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Nightshift 41: Entry Room

Jun 02, 2009 12:34

[From here]

Kibitoshin stepped into the room, hope renewed. It looked like some kind of reception area if the two desks on either side of him were anything to go on, both absolutely pristine as though everything had been tidied away only seconds before he'd stepped into the room. On top of that there were enough doors here to keep him busy for hours ( Read more... )

von karma, kagura (gintama), endrance, tsukasa, dahlia, kibitoshin, apollo, azure kite, youko, enki, evangeline, chise, leon (so2), yomi, franziska, scar (tlk), haseo

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whirlingwinds June 15 2009, 01:34:22 UTC

[ from here]

Naruto stuck to the wall immediately, scanning the area quickly. There seemed to be a scuffle further off but it was dark and he couldn't quite make out what was going on. No monsters in sight, though, which was a relief.

see_my_back June 15 2009, 19:21:09 UTC

They hadn't been in the room for more than a few moments when things started to change. It went from a plain, tiled room to what looked like some kind of... place of worship? But there weren't any symbols or pictures of deities. It had to be some kind of genjutsu, but it didn't make any sense to her at all.

However, her usual method of dispelling the illusion didn't seem to be working. Did that mean that the room really had changed? In which case, she could no longer see a door at the other end. Dammit.

Something was screwed up here and they'd probably waste less time if they turned around and went the other way, like the stupid old sage had said in the first place. She reached out to grab Naruto's wrist, shaking her head silently to keep from distracting the ones already fighting. Hopefully he'd take the hint and come back out into the hall.

toadally4boobs June 16 2009, 00:38:48 UTC

Jiraiya stopped mid-step as the room changed around them--and in the next moment, he was already attempting to dispell the genjutsu. Except that his chakra was sealed. It of course did nothing, and Jiraiya muttered a curse under his breath.

From what little he could see, Sakura couldn't dispell whatever it was either, and she had some of her chakra available. Which mean that this was either a powerful genjutsu... or anything but an illusion at all.

Warping reality was not beyond Landel's abilities. The Institute had shifted before, according to others. Jiraiya frowned--they had to go another way, especially if Landel's turned into some sort of crazy reality altering killing machine at night. ... Okay, so that wasn't likely, but it was better to be cautious then dead!

Sakura stopped Naruto, and Jiraiya smiled thinly. Good. She wasn't going to take any chances on Naruto not noticing.

whirlingwinds June 16 2009, 13:08:12 UTC

When Sakura grabbed his wrist, Naruto turned to her questioningly before noticing the area around them had changed completely. It looked nothing like what it had before, and there no longer were any doors leading outside. Only the ones they'd just come from. He should have expected it, really - getting out was bound to be difficult, and monsters wouldn't be the only thing getting in their way.

"What do we do?" He asked both of them.

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entaiho June 17 2009, 03:35:11 UTC

[from here, and after the others]

This...wasn't quite what he'd been expecting.

Rokuta paused only a few steps into the room, staring around the open room as though wondering if he had started to hallucinate. He couldn't have read the maps that wrong, could he, to have mistaken a cathedral of some kind for an entryway? And how did they fit this into a supposed hospital?

He glanced up at Youko, surprised enough to even be silent for once. Maybe she'd have an idea.

sekishi_keiou June 18 2009, 10:23:00 UTC

A western church of some sort? What on Earth was that doing here? Granted, they were theoretically in the United States, but this wasn't the sort of thing that should be found in hospitals, as far as Youko knew. "This is not right at all, is it?" What kind of monster or event could change their surroundings so completely, so quickly? "We didn't pass through anything like a shoku?"

ofazureflame June 19 2009, 22:53:18 UTC

At the front of the church, staring up at the stone pedestal before the rows of pews, he stood waiting. Waiting for what was unclear, but his program had been damaged so badly from the previous fight that he wasn't even being pressed to attack the two patient-designated entities only yards behind him. They wouldn't be getting through a door they couldn't see.

Slowly, he turned to watch the two patients at the back of the cathedral. Either they hadn't seen him, or they weren't afraid. Either way, they seemed more curious than aggressive.

...of course, that tended to change like many of his radio buttons.

entaiho June 19 2009, 23:49:19 UTC

No matter what else was going on and wrong, Rokuta was fairly certain he would have noticed something like a shoku, especially given the other signs present when one was opened. He'd seen and felt nothing in this case, just stepped through a door into something entirely unexpected. "No, nothing like that. It just..."

And there he cut off as he noticed movement out of the corner of his eye, turning in surprise toward the source, halfway afraid of an attack - but whoever, or whatever what was didn't seem immediately hostile. Fortunately. He hesitated a moment, then took a cautious step closer. "Hello?"

It didn't look like another patient, but he wasn't about to dismiss any potential sources of information.

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iwhipthefool June 23 2009, 12:34:28 UTC

[from here]

What should have been a dusty and boring entry room was most definitely not. Franziska stood in the doorway, frozen by what she saw. In the place of chairs and desks, there stood a cathedral. An honest to goodness cathedral. Elegantly carved stone floors, tall stone pillars, a high ceiling, and an altar backed with arched glass. It would have been a magnificent sight, if it wasn't so entirely impossible.

"What in the--" Franziska couldn't stop herself from voicing her surprise. Just what was going on here?! She refused to take a step back, but she couldn't exactly move forward either. This wasn't the entry room she was supposed to find! Just what was this?!

perfectrecord June 23 2009, 13:57:38 UTC

[Passing through with Serey's permission <3 ]As Franziska related the sordid story of how she found herself in this hellhole, von Karma wondered how she had allowed herself to literally sleep on the job. Unacceptable! But right before he could admonish her for her confessed indolence, they arrived at their destination: a set of doors to the right that led to the entry room, according to his map ( ... )

iwhipthefool June 23 2009, 22:56:02 UTC

Impossible. This was simply impossible. A hesitant step inside the room revealed that the quality of the flooring was not akin to that of the many cathedrals she'd entered during her time in Germany and abroad. The sound wasn't the same and that slight inconsistency was enough to alert her to the reality of the situation.

This was an illusion? If it was, it was an extremely good one. Her father strode into the room and Franziska followed, refusing to show weakness in front of him beyond what she'd already accidentally shown. She stayed close as he ordered, but kept her eyes on the fight across the room. So this was what the night was like? Illusions, monsters, patients attacking each other? The bulletin reports weren't lying after all.

When her father called to her from the side, she finally tore her eyes away and nodded once. He had found their goal and that was all that mattered. She quickly moved to join him -- was the door just floating in space? Gah, what was this place?! -- and slipped through the open door.

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