Alone in the D/The Thunder Rolls

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Characters: Shoutarou and YOU.
Setting: Floor Four or Dorms
Format: Starting in action brackets, will match.
Summary: Power's out, and Shou has night-vision goggles. Also he finds the the storm fascinating.
Warnings: Possibly ghost run-ins!


Floor Four

[After the broadcast, Shou was heading back upstairs to check on the others when he got rather caught up in watching the storm outside. After all, watching the rain is a hardboiled thing to do, right?]

Dorms

[Shou's going from room to room, checking on others there, using the DenDen Sensor to navigate the dark hallways. Bless Philip for putting this thing together, even it seemed silly at the time.]

Comments

[missmarliest.livejournal.com]

[Cornet, surprisingly, did the sensible thing of going to her room when the power went out. ...sure, it was to fetch Ledgem in preparation of going out again later, but she gets at least at few common sense points, right?

When Shou shows up, she'll be sitting on her bed next to a rather large stuffed rabbitish looking thing, idly chatting with it about the black out.

The rabbit doesn't seem to be answering back, which is probably the stranger part of the situation.]

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[She gets those common sense points, but they kinda go flying off the top floor of the tower when Shou sees her talking to a stuffed rabbit.]

[Shoutarou's gonna stare a bit, then will speak up.]

...are you okay?

[missmarliest.livejournal.com]

_{Oh, c'mon. I won't get lost. I just want to see if there's..you know..something different..}

...?!

[--oh woah hi Shou. Cornet snaps to attention, looking a bit chagrined.]

..Perfectly fine, hi there!

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[Shoutarou looks at Cornet, then the stuffed animal, then back again.]

...you sure?

[She's kinda talking to a stuffed bunny-thing. And while she's young, Shou didn't think she was -that- young.

temptfate.exe

[missmarliest.livejournal.com]

[Poor Shou, to be bereft of the delightful conversation of a nice puppet like Ledgem.]

Well, I mean, I'm planning on going out to see what's going on, but Ledgem doesn't want to go, but I don't want to go alone, so I guess I'm kind of exasperated...

[She sighs, and stands up.]

I guess I can go alone, though. I mean, it's just a power outage, right?

[thisclinchesit]

[Okay, Shoutarou can't stand it.]

...I take it that's the rabbit you were, erm, talking to?

[He frowns at the assumption, though.] Strange as this tower is, I wouldn't go anywhere alone in a situation like this...

[missmarliest.livejournal.com]

[..She gets called out for talking to puppets literally never in-game, so Cornet's not even considering that he might think the puppet-talking is strange.]

Well, sure. There's nobody else here, right? ..other than you, too, I mean!

..but this is the perfect time to go looking, right? When stuff gets all ominous, that's when important things happen.

[thisclinchesit]

Well yeah, but... It's a toy.

[Says the man whose monster-fighting gear is very obviously toys.]

Sounds like walking into trouble. And walls, since it's dark.

[missmarliest.livejournal.com]

The proper word is 'puppet~'.

[Still not registering what you find wrong here, Shou.]

..I think I can handle it.

[thisclinchesit]

Toy, puppet, it's still an object you were talking to. [He scratches his head.]

Far be it from me to deter one's confidence, but I would not advise going alone.