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Post by kilnarak on Oct 17, 2023 1:34:37 GMT -6
He probably has the right idea. If what had happened in the Dairy King was anything to go by, then Stenson could surmise that the Mall People would leave him alone if he left them alone. Were all of the people here monsters like that? Had the dead man in the storeroom been a monster, or merely killed by them?
After a bit of consideration, Stenson decides to head into the blessedly empty Happy Burger. The lights inside the restaurant are bright and the interior looks clean. Each table is sat with a box of napkins, containers of mustard and ketchup, and a box with little packets of salt and pepper. The mascot of Happy Burger appears to be a smiling pink rabbit - while he hadn't been on the signage outside, there are advertisements posted on the walls inside featuring him, and he is also depicted on the menu over the counter. Easing around behind the counter, Sten finds the one area that isn't clean - there is a trail of drip-drop blood spatters beginning behind the counter and leading into the kitchen. The blood trail leads through the kitchen to the staff door in the back, where there is a single bloody handprint on the wall beside the door.
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Stepping into a hallway lined with doors, Casmir continues his options. All of the doors along the sides of the hall must lead into other stores, or perhaps storerooms, while the door at the end must lead back out into the main hall. After considering it, he chooses to try the door at the end of the hall. He finds it to be locked, however as luck would have it, the lock is on this side of the door. It's easy enough to twist the dial on the handle, and then turn the handle to open it.
The door opens into the main walkway of the mall. He can see a white-painted metal door across from him with a plaque reading: "Kitchen Access. Staff Only." Just to the left of that appears to be a set of bathrooms. The women's room door is slightly ajar, and it looks as if a lost shoe is keeping it from closing all the way. The hall continues past the bathrooms and turns down toward where he had just been. To the right, the hall seems to lead into a wider walkway. He can see a hotdog joint titled "Dogz" almost directly across from the hallway. As he looks toward Dogz, there is an odd shift to the quality of the light that way - it slowly brightens and takes a reddish tint, as if someone was shining a red-tinted light somewhere out of sight further down the main hall. Just glancing at it stings his eyes a little. The light grows, then dims until it is no longer tinting the hallway.
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Samael joins Kail and Moana in their storeroom and immediately becomes aware of the pulsing pile of meat and viscera on the floor. It is still breathing, deep and heavy, but as the trio quietly talk amongst themselves it begins to stir. Thin tendrils, almost like blood-clotted strands of hair, begin to stretch out from the main mass, feeling along the floor. As they move out of the room, Moana can hear the thing making a noise almost like a wheezing bark and the wet sound of it shifting about as she carefully closes the door behind them.
Sam and Kail are already making for the door at the end of the hall, key at the ready to try on the door. It slides in the lock but it doesn't turn - not a key for this door then. It must be for one of the others doors nearby. But did they want to take the time to test those, or simply try to break down the door?
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Post by Pearl Dragon on Oct 17, 2023 18:14:29 GMT -6
[Once in the back hallway, Stenson follows the stain to the body behind the stairwell. He notes it is not in fact Sam, and is relieved by that but still distressed by the presence of a corpse in general. He will back away, unsure if there was some kind of attack that may have involved this individual and/or potentially Sam and the others. He figures the others would have gone towards down the hall and through another door looking for an exit rather than up the stairs where they'd be potentially trapped. He will continue back down the hall and try doors to 11, 10, 2, and finally the other back hallway door next to the stairwell in that order. The first unlocked door would be his choice.]
The stark white light and clean, untouched atmosphere of the empty burger place was a tad unsettling in its own right. Especially as Stenson looked around and spotted the overly-cheerful rabbit mascot plastered on the menus and advertisements around the store.
The store was spotless as Stenson walked around the few empty tables, at least until he rounded the counter. On the ground, harsh red blood stains set Stenson's own blood cold.
"Sam?" Stenson muttered worriedly to himself, his coworker's safety once again nagging at his nerves. The Dullahan was a good man, despite what he was. They had a bad reputation, but Sam had changed a lot of minds while working at WDSA. He didn't deserve this, especially if he was off duty same as Stenson. But then, Stenson also noted the nature of the blood. From what he'd learned in his employment briefings, Dullahans could bleed, but he'd thought he remembered it was different somehow from human blood. Thicker than usual, perhaps not quite as red, though he couldn't remember for sure. It was just something they tossed into the list of "Supers you may work with" portion of the briefings. Nothing about this stain seemed different from a human.
Stenson followed it towards the back door and noted the handprint as well. He tried the door, hoping he would not find his coworker on the other side, injured or worse.
Thankfully, there was no sign yet of Sam as he looked into yet another back hallway. The trail led him around to a stairwell, which Stenson risked a quick glance up before finally reaching the source of the blood. The hand not holding the taser shot immediately up to the collar of Stenson's shirt, pulling it up over his mouth and nose in shock and disgust. He was ready to find a dead body, but his reaction was that of unpreparedness regardless. Once the initial shock wore off, Stenson slowly lowered his shirt and he dug out the flashlight once more. The beam clicked on and traced over the body. Not Sam. A mixture of relief joined the dread settling in his stomach, fighting over whether he wanted to be glad it wasn't his coworker or appalled at the sight of a murder victim. Both seemed to win.
He backed away, looking towards the stairwell again. If they'd gone that way, they'd be foolish, especially if this were some form of attack. No, Sam would have gone towards an exit, certainly, not trapping himself or others on a second story. Stenson turned, heading back down the hall and towards other doors he spotted along the walls. He tried each one, and would open the nearest unlocked door he could find, ending with the door right next to the stairwell.
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Post by qhostqrowls on Oct 17, 2023 23:17:33 GMT -6
[Kail suggests they break the door down, will briefly attempt to pick the lock with a ziptie and the knife, and then go to kick it down if everyone is in agreeance]
Kail was not a patient person, and he swore beneath his breath when the key failed to open the door, running a hand over his hair.
"Fuck it, lets just break in." He said, exasperated. "That thing was already waking up anyway. Lemme try to lock-pick it first."
He glanced to Moana and then Sam, rummaging through his backpack. He'd seen people lock-pick with a ziptie before, but he was more of a bash-it-down man himself. The knife might work too, but only if the lock was big enough for some of the blade to slide in. It'd be worth a shot, anyway. If that didn't work, he was sure between the three of them they'd be able to kick it in.
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Post by Salandis on Oct 18, 2023 1:13:54 GMT -6
[Moana makes a handful of suggestions, and may try the key on other doors.]
“You can pick locks?” Moana was impressed, and let it show. “I can get around them usually, but here I feel like I’m denied my usual tricks. If you want to have a crack at it, it would probably be better than trying to break the thing down.”
She turned to Sam and held up the bag of gems she had gotten from the dog earlier. “These were in Dogz, under the, uh, dog. I can’t make head or tail of them. If you have any kind of experience with magical items?” She paused. “I can try the other doors in this hall if you want to study them some. If the door isn’t open after that I can lend my wrench to the effort. Or go down and get a barrel of oil,” she suggested thoughtfully. “That pile of flesh might not be stopped by a door, but it probably wouldn’t like being set on fire.”
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Post by luscen on Oct 18, 2023 2:43:04 GMT -6
[CASMIR, on-guard from the red light, creeps to the edge of the north hallway and peers around the corner, trying to find the source of the light. If he sees nothing, he will try to enter the back rooms through Dogz, then move through Happy Burger and stop at the stairway.]
Casmir came out to the northern hallway, as he anticipated. To his left was another store, Torrid, but there was no sign Jones had passed that way. Just ahead was a service entrance for the Valuetino’s Pizza, as well as bathroom doors, a shoe keeping the women’s door ajar. Curious, that.
To his right was another mall exit, the ominous mist still swirling around beyond the glass doors. Wary, Casmir made a mental note to avoid getting too close and opening them by accident, as the fog still gave him an unsettling feeling. That done, he turned his attention to the store across the way - a kitschy American hotdog shop called “Dogz” of all things. Just as his mouth twisted in distaste, a crimson tint seemed to filter into the pale white of the mall’s natural fluorescent lighting. And while not overly intense, the Hunter felt his skull begin to throb just from looking at it all the same.
Dropping down low, Casmir grit his teeth and drew his sidearm. Cautiously, he crept forward along the wall. The light, however, began to fade as he moved forward, until it had returned to its natural state. Regardless, the scarred man leaned around the corner, keeping out of sight as much as possible, while trying to see what had caused the disturbance.
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Post by NightshadeVII on Oct 18, 2023 5:22:49 GMT -6
(OOC: Sam examines the gems Moana found and mentions there was a bottle of oil in his backpack, so if the group agrees to try and burn the flesh pile, they can do so.)
Of course the key wouldn’t work. Considering their luck, it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Still, it was disappointing regardless. When Kail mentioned picking the lock, Samael instinctively filed away the information and nodded in acknowledgment. It was the best option they had at the moment.
“I have some experience with magical items. I’ll take a look at them”, Samael said, accepting the pouch of gems and handing Moana the key, “hopefully we can find something useful with this.” He fell quiet as he studied the gems, sorting through them with a gloved finger. seeing if anything about them caught his interest. As a creature animated by some form of magic himself and a WDSA worker, he had seen and handled his fair share of magic items over the years, giving him experience and knowledge to rely on.
Samael looked up from the pouch of gems at the mention of burning the pile of flesh. “I have oil in my backpack. It might be enough to do the trick”, he suggested, turning his head to look back at the door. If it continued to spread, it could become a problem- and personally, Samael wouldn’t mind getting rid of the thing.
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Post by kilnarak on Oct 18, 2023 10:16:15 GMT -6
Stenson follows the blood trail into the door marked "Stairs". The stairwell is dark and the lightswitch does not work, but there does appear to be some light filtering in from above, and some quiet sounds of distant conversation. Following the blood trail he finds the corpse curled into the corner below the stairs, its bloodless skin riddled with holes; white worms can be seen crawling in and out of some of them, slowly hollowing out the corpse. The body is not familiar, but it would be hard for it to be, ruined as it is.
Unnerved, Sten backs out of the stairwell and moves back into the staff hallway. He tries each door heading down to the south end of it, but each seems to be locked. Then he makes his way back up to where the blood trail is and tries the northern door. While this one is locked, the lock is on this side and it's a simple thing to twist it and open the door. He finds himself in another section of staff hallways. As he steps into the hall, he can hear someone at the door there trying and failing to open it.
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Whatever the source of the light, it's gone by the time Casmir rounds the corner. He feels like it must have been something down near the shutter, but for now it is just the closed shutter with it's banner stating "Under Renovation!" and its picture of a mermaid fountain surrounded by spitting dolphins over a retro 80's inspired backdrop of neon, geometric shapes.
He heads into Dogz and moves past the cheery (empty) interior and into the kitchen. He sees the burned dog corpse that had been shoved into the sink, as well as scorch marks where it had lain on the oven and an oddly un-scorched patch in the middle, as if something else had been there but was gone now. There are a few large black insects on the corpse, beetle-like and each about the size of a rat. When he approaches them, they startle and scurry behind the stove. There is a locked door in the back of the Dogz kitchen, although this time he is unable to pick the lock. He does hear movement behind the door, someone in the staff hall behind it?
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While Kail attempts to pick the lock on the door, Moana offers Samael her bag of gems to see if he can make heads or tails of it. As he looks through them, they don't seem especially magical but there is a sense of importance to them. There are three red gems, two yellow gems, two green gems, four blue gems (one of which is very clearly turquoise), two purple gems, a colorless clear gem that might be a diamond, a pearl, an opal, a black gem with cloudy white stripes, a bloodstone, and a gem that fades from greenish to purplish. Perhaps with a bit more examination he would be able to identify more of them. While he examines the gems, Moana tries the key on other doors.
Somehow Kail manages to pick the lock with a ziptie and a knife. At about the same time, Moana finds the door the key opens - the door right next to the one Kail is trying. Moana's door leads into what appears to be a watch shop - it's dark but light from the main hallway filters in through the glass storefront. There are cases filled with different styles and brands of watches, as well as some larger clocks along the walls. There also appears to be an area for watch repair. Kail's door appears to lead into some sort of mystic-healing jewelry shop. In the center of the room are a few glass cases with more expensive jewelry in them, but there are also shelves with books, incense, and oils, as well as various displays of different 'healing' stones - most of them are some form of quartz, but there is also some hematite and other rocks set around.
In one of the glass cases is the Plasma Torch. It appears to be a heavy duty flashlight, the lens some form of crystal. There is a plaque on the case it is set in.
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Post by Pearl Dragon on Oct 18, 2023 17:33:12 GMT -6
[Stenson confirms that Casmir is not a brainless person thing and unlocks the door to let him in]
Locked. Locked. Locked. All locked. Stenson tried the last door at the opposite end of the hallway, disappointment lurking as he tried and failed to open any of them. He turned and headed back towards the body and the stairwell. The body in particular was playing through his mind, and already he was assessing what he'd seen. It was curled as if in pain, the bleeding that led up to it hadn't seemed to have continued once they had finally met their end. And those holes....
What on earth could have caused that. Stenson tried the other door near the stairwell, and although it was locked, he noticed it he was on the right side to unlock it. Well at least he found some kind of way, although it seemed to lead into more back hallways. However, the moment he took a step towards the new hall, a door somewhere behind him began to move. It was the Dogz restaurant door, the only door he'd neglected to try since he had figured it wouldn't be worth the trouble. Now he froze, blood running cold as he stared at the handle moving unsuccessfully to open it. The lock, it seemed, was also on his side of the space. He could open it, but....what was on the other side?
Stenson turned, stood next to the door rather than in front of it and leaned in. "Who's there?" He asked, voice raised enough to be heard, stern and trying to conceal his stress. "Who's at this door?"
There was a pause, and it nearly made Stenson's mind up on the spot, but then he heard a man's voice on the other side.
"Jones, right?" At the sound of his name, Stenson felt a great amount of tension suddenly untwist inside of him. He breathed a small sigh, but he wasn't out of the woods yet.
"Yes...and you?" He replied, still staring at the doorknob.
"The blonde from the warehouse. With the Ifrit dog and the upside down waterfall." Stenson had an immediate flood of memories hit him, the entire scene playing out in his head. It seemed so distant now, at least while he was dealing with this place. But that crisis was over, at least as far as he was aware. Otherwise, he knew this man. A hunter of sorts, and hopefully someone he could trust at the moment.
"And you discharged that firearm earlier?" Stenson asked, wanting to clear one more thing up. After a breath, he added, "Are you.....do you feel well?"
"After prying your nursing home charge, sure. I'm just dealing with roach problems, now. Can you get this door open?" Stenson almost had to laugh. He supposed the other had met the older woman as well, although he still wondered what the firearm discharge was about.
Regardless, Stenson complied. "...........OK. Yeah, sure thing." And he twisted the handle from his end to disengage the locking mechanism. He was still worried, but a potential ally was better than no ally at all.
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Post by NightshadeVII on Oct 18, 2023 19:48:24 GMT -6
(OOC: Sam examines the glass case with the torch and reads the plaque. If it seems safe. He will attempt to open the case with his glass cutter.)
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Post by luscen on Oct 18, 2023 22:38:24 GMT -6
[CASMIR finally meets up with STENSON. They catch each other up, he shows STENSON his own taser, and then suggests they move upstairs to find the sword.]
Casmir stepped back as Jones opened the door, then quickly stepped through it, checking the hallway, his sidearm raised. "Have you seen the other three backpackers?" he growled, lowering the weapon and glancing askance at the other man, unsure whether or not he was "safe."
"I saw my coworker earlier," Jones replied, taking a few steps back to afford the Hunter his space. "Before I knew this place was going to be as uh...strange as it is. I hadn't even noticed you all."
Casmir's brow arched, slightly. "Well, you seem to be managing well enough," he replied with a shrug. Perhaps he'd simply not ran into anything dangerous, as of yet. "What else have you found around this place? Any notes or other strange things?"
The Agent slipped his backpack off, hefting it. "Just this," he answered, opening the bag to show Casmir the contents: Inside was a notebook, pencil, new camera, and a med kit. From his pockets, he dug out a flashlight, a.. "health bar," and his taser.
"Oh, this too I guess," Jones added, lifting his shirt and turning to the side to show a make-shift sheath and knife. "It's not much but, I'm still trying to figure out what we're dealing with."
"Not sure," Casmir mused, eyeing the items and frowning briefly at the odd nutritional bar. He took note of the fact that the other man was also given a taser, and held up his own in his free hand, before pocketing it.
"I don’t think anyone in here is human," He continued, turned the luger in his hand slightly and scowling down at it. "If you have to tussle with anyone, don’t bother with the head. It won’t stop them." The Hunter shot Jones with a piercing look.
"Ahhhhh ok..." the Agent answered warily. He was obviously a bit unsettled by this information, and clearly unsure of what Casmir was talking about. "I'm guessing that's the firearm discharge then. Ok, well, we should keep moving."
He pointed to the door leading south. "We only have this way, or... Wait, are those voices?"
"I don't hear anything," Casmir replied with a frown, straining his ears. "But if you didn't see the others, then we should head upstairs. They might be up there, and there's something I want to check, anyway. A note I found in H&M said there was a sword up there that could 'hurt it,' and I think it's talking about whoever's responsible for all of this."
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Post by qhostqrowls on Oct 18, 2023 23:24:47 GMT -6
[Kail looks around the shop for anything of importance, reads the plaque, and waits for Sam to cut through the glass. If that doesn’t work, will smash it with the hilt of his knife]
Kail grinned up at Moana, and just as he did, the lock clicked open. He hadn’t been expecting that to work at all, but he pushed the door open nonchalantly as if he’d been absolutely assured of his success the entire time.
“I ain’t saying no to burning that thing.” He agreed, stalking into the depths of the crystal store. The rocks were all useless, but he wondered if the incense had any importance. Maybe enough of it could ward off that meat-pile, or smoke the bugs out.
He looked for anything he could use as a weapon - or as a stick for a torch - behind the register and within the cases.
“Ay, nice.” Kail whistled, joining Samuel at the case containing the torch. If anything, it could be hefted as a weapon. He read slowly over the plaque, watching quietly as the man began to cut through the glass.
“What’s with the helmet?” Kail asked abruptly, staring at the man.
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Post by kilnarak on Oct 19, 2023 0:37:09 GMT -6
Kail struts into the store, unafraid - or at least acting unafraid. There are some thin silver daggers that look more like fancy letter-openers in one of the glass cases, and if he's looking for the shaft of a torch, there are pieces of decorative driftwood set artistically around some of the rock displays. The only thing that looks sturdy enough to be a weapon is the Torch, but maybe the daggers might work for one or two hits before they bent or broke...
Moana abandons the room she has unlocked to instead join the others. She gives The Mystic Eye a quick glance over, then moves toward the main doors to look out through the glass storefront. The hall outside seems to be empty - if there are any people around, they're inside of the other stores and not walking the hall. The lights in the hall are on, and there's an odd quality to the light that, after a moment, she realizes it's because there is a skylight in the center of the mall, tinting all ambient light with that of the overcast sky. When she tries the doors out into the hall, she finds them unlocked.
Upon examination, the plaque reads:
And beside each verse is a small indentation where a stone could be slotted.
When Samael attempts to cut the glass of the case, he feels a sharp shock through his arm, numbing it for a second. The glass does not cut, does not even scratch, and he feels as if touching the tool to it has plucked a string on an instrument, sending out a low deep tone.
He and the others can hear the pile of flesh in the storeroom groan loudly at the 'thrum', can hear it thudding it's mass against the door. It clearly did not care for the tone.
Displeased with Sam's lack of progress on cutting the glass tank, Kail takes the butt of his knife and strikes it hard, intending to smash it. The glass doesn't even crack. It doesn't give in the slightest. To Kail it feels like he's striking solid metal, and his whole arm goes numb after the strike. It's his turn to feel as if he has plucked the string of some terrible instrument, setting it thrumming low and deep.
They can all hear the flesh-creature in the other store room loosing a gurgling roar and beginning to slam more forcefully against the door.
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Stenson opens the door for Casmir and lets him out of the Dogz kitchen. While the two are discussing their findings thus far, the lights in the hallway flicker, then go out, leaving them to use their flashlights. They hear a bit of rustling from the bug-holes along the wall, but the creatures don't come out. They seem to be too timid to come out with people nearby.
They make their way back through the door Sten had come from, and follow the blood trail back to the stairwell. The distant voices have quieted, but there is now a forceful, wet thumping sound. As they move up the stairs the noise becomes a bit louder. At the end of the stairway they come into a dark room with the only light filtering in through the half-open door out into a staff hallway. The hallway is well lit, unlike the one they had just left, but there seem to be even more of the bug-holes in the walls. To the right of the stairway door is an elevator, but it is marked with caution tape - out of service. The hallway forks off to the west and south. There is a trail of arrows drawn in red lipstick on the walls, pointing toward the west. The wet thumping also seems to be coming from the west, and is interspersed with rasping guttural growls.
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Post by qhostqrowls on Oct 19, 2023 6:27:59 GMT -6
[Kail tells Moana and Sam to put the correct stones into the plaque slots while he fashions a makeshift torch with fabric from his hoodie, Sam’s oil vial, the lighter and driftwood from the store]
Kail had stopped reading the plaque after the second verse - all nonsense about birth-stones with too many flowery words he couldn’t be bothered to decipher.
Impatiently, he slammed the hilt of the knife against the glass, expecting it to shatter immediately. Instead, all he got was a shock of pain and the distant roar of the viscera-pile.
“I don’t nothing ‘bout all that.” He shook out his hand and gestured at the plaque, not wanting to admit he couldn’t read half of it. “Those dog stones you got, Moana - they fit, right?”
Even as he spoke, he went to grab the longest piece of driftwood from the displays. If he had to smash a case to get it, he would. He used his knife to tear a long strip of fabric from the arm of his hoodie, and wrapped it deftly around one end.
“The oil,” He asked Sam, returning to the plaque with the makeshift un-lit torch.
“And ya lighter, please.” He said more politely to Moana, pale eyes flicking to the door.
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Post by Pearl Dragon on Oct 19, 2023 16:56:24 GMT -6
[Stenson slowly moves up the stairs, keeping pace with Casmir, and once reaching the top would slowly and quietly move down the hall a bit before zeroing in on the door with the thumping. He does not wish to move closer, but is willing to either wait to see who else is ahead if they come out into the hall, or try the other way. He will ask what Casmir might prefer. - Stenson accepts the bugspray and will head to check the south hall doors, stopping at the first unlocked one he comes to.]
Stenson wasn't certain about heading upstairs until he caught the sounds of voices. It seemed like a bad choice, at least that Sam might have been against as an agent, but then who knew what the situation was for the others. Casmir, he remembered the hunter's name during a past briefing, was now convinced as well that upstairs was their best bet. Stenson was also curious about the sword he mentioned. It might at least give them clues as to what exactly was going on in this place.
As they spoke, the lights dimmed and went out with a flicker, and Stenson let out a sigh as he clicked the flashlight back on. "OK, this again.... Yeah, let's head up. Better than waiting around in the dark." A strange bug-like rustling from inside the walls urged him forward.
As Casmir entered the stairwell, Stenson kept pace, keeping his eyes on their flank while also positioning opposite of Casmir so as to see around any corners the hunter could not. Two sets of eyes would certainly make scouting the halls and passageways much easier. He only wished he had his own sidearm, but hopefully the taser and knife would be enough. For now, Casmir would need to be their ranged defense.
While they were feeling their way along the darkened stairwell towards the bottom, they hadn't needed to for long as they soon found light once again on the second floor. Stenson stowed his flashlight and peered down the lit hall. The voices had mostly quieted, but was replaced by something more ominous. Heavy.....and wet....thumps and hoarse guttural growls, somewhere against one of the doors. Stenson gave Casmir a concerned look. His expression was hard set, focusing on the noises and trying to decipher what it might be. He also noted the holes scattered around the walls in uneven patterns, which made him think of the rustling he'd heard just a moment ago.
Things were threatening to escalate, he was sure of it. He moved forward slightly, stepping quietly close to the wall and followed red lipstick-painted arrows pointing them in the direction of the thumping. Eventually he spotted the door where the sound was loudest, remaining far enough back in case it were to burst open but still able to see the door itself rattling in its doorframe with each heavy thump. Whatever it was, it did not sound friendly.
"I hope that door holds, because I doubt that door has another 'blonde from the warehouse' behind it." Stenson said, speaking low to Casmir. He tried a few of the surrounding doors but found them to be locked. The arrows continued down the hall, and Stenson thought he could hear voices again amidst the banging door. However, moving further towards them might be bad idea. "We need to stay back, that door could bust any minute. Whatever's in there, it sounds dangerous. I still think I hear the others, we could wait until we see them, or we can try the other way." There was at least one or two other doors down a separate long hallway from where they were.
Casmir's offer of the bugspray was accepted, though he didn't like the idea that the holes might've been caused by bugs. They'd be awful big.... He then nodded and headed back towards the south hallway, checking doors as he went, stopping at the first door he found to be unlocked.
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Post by luscen on Oct 20, 2023 0:36:27 GMT -6
[CASMIR takes out his laser keychain and tries to use it to get MOANA'S, KAIL'S, or SAM'S attention. Meanwhile, he gives STEN his bug spray and lighter and tells him to try the door in the south hallway.]
"I have an idea." Casmir muttered in reply, reaching into his pocket and pulling out the bat keychain. Readying his sidearm just in case the voices Jones had been hearing were not, in fact, the other three erstwhile wanderers, the Hunter flashed the red beam of the light against the opposite wall. He swept it back and forth, once, then began to flick it on and off in Morse code for "Hello."
"I'll wait here to see if that got their attention," he told the Agent, while keeping his eyes peeled around the corner. If no one came to check on the light, whatever was pounding on that door was likely to break out instead. "As quietly as you can, I want you to move down the hall to the south and check the door. If there's any sign of danger, get back here."
He paused, considering, then opened his backpack and handed Jones the lighter and the bug spray. "I don't like the look of those holes in the walls, and there's no point cutting ourselves off if they get testy. If you see anything start crawling out towards you, use the spray. If it doesn't work, then use the lighter to give yourself some more breathing room, but don't get careless. We need to get out of here, and we can't do that if we're bug food."
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