<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Original</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=255198.msg12634960#msg12634960">Quote from: KirbysFolly on 08-09-2016, 23:20:18</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>Sun-hwa:</strong><br/><br/>The small item turned out to be a playing card of some sort, apparently old and cheaply made. It was nearly black with age and dirt, and had a piece of scotch tape sticking up on the top and bottom edges, like it had been taped to something. On the back was a misaligned knockoff of the Bicycle deck design, and the front had nothing but a picture of a small stone tower.<br/><br/>Down the hall, Sun-hwa could see that the door leading into the bedroom had been replaced with what looked like a metal-reinforced screen door. Since the door wasn't solid, she could see into the room easily enough. It had all the usual bedroom furniture, a bed, a dresser, a nightstand, and included a small table with a mirror and some makeup scattered around on it. Leaning up against one wall was a regular interior door, likely the one that had been removed to make way for this one.<br/><br/>The kitchen looked like a standard kitchen, except for the lack of a microwave. The counter dropped down to serve as a bar on the living room side of the apartment, and two stools were set up at it, although one had been knocked down. Next to the other stool, on the floor, was a disconnected answering machine, a tiny bit of dust on top of it. Sitting on the bar above it was an old plastic telephone. Mounted on the wall above that was a calendar, still on August, with careful red X's through every day up until the 29th. A pair of small books sat next to the phone, one a day planner, the other had a plain black faux-leather cover, and sat open midway through. Inside was a list of names, addresses, and phone numbers. These two pages were for K's, and had four entries.<br/><br/>The living room had two couches and a recliner, all arranged in a circle around a sturdy-looking wooden coffee table. There was no TV, but there were a couple bookshelves against the walls, filled with an assortment of paperback novels. Behind the couches, a sliding door let out into the area behind the building. The stick to lock the sliding door was out of the track, laying on the carpet. On the bottom shelf of one of the bookshelves was a pile of old calendars, about nine of them.<br/><br/>There was a clock in each room of the apartment, but the only picture to be seen was one of those novelty old-timey photos, of a girl probably in her late teens, and a woman who looked like her mother, hanging on the long wall in the living room. Nobody was home, and aside from the stool that had been knocked down, and the wooden stick for the door being out of the track, nothing looked like it had been disturbed.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div></div></div><br/><br/>Sun-hwa thought about what was going on, and she decided that the day planner and nabbing those contacts seemed to be the best bet for figuring out what had happened, or perhaps it would give her an idea of where the house's occupant had buggered off to. She made a note of the Ks, where the book was open to, and she noticed the calendar was marked to the 29th, so she opened the planner to the 29th to see if there was anything special meant for that day. The 29th of August, though? It was September 1st, so it had only been a few days since May had stopped crossing out days off the calendar, so whatever had changed had clearly happened around then--had May been away from the residence since the 29th?<br/><br/>The re-inforced door to the bedroom was so disturbing that Sun-hwa was starting to wonder if May had been attacked....or had been expecting to be attacked.<br/><br/>She read the planner--specifically looking at August 29th--in the hopes it would provide her with more info. Clearly no one was here, and that meant Sun-hwa would need to actually try to figure out where May was. She could always tell Alice she couldn't find her if push came to shove...but a better question was<em>'Should I call the police? Something seems like it's gone wrong; can't you file a missing persons report after 24 hours? But if Alice wanted that, couldn't she have done it already?'</em>Sun-hwa thought about the peculiar playing card, as if taped to something, and she also looked around to see if there was anything that looked like the card might have been taped to.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Not sure if I need to make any rolls! Just let me know if I do, and I can edit them into this post. :) </div></div>