BREAK-IN - AYABE, BABO KIM, HORIKAWA

[cluedin]

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[oathic]

[well okay

after ayabe reopens the door, agni sure is returning.]

Any other papers with lines on them? I need them—now!

[OTHERWISE IT'S THE YEET A BOMB DOWN THE VENT SOLUTION

but card graciously decided to give the necessary papers to agni, so once that's done, he rushes back. also, slams down the door shut in case the explosive goes off. protect horikawa and ayabe!

this is a TERRIBLE thing to do while steadily suffering from blood loss and with only one good arm, but guess what? not a single person here has two fully functioning arms! so he's just going to suck it up and worry about his injured arm and/or pop a painkiller later.

anyhow, he'll put that puzzle together as fast as he can. imagine if the instructions are wrong!! because once they're assembled, he has no choice but to follow them with time ticking down.]

[wakizashis]

[ BEATING HEARTS HUH? Hori will be trying the other two cds because like heck he knows what the password is. he will actually voice that thought out loud to ayabe in between attempting to click the ghost away like the most aggravating p*c-man version of clippy. away thee villain!! god here's hoping i'm not blind and forgetting about anything else more important.

by the way, does hori have to start worrying about tingling and numbness and maybe keeling over or is this a slow acting......... whatever it is. should ayabe just jab hori with mystery syringes? I personally think so. ]

[kazokun]

[ Is Hori not going to say anything about his decaying arm because Ayabe will absolutely not shoot him up with mystery substance that may just kill him all the way.

He has no idea what to put in for passwords. LRLLRRR? 81314? WATERFALL? LION? EYE? PASSWORD?

If there's something important, somebody else is going to have to bring it up, because Ayabe takes a seat in front of the computer and opens his scroll. ]

[cluedin]

[The room is all over the place, oily, and all of you are broken in a bunch of different directions…but at least Agni stops the bomb with a whole five seconds to spare! Great! Now you just have the other one left that probably doesn’t have that much time left either. Oh well.

Is he just going to stay in there…?

The orange CD will play the sound of gasping breaths, and the purple CD is the sound of what you’d hear from a modern-day life monitor in a hospital just before it flatlines. Beep. Beep. Beep.

The ghost is trying to eat the cursor, Hori’s hands are slowly going numb as the edge of his vision darkens, and Ayabe fails to insert a password. At least his scroll seems to be important seeing how it’s another map. This appears to be one of a race track though? Hori and Agni’s are similar, and when put together side by side it shows a map including a shortcut to take.

Perhaps you should revisit your inventory again?

[oathic]

All right, one down!

[also, how exactly is the remaining bomb attached to the desk...

but yes, he's staying in here as he tries to figure out what to do about!! the bomb!!!]

[wakizashis]

[ all these cds are bad actually. anyways, since hori's fighting a losing battle against a 8 bit ghost and starting to fade out irl he'll just point out there must be something they're missing to ayabe and just kind've.... sliding to the floor halfway through. he's fine, his eyes just momentarily crossed and he just needs a moment....! (on the floor! forever!)

yeah no the purpling/goo/whatever the heck it's doing is totally obvious to ayabe now. suck it up sword boy.

it's up to him now while hori eats shit ]

[kazokun]

[ Oh. Uh. Hori is dead. What is he supposed to do, stab Hori's neck and inject mystery substance?? He would sooner cut off Hori's arm with his own sword to amputate.

Anyways I'm looking at Ayabe's inventory and he has like. The fake arm??? If there's no password written on the fake hand, then I don't know. ]

Babo Kim! Help me! Something happened to Horikawa!

[ He's dead, Jim! There's still time on the second bomb, so forget it for a moment and save Hori's life. Also find the password and get us out of here, I don't know what else there is to look at besides the locker key and there's no lock anywhere that needs opening. ]

[cluedin]

[The wires are wrapped around the table and also bolted down so. He would have to figure out a way to cut it off anyway. Maybe figuring out the Hori thing is easier. Please someone help Hori.

Anyway. It took you 70+ comments to look at the arm and on the heartline of the fake palm is a string of letters: FCFEKFBRMSRLBTOMDADKQSSRAHLJMFFIPBFDTHHHSDJV

...pick your poison (haha.)]

[oathic]

What!?

[NYOOMING BACK TO THIS ROOM and looking horikawa over]

Oh, shit. Has he been poisoned...?

[LOOKS AT HORI'S SYRINGE? LOOKS AT THE SWABS IN HIS MEDICAL KIT? there were three vials of the same liquid too, maybe in case they all got poisoned? can't believe this is a thing we have to debate doing.]

[wakizashis]

[ hori's just gonna be here on the floor, guys. just leave him to vibe while you two figure out the bomb situation. ✌️ ]

[kazokun]

[ HORI IS DYING AYABE CAN'T WORRY ABOUT THE PASSWORD RIGHT NOW JAN PLEASE ]

[cluedin]

[....yeah you're on your own, let me know what you're trying lmao bye. There's a syringe with half a dosage of clear liquid, the three liquids in the vial are identical, and it's entirely possible Hori is going to die.

Except hey. The telegraph seems to be typing out a new message? The clicks are different now.

Dash Dot-Dash Dash Dot-Dot-Dot Dot
Dot-Dot-Dash-Dot Dash-Dash-Dash Dot-Dash-Dot
Dash-Dot Dot-Dot-Dash Dash-Dash Dash-Dot-Dot-Dot Dash-Dot Dot Dot-Dot-Dot Dot-Dot-Dot]

[oathic]

... Sorry if this makes things worse!

[he'll swab a spot and then inject the syringe into horikawa's vein. GUESS WE'RE DOING THIS]

[wakizashis]

[ ANYWAYS, since hori's not really in a place to complain while he's in the midst of a dirt nap i guess it's happening! too bad hori can't give you the hint icly, haha! ]

[kazokun]

[ This tag is still valid, Ayabe's doing nothing until Hori is awake again, I'm so sorry to everybody involved, I hope that bomb explodes ]

[cluedin]

[I hate every single one of you. At least Hori stops feeling numb? Actually...he starts to feel a little better, vision brightening and strength slowly returning. This will only last for a short period of time though. It's basically the equivalent of sticking a bandaid over an openly bleeding wound.

You have a few options. Your vials, or your password. Or both!]

[oathic]

... The liquid's helping, I think. I can deal with Horikawa—figure out the code, Ayabe.

[he takes out one of the vials.]

Horikawa, can you hear me? I need you to drink this.

[wakizashis]

...................Babo-kim-san?

[ Hori squints up at the ceiling confusedly before glancing over to his current team members. .....when did he fall over? wasn't he inches from entering the light? alas, momentarily cucked from death, he'll take the vial with his good hand to drink. here's hoping it kills him faster!! ]

[kazokun]

[ I'm going to turn a blind eye to all this medicine and have Ayabe nod and do this password thing before the computers get pacmanned.

FCFEKFBRMSRLBTONDADKQSSRAHLJMFFIPBFDTHHHSDJV
FCFEKFBRMSRLATOMDADKQSSRAHLJMFFIPBFDTHHHSDJV
FCFEKFBRMSRLBTOMDADKQSSRAHLJMEFIPBFDTHHHSDJV
FCFEKFBRMSRLBTOMDADKQSSRAHLJMFFIPBFDTHHHSOJV

He hates this. Give him like five or six tries to get it right, he'll manage within the next two minutes. ]

[cluedin]

[Several things happen simultaneously. The telegraph stops. The bomb's ticking grows a little faster. Horikawa's hands are suddenly going to grow about seven times larger than they should be so now they're almost bigger than the computers themselves. And Ayabe enters the password as a bright blue portal opens to immediately begin sucking them in.

So. What do you do next?]

[oathic]

[uM]

Damn it—sorry, Horikawa!

[BUT ALSO THEY DON'T HAVE TIME TO DEAL WITH HORI'S NEW YAOI HANDS]

Grab everything you can and go. I don't know where that leads, but we don't have time to take care of the last bomb.

[wakizashis]

[ aaAAAAAAA WHAT THE HICKITY HECK HAPPENED TO HIS HANDS ]

Ah-?

[ at least hori's new yaoi hands might make decent fly swatters to the next dimension? maybe? here's hoping??? he's too busy internally yelling to be much help, sorry ayabe ]

[kazokun]

[ I'm crying. Ayabe also sort of wants to cry but okay, nobody's going to help him shovel everything into his guitar case, he'll do it himself. HE'S TAKING EVERYTHING EVEN IF WE ALREADY USED IT, HE WILL DEAL WITH SORTING THROUGH THE JUNK LATER

AT LEAST HORI ISN'T DEAD YET AND THAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT. ]

[cluedin]

[AWAY THEY GO WITH AYABE'S CASE OF LOOT, HORI'S YAOI HANDS, AND AGNI'S EXHAUSTION. The portal immediately pulls them in, and it feels almost like they're being compacted and crushed down which probably feels great on their already broken selves. The portal begins to shut as they're falling away, but they will hear a sudden BOOM! from the room, stray shrapnel flying into the portal with them. Be careful!

As they shrink and stretch and settle inside the computer, they'll notice something a little strange about themselves. Like they're a bit...pixelated? Haha, yikes. Well anyway!

It's weirdly quiet here. Everything around them is blue. The walls are blue, the floor is blue, the lights above are blue...there are lights on the floor that seem to create a path, and the walls are tall enough to create a maze. In the distance though there's the sound of something rumbling...like an engine? It's coming their way, and it's coming fast.]

[oathic]

[WHY DON'T THEY EVER GET A BREAK

agni's just been steadily bleeding this entire time and wow shrapnel makes everything better.]

We have to—!

[MOVE OUT OF THE WAY MAYBE]