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Who: Hiroshi and whoever else joins him or occupies the building, along with very bad things.
Where: Sirocco Library
When: February 3
What: Hiroshi's found a potential solution to the Oni problem -- but he's soon got problems of his own...
Notes: Part of the Ao Oni plot. Remember that it is possible to die and become an Oni, but this is entirely mun fiat. Note that the plot will still advance if this thread does not wrap up within the week, but a lot of things will have to be handwaved.

The face wakes him up again. He's been seeing it in his dreams more often since the alerts began going up. His actual dreams, not the memories that had occasionally masqueraded as dreams. He's not sure what's worse.

At least he's reminded of where he is. Not that it's difficult, considering he's been here for several days straight now, barring closing hours. The Library in Sirocco is reassuringly large and comprehensive. Surely, with the hundreds and hundreds of tomes sitting on these shelves, something would turn up of use. But he's beginning to run out of time today; closing hours are fast approaching.

He sighs, flipping through the pages of the book in front of him. He looks down. Furrows his brow. His finger runs along the lines as he tries to make sure he's reading what he thinks he is.

"Th...this is it!" he yelps -- and turns red as he's quickly shushed.

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Yuta had also ducked under the llama!oni, although he was probably short enough to avoid it anyway. "Didn't your book have some way of getting rid of them?! Why can't we just do that?!"

Llama Oni probably should've gone all the way out of that aisle, and now currently has to deal with a pretty heavy shelf. It's shaking pretty wildly; getting out would be a good option.

"Because we have no idea how much of this stuff is available anywhere else! We lose it, we may lost important information we need!" he yells back. To Yuta, he adds, "And it's not something we can just whip out like that! We have to -- whoa!"

He pulls up short as the flat oni tries to charge at him -- and rams into the wall again, as Hiroshi's well-timed stop prevents it from getting him. He runs past it while it's stunned. "Come on, talk later!"

"So your plan is to just keep running around them and hope they leave a space to get out eventually?!"

This sounds like an awful plan. Palom takes the opportunity to try and freeze the oni to the wall as he scampers on by.

Rudolph rubs his shoulder as he keeps running, eyes peeled. "What about the Librarian? She may have the keys!" He called out to the group as he kept pace.

"Is she even still alive? There's already more of them than we thought!"

Yuta continues running, although he pales at a sudden thought.

"And if they get her, she'll..."

Damnit. "Okay, look. I'll get them in one place, you do that... whatever thing you did to make them stop for a bit, and the rest of you guys get her the hell out of here! There might be another one near the entrance, too, so be careful!" He doesn't wait for anybody to accept; he just divebombs over, leaping onto a table. "OVER HERE!" he shouts, heart pounding.

This is suicidal. But he can't shake the feeling that it's him they want more than anybody else. The other monsters begin to make their way through the aisles back to him...

"You're gonna die! Who'll feed the dumb octopus if you die?! I'm not doing it! I don't even like it! Hiroshi!"

Palom casts one last spell, covering the floor underneath the monsters with slick ice in the hopes that they slip before he turns away.

"Are you mad?!" Rudolph hisses. "That's suicide - it's best we stay together." He stated as he grabs a lamp from the table and throws it at another display case, shattering the glass to distract it further. "Come on!"

Yuta runs only a little longer before he stops, pausing to isolate them. In his mind, he pictures a large box, forming right around all of the monsters - and the bookshelves between them.

"Come on-!"

It is only after the Onis slip, slide, crash into things, and are eventually -- temporarily -- isolated that Hiroshi realizes in the back of his mind that he hadn't actually been CERTAIN if Yuta could pull it off. He sure is glad he could, though!

He darts off the table and looks under the desk. "No arguing! Let's get going here!" he shouts, grabbing the woman's arm. An odd thing to say, since the woman apparently has no intention of arguing. Or shushing. Quiet time in the library is CLEARLY not an option here.

He heads back towards the front, barking at the woman to pull out her key. She obliges, and he leads the way to the front as the Onis break out of isolation.

There's an unfortunate victim here, as well as a door to the back room of the library that is undeniably locked. The victim's head has been bitten right off, but Hiroshi knows better than to get anywhere near it. Good thinking; close inspection indicates both that the skin is turning blue, and the head is growing back.

Better hurry, guys.

That is pretty much the grossest thing he's ever seen ever. ...Actually, Scarmiglione could probably give it a run for its money, but Palom doesn't remember that quite yet. He will, however, have a distinct thought that he's fought tons of zombies and ghouls and stuff like that before and the right thing to do was to set them on fire.

That is what he does. Palom will wave impatiently for Hiroshi and the librarian to hurry up.

Rudolph felt bile in the back of his throat at the body especially as he sees the slow change. Suddenly in a fit of misplaced rage he grabs a broken stem of a floor lamp and slams it into the body as hard as physically possible, ignoring the rather sickening sound.

"Let's go." He hisses as he steps back and ran to the door.

Since everyone else is taking a shot at it, Yuta goes ahead and isolates both the body and a decent amount of space around it. If the fire catches, it'll have more oxygen to keep on burning instead of being snuffed out right away.

"Hurry up!"

The body twitches and contorts angirly at the constant disturbances. As a corpse, it seems to be burning away, but it seems to be a war between the burning of flesh and its conversion to pure oni. Of course, isolated like that, nobody can see it.

Hiroshi steadies the librarian as she shakily unlocks the front door. It takes a bit, but thankfully she manages to get it, and the doors open.

The Onis are trudging along behind them, but the way open is present now. Hiroshi takes advantage of it, leading the woman with him.

Various cop cars are beginning to pull up to the library now.

Palom bursts out through the door into the fresh air and freedom. ...That wasn't nearly as bad as the first encounter, but still. These things were bad news.

"Don't go in there! You're just gonna get killed!" The cops will surely listen to his words of sage advice. He turns to Hiroshi as he stumbles out, making sure that he's going all the way down into the street. Knowing him, he'd turn around halfway and say something dumb like, 'Wait I've got to see if there are any other survivors'.

Rudolph follows out, panting heavily. "The Blue Monsters are in there, you heard the reports." He stated as he silently prayed to anyone that the others go out.

Yuta's the last one out, though he turns around to watch the entrance as soon as he's a decent ways out. If those blue monsters even so much as take one step out of the door, he'll immediately isolate the entire thing.