Nightshift 34: F-A Block Hallway

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This shinigami moved out into the hallway at the end of the women's block. It seemed she was moving faster than the others given how empty it all seemed. She shot a quick look down both Signum and Skuld's hallways as she headed to the door to the outer hallway. She paused at the door, listening for sound beyond it, before opening it and continuing on her way.

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Okay. It looked just like it had during the day, only darker. Night, darker, made sense. Nothing sinister so far. There was only one door in this hallway, so Rose headed towards it.

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The hall was empty. She thought she saw movement nearby, but it was already gone by the time she looked. Elincia walked quickly across the dark hallway, on the lookout for anything dangerous. There didn't seem to be anything around. Feeling slightly braver, she walked slightly slower towards a door she saw at the end of the hallway.

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As soon as she stepped outside her door, Harley clicked on the flashlight she had found hidden under her pillow. A part of her wondered if it had been there the whole time, but now wasn't the time to think about such things. She had to remember the path she had tried memorizing on the map.

She followed the hallway all the way down, just as she had the other nights. It was somewhat easier with a flashlight, but also a lot creepier, too. It wasn't so strange since she was actually more used to working in pitch black. Harley turned and moved quickly toward the big door along the far wall.

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Melissa didn't even need to scan the area to know that Lia wasn't there yet. She leaned up against the wall next to the bathroom door, closing her eyes and just hoping that Lia managed to get there soon. The last thing she needed was some ape monster to attack her right there and then, when she only had one arm and nothing to use as even a makeshift weapon.

Remembering suddenly how monsters' minds tended to be completely nonexistent, Melissa's eyes snapped open and she stood up straighter. Nothing was going to take her by surprise.

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As Lia turned into the hall connecting the branches of the women's cell block, she looked carefully down along the halls. She'd learned the night prior that the beasts present seemed capable of masking themselves from psychic detection, and so the only warning she'd have of their presence would be through her physical senses. It made her uneasy. It was dark, even with the hand-light, and the shadows pooled and lingered oddly. There were too many places to hide.

On her second pass, she spotted Melissa, and headed for the other woman. She kept her pace just slow enough to avoid sacrificing quiet for speed. "It sounds as though we'll have extra obstacles tonight, if that bastard doctor's taunts are to be trusted," she murmured as she came to a stop just a little more than an arm's length away. "Finding a weapon is sounding better and better..."

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Karla turned at the end of the hall of rooms, following a mental map to find her way out of the block. She stopped in the larger hall, watching people milling about, with...

Balls of light? Those weren't witchlight. They didn't even resemble Landen lanterns or candles. She stayed where she was, considering this confusing problem of light where there shouldn't be light and wondering what else this place would come up with to mess with her.

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"There you are," Lucivar said, glancing around Karla for any signs of trouble. Thankfully, there didn't seem to be any monsters around and his tension eased somewhat.

"Have you been bothered?" he asked swiftly, already beginning to fuss over her. "Tell me if anyone has thought to attack you and this pole will be so far down their throats that they'll be digesting metal for weeks."

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[from here (http://community.livejournal.com/damned/422964.html?thread=34674228#t34674228).]

Okay, so far so good. It wasn't very crowded at all, but at least there were signs of people, and nothing that deemed itself very dangerous. Monsters were one thing, but PKers were an entirely different manner; at least she stood a chance against the former. Being decently leveled had its perks, one of them being you didn't go down so easily. So long as nothing around here was very high in levels (if they had levels) themselves, she should be okay.

There wasn't anything here, or it didn't look so. Maybe... she had to go further. Exploring usually ended with good results.

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Celes slipped into the flow of women leaving the cell block, hefting her flashlight (that was the proper word, wasn't it?) and along with her. A quick hop, skip and jump and she'd be out into the main corridor. Celes smiled to herself and hurried.

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She slid out into the hallway and went straight to the opposite wall. Renamon leaned against it, arms folded, waiting. She closed her eyes and settled into a light meditation to increase alertness, and simply listened to what was going on around her.

[for Yukari. maybe Dairine? Orihime? XD]

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[from here (http://community.livejournal.com/damned/422653.html?thread=34692861#t34692861).]

The walking distance wasn't very far from her room into the next hallway, so it didn't take long before Yukari spotted Renamon.

She wasn't very sure if she wanted to see her at all, with the way she was feeling. In the end she was able to push those feelings aside, for now; they had somewhere to go, and Yukari still had things to gather. She'd get over it, or try to, tonight.

Yukari lowered her flashlight as to not disturb Renamon with it as she approached. "Renamon?" she called out carefully, her voice sounding somewhat weary.

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Seiya glanced around the hallway before taking a spot off to the side to wait. Leon would have further to go, but at least this way they didn't risk getting lost in the crowds of the main halls. And these halls hadn't been as dangerous, at least so far. The smaller size meant, if a fight did break out, she thought she'd be able to spot him anyway if he came by. The main halls seemed to just flow around fights when possible, with a tangled mess at the center for those actually involved, and missing someone in that wouldn't take much.

There were still a few other girls lingering around, but Seiya kept to herself. Night wasn't the right time to start trying to branch out and make new acquaintances.

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Leon showed up not long after the doors opened, having come directly from his room without stopping. He had the makeshift spear with him again, of course, and the metal pipe; the latter was slung around his waist on a sort of sword belt made from strips of his bed sheets--this made it bang against the side of his leg a little when he moved quickly, but at least it prevented him having to use both hands to hold his weapons. "Shall we get going?"

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Back now in the women's block, Momo peered around and turned her light back on. F30 was at the very end of the hallway... and no Signum. The knight wasn't in the hall at all. She was tempted, briefly, to check the threads, but decided not to. She'd see if her friend was still in her room. if she wasn't... well, then she might check.

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Nothing of interest here. Thursday moved on, keeping her torch off to conserve the batteries. She knew this stretch of hallway pretty well by now, after all.

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It seemed like she wasn't the only one out exploring--Meche thought she caught the beam of another flashlight more than once. She'd been through here during the day, but she still had no real idea where she was going, especially in the dark. Moving slowly, she made her way down the hallway, hoping Manny's sense of direction was better than hers was.

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Shana slipped out of her room and moved quickly, determined not to waste too much time before slipping to Shadow's room and meeting with the others. The faster they moved, the faster this might end up resolved.

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[brightlyshine.livejournal.com]

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It was interesting how the doors were left open once night fell. Although if the guy doing the announcements meant anything, it almost seemed like they were in some morbid game, or at the very least an experiment of sort. He reminded her of Hojo, and that was never a good thing. She'd have to ask one of the others about that.

Shining her flashlight ahead of her, she continued on, trying to follow the way she had come in.

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[theycutitout.livejournal.com]

River stopped for a moment as something crossed her path, breathing it all in and remembering the quiet, looming essence of everything that was Landels. For once, at least right there in that moment, none of it mattered. There was something to be done tonight, something to hold on to.

If only she'd brought flowers...

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Still fairly quiet out here, with only a few bobbing flashlights.

"I spoke to one of our resident alchemists, by the way," Angel said, glancing briefly over his shoulder at Willow. "Her name's Skuld. If you talk to her, she can get something made for you."

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"Or you could ask around for people who don't have lists," Anya suggested. She'd read all about the 'alchemists' on the bulletin board (or 'cooks' or whatever they were calling themselves), and she wasn't sure she approved. The theory behind it was sound, but being made to wait wasn't anything she liked.

"There are plenty of unscrupulous people here who would give you a weapon with only minimal payment necessary." She grinned over her shoulder at Willow before opening the door that lead into the next hallway.

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Beatrix held her lit flashlight in the hand of her burnt arm, the chef knife ready for any possible creatures to jump out at them. "The bathroom is just through that door over there," she said, illuminating the door for Donna's benefit.

She paused as they reached the door. "If something attacks us when we got through this door, what should I expect you to do? I can adapt properly if I have a general idea."

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"Oh, I see. That's simple." Donna had seen it on the map as well. So far things looked simple enough from the layout, but the luck of that was probably running dry after the thing with their rooms.

"You mean like a monster? Well, I don't suppose you have a pair of heels on you?" That's what she would have used regularly. "I can probably kick it anyway. Depending. You said there were a lot of things out here, didn't you?"

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Someone was going for a dark and creepy look. The only thing creepy at all about it, in Callisto's opinion, was how absolutely plain it was. Not even any wall sconces for lights? No, the light came from those weird lamps on the ceiling during the day if she remembered right. She shone her light on one of them now, trying to get a better look now that they wouldn't blind her. They seemed to be made similarly to her flashlight. She'd get someone to tell her how they worked if she cared more.

Most of these attaching halls seemed to lead to more rooms like her own. She needed the door at the end...

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[constellates.livejournal.com]

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As she turned the corner into the main hallway, Alkaid couldn't help but notice it was a lot creepier than usual. It was her third day in this hellhole, in this body, and she was a lot more comfortable with herself and her body than she had been, but it was starting to sink in that she might not get out of here as fast as she'd hoped to. Perhaps the cackling and taunting had gotten to her.

On second thought, no way. No one could get to the great Alkaid, even if she was just Chika on the inside. This wasn't a front. This was the real her. Fearless, with a desire for heroism..

..Maybe she could accomplish such a thing in this body, in this place. Even if certain one-eyed redheads told her she sounded like an idiot... she couldn't stop believing in her ideals, could she?

She hurried through the open door into the next hallway.

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[littlestrawdoll.livejournal.com]

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By the time he moved back out to the main corridor, Melissa and her companion had moved on, as had Maki’s roommate and her companion. The latter had gone for the bathroom. Scrounging for metal?

As for their plans… The doll glanced at Maki on their way to the door. “Are you sure? I thought the balcony area up there was a common spot for the stronger monsters or the brainwashed prisoners.” When it came to personal experience, he’d been there the one night the young boy had been set to attack everyone who came too close. He figured they both agreed on what to do if trouble came their way: avoid it if possible.

There was always the option of using his second sight, which he knew he’d be using once or twice before the night was out, probably.

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Naomi blinked. "Is it?" she frowned. Her information regarding the layout hadn't mentioned that. "I've never been up there before myself. I'm just going on information I've gathered here in the institute. And no one bothered to mention that to me."

If that was the case, maybe it would be better to go around.

"We'll take the other stairs, then. I don't want to run into anything big, if we can avoid it."

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Alice's movements were swift and graceful, and even though she hadn't traversed these halls before, she still moved with an easy confidence of knowing exactly where she was going. Things were still not quite as clear as she was used to, but it was better than nothing.

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Claire slipped out into the larger hall and glanced around quickly to make sure everything was quiet before she continued onward, knowing the way she had to go now by memory.

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Here, too, it was quite dark, and Frey found he had to pause for a moment to picture the layout of the men's hallways in his mind. The women's should be essentially the same, he thought, so the hallway with room F30 in it should be the second from where he entered.

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