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[[Hallway]]

Muka was riveted by the little nature spirit. He clutched his own taloned hands and stood, unblinking, in rapt attention.

"Owl! Yes! I am a strix!" His voice was high pitched in his excitement. He was curious about Vero. Why did he refer to himself in terms of 'we' and 'us'? "Remember Mr. Vero.." He patted the insect on the head with his ever present grin.

"While here, we are not in our true forms." Muka may have looked like a boil now but it was not his preferred form at all/. He let out a giggle and extended his long arms and wings behind the whole group. He was urging them forward down the glitter splattered halls. The rainbows still trailed over the ceiling and once again the sound of joyous baby's laughter started to pump into the hallway. He shuddered, hating the noise, and then one of the pictures on the wall slid away revealing a screen behind it that played a video on loop.

"Let's keep moving!!"

((Hallway))
((Just putting up the links for personal reference in this post so I can refer back to it and don't forget : x *will edit it once she finds them all*))

Adapting to the change in language at the introductions, Levia shifted to a more polite tone, "A pleasure to meet you, miss Merry." Then back again, "And to you, Vero."

A pause, then, "The kittens exploded?"

The grombie rather liked kittens. They were curious creatures like herself and she often could observe them exploring, when they weren't napping. She never could figure out that strange, compelling allure to pick them up and pet them.

Glitter she wasn't so sure about. Noting at how the others, apparently victim to these kitties, sparkled just so, Levia gave a mental sigh of relief that she had not been subjected to that particular horror. Sparkles simply wasn't something she had become accustomed to, and as such she had a preference of enjoying the view from a distance rather than being coated by it. Their expressions at their new, radiant, appearances would have been amusing, had the glitter not been so unpleasant to begin with.

Hearing the prompt of the giggling strix, Levia edged warily around the alarming video clip, her own red eyes narrowed in focus. A part of her was intent on discovering how each contraption worked, which in turn made her forget to find this particular hall of the horror house as terrifying as it should have been. Her survival instincts were, while not non-existent, apparently somewhat skewed.

Remembering her initial thoughts on entering the hallway, Levia tried to peer ahead, "How far down do you think this path goes? I didn't think to bring a lunch." Brains sounded rather delectable, but she already had breakfast so hunger was of no immediate concern for her at the moment.

[Hallway]

Faint sneered at his canine companion good-naturedly. He was covered in glitter, yes, yes he was, but so was Damien. Even if he'd rubbed some of it off. "You practically glow in the dark, pup." He returned, bumping the boil's shoulder with his fist softly.

When the demon turned around to talk to him, he grinned slightly. "I've already got a bit of natural tattooing, actually." He lifted his arm and brushed off the glitter as best he could to reveal the light tiger markings that littered his skin. A tattoo demon was interesting though. He couldn't say he'd ever run into one. It didn't help that his mother would probably highly disapprove. "Thanks for the offer though. My name's Faint."

(( Vero's is here, but there's stuff I have to update like his revamped species (attempting to find a good name for elemental spirits of nature), natural ability, etc. ))

((Hallway))

Mooka's shriek of excitement startled the the little spirit, though his energy almost was contagious: Vero grew a little excitable and inwardly congratulated itself for its good deductive reasoning - even if it had to sift through quite a few other possibilities to arrive at the conclusion.

Still, it had been fun, and it was glad the strix did not mind its need to ramble to arrive at the truth.

Though it did have to blink at being called "Mr. Vero". While purportedly genderless (or rather, gender-mixed to be precise), it found the gender specific Mr. to be more appropriate than a Ms. Possibly because at best Vero was a drone and not a queen in any fashion.

"Yes, the kittens exploded," Vero responded to Levia. "And we would prefer not to consider what would happen if we stay either; more might come." Plus it needed to write down information about the strix before it lost its chance!

And then, as if to make sure they all arrived at that conclusion, the awful video of the all too cute bear-thing creature began looping - and with each loud sneeze, the spirit recoiled. "Let us be away, please," it mumbled, taking back Natalia's hand as well as Levia's - and then his two stunted arms wriggled from the cloak to try and grasp Mooka's and the ghoul demon's hands as well.

It couldn't grab Merry's with only four hands available, but it imagined the chimera got the gist of it.

Safety in numbers. Always safety in numbers. It could hear the others up ahead in the hallway.

Its pen and pad had been stashed away in a small satchel at its hip for now.

((Staircase))



As he was walking off, Shun felt someone bump into him causing him to quickly turn around. He looked as if he was ready to attack whatever it was, in the case his previous assailant had decided to try and come back from him. When he saw that it was just one of the other victims, he relaxed just a bit.

"Watch it," he uttered sharply. Before he could really say much else, his eyes widened while the other student took him by the shoulders all of the sudden. Twitching as he didn't really want to think about what had just occurred, the Reaper brought up his hands to sort of brush the guy off.

He didn't see a skull pin on this person, so he could only assume he was a visitor. That didn't matter much to him, though.

"No. I couldn't. And I'd rather not think too much on the matter right now," he murmured.

((Hallway))

Riley watched as Merope demonstrated the difference between touching her arm, and touching something fluffy. This hypothesis that he was creating meshed well with the way Demi's tail managed to brush against Riley earlier, clearing away a great deal of the plague of glitter that had coated her tentacle. It hadn't truly eliminated the problem, however - so the plan was not perfect.

The plan also had little time for consideration, since Merope looked a little too busy being attacked by a gigantic eye-searing monstrosity to elaborate.

Though, it did not escape Riley to notice that they had just stumbled upon something big and fluffy.

As the bear wrapped it's arms around poor Merope, Riley wrapped her claws around one of the arms, and used it as leverage to climb up the beast. When she was perched against the crook of it's arm, she hopped up to it's shoulder, and attempted to find some sort of way to disable it.

Or she would rip it's head off. She was pretty sure that would do it, too.

Hold on, Merope. Don't struggle, it might make him squeeze tighter. She knew Merope could survive it, but she really didn't want to see her friend's body snap in half.

((Stairs))

Once the Cu sith had released him, Shun relaxed somewhat once more. At the moment he mainly didn't really want to be touched by anyone. Not after that happened. Ugh. It was probably a good thing he had actually blacked out a little bit while down there, but he really hoped he wouldn't end up with mold or anything like that.

That would not be pleasant at all, and how the hell was he supposed to explain that?

Shuddering and grimacing at the thought, he snapped out of it as the visiting student began to ask him a number of questions, as well as introducing himself. His gaze shifted down to the offered hand and he had to hesitate on actually shaking it. Somewhat reluctantly, he took it.

"Name's Shun," he said lowly, "Student.. yes. Came with Mitsu there."

His dark eyes flitted over towards the white haired canine nearby. While he knew Xiu as well, he technically didn't come here with her. Poke, he barely even knew to begin with.

Letting out a sigh, he supposed he should follow up with some sort of question as well, though he didn't want to just stand around. Walking and talking was possible.

"I take it you're just thinking of enrolling."