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Chapter 50 by Almax Almax

What do you do?

In the air vent, then!

This is getting complicated!

You awkwardly scramble your way up and into the metal shaft. It's rectangular and a pretty low ceiling -- you have to crawl through on your stomach. At first it's cramped and not nice and you feel lost and you're not having any fun anymore and you want to go home, but then you hear something echoing through the vents a little bit deeper in. It sounds like whistling.... happy whistling! To the tune of the serenade that Lexi gave you!

With your target marked and your purpose reignited, you begin your belly-down wiggle-crawling adventure through the vents. It takes a little while -- at one point, you pass over the lecture theatre and can see the person on stage through a vent grate{if Whore>0} (Hey, wait a sec, did that lecturer on the stage just say "Whore House"?){endif}. It makes you feel really cool. Maybe you can come here some time and watch theatre stuff in a little secret space, and bring food and stuff, it'd be so awesome.

But for now, you pause only briefly and pull a funny face at the lecturer stage (which you feel really bad about for the next few minutes) and keep going down the vents. A short time later, the whistling transitions into quieter but just as happy-sounding humming of a tune you don't recognise. It's the same section over and over, and she kind of stumbles over the notes but gets better each time, so it's probably something developmental. You're getting early access!

It's cut off by a loud creaking squeal of hinges. Did she just leave the vent? What the heck is up? You follow along in the direction she left in -- or at least, you think you do, because you eventually make it to a dead end wall grate where the vent does air stuff, and it doesn't have any hinges. You totally went the wrong way. But you've got a nice high-up view of the courtyard now! Lower than from your room's window, but still, higher than when you're walking down there. That's nice. It look weird when it's so empty.

Hang on, it's not even empty! Bridget Sluddsan{if@ PuterLooker == False}, the Warrior woman who went on stage before the second lecturer,{endif} is walking around in her shiny armour, looking over the place with her hands behind her back. The Arena tent (which she just stepped out of), the Gym building, the high-up room windows, the food court, just a general sweep of the place. You nearly call out to her and wave before you remember that you're supposed to be in a lecture right now, and supposed to be in a second-story air vent never.

Well, now what?

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