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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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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?"

"Well, the other day Takuro-kun and I were trying to get on the subway, but then it turns out that there's like," Itsuki gestured a lot with his hands, though there was no clear message being conveyed by them, "And it's like... there were doors and people that, you know, normal people can't see. Imagine if you have, um... a closet! And then every day you open it and then there's just, you know, a wall there. And your clothes I guess. But then one day you get the prescription for your glasses adjusted, and you open the closet and you realize there's been a door in the back all along!"

He smiled, happy at his metaphor. "And then Takuro-kun and I got in the closet, and three giant worm punks tried to kill us. Innat right, Takuro-kun?"

"Rude?" That side of Ami, the haughty rich girl was on display. Maybe it was because of the strange situation or the just being surrounded by strange boys (and horse) that it brought on that side of her persona, to protect her.

"The only ones rude here are you three." Then she noticed the pet Itsuki had with him. "...you four." What a strange night it had turned into. Even Itsuki's little explanation didn't seem to make anything clearer.

"Be careful." Takuro smiled at Ami. "We were educated about karma today. If you want us to leave, I'll do so in good conscience."

Putting that distraction to the side, the shorter boy nodded in agreement with his friend. "In simpler terms, it seems there are some places that are hidden by magic, Asami-chan. Now that you can use magic, you can access them. That's as much as we know so far, anyway."

Exploration roll: 10

That’s when the kids saw a light in the distance, on ground level. It was pale, narrow-- but in the absence of most non-snake based illumination, it sure stood it. A slit, a gap between floorboards that let them look into the story below. And along with the light came voices, carrying from below.

“They’re here, then,” said a voice, male, calm, and a bit gruff.

“Yes,” another voice, lower, and louder, replied. “There’s two groups of them here! Ohhhh, I can’t believe these kids. They have guts, alright! Can you believe they blew up the rat guards? They blew up the rat guards...“

“Mmm...” the more tempered voice said, without any particular emotion attached to it.

By this point Ami, Asami and the boys (and the horrible Horse of Discomfort) would be close enough to peek down. There, in a brightly, warmly lit room, they would spy two figures... though only one was visible, the one that the louder voice belonged to. It was a squat-looking Oni in a security suit - the one Mitsuya had encountered before. And he stood by an ornate desk that had a stash of treasure.

“Takuro-kun,” Itsuki whispered to the other boy. “Isn’t that some of the stuff that was in that room we fell into the first time?”

Meanwhile, the two figures below went on talking.

“So what do we do now?! Do we go gut them? Should we cut off their arms and use them to slap one another? That’ll teach them respect! That’s how my mother taught me!”

“She cut off your arm...?” the other voice asked, disinterest briefly suspended.

“Yes.”

“But you have two...”

“I got better!” The Oni growled. “No self-respecting Oni lets getting your limbs cut off get the best of you! You just grab ‘em and stick ‘em back on!”

“Right...”

“But you haven’t answered yet? What do we do?”

“I’m going to go take care of the ones on this story. You should stay here,” the voice said, calmly. “And watch the very important treasure that by no means should be left in their hands, making sure that, no matter what, they don’t surprise you by dropping down from the ceiling, hitting you on the head, as in, ”

“Right!” the squat Oni said, only to pause. “Er! Aren’t you being overly expository, sir?”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about...” said the voice, before its presence moved...

It was, Takuro would sense, the largest presence he’d felt. Only it was now shrunken, dulled-- no less powerful in his mind, but it was as if these beings could, when so desired, stand out less...

And then the room below them was left in the charge of the squat oni.

Asami looked down and discovered that, in the way of very bad spies, she could think of nothing better than squatting and hoping she wasn't discovered. The light had been small at first, and unremarkable. But then it had grown wider and she now heard voices.

She felt a little uneasy and held a hand over her stomach. At which all thoughts she had that this was unnatural made her feel like backing up and getting the heck out of there.

And, just like the voice, she had no idea what it was talking about.

"Okay, suspend our current objective," Takuro whispered to Itsuki so as not to be heard by the being below. "We can escape after we've gathered up the treasure." Feeling more confident than perhaps he should have, he bent down further and placed a testing palm against the floorboards.

"I propose we get down there, kick that guard's ass and then check out what it is we're not meant to get to," he murmured to the party as a whole. "Any objections?"

"You won't hear one from me, young master. I like getting down..." said the horse, who was crouching behind Takuro before the boy could even realized he'd moved, "and checking out things I'm not meant to have..."

Whenever Takuro would overcome whatever reaction this caused, he'd turn to see Kaunko giving a thumbs up.

"Oh my."

People could watch the frown grow on Asami's forehead. She looked up from the eavesdropping hole, a little annoyed.

"Be quiet!"

"So if we're gonna do, let's just do it!" Ami was getting a bit of fire in her eye. She knew fighting wasn't something girls were supposed to enjoy, but since getting magic'd she had felt different. She felt like she didn't need to be so scared.

In fact, she was feeling less than scared. The little Demon Model was feeling like she could take on the world. After all, she had even heard where the things weak spot was! With the new power she had it would be over in a second, right? And so in a moment of confidence, Ami raised her hand up, gathered electricity in it, and smashed through the floor beneath them all.

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