the most predictable first intro

[ruatcoelum]

[ This... is not the Tower.

(it's... a hotel?)

(what the hell)

Thomas whirls around in the empty lobby, looking for anyone - particularly someone  she knows - and, when nobody materialises, sets off at a run to search the ground floor of the hotel. Anyone else who happens to be around might catch her in any of the stores or corridors or kitchens downstairs, or in the lobby itself; she circles back there a lot, calling as she goes. ]

Aniki? Michael?

...Kaito?

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[hellkaiserin]

...a boxing ring?

[Yep. That's what's in the room.]

[ruatcoelum]

...where the rules are a boxing ring?

[ ...oh. That's the room.

Well, okay then. ]

[hellkaiserin]

Why is this in here.

[She steps in through the door and looks around in the room and wow this place is much bigger on the inside isn't it.]

[ruatcoelum]

[ Thomas drops off the banister and follows Kaiserin in, looking around warily. ]

It doesn't feel like there's any magic here...

[hellkaiserin]

Good to know.

[She leans down and smooths her hands over one of the ropes lining the edges of the ring.]

Feels real enough.

[ruatcoelum]

[ ...she jumps up onto one of the corner posts, and then down to pace around the ring itself. ]

It looks new.

[hellkaiserin]

...this whole place does.

[She walks around the ring and up to a bar in the corner of the room.]

This is stocked.

[ruatcoelum]

So... this place is set up totally ready, just... empty?

Weird.

[hellkaiserin]

For us?

[She holds up a bottle of some sort of expensive liquor contemplatively.]

[ruatcoelum]

...maybe. That's weirder though.

[ Her ears twitch a little, and Thomas sits down in the ring. ]

Don't get drunk. Still don't know if there's anything dangerous around.

[hellkaiserin]

I wasn't planning on it.

[She sets the bottle back on the counter.]

Better to watch other people drunk, anyway.

[ruatcoelum]

Don't really see the appeal of that.

But whatever, if it means you're staying sober.

[ She stares up and across at Kaiserin. ]

Should we look around more, or...?

[hellkaiserin]

Blackmail.

[She leans back against the bar, drumming her fingers on the edge as she contemplates.]

...Might as well.

[ruatcoelum]

...mm. I guess.

[ She seems to have wilted a little at the word 'blackmail', though. ]

[hellkaiserin]

[...hmm.]

I can make jokes, you know.

[She heads for the door.]

[ruatcoelum]

Wasn't a funny one.

[ She still hops up and follows, though. ]

[hellkaiserin]

Personal experience?

[As soon as she's out the door she's looking around for another potential target to investigate.

This time she goes for the elevator.]

[ruatcoelum]

Mm. Not really. More the risk of it.

[ Thomas does. Not look all that enthused about the elevator.

She follows, though, tail coiling. ]

[hellkaiserin]

[The moment she hits the elevator button the doors slide open, and she steps in. It's roomy, but...]

Not bigger on the inside, this time.

[She looks over the buttons -- a few underground floors, the many actual floors of the building (doesn't skip any numbers, interesting), and then...the roof?]

...we can get outside from here.

[ruatcoelum]

[ Thomas is paying less attention to the buttons and more to just watching the elevator itself, eyes flicking around like she thinks something's about to attack her. ]

...outside. Outside sounds good now.