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“Fine, fine..." Sylvi grumbles. She departs with a comment about your laziness. After five minutes have passed and she hasn't returned, you get restless.
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Tump stands up, saying "Well, it's been a while, I better go check on her.", and the others nod. When after another five minutes still neither of them have returned, Red and Mess share a nervous look.
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Mess calls Cin and Red calls Tump, but neither of them pick up. Both of you are now seriously spooked. Red suggests they might be playing a prank on you, but Mess dismisses it, and the look on Red’s face says they didn’t really believe it either.
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Another five minutes pass. Red jokes hopefully that you would have heard screaming if something had gone wrong.
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Mess announces that it will check up on her and leave. Tump and Red look up from their phones as a yell rings out from downstairs. Red throws the door open and just as the two scramble onto the stairs, there is another sound, like something impacting loudly against the kitchen tile.
They arrive to Caen holding onto a collapsed Mess, a brick on the floor next to her, presumably dropped at the sound of the door upstairs. Tump and Red’s eyes dart from the blood in Mess’ hair to the brick to Caen, who is smiling nervously.
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After 15 minutes Mess stands up and looks between the phone in its hand and the closed door, indecisive.
After 15 minutes Mess stands up and looks between the phone in its hand and the closed door, indecisive.
"It's starting to be weird.“
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Tump nods and gets up to head down into the kitchen. For a second Mess looks like it'll protest, but then it sits down after all and the remaining two wait for Tump’s return. He does not in fact return, but you do hear a dull 'thud' from downstairs.
Red and Mess jump up immediately and it takes them only a handful of seconds to basically leap down the stairway and arrive in the kitchen.
Staring at them, holding a brick in one hand and an unconscious Tump by the ankle with the other, is Caen.
After a moment of stunned silence, she drops his ankle.
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You call Sylvi and sit in silence as the phone rings and rings. She doesn't pick up, and Mess seems to come to a decision. It puts the phone down and herds Red and Tump out of the room.
You arrive in the kitchen to absolutely nothing out of the ordinary except for a pronounced lack of Sylvi. Now Mess is not the only one on edge.
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You mean to search places she could have gone, but nobody can come up with anything. All her things are upstairs, and so is the nearest bathroom and most snacks. Really the only places she could be are outside and the dorm's bottom floor, as you would have heard her pass by upstairs unless she went trough the entire building to take the other staircase up (which would be seriously weird behavior).
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You decide that you'll be able to cover more ground if you split up. Mess runs upstairs and returns with everyone's phones, and before Red or Tump can say anything, it has disappeared into the unlit front lobby. The remaining two look at each other and set about searching the building.
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Tump and Red walk around the building in worried silence. You both doubt Cin would still be here, and it turns out you are right about that. Red takes out their phone, and it seems you took about 12 minutes to check the whole dorm twice, unlocked rooms included.
You decide to call Mess now, but the call won't connect.
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You decide to check the building first and find nothing, so you start walking around campus, calling for her. After a few minutes Red suggests you go back to get your flashlights, because you can see practically nothing.
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Mess, still clutching its phone, wordlessly dials 911. Red and Tump exchange a look, but don't comment. The call takes more than five minutes, as Mess gets increasingly irritated at the operator not taking it seriously, and eventually it hangs up.
"She said to search for her and call back if there's something actually alarming," Mess summarizes angrily, doing air quotes.
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