SS(S)S - Do some recon first

You’re dressed as Spider-Man. Climbing around and spying is like… obviously the thing to do. And if anyone sees you, your costume will make them think it’s just some dumb college prank. There’s no risk of anyone seeing your face; if it goes bad you can make a break for it. CGH girls are athletes, but unless a serious runner already has her shoes on and is outside the house… you’ll be gone before they can do anything.

You don’t just spy. You document. As you methodically make your way around the house, you take photos with your phone and memorize the layout. You aren’t kidding yourself: this isn’t a movie from the eighties. Having a tactical map of CGH House will never matter for a sweet, heist movie adventure with your friends… but it might matter today as you try to find Sal’s room and whatever clue there might be about what’s going on.

The first floor of the house is about what you expect: the house is nice, but it’s been lived in and some of these girls live hard. It’s messy and in some places dirty. They aren’t great about cleaning up after themselves. You see two girls on the first floor. Definitely a light crowd.

You take note: CCL has always had a rule that the first floor of CCL House, even the kitchen, must be clean. Pledges are mostly responsible for this, but it has to do with CCL’s problematic reputation. On those rare occasions when outsiders and adults come in, it’s important that they come into a clean place that smells good. It’s an old rule, but Athena has been firm about it.

CGH doesn’t give a fuck about anything like that, obviously. You make a face at the sight of a slice of pizza on a paper plate with a fly crawling on it. Slobs. One interesting feature is a big room on the first floor that just has desks in it. It’s a study area. CGH girls have to stay academically eligible, and the sorority takes that into account. You can’t judge these girls on their messiness… CCL House would look exactly like this if not for the first-floor rule.

You’re a swimmer, not a gymnast, but it’s easy to use the rear porch to climb to the second floor and prowl around those windows. There’s also a cute little garden in the back with tomatoes and cucumbers. Your mental image of CGH as a house of mouth-breathing bodybuilders isn’t holding up. They’re girls just like anyone else and Gurlberg Campus only has two sororities. It’s not like they have so many options, and CGH is probably the more rational one for most normal girls. CCL can be a badge of honor, but it’s also controversial. You can’t blame the average girl for being **** to take that on. You almost didn’t have the courage yourself.

There’s not much to see from the top of the porch: a bathroom and two bedrooms, hardly different from CCL House. At one end of the porch, you hear sounds from a window that’s just far enough away that you can’t see in. It sounds like bedsprings. A little afternoon delight in CGH House?

These windows are all closed and locked. To spy on the rest of the second floor or get inside, you would have to use the windowsills. The construction of the house makes you confident that you can do that without breaking your neck. However, this would be a difficult place to get caught. If you get busted while perched on or hanging from a windowsill, there’s nowhere to run.

You can head back down and go in through that first window with your new knowledge of the first-floor layout… or you can go full Spider-Man.