* Maria climbs! * SpiritRei flies! Wheee! * Maria can't fly. ;_; [So, you climb the building. Upon getting to the top floor, you find tinted windows.] * Maria frowns and goes up to the roof to see if there's a way in there. [There appears to be a roof-top entrence.] * Maria checks the entrance over. Lock? [Yep!] * SpiritRei peeks over the top. ~Nothing bad yet, right?~ she thinks to Maria. * Maria blinks and thinks back. ~Not that I've seen yet.~ She checks around just to be sure. [Not that Maria can see.] ~Looks clear.~ * Maria goes back to the entrance. What kind of lock? [Just a key-hole lock] * SpiritRei isn't telepathic. ~Uh, Maria? Oh yeah.~ She floats closer. ~Whisper, okay?~ * Maria blinks, and whispers. "Oh, right. Sorry. You need to get two-way Reidio. Only way to go." * Maria pulls her picks out and picks the lock. Pickity pick. ( Hearing check, +8! ) ( And gimme a lockpick roll, +1 ) ~That'd be kinda silly, headphones floating around and everything...~ * SpiritRei tries to put her hand through the window. [Rei succeeds. She has a hand in the window.] * SpiritRei blinks. ~Wait, hold up on opening the door.~ She sticks her head in and looks! [Maria unlocks the door.] * Maria doesn't open it yet, tho, having heard Rei. [Rei finds herself staring face to face with a woman. She's not unattractive, but not exactly pretty either. She's got long blond hair and long bangs, glasses, a white lab coat, and four pincer like arms coming from her back. She grins. "Almost missed a spook." Then she hits a button on a box in her hands.] * Brett pokes Rei. Poke. * Maria gets antsy waiting for Rei and goes over to the side of the building they came up. Any floating knife and BOX? [Rei gets sucked into the box!] ~Hey, there's a- ACK!~ And then she's quiet, BOX falling down the side of the building. * Maria blinks. Ack is bad. * Maria goes after it! [A man who also looks like a scientist type: white lab coat, glasses, etc., is just leaving the room. He turns suddenly. "What is it Natasha?" The woman waves the box at him. "Just caught one more spook." Meanwhile, BOX falls, and Maria goes after it? Oh boy...] [The man pushes up his glasses and walks out the door. "Won't make much difference. We have enough."] [The woman follows. "Yes. Heh. Kuro's a genius."] [The man comments just before the door shuts. "Blight was an... interesting achievement as was, but installing a ... what was it?"] (Kuro. HatehatehatehateHATEhatehate.) ["Think of it as a spiritual nuclear bomb."] ( Maria can't hear that conversation, by the way. Just Rei. ) [But Maria makes a mad dash down the building, and grabs BOX without being noticed.] * SpiritRei is in the box. She fumes quietly, but doesn't try to get back to her body just yet. * Maria brings it back down to ground level to give to someone. And to let someone know what she's about to do. [Meanwhile, Rei is brought out of that room, down a few floors to another room, which happens to be labby. A bunch of less-impressive scientists are there, observing through a glass wall, Blight. Most of the scientists look like they'd rather be anywhere but there. Blight, for its part, has its eyes trained on them and is pacing the room on all fours.] * SpiritRei tries to make herself more comfortable in the stupid little box. Rrgh. [The woman puts the box down next to a bunch of others and nods to the scientists. "All right, pansies. Start the upgrade."] * SpiritRei makes a face. Upgrade? The heck? * SpiritRei eyes Blight. [A bunch of the scientists go into the room with Blight (albiet reluctantly) annnnd... You can't see, 'cause that Natasha lady decided to stand right in your line of sight.] * SpiritRei makes faces at Natasha. [So Maria goes back up to the top of the tower] * Maria quickly takes all her extra clothes off, leaving just her sneakysuit. In case RoboDemon is really just a robot, she should be invisible, in theory. She stashes her clothes-laden backpack under an overhang vent and enters the premesis, all sneaky-like, through the already-unlocked top door. [Maria enters the door. To be continued.] Oh no! Fade to black! [Nope.] [The blackness encloses until a grumpy Rei is left in a little circle.] * SpiritRei grumps. In her circle.