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As you snap your way inside, it belatedly occurs to you that this is presumably a bedroom, and if there was - No, damn it! You are not doing this! You are not double guessing yourself, and you are not treble guessing yourself either. This place has been quiet as the grave this entire time - save for the moment that you knocked into that table in the basement, and when you threw that 'stick. No one is here. Something would have tipped you off by now if there was. You need to get that through your thick, <span class="mu-i">thick</span> head - and more importantly, you need to get a move on! Setting aside everything else that you planned to do this night, you are overdue for one of those random strickenings that you have been being hit by - and you would prefer to be further away from the security-surety when it does happen, as it seems that proximity is a factor in the strike's severity.
You then turn your attention to the room - which you still cannot really see, in spite of your best efforts with the snap-sparker. Perdition, you wish it was a snap-flamer instead! The spark is simply not enough to illuminate anything more than two strides away, and it lasts for only a sliver of a sliver of a second. Also, it aggravatingly precludes your eyes from ever adjusting to this darkness. To tell it true, you are starting to think that you might be best off just groping through the darkness instead. After all, you are just looking for a door - it shouldn't be too hard to find if you move methodically along the wall. Going that route would preclude finding anything else in these rooms though ... but of course, that isn't the point of this little excursion. You stifle the urge to sigh. Perhaps there is a better way to approach this search, a simpler stratagem ... but quite honestly, you are just ... you are feeling pretty spent, right about now. Maybe it will come to you; but until then, you are going to need to make call here.
> The Plan: Intelligence Collection IIIS:
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> You are going to grope your way through the darkness instead of relying on the snap-sparker.
> You are going to rely on the snap-sparker instead of groping your way through the darkness.
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