The Mansion-Exploration Thread

[ambitionkills]

Typist: Here we gogogogo! We can talk about specifics once you get in chat, but for now, here's something to start us off!Esther sits on a couch at the back of the main room. She is dressed more casually than usual, in a t-shirt and jeans. At her feet is a black shoulder bag, large enough to hold a day's provisions, a blanket, a length of thick

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[not_napoleon]

Tom arrives, bleary-eyed, dragging a small pack behind him. He is wearing a t-shirt reading "I Hate This Map" and brown pants with many pockets. The pack is holding a small amount of food, a large amount of water, a blanket, and a change of clothing.

He rubs his eyes and looks at Esther. "You're entirely too calm, did you know that?"

[ambitionkills]

Esther tucks her book into an outside pocket of the bag. She grins slightly as she notices the shirt.

"Nice to see you, too," she says, unrolling the map and showing it to him. She points to a corridor leading off to the left (with the front of the mansion as reference) of the main room. "That's the corridor I took when I found the greenhouse. I figure it's as good a place as any to start."

[not_napoleon]

He smiles back at her. "I found it appropriate."

He looks at the proposed route. "If you've found interesting things there before, and it changes frequently, that is a good place to start."

He is nervous about this. It is completely out of his realm of experience, and he is also nervous about going off with someone who, in his old life, he did not exactly have perfect trust in. However, she has not done anything here that he could distrust, and she does have more knowledge about this place than anyone he knows, save himself.

[ambitionkills]

"I agree with the sentiment, after the trouble I had making this thing." She waves the map around.

"That was my logic." She slings the bag over her shoulder and starts down the corridor. She studies Tom briefly. "Did you sleep all right?"

Esther is not nervous, and if she were no one would know. She has yet to see anything actively threatening in the Mansion (barring its denizens), and after two weeks she thinks there should not be any problems. Spending the night in a strange environment would cause more of a problem, but she's relatively certain Tom has no reason to harm her.