Too Many Posters [Wakana/Shun]

[Wakana]

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{AQ}Too Many Posters
+ Description: With the key card you have access to the school’s clock tower, which means you can finally go and grab those extra Faberge posters if you want… Or you could put up even more, just to spite.
+ Put up even MORE posters: +2 Faberge, -2 Guardians, -1 Roost
+ Take the Faberge posters down, once and for all: +2 Guardians, -2 Faberge, +1 Roost
+ Ignore the posters and club up the clock tower, just to see what’s up there: +1 Guardians, +1 Faberge, +2 Roost, +3
+ Requirements: Tag for an Admin to write a “description” post of the top floor if not doing either of the poster routes. Seiyo Key Card is needed to begin.
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The air outside the dorms was brimming with an oppressive heat, pressing thickly against her skin and filling her lungs like mud. The weather caused her to grimace, instantly dashing her hopes that the disappearing sun would cause the campus to cool to a more comfortable temperature. Still, it was honestly better than being cooped up in her dorm room for the night; a sudden bout of homesickness balled together with pure anxiety. Fara all but kicked her out so she could sleep. Despite herself, Wakana felt a light smile pull at her lips. At least the little guardian had the sense to make sure she wasn’t outside in her pyjamas.

What to do now..?

Wakana took tentative steps forward, her toned leg relishing in the rare freedom of not being covered by concealing fabrics. Her jean shorts were high-waisted, far shorter than she usually prefered, but she found the light blue fabric too cute to resist. It helped that they didn’t make a fuss around her prosthetic leg, for all that it showed it’s metal glory. Oh, and it also was the opposite of being hot. Her hesitance melted away at the quietness of the school around her, nothing but the sound of bugs and the thumps of her own footsteps. It was rather strange seeing the campus so devoid of life, lacking as it was in the usual hum of life. With a small hum, she glanced up toward the sky, marveling at the stars. Or rather, the lack of stars. Growing up in an extremely small town, far from any city really changes one’s perspective on the view. It was still beautiful though. Wakana always loved the sky.

A small tick of movement in the corner of her eyes distracted her, drawing the teen’s attention to the watchtower of the school. Like lightning, an idea struck. The clocktower would probably have a good view, right? Her hand drifted to her back pocket where her wallet, and a certain key card rested. It wasn’t really trespassing if you had a key, right? With a shrug, Wakana gave a little tug to one of the short curls that tickled her cheek before veering off the path to continue her goal.

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Shun always wondered what was in the clock tower of Seiyo. So today, without ANYTHING to do, he wanted to try to head up there. He got the key card. Sneaky sneaky. Why some of the teachers chose to entrust him with one is really because he's been helpful and just all around really innocent and cheerful. There's no way he could stir up any trouble, right? But then again, it's just even more naive than Shun's own mind if they thought that he wouldn't want to go exploring with it. And here is his chance.

He made his way to the clock tower when no one's around to see. Time to get a move on, he thought. Using the keycard he has in his possession, he opened the door first and let it close up behind him. Hopefully, no one heard that. He wanted to climb up the tower and see what's up there. What if there's cute little baby birds? He would love to take care of them. But can he really see at night? He's got his handy dandy flashlight with him. And he also has his penguin plush with him so he wouldn't get scared easily. And just as a tiny precaution should he get locked up again, a sleeping bag. He can...Sleep under the stars. In a tower. Right?

But then, he heard someone else coming close. For serious?? He thought this was the PERFECT chance to head up without anyone else noticing. Uh oh. Bad luck. Bad luck all over.

[Wakana]

Well, she officially made it to the door of the tower without getting spotted. Fumbling with her wallet, Wakana slipped the key card from its home with a little struggling and slid it through the lock. It was a heart-stopping few seconds before the little light turned green, allowing her to open the door with a heavy sigh. Carefully, she nudged open the door and slipped through before closing it quietly behind her. No use in being too loud and attracting undue attention right? 

*Click*

As the door closed, leaving her in the darkened room, Wakana wondered if she came a little unprepared. "Aaah~" she muttered, fumbling for her phone to use as a light. Finally, after a lot of jingling from her phone charms, the screen flickered on in her grasp. The light stung her eyes a moment causing a grimace, but she pushed aside the annoyance to use the light to look around the room. Only to have the light flash on a very human face...

Wakana did what any self respecting person would: She shrieked.

Her phone clattered to the ground as she stumbled backwards into the door, hands covering her shriek in the brief flash of remembrance that she was supposed to be quiet with wide eyes. Her body trembled with adrenaline, and all she could hear was her heart beating wildly against her ribs. Wasn't she supposed to be alone!??

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Too late. It was all too late. He wanted to hide but the door opened and light was thrown at his eyes so abruptly that he had to shriek at the assault attempt on his eyes.That probably made him look less of a human. "OH GODS MY EYES!" And in an attempt to 'fight back' he shone the flashlight at the person or thing that just walked into the tower. "That hurt!"

Now they're both on the ground on the opposite of each other, either scared or just really annoyed that a sudden bright light just shone into their unprepared eyes. As Wakana screamed, he continued to scream, and it was a screaming party for a while before he realized he's not supposed to be so loud. "WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE??" He asked, still pointing his flashlight at her. He slowly got back up and moved to the other side to pick up the plushie he dropped. What is this, some sort of interrogation??

[Wakana]

Wakana startled a little more once the other person started screaming, swearing her heart would burst when a bright glare of light blinded her. Instead of screaming yet again, a little squeak pulled itself from her throat. "Um.."she started, eyes staring wide at what she could now make out as a not-as-ghostly face in the dark. At least, from what she could tell with the light half blinding her. She hoped they were human. "E-exploring?" Seeing a lull in the...scream fest, Wakana scrambled awkwardly to her feet, clutching her re-acquired phone to her chest. She squinted against the light a moment before grimacing and looking off to the side to blink out the colored dots that danced across her vision.

"Could you..um, please? The light kind of hurts." Her feet shuffled together a little, followed by a slight flush to her face. Aa! This was so embarrassing! Without her say-so, her teeth nervously clawed at her lip.

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"Oh? Exploring? Cool. Me too." He turned the flashlight around and put it under his face. "So does this look like a ghost to you? You can stop screaming." But it still looks creepy. "Look, if I'm a ghost, I wouldn't be able to make shadow puppets like this one." He used one hand to make a rabbit, then a dog, then....Something else he doesn't even know what that is. "Ehehe~ I like shadow puppets! They're so nice!" He doesn't seem at all threatening now, right? "So you are sneaking around to explore? That means you got one of these too, right?" He pulled out the key card from his pajama pocket. Well isn't that obvious though? That's how she could get in here.

"I'm going up. Gonna see what it's like up there." He said, pointing up to the top of the tower. "I kind of have a bad streak of getting locked up somewhere, so I hope you don't actually regret being here with me around." That's why he's carrying a sleeping bag around. Just in case he needs to sleep atop the tower until tomorrow or something. "Maybe it's a good place to have a slumber party, I don't know?" He is hoping that's not the case.

[Wakana]

Despite the situation, Wakana could help but laugh a little at the strangers antics. Her shoulders eased into a more relaxed state, and a friendly warmth spread to her face as he went on about shadow puppets, of all things. Appropriate for flashlight lit nights, but rather silly considering the moment. Reassuringly, she cut in before he could go off on a tangent (he seemed like the type),  "I'm sure it will be fine. There's two of us, right? Although, are you sure I'm not a ghost." With a giggle Wakana made stereotypical 'spooky' noises and wiggled her eyebrows in a faux scary manner before breaking face.

"I just wanted to see the view from the tower. I bet the sky looks amazing if there is a way to look out..."

She looked off dreamily a moment.  

"Oh! Um, I'm Wakana! Hall Wakana. First year" She gave a quick bow. "Pleased to meet you." Introductions. She almost forgot introductions and offer to go off into a dark tower with a stranger! A rather nice one, but still... Her face flushed again. Why did she always forget the important stuff!? Aaa- Fara would scold her really well when she heard what happend.

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"There's Casper the friendly ghost. Unless you start destroying things, I think I'm fine with you. No matter what you are." He could very well be talking to a ghost, but even ghosts aren't all bad, right? "Same here, I guess? But it's more like...What is up there, you know? Usually in the afternoon, I can't get in here cause there's always students or some teacher or something that walks around like they're standing guard." And Shun, even with the key card, wouldn't have been able to get in here without being accused of something bad. And he hated conflict.

"I kind of hate going out at night? But I don't really have any choice." Poor guardians of his must be looking for him right now. "Ah, now that I think about it, I didn't tell Leo and Shura where I went. They'll be really worried. Or not." He's so used to talking about them like they are actual human beings that go to the same school or something. Usually almost everyone he talked to knew about the existence of guardian characters. "Oh ummm, yeah. I'm Iwajima Shun. Second year. 2-C. You can call me Shun or hunny or hunnybuns." He might as well try with the nicknames again. "Nobody calls me the latter two names but I think it's cute. And my dream is to become the cutest in the world." He pointed up to the top of the tower again. "I'm going to make that wish on a star if I see one falling."

"So just call me Shun, I guess? That's fine." Maybe they need to take their time. He doesn't understand why though, since it's so cute. "Alright, we should head up, and hopefully not find a conspiracy up there!" He said with a thumbs up and a smile.

[Wakana]

Ah, he's definitely strange she thought watching him blabber on. A good kind of strange, but strange none the less. "Alright..Hunny..." Wakana tested his nickname on her tongue, wanting to be nice. "...senpai."But honestly? Calling him hunny was just too weird for the English speaking girl. Compromise was okay, right? It sounded less... No, she wasn't even going to go down that thought path. She wasn't even going to touch the hunnybuns part. Internally she shuddered, finding her polite sensibilities rustled. Wakana forced a stronger a-bit awkward smile on her face. Trying to be friendly could be so hard... "You can call me by name too if you'd like." 

"Aa, we might as well before it gets too late."

She scratched her temple with a finger, looking up at the stairs. "Ano.." With hesitance, Wakana rapped her knuckles lightly across the top of her prosthetic leg to produce a dull thunk. "It might take me a while to climb them all though, so feel free to go ahead of me." Her leg was better with stairs than some, but it still tended to make things awkward in a hurry. She tugged at the hem of her shorts, rather ashamed of having to point out her struggle. "I'm a little slow."

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"Well I guess it's alright if you add a senpai to it. But I'm not big on formality." He is actually quite oblivious of the complications that might come with asking people to just call him 'Hunny' of all things. "So Wakana, right? Unless you want to be called Hall." Some people were like that. They didn't like him being all buddy buddy. "I wonder why people keep on refusing to call me by my nickname I made. But you didn't, so that's really cool!" He grinned. She is so nice. Much nicer than some of the people he's met.

"Huh? Oh, don't worry about it. Take our time. I usually fall down the stairs myself if I'm not careful. And it hurts when I do!" He said it in such a cheerful tone it almost feels like it's just another activity he takes part in. "There's a whole night, I don't think you'll take the whole night to get up here." He bounced up and down a few flights of stairs and giggling before really heading upstairs to check out what's up there. "Helloooooooo~ Mr and Mrs. ghostie are you there? Is there a ghost upstairs?" Other than posters, what is up here?

Juon Miuna (just for general scenery since they are both going up to explore)

[Wakana]

"Wakana's fine."
To explain or not?
"I'm used to it since I have family in America."
She should probably explain...
"Um, they probably don't call you that... because Hunny is considered a term of... endearment in English." She sucked on her lip a little before continuing. "Between couples, that is. So it's...a little awkward. I don't mind of course! But, I mean..ah.." How embarrassing.

She followed after him in a much more subdued manner not fully out of shyness, being sure to take her time to carefully place her foot on the steps as they started their journey up into the watchtower. Absently, on hand traced the walls, occasionally brushing a poster or two. She studied some of them, but the lack of light made any real study pointless. Shun's voice bounced against the walls excitedly, filling the air with noise she hadn't expected to find when deciding to explore. Right, conversation. People talked in situations like this. Small talk. Friendly. Friends.

"Ney Hunny-senpai, are Leo and Shura friends of yours..?"

((Probably might as well do the top post too maybe tho -shrug-)

[Juon]

The tower itself was hollow on the inside, with a skinny spiral staircase that wound up from its center toward the room at the very top that they'd already started climbing. It would creak and waver just worryingly enough beneath their feet, but it seemed solid enough, so long as nothing rash was done to it. The main light that shone in was through the glass backing of the clock itself, casting sunlight down in hazy, dusty rays that only reached so far, and cast most of the upper area of the tower to shadow. This wasn't an area entered all that often, especially by students, and glancing around one would as well catch the occasional glint of a spider web in a corner or dust particles floating absently about.

The posters that coated the walls didn't go up very far; they mainly were stuck toward the bottom, with a one higher up here and there--the walls got a little riskier to reach as the height increased, after all. But there were other things stuck to the wall, too; smaller pieces of paper, that even in the darkness would be noticeably different, if even simply due to the fact that they lacked the gloss the posters had. But they were brief at best; maybe one or two here and there. As well, one letting fingers brush the wall would eventually feel paint starting from about halfway up, in long, wide strokes.

Overall, the tower held an eerie feeling. Most likely just because it was dark.

It was pretty dark.

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"Term of endearment, what?" He doesn't really understand it. Romance is something he never really looked into. And he's as good as clueless about it. Even the terms. "Between couples? Really?" He raised a brow. He's never heard of that one before. "Ummm...What's a couple?" Hooooo boy. He 'knows' what they are at a surface level, but really what are they? Married couples, dating couples, couple of boxes. "Don't answer that, I can tell there's a long explanation." He rubbed the side of his head with one of his hands. His parents never gave him 'THE TALK' anyway. So rather than think about it, he's just going to forget it. But now this person knows how little he knows. It's kind of embarrassing.

"Huh? Leo and Shura are my guardian characters. But you could call them my friends too. Cause that's what they are." He answered. It does seem like everyone he's met so far has one of them guardian characters, so why not tell it like it is.

As soon as he reached the creaky spiral staircase, he can feel a little bit of tingle down his spine. It's definitely a bit creepy. What with all the dust and spider webs and darkness. It doesn't seem like anyone's been here for a while. He'd look behind him to see if the other person was doing alright with the climb. Wouldn't really want any accidents.

[Wakana]

"Guardian..? Oh!" A look of realization crawled its way to her face, fading to one of understanding seconds later. "Like Fara." she muttered to herself, unknowingly confirming his thoughts. "I didn't realize you could have more then one." It made sense now that she thought of it though. Some people had more than wished self to be. Her eyes glanced towards him then darting up to examine the staircase of doom as they slowly stepped up, and up, and up. Well her doom at least. This...was going to be fun. A determined yet resigned sigh exhaled itself from her lips.

Handrails were a godsend.

The tower seemed to get increasingly spookier the higher they climbed. Ages faded past, growing older and more abandoned the further they went. "I wonder when the last time anyone came up her was..." Wakana stared wistfully at it all, not at all bothered by the eeriness. So much history in these walls, lying forgotten. She wondered what kind of stories they had to tell. "Probably not for a long time. You would think it would be in a little better condition just in case someone had to do maintenance on the clock." How old was this place anyway?

It looks like she was going to have a research project when the night was over.

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"I didn't know you could have more than one, either. But I did." And yet, getting into the topic of what his second wish is, is really rather embarrassing. It goes against every code of 'cute'. He could shorten it up and tell people he wished to be an edgelord or something and it'll STILL work. "I knew it. You have one too." He's not surprised at all. Everyone he's talked to has at least one guardian character. "I'm not surprised cause I think the whole student body, or at least most of them, have these eggs and characters."

"Beats me. I don't think anybody did any maintenance or cleaning around here." Finally, when he reached the top, he just started to touch everything he can find. An old candy wrapper on the dusty floor, an unused dusty lantern? Or really whatever it is. He played around with the items, maybe a form of inspection? Who knows. "Well, I'm not gonna spend the night up here. What was I thinking carrying a sleeping bag with me?" It's creepy. Creepier than the time those bullies made him spend the night at the library, that's for sure. Maybe he did grow a backbone since then, but it's steel scary to be up here. Especially at night.