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[magus_knight]

[KNOCK-KNOCK! Marisa Kirisame is on the other side of your door looking all business. Business with a grin!]

I need to search your residence. Step aside, ze. I'll be in and out in a jiff~

[Marisa is hunting for zombie stowaways as per her job this month. She may or may not steal stuff while searching...]

Comments

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[weekwizard]

...

I'm actually surprised you bothered to knock. Nonetheless, your request is denied.

[Aaaaand starting to close the SDMLH door in her face. As if that will stop her.]

[weekwizard]

[Patchy just follows along, taking this opportunity to nag at the witch a bit.]

Is that what you have been using to find them?

[magus_knight]

One of many techniques.

[weekwizard]

I would hope those others are a bit more specific than that.

[magus_knight]

Shut up, ze. I don't want a lecture from you. The more you lecture and nag, the more time I'm going to take checking the mansion.

[weekwizard]

...[Point.]

Very well, then.

[magus_knight]

Besides, you don't know the specifics of this spell and don't say you do because you can't read everything off this spell that easily.

[weekwizard]

...Just finish your job.

[magus_knight]

[Marisa wanders around the mansion and once she gets close to an unused area - probably Sakuya's room - she suddenly stops and holds a hand up.]

...you hear that?

[weekwizard]

Yes, I do. I've heard it before, but it was always too quiet for me to make out. I assumed it was Flandre talking to herself.

[But Flandre's not even in right now... Couldn't be her. Uh-oh.]

[magus_knight]

[Marisa dissipates the search spell and leans her broom against a wall. She then creeps toward the partially open door so quietly one would think she'd cast a silence spell on herself. Go, go thief mode!

She pauses with her hand on the door before looking back at Patchouli just to press a finger to her own lips in a silent 'shh'. Then she peers into the room.]

[weekwizard]

[So Marisa -can- be discreet when she needs. Could explain how she got into the house all the time.]

[Patchouli clears out of the way of the door, opposite the witch. Light from the hall was the only thing that lit the room, so it was difficult to see much. Or it would be, if not for the faint red glow that was present.]

[magus_knight]

[It was EXACTLY how she got inside all the time.

Though the faint glow told her where it was, along with the sound, and that there seems to only be one, it didn't help with WHAT it was. It was still too dark for her human sight.

...she could fix that, but glowing gold eyes would make Patchouli asked Questions eventually. Hmmm... Maybe if she got a bit closer. Stepping back into the hall, out of sight from the creature inside, that was still crying, Marisa held up a single finger to Patchouli to let her know how many there were.

And then she cast a silent alteration spell on herself before climbing up the wall and then along the ceiling upside down. And still her hat stays on her head. Time to go into the room and investigate closer unless the other magician decides to tell her she's stupid.

Not that it'll stop her...]

[weekwizard]

[Being used to the dark, Patchy had a little better vies of the creature, seeing the large claws that made up its hands. No, she's not going to bother the witch at all. If that thing decides to attack, it'll be her it will go after, and not the magician.]

[Though Patchy does wonder why Marisa didn't just fly in if she wanted to be quiet.]

[magus_knight]

[The simple answer to the lack of flight is that she doesn't have her broom in hand. At least that's what the witch wants Patchouli to think. Marisa's not keen on letting people know she can fly without it...

Creeping silently along the ceiling, Marisa makes her way closer to the crying zombie-thing. Now she can see it. And... it's not what she was expecting.

Then the thing goes quiet and Marisa doesn't move, hoping it didn't notice her. She was still trying to figure out the best way to get rid of it, cause she's not too keen on getting into close quarter fighting with it and, well, a Master Spark will damage the house pretty badly...]

[weekwizard]

[Patchy's just gonna sit and wait until the witch acts. She does have a plan of her own, but it involves copious amounts of fire and involves communication via speech, something that she felt was not in either of their best interests at the moment.]