[ marie sure had an exciting week, huh! it's even more exciting today. if she happens to look at the weird key on her desk, she'll find that it's changed a bit. the newly added letter H shines on the key.
marie can probably assume this means something. so! since she is so smart, she grabbed futaba for a little bit of girlbossing exploration.
as marie and futaba make their way through the hotel, looking for a place to try this key, they find themselves in the mezzanine. specifically, as they're walking to the corner of the Litle Dipper wing and the Cassiopeia North wing - the room on the inside right is marked with a golden H.
[ TELL HER ABOUT IT? it's not even the end of the week yet and she's already ready to nap from now to execution. this only means time to cause chaos on the way ]
Time to face god and walk in backwards.
[ YOU'RE NOT DRILL STOP THAT ]
It'd be really redundant if it stood for Hotel, huh?
[ thank you for the wicked icon i appreciate it. anyway, team girlboss opens the door!
when they step into this room, they find... it's fucking dark in here, actually. wow. it is pitch black. they can dimly make out some shapes of what might be furniture? maybe there's a light around here somewhere. ]
[ just to make sure, futaba starts slapping at the opposite wall heading in the other direction. one of them is bound to find it...! please let her trip over something and eat shit ]
[ as the girls grope around the wall, they will find... candles, actually. they're inset into the wall! like torches. coincidentally, they will also find two matchboxes, and feeling around in the wall insets, they might feel a few used matches here as well.
i hate to be like "do these two know how to use matches" but they're moderns so like. do you know how to use matches? light the candles? there are two. one for each girl. ]
anyway, the room lights up! when the first two candles light, several more fill up the room - one by one, pairs of candles light up around the room, casting the whole place in a warm glow.
the girls find themselves standing in a room with a long hall. it's still the size of a regular hotel room, but the visual trick makes it look longer. the floors are marble - there's a red carpet that leads down the center of the room, up two stairs, to a dais, where... a throne sits?
on either side of the red carpet, there are several golden statues, of varying mythical creatures and animals - lions, qilins, great birds of prey. there's a large vase up on the pedestal where the throne is, and the room smells warmly of incense.
occasionally, they hear a sound - like the giggle of a girl or two.
[ Said after the room is illuminated; Wicked appears bewildered. ]
This is a castle, ain’t it? There’s a whole throne and everything. [ Well.
Time to investigate? Wicked will wanna look over some of the golden animal statues to see if there’s anything of interest. Are they all animals? If she tries picking at the surface will it actually reveal to be fake gold? Is there a monkey… there better be a monkey… ]
[ the little giggles makes her aaaaaa quietly, head whipping towards the sound every time it happens. her neck...! here's hoping there aren't any shining shadow forms standing there :weary:
she will however poke at the vase. hewwo.....? any treasure??? i really hope she activates its defense card ]
[ wicked may investigate the statues! they are all animals or mythological creatures. and there is a monkey! he stands tall and proud, in a pose something like this. wicked will find that each of the statues is real gold.
futaba makes her way down the carpet to the dais. there's no secret shadow forms or anything crazy - it's just a room. the giggles are intermittent, and don't sound like a creepy child, but just like women.
when she pokes at the vase, well - futaba immediately feels a sense of great, powerful success, like she's completed an incredibly monumental task. the vase is made of jade. i should note it's also fairly large? it comes up to about her chest. there's nothing inside of it? the feeling of powerful personal success is like whiplash, though, because then it just turns to nausea, afterwards. it's just a bad feel. ]
[ imagine if this was an important hint that futaba would have understood but I, a fool, do not. time to look around at the walls for pictures even a monkey would understand. ]
there is nothing special about the carpet, no. nothing on the ceiling, though they can see up there. would they like to go a little further into the room, or explore any other areas? ]
[ there's nothing about the throne except for that fact that it looks like its made of solid gold, with a red seating cushion. however... when wicked goes to explore the throne, she'll find... there's a whole other living space behind it. it was sort of hidden by the angle, and then ostentatious statues, but!
... this area is almost completely the opposite of the flashy, bright throne room. it's almost plain. there’s a simple bedroll back here, fairly large, as well as a low table with some papers on it. there's a larger bookshelf, a smaller, lower shelf, and a simple black wardrobe. nothing back here is flashy. the low table has a typewriter and a vintage phone on it, as well as a couple other objects; the bookshelves seem to be full of things.
it turns out... this might be someone's living space! wow
[ IT'S SOOOOOOOO WEIRD?? What the fuck?? Anyway Wicked is going straight for all the papers on the table: is there anything here of interest? Is it written in a language she can recognize? ]
while wicked hits up the papers, futaba nyooms straight for the bookshelf. she's checking for the usual: is it fiction/non-fiction, any hidden notes slipped into things, taste in romance.... ]
on the low table, the papers are written in a readable language, yes! it's (mumbles in rp magic). they seem to just be day to day operations - notes on the new areas that have appeared so far, so on and so forth. the handwriting in them is incredibly neat, so much so that you'd think it was typewritten, save for the brushstrokes. there are also a few other things - an origami hummingbird, a picture of a tree with a smiley face drawn on it, and a recipe for pancakes among the papers. they are very neatly stacked beside the typewriter.
futaba! on the bookshelf, she will see... a lot of books! the first top half of the bookshelf has books on conquest. there's one on pickling recipes? there are some on accounting, on hotel operations, on swordsmanship. down one shelf, though, the books are all devoted to poetry. whoever this is seems to be a pretty avid reader, though there aren't any romance novels. i'm gomen.
as she shakes one book open, she'll find some flowers pressed into the pages. there's also a bracelet made of forget-me-not that has been carefully dried as well. ]
[ this is most muttered to herself in disgust but hm, somehow this would track. ]
Whoever it is, their taste in books is terrible. [ she's waving the pickling book in which i dub thee with goodies. there's a pause while she watches said dried flower(s) flop out onto the floor. hm ]
[ in the wardrobe, marie will find a variety of wuxia-style clothing. it's mostly black, with accents of red, though there are the occasional mix ins of gray, and even purple. everything is made for a very tall person, compared to marie. on the floor, there are shoes, mostly boots. there's also... something faintly silver near the bottom of the wardrobe, though it's just a glint.
the smaller shelf is full of plants. there are tons of them! they appear to be very well taken care of. does futaba know anything about plants or want to examine them closer? ]
TEAR SOME OF THOSE CLOTHES OUT OF THE WARDROBE AND TOSS THEM OVER AT FUTABA. But also she does see that faintly silver glint and will try to get a better look at it? ]
[ she's just gonna drown in these robes now, goodbye. no but like a child playing dress up, she just fights her arms into the sleeves and goes right back to what she was doing.
meanwhile, futaba doesn't know a shitfuckdamn about plants. that's haru's niche not hers..!! she will however poke and shooch plants aside to see if there's anything hiding within them, on them, in them?? ]
[ wicked, when tearing the clothes out of the closet will find that the glint of silver belonged to... a shovel? it is REALLY big compared to her, and fairly heavy.
futaba is now wearing these robes, i guess. the fabric is incredibly luxurious. they are also huge on her. she is swimming in them. the plants, she can at least notice, are very well taken care of! they're all alive and blooming.
behind the plants, futaba finds.... a daruma doll! it's black and red, and it wobbles a bit. it is giving off a very, very bad aura. she will also find a couple of fine bottles of liquor - it appears to be baiju.]
Hoooooooooooly shit -- I could've used this when I was getting my shit rocked last week. [ Wicked is gonna try dragging it out of the wardrobe. Is there anything else of interest? Anything around the outside of the wardrobe that she should take note of? ]
[ meanwhile futaba looks at this daruma and quietly resolves not to put it on her head. the bad juju coming off that thing is enough to need a vat of holy water from the chapel....! instead ]
Oh, free alcohol!
[ this can be their hehe we did a thing peace offering ]
[ she may drag it! she'll hear the end of the shovel sort of scrape when she does? it looks like the crescent shape end of it is rather sharp. wicked will also see... a christmas sweater! it's folded up at the bottom of the wardrobe. it is red.
the daruma is also far too small for futaba to put on her head, as it is smaller than a basketball. alas. she can, i guess, try and take the baiju. is that what she's doing?
as the girls are doing this, they will suddenly start to feel a very deep, heavy sense of dread. it's a bad, bad feeling - like the room itself is oppressive, making them feel like they are almost powerless. it continues, pressing worse and worse down on them the longer they stand there. ]
[ she is in fact stealing the baiju. it's her prize for this place wanting to make her hurk twice now. ]
This room is just full of bad vibes. I don't think it's this guy's fault but maybe...?
[ she gestures where the daruma is and gently pokes it with a sleeve covered finger. here's hoping it curses her immediately (no). can she at least go flop on the bed until everything stops feeling gross? ]
[ the christmas sweater is huge! it is, appropriately, this one.
futaba can take the baiju, sure. the daruma wobbles when futaba pokes it, but it doesn't do anything.
the bad feeling does not fade - in fact, it gets worse. the longer they stand here, the worse that it gets. the longer they spend any time in here at all, the worse it gets, to the point that the bad vibe feeling becomes almost unbearable. futaba laying down does not make it any better.
But as the bad feeling intensifies, she’s going to walk over to Futaba who has flopped over the bed. She’ll look underneath to see if there’s anything there before reaching out to grab the young girl by the arm. ]
I think this place is hinting at us needing to leave.
you may keep your sweater and your alcohol, though wicked will see that her key dissolves into stardust the moment they step outside the door, and the door clicks shut and locks behind them. ]
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marie can probably assume this means something. so! since she is so smart, she grabbed futaba for a little bit of girlbossing exploration.
as marie and futaba make their way through the hotel, looking for a place to try this key, they find themselves in the mezzanine. specifically, as they're walking to the corner of the Litle Dipper wing and the Cassiopeia North wing - the room on the inside right is marked with a golden H.
wow! what to do, kiddos? ]
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But now she's got this cool key! So obviously that means investigation with the only other known gremlin in the building. ]
H, huh... wonder it means -- hell?
[ ARE THE MODS SENDING THEM TO HELL? ]
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Time to face god and walk in backwards.
[ YOU'RE NOT DRILL STOP THAT ]
It'd be really redundant if it stood for Hotel, huh?
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the door with a gold h on it has a simple spot for a key. marie slash wicked, conveniently, is holding a key.
.... you guys going in or nah ]
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Slides that key in... gently... ]
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anyway, futaba just jiiii's over maricked- ...hm. that sounds terrible. marie's shoulder ]
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when they step into this room, they find... it's fucking dark in here, actually. wow. it is pitch black. they can dimly make out some shapes of what might be furniture? maybe there's a light around here somewhere. ]
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[ She's going to reach out to the wall and just start groping around for a light switch. ]
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[ just to make sure, futaba starts slapping at the opposite wall heading in the other direction. one of them is bound to find it...! please let her trip over something and eat shit ]
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i hate to be like "do these two know how to use matches" but they're moderns so like. do you know how to use matches? light the candles? there are two. one for each girl. ]
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When the fuck did they need to use candles around this place? How old is this place even supposed to be --
[ Do they even wanna know...
But yes she will try to flick a match do I have to roll for this... sisi... ]
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[ she will unfortunately leave this to Wicked because do you really trust her to light things on fire?? her??
unless sisi truly wants us to roll for chaos......? ]
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anyway, the room lights up! when the first two candles light, several more fill up the room - one by one, pairs of candles light up around the room, casting the whole place in a warm glow.
the girls find themselves standing in a room with a long hall. it's still the size of a regular hotel room, but the visual trick makes it look longer. the floors are marble - there's a red carpet that leads down the center of the room, up two stairs, to a dais, where... a throne sits?
on either side of the red carpet, there are several golden statues, of varying mythical creatures and animals - lions, qilins, great birds of prey. there's a large vase up on the pedestal where the throne is, and the room smells warmly of incense.
occasionally, they hear a sound - like the giggle of a girl or two.
you've found... a room! time to explore? ]
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[ Said after the room is illuminated; Wicked appears bewildered. ]
This is a castle, ain’t it? There’s a whole throne and everything. [ Well.
Time to investigate? Wicked will wanna look over some of the golden animal statues to see if there’s anything of interest. Are they all animals? If she tries picking at the surface will it actually reveal to be fake gold? Is there a monkey… there better be a monkey… ]
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This sure is a weird secret room for a hotel.
[ the little giggles makes her aaaaaa quietly, head whipping towards the sound every time it happens. her neck...! here's hoping there aren't any shining shadow forms standing there :weary:
she will however poke at the vase. hewwo.....? any treasure??? i really hope she activates its defense card ]
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futaba makes her way down the carpet to the dais. there's no secret shadow forms or anything crazy - it's just a room. the giggles are intermittent, and don't sound like a creepy child, but just like women.
when she pokes at the vase, well - futaba immediately feels a sense of great, powerful success, like she's completed an incredibly monumental task. the vase is made of jade. i should note it's also fairly large? it comes up to about her chest. there's nothing inside of it? the feeling of powerful personal success is like whiplash, though, because then it just turns to nausea, afterwards. it's just a bad feel. ]
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Can she lift the monkey statue… gold heavy but she just wants to see if she’s got muscles.
And is there anything underneath the carpet? ]
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Bleeeeegh- what kinda cursed object is this??
[ that's a few hasty backsteps for her. give her a moment to see if she's gonna hurk into the vase or not ]
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poor futaba. the vase seems very cursed. it's got a strong smell to it, too, something sort of vinegar-y. she might yartz, its okay.
the rest of the room awaits, though. ]
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With the candelight can they see the ceiling? ]
Don’t throw up. Or, if you do, make sure it’s in that.
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Uuuugh. And it stinks...!
[ imagine if this was an important hint that futaba would have understood but I, a fool, do not. time to look around at the walls for pictures even a monkey would understand. ]
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there is nothing special about the carpet, no. nothing on the ceiling, though they can see up there. would they like to go a little further into the room, or explore any other areas? ]
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Maybe we should take it.
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As long as it's not on a pressure plate I'm all for it.
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... this area is almost completely the opposite of the flashy, bright throne room. it's almost plain. there’s a simple bedroll back here, fairly large, as well as a low table with some papers on it. there's a larger bookshelf, a smaller, lower shelf, and a simple black wardrobe. nothing back here is flashy. the low table has a typewriter and a vintage phone on it, as well as a couple other objects; the bookshelves seem to be full of things.
it turns out... this might be someone's living space! wow
time to snoop! ]
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Who the fuck lives in a place like this?
[ IT'S SOOOOOOOO WEIRD?? What the fuck?? Anyway Wicked is going straight for all the papers on the table: is there anything here of interest? Is it written in a language she can recognize? ]
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[ please don't sound so excited by this.
while wicked hits up the papers, futaba nyooms straight for the bookshelf. she's checking for the usual: is it fiction/non-fiction, any hidden notes slipped into things, taste in romance.... ]
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on the low table, the papers are written in a readable language, yes! it's (mumbles in rp magic). they seem to just be day to day operations - notes on the new areas that have appeared so far, so on and so forth. the handwriting in them is incredibly neat, so much so that you'd think it was typewritten, save for the brushstrokes. there are also a few other things - an origami hummingbird, a picture of a tree with a smiley face drawn on it, and a recipe for pancakes among the papers. they are very neatly stacked beside the typewriter.
futaba! on the bookshelf, she will see... a lot of books! the first top half of the bookshelf has books on conquest. there's one on pickling recipes? there are some on accounting, on hotel operations, on swordsmanship. down one shelf, though, the books are all devoted to poetry. whoever this is seems to be a pretty avid reader, though there aren't any romance novels. i'm gomen.
as she shakes one book open, she'll find some flowers pressed into the pages. there's also a bracelet made of forget-me-not that has been carefully dried as well. ]
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[ Can Wicked take this hummingbird? It might be a dick move but listen she has to steal something. ]
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[ this is most muttered to herself in disgust but hm, somehow this would track. ]
Whoever it is, their taste in books is terrible. [ she's waving the pickling book in which i dub thee with goodies. there's a pause while she watches said dried flower(s) flop out onto the floor. hm ]
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the wardrobe, the bed, and the smaller shelf all are still here, vibing. ]
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But next she'll check the wardrobe -- what's the fit check looking like in here? ]
I bet it's a bunch of shit that isn't helpful to us, right? Fuckin' lame asses.
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I dunno if we need pickling recipes for anything but there's a whole bunch on conquests, accounting, and other boring things.
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the smaller shelf is full of plants. there are tons of them! they appear to be very well taken care of. does futaba know anything about plants or want to examine them closer? ]
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[ Wicked is just going to
TEAR SOME OF THOSE CLOTHES OUT OF THE WARDROBE AND TOSS THEM OVER AT FUTABA. But also she does see that faintly silver glint and will try to get a better look at it? ]
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[ she's just gonna drown in these robes now, goodbye. no but like a child playing dress up, she just fights her arms into the sleeves and goes right back to what she was doing.
meanwhile, futaba doesn't know a shitfuckdamn about plants. that's haru's niche not hers..!! she will however poke and shooch plants aside to see if there's anything hiding within them, on them, in them?? ]
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futaba is now wearing these robes, i guess. the fabric is incredibly luxurious. they are also huge on her. she is swimming in them. the plants, she can at least notice, are very well taken care of! they're all alive and blooming.
behind the plants, futaba finds.... a daruma doll! it's black and red, and it wobbles a bit. it is giving off a very, very bad aura. she will also find a couple of fine bottles of liquor - it appears to be baiju.]
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[ She finds the... shovel (?). ]
Hoooooooooooly shit -- I could've used this when I was getting my shit rocked last week. [ Wicked is gonna try dragging it out of the wardrobe. Is there anything else of interest? Anything around the outside of the wardrobe that she should take note of? ]
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That things huge.....!!!
[ meanwhile futaba looks at this daruma and quietly resolves not to put it on her head. the bad juju coming off that thing is enough to need a vat of holy water from the chapel....! instead ]
Oh, free alcohol!
[ this can be their hehe we did a thing peace offering ]
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the daruma is also far too small for futaba to put on her head, as it is smaller than a basketball. alas. she can, i guess, try and take the baiju. is that what she's doing?
as the girls are doing this, they will suddenly start to feel a very deep, heavy sense of dread. it's a bad, bad feeling - like the room itself is oppressive, making them feel like they are almost powerless. it continues, pressing worse and worse down on them the longer they stand there. ]
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Anyway — ]
… I’m getting a really bad feeling. What the hell? It makes me sick.
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This room is just full of bad vibes. I don't think it's this guy's fault but maybe...?
[ she gestures where the daruma is and gently pokes it with a sleeve covered finger. here's hoping it curses her immediately (no). can she at least go flop on the bed until everything stops feeling gross? ]
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futaba can take the baiju, sure. the daruma wobbles when futaba pokes it, but it doesn't do anything.
the bad feeling does not fade - in fact, it gets worse. the longer they stand here, the worse that it gets. the longer they spend any time in here at all, the worse it gets, to the point that the bad vibe feeling becomes almost unbearable. futaba laying down does not make it any better.
what to do, ladies! ]
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But as the bad feeling intensifies, she’s going to walk over to Futaba who has flopped over the bed. She’ll look underneath to see if there’s anything there before reaching out to grab the young girl by the arm. ]
I think this place is hinting at us needing to leave.
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[ time to unearth herself from both the bed and robes and crawl her way out. ]
Anything we missed the others can come snoop.
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you may keep your sweater and your alcohol, though wicked will see that her key dissolves into stardust the moment they step outside the door, and the door clicks shut and locks behind them. ]