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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2024 00:42:04 No.67853153 Report

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>METAL DOORS: white blobs of light swirl against the doors as you move your head.

>the tiny perforations of the sheet metal mark the stalwart presence of this object....

>a button panel is on the wall to the right of the doorframe, two buttons of yellowed, foggy plastic. Each with an arrow, with one facing up, one down.

>However, more interestingly is a small, nondescript keyhole below them, all oriented in one vertical line.

>PERCEPTION (SIGHT)
>[challenging-success] two black patches are spaced roughly even on the metal at the bottom of the doorframe, made of black grime. From rubber, maybe?

>INTERFACING [medium-failure] all the pushcarts you've seen scarcely milled about by faculty have used plastic wheels.

>ENCYCLOPEDIA [easy-success] an elevator, used for moving unwieldy loads up and down the building without a struggle.

>INTERFACING [heroic-failure] the keyhole is for opening the button panel, but where are the hinges?

>SAVOUR FAIRÉ [easy-success] you stand there gawking at it like an idiot while people pass by you.

>You know they're looking, so why not be an executive and use the big boy machine? A special route for a special man.

>LOGIC [easy-success] your next class would be history with Ms. Prockling on the second floor, anywho. Avoid the crowding on the stairs that way.

>VOLITION [medium-failure] you have to now. You've already stood in the middle of the hallway for a good two minutes taking space...gentle bumps past you signalling your complacency...

>Well, that, and the mystery...

>CONCEPTUALISM [easy-success] the cold metal coffin in a landscape of art. The no-man's land of creatives.

More?

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2024 00:46:53 No.67853260 Report

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>"Hey." It's a raspy, and noticeably bitter voice. Coming from right near you. No mistaking, Though quiet.

>SUGGESTION [trivial-success] pushing someone's buttons will do that. Though touching people generally makes them irritable.

>PERCEPTION (HEARING) [easy-success] and yes, it is. Right near you.

>RHETORIC [medium-success] why are you wording it like that? "Near."

>"I'm sorry! I mean it! I mean, I didn't mean it! But I mean that I didn't mean it!"
>"uh...hi?"
>(Blink a couple of times)
>--(Look around)

>METAL DOORS: looking around, it's the ebb and flow, more like a rapid, of saurians all around you. Having spoken to you just now, is a green saurian woman in a wheelchair near to you.

>wearing a Purple hoodie and track pants; a canteen hangs from a bookbag on her lap.

>OLIVIA HALFORD: "move." Curt. She stares daggers at you, hunched expectantly. One of the hands on her wheels is in a fist, a key ring glinting from around her ring finger.

>PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [trivial-success] her wheels seem to have rubber lining. Hence the rubber scuff on the floor here

>LOGIC [easy-failure] but what does she need with the elevator? Better yet, why does she have a keychain out?

>INLAND EMPIRE [easy-success] waters from the fountain of youth have begun to carve their canyon. They will unearth the self.

>ENCYCLOPEDIA [Heroic-failure] she's probably a gator, hence the canteen. She needs water because gators live in the water.

>ELECTROCHEMISTRY [trivial-success] not booze though. Couldn't sneak it at a nice establishment like this.

> Come to think of it, all those dinner parties you've been dragged to have probably honed your alcoholic pathfinding skills.

>You should test them out sometime. Soon. It's hard being you. Especially straight-edged as you are.

>VOLITION [easy-success] you really shouldn't. And also, don't listen to him from here on.

>ENDURANCE: it's just your father talking, anyway. Why listen to that?

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2024 00:50:58 No.67853352 Report

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"Right, sorry." (Move away from doors)

>"Did you hear that?"

"Fuck off, I'm investigating." (Ignore her)

"Hey, I know you, from lunch. Olivia, right? Damien introduced me to you."

"You seem to be in a wheelchair."

>OLIVIA HALFORD: "wh-" she coughs and quickly brings the canteen up for a drink.

>INTERFACING [trivial-success]: the little cap is a screw on, and her impatience with it is evident. As she has to slow down to stop herself from fumbling it, her scowl only tightening at this.

>OLIVIA HALFORD: she waves you off and sighs; "Look--just move already. I've got shit to do."

>"I think there's something wrong with the elevator. I'm investigating it."

"Can I come?"

"What kind of shit to do?"

"Where are you going?"

"I'm really sorry."

>OLIVIA HALFORD: "There's nothing wrong..." She pauses eyeing the button panel for a moment "wait, what do you mean?" You've barely got her attention, but it's real caution she demonstrates.

>PERCEPTION (HEARING) [heroic-success] " oh, it finally gave out, the fucking..." She mutters.

>SUGGESTION [medium-success] she thinks; "if this chump can tell, it might be for real."

>INLAND EMPIRE [trivial-success] tell her about the voice you heard. The malevolent presence.

"The buttons don't work."

>"I heard something odd. It sounded like...a voice. Calling for me..."

"Uh, silly me, Here you go. (step away)

>OLIVIA HALFORD: "can YOU P-" her face flips from rage to apathy immediately, as she breaths deeply.

>"It's fine. Let me through now." Punctuated with a stiff swatting gesture.

>HALF-LIGHT [easy-success] in that moment of anger, she flashed a clenched jaw of razor sharp incisors. Keep your hands away from her.

>"No, really, I heard it! I think the elevator might be..."

"Oh, ok." (move away)

>OLIVIA HALFORD: she waits for your response, lip twitching slightly, like the needle on a pressure gauge.

>DRAMA: [trivial-success] but still captivated by a classic dramatic reveal-

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2024 00:54:11 No.67853427 Report

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>>67853352
>"Haunted."

"Gay."

"the suspect."

"THE booper."

"My missing father figure."

>OLIVIA HALFORD: "no, it isn't FUCKING HAU-cgh!"

>She rapidly raises her canteen to hydrate herself, with water droplets flying wild, she doesn't seal it this time.

>"It isn't FUCKING HAUNTED, so MOVE, you skinnie shithead, I have somewhere I have to be. walk your BALDING. SHIT-EATING face, away already." She doesn't hide it anymore. Open snarl, leaned forward, with narrow pupils eyeing your soul.

>HALF-LIGHT [trivial-success] her claws are out, braced on the metal frame of her chair. Oh my GOD. You need to move now before you die. You're about to die. Oh God. Oh fuck.

>ENDURANCE [heroic-failure] yea, you'd die if she took a finger off. Your pulse is racing.

>AUTHORITY [challenging-failure] yea, I, uhm...

>SAVOIRE FAIRE [easy-success] thank god the halls have quieted down. With only a few passing sneers, and shakes of the head. But how far will this travel? People talk, after all...

>EMPATHY [formidable-success] this isn't the first time someone's stopped her at the elevator, because they knew she'd have to go to it. They've made it a chopping block.

>COMPOSURE [formidable-success] despite the demonic headlights pointed at you, you keep cool. She's not going to go any farther, that was the worst of it.

>Maybe, now that she's been exhausted. You could somehow levee this?

>VOLITION [medium-success] don't play with this. Own up to your part here and move on. just like at the lunch table.

>"Ok, I'm sorry. Really."

[Authority-legendary 20] repel her from the
elevator.

(Back off silently)

[Composure-heroic 15] ask to go with her.

>OLIVIA HALFORD: "YOU. You...uh..." She's panting from the emotional exertion. In the silence she slowly begins to withdraw. A frustrated look of shame over her face.

>"Look. It's fine. You didn't know. I...shouldn't have yelled at you like that. I'm sorry." A more sullen look from her with the admission.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jul 2024 00:55:08 No.67853451 Report

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[Authority-impossible 17] repel her from the elevator.

"It's alright, I wasn't acting any better. Maybe we could just try and put this behind us?

>[Composure-challenging 13] ask to go with her.

>SUCCESS

>COMPOSURE: you put on a concerned expression as you admit:

>"I really just wanted to use it, I figured it was public access, or I could atleast take the chance and avoid that..."

>COMPOSURE: you briefly glance down the hall.

>"...crowd, just now. But I guess I just need to ask, honestly. Can I ride with you? Just the once?"

>COMPOSURE: You are earnest in your request.

>OLIVIA HALFORD: she looks at you, mildly bemused. "...alright, you made me late anyway, so..." She rubs her eyes, before inserting the key into the panel, turning it.

>LOGIC [easy-failure] a-HA! so she works here, then. Having a key.