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Please don't bite the newbie!

Just a little to the left and open! [Sibyll announces triumphantly, standing up and pushing the door open to what should have been an unexplored ruin. Except it's not. Clearly confused, she takes a few steps into the bizarrely green courtyard. Pulling out a handgun, she looks around, clearly bewildered. Behind her, the door creaks shut and vanishes into the wall.]

Wait, no! [A little panicked, she presses her hand up against where the door used to be, tapping it lightly in an attempt to hear a hollow 'thump' that may indicate a hidden door. Not that there's any to be found.]

...Well, damn.

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Ah, are you a collector?

[He's rather curious, if not judgemental at all. After all, he collects Monster World figures; he'd be in a pretty poor position to judge.]

Well, there's the usual; art room, music room, infirmary, library, pool... [Ticking them off on his fingers as he goes.] I'd suggest getting your food from the home economics room and making it yourself, rather than going to the cafeteria. I haven't been to the northern wing yet, but it's probably just more classrooms.

There's dormitories on each side of the building, but they're shared, so it really depends how much you're willing to trust strangers. I guess it must have been a boarding school at some point, but the location's a little odd. Schools aren't usually set up on secluded islands, especially not surrounded by jungles. It was probably a very exclusive place, if it was ever functional.

A collector? [Right, he's probably used to *actual* money versus bottle caps. She laughs, idly wondering what Japanese Pre-War money looks like.] Sort of.

What's wrong with the cafeteria? [In her mind, nothing can be as bad as the 200-year-old Pre-War packaged stuff. But she could be wrong.]

And sharing rooms? Doesn't quite suite me. I don't suppose there are any empty rooms, are there?

The food looks like poison.

[In the worst way. He hasn't even tasted it; he just didn't have the nerve to eat something like that.]

I'm not sure... But if worst comes to worse, you could probably take over one of the classrooms.

[So maybe she was wrong about the food. It warranted further investigation at least.]

Maybe. Who do you share a room with?

I'm... not actually sure. Ahaha, I've been too nervous to sleep much, so I only really dropped into the room for a little while. Maybe there's nobody. But I don't think so, because I found clothes in one of the drawers other than mine.

Oh? What sort of clothes?

[Someone was able to bring more then the clothes on their back to this place? Sibyll is jealous.]

Modern-day, mass-produced. The kind you'd find in any store. They looked brand new, actually. Like someone had just bought them.

Weird. Do you mean that whoever's got us here is bringing in clothes for us? That's a bit creepy. And it sounds like they want to keep us here for a while.

[That idea seems to unnerve her out a little, and she looks suspiciously around the room.]

Yeah. It means that they're aware of where we sleep, too. They've probably got cameras all over the place. Once you pick a place to sleep, they probably come in while you're asleep.

...the really weird part is how they know what size you are.

That's disturbing enough for now. Why don't we go look at some of the classrooms, and maybe I'll find somewhere I like to hide out in?

[She's perpetually smiling, but her tone is a bit rushed.]

Ahaha. Sorry, sorry.

[Rising to his feet, he winces slightly, but seems otherwise fine.]

The school seems to be arranged around the courtyard in the middle, so the classrooms are different depending on what area of the school you go to. Most of the places in this part can't really be accessed for some reason. So to get to the classrooms, you'd need to walk around to either side of the school.

Huh, maybe I won't set up camp in one, then. Are the doors just locked?

[She walks next to Ryou, looking around at the abandoned halls.]

Yeah, most of the roms in what I'd class as the "entrance" part of the building are locked. There's a pretty fancy one that looks like it might have been the headmaster's room, but it's pretty much the only supply of alcohol in the building, as far as I know, so you can't count on privacy there.

Once you get past the flood of locked doors, though, depending on which way you go you'll run into either the sports area, or the classrooms.

Hmm. Hold on a second.

[She stops by one of the locked rooms and pulls out a bobby pin out of her hair. Once she straightens it out, she retrieves a small screwdriver and begins to try and pick the lock.]

!

[Ryou just stares at her, aghast. That's something he's never considered. He really hopes it doesn't end badly for her.

Alas, the door remains stubbornly locked. Clearly it must be higher than her current lockpick skill.]

Do you have... cause to do that often?

Quite often, actually. There's a good chance that the owner of whatever I'm trying to open has probably been dead for two hundred years. You can make decent money going through ruins.

[She's distracted with the door, so that came out more frankly then she would have been around Ryou. But several broken bobby pins later and the door isn't open. Sibyll glowers at it.]

So much for that. Sorry, where were we?

. . .

[Ryou stares blankly off into space for a moment before he speaks.]

So you apparently 'might make a decent tomb thief with some practice'. Take that as you will... haha.

Uhm. Which way did you want to go? Towards the sports section, or the general classrooms?

A tomb thief? I suppose...

[She looks at him curiously, an eyebrow raised. She wasn't going to be seeing more of his alternate personality now, was she? She rather hopes not. Perhaps if she changes the subject.]

Let's explore the regular classrooms. I think those could be more helpful to me.

[She pauses again to fiddle with her PipBoy. Maybe she can get it to map this place.]

Alright! Then, we want to go... this way.

[He points in the right direction after a moment's though.]

Most of the rooms are pretty obvious when you see them. Which I guess is why they don't have proper signs.

[Sibyll pulls open the first door and peers into it. Based on the refrigerators, ovens and work tables, she's clearly found the Home Ec room. Potentially useful, but not somewhere she'd want to stay. None of the others appeal to her, either.

Finally, after inspecting all the open rooms, she slams the door to the creepy auditorium shut with an annoyed sigh.]

What was that you said about dormitories?

[As far as Ryou's concerned, it's definitely the most useful of the rooms. He's not going to trust the cafeteria any time soon.]

They're more like small apartments, since they have kitchens. There's some on either side of the building, in the far corners. They're not separated by who can use them, so it's pretty much up to which side you prefer. The view's not too bad from them, though. All you have to do to find them is just to walk either way from the entrance and you'll come right to one set.

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Please don't bite the newbie!

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(>:| You should have tagged "Lockpicking", Sibyll)

(Too many good skills, not enough tags.)

(I know, right! ;A; )

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