BREAK IN: CHUUYA, PHOENIX, ZENITSU

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[ There's no water in the tap! Weird. But since they're looking closer... hey, does it almost look like you can press on the blue paw? ]

[shortforever]

[He's coming over to look now. Go ahead and press it, Phoenix.]

[slobjection]

[ gently presses the blue paw..... at least he's in front of the kids ]

[swordflash]

[What's with the blue paw print, anyway? Does Master Blue really like dogs? If the girls are all animals, is he actually a dog himself?

. . . It's been pressed!]

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[ Dogs are good, Zenitsu.

The button is pressed! ...At first, for about thirty second, nothing happens. And then, suddenly, the sink starts to sink (haha) into the floor, vanishing from view. Hiding behind it was apparently a colorful plastic tunnel slide, not unlike the kind you'd see in a water park. It looks dark inside, and they can't tell where it ends.

What will they do? ]

[shortforever]

...

rock-paper-scissors for who goes first?

[slobjection]

I'll head it up. You two stick to me... literally.

[ hold onto dad!! and each other!! ]

[swordflash]

All of us? Together? B-but what if there's no way back up once we've gone down? How are we gonna get back?

[He's not going to be the one who gets left behind, though. No way! So he clings to Phoenix with his good arm.]

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[ The trio step (or, well. sit.) into the tunnel and start their slide! It is wet, and the water is nearly freezing... but not too long into it, it is not nearly as dark as they might have expected. In fact, it gets positively trippy. A jaunty little poem echoes around them in the tunnel as they go.

They are going very fast, and for probably far too long a time, but they can see a split path at some point. Which way will Phoenix lean? Right or left? ]

[slobjection]

[ what the fuck is even happening ]

[ ok they're going right ]

[shortforever]

[Yeah let's do this. Sandwich Zenitsu in the middle so he has to go.]

[swordflash]

[Zenitsu, meanwhile, screams all the way down this ride as he, in his panic, wraps his other arm around Phoenix . . . 's eyes.]

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[ Well that's certainly going to help everyone! All good things (was this a good thing) have to end, though, and there is a light at the end of the tunnel... it is coming in fast... where will they land!

Straight into a pool of freezing cold water, apparently. This water is not crystal clear; it's mucky, dirty, and there are ... things... floating in it. It's a little too dark for them to tell what it is currently. Still, they don't seem to be too far from the shore! Time to get their swimmies on if they haven't drowned phoenix with their combined weight. ]

[slobjection]

[ yeah it's really hard to swim when two children are clinging to you and also zenitsu is covering your eyes but he tries to go up to the surface and pull them with him. ]

Where's the shore?!

[ just keep swimming, just keep swimming ]

[shortforever]

[It's fine, CHuuya lets go as soon as he's in the water, he can totally swim on his own at least.]

This way!

[He can probably swim faster than the other two because hell yes he's leaving them behind, it's cold and wet and he wants out.

But hey, if he does get to the shore before them, he'll at least offer a hand/crowbar out to help them out?]

[swordflash]

[Swim? On his own, thereby leaving the grownup who can protect him? He thinks not. Zenitsu spits out a mouthful of the water before lowering his arm to rest his hands on Phoenix's shoulders so that he can doggy paddle.]

W-w-w-where is this? It's so gross!

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[ Wow, Zenitsu. I don't walk into your secret tunnel and call the gross water I land on gross.

Now that they've made it to the shore, though, the guys will notice that they seem to be in some sort of... concrete basement? It's a bit too dark to tell properly what is surrounding them, but the floor is definitely concrete. Right next to their landing pool, there is a table with some objects. Mainly, an insane variety of glow sticks, including bracelets, necklaces, wands and even flying discs, all colors of the rainbow! Party time. There is also a small key. ]

[slobjection]

Everyone okay?

[ phoenix just swims with zenitsu's dead weight.... this is fine..... when they get to shore he'll take the key right away then look at the glow sticks.... ]

These could be useful for light.

[ Key and glow sticks added to Court Record. ]

[shortforever]

[He plays video games, he knows to be suspicious of item caches.]

Che! What is this, a rave?

[He'll still take a couple glowsticks and even put on two of the glowing bracelets. All the ones he picks are green too. Gotta go classic.]

Think we ended up in the basement somewhere?

[swordflash]

[There's a nod from this end. He's okay (for now).

Then Zenitsu, too, will go classic with a yellow glow stick, which he shines over the various accessories and then brings out to survey their surroundings. It's kind of dim. Keeping close to Phoenix, he crouches down and raises the stick to the pool. Why the heck did it feel so filthy?]

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[ I'm going to assume Phoenix picked blue. Anyway, now they can slightly see around them! The general area looks... well, a little bit like a bunker, actually. The wall behind them, the floor and the ceiling all seem to be made of concrete. The path in front of them is straight forward from the lake.

The good news is, when Zenitsu checks the water, he'll realize it's not sewer water! It's filthy because it's stale, and it looks like debris is floating in it... Oh, and a couple of what look like bones seem to be at the bottom of the pool. ]

[slobjection]

[ yea he did get blue. also: y i k e s ]

[ gently herds zenitsu away from it. ]

Maybe a bunker of sorts ... Let's keep going.

[shortforever]

[Yikes indeed.]

...

Yeah, c'mon. There's gotta be a door here somewhere.

[Let's walk this magical path away from the lake and see what we can find.]

[swordflash]

[He lets out a high-pitched gasp at what appears to be bones, and then he's pulled away to stick like glue to Phoenix again.]

Whose bones were those? We're gonna be okay, right?

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[ Maybe they are decorative bones, guys! For atmosphere. So they're going to be fine. Probably. The hallway is empty of anything, and their steps echo in around them... up until they get to a large concrete door that's bolted down with a lock.

Well, they don't really have a choice, but. Wanna use the key? ]