"I think she was just about done when I left," Kyla replied. "The bath is probably empty now. I was just heading down to the cellar to make sure someone" - she glanced at Junko - "hasn't been messing with my supply of blood."
Call me a devil... it just means I'll have to use my hellish powers to get you to listen! F:36 S:0/20"That would be terribly upsetting, but I do not believe there has been any breakage in the cellar recently," Hitsugi assured the red-haired maid, her mind dancing around the topic of what Kyla did with that blood. After all, everybody had their own needs, and nobody ever bothered her when one of the chickens went missing from the coop at the back of the mansion.
Gripping Junko's shoulder a bit too firmly, Hitsugi gave Kyla another nervous, horrifying smile and then hustled past her toward the bath. "Well, we really should be about that if we wish to finish before midnight," she explained apologetically.
H:44F(8/30)S|G:19F(0/10)S"...Well, these all seem to be alright," Kyla said after she got done inspecting her stash. "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven... hey, wait a minute!" She recounted, and then recounted again. "One missing... well, that's just great. It must be around here somewhere..." She searched among the other bottles in the wine cellar.
Call me a devil... it just means I'll have to use my hellish powers to get you to listen! F:36 S:0/20"It's ok, Kana." said Dan. "I'm here. Lisbeth, why are you threatening a fellow maid?" __________________________________
When Kyla moves a certain bottle, the rack of bottles slides back about two feet, then slides to one side, revealing a short passageway. There's a door to the left and right of the passageway, and another door at the end of the passageway. Kyla can faintly hear someone yelling from the door at the end of the passageway, and recognizes it as the intruder from earlier.
edited 9th Sep '11 2:04:31 PM by Nodrog
Pausing in her cleaning, Hitsugi glared at Junko in murderous* contemplation for a few seconds. Finally she released a weary sigh. "I don't understand how you all can take this so lightly," Hitsugi observed with a hint of annoyance as she resumed pushing the mop across the floor.
edited 9th Sep '11 6:16:06 PM by Alhazred23
H:44F(8/30)S|G:19F(0/10)S"Bothers ya that much huh? Hmmm.....Well I don't really see any need to be getting uptight about all of this, doesn't do anything but stress you out, and I get the feeling stress fogged minds ain't exactly going to do our chances of getting through the next week with our hides intact any favors ya know. Still if ya like I'll see if I can manage some indignation."
F:41 S:0/30"Oh, don't worry about me," Hitsugi assured her with a small wave. "I'm sure the Master will be pleased that everyone else is coping so well." Though the expression on her face said that she was ready to eat a box full of kittens* , the aggressive way that the she started pushing the mop around indicated that Dan's announcement was still a sore point for her - unsurprisingly; for a maid, the blonde girl gave her Master surprisingly little slack, in Junko's experience.
H:44F(8/30)S|G:19F(0/10)S"Well if you say so." says Junko. "Though between you me and the fence post, yeah the boss probably could have picked a better way to break the news to us. Then again it was probably the best he could think of, spies ain't in the habit of explaining themselves so yeah, either way at least we know to be on the look out for more stangeness then usual."
F:41 S:0/30"Well, this is a surprise," Kyla says to herself, "but then again, the master is a spy." She decides to check the two side doors, avoiding the one with the mook inside for the risk that he would tell the master that she had been sneaking around.
Call me a devil... it just means I'll have to use my hellish powers to get you to listen! F:36 S:0/20"Yes, as I explained in the meeting, I felt a need to..." Dan starts to say, then stops. "Er... I did mention it in the meeting, didn't I? About the new maid?"
-Lisbeth's response here-
"Frag... this is EXACTLY why I made a list." Dan says. He then sighs, taking a breath. "Lisbeth? I've been busy two days straight, getting the McGuffin papers and discussing with AWNE central control how to best protect them. I obviously need sleep. Please show Kana around while I go to bed. Also, tell the other girls not to wake me up early, as I plan to sleep in. I am, after all, supposed to be on vacation."
The door to the right is full of electronic communication equipment, included a satellite video conferencing suite. What Kyla bumps a keyboard, a computer screen demands a hand print scan and password before it will allow access.
The door to the left opens into a chemistry lab. Several of the beakers are marked 'Dangerous: Highly explosive'.
On one lab table is what appears to be a shiny metal belt; several empty beakers are laying next to the belt, but it appears to be unharmed.
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"Mm. No sir," Lisbeth frowned. It wasn't like Jobsem to forget things like that... And looking at Kana she only wondered exactly what need he felt.
She bowed slightly to Dan, "Of course sir. Is there anything else I could do for you before you retire?"
edited 9th Sep '11 11:05:24 PM by hotelkilo
Let God do His work, we will see to ours. Bring in the candles.If by 'strangeness' you mean 'murderers'...'"I will grant that no warning at all would have been worse, but I think the entire situation involving these 'McGuffin Papers' could have been handled better," Hitsugi explained with a note of exasperation clearly directed the Master's way. "I still don't see the point in keeping a bunch of maids around when he could have simply gotten a bunch of professional bodyguards dressed as maids."
Once the bathroom was clean and ready for the next day Hitsugi stopped to ponder for a moment, then turned to Junko with a diabolical leer, as though she had just thought of something worrying. "Perhaps we ought to check that all the windows are locked before retiring for the night," she suggested.
edited 10th Sep '11 8:56:45 AM by Alhazred23
H:44F(8/30)S|G:19F(0/10)S"A belt?" Kyla asks herself, holding it up. Seems to be made of metal, too... And locks? And then there's this part that seems to... go... under... Kyla blushed. Yeeeah, I'm not going to be putting this on. She pocketed the belt and left the secret passage, quickly finding her missing bottle and putting it back in its place. She then starts heading back up to her room, ready to retire for the night.
Call me a devil... it just means I'll have to use my hellish powers to get you to listen! F:36 S:0/20

"Kyla-san!" Quailing despite the copious liquid courage in her system, Hitsugi shuffled to the side to subtly place Junko between herself and the vampire maid. The rudeness of this action percolated to Hitsugi's brain a moment later and her already pink cheeks turned even darker. "I- we were just about to clean the bathroom. I trust Lisbeth-san has finished with her shower?" she asked, obviously trying to bull through the awkardness as a carnivorous grin split her face.
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