Arrival at Ivory Tower

This is the 1st session of the **Mystery of the Haunted Library** campaign for The Investigation Crew.

//Note: Not putting descriptions on our characters or locations already present on the main page. That was done well and if individual information is to be added I think we can make our own individual characters pages or something. I also forgot the timeline for a LOT of stuff so feel free to correct me on anything I missed / got wrong//

The Ivory Tower Gang’s adventure began on the first day of school. Classes started as normal as the gang were introduced to their new classmates alongside their homeroom teacher Mrs. G. The first row was composed of Lelouch (leader of the gardening club and son of the Arby’s manager present in town), Blake Starlight, Cyrus (a conspiracy theorist and overall weird kid), Yuki, and Hibari. The second row was composed of Morgiana, Killua, Amanda Clark, Adrien Knight, and Hinata. The third row was composed of Josuke, Anri, Audrey Bain, Reze, and Ben (10). The back of the classroom was composed of Mylo Vodk, Kurapika, Jimmy (A troublemaker who was allowed to do as he pleases for whatever reason), Shaquana, and Jackson (Jax) Bailey. Monday morning began with the homeroom teacher welcoming the students and starting with mathematics, on the first day…. How cruel. The next period consisted of English with Mr. T, a teacher who seemed distant because of dealing with external issues. Homework was not assigned in this class, a tradition which would continue for the entire first week (maybe more, we’ll see next week).  Third period was History with Mr. W followed by fourth period Biology with Mr. S.  In one of these classes Jimmy chose a victim, today it was Adrien, to throw a piece of paper at. A tradition that unfortunately remained consistent for the first week of classes with new victims each time.

As Lunchtime approached Adrian and Amanda went to the rooftop together. Trying to toss his textbook to Amanda to help her do her homework he accidentally hit and broke a flowerpot, property of the gardening club, so they quickly decided to leave the rooftop. Blake went to try and sit with Lelouch’s group however there was a mixup where he mistook two very clearly different animals which made it quite awkward. Maybe it was first day of school nerves. Returning to class Blake noticed that somebody, Jimmy, had put thumb tacks on the chair. Blake proceeded to just pick them up for himself. The final period of classes of Art was run by none other than Mr. Popo, a man who truly struck fear into all who beheld him. A man who continually insulted the students and their horrible art ability. However, his disgust with the students work usually meant a short class and so everyone was let out earlier (Horray?).

Mylo and Jax decided to work together on their homework in the library that afternoon. Amanda and Adrien were discussing together when Blake came in with his Sonic x Tails Fanfictions to contribute to the conversation while Audrey listened in, shortly joining the conversation. Due to a horrible incident on the rooftop the gardening club hands out fliers for a deal at the local Arby’s to raise funds for the destroyed plant. One way or another, all six of the soon to be Ivory Tower Gang members arrived at the Arbys. They ended up sitting together and talked a bit. Half of the group headed to the Mall while Mylo, Audrey, and Blake stayed at Arby’s. Through his great compassion, Blake directly gave some of his money to the gardening club leader Lelouch. He was so grateful and touched by Blake’s actions that he offers to give a ride to all three. However, Mylo stayed behind to read up on the textbook causing him to have to take the bus back.

The next day classes proceed as normal and the gang decided to sit together at lunch. At some point during this day parts of the gang headed towards the mall again with Amanda heading there to apply for a job (this might’ve been day 1). In either this day or the next Audrey also applied for a job.  Adrien was able to successfully woo a girl and they plan to have a lunch date on Wednesday (you go man!).  The Ivory Tower Gang’s phone group chat is finally made to easily communicate with each other on specifics of the project for the cultural festival.  Later that evening in the boys dorm Cyrus told the boys about his conspiracy theories. They also learned he doesn’t like the name Xenon being mentioned. In his room Mylo was told about a school rumor by his roommate Lelouch that if you move the books out of their proper arrangement while in the Library past 9:30 they will sometimes move back into place on their own. Upon hearing this Mylo became more than willing to test it out to see if its true but after saying this Lelouch seemed almost concerned and wanted Mylo to be careful. Mylo invited along Blake, Jax, and Adrien to test this with him, they quickly agreed since Cyrus started going on about tinfoil hats, many of them wanted the excuse to get away from Cyrus.

At the library Mylo rearranged a bookshelf and Blake began to record near 9:30. Mylo shined a constant light to assist in seeing everything. They moved a table into a barricade position that they hid behind…. Just in case. In that moment, as 9:30 came, lightning strikes, the power goes out everywhere, and a raging storm suddenly approached. In the next few moments a loud crash was heard near the boys as they heard a window break. They continued recording the bookshelf as Jax and Adrien went to check what caused the window to break discovering that a rock was thrown in from the outside. Adrien noticed that the storm seemed unnatural, something that shouldn’t have appeared at all. The boys began to suspect the supernatural but Jax quickly brushed it off as simple coincidence. Mylo later came by and used his engineering skills to determine that it would’ve been quite hard to properly throw this rock through the window. They continued to record the bookcase for a little while longer before finally deciding to head back. A strange occurrence at this time was that nobody else was in the library, not a single soul. With the window broken and the boys scared by everything that happened they finally decided to head back to the dorms. Inside the dorm they all crowded around the couch as Blake played back the video of the incident. When they played back the video, Mylo, Adrien, and Jax only noticed typical ghost spots just before the power went out. However, Blake noticed the spots made up a figure and when pointed out the group noticed how it looks like a humanoid outline. Blake looked closer to see it look unnatural, dismembered with maimed limbs, completely unnatural in every sense of the word. Nothing else was seen in this video, the group honestly was more than a bit spooked by seeing this humanoid outline. Nobody was able to recognize what the heck was in that cursed video, and maybe that was the saving grace they were given on that day.