[Puzzle 011]

[hisapprentice]

[It's early in the morning, and there's a commotion. The village knows about this commotion because things are scattered in the scuffle, including Luke's journal. It thunks onto the floor of the apartment, open and 'on' enough to record...well.

The sounds of a scuffle.

Bangs and clangs and the occasional mechanical whirr or someone shouting (classic noir American accent or subtle/overt British one, take your pick!) and the end result is a nice, spread-out flurry of chaos.

In which one of the people living in the apartment is no longer there.

After a while, there are footsteps; it's Luke trudging over to pick up his journal and gingerly talk into it.]

Um. They came and...took Czes- Benjamin. [Not without a fight!] Maiza and Professor Layton and I tried to stop them, but it- it didn't work. Sorry. [...] Maybe he won't be gone for long.

[[ooc: Those replying may get an answer from Luke, Maiza, or Layton! Depends on who's got the journal at the moment, and who's off trying to clean up the mess in a dejected manner.]]

Comments

[action] in CH7, room 23

[reminded]

[Robots aren't too keen on settling things through puzzles, it would seem.

After the brief scuffle, Layton runs out of the flat in pursuit, his clothes in slight disarray. Unfortunately, he's confronted with nothing but silence and empty hallway. They're doubtless long gone by now.]

...

[voice]

[asobouyo]

I... um. Is everything okay? Are you okay?

[It's never good, when people get taken. She can't help but feel that pang of familiarity; she's definitely sympathetic. Luceti has a lot of downsides she doesn't like to consider very often.]

Voice

[theboywiththebook]

[He doesn't know this boy but hearing that someone was kidnapped...well it's not exactly fun. He's read on what the Malnosso does, like abducting people but after that, he doesn't know what happens.]

What happens...when they kidnap someone?

[Voice]

[immamartillo]

Czes? They...

[He should have been there. Not that he could have done a better job of protecting the kid--he's already seen how ineffective he is against the droids--but he could have at least tried and he feels somewhat guilty. Ennis wouldn't be happy to know they let Czes get taken, and Firo doesn't want to imagine what could be happening to the kid right now.]

...Are you okay? Is Maiza?

[Better to try and check on the ones who are still around than to mope.]

[reminded]

[Later on in the day, when the ruckus has more or less chilled out, Layton emerges from his room for a snack. He looks for Luke's form on the couch, but he the finds it curiously missing.]

Luke?