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[sundead]

[It's likely only a few people noticed, but about two weeks ago, Ayumu vanished completely from the village, along with all of his belongings. It's clear he went home, and that should have been the end of it.

But today.... Deep in Egypt... Deep in the depths of a pyramid is a treasure room with a fancy sarcophagus. It probably looks the same as most of the other pyramid treasure rooms, but this one is a bit different. If you get close enough, and make some noise.... it starts to shake. Like something is inside.

Any treasure hunters are welcome to investigate.



Later in the day, after that drama has unfolded and the sun has set enough for him to escape Egypt, Ayumu can be found wandering the rest of the village looking for his house. It's a pretty daunting prospect because there aren't any familiar landmarks anywhere. So, he can also be found trying to escape gangsters in Mobland or being chased by dire bears in the ice age (he really has no luck with animals.)]

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[happyends]

[ .. Ah, this is difficult.. She knows that along with Kyon she figured out it's better to stay away from Ayumu (although she thinks it's for his sake since she sort of misunderstood..) but at the same time when she peers out of the house and sees him running around like that, it'd be rude to not help him, right? The fact she's in the middle of gangland is the reason she's been staying inside like this either way..

So after Ayumu runs past the house trying to escape gangsters for the umpteenth time, Madoka can't help but open the door a little, waving to try and grab his attention - as if she's telling him to hide in there. ]

1/2

[sundead]

[Madoka-chan, you're such a sweet girl....]

2/2

[sundead]

[But before he can think much more on that, or say anything to her, he hears the gangsters shouting around the corner.

He dives head-first through the door before they appear and see where he went...]

[happyends]

[ Well, that solves the hesitation problem. Not like Madoka will stop him by now either way, she just makes sure to shut the door behind him so the mobsters won't know that he went in here. It's just a normal house - although the look of it has changed to suit the surroundings. Madoka gives him a slightly sheepish smile - she's wondering she made the right decision here, but.. she did, right? If those gangsters would've caught him.. ]

Um.. h-hi, Ayumu-san.

[sundead]

Hi, Madoka-chan.....

[wait maybe he should get up off the floor before answering her]

[happyends]

You can stand up now, you know. .. A-ah, if you want, that is. [ She seems sort of awkward. ]

I hope you're doing okay though. I thought I'd help you with those scary people chasing you..

[lostinmyway]

[Grune isn't a treasure hunter, but she is a curious sightseer. She and Norma have already been in this particular pyramid, but, well, she doesn't remember that.

At first she's caught up in admiring all the pretty pictures on the wall, but then she notices a strange sound. She looks about the room and--]

Hello?

[That nice box is moving. Why is that?]

[sundead]

[It just starts moving even harder, and there are some suspicious sounds like maybe... moaning? Or just muffled shouting...]

[lostinmyway]

[And here is where Grune differs from your average person, in that those petrifying sounds make her walk right over to the sarcophagus and start shoving at the lid. Someone must have fallen inside and gotten stuck...somehow.]

Oh, my. [She raises her voice a little.] Are you all right?

[sundead]

[The muffled sound now sounds something almost like "Grune??" and the sarcophagus shakes so hard it's in danger of falling over. Hopefully Grune can figure out that it's her name being said through all the wood.]

[lostinmyway]

[It's hard to recognize someone's voice through a sarcophagus, and so Grune doesn't pick up yet that she knows the person she's rescuing. She does, however, think she hears her name.

She starts heaving a little harder as the lid begins to slowly slide off....]

Don't worry. You're almost out.

[killu]

[ Killua isn't really a treasure hunter either! But, that won't stop him from looking around a bit from what he came to the area to find.

The shaking does catch him off guard. ] ... A trap?

[ ... It had to be. What else could it be? ]

[sundead]

[It does look like a trap. But it seems to be shaking even more insistently and also making some muffled noises after Killua spoke aloud....]

[killu]

No, that's not it. [ Killua pokes a bit at the box. Let's leave him there for a bit, if it's what he thinks it is. ] Someone fell for a trap.

[sundead]

[He'd argue with this if he could hear properly through the box. As it is, all he can do is try and shake it more - the whole thing starts to rock back and forth.]

[killu]

[ Okay enough playing around. He's a brat, but he's not heartless. So, he'll work on opening the box for him ]

[blessingone]

[Fenimore does not like trap-filled tombs. If it weren't impossible to get killed by these things, she wouldn't be here at all. She's so far managed by being extremely cautious (and poking everything with a literal ten foot pole), but there have been a few near misses. She really hopes it's near the en --

When the sarcophagus rattles, she screams.]

[sundead]

[The scream just makes it start to rattle more furiously. There's also some muffled sounds.

Clearly, there's something inside. Something.... that wants to get out.]

[blessingone]

[And then she ran away, leaving him to his fate and also stumbling into a deadly speed trap.

Well, no, she doesn't. But she kind of wants to do it if she could take out that last part. She does keep her distance for the moment, tensed to run.]

Who's there?

[...Well, with how the sounds are muffled, it probably means she won't get much of a response back. But she wants to give it a try.]

[sundead]

[He can't answer, mostly because he can't completely hear from inside here and also can't speak properly. But he has figured out that he's inside something wooden and is now trying to rock it back and forth, back, and forth -

It tips too far and topples forward, directly towards Fenimore.]

[blessingone]

[Fenimore continues to be the best person to rescue him by shrieking. Again. She also jumps backwards and hits her head on the wall behind her. Ow. So she takes a moment to rub the back of her head.

It also gives her a moment to think about this logically. So. These things can't kill her, right? And it could be a real person trapped in there, somehow. ......Which also carries the possibility that she could get trapped in one of them, too. But. Ergh. She wouldn't be able to live with herself properly if she abandoned them.

So, cautiously, cautiously, she approaches the box sarcophagus. It's a-rockin' but she's coming a-knockin'. She hesitates for a moment.]

...If you aren't a human, I'm going to be holding you responsible, you hear me?

[And with that rather useless threat (hey, it made her feel better), she attempts to open it. ...Hard as it may be from this position.]

[disastergirl]

[Aw yeah, she was all about the treasure hunting. However, rather than staying away from the sarcophagus she chose to check it out instead. After all, it was better to face it head on instead of letting whatever was inside sneak up on her, right?

So, without any further hesitation she tiptoed up to the wiggling sarcophagus and yanked the door open! ...The only problem with that was that she was also pointing her gun at whoever (or whatever) was inside.]

[sundead]

[And what's inside is...

a person wrapped all in bandages...

who immediately stirs as soon as the door is open, reaching for whatever is outside...]

[disastergirl]

Ah--!

[Unfortunately, her first instinct there was to shoot first and ask questions later.

Well, it would have been if she hadn't forgotten to reload. Oops. Maybe she could still run away before this monster grabbed her...!]

[sundead]

[He would've been fine even if she had shot him, never fear. But right now, he can't exactly see and is so groping blindly to try and figure out where he is and what is going on.

She'd better jump out of the way before he manages to latch on to her....]