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What: Ami and Asami sneak into the old school building! Others can join too!
When: 8:30PM, some night in June?
Where: Old School Building
Who: Ami, Asami, others!

People in school knew Ami as one person. Asami as Ami's only friend had begun to see a different side to her. And tonight it was almost as if a whole other side of Ami was coming out. A girl who had grown up playing fantasy games and wishing every single day that magic was real so that she could change her body and become who she wanted to be, she had grown up to be a little excited by adventure and the lure of possible mystery. Because if if something beyond explanation could exist at all, that meant there was a chance, no matter how small, that her dream could actually come true.

So when Asami found Ami crouched down by the fence outside the old school building, she'd see the young idol in all black, with plenty of adventuring supplies. She wore a pair of tight black jeans, sneakers, a black turtleneck, and her hair was put up in two buns on the side of her head out of the way. She had a smalls length of rope coiled and hanging from her shoulder, as well as a stack of ofuda she had made from designs online.

"Asami-chan, over here!" she whispered from her hidden spot, waving a short hand to her friend.

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"Hey! What do you think you two are doing?" Takuro sounded offended, having clambered through the hole just in time to see his summon get assaulted.

"Are you okay, K-kun?"

Just as the Horse-headed pervert went down, Ami was planning to grab the bear statue or some other heavy object to finish it off. That was when a boy her age stepped out of the hole behind the horse.

"Wh-Who are you?!" She yelled, pointing at him accusingly. Things were quickly getting complicated and Ami was not exactly the best at handling complicated situations.

"Iwasaki. Second year. Please apologize to K-kun. This place isn't safe and we should leave."

"It's alright, young master," Kaunko said, straightening up. All signs of his injuries were vanishing very quickly. Once he was tall enough to exude his usual amount of menace, he made a point to stress his words in the most discomforting tone possible. "A little pain... is alright every now and then."

"O-oh my," Itsuki exclaimed, emerging from behind Takuro, and coming to a startled halt when he saw the two girls in the room. He tried a little, friendly wave of his hand, but any effort to seem unassuming would be undermined by the fact a white, glowing snake slithered out from inside his shirt, came up his shoulder, and honked at them.

Asami did not apologise. She was twitching rather. She had sweat-laden black hair and a red angry face - she had no idea what this demon was, or that it even existed, but those boys. She knew what those were. A little anger rose in her as defiance, of of her family as much as those here. "You're the ones barging in here! You apologise to me!"

She said this in such an angry tone that it was hard to tell she was shocked at all.

Ami wanted to be as self-confident as Asami, yelling at these strange boys (and their horse faced friend) with her enthusiasm, but she couldn't. She was too freaked out by what she saw, and ended up standing a bit behind Asami.

"...Aren't you in my class?" she asked of Itsuki, remembering the boy from her journal. Then she realized that he had lied to her about there being nothing special. And that made her angry enough to forget how scared she was for a moment.

"Y-You lied to me! You just didn't want us to see this place!"

Itsuki didn't have a poker face yet. He looked caught and embarrassed, and for as long as it lasted, too nervous to conjure a good lie. He looked at his roommate for help, and while Takuro was the smooth liar, he tried to start them off on the 'right track.' "It's, um, it's-- well, I did it because... it's dangerous here! Right, Takuro-kun?"

"Yes, that's what I just said." Takuro's foot began tapping impatiently. "Which is why we need to gather the others and go. Given that some members of our party are recklessly throwing fire around, we should get moving before one of you manage to burn down the building."

He glanced around the room they were now standing in. "Do I want to know what things you two were doing with the kissing bears?"

Asami, who had had some experience of brotherly taunting, figuratively spat at him. "Oh you are so disgusting." Then she carefully took a quick look around, and chose a path to take before either boy could decide. She looked back just to see them standing there.

"You can go look if you're so inclined," she added.

What an inappropriate question. Ami could feel her mother taking over inside her (as much as she hated the woman).

"What kind of question is that?!" This time, she stood her ground, staring down Takuro with a stern look on her face. Apparently now was not the time for jokes, as it seemed any of the humor went way over Ami's short head.

Then she noticed her friend was already getting ready to book it. That changed her attitude quick, not feeling so tough if she didn't have her friend to back her up.

"W-Wait, Asami-chan!"

"There's no need to get defensive. It just seems like a pretty bizarre thing to store in this building." Takuro waited a beat before sighing, his irritation at falling on deaf ears battling with his relief that at least they were moving again. "Come on, K-kun, let's go."

Setting off after the speedy girl, Takuro called ahead: "We need to head upstairs. There's people up there as well." Taking a moment to remember the view from before, Takuro gave instructions as best he could. There was no guarantee that he would be listened to by either girl, but...

Roll: 5

Itsuki was lurking in the back (somewhat relieved that the lie had been consolidated). It would be easy to ignore him, since there was the attention-drawing, sculpture-hard, muscular horse-man standing there...

And yet, he was being ignored. This was a new one for Kaunko, who had been the death of many a party. He, who had been there when many drunken relatives revealed dirty secrets about friends and family, he who had been there when pants ripped at the worst possible time before a job interview, he, who had been there at every cat scare from a movie making the audience scream, was being ignored.

It made him pout. "I, yes... yes, young master. I'm coming," he said, but even when he tried to make it sound suggestive enough to get an R rating smacked into the conversation, there was an undeniable tone of self-consciousness in his voice. He even looked back at Itsuki, the only person in the room who felt as uncomfortable as the demon did.

"Well, I'd never..."

Characters are about to go exploring. They can go together or separately (it's up to them.) The area outside this room will be presented once characters finally get out.

This exploration left Asami with a few moments to think about dodging out the corridor and leaving this weird place. She felt it pulse. Saw through the darkness by the light of windows. She thought it was far creepier than her home at night. But it was also clear that here, like there, she was not used to having the lead in everything.

So, before she decided on any action, she carefully led her friend by the hand. And remarked on something she had heard Ami mention.

"Really, if you were trying to keep people out, you could've done better."

She talked a bit quieter than normal, a little more cautiously.

Her hand was taken suddenly, pulling the little model along with her friend. She didn't struggle, she was still trying to figure out all of this in her head, and was willing to follow Asami while she thought it over.

"Where are we going?" Ami couldn't quite remember which way they had come to get to where they were, and how to get outside again. It was only then that something hit her.

"Did you see that horse headed freak?!" She asked, a little too loud.

Kaunko did, in fact, hear Ami. His unnatural, ungodly brows furrowed over his eyes and he decided that Ami would have to be a test subject for one of his cruel, demonic powers.

The Accusing Stare.

There wasn't anything particularly magical about it, but an accusing stare is bad enough with a human. This was a horse-headed demon in BDSM clothes. He was very good at it.

"Well, I'm not very good at that sort of thing," Itsuki was in the process of telling Asami, while trying his best to ignore the accusing glare happening right by him. "Besides, it seems like this place has things in it *meant* to keep people out. Takuro-kun saw monsters here."

Incidentally, if Asami could feel the darkness around her, if she could feel its pulse and weight, the snake on Itsuki's shoulders was a gaping hole in the substance, while Kaunko felt like a heavy, heavy weight, drawing shadows under his feet.

Asami let her gaze keep wandering. Boys and demon both fell to the wayside, now, thankfully, a whole further distance away. But that word. She understood that. It leapt off her tongue in some fright.

"M-monsters?"

Eager to get revenge on these girls who were ignoring his powers of awkwardness and discomfort, Kaunko took over before Itsuki could speak. He had suddenly vanished from where he stood, to stand next to Asami.

"Beasts lurk here, young woman," he said, in a voice that gets under your skin. "Beasts, lowly as the most loathsome worm and disease-bearing vermin that you could imagine, yet larger than anything you've ever seen. How does that make you feel"

Ami had been right next to Asami as well, when the disgusting man-beast appeared. It had been bad enough enough looking at it from across the room, now it was right next to her, close enough that it could reach out and touch her. And that was NOT okay.

"G-G-G-Get away!" The creepy way he addressed Asami didn't make it any better. Of course, Ami turned her anger to someone else, pointing at Takuro.

"P-Put your dog on a leash!" Dog, horse, same thing.

"He's not a pet. Don't be rude to him and he won't antagonise you. Right, K-kun?" There was a hint of warning in his tone. As if in afterthought, Takuro nodded and added: "He's right, though. Worms are pushovers, and the rats aren't too bad, but there is something much bigger in here. Asami-chan has the right idea. Go straight ahead at the next corner."

Exploration roll: 7

The room had a way out other than the hole they'd entered from. It was hidden behind the paper screen of moving reeds. There, though hard to find, was a gap on the wall - and it led into a hallway.

The kids wouldn't have noticed immediately, not in such deep darkness, but this corridor didn't look like it belonged to the school. There were no classrooms, and if there were doors they were old fashioned Japanese sliding ones. There were windows looking out into the courtyard, which would imply it faced the outside, but none of the kids would remember seeing this side of the building...

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"Huh. I'd never seen this before... I wonder if it's like that subway," Itsuki said, speaking mostly to Takuro, but loud enough for the girls to hear. "Where there's parts of the building that regular people can't see..."

The kamui honked.

Asami practically jumped at the challenge. "Then I'll beat them! After I beat you!" It was not her fault if people baited her with her weaknesses - obviously done on purpose.

She rushed to open one of the sliding doors and peered around it curiously. "Oh," she said. "This is really like my house." But then she heard what the brown-haired boy said and looked back at him. "Huh?"

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