[V - ORP] The Mysterious Room [VICTORY p10]

[shibrogane]

The thumping noise was audible all the way to the first floor, and it was bothersome enough to those on the third that any of them that were conscious had moved to stand at the bottom of the spiral staircase. It had been largely cleared of all the stones blocking the way, enough that perhaps one person could pass into the clear, starlit night of the room above them--just barely visible was a line of what seemed to be bars, peering out to the open sky above. The spectators knew that this had to be a very awkward perspective, considering the way that the shadows seemed to dance. Like a drunkard's weaving, almost.

No, the spectators couldn't have any idea what in the world was going on up there. Could it be... someone had finally made good on jumping from tree to the dome, and now was trying to pull the rest of the rocks clear so others could come up? After all, no one really knew what was up there. Could be knives. Could be the skeletons of old sacrifices--the story of what Virgo used to get up to had spread and become more horrifying in the hands of the more vicious and vengeful civilians who were trapped. It wouldn't be all that odd to find an Iron Maiden.

So they gathered around the staircase, listening to the drunken crashes. Among them was Soldier Virgo, and she looked none-too-pleased with what she was hearing... but not exactly inclined to move as yet...  

[Xaki]

Zephyr had just finished meeting with Sailor Chibi Hypnos, passing along in the hallways as usual. He didn't seem particularly interested in helping with any certain area but he did pause; looking back with a glance while his gloved hands remained in his pockets.

The question of the day seemed to be "What?" which Zephyr wasn't interested in asking. The surrounding was strange enough that you stopped wasting time, merely bypassed the question, and investigated. Coming up behind them, he remarked in an only mildly curious tone, "I have to admit, that sound is even scaring me." He was probably the only guy with a polite smile on his face. Although his expression certain made his words debatable.. "Did you let somebody else in that we should know about?" He inquired of the captain yet not knowing who she was. He knew Flora and Chronos of the Zodiac but he had yet to be acquainted with the other members.

He looked up with a doubtful glance; "If somebody did somehow manage to make it up there, I'm not exactly sure it's worth the effort to save them."  

[revenant aria]

Sedna's appearance was distinctly disheveled, spots of dust and other colors on white white knight garb made it obvious he had been in the middle of something.. or just finished something. His windblown white hair, layered with hints of teal was down instead of styled. Who had time to style their hair in space anyways?

"Sounds like there's a raid going on up there or something. Definitely not a party-- I don't hear anything remotely related to amusement or fun." Sedna cupped an ear, his white glove, covered with the faintest glimmering image of a spiraling dragon, shined without a light source.

"Dude. What are you here for? Saving people." He reminded the unknown senshi, with hair like blueberries and kindness the size of a piece of grain. After all, the whole announcement of space had called senshi up to help the civilians. Wasn't the guy here to help?  

[Silverah]

After her harrowing attempt to reach Chronos, Keren Della-Blue had elected to stick close to Virgo outpost for the remainder of her time at the surrounding. Knowing what impasses lurked on the rainbow road was enough to make her content with her place cleaning up the crap that had accumulated at Virgo.

That didn't mean she was complacent, of course, and a pounding from the mysterious top floor was enough to draw her out of today's hiding place. After shirking work to lounge about in the groves, it took a lot of commotion to make Keren trek all the way to the third floor landing and see what was going on.

She arrived with a petulant but worried look on her face, and moved to stand behind the elaborately-dressed senshi, Ganymede, because she liked his style best and he looked pretty strong. "One of the monsters from out on the road couldn't have come here, right?" she asked, nervous wiggle in her voice.

Babylon mounted the stairs two at a time, like a responsible knight ought to. He was feeling good about the work he was doing at Virgo outpost, even if he wasn't sure the Zodiac Captain would ever forgive him for not being Menachem. Responding to weird noises from upstairs... were not only what you ought to do when you were a knight in a sea of civilians, but it would also, perhaps, win him a bit more of Virgo's favor for being proactive.

Much to his chagrin, Babylon was not the first to arrive on the scene, but it was heartening to know that others had deemed this worth their while. He fell into line beside Ganymede and Valhalla, shooting his teammates nods of recognition, and then glanced at the unfamiliar senshi, the white-clad knight, and the girl who he thought he recognized as one of his sister's friends. The knight seemed reasonable - the petulant senshi and the teenager, less as much.

"If someone managed to make it up there, I'd be interested to know how they made it up there," he mused. "I mean... yeah." He was always interested in new and improved methods of breaking, entering, and generally getting to be places where he didn't belong.  

[Melodine Cantus]

The Princess of the Zodiacs moved in as others gathered around; having come to Virgo's Outpost to check on the civilians who had been injured in the monster attacks around the Surrounding. There was an absence pink butterfly wings on her back to symbolize who she was and she quietly threaded through the curious Senshi and Knights to stand besides Virgo. "I don't feel good about this." She murmured quietly to her Captain, a sense of foreboding welling up within her. The shadows made her even more uneasy, especially after witnessing what the monster that had sprang out from the shadows at the Temple had done.

"A civilian did disappear though." Flora informed the Captain, a small frown upon her lips. She had followed out orders to provide some protection wherever Chronos went, but had now retreated a few steps, since there were others here as well. "That was in Leo, but well..." The Senshi of Spring shrugged and then turned to eye Zephyr. "Oh come on. Can't you be more chivalrous? Or I could send you home, if you want." After all, he wasn't in any way obliged to stay and help.  

[Blue Eyed Melloon]

After the disappearance of the civilian from Leo, Super Grus was more cautious about leaving the Outposts on her own, or allowing the non magic folk to be wandering on their own. And when a thumping began during one of her visits to Virgo, she assumed it was someone who was bored with being watched and wanted to cause trouble. But it persisted, and ten she had the thought of "What if they are trapped?" So she followed the bumping and found herself standing at the bottom of the stairwell, staring up while the rattling continued.

"Whoever it is, how did they get in there?" She asked to no one in particular, trying to imagine someone climbing around outside and jumping through the window. "And more importantly, how are we going to get them out?"  

[shibrogane]

AT JUST THIS MOMENT, A LOUD SOUND WAS HEARD FROM SOMEWHERE ON THE SURROUNDING. SOMETHING APPEARS TO HAVE COLLAPSED IN THE DIRECTION OF LIBRA OUTPOST.

ALL THE SENSHI AND KNIGHTS WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN HEADED THIS WAY HAVE GONE TO INVESTIGATE THE NOISE; NO MORE SENSHI OR KNIGHTS MAY JOIN THIS RP, ONLY CIVILIANS.

IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO HAVE META CIVILIANS, PLEASE INVITE THEM IN. GOOD TIMES WILL BE HAD BY ALL.  

[The Red Dame]

Virgo, Virgo, Virgo. Darwin didn’t like Virgo; the Virgo Outpost, that was. Only other time he'd been here was because he was hurt. So, why was he here? Well… good question. No particular reason, not really. Seemed like a good idea at the time, or a better idea then then it did now. At least it should be safe-ish here, what with all the not-aliens that Darwin saw had gathered.

Squinting up at where the noises were coming from, Darwin wondered out loud, “ Wonder if it’s space squirrels…”

Earth squirrels managed to get into Earth attics, so why couldn't space squirrels get into space outposts? Made sense to him.  

[iStoleYurVamps]

Hawke had been bouncing like a b-ball all up in the Surrounding. Except she didn't call it that. She was sticking to her guns and calling is Space Fade. Land of magical and mobs. So when Hawke heard a big old thump she ******** MONSTERS'. ******** monsters had attacked her twice. Were they back to get another round of Hawk a** kicking? She hoped so. She was totally read for an a** whooping. Rumors of people vanishing at Leo, bitches in miniskirts running like loonies.

Now weird noises from upstairs. Looking at the knights and senshi Hawke said loudly. "If it's another space whale I vote you all take care of it. Last time I roll nothing but crit fails." She shrugged. "Plus my boffer sword broke."  

[Ryuthulhu]

"If Space Squirrels are anything like the space BATS I don't think we've got enough supply of peanuts and dry corn to appease them." Holi volunteered, with maybe a touch of bitter irony at the idea of Space Squirrels, imagining something the size of a small mastiff with foamy jaws and a foul temper. Try and keep that out of the bird feeder.

She'd recently returned to Virgo for the second time since they'd been brought here, this time for injuries from an rather less earth-like monster at Chronos.

She was definitely unimpressed by the attitude of the senshi with the blue hair, especially after the determination the others at Chronos had shown to keep everyone safe, but it wasn't her place to lecture him, especially with Chronos herself doing an pretty effective job of it.

"Maybe we should try and move another rock or two to make sure if anyone finds something bad up there they can retreat in a hurry if they have to?" She suggested, though there was a small, unpleasant twist of doubt in her stomach. Had something excavated from the inside, or from the outside? With so much rubble, and her lack of having previously investigated this area, she wasn't quite sure.

Nothing that was going on was terribly reassuring, especially since Virgo was supposed to be the 'hospital' area, meaning many of the people here were in... less than perfect shape, a thought that made her knead her fingers absently into her tender, healing shoulder, short of actually manhandling the healing injury, a small fragment of her thoughts wondering if she'd have a scar.

This time anyway she wasn't planning on charging into the fray unless there was no choice. Call it a lesson learned, even if curiosity drew her to the area of the noise.  

[A Wandering Esper]

THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP

Whatever it was that was up there wasn't stopping, and seemed rather undeterred by the gathering below. And probably had come right out of the Gemini's outpost given the general demeanor, through slowly the movements were getting more and more precise.

Hissssssssssss....

...Whatever that had been wasn't human at all. Come to think of it, there was something in the air that seemed... familiar, to the senshi and knights. Like they'd felt this before, on Earth...

One thing was sure - from the sounds of it, it was probably gonna get through the door leading to the fourth floor sometime soon if no one stopped it.

((This is for flavor ! Please don't go up here until Virgo gives the go-ahead <3 You can also still join !))  

[LadyNozomi]

Originally Varya had intended on exploring the surrounding after her wounds healed, but she was finding it hard to leave. People had been disappearing. She'd heard the rumors, civilians whispering quietly to one another while doing chores. What kept them stuck up there was the hot topic of the day, and probably would be until the situation was over.

At least she had her arm back. She did have to give the senshi that, they did have a knack for heeling things that needed it. It only took a few hours for the pain to subside, and another day after that for the broken bones to mend in her arm. It was kind of amazing really.

She'd already helped do some of the cleaning before(she didn't really mind it much, so long as someone was doing it with her!), and she had been tired. Virgo was an excellent place to sleep, always peacefu- THUMP.

The noise shook her from her revelries and then continued to harsh her mellow.

THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP.

Curiously, Varya stood, making her way over to where a crowd of people were gathered. It didn't take her long to make it towards the front, looking to the person Virgo for a little bit of enlightenment. Unfortunately, she looked as confused as Var felt, which didn't bode well for any of them. "Whats going on?"  

[Appeal]

It was really without a doubt that everywhere outside of the Aquarius Outpost that Cameron decided to explore ended up with regret. It was quite a feat that he regretted it considering all the things he didn't regret, but he firmly remembered the time he had decided to go out for a walk and ended up witnessing what seemed to be a flying warden of the prison Cameron was otherwise defining as what was his current life here in the Surrounding.

To fit with his regret, Cameron had seemed to wander into a place with many other people and rather suspicious noises coming from it. In the time he had been here in the Surrounding Outposts, he had not heard such noises. It would really be his luck that he would walk into this place, his only consolation being that there seemed to be a herd of senshi moving in the opposite direction. He should have just stayed in Aquarius but now it was really too late for him to go back, especially with the fact this seemed to be the only place that lacked the senshi wardens.

He would enjoy his peace from them, but his peace in general seemed to be questionable as the voices of his fellow prisoners chimed in around him.

"Fantastic," he murmured. Was there really no Eden for him? It was either senshi or idiots and Cameron really didn't like either of the options given to him.