Sept 5th - She Can Dance?

[Jennifer Newgate]

"Dunno. Probably."

[Paul Valmont]

"Well, looks like I do this the sloppy way, then." He thought a minute, judging the distance, then threw out a portal, aiming the other end to open up about six feet below him.

[Jean-Louise Murphy]

The portal opened up into a large storage room that had been walled off during one remodel or another. Apparently, leaving behind a bunch of shelves, furniture, and random odds and ends.

Because that was normal.

The lights were on and Murphy was sitting on a twenty-year old couch a midst a veritable fortress of toppled over shelves.

"I found the lights!" Murphy says.

[Paul Valmont]

Seeing that he didn't open the portal into stone, Paul walked through. "What the hell?" he said, looking around at the doorless room.

[Jennifer Newgate]

"Oh wow..." Jennifer says, sticking her head through the portal briefly before climbing down into the hole and letting herself drop to the floor.

[Jean-Louise Murphy]

"Jennifer! Other person!" Murphy says, "Isn't it cool? It's like a secret room! And it's full of shelves! And a rake. And lacrosse sticks."

"And that broken foosball table."

The foosball table looks like someone very dense accidentally fell on it, breaking it in half.

[Paul Valmont]

"So... there's no door in here? But there is electricity?" Paul said, kind of boggling over it as he looked around.

[Jennifer Newgate]

"Your butt is a very dangerous weapon..." Jennifer decides, investigating the broken table.

[Jean-Louise Murphy]

Murphy giggles, "It's small, but it has enormous destructive capability."

"Yeah, there's electricity and we're still in range of the wireless!"

Murphy holds out her phone, showing that she was still connected to the school network. And had been downloading pictures of micropigs wearing hats.

[Jennifer Newgate]

"Why are those pigs wearing hats?"

[Jean-Louise Murphy]

"Because they are totes the adorbest piggies!" Murphy giggles, "They think they're people!"

[Jennifer Newgate]

"That's silly. So... there's no door out of here?"

[Jean-Louise Murphy]

"Huh?" Murphy asks. "Oh, I guess not? It's weird. It's like someone built around the room."

[Jennifer Newgate]

"That's pretty cool... A secret room."

[Jean-Louise Murphy]

"We should clean it up," Murphy says. "It could be, like, a secret base. Or a clubhouse."

[Jennifer Newgate]

"A hang-out. That nobody knows about... Yeah, that's awesome."

[Paul Valmont]

"So am I the only one that can get us in and out? I mean, obviously she can get in, but the 'out' part must be a problem."

[Jennifer Newgate]

"Looks like it."

[Paul Valmont]

"Awesome. I'm in."

[Jennifer Newgate]

"I wonder how much of this stuff we can salvage." she says, looking around at the various shelves and random assortments of junk.

[Paul Valmont]

"Doesn't matter. We can dump everything we don't want," Paul said, starting to look too. "I can open a trash portal, we can clear it out fast if we want."

[Jean-Louise Murphy]

"I can make a banner!" Murphy says, sounding excited.

[Jennifer Newgate]

"A banner? With what on it?"

[Jean-Louise Murphy]

"It'll say 'The Underground'," Murphy says. "Or, oh! 'Welcome to the Underground'!"

[Jennifer Newgate]

"Okay, that's good. I like that."

[Paul Valmont]

"We'll need more than one couch," Paul said thoughtfully. "I don't know where we'll find that, but we'll need it."

"And maybe someone who knows how to fix fooseball tables..."

[Jennifer Newgate]

"There's gotta be a Craigslist for british people... How hard can it be to find an old couch or two."

[Jean-Louise Murphy]

"We should get a minifridge," Murphy says. "For snacks."

[Paul Valmont]

Paul frowned, looking around. This seemed perfect... "Do you think the school even knows this room is here?"

[Jennifer Newgate]

"Dunno. They obviously don't care about it if they do."

[Jean-Louise Murphy]

As the two were talking, Murphy was composing a tweet about the secret room on her phone.

She was great at keeping secrets.