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Ikeda Kiriko | 池田妃凛子 (apathyisboring) wrote in disappear_plot,
@ 2009-09-17 10:45:00

Ikeda's Wedding Dungeon Crawl
Who: Shadow Kiriko and Exploration Team.
What: Dungeon crawling.
Where: Ikeda's ~~Wedding~~ Dungeon Crawl.
When: June 14/15
Why: Dungeon crawling chat supplementals!

The entrance to the dungeon takes the form of a small, Western-style chapel, with sleek, towering glass buildings visible in the distance. The closest seems to be a hotel, but an inaccessible skyline lined with modern office buildings and interesting architecture belonging to no particular cityscape is visible as well.

ETA: Dungeon Summary for those who have missed all or parts of it and don't want to pick through the chat.

Also note that Yuuto and Masami are chained together, and Emi isn't chained to anyone at all.

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daioujou
2009-09-17 04:23 pm UTC (link)

Kouchisei wasn’t sure about what he was seeing; he’d came quickly as possible after receiving a phone call from Maeko and snuck a quiet path to the area they'd sensed and found it to be unnaturally quiet, psychologically frightening in the shock change from what little he knew of Kiriko herself, and stupid in the fact something was quiet or it was not. Abe Toshiro he didn't know and it didn't worry him because althought he could work out the 'wedding' - it was in the book - it wasn't like she was actually married yet.

He rested a hand on the lobby doors and thought better of opening them to look at the hall beyond. He honestly didn't get English architecture - well, more like he couldn't understand why lovesick teenagers and young couples pretended to be well-educated about a country they'd never visited. But even he could understand the pressure she must be under. Something had gotten his dad off his back recently, but to be married so young.

“I wonder about the wedding night," he mumbled to himself.

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ofmanydevices
2009-09-17 04:45 pm UTC (link)

Tom had been... well the only person there when Kiriko's Shadow slipped into Paradise who was actually armed. He had wanted to go in, and check out Kiriko's dungeon, but checking his notes, gathering his supplies, and making sure Max would be alright for the time Tom was in Paradise, ended up taking him enough time that he was there when everyone else was.

He too examined the chapel in front of them, and put a hand to his chin.

"I had almost expected some kind of business, the way her shadow was acting. I suppose I can see how ending the wedding would be a hidden desire, but that suggests Paradise conforms to the most pressing desire, as opposed to a general one.

It could also just be that Paradise is different for everyone."

When Kou's hand moved from the lobby doors without opening them, Tom nodded.

"Hmmm... I'm betting the doors won't open."

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2dbeauty
2009-09-17 07:44 pm UTC (link)

Every time he entered Paradise, Toru found himself newly enamored with whatever beautiful world had been constructed by the latest victim's mind. He knew it was probably wrong to feel that way, but he couldn't help himself if he thought something was beautiful, after all. Such it was in this case. The chapel, Western-style and completely foreign to him, almost literally took his breath away.

"W-wow, this is just like the Lost Condemned Sacred Land area in http:/slash!" he said excitedly. Walking up to the portraits on the bookstand, he examined the "groom"'s.

"Er... I-I guess that Ikeda-san doesn't like him much. D-doesn't this seem a little... immature for her to do, though?" As he looked at it, Tom's words meandered through his mind. "Hm, Tom-san... I think you're right. B-because Kou wanted to be a doctor, not run the Soyokaze Touka, so it was a hospital, and m-my version of Paradise was a game, right? So if the pattern holds, this is all because she doesn't want to be married." But urgency soon enough rushed the current of his thoughts. "M-more importantly, we need to save her from here! Ikeda-san... Kiriko is our leader, a-and our duty is to save people, right? W-we should get moving."

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ofmanydevices
2009-09-17 08:02 pm UTC (link)

"But in the two previous cases, Paradise became what the victim was trying to escape to. This time it has become what Ikeda is trying to escape from."

Tom reached up and ran his fingers through his hair. He spoke in his usual deadpan. Seemingly unconcerned about the information he was processing.

"And it makes sense, the killer would target the groups leader to cause confusion and chaos in the way it operates. Which means the killer has access to the papers we filed. That lends some support to the theory that the killer is a member of the schools faculty. But it doesn't rule out a student."

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some_other_dog
2009-09-17 08:59 pm UTC (link)

“Play detectives later, idiots,”” Reizo drawled out from behind the group, giving the back of Toru and Tom’s heads equally dirty looks before he looked over the rest of the entrance. He gave a low, long whistle as he struck his match and lit a fresh cigarette. “Pretty swanky,” he concluded and then made his way up to the podium where the guestbook lay open and already vandalized, which he peered at critically. “Immature and amateurish!”

Then he took up the pen and started to draw a big, veiny penis next to both portrait’s mouths. He gave the drawings a contemplative once over, then bent back down to continue scribbling. When he was done not only were the groom and bride mouthing two crude penises, but Kiriko had acquired an eye patch, Toshiro was leaking a prodigious amount of snot, and what appeared to be winged asses were soaring around their heads.

He finished off his masterpiece by drawing a smaller version of himself flexing and standing atop a pile of what could only be the rest of the group in the corner, signed his name with a flourish, and wandered off to one of the doors to gave it a tug to see if it was open.

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lotus_beyond
2009-09-17 11:55 pm UTC (link)

"So... This is what these places are like?"

Renju had mostly been content to stand back and watch while the group confronted Kiriko, though she'd stayed back and eyed Reizo with equal parts disbelief and wariness when he'd apparently expected her to leap at the chance to be a human projectile. She hadn't really quite known how to react to all of it, though if this was standard for these things... well, this was going to be more difficult than she'd thought.

That aside, she'd never been in a church before, and Paradise or not, the scenery was beautiful. She wasn't quite sure what to make of all this--Aomori's place had been so different from this, and still somewhat familiar, at least.

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anthesphoria
2009-09-18 02:09 am UTC (link)

Kozue, hanging back a little (in case someone found a window or other small aperture and got any crazy ideas), glanced around the entrance to the chapel, wide-eyed, interested in a spectator sort of way. "Huh. A Western-style wedding. I wouldn't have expected that from Kiriko-san."

Still, she'd never seen a Western wedding up close, because movies didn't count. Nobody her family knew had those: it was tacky. Now, the animal print obsession made a bit more sense...

She took a few steps closer to the guest register after the yakuza had left it, just to be safe. She peered at it, frowning at Reizo's many and obscene additions to the photographs, but then something else caught her attention. "Oh, hey, that guy looks familiar," she mused. "I mean, without the eye patch. Or the facial hair."

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zealousemperor
2009-09-18 02:13 am UTC (link)

Kanaye just wandered around. It's a nice place, if you ignore the random destruction. Which makes it not so nice. So it wasn't nice at all. A rather bad metaphor, all around.

"Well, this is rather interesting." he commented unnecessarily. "Do you think that if we took their parents to this place, they'd change their minds? Or could we just feed them to the shadows? I like either of those ideas, really."

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	daioujou 2009-09-20 01:01 am UTC (link)
	"This is serious. They'd end up in their own worlds," Kouchisei replied. He didn't think much of Kanaye. The older male was loud, brash - things Kouchisei hated. He came into a room and didn't take notice of the quiet. "Why are we standing here? Do something." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ofmanydevices
2009-09-21 05:02 am UTC (link)

Tom put his hands in his pockets and looked around.

"Now, I grew up in the states, so they didn't do much in the way of arranged marriages. But... isn't this a rather significant part of the culture in Japan? A significant tradition amongst the wealthy of which most of the parents related to this school are.

So... why are you all so upset over this? Also..."

He looked at Kozue curious.

"...you know fiancee?"

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	anthesphoria 2009-09-21 05:20 am UTC (link)
	She glanced up at Tom and nodded: "Yeah, I think so. Besides, my mother mentioned he'd been at Nanakamado, and now that I see his picture..." She nodded. "Definitely. I didn't know him, but he was a few years ahead of us." And the other question? She is not touching that with a ten foot pole. Not again. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

daioujou
2009-09-21 08:42 pm UTC (link)

"Hmph. Private business."

Kouchisei knew he could discuss Kiriko's personal business. That the guy seemed a little too old, given what he knew of Kiriko's socialising habits, but he didn't have that right. He didn't know her. He could be wrong.

He closed the guest register and signed. Those pictures weren't endearing.

"It's not like we're psychiatrists. Let's bring her home."

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2dbeauty
2009-09-21 08:54 pm UTC (link)

Toru, who had been standing off to one side, nodded to Kouchisei.

"R-right. The most important part is that we get Ikeda-san back... regardless of the politics of the situation. When she's safe... that's when we'll worry about this whole marriage thing."

To be honest, he wasn't sure what to think. With his lifestyle and family, Toru lived in a world that was distinctly lacking in such things as arranged marriages. Certainly, they existed in anime and certain types of games, but things like that were always resolved in the end. Either through contrived deux ex machinae or by the involved parties finding True Love, but they were always resolved somehow. In this case, Toru had no clue as to what would happen.

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