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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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Re: Floor 4: Dancefloor

thrown_to_winds
2009-09-21 09:44 pm UTC (link)

Although it was not the 'Think nothing of it, Nawanaka-san, I see you as a teammate' that she had been hoping for, Toshimi felt somewhat reassured by Tom's answer. He'd read about dancing in books, so this must have been nothing but academic to him, right? She smiled to herself. It had been silly of her to even be worried about it. "That's good, then," she said.

Because she'd been expecting it, Toshi didn't really react to his touch. She let her hand rest where he'd placed it on his shoulder and looked up at him. Really, this didn't have to be any more awkward than earlier when he'd picked her up during the fight (although he'd handled it pretty impressively, now that she thought about it). It was all just a game. If Tom was doing anything at that point to indicate otherwise, Toshimi didn't notice. "Of course I know how to dance, Sagaki-senpai," she said pleasantly. "You don't have to explain it to me."

With that, they moved together out onto the floor. Toshimi followed Tom's steps without any real trouble. The music was slower than anything she remembered dancing to before, and Toshimi never had a very good sense of rhythm, so once or twice she wanted to move too soon and stumbled a little bit as she stopped herself. This did give her an excuse to stare at her feet instead of Tom for a little while, but a few measures later she realized this was no good. She didn't want to give anybody any strange ideas, but she also didn't want Tom to think she was trying to avoid him somehow. The way she saw it, there was nowhere she could focus on that had a good chance of averting both problems.

The fastest solution she could think of was to make some innocent conversation. "So, uh...it's too bad about the knives. I would have liked to use them today, but...they'll probably come back once we leave."

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Re: Floor 4: Dancefloor

ofmanydevices
2009-09-22 05:56 pm UTC (link)

Tom began to wonder why Toshi knew how to dance, it seemed like an odd activity for her learn, and he wondered when it might come in useful. Made a note to himself to do more research on dancing and it's applications.

Toshi may know how to dance, but Tom was going entirely off of written instructions, and diagrams, so he was far more stilted in his movements then his dance partner. It was like he was working it out in his head, and the notion of just moving with the music was completely alien to him.

Tom was also attempting to keep his eyes off of Toshi, it seemed like their closeness was engendering that strange feeling, and it was harder to repress when they made eye contact. Though he was now able to say that Toshi's eyes were fairly large and soft shade of brown.

Though her speaking was thankfully enough to distract him.

"Even if they don't, we can go ahead and grab more. It's my father's money so you don't have to feel too bad about spending it, I didn't earn it either."

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Re: Floor 4: Dancefloor

thrown_to_winds
2009-09-25 05:19 am UTC (link)

The third or fourth time Toshi made an error, she started keeping careful track of the music to keep from messing up again. It was only then that she noticed that Tom was having difficulties as well, and remembered that he implied he'd never danced before earlier. At least Toshimi had done this before. She wondered if it would be helpful to say something, but decided against it. She was coordinated enough not to embarrass herself, but not so much that she felt comfortable giving advice.

Once again, she remained totally unaware (or at least in severe denial) of any tension in the air. Although it was weird to be in Paradise with no apparent danger, Paradise itself was weird enough that Toshi accepted whatever happened there as an alternate reality, for the most part. She kept this thought to herself, as well.

"Is that right?" she said conversationally. She was still slightly uncomfortable with this kind of attitude towards money. For the most part it didn't come up in polite conversation, so she rarely had to think of ways to avoid discussing it. She racked her brain for a non-transparent subject change. Perhaps lead in from something he'd said. But the subject of the knives had been exhausted, the subject of feeling bad about spending money was what she wanted to avoid, so that left...his father, whom she knew nothing about. Except, hadn't he told her what business he was in at some point? "Um...artificial intelligence, right?" she said. "Do you know much about it? I've been reading about...well, this and that."

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Re: Floor 4: Dancefloor

ofmanydevices
2009-09-25 05:24 pm UTC (link)

Tom blinked at Toshi as she spoke. He had been mentally counting out the music and trying to match his steps to the numbers in his head. Unfortunatly TOm wasn't great with numbers so he had to really focus, and was rather surprised when his dance partner said something.

"Oh, he was one of a couple of companies in the early 80's working on it apparently. It was before I was born though so I only know about it through second hand sources. But I was checking into it, I like to know where the money I'm wasting comes from. On top of that the whole thing is... kind of odd.

It was Apparently a big project Almost 20 years ago, Everyone was working on it, but around '87 the project just... ended. Kind of like a business fad. My families company ended up spreading around the technology for it, bit by bit in video games and..."

At this point Tom paused as he realized he had stepped on Toshi's foot.

"Oh...uh... sorry."

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