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This place is just hilarious. Seriously, I can tell. Barrel of laughs a minute from here on out.

[Phantom Girl has swapped out her black and white costume for a dusty old tan jumpsuit and a whole lot of weird electronic equipment. Actually, she vaguely resembles......]

Apparently, 'helping the city' translates into 'ghost-hunting' today, which is just about the worst use of my superpowers I've ever heard. ...Maybe I need a new costume insignia. Anyway, I'm not egotistical enough to think I can handle everything on my own - I've only been here like, two weeks, and yeah, there's stuff in this crazy place I've never gone up against before.

So! ...Who wants to help me out? I can make it worth your while. Never hurts to have a bona fide superhero in your debt, right?

I've been hearing about this weird castle that turns all spooky at night. In the, uh... Leo district, I think it was? It's pretty recognizable. Lots of gold filigree and that kind of thing. If you think you're game, feel free to meet me there a few minutes before midnight.

I'll totally bring snacks.

((Edit! The action/log portion will be taking place here instead.))

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Kairi lets out a deep breath she hadn't known she'd been holding, giving Kotoha a slightly embarrassed grin and pushing her hair back out of her face.

"It's called a shotlock! It takes a lot of work, but it's pretty worth it, huh? My Master taught it to me back at the world I was at before this one."

She holds her keyblade in the air and casts a Group Curaga, hopefully renewing some energy and taking the edge off after that fight. The redhead lets her keyblade dissipate for now, stretching her arms behind her back before turning to look at Kotoha again.

"Time to find our way back!"

Kotoha pauses briefly for thought, one hand resting on her belt of pokeballs.

"...we probably shouldn't rile up the ghosts too much until we're out, huh."

There's a slight pause as she signals to her team.

"But, uh...it's not just me that thought evil nurses trying to subdue us was kind of creepy, right?"

Totally way creepy.

They're not out of the woods yet, though. In the absence of the nurses, the corridor has grown quite dark... Natural enough, given that it was past midnight.

Eventually, as they speak, something will appear in the darkness behind them - the same wisp that had sounded the alarm earlier. This time, though, it bobs in place and sedately follows a path around the corner.

Should they follow it, they'll be met with a split path, and the wisp bobbing down the hall to the left.

"That'd probably be a good idea."

Kairi replies, dimming the sphere of light that hovered over her shoulder just in case it spawned on any more unwanted visitors. She purses her lips a little at the second question, nodding her head.

"Completely. And what did they call us, Unwinds...? Ah, look!"

She switches her attention as the wisp appears, taking a step forward experimentally and looking back at Kotoha as it begins to bob its way down the hall.

"Better plan than no plan, right?"

Kotoha signals to her pokemon.

"Mm, yeah. Okay guys, form up."

As Kotoha falls into line behind Kairi, the three pokemon form a perimeter around them.

Whether or not following the wisp that had put them in danger in the first place is a good idea is a question that is likely to be answered soon. The bobbing flame leads the way silently, illuminating the hallway as it goes - Kairi and Kotoha may soon notice that within the perimeter of its eerie light, the building around them appears... different.

Though the structure is ruined, the will o' the wisp reveals that the building they stand in was something once resembling a dormitory. Rooms are set to either side, and at one point, a bulletin board with messages and notes printed on assorted, colored sheets of paper. If read, they will be found to consist of the single word 'unwind' over and over. ...Deep digging will reveal that one sheet of paper remains intact.

It reads as follows.

"Unwind, by the signing of this order, your parents and/or legal guardians have retroactively terminated your tenure, backdated to six days postconception. Any rights previously granted to you by the county, state, or federal government as a citizen thereof are now officially and permanently revoked."

The will o' the wisp continues on and now, it seems, ghostly faces can be glimpsed for the briefest of moments. Girls and boys, Kotoha and Kairi's age, bodies passing through the hallway, occasional unintelligible whispers floating past their ears.

It will stop, finally in front of one of the doors before bobbing inside. The hallway continues to stretch in front of them - and behind them, of course. The dormitory room has a faded, almost illegible name on a placard: 'L_ss__er'.

They are free to enter or to explore elsewhere.

Kotoha just sort of stares at the sole intelligible message on the paper.

"...this cannot mean what it's saying."

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