pokebox | TESTRUN SHIT

[Unfortunately, the doors don't look like they're in any condition to open. They're very tall doors and they're clearly very heavy and well-built, but they look a little... charred. It looks like the doors suffered some heavy damage and getting them open just by pushing on them doesn't seem to be a possibility.]

[Damn it.

All right, so we have doors that are...presumably welded shut from the inside. He could try to break in somehow, but with his luck that'll just piss off the Bell Tower Host Club out there and he'll be theirs until he can pay it off.

Fortunately, he is Shuu Tsukiyama and he has never been stopped by the idea of unconventional entrances, so he's going to look around before trying to kick the door in like a damn barbarian. Pacing the exterior of the place, then, circling it a bit; how are the windows looking?]

[You're in luck! The windows are unharmed and while they're a bit high off the ground, they shouldn't be too difficult to break into! Opening them without breaking them might be a bit of a problem though, there isn't any way to do that from the outside.]

[What matters is getting the window open in the first place; it's easier to replace those than it is doors.

So he'll let the damage to the doors be Seth's problem; after a moment's thought, he recalls Alessia and lets Léa out. She is thankfully no longer a Surskit, but a rather pretty Masquerain; he'll send her up to check out what's visible though the window before he tries to do anything about entering - there's been a lot of smoke around, and parkouring up just to end up in a damn room on fire isn't his idea of a good time.]

[Smart man. There isn't much to be seen in the interior of the tower; the first floor is very plain and simple, with stairs leading upwards towards the back. The door is indeed welded shut, though it looks like whoever did it isn't very familiar with welding or fire in general. It's sort of an awkward x-shaped mark across the door. It looks like you could have busted in without too much trouble.

There isn't anything else to note; getting in through the window shouldn't be a problem and there isn't anything on fire to worry about.]

[It takes Léa a while to convey that to him, given that she is in fact a bug and he has no powers that allow him to directly speak to such; however, after a few moments of awkward conversing, he...will actually vault up anyway, despite the fact that the doors are easily opened. Doing that should limit Seth's escape routes a bit, assuming he's still in there; he has no doubt the guy has other ways out of here, but if those can be disabled it'll be easier if he can't just open the door easily.

So! It takes some convincing but he manages to talk poor damn Léa into opening the window for him, if by "opening the window" we mean "he gets her to smash it with her face"; after that, it's a matter of looking at his shoes, shrugging because eh, they're good enough, aaaaaaand up we go. Unlatching the window from the outside through the opening Léa has provided and actually getting inside without falling off the damn building is a bit of a production, but fortunately he has years of experience of breaking into pretty girls' apartments!

...yeah.

Either way, it's an experience that may or may not require a second jump once he's gotten the window open, but he manages without killing himself and jumps down after just...chilling on the sill for a second and making sure nothing's going to happen at the sound of the window breaking and Captain Freerunner making an appearance.

All clear?]

[All clear! Nothing jumps out to attack and there aren't any sounds from anywhere upstairs, so it seems like you're good to go, Tsukiyama! So now what? Are you going to continue upstairs or take a look around down here?]

[He'll recall Léa for the time being, switching her out for Alessia again; he wants something that will recognize the scent of those chemicals, if she comes across them again.

While he really wants to go charging up the stairs like gangbusters, he suspects that isn't the smartest of ideas, not when we're dealing with bombs; on the other hand, he might want to actually move his ass because we're dealing with bombs and it's possible Seth might get impatient...hmmm.

He'll cast around a bit while he's deliberating; is there anything of interest down here that would catch his attention?]

[Aside from the door, there isn't anything to note. The rest of the room is completely unharmed, and what few marks there are on the floor are obviously from the poor attempt at welding the doors shut.]

[All right, then - up the stairs we go. He's fairly quick about it, at least; it's probably a bad thing, how much he's enjoying this, but as it stands he's practically bouncing. At least Alessia is keeping up...]

[The second floor is pretty bare. Like the first floor, there are stairs leading up on the other side of the floor, but most of the floor is untouched. There's no dust anywhere, but that might be because of the sages keeping the building up. Should you choose to proceed toward the stairs, you might see some more of those dark pieces scattered near the stairs.]

[...Near the stairs?

Okay, either this person's explosives are the most harmless things in the history of ever, they were trying to assemble them as they went, or...there's a third option he's not seeing.

Is there a window around here, and if so, is it latched?]

[Well, there's a door underneath the stairs! Investigate?]

[...WOW, SO THERE IS. God, people really need to stop hiding doors in places that doors shouldn't be, in Tsukiyama's opinion, but at least these aren't made of fucking meat. Because ghoul technology is really gross.

Let's check the door out, then; if it's unlocked, he'll be sending Alessia in before him to make sure there's nothing he should be aware of, like tripwires or...the complete absence of a floor or something. If it's locked, he'll cross that bridge when he gets there.]

[It looks like the door was locked at some point, but the lock has been smashed and is currently sitting on the floor (it's a really old lock, okay, the sages aren't really technology-savvy). The door is properly shut, however, but it can definitely be opened!

The inside doesn't have any tripwires or missing floors, but it certainly looks like something happened in here. The floor, walls, and ceiling are all charred, but somehow everything is still standing, including the door. The small window in the tiny room is busted out, however. There are more of those black pieces in here as well.]

[...Wow. Something definitely happened in here, yes; he isn't nervous when he enters, but he is definitely very, very wary.]

Alessia, watch the door.

[He'd really prefer to not be locked in here once his guard is down, after all.

However, with the snake keeping watch, he can look around a bit more freely; after a moment's deliberation, he'll be checking that window - it doesn't happen to look out on Bellchime Trail, does it?]

[It does! You can see see the trail and if you look out the corner of the window, you can see the building where the sages are. If you left those black pieces down there, you might be able to see those if you know where to look.]

[He left them, actually, because he didn't see a point in bringing them; oh, look, there's the one that maimed his hand earlier...

That said, he'll definitely be picking up one of those shards now; he doesn't exactly have the time to make like Professor Layton and put the entire thing back together like a really morbid jigsaw puzzle, but is there anything else in here outside of those black shards? Chemical traces, some sort of detonation device or wiring, maybe?]

[Well, you can probably smell the same chemical smell on the pieces, but otherwise there isn't anything else to note, unfortunately.]

[Hmm. Okay. So one of the bombs went off in here, that much is plain; he'll be pocketing one of those shards to take with him because who knows, maybe it'll be useful later.

Might as well check the rest of the floors to see if there's anything else of note in them; he doesn't bother closing the door behind him as he goes.]

Come on.

[And with that called over his shoulder to Alessia, up to floor three we go.]

[Floor #3 is... not like the previous two. Floors 1 and 2 were solid and boring, but apparently someone decided to amp up the crazy on floor 3's construction. It seems that someone finally took out the bike ramps, but the floor is much thinner in places, with only a few beams in a hatch-work pattern below to keep you from crashing down a floor. Good luck navigating your way over those thin beams! If you manage to get all the way over to the stairs though, you can proceed to floor 4!

There isn't anything else to note on this floor. All the windows are intact and there aren't any black shards around here.]

[...WHY]

[WHO KNOWS, CERTAINLY NOT ME

so are you going to brave those beams or]

[Are you kidding? He's going to see if those beams support human weight first.

He's sending the damn snake.]

[YOU'RE AWFUL WHAT IF IT DOESN'T SUPPORT HER WEIGHT AND SHE DIES WHAT THEN

actually you don't need to worry about that, the beams will definitely support human weight!]

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