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Character(s): Open
Content: The stakes are high and the only way to go is up. People have come to this floor looking for a door, but what will they find when they go through?
Setting: Clusterfuck Floor (the highest one so far)
Time: Nighttime
Warnings: Depends on who replies, I suppose. XD
Note: Multi-thread format. Form up whatever groups you'd like! Once the door is found, I'll edit a note in here letting people know what thread to have their characters run to if you all want in on the opening action. You're looking for a giant tower, as jumbled up and mismatchy as everything else in the world. There will be the usual Castle Oblivion door somewhere in there, and you are free to write the tower however you like.

The door opening sub-thread can be found here!
Please don't worry about posting order during this thread. We're trying to push through on into endgame, so if you have an opening for your character to post in/your character has something to say, have them go ahead and say it.

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The thought of leaving others to find the door had been a tempting one. Why bother wasting time on that when he could spend that time preparing to bash that Organization's face in? He could just show up, attack, force that bastard to fix things, and everything would be taken care of. But the more Mao thought about it, the more restless he became. Nice as it would be to sit there and strike when the time was right, his eagerness to strike was quickly getting the better of him.

Finally, unable to bear it anymore, Mao had announced to Yorda that they were joining the search and stormed up to the latest floor... and promptly found himself lost beyond all recognition.

"What the hell kind of place is this?!" he growled out in frustration.

Having made the top floor her current home, the magical girl quickly identified the latest intruder into her hunting grounds. She mostly had ignored the visitors, not caring one bit about their search for the so called "door". It was only upon seeing that ugly, white mop that she sprung into action, stalking him in the shadows, waiting for him to drop his guard.

That kid... how did he survive? He should have been crushed under the rubble a long time ago. Thankfully, no one had seemed to realized that she had been stealing his identity, but she still had to find a way to deal with him.

Thankfully... she was at full power now. And she had a large amount of grief seeds to spare.

It took Mao longer than usual to notice the girl's presence, in part due to his frustration, and in part due to having seemingly lost Yorda again. He thought he had brought her up with him, but it seemed she hadn't been following behind him as closely as he thought. ...Or hadn't decided to follow him as quickly as he thought. She did seem a little distracted.

It wasn't until one particularly hodge-podge patchwork of an area's weirdness startled him from his worked-up mutterings that he finally noticed a power signature nearby.

"Who's there?! Don't bother to hide. I know you're there!" There was something vaguely familiar about that power too. And the memory of it only managed to piss Mao off even more.

Yuuri didn't even flinch as he called out to her. So what if he discovered her, it wasn't as if this was gong to change anything. That boy may have proven twice that he was more powerful than he seemed, but int he end, he was just a kid.

And she was a magical girl.

But still... he did notice her, so might as well grant his demands. A figure calmly made it's way out of the shadows, but instead of a magical girl, the figure was one of a small white haired nerdy demon.

"Mao" stared at Mao, a bored expression on "his" face. This better be good, battling all these witches lately just reminded her of how she was in need of an actual challenge.

Mao's eyes widened a fraction at the sudden appearance of this double. He hadn't done anything that he could think of that would produce a clone... And even if Clone geopanels could create clones of allies there didn't seem to be any around here he could see. But if that wasn't it, then...

He gave his double a long look and though he wore his usual frown, there was a glimmer of interest in his eyes. "You... You're that girl, aren't you?" Mao crossed his arms. "I heard you were pretending to be me, but I didn't think the copy would be that good. I'm almost impressed."

"Good, you're not as stupid as you look!" She huffed, raising her arms to her side, mimicking him. While messing with his head might have been amusing, in the end, it didn't really matter that she had been so easily discovered; it was just for show anyway.

That being said, she wasn't making any actual moves this time, she simply standing halfway into the shadows, mimicking his movements. The entire area was filled with her traps after all... she didn't even need to fight.

Mao didn't take his eyes off of her, and he half-wondered why she wasn't coming after him now. She'd been so aggressive before. What was it that changed now? Either way, following him like that, appearing in front of him looking like that... Something was weird here. Maybe he'd taunt her a little first.

"Says the person who chose to look like me. Heh... You got lucky last time, but you've just made a big mistake coming out here. I've already got a bone to pick with you."

He had a bone to pick with her? Yuuri exploded in maniacal laughter, quite unfitting while she was in Mao's body.

"I don't have to listen to brats who should already be dead!" She snapped at him. How dare he survive their last encounter? Just him being alive was provocation enough, even without him invading her territory.

"So why don't you just save us both some time and die already?"

Even with such a threat, she still made no moves.

What the hell kind of evil laugh was that? And she was making that kind of awful noise come out of his mouth? This magical girl obviously needed to go back to whatever school she had in whatever hole she crawled out of. Or find a new one. Either way she was obviously not learning anything important.

Still... she wasn't attacking. And Mao wasn't sure if it was because he was right in assuming there was some kind of trap around here or if she was just trying to piss him off by doing what he was doing. Maybe he'd see if he could push her a little more. What would piss her off?

"Unless you have another house up your sleeves, I don't think I will. Then again, that didn't work for you before, either. What kind of magical girl are you, anyway? Some kind of half-assed hero? A villain? Or just some washed up wannabe?"

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"There you are!" Mao crossed his arms and looked Yorda over. "I thought I told you to come with me. What the hell took you so--?!" He cut himself off, noticing the basket in her hands. Whatever it was, something in there smelled good. Was that what she had spent all her time doing?

"What's in there?"

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