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Post by Jongluer on Aug 2, 2010 13:08:47 GMT -5
Arkadi turns up a wealth of information on the girls; their homes, their phone numbers, what cars they drive, birth places, facebooks, twitter accounts, and so on. Everything he needs to determine something resembling a daily schedule or a way to figure it out.
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Post by Arkadi Gorodin on Aug 2, 2010 13:13:11 GMT -5
He assembles this information in a temporary text file. After assuring himself he had mined everything he needed, he begins to synthesize: What he was really after was motive....their reason for opening a portal, a hint of prior dabblings with magic, something that pointed towards some sort of narrative....
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Post by Jongluer on Aug 2, 2010 13:22:17 GMT -5
Combing through countless photos, blog posts, and tweets Arkadi comes to two strange conclusions. Either these girls were searching for a fairy godmother or they were trying to become impregnated by a fairy.
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Post by Arkadi Gorodin on Aug 2, 2010 13:36:34 GMT -5
The deduction makes pulls him out of the cathartic moment like Brecht popping out the orchestra and throwing a pie in his face during Tchaikovsky's "Vakula the Smith". He is forced to examine, again, precisely what he is doing, and attempts to reassure himself that he DID indeed see what he saw earlier that afternoon.
[This is almost too stupid to entertain anymore....]
But, unless he had totally snapped, there was still a portal in the mechanical room that needed closing...
[Closing? Wait.....gowno!......]
He had completely forgotten to ask one of the most pertinent questions: Why the mechanical room in the first place? And how had to girls gotten into it, if the route between it and the school proper had several locked doors in between.
There was potential evidence there that bore investigating. He checks the timepiece on the wall of his bedroom/office. There was still time to head back....and if anyone asked, he was there under the pretense of checking on the A/C system, which had, after all, been acting up all week....
But before he does this, he makes sure to save a copy of the collected information, and to print it out.
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Post by Jongluer on Aug 2, 2010 13:44:50 GMT -5
After printing out his file, Arkadi returns to the AC room, moving through, he counts two different locked doors (one leading into the basement of the school and then another leading to the machine rooms and excess storage where the A/C room was located). The A/C Room is filled with the soft whirring and humming of various machines as he enters.
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Post by Arkadi Gorodin on Aug 2, 2010 13:50:04 GMT -5
He checks the locked doors for evidence of tampering, physical or otherwise.
He also scrutinizes the A/C room, to see if anything has changed since he left.
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Post by Jongluer on Aug 2, 2010 14:00:51 GMT -5
The A/C room has been left unchanged since he left it a few short hours ago. Though he notices that the doors have been quite poorly picked and monkeyed with, he had only not noticed before because it is not unsurprising for the lock to be a tad stuck and unmanageable but now with closer inspection he realizes that someone has screwed around with them.
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Post by Arkadi Gorodin on Aug 2, 2010 14:06:15 GMT -5
[That answers that question...]
He begins to wonder whether he should put in a work order for a combination lock......at the very least, he has some sort of physical evidence that someone has been breaking into restricted parts of the school.....this could be useful at some point down the road, and he makes a mental note to report it the next morning.
Before he leaves, Arkadi decides it best to check out the rooms beyond the lock-picked doors for further evidence, checking the basement first.
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Post by Jongluer on Aug 2, 2010 14:07:57 GMT -5
Beyond the portal in the A/C room Arkadi doesn't find much of anything in the basement beyond dust and mountains of unused equipment and out-of-date textbooks in various rooms.
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Post by Arkadi Gorodin on Aug 2, 2010 14:08:39 GMT -5
Case closed on the basement. He checks beyond the second door.
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Post by Jongluer on Aug 2, 2010 14:12:42 GMT -5
The machine room areas are kept more clean because they are slightly more well-traveled. Arkadi is not able to find any evidence for magical activity outside of the A/C room however.
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Post by Arkadi Gorodin on Aug 2, 2010 14:21:35 GMT -5
Having satisfied his curiosity, he decides that there is nothing left to be done that night, and so heads home.
The next morning, he returns early, clocking in and checking in with his supervisor for any early work orders.
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Post by Jongluer on Aug 2, 2010 14:30:34 GMT -5
There are no early work orders this morning, only the routine duties of keeping the school clean.
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Post by Arkadi Gorodin on Aug 3, 2010 11:49:35 GMT -5
While he is in the maintenance staff room to fetch the tool belt he uses on a daily basis, Arkadi pulls the few pages he printed out the night before and consults them to see if today would yield an opportunity to confront the girls.
He hadn't quite made his mind up yet as to his approach: direct or indirect. Then again, that had a way of sorting itself out when the moment came.
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Post by Jongluer on Aug 3, 2010 12:08:27 GMT -5
From facebook status updates and mobile tweets Arkadi knows that the girls generally ditch their fourth period class to go and hang out in an old unused room by the auditorium.
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