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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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Floor 5: Mid-boss

apathyisboring
2009-09-18 02:27 am UTC (link)

The party enters the room and the lights dim, accompanied by the same spotlight and sillouettes that appeared on the third floor. One silhouette is Kiriko here, as well, but the other is an unfamiliar short-haired woman. After a moment, the figures speak.

"Kiriko, I don't know what you're so upset about. It's not even that bad a grade, you're just above the middle of the class."
"That's average. And it isn't good enough."
"Nonsense, it's perfectly acceptable."
"Don't you and dad want me to do well?"
"Well, of course, and we’re proud of your good marks. But honestly, I think it would be better for you if your marks were more around this point normally. Boys don't like it if you seem smarter than them."
"Well who cares about them, then?"
"You do. It's better investment in your future than exam grades!"

Again the shadows freeze into tableau, with Kiriko's growing into the "Mr. Hyde" shadow version. Her voice quakes with rage.

"Just because all you ever aimed to be was a vapid trophy wife coasting on someone else’s success doesn’t mean that’s what I want to be! Pathetic, spineless woman, you'll regret trying to push me!"

Again, Kiriko's silhouette lunges and consumes the other, the swirling mass sliding off the wall and coalescing into a tangible shadow - this time, the fat cupid from the beginning of the dungeon. The lights come up as it flutters across the hall to Shadow Kiriko, who waits with her back to them and her hands folded behind it, apparently oblivious to what has just transpired.

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Re: Floor 5: Mid-boss

zealousemperor
2009-09-18 02:32 am UTC (link)

Kanaye just raised an eyebrow. No wonder Shadow Kiriko was so pissed. He sure as heck couldn't blame her. Maybe he could convince her to go out with him after all of this was over? Chances are low, but he could try.
"Oy, crazy chick. What are the chances you'll come with us? I doubt it, but it doesn't hurt to..." he paused and furrowed his brow. "Actually, knowing you, it DOES hurt to ask, so I'll just shut up now."

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Re: Floor 5: Mid-boss

apathyisboring
2009-09-18 06:10 pm UTC (link)

Kiriko continued to stare at the wall opposite rather than responding right away. As the lights came up, what she was looking at came into sharper focus - four complicated looking and overlabelled line graphs with dates as headers. Pushpins and post-it notes covered the graph in some places. The last of the quarterly graphs looked slightly out of place - the line that had been dancing around a midpoint in the other three crashed suddenly downward, extended off the chart paper and down to the floor.

"Obviously I'm not coming with you," she drawled, glancing over her shoulder. "But if you're all ready to leave, I can send you back now."

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Re: Floor 5: Mid-boss

2dbeauty
2009-09-20 01:08 am UTC (link)

Toru was the next of the group to speak up. With less of his characteristic shyness, he took a up a somewhat bold stance next to Kanaye and spoke to Kiriko, attempting a reasonable tone. "B-but we're not leaving without you, either, Ikeda-san. We've come through way too much to just let you send us away." He paused dramatically, for effect, it seemed. Either that or he wasn't certain about his words. "So you have to come back. You're our leader, whether or not your parents are making you marry this Toshiro Abe."

Immediately afterward he started shaking out of nervousness and hid himself behind Kanaye. It wasn't very effective, but it made him feel a little better. After all, he'd just been very, very stupid, as he was now realizing.

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Re: Floor 5: Mid-boss

anthesphoria
2009-09-20 10:27 pm UTC (link)

Kozue stepped forward a little, too, nodding--if Toru of all people could be gutsy enough to address the Shadow directly, she could, too. It was, she realized now, more frightening here in its own element, than in Kiriko's bedroom. Although she was less tied up now than she'd been back there--nothing had exploded back in Iburi.

"Ishinomori-kun is right. You're our leader, and our friend, and we're not going back without you." She faltered a little, wondering if she should specify the real you, or if it was obvious enough by now. Briefly, she glanced up from Kiriko, and gave the charts on the wall a short, searching glance. What was all this?

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Re: Floor 5: Mid-boss

apathyisboring
2009-09-20 11:41 pm UTC (link)

"As much as I love hearing that you're falling apart without me," she began thoughtfully. "I am not going back. That," she gestured to the group, "is really all I have to look forward to. For now, that is..."

She turned to face the group, hands planted on her hips.

"So go home! I'll come back when I'm good and ready - and they'll all regret having pushed me."

She glanced at the cupid, which apparently took this as a cue to flutter to her side.

"We'll leave this place as soon as everything is ready. Or, if you want to do this the hard way..."

The cupid at her side giggled.

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Re: Floor 5: Mid-boss

zealousemperor
2009-09-20 11:57 pm UTC (link)

Kanaye blinked at Toru and Kozue. He really didn't see how much Kiriko actually lead the group (anyone could have set up those meetings), but he wasn't going to argue. Shockingly.

Kanaye just sighed. "Trust me, I agree with you Kirichan, but violence is never the answer. Bribes are." Posing, he glared. "I like doing things the hard way. It's why I act like an idiot so much." Well, it wasn't, but it's a very reasonable thing to expect Kanaye to say, so...

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Re: Floor 5: Mid-boss

ofmanydevices
2009-09-23 05:48 pm UTC (link)

Tom flipped out his knives and looked at Kiriko's shadow self. Paradise had rules, that much he knew. Even with it's power to warp reality, the shadow couldn't destroy them outright. It was something Tom mentally noted to think about later.

For now though, the Shadow could only deal with them in a fight, and Tom never really liked depending on his persona aas it were.

"We're coming for Ikeda. The real one, we aren't leaving until we find her. And we'll get around any of your puzzels, and we'll go through any shadows you throw at us."

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