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Fu Sonzai no Genso: An Urban Fantasy Mystery RP(Raineh Daze and VitaVitaAR)(Eventually open to two more players!)

"Ah, sorry, sorry," Toshiko said, waving her hand, "It doesn't really make sense not to let you go forward, now, does it?"

Still, Toshiko kept a close watch on her student as they hurried inside. So far, it seemed as if the response wasn't immediate, which likely meant there was more traps. The lobby was decrepit, and with no power there was no way the elevators would work. That meant heading for the stairs!

Once they reached the stairs, it was easy enough to look up and see the strange spiraling structure as it went upwards. It was an unusual design for an apartment building, to see the stairs at the center of the building spiral upwards. Perhaps that was one of the reasons that the apartment now laid abandoned.

The moment they stepped onto the stairway, there was a rush of wind from above, and a greenish blur seemed to rush down the center of the stairway!

Frantically, Toshiko swiftly drew one of her shield runes as swiftly as she could, just in time for the shield that blazed to life to block a sudden blow from a black-haired girl. However, the force of the punch was not fully deflected, and Toshiko found herself rocketing backwards into the lobby, skidding along the ground on her feet before catching herself barely, the rune burning away.

"Bunny, huh?" Toshiko commented, as the onmyouji used several ofuda to propel herself a little further before landing in the lobby herself. "Displacement and air onmyodo seems like it perfectly suits you, after that stunt."

"I don't know who you are, but I'm not going to let you interefere," commented the thief, simply, raising her fists.

Before Ryuuko could attempt to join the fight, however, there was a humming sound ahead of her.

An unseen ofuda lit up, and directly ahead of her appeared the second figure that had been seen during the scrying spell. Her blonde twintails bobbed as she huffed, placing her hands on her hips.

"Hmph! So you're the intruders?" she asked, cocking her head to one side. Her feet were bare, and one bandaged. "I'm not going to let you gang up on Bunny! Your opponent is me!"

Fu Sonzai no Genso: An Urban Fantasy Mystery RP(Raineh Daze and VitaVitaAR)(Eventually open to two more players!)

"No, I think I know where this is, too."

Toshiko quickly informed the family of what they were doing, and hurried out of the mansion. There was no time to lose, the longer they took, the more of a chance there would be that the client who had hired the thieves might show up, and that would mean there would be much less of a chance of recovering the vase.

The trip to the New Development district was... intense. Toshiko's remarkable ability not to get pulled over for dangerous driving was absolutely a factor in their safe arrival, as was the fact that many other drivers were terrified to be near the vehicle that could quite possibly kill someone at any moment. And yet, the made it their casualty-free.

The building was tall and decrepit. An apartment, most likely, that had never had any real inhabitants. Though someone had lived their at some point, if the couch was any indication.

Toshiko swiftly pulled her car up, and moments later got out. From what she could detect, there was nothing out of the ordinary. However, this was a conflict between those people who could use the existence known as magic. Caution could not be forgotten. Toshiko placed one hand in her pocket as she approached the front door. The chains keeping it shut had been broken.

"Ryuuko-san, stay back until I've checked the entrance," Toshiko began, as she approached the doorway, "There's no guarantees that it's not tra-"

Suddenly a series of symbols lit up around the doorway! Toshiko barely had time to tug something from her pocket before there was a high-pitched whine and-

The doorway exploded, and flames immediately engulfed Toshiko. Her form vanished in fire and sound, entirely obscured from view for a few scant moments... even after the fires cleared, smoke and dust rendered what had happened completely invisible for a moment...

Until a reddish glow became visible as the smoke cleared.

Toshiko stood, one arm covering her mouth, the other holding up a burning piece of paper. A rune was scrawled on the charm, and soon enough it burned away. With it, the red-tinted cage of light that had formed around the redheaded mage flickered out of existence.

"Damn it, it was longer range then I thought!" she snapped, craning her neck to look back at her student. "Ryuuko-san, there's no time for us to take it slow any longer, they must know we're here! Follow me!"

Imaginary District: An Urban Fantasy RP reboot

The barrier doesn't block cell signals.

Though at the same time if there's a way to avoid everyone converging in one place right this second I think I'd like to try and do so.

Imaginary District: An Urban Fantasy RP reboot

Accepted.

Imaginary District: An Urban Fantasy RP reboot

Honami Aoi

It's not as if it wasn't obvious what Hiraku had done, but Aoi clapped for him regardless, giving him a cheery smile as he left to negotiate. With that, she hurried off to pick a hammer, ideally the best one of the bunch. Nice and heavy, but not so heavy it's hard to lift, flat, firm head...! To her surprise, however, she felt satisfaction radtiate from nearby and turned to see that Ren had picked out a rather perfect-looking hammer. They were going to pound all the mochi they could eat! ... Well, them and the rest of the Organization's members. Only... it was right about then that her antenna picked up another approaching presence, twitching. Aoi turned to face the source of the sensation.

Upon hearing his story, Aoi immediately decided it was time to volunteer her assistance. She did so by jutting her hand into the air like she was in class almost immediately.

"If you let me touch my forehead to yours I can look into your memories and see if we can get a better idea of where to start looking!" she declared, volunteering herself. The green-haired girl paused for a moment, realizing that likely didn't explain much of anything. "Um, I'm a satori, so I can read your mind to see if there's anything that might help that you might not be thinking of right now!"

@ERode@Lightning

Fu Sonzai no Genso: An Urban Fantasy Mystery RP(Raineh Daze and VitaVitaAR)(Eventually open to two more players!)

"Admittedly, we're relying on some assumptions here, that they haven't somehow placed defenses to block scrying. But if they're attempting to avoid too much attention..."

The chalk was suddenly filled with a silvery light, travelling slowly along each line. Eventually, the entire chalk outline was glowing silver, and the symbol seemed to be pulled inward from the center, each layer of the circle descending further then the previous. Finally, at the bottom, the center circle grew translucent... and was abruptly filled with greyness.

"It's attempting to pinpoint their location," Toshiko explained, helpfully. "Any moment now... and..."

The grey was quickly proven to be a cloud layer, as their viewpoint rapidly rushed through it. It gave an unnerving sensation of falling when directly looked at. Below was what was an obvious aerial view of the city, becoming larger and larger as the scene rushed up to greet them. Suddenly, their viewpoint halted, and jerked to the left sharply, before giving the both of them a view of what appeared to be a somewhat dilapidated apartment building. It was in a rather more run down area of the city, buildings that were due for, but had not yet been, demolished. The viewpoint sank lower, sinking through the roof...

"When is our client going to be here already?!" one voice, squeaky and high-pitched, whined. The Japanese was fluent and there was no hint of an accent, but it belonged to a short blonde girl. She was resting on what was a remarkably preserved couch, one foot bare, elevated, and bandaged. "Waiting this long in a crappy place like this is just ridiculous. We can't even get any good wards set up here! Jeez!"

"They said they might not be able to come very fast," responded the other girl, taller and with black hair, "So just try and relax. You should be glad this room has a nice couch."

"Hmph, relax... my foot still hurts..." the short blonde continued to complain, "Stupid maid..."

The taller black-haired girl paused for a moment.

"... Do you feel like you're being watched?" she asked, looking about. The blonde sighed.

"What, do you think there's ghosts now or something?!"

"No, I-"

It was about then that the scrying spell reached its limit, fading away into regular chalk once more.

Imaginary District: An Urban Fantasy RP reboot

@Lightning: I don't have any particular plans for them, so alright.

Imaginary District: An Urban Fantasy RP reboot

@Lightning: I'll let you post first in this case since that seems a bit more natural with the flow of the conversation.

Imaginary District: An Urban Fantasy RP reboot

Aoyama Makiko

Makiko gave Shiki a nod, before her attention returned to the little girl, who was still looking up at Suzuka in surprise for a few moments. It really wasn't every day you saw a tennin, they weren't the most common of youkai after all. It was quite possible the little girl didn't come from around here, either, so seeing youkai wasn't exactly a common occurrence. After all, outside of the Imaginary District, youkai were a secret that the public was not allowed any privy too. Not just youkai, but all supernatural entities and occurrences. Regardless of the reason, she patted the girl on the head again.

"Suzuka-san is right," she began, "We need to know what your parents look like, so can you tell us, Sayuri-chan?"

The little girl shifted on her feet and hesitated for several moments.

"Um, mommy is really pretty... she has kind of wavy brown hair and green eyes," she said, after a moment, attempting to illustrate her mother's hair with her hands, "And... oh, she's wearing blue! Daddy has short black hair and grey eyes, and um... you'll really find them?"

Makiko gave Sayuri another smile.

"Of course, Sayuri-chan! Leave it to the Miura Youth Organization!"

The black-haired girl straightened and proudly jerked a thumb towards her chest. After all, this was the kind of thing she had formed the Youth Organization for!

Still holding Sayuri's hand with her other hand, Makiko turned towards Suzuka.

"Do you think you could try and fly up and try and spot anyone like that, Suzuka-san?" she asked, "If not, we can just take a look around, but it'd be quicker with a bird's eye view!"

@AtomicNut@easy modo

Imaginary District: An Urban Fantasy RP reboot

Honami Aoi

Aoi giggled a little when her detection range was brought up. To some extent she could reach pretty far, big enough to cover the entire Imaginary District, but that required her to be high up so she could get unobstructed 'signal reception'. Her antenna needed to be able to receive from all directions, and down here with so many different signals it would be hard to actually get anything coming to her from any serious distance. Cheerfully, the short satori followed along with her fellow Youth Organization members, practically skipping cheerfully through the crowds.

Once they got there, The satori hurried forward and looked around eagerly. Everything was set up... hammers and everything, it looked like so much fun! And the end result was lots of mochi, so that was going to be great, right?

But then the question of how to pay came up.

"Um, saying this is just an expense of the organization would be wrong..." Aoi trailed off for a few moments, "But I don't want to make you pay for it all either! I'm sure I have some money!"

The green-haired satori patted herself down. Had she forgotten her yen? Or was she just missing it as she tried to locate her money?

@Lightning@ERode