Infighting Week One

[animusmods]

Characters: any character participating in the Infighting event
Setting: pods, week one of the event
Format: any
Summary: All week one Infighting event threads should go in here, to keep things organized.
Warnings: horror, trauma, experiment results, impossible geometry, cabin fever

[Group Information]
Dax's Pod
Riki's Pod
Jason's Pod
End of Week One

Comments

POD TWO: RIKI

[animusmods]

[gloomyapoplectic]

[Kanaya has priorities. Her priorities are her moirail, her friends, and the other people from her timeline that could be friends, but it's debatable.

So, as soon as she's in the circular common room, she's scanning the crowd, not her setting. Though it's undeniable how uncomfortable this place is making her just by existing, and she isn't sure why.]

[nemophila]

[Jun was admittedly more preoccupied with the setting. He'd been distracted trying to make sense of the circular common room, running his hand along the wall and-- just barely managing to avoid totally running into her, though he did bump her a bit.]

--Sorry...! [Was his immediate response, though upon further inspection it was obvious she was a bit out of it.]

Are you alright...?

[Well, as alright as one could be in this situation.]

[vicboss]

[ A competition, huh? He didn't sign-up for that. Pretty sure no one did.

He sighs, takes a cigar and lights it up. This man is pretty heavily armed, an his assault riffle on his back, two handguns and some grenades on top of other equipment he has on him. Nevertheless, he doesn't look aggressive, he is pretty much like everyone else in the room: surprises, bothered and annoyed at this turn of events.

So to sum it up, those guys are trying to determinate who is the best Tower Controller? Maybe that's the perfect occasion to demonstrate them than neither of the three are fit for the job. Maybe if they sabotaged this competition from the inside...

Under normal circumstances? Survival,competitions are things Big Boss excels at. But he's been unimpressed by those in charge so far. They're obviously incompetent and obsessed by control, it's even worse than Zero. If they purposefully lost this competition, it could create some trouble amongst those in charges.

Now to find people willing to try and sabotage the competition- And hoping that someone in the two other groups will have the same idea. He isn't afraid of punishments... But he knows many are. ]

[viditlibertas]

[Alcor had come across many odd people in his time in the tower- but he had not expected to see someone like this. It had been quite a while since he'd seen any military personnel that wasn't JP's.

Even still, he found himself drawing closer as the man lit his cigar, eyeing him curiously.]

You seem troubled.

[He was doing his best to not read people's wills here- but he had always seen smoking to be a nervous action. Granted, he didn't quite get it, so he knew he could be wrong, but...]

[nemophila]

[Jun was already confused and disoriented and nervous. He hadn't been here very long, but it was plainly clear that the administrators weren't very good people, and now would no doubt be no exception.

So he glanced around the crowd, quietly watching as he regained his mental bearings and then his attention was a bit...sidetracked to the odd structure of the common room. There was a good handful of people here, and it didn't really seem like there could be enough room to fit one room per person in this area.

He had thus opted to peak into one of the bedrooms-- it was better than being in the crowded common room right now, he didn't do well with all the loud chatter anyway. So instead, he was running his hand along the wall, feeling the corners but... it was still perfectly round?]

[forsakenwood]

[ Hope you don't mind a viera intruding into your exploration, Jun.

Well, not obnoxiously. She stood in the doorframe, looking the room over. ]

You are looking for something?

i was gonna tag more srsly and then i gave up and this happened

[viditlibertas]

[There's something else in this room, actually. Namely, a star, hovering upside down with his toes nearly brushing the ceiling. His hair looked pretty ridiculous, but this is probably the only time you'll ever see his eyebrows, so savor it!]

Impossible, isn't it~?

[Seriously. The star sounds as close to 'chipper' as he ever has.]

[viditlibertas]

[Considering his true form was impossible geometry itself, the room itself didn't even phase Alcor. In fact, the only issue he seemed to be having was with his equilibrium. Normally Alcor would be hovering or flying to get around, but he had actually grounded himself, teetering uncertainly on the floor. It didn't make sense, and that wasn't what bothered him exactly- it was that he was affected by it. He had to throw his mass around to just stay still, and that was turning out to be something of a trial and error process.]

But there's gravity...and even without, this would have to be illusionary...

[Maybe if he stood on one foot...? That just seemed to make him wobble even more-]

[xthearaneae]

[ Pardon him. He's just been wandering about and observing the other residents of this particular pod. If he was going to be here a while, he'd have to make damn sure that he made a note of who's who.

Just in case.

So there's the smallest raised eyebrow for Alcor and his little experiments with gravity. ]

Illusionary in what way, if I may ask?

[hachitaro]

[Yeah have a woozy-looking tanuki staring up at you.]

Gravity works in illusions unless you specifically say it shouldn't look like that. At least where I'm from, anyway. And whoever made this illusion has a lot of power to affect this many people at once.

Re: POD TWO: RIKI

[mutab1e]

[Equius gave up on his room almost as soon as he entered; even the mere sight of it made him nauseous, literally. He was pretty sure that there were at least seven rules of mathematics broken in that small (?) space. Frankly, it made his head spin, so he absconded at once for the common room -- here -- before something unfortunate happened involving him and last night's meal.]

[So have one loser kind of standing against the door, doing his best to look unaffected while looking around the room.]

[wrigurun]

[He isn't the only one affected, as Wriggle very ungracefully crashes into the wall next to him]

What the heck was that!?

[kickspenguins]

[Sakuma's heard enough from Kidou about the tower to be able to guess what's happening. He doesn't like it one bit, especially when Kidou's 0here too, albeit in another pod. And especially seeing how his friend had been after the previous time.

Currently, he's standing apart from the rest of the group, leaning against a wall and keeping an eye on them. There's nothing he can do right now except learn what he can from what's happening before acting.]

[hardknoxlife]

[ Okay. Easy. Easy now. here we go again. No denying he was tense but hey. He'll be fine, right? Just have to get through the week. But maybe it's not looking that bad. As far as he's concerned, this is much better than the battle royale that happened the last time.

But he's scanning through the faces in the common area. There's a sense of both disappointment and relief that he can't find either Grell or William among the number here. Maybe they weren't taken. Maybe they were spared. But he still wanted to make sure.

So with a sigh, he slumps himself against the wall before glancing over. ]

Ah, scuse me. Mind if I ask a few things?

[forsakenwood]

I do not.

[ She'd returned to the common room after her exchange with Jun, preferring the noise of a clustered group than the muffled silence of the bedroom. It distracted her from the strange geometry troubling her senses. ]

[hachitaro]

[Okay. One step and then another. Easy now. Easy... easy...]

[Fuck. His head is spinning. Taro looks up from where he's fallen on the floor in the common area and... ugh. He doesn't want to drop his illusion but he is having trouble maintaining even the bare minimum of effort needed to keep it up, so he pulls himself over to the wall(?) and lets it drop.]

[So now there's a small furry creature with gigantic balls leaning against the wall. Now, Taro is not a creature who takes most things so seriously - it's just not in his nature. But making illusions like this is stepping onto his turf.]

Bastards. You think you can pull this kind of stuff on me? I'm older than you - probably, anyway, you looked pretty young in that video - and I've been messing with making things look like other things before you were probably even born! It's a dirty trick, trying to pull this kind of thing on someone like me. Come out here and let me take a look at you, no head-messing just man to... er. Man to tanuki I guess. Come on, I oughta...

[Pod Two, you now have an angrily ranting furry little thing. Enjoy.]

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku blinked, his head hurt. He was trying to not think about the room because it made no sense, he was avoiding the bedroom he had been given because that made less sense and now there was a small furry creature ranting...]

I doubt they will listen to you...

[deathboss]

[Rule number one of anything involving Eikichi...he was going to be sick pretty fast of motion sickness. The Blimp, Maya's 'drive' in the rapids...and now this place, with the pulsating walls and dizziness was making his head spin a little too quickly. THANK GOODNESS FOR MEDICINE it wasn't doing much, was it?

He scans at the crowd looking for people he knows, his face looking like he would love to be any place but here. As he walks he tends to accidentally trips from trying to keep himself from just giving into his stomach aches.]

i am sorry this had to be done

[viditlibertas]

[Hey, hey Eikichi.

Hey.

You might feel some hands under your armpits suddenly, and then abruptly feel the floor no longer. In fact, you seem to be HOVERING! But hey, at least it's just a star and not a goddamn horrorterror. Sorta.]

This may aid us both, I suspect.

[What is giving a warning before acting??? Something Alcor always forgets to do, that's what!]

[kamikozy]

Oh thank goodness.

[Miyabi's never been as glad to see Eikichi as she is after she's ushered- quite rudely- into the proper pod and had the door shut behind her. Almost immediately the place makes her uneasy; something about the room- she has a feeling the pulsing walls might be it- makes her want to find someplace to sit and reassure herself she's firmly on the ground. Her hands reach for his arm, intending to pull herself closer, fingers threading with his.]

Have you seen any of the others?

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku had went when he was told with barely an argument; wondering what would happen this time. What they would do to them, what they would force them to do. He was relieved that Lelouch had not been in the group that had gathered to hear the announcement. He was safe again, as was Psi, Sora and Riki. He had seen Disciple though but she had been taken in one of the other groups. He hoped she was alright.

His room was weird, and so he moved out into the common room, which seemed... wrong... He stood there looking around uneasily.]

[vvvroom]

[Honestly, the only thing he gives a shit about right now is finding Jun and Eikichi. He can worry about weird-looking rooms later, but for right now, friends first.

So for right now, a tall teenager is moving through the crowd at the expense of ignoring everyone else around him, trying to find a blue crest of hair (how hard could that honestly be?) or light blue school uniforms or anything at all.

After that, they can figure out whatever they need to.]

[tortileghostwriter]

[David hates this Tower.

He hates it and everything it stands for, and what does a tower stand for if not imperious gall and hubris?

At this point, it almost seems to be handselecting torments specifically for him. It might even be funny, in an ironic sense, but by his metric--and who here, really, is more qualified to call it?--the game had already set the bar impossibly fucking high before the Tower got to him, though last month did certainly make it worse.

He's glancing around a bit, watching the motions of the spatial rape that is this pod. He ignores the ambient chatter, though it isn't hard--he has someone speaking to him, closer than anyone else in the room.

She's very loud, right now.

He doesn't listen.

He'll tune her out for as long as he needs to. He will not lose to this insufferable tower again.

The impossible geometries of this place haven't gone unnoticed--oh no, far from it, isn't that the point? Hell, they're making his problems worse. But he will make it through.

He casts a scanning glance--more of a swept glare--over the group in the common room, trying to at least find some familiar faces. At this point, he really doesn't know if that would help.]

this was totally here the whole time

[pactum]

[ lovely. just lovely. first he's swept off to one place, and then, just as he's begun to get used to it, he's brought to another. but Ciel is a quick boy, and he knows very well how useless it is to spend time fretting. for now, he's weaving through the crowd of people, making his way to the edge in order to have some air. he isn't a fan of large groups, and the last thing he wants is for his asthma to act up now of all times.

his lips are set in a frown as he gets his first good look at the room itself, now that he doesn't have to contend to see over people much taller than he is. ]

Excuse me--have you been here before?

[ he asks the person nearest him. for all he knows, this could be a common occurrence. ]