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[Twinwolf]

Yuki blinked, and returned the hug perhaps a bit overly-enthusiastically. "I hope so! I need to make up for a lot of lost time at being a big sister!" she said cheerfully. "That saaaaid, we should probably get to unpacking."

[Powder Miner]

Faith squeaked a little as Yuki's hug ever-so-slightly squeezed the life out of her, and then scratched her head a little sheepishly at Yuki's words.
"Ehehe... right... uh, hmm, unpacking..." Faith moves over to her things, and when she starts unpacking it reveals that around 90% of what she'd packed was clothes, lots and lots of clothes -- more than one could probably expect in terms of the length they'd be staying here, especially considering the uniforms they were wearing.

[spümpkin]

Yoake nods enthusiastically, and waits for Noriko to pick a direction.

[Chevaleresse]

Noriko heads in a direction she thinks might lead toward the non-servant's bedrooms. Probably wouldn't be there, but it wouldn't hurt to check, and she'd be expected to know where it was. Though she was a bit distracted; thoughts of her current roommate aside, she was worried about Kouta; even though she knew he was perfectly safe, she couldn't help but run through nightmare scenarios in her head. What if Winter and Enn got hacked somehow? Or a less-than-benevolent Godslayer gained access? Or that Slaine was more malicious than she thought. . . ? She shook her head. This was useless, she had to pay attention.

[Empiricist]

Noriko
The non-servant's sections appear to be divided into two sections, with cameras monitoring the hallways in and out of them. The closer section you find yourself in seems to be the standard lodgings for you can only presume people with less than sensitive possessions judging by how newly hired maids like yourself have access, a fact that your pager so helpfully displays on a simple color-coded map as you enter. Hmm, this could be problematic, there must be some sort of RFID or the like in these pagers or uniforms with accompanying readers built into the mansion. Not sophisticated enough to display more than general sector than precise location, or at least so you hope - there's the possibility they're a lot more precise than what the pager merely displays, but even then enough to make it a bit harder to sneak into restricted sections.

Some of the bedrooms looking like they could use a bitch of dusting, something the task list on the pager displays, looking like some sort of bizarre cross between an RPG quest tracker and a human resource scheduling system, displaying a list of tasks with estimated workload values, current assignees/volunteers (if any), and a completion bar for your current expected workload this week, one with a notably low target value, a comment listed in the log below it reading Target workload is reduced this week to give you time to familarize yourself. You currently have no assigned tasks other than to familarize yourself with the pager, the mansion, and your fellow co-workers, though it does appear you can also assign work like dusting the bedrooms to yourself... or access the chat room function which is apparently a thing too.

Shef
No bugs, at least as far as you can tell, though the fact that these pagers upon inspection seem to know which general area of the mansion you are in is worrisome, not to mention that one could easily integrate bugs into them.

[Strider03]

No bugs. Yet. But the pager appeared to be equipped with some form of primitive tracking. That, or the pagers were simply displaying the general location while other equipment might display ones location more precisely. Shef inspected the map  a bit further. How large of a map did it display, and did the position marker shift at all if he walked across the room? What about into the hall? Did the map only update when he left or entered a room, or when he left or entered a wing?

[Empiricist]

Shef
The map displays your current surroundings by default, but may be zoomed in and out, displaying the entire mansion when fully zoomed out. There isn't so much a position marker so as there is a highlighted sector, the current sector of course being the servant's quarters, the highlight not changing until you actually leave the hall and cross the threshold between these quarters and the rest of the mansion.

[Strider03]

Hmm. Was there any way he could stand outside outside the quarters, but still be fairly near the wall to his and Minato's room? He had chosen the first room in the wing for a reason. If he was unable to be near enough to a wall to his room while outside the wing, he would look around for anything near the boundary between the two wings. Any small piece of furniture that was within seven or eight feet of the threshold of the servant's quarters. He needed a place to set the device for a moment where it wouldn't be in view of the cameras.

[Empiricist]

Shef
There's a small lounge between the section's end and your room, and while there are cameras in their general area, they for the most part look out from the lounge rather than into it, there's enough such that each camera has at least another covering its vicinity, presumably to help avoid tampering, but the general interior of the lounge seems fine and within your range requirements.

[Strider03]

Shef carefully placed his pager on the floor, out of the sight of the cameras as best as he could manage, preferably under a chair or something. He then exited the lounge, and from there the wing. Once we was certain that he was outside the area, he approached a wall, and positioned his body between the wall and any cameras on that side. A swift small hand motion to draw as small a portal as he could, a peephole, from the wall to the air a few inches above the pager. Was he still in the servants wing according to the pager?

[Empiricist]

Shef
Yes.

[Chevaleresse]

"Huh." The setup was. . . odd, to say the least. It felt a little like she'd walked into some bizarre RPG world. Could that actually happen. . . ? They'd certainly made enough damned anime about the idea, there was no way some nutcase hadn't tried to replicate the effect. Either way, her assigned tasks being what she was already aiming to do made this easier. The pager might be an issue, though. Shef would probably know if it was an actual risk. "Guess we'll just keep wandering around? Or we could try to find a loading dock or something, that might be worth checking out. . ."

Is there a loading dock or similiar area where goods are brought in? Things the mansion might need in bulk, whatever that may be. If so, go there. If not, just wander around.

[Empiricist]

Noriko
Well, the loading zone as it turns out is an enclosed, air-conditioned space monitored by several dozen overlapping cameras featuring a noticeable lack of quest-giving tossers and rampaging dragons, so that's a thing.

That being said, it's not entirely devoid of otherworldly bullshit either. The first thing you notice is the feeling, that indescribable phantom sensation that plagued you on occasion for as known as you remember, the feeling that you now know to be the presence of a Sanctuary. But this, this feels different, muffled somehow, suppressed. This must be the entrance, if the briefing's anything to go by this must mean it's been sealed. No way in, not without breaking the seal somehow. The next thing you notice, and you barely notice, are the shadows, not all of them align with the objects, not all of them are cast. Around the base of each camera is a black disc, shadows without a source.

[spümpkin]

Yoake brings out her pager and assigns dusting the bedrooms to herself, and rushes into them with a brush in hand and a determined glint in her eye.

She begins dusting furiously, in an attempt to prove herself as the best maid, and worthy of entry into private quarters.

[Strider03]

Good. They weren't being tracked by the clothes, or at least not in an obvious manner. If the owners were highly paranoid, they might have two tracking systems, with the pager one being less precise to lull would-be criminals into a false sense of security.

In any case, Shef grabbed his pager, and began to wander the mansion, trying to get a feel for its interior layout, as one of the tasks displayed on the pager was apparently to do so.