[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.]
[ the monster turned to what. why does tamamo have eight tails. dick is just ??????????????????? coNCERN?
but uh anyway he shows off the blue keycard he got (yer welcome), and gestures to the password protected computer and then the door. do they want to ... try ... or go?
all of these fucks still too paranoid to make a noise ]
[She shrugs, frankly. If they want to go or leave, she'll leave the decision up to them.
... Though just so Dick is aware, she will briefly fish out the heart for him to see, before it is then tucked back into her sleeve. Don't worry, she got the heart as promised. Now it's time to decide if it's a higher priority than breaking into a computer]
[ dick tries 391150 as a password for the computer, but if that doesn't work (because looking through the notes they found there's nothing. else that could serve as a password), he'll direct them to move on to get to the door and the fuck out of here because they have the heart and they should get the fUCK out of here before the monster unbecomes salt ]
They now have access to the security system! Turns out there are hidden cameras in the hallway ceilings I don't believe they ever looked at, aimed into the cells and covering the halls as well. There's also a sound panel for that microphone, with each cell and hall speaker labeled. "Where were those earlier?" Good question. A tile on the wall slides open to reveal one in here.
If they'd gotten in earlier this could have been used to track the monster and potentially send messages. The connection seems a little spotty, though.]
[ well. you know what. dick's tired he's talking enough to mutter under his breath: ]
Wow. Great. Would've been useful earlier.
[ alright well with all their accumulated notes, a heart, a keycard and a medkit, they're going the FUCK out of here, dick leading the way to the door with the blue keycard. and. scanning it. i ASSUME they don't run into shit
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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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but uh anyway he shows off the blue keycard he got (yer welcome), and gestures to the password protected computer and then the door. do they want to ... try ... or go?
all of these fucks still too paranoid to make a noise ]
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... Though just so Dick is aware, she will briefly fish out the heart for him to see, before it is then tucked back into her sleeve. Don't worry, she got the heart as promised. Now it's time to decide if it's a higher priority than breaking into a computer]
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They now have access to the security system! Turns out there are hidden cameras in the hallway ceilings I don't believe they ever looked at, aimed into the cells and covering the halls as well. There's also a sound panel for that microphone, with each cell and hall speaker labeled. "Where were those earlier?" Good question. A tile on the wall slides open to reveal one in here.
If they'd gotten in earlier this could have been used to track the monster and potentially send messages. The connection seems a little spotty, though.]
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Wow. Great. Would've been useful earlier.
[ alright well with all their accumulated notes, a heart, a keycard and a medkit, they're going the FUCK out of here, dick leading the way to the door with the blue keycard. and. scanning it. i ASSUME they don't run into shit
he's still holding the knife just in case ]
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