anyway she hopes he's got some good shit so they can be done with this miserable place.]
anyway! i'd love to say that kagachi corrects tamamo but actually he stays outside the office to keep an eye on the salt—though he does reflexively glance into the office. please tell me taking his eyes off the salt turns it back into a monster that kills me.]
[hi don't @ me I'm mobile and not switching accounts.
Dick finds nothing else in the locker! Exciting. They can all decide where to go from here, because looking away from the salt statue changes nothing.]
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And her mouth thins at what Dick writes down but y'know, given what she knows of bullshit quests, that sounds about right. She'll nod to indicate she understands what he means and then gestures to the demon. She's not really one to wait and honestly she doubts they can keep the demon quiet unless one of them has something to shove into its mouth... Is there some kind of sheet around they can use as a gag?
Which, y'know, if anyone wants to get near those teeth]
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it's why he steps back and hangs around the entrance, so that he can keep an eye on what's going on inside but maintain a lookout outside as well. it would probably be very bad if they were all trapped in this cell when the creature comes to hunt them down?]
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The demon is still making noise and struggling against its bonds while they're in here deciding what to do, so, that's a thing.
Since Kagachi is near the entrance, though, he'll be able to hear an echoing sound from the northern hallway... that quickly fades. More quickly than it has before.]
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dick writes, quick.
"Think I have an idea for the code. Take care of the heart."
and distract the other thing while he's at it, ha ha. he's not really leaving them much choice as he starts to move, where i assume kagachi warns him about the northern hallway because he darts out the opposite side around to the security office. the good news is he can run extremely quietly! the bad news is if he manages to get to near the center hallway without crossing the thing, he grabs the fork (why has he had it this long) he's got in his belt and throws it so it bounces off a few walls as loud as possible, hopefully landing somewhere near cell 3, before continuing on his path.
if he crosses path with the thing then he's going to see how far his ninja skills take him ha ha ]
cw: MUTILATION, I'M SORRY, I FLIPPED TAILS
Right, so. Dick is gone. They need the heart. And while she trusts Dick enough to distract the monster as much as possible, that might not be relevant if this demon screams and kills their chances of escape.
...
She's going to shoot Kagachi an extremely apologetic glance before she takes the scalpel he loaned her and just, takes the blade to the topmost tail she has, literally reaching over and sawing it off -- and with an efficiency as if she's done this before. Because she has. Eight times before this.
There's probably blood trickling down her chin as she bites down on her tongue to keep from screaming, but she doesn't make a sound and takes the tail and literally shoves as much of it as she can in the demon's mouth?? Hopefully without it biting through her fuckin hand.
E F F I C I E N C Y. ]
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kagachi is... not exactly surprised that dick would do that either, though now he has multiple places to be worried about! thanks! but honestly if there's anyone who can wrestle a demon and cut out its heart, it's probably tamamo? also, like, if she's in danger, it will probably get noisy and he'll hear them anyway.
so unless the demon's about to break its bonds and eat tamamo right this moment, he leaves the cell entirely, heading down to the junction between the righthand hallway and the central hallway—mainly to try and keep an eye out if the creature heads down the (vertical) central hallway.]
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Kagachi's excursion... well. He hears the same thing. He can't see shit in the central vertical hallway right now, but the echoing shuffling sound is clearly faster. Nothing in view right now, though.
Meanwhile, Tamamo's fucking hardcore decision does, in fact, result in the demon being gagged. Its sounds are muffled by the fur of the tail crammed down its throat.
Now that she's close to it, she can see a little better that... this demon was already opened up. The scalpel lodged in its chest is holding it open, it was just hard to tell because its body is all inky blackness.
It's possible to tell now because that glinting thing is, in fact, the demon's exposed heart. Despite being made of some sort of glass or crystal, it somehow beats. There's nothing else visible inside the demon's body.]
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anyway once he's there he's. going to try a code! 391150-- for the days they've been here, the days left, and the day they have to perform the ritual. can't wait until it beeps loudly that he's mistaken and kills me instantly ]
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And because she still has a bloodied scalpel in her hand, gonna use it to remove as much goo resistance from around the heart before she yoinks it the fuck out.
Assuming she succeeds, she then shove the heart deep into her kimono sleeve before tying the whole thing shut. Once again, her poor kimono is gonna get stained from both her own blood and demon blood but sometimes a bitch just gotta do what a bitch just gotta do.
Time to run then... Or in this case, she'll poke her head out of the room and glance right, where Kagachi is lurking at the intersection of cell 6 and the med cell. There is absolutely no way she can take a monster when she's busy convincing her body not to go into shock, so uh. She'll slide up behind him assuming said monster doesn't eat her face off immediately, and give him a thumbs up. Heart acquired.]
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he gives a nod at the heart, and thinks for a moment. well, since they need to regroup with dick anyway, no point in waiting around here (unless to, uh, be bait).
provided they have not run into the monster right now, he beckons for tamamo to follow and moves as swiftly—and silently—as he can down the righthand hallway and across the bottom hallway to the security office.]
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Dick's distraction was only a fork and he did specifically send it right on the opposite side of the medical cell, so when the initial clatter has failed to produce any new results? Yeah. The limited noise is still enough to catch the monster's attention. Tamamo's plan means they are not Super Dead immediately, but as she and Kagachi move down the right-hand hallway... well, it turns out it wasn't far. It enters the right-hand hallway through the horizontal center hallway... before they've turned the corner into the bottom hall.
Sneaking is unlikely to be an option.
Anyway! Back to Dick!
He inputs 391150 into the keypad, and....
The door silently swings open. (:
Inside is a messy desk with a computer on it, the monitor's screensaver set to the creepy eye gif. It's one of those large office desks, for the record. There is also a closed, rusted locker on the opposite wall.]
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anyway dick is going to go through the messy desk as fast as he can! looking at evidence quietly is one of his specialties. i hate bats. he's looking on top of, around and under the desk, going through any drawers as well. also if he touches the mouse what's on the computer screen once the screensaver eye is gone. if there's nothing on there he'd go to the locker but i am assuming there's something so i guess i'll finish the tag there ]
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Time to run or time to die, she guesses!
Tamamo shoves at Kagachi's arm to get him going, worried the damn fool will attempt to distract the monster with his own body if it comes to it. She'd rather he not, thanks, and is going to flee down the right-side hallway and take that corner as quickly as possible, sprinting along that bottom corridor.
So glad she's leaking blood for this.]
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but he follows her, and honestly since things are very bad now either way, he might as well hiss—]
Away from Dick.
[he'd rather tell her to join up with dick, period (especially since she HAS THE HEART), but he gets the feeling she wouldn't listen to him! for some reason! but it'll be pretty fucking bad if they lead the monster right to the security office and they all die there.
assuming the monster follows them into the bottom hallway, he turns right to go back up the vertical central hallway.]
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“Made it in. I got a message to
the others...to her. We’re meeting at the medical cell to get what we came for and get the hell out of here.God, I hope we can get the hell out of here. I just want to go home.”
[That's all you get in a single tag round Zia /:
MEANWHILE, IN THE HALLWAY... well. Dick will notice this along with them as well, but the lights all go out, because congratulations.
You've hit tag limit.]
2/3 i lied
Behind them, they can hear the creature chasing them, unhindered by the darkness-- it's already blind. It can follow them perfectly, as long as it can hear them run and breathe. It has the advantage, now, and if they listen, they can hear it quickly gaining on them, the shuffling of many, many limbs growing louder, a harsh snarl echoing off the stone.
Kagachi can feel its heavy breath brush his back.]
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...and silence.
The snarling stops. The movement stops.
The lights flicker back on, unsteadily, and if they turn to look behind them...
There's a grotesque salt statue where that creature once stood.
They may continue on.]
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dick looks longingly at hacking the computer but doesn't want to waste too much time guessing a password, since the monster is clearly still around 😒, pocketing both the note and the key card before moving to the locker and see if he can open it to check what's inside. ]
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And then just as suddenly, the lights are back on and there is a salt statue towering just centimeters away from where they were fleeing.
Tamamo, unlike their dear friend who wrote the letters, is not interested in examining the creature. Mouth thinned from exhaustion, adrenaline, and irritation, she grabs Kagachi's wrist and starts tugging him in the direction of the security office.]
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but also, what.
what the hell just happened.
after the initial shock, kagachi tugs his hand free. he follows, but he doesn't take his eye off the monster, instead stepping backwards as they head towards the security office.]
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But inside, there is a bloodstained security guard's uniform, along with a first aid kit.
Tamamo and Kagachi will not run into any trouble!]
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now he has replenished his depleted stash uwu stealing is good
getting a knife out just in case as he quickly goes through the uniform to check if there's anything inside of it and looking through the pockets keeping an eye on the door and an ear out for any noise. he can maybe hide under the desk or climb on top of the locker if the monster shows up-- something something bats sneaking quietly in shadows something-- but dick would rather get out as fast as he can.
because the monster is
clearly
coming ]
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Anyway she is... honestly she's still too cautious to speak, salt creature or no, so she'll gesture for Dick to give her a piece of paper (WHEREVER HE IS HIDING) so she can write:
It turned into a stone creature. Don't know if it's dead, let us leave regardless.
Anyway she hopes he's got some good shit so they can be done with this miserable place.]
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you'll never know zia
anyway! i'd love to say that kagachi corrects tamamo but actually he stays outside the office to keep an eye on the salt—though he does reflexively glance into the office. please tell me taking his eyes off the salt turns it back into a monster that kills me.]
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Dick finds nothing else in the locker! Exciting. They can all decide where to go from here, because looking away from the salt statue changes nothing.]
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