Welcome to the Hotel Exotica

[Frodo]

>> Climb up the second ladder 

[Baron]

You climb up to the next level on the fire escape, emerging onto a narrow ledge abutting a mansard roof.  Three windows are accessible from the ledge, and there is a precarious roof-ladder leading to the roof proper.

[Mandle]

>>Have Larry sniff around for clues

[Baron]

Larry snuffles about on the ledge, attempting to find the trail again.  Alas, it seems the teenage runaway did not scale three stories illegally up the fire escape to gain entry to the hotel.  But Larry does sniff out an abandoned squirrel nest and a whiff of stale perfume coming from the left-most window.  According to the aroma differential between his left and right nostril, he estimates that the darkened window has been left open just a crack.

[selmiak]

>> peek inside the darkened window

[Mandle]

>>And then open it if the coast is clear (or clear enough)

[Haggis]

>> once we've managed to open the window, we should proceed inside to the room on the right and question that giant long necked duck! He must know something!

[Mandle]

>> once we've managed to open the window, we should proceed inside to the room on the right and question that giant long necked duck! He must know something!

Ahhhh...that's why my anatidaephobia was acting up...

[Baron]

IT'S A COAT STAND!!!!!



After peeking, listening, and sniffing at the darkened window, you eventually deem it safe to enter.  The room inside is still and sparsely decorated.  Apart from the thick odour of stale perfume there is nothing in the room but for a rickety looking bed in one corner.  As a garret room, perhaps it was let only to hotel employees?  No matter.  There is, however, an oddly shaped object concealed beneath the blanket on the bed....

[Gurok]

There's a small tear in the corner and it looks like it's coming loose, so I'm going to say:

>>Take the wallpaper

[Mandle]

>>Say "Niiiince horsey, who's a pretty pony then..." to the lump under the blanket

[Frodo]

>> Poke blanket with white stick 

[Baron]

With Larry's lifting assistance Jimmy is able to secure a piece of authentic retro wallpaper for his inventory.  Larry then proceeds to poke Jimmy, then the door, then the open window, then himself, and finally the blanket on the bed with his self-styled "feeler wand".  The object beneath the blanket doesn't move, it has a hard, solid texture, and has the outline of a modern art sculpture.

[MiteWiseacreLives!]

>> Take Blanket
>> Jimmy stand on Larry's back and look through peephole

[Mandle]

>And pull down the blind so our nefarious activities go unobserved by any nearby lurking ducks....**shivers**

[Frodo]

>> Check under bed

[MiteWiseacreLives!]

>> roll up case notes and use to make seductive duck calls out the window

[Baron]

Jimmy jumps up and pulls the shutter closed, inadvertently knocking the window closed in the process as well.  The loud bang of the window frame echoes jarringly through the room, but the noise stirs no reaction from the hotel guests.  Jimmy decides to press his luck by performing his seductive "Canard à  la Frou Frou" routine using the rolled up regurgitated case notes, but disappointingly there is no mass response of infatuated and horny duck-hens. 

Meanwhile Larry uses his feeler-wand to probe beneath the bed, discovering what feels like a duffel bag.  After retrieving it, he takes the blanket from the bed and - bizarrely - prances about with it as a cape.

Despite the antics, this has been a fairly productive turn.  Unfortunately the duo were too busy with their separate projects to coordinate on looking out through the peep-hole.

[Mandle]

>>Have Larry listen (and sniff) through the wall grate behind the torn wallpaper while Jimmy checks out the....erm...Gollum zombie thingy on the bed...

(wow, this got dark fast...lovin' it!)

[Frodo]

>> Open duffel bag