Glayp'neir (Arc 1)

Sharpe gets up and grabs a plate of waffles and fruit along with English muffins. He's just plain hungry. He walks back and sits with Air, so as to discourage Jack from getting any ideas.

Regarding this Necromancer business, it looks like he's going to have to be more careful as the muscle. As well, Jack seems to be a b uptight about what he deems appropriate for children. He looks up from his food for a moment, at least its not poisonous.

"That storeroom I think is where they keep the "cattle", or those who have been siphoned, waiting to be siphoned, or are in the process already. I regret not inquiring about it earlier when I could have pressed Janette. As well, some of us should look into those other guests at the table. They might be good sources to tap."

He finishes his waffle and sets aside his drink.

Dr. Atrium finishes up his food and downs his drink. He then gets up and puts his durty plates on the cart where there is a free spot. He walks back to Hitomi and rubs the top of her head. He smiles when she looks up at him and tries to smile back.

"You be a good girl and listen to Jian ok? I will be back as soon as I can."

He looks over at Jian.

"I trust you with her Jian. I know you will do the right thing and do what is best."

He gets up and looks at the hooded fellow, then at Jack.

"Jack, your coming too. We could use your gun and what skills you have if we run into some trouble."

He then looks at the lady.

"Sister, we could use your skills but if you don't want to join use, that is fine. If you do stay, please help Jian out."

He then walks over to Sharpe and Airgetlam.

"Sharpe, I think you should stay with Air. I mean, you have been hanging out with me all day. It's only fair that your lady friend here gets some Sharpe time."

He chuckles a little then looks at Air.

"If we hurt the necromancer enough and make him lose focus, that should cancel the spells he has. If the necromancer turns out to be the girl you are looking for, then I promise not to kill her or harm her more then we need to. Maybe if I get lucky I can find the necromancers journal or research books. Speaking of..."

He looks at Sharpe again.

"You should read the book that Air found. It could help you out."

He looks at everyone in the room.

"All righty everyone, looks like we are splitting again. Good luck to the rest of you and I wish you all to be safe. Hope to see you guys in a bit."

He walks to the door and peeks out. When he sees that there is no one in the hall, he tells Jack and the hooded fellow to fallow and he heads on out.

"It seems Jian took that joke a bit too personally. It's so odd. The bloke is completely calm when I almost shot someone and yet on edge when we're all calmly eating breakfast."

"Oh, Jian, old sport, if you wouldn't mind trying to teach Hitomi some English while looking after her, That would be marvelous. And you, miss. Unless you plan to come with us, I'll see you when we return and I would appreciate a name to call you by then. ta ta"

"I don't think I like the idea of handing those crystals off to some alchemist. There absolutely no one we can trust in this bloody castle....wait...the crystals.... protraction weaves...could it be? Bullocks, I'd need to experiment on them. I hope they bring those back in one piece"

"So doctor, I can only assume you have a plan to subdue the necromancer without hurting the girl. Care to indulge us with it?"

Jack, ordering him what to do, not sure how he's supposed to handle that. Especially because of the way he said it to him. He has a point, but elaborating the view behind it in a different perspective would've left a better impression.

He looks at the doc thereafter, just smiling after being trusted Hitomi. This might be a more peaceful task for now, hopefully. Sure, they're still stuck here, but that doesn't mean all of it is going to be just crazy chaos and stuff like that. He looks at Hitomi, just stroking through her hair, smiling.

"Well then, you had something to eat and drink already, how about we do something?"

He doubts that she'll understand what he says, but he's certain that he'll find a way to kill time with her. He just waits for everyone that leaves to leave the room, he lost track of who's going out and who's going to stay here. So patiently waiting he sits there, rubbing Hitomi's back while doing so.

Airgetlam blushes a deep shade of pinkish red as Doc walks past and leaves them in the room.

"B-but it's.. not like.. that..." she says and trails off.

She crosses her arms and looks as Jack leaves as well.


She sighs and looks through her pack, then pulls out the book, and opens it carefully, worried it might fall apart in her hands.

"Well guys, looks like it's story time." She flips to first page and looks about, nodding to everyone in the room.

"Let's see what we can find out about this place."

Airgetlam opens the book up, letting the pages flatter across. It's a rather slim diary and not all pages have writing on it. She catches a glimpse of a few sketches and sticky notes. After a bit of back and forth she flips to page one.

The writing on it is messy and the letters unreadable. In fact so unreadable that she doesn't realize at first that it's written in foreign symbols and letters. Only occasionally there are a few written words in common letters but most of it is nonsense to her. She flips a few pages, most of the same stuff untill quite a while in, a sketch of a circle with runes written into it. Underneeth in common writing is a label titled "Healing Spirit". And then a big paragraph of nonsense words, striked out and scribbled over as if it contained unwanted or false information. She flips a bit further, coming across sketches of skulls and bones. A few pages from that, an image comes loose and falls from the book, Airgetlam nimbly catching it in the air and flipping it back up to view it. It's a photo- in fact a very old one- of a mansion or castle perhaps. She recognizes it as the entrance hall they had all come in together, beautiful and clean as it was when they had entered. She reads the captioning on the photo; "ضحاک‎/ذهاک - Great Demon Dahaka".
She studies it further but can't see anyone or anything on the image so she sets it aside on a nearby desk and continues flicking through the pages.

Hitomi walks up to the desk and stretches, trying to reach the photo. She looks at it and studies it curiously, cocking her head. A lot more writing passes, followed by some empty pages with splatters of ink on them. Then suddenly more text, this time with a couple of readable letters forming words.

"Azidahaka.... Ahriman..." She reads out loud, running her fingers along the letters in thought. "Tool for world domination. Council of the Gods and Demons."

Briefly she looks up from the book, glimpsing across the room and then returning her attention back to the writing. A lot more random symbols and text that neither she nor anyone else here could possibly understand, followed by a big empty space with a box roughly sketched around a paragraph.

"Azi Dahaka." She begins to read out loud. "The three-mouthed, three-headded, six-eyed demon. It who possesses thousands of senses. The most powerful feral among the Druj. The one was created against the material world, to destroy the world of the good principle." Airgetlam frowns, her heart sinking a little at the image her mind had created reading this. She continues for a moment but can't seem to find anything interesting of note so far other than a folded piece of paper that slips by and falls to the ground. She picks it up, setting the book aside on her lap and opens it, reading the contents inside to herself.

The writings seem to be of a scientist or historian of sorts. It was written a good ten years ago by someone who had posession of this book and wrote some of the many notes scattered across. Fortunately his writing seemed to be less nonsensical and were understandable, if just as messy as the book itself.

It read; "From what I can take from this ancient diary, or should I say notebook- The Azidahaka is a strange demon that once was created to destroy mankind, without success. He was taken in by the god of all evil, Ahriman, and used as a tool for domination. The old world faded, and with this new world people don't seem to understand, came a lot of change. The daughter of a witch, turned vampire by one of the many magical diseases this world carries, was said to be the sole survivor of a slaughtering within castle Vikuur. She formed a pact with the demon Azidahaka who swallowed her soul and became a physical manifestation of evil, terrorizing the island-continent untill one day a group of adventurers destroyed her physical body. Only recently have I discovered the cult that plans to bring her back to life and the mistress herself has invited me to her castle to assist them in doing so. I'm both frightened and excited all alike. But who could refuse the calling of someone so powerful as her? I will be seeking the castle this week and do what I can to study this cult. Maybe they'll allow me to partake in their practices..."

Hitomi suddenly startles Airgetlam as she lets out a screetch of sorts, flinging the paper across the room and jumping into a corner opposite of it. The imposter-woman jumps- startled aswell as anyone in the room from the tension and walks over to the image, picking it up. Her eyes widen in disbelief as the photo now bears the demonic grin of a dragon-like snake with three heads and fangs and wings, burning. She can feel the warmth, almost as if the photo itself was burning her fingers. A little panicked she places the photo back on the book, and looks across the room, confirming that she was fine, for whatever reason. She moves back into a corner and crosses her arms lightly. Bending one wrist to look at her fingers. Blisters...
She tucks the hand away between her crossed arms and leans against the wall.

Airgetlam waits for her heart to deescalate in pulse, and she walks over to the photo. She picks it up with her silver arm, it glinting as the light outside found it, and raised it to look. Such a strange creature, one she thought she'd never see. The likes of it are unfamiliar, but yet her sense of fear just by looking at it is creeping into the back of her mind.

"Azi Dahaka... So then this is who is possessing Clarent? I think then... We have worse than a Necromancer on our hands... We have a demon as well. So then, whatever they are building must be something of magical nature. Sharpe," she says, turning to face him, "Who else was in the main hall? You mentioned some people at the table to go question? They're likely servants of this thing or perhaps vampires that followed this Witch-turned-Demon."

Sharpe rubs his stubble and blankly stares at the window, thinking.

"From what I remember, there were three of then, a man man of stern looks, a woman of nervous orientation, possibly anxiety, and an older, bored-looking man. I would think they are in the "East" of this castle, seeing as how we are yet to really see what else is here. At this point, Air, you know more about the layout than we do."

The swordsman rises from his seat and takes a piece of soda bread from the cart.

"I think there might be more laying about these rooms, we should keep looking." he says and takes a bite of the bread. He looks a bit more about his room and checks a dresser, pushing things this way and that.

"Really wishing I had my old friend from Essa out here, he'd know what to do about this."

Dr. Atrium shushes Jack. He looks around then starts to talk in a very light whisper that only can be heard by the three of them.

"You need to keep your voice down Jack. As you know, what we are doing is dangerous. We don't want to get caught snooping around. As for a plan, we have the element of surprise with us. I want to catch this necromancer off guard and put try and put him into a very deep sleep with my medicine I have. If I can get him, the stuff I have will put him into such a sleep that the necromancer will be unable to use the spells and they will all cancel. If we lose our surprise element, well, that is why I asked you and the other fellow to come along."

After some time they make it to the main dinning room where they had eating the night before. He leads them to the door behind the banner and when it is clear, they all slip inside.

Jian walks over to the woman, checking on her hand with the blisters.
"Are you alright? How did this even happen? Is the page like... hot, burning? Because this looks like an effect from a burn. Well... hang on..."

He takes out his water bottle, then putting off his sweater laying it down next to her, he gently takes the hand of her afterwards, letting some water run down on it. It dribs down into his sweat-jacket.

"Sorry if this hurts, but cooling it off might be the best way to go, don't you think?"
He adds a smile, dripping more water onto it as he says so. After the whole bottle is empty, he releases her hand with another reassuring smile. He takes his soaked sweat-jacket and lays it over the bottom edge of the bed-frame to let it dry.

His view shifts to Hitomi, she seems to be back at what she was doing. He goes to get his backpack from the other room he left it in, returning shortly after. He pulls out his last water bottle, handing it to Hitomi, she hasn't really bothered drinking much since he kept an eye on her, even with the doc present.

"Here", he starts, "You know what water is, I am sure, how about you drink some?"

He opens the bottle and hands it to her, in hope it won't get wasted by being spilled around. He has high enough faith into her understanding his idea behind this.

"Air, can I see the page for a second? I would like to have a look at it, maybe I recall something from what my parents told me. They always gave me a grasp of some sort of old stories, legends and whatnot. I can't guarantee that it will make any sense to me, but who knows?"

He walks over to her, in hope she'll agree in having him look at it.

In Sharpe's room... Hitomi eyes the bottle curiously, then picks it up and begins drinking from it as if second nature. She drinks only a little portion and puts the bottle on the floor, lying down on her back.

Doc's Sister, who has decided to stay behind, is lost in thoughts, studying her hand and thinking about the image. It felt hot, but not painful. Almost as if she was taken in by the image herself, or maybe it was leaking into reality. She shakes her head and closes her eyes, continuing to lean against the wall as she thinks to herself.

Doctor Atrium and Jack make sure they weren't followed, and then slip through the concealed entrance. As they do so, Doc notices Maigoyume who was initially following them has dissapeared. He pokes his head outside to check, but no sign of Mai. He decides to leave it at that and turns his attention back to the little stairway they entered. Jack has already traveled down the stairs to a glass door. Through it he can see a mechanical console of sorts, and a few screens and a piece of glass seperating what looks like metal tanks. The technology looks rather foreign but doesn't seem hard to understand. He fiddles around the door, it seems the mechanism that makes it slide open on its own has broken so he presses his hands against the glass and uses the friction to slide it open partway.

Jack nods to doc and they both enter the little control room. The room is rather plain, save the excessive electronics and a wall with glass seperating the two rooms from one another. There is another glass door, with a keypad for a lock leading to a small hallway that should bring someone to the next room. As they look through the glass wall there are many metal tanks standing in rows, connected to some sort of network of metal and rusting gold.
Doc gives his attention to the console with its levers and buttons. It's a bit more complicated than either him or jack would like, and it would take more than a bit of studying to be able to figure out how it works. So Jack decides to pull a random lever.

With a sudden loud sound, the tanks begin exhausting some sort of gas, and bit by bit, the sheeted metal surrounding them slide down into the ground besides them, revealing a shocking sight.
Hundreds of men and women, though mostly women, sleeping or possibly dead inside of tanks filled with an unknown liquid, only the occasional bubbles rising inside of the tanks.

Airgetlam looks back at Jian for the moment and nods, her mind having been taken by the image. She looks at her silver arm and finds that it is completely unscathed. She gets up, keeping her place in the book and puts the photo there as a placeholder just in case and passes it to Jian.

"Please, be careful, don't want you burned, or worse..." She says.

"Wait... Doc and Jack went off looking for Dahaka, right? So shouldn't we alert them to the fact that they could be facing potentially worse? I know he told us to stay here, but I have this really, really bad feeling they could find themselves in deep shit!"

Sharpe raises an eyebrow at Airgetlam and the burning situation.

"When did you figure out how to not get nailed with magic? Never mind, don't worry about it. As far as Doc and Jack, I believe they went to check out the dining
hall. They are unlikely to attempt action unless we are present."

He keeps looking through the things, and he eventually becomes disinterested in the drawer. He moves over to the closet and looks inside, tossing aside anything in the way.

Dr. Atrium is shocked at what he sees. Rows and rows of people inside tubes as if they were nothing but tools to be used later. He growls.

"The hell is this? I can see now why they called it storage, this is were they are keeping the people they find or bring back from the dead. We have to see if there are any people living in here."

He walks down a small flight of starts and makes his way over to the first tank and looks at it. The glass is a a bit thick but not too much. He pulls out his giant scalpel and stabs the bottom of the tank as hard as he can. His weapon goes through the glass and when he pulls it out, the stuff starts to poor out. He looks at his weapon and to his horrar sees that it is starting to melt. He then throws it up to where Jack is and jumps onto the tube that is behind him. he uses that to get to the stairs. When he gets to Jack, he looks to see if any of the stuff got on him.

"I have no idea what the hell that shit is...but it just ate through my steal weapon as if it was paper...damn it...we should leave before someone sees what I have done. looks like that stuff is starting to eat through the floor."

"Bloody hell...this would be quite fascinating if it wasn't so horrifying"

"Doctor, wait. I think I understand whats happening here. If, I am right, these chambers work like protraction weaves. That toxic fluid is draining the victims of their life energy. Then, the chamber, like a protraction weave, through some sort of use of magic, converts the life energy into some sort of new form of energy that is is conducted by gold and insulated by silver. We can't leave now. We must find out what all these chambers are being used to power and then shut this grid down. Prepare any weaponry necessary for what we find down there."

Jack takes out his gun. He hold it in his mouth by the handle. Then, he lights matches. The gun absorbs the heat as if it was drinking the flames. The matches become cold as ice and the gun gives off a mysterious shine. Jack uses up his last match and loads a single bullet into the chamber.

"You said I haven't witnessed horrors like you have. In that case, you shouldn't be afraid of what lies down there. Let's get a move on"

He grabs the page, feeling the warmth that comes from it. He takes the edges, knowing it might cause burns if not careful.

"Well... let's see...", he starts, looking at the picture. He remembers it from somewhere, but he can't put his finger on it. Not from his parents, but something regarding this was mentioned sometime. After about 10 minutes of thinking about it, he just shakes his head.

"Nope, I can't really help. It rings a bell, but that's about it..."

He puts the page back down and goes to pick up the water bottle. He rubs the belly of Hitomi, smiling. He knew he could trust the water to her without it being spilled. He gets back up and turns around.

"But you're right, we can't really just sit here and wait, rather... I can't."

He balls his fist. He bursts with confidence, his fears, swept away for now. He pulls out the dagger the doc gave to him. Looking at himself in the blade.

"I need to step up my confidence, I need to help for once, not be helped. Sharpe, you should come with me, you don't have to, but I'll follow them. Air, please watch after Hitomi, when in doubt, just smile and rub her back, she seems to like that. It should give you the chance to build up trust with her, I'll leave my water here so she can drink. Anyhow, I am off."

Unsure of what gave him the confidence, he swiftly moves out after checking both sides of the hallway, he remembers where the door was, being the one spotting it back when eating in the hall.

Hitomi makes a sound reminiscent of a giggle as her belly is rubbed and then rolls around on the floor, shortly after getting up and jumping onto the bed, once again playing with the blanket. Meanwhile doc's sister hands Airgetlam a sheet of paper.

"I can take care of your daughter." it says. She pulls one of the chairs into the corner and sits back, crossing her arms and legs.


As jack and doc move into the room it seems like most of the liquid has eaten strange patterns into the tiled ground, becoming sterile rather quickly after the exposure to air and lack of magic surrounding it. Though it is clear that if fresh batches of this liquid landed on a surface it would eat a man alive, at least halfway, or perhaps even do much worse than that...

Jack leads the way, his gun in hand. He checks the tubing in the area, seeing how it is all connected. His mind, thinking like a machine, is analyzing and noting the different features and builds. He figures out rather quickly where it leads and continues, having doc follow in behind himself, both watching their steps as they move through the rather long room. While they move closer, doc can feel some unnatural slight annoyance sting in the back of his head. Like a sudden headache, not really painful as just bothersome, but becoming stronger though not overwhelmingly so as they continue. They get to the end of the room with all the pipes and wires connecting to a big socket at the wall. Two sliding doors, made of metal instead of glass are on each side leading to a room on the other side of the wall. Doc and Jack nod at each other without words and stand aside each door, tapping the pads on each side simultaneously. The doors open and both are overwhelmed by a sudden foul and tangy smell. They both enter the room which is lit very brightly. All that is contained inside is a clear glass container standing on top a pedestal with a glowing red sphere inside of it. The tubes from the socket in the wall run into the glass container, occasionally puffing out various coloured gasses of sorts that the orb seems to absorb rather gluttonously.

Jacks first thought was to smash the glass and take a closer look at the orb, but he stomps himself, considering what happened when the doctor tried that earlier.


As Jian leaves the room he moves rather hastily, wanting to do his part. He goes down the two halls and down the small flight of stairs and then stops abruptly as he sees Janette just a few steps infront of him, moving towards the dining hall together with a man with platinum blond hair and a rather fancy merchant's suit. They converse together as they casually make their way to the dining hall, not noticing Jian as he hides at the stairs.

"Yes but, your job is it to keep the mistress happy. You see? And my job is just to gather worthless people like you, Janette. Right? So there is no problem, You know." the man says in a rather disrespectful tone.

"I understand, Sir." Janette replies, a smile to her tone. "I'm just here to serve. Forgive my intrusion." she continues and they enter the dining hall.

As Jian gets up, Airgetlam is shown the paper that the sister has written on.

"She's not mine, but thank you. Jian's not exactly the most stable or capable of people; this means a lot." She gets up, taking her crossbow with her and picks up the book, shoving it back into her back.

"Let's go, Sharpe! Show me what a Ronin of Teyness can do!" She says and rushes after Jian.

As she runs, she manages to get a glimpse of him turning around a corner, and as she rounds it in turn, she sees Jian has stopped for no explainable reason. She pokes him.

"Did you see a ghost or something worse? You took off and I finally caught up to you finding you all stiff as a stone." She says.

"Wait, Air-" Too late, she's already out the door.

"Pff, whatever, guess I gotta go anyway." He sighs and runs as well, gripping his sword's handle.

"Hey, if you could look around while you're here, it'd be much oblidged. I know we didn't ask your name, and I'm sorry about that, but duty calls."

He starts jogging and sees he's losing pace with Airgetlam, and he decides to pick up that pace. He notices her run around the next corner, and he increases his speed to catch up. He rounds the corner as well and finds her just stopped there, poking Jian, who has also stopped, both ahead of him a ways.. He starts to slow down his momentum until he is at a stride and walks the rest of the way until he is beside Airgetlam.

Dr. Atrium looks at his palm and sees that it is a bit red. He frowns, there is nothing he can so until the moon shines once more. He looks at the red stone and thinks on what he should do. If he had to guess, that stone was the center to what ever the tubes are for. He walks over to the glass case and taps on it. He is shocked when the case around the stone moves. He is able to take it off and he does. His curiosity gets the better of him.

"This stone...I think I have read about this, it is artifact that can store power and give it to the right sort of people. And it has a sort of basically magical programming that decides who it will give power too which none in the group could change and none of the group will be able to receive said power its meant for specific genetics. If I remove it, that should make who ever is getting the power, powerless."

He reaches out and grabs the stone with both hands bit the moment he does he gets shocked so back that he cant move his hands. Being unable to move he is forced to stand there and get shocked for a bit before he is thrown from the stone and into the wall. He lets out a moan of pain when he hits the wall, then sinks to the floor some steam coming off of him.

Jack quickly helps the doctor up.

"A self defense mechanism, eh? Quite a nifty piece of machinery we have here. HAHAHA, at the end of the day this is merely a circuit. This crystal, the necromancer, let's shut them down like anything in a circuit. By cutting off the power.

Sparks begin to fly as Jack's knife rips through countess golden wires. Jack cuts wire after wire at great pace only stopping for a short moment to put to put some of the wire in his pocket for later experiments.

"There was a man, talking to Janette, saying that his job basically is to gather "worthless" people like her.", he simply says, not even turning around to her.

"Come on, we have to get going.", he adds, still not facing Air. He just gets up slowly, working his way through the hallway towards the huge dining hall. He doesn't notice Sharpe catching up, neither does he ask why Air is not taking care of Hitomi. His focus just is set on what lies ahead right now, still being filled with lots of unexplained confidence. Reaching the hall he just peeks around, checking his surroundings.

Jian peaks through the door and see's Janette and the man stand side by side at the dining table. She is pouring him a glass of wine or something and they are both conversing, though their words are barely hearable by Jian. Janette's expression is as friendly and hyped as usual, though the other man's expression turns rather disgusted and he puts the glass down on the table rather roughly. "Idiot!" he suddenly yells and throws his arm out, holding his hand out to the side as Janette flinches, but continues to smile, this time more in awe than in excitement. He calms himself for a moment, rubbing his forehead and then becomes a bit limp. They continue their conversation.

Jian looks over to the door. A red smoke of sorts is beginning to flow out of the top of the entrance. It looks unnatural, and surely it has to do with wherever Jack and Doc went in there. He looks across back to Janette and the man, both of which too caught up in their discussion, Janette looking rather tauntive while the man seems very aggravated. Jian then looks off to the side, and see's the maid from earlier poking her head out of what he assumes must be the kitchen. She's got a grim expression on her face and seems to be about ready to retreat back behind the door when Jian notices movement. The man has turned to move towards the door but hasn't seemed to notice the smoke quite yet. Janette pacing after him as suddenly Ayame flinches and hastily walks out of the kitchen door.

"Ex- Excuse me!" She yells across the room, catching their attention. She waves them over a moment, but only Janette walks off. The man sneers and then straightens his coat, turning back towards the door. He then halts, noticing the smoke, and storms off through the door, leaving Ayame with an extremely worried expression. Ayame leads Janette through the kitchen door and everyone has dissapeared from the room.

"Well, Well." A voice sounds through some speakers in the room Jack and Doc are in. "Looks like a few rats have left their nest to play with the house cat, right?" the voice echoes. Suddenly, a sheeted metal cage slides down ontop of the sphere, startling them both just as much as the sudden voice. "It's not nice to play with other childrens toys, you see?" the voice says, as the man stands infront of the console on the other side of the room, behind the glass window. He presses a button and the glass door next to him aswell as the metal doors on each side of that small room containing doc and jack slide closed, giving a beep to confirm they have locked in place.

Airgetlam looks at Jian and back to Sharpe, who has taken his place by her side.

"Course of action? Looks like Ayame distracted Janette, maybe she knows we're here." She reasons.

She eyes the door on the opposite side with the smoke, and decides for herself they should move forward.

"We should take advantage of this opportunity, God knows if we'll get another."

She begins to pressure her weight on the door, realizes she better use her left arm for most of this, as it might help them out here. She doesn't know why, but she feels that it'll be more safe instead of her flesh-arm. She begins to push the door open and she brings her crossbow up with her right arm, as the left opens the doorway. She walks in and Sweeps the room with the weapon and notes nothing of immediate threat to them. She looks to the door that Ayame was peeking out from, but it looks like they won't have to worry about that for a bit. She hopes so anyway, Janette and her creepiness really puts her on edge. She's probably shown herself a lot more to everyone else. Airgetlam's only seen her about once, and heard her in the dungeon. She backs herself against the side of the door to the smoke-clogged room. she motions for Sharpe to get on the other side.

Sharpe removes his pistol from it's holster and flips the safety off, as well as pulling out his sword, keeping it slightly raise, and the pistol in his left hand checking his corners as well. Even though Airgetlam checked before, it's always good to have a second set of eyes scanning your surroundings, picking up things you might have missed. So far, he spots nothing noteworthy, and he strides over to the table, examining if there is anything there of note, but it's just a wine glass, one with only a small bit of wine left. He frowns and continues over to the door, where Airgetlam is waving him to get into a breaching position. He keeps his weapons ready as he stands there, and watches for Jian to ready up with them.

"I'll take lead, you two cover me. Jian, watch our ass. Keep watch in case something tries to claw at us or Janette comes back, alright?" he says.