[Event Post]

[duelacademynpcs]

::For Professor Kantei and Principal Yoko (seperate threads if either is interested), you 'lucked' out on the school's night security detail that rotates since for whatever reason, the school's budget request for night security guards keeps getting misfiled enough that they can only handle the school late enough that there needs to be a gap filled by volunteers.

One day, that budget request will be properly filed. Tonight is not that day.

You've been paired up with Mrs. Yuuki! It'll probably be fine until the part-time security guard gets here.::

Comments

[danse_etoile]

...

It feels... sort of stale, like the air feels... old. Wrong?

::Rubbing her chin.::

The place feels like a dream of something that was almost was? Is a way to put it...?

I'm sorry if that's not a lot of help...

[thefrozenstorm]

I wonder if we fell asleep, and actually ended up sharing a dream, then.

*he isn't wholly serious about that notion, mostly making sure there's nothing around corners or on the ceiling as he moves forward*

[danse_etoile]

...

Well, it could be a lucid or waking dream, but are we the dreamers? Hmm...

::You keep seeing a shadow of a small bird in corners, ceiling, doors.::

[thefrozenstorm]

Either way, we're here now, and if we're asleep, we won't be waking up until we figure out the source.

*yes, but does it feel like it's following us, or guiding us?*

[danse_etoile]

... Hrm, should stay in here though...?

::Options C: It's watching you but might be trying to do Option B: Guide you as a form of Bait.::

[thefrozenstorm]

If it's a dream, will we even be able to leave, now that we've come into here?

*a pause*

We should double back and make sure that we can leave.

[danse_etoile]

...

Yes, and make sure we don't get trapped.

And I meant more 'someone else's dream', I guess?

[thefrozenstorm]

Well, whose dream would this be, otherwise? *he's turning around to lead us back, juuuust in case.*

[danse_etoile]

Usually the answer to that sort of question is the Gods or a Monk dreaming he's a Butterfly, philosophically.

Or maybe it's the dream of the Universe?

::She's holding onto your sleeve, to make sure she doesn't get drawn in by something.::

[thefrozenstorm]

*he feels really icy cold, but that probably helps keep your focus*

Well, hopefully, we're not in the midst of a philosophical experience or experiment, and this is just a "strange happening" that's occurring here.

[danse_etoile]

Yes. And let's hope we can back out.

::Which we seem to be able to... We definitely get back to the normal school hall...::

[thefrozenstorm]

*... but is this definitely the normal hallway? He's having to double-check his memory to make sure of it. And also what the time is.*

[danse_etoile]

::Normal Hallway, but it's 2 hours later.::

[thefrozenstorm]

...

I think we should properly report this instead of investigating further. We lost time.

[danse_etoile]

How much.

[thefrozenstorm]

Two hours, give or take.

*he lets out a sigh, looking back at the hallway* I don't know why there's something like this here, or how, but it felt like we were only there for maybe five minutes, at the most. If we did any extensive investigation at that rate, we might go missing for days.

[danse_etoile]

::Massages her temples.::

So what do we do about it?

[thefrozenstorm]

We inform someone first that there's a space like this, and if one of us should try to go in to handle the situation, given the time loss potential, or if someone from OOPARTs should be sent in to try to handle it. Obviously, it's better that at least we became aware of it instead of the temp security guard that should... probably be here by now...

But... I do think one of us should stay here while the other goes to try to call it in. Just in case the security guard did already arrive. *don't want them to go wandering into the timewarp hallway, right? ... right?*

[danse_etoile]

::... a very, very back lizard brain part of my mind says that would be incredibly funny. Hrm. I'll shelve that.::

Should I stay, or would you rather handle it?

[thefrozenstorm]

I'll handle standing guard.

Worst case scenario, if some horrifying creature tries to run out of the cursed hallway, I can freeze the entryway and block them.

*you have a vivid mental image of something doing a Wile E. Coyote bit of running into a wall of ice, thinking it's unblocked.*

[danse_etoile]

Alright.

You be careful, and don't get tricked.

::She heads off to somewhere with better reception since this area is NOTORIOUS for not getting any.::

[thefrozenstorm]

*there's no way I'd get tricked.

At the least, if I did get tricked, I'd try to make a contingency somehow...*

[danse_etoile]

::There's this gnawing sense if you don't go back in, someone's going to end up hurt...::

[thefrozenstorm]

*the honest question is: who would be getting hurt here?

Because it sounds like if I go back in, I'll get hurt.*

[danse_etoile]

::One wonders, meanwhile, it's not like I'll come across a doomsday cult of theater kids who plan to summon a dark god version of your niece. All while I'm seeking reception.::