Exploring

[regenleif]

Characters: Capell and open
Setting: Room 1-18 and then Staircases Monday also floor 55 (incinerator)
Format: Any
Summary: Capell wonders what is going on now.
Warnings: nothing major

[Just after explosions] The explosions had woken Capell up. He blinked into the darkness of his room and stood up, he had no roommates to disturb so he grabbed his sword, slipped on his shoes and stepped into the corridor blinking in the flickering light. At first nothing seems wrong, but Capell has been here long enough to know that explosions are never good things. And after last month he is incredibly wary of them.

When he gets to the staircase it is obvious what has happened, or at least what it has caused. Capell goes no where near the wires, they don't look safe. But he does walk down the staircase a few floors, the damage continues.

[Later: floor 55] With the power fluctuating it is hard to see on floors that don't have natural light. Which was why Capell was on this floor, with some bundles of wood he had gathered from the forest, to try and make a burning torch that could at least last him a few floors. He had some spare wood as well, because unlike his own world there were a lot of people who could not produce light here, and they might need them.

[Even later, back on the staircases] At first he thinks its just reflections from the torch, the rippling. But he soon realises that it only happens when he is near the staircase, and it is more like last time. Like the void that appeared. It's a terrifying thought because last time had been awful, and Capell didn't want anything like that to happen again.

But he's been here a few months now, long enough to have heard stories. That the terrifying things that he wished wouldn't happen again, happened with alarming frequency.

Comments

Staircases

[queensgeneral]

It was only a matter of time before events in the tower would act up again, and Darres can't say he was surprised they did, either. If it was anything like last time, they were in a heap of trouble, and it was exceptionally hard keeping people safe.

At some point, Darres had accidentally stumbled upon another. It was a face he's seen around the tower before, but never met personally. It was apparent how unhinged the other was becoming.

"Hey! Are you okay?"

[regenleif]

Capell jumped at the voice, but smiled sheepishly as he realised it was a person. "Yeah, I'm alright." He stepped closer so he could see who it was in the light, no one that he knew.

"Have you seen anything strange?"

[queensgeneral]

"You'll have to be more specific than that."

Strange was becoming a normal thing here, as much as Darres hated to admit it.

[regenleif]

"Flickers." He gestured with his torchless hand, "Ripplies in the air." He realises strange could explain most things here, but he was distracted.

[queensgeneral]

"Now that you mention it, the tower has escalated."

But he was the kind of knight that was good at keeping his cool in dire situations.

[regenleif]

Capell blinked, not sure what he meant by that. "So you can see them?"

[queensgeneral]

"If it's anything like last time, those who are more suceptable to the tower are the one's who lose it." Hell, he still hasn't died yet so he had to be doing something right, right?

[regenleif]

"I guess so. I haven't been here all that long though." He blinked, it had actually been a few months. "I just hope there are no monsters this time."

He doubts it though, there's always monsters.

[queensgeneral]

"Monsters are at least controllable and numerous residents are capable of combat."

[regenleif]

"That's true at least." He nodded, even though the last monsters had been invulnerable to the majority of the residents. "Hopefully nothing will come from them."

[queensgeneral]

"If there's any hope left.

Do you need help with anything?"

[regenleif]

"There's always hope left." Capell told him, firmly.

"I'm alright, I'm just checking what other damage this has done."

[queensgeneral]

He's not one to waste his efforts on false hope. Darres was more a realist than anything.

"I'll accompany you. It's safer in numbers."

[regenleif]

Capell nodded, "You are welcome to." He gestured at the staircase. "I was going to see how far down it goes, though I imagine the answer is all the way to the bottom."

[queensgeneral]

"Then we should get going." He didn't want to waste any time that might impact the outcome of their situation.

With that said, Darres took the lead.

[regenleif]

Capell nodded and followed, keeping his eye out for any danger.

[queensgeneral]

Darres was just as alert as Capell was, although nothing was alerting him.

"How long have you been here?"

[regenleif]

"A few months now, about five I think." Almost half a year, the thought was frightening. "How about you?"

[queensgeneral]

"A little longer than that." By a couple months. "I always wondered if time goes by faster here."

Head read many science books, and many mentioned different space theories and hypothesis. For someone with no academic background past being a guard and picking up politics, it was a lot to absorb.

[regenleif]

Time going faster? Capell had never heard of anything like that. "What do you mean?"

[queensgeneral]

"Are we in a different spacetime?" It was confusing, but it kind of bothered him. "Would they tell us? There's mention of our worlds being destroyed, but this one is still here."

[regenleif]

Capell frowned, "I don't know." He wasn't sure what Darres meant by spacetime, "I doubt they would tell us either way. But I don't know why this world is safe and the others aren't..."

[queensgeneral]

"All of the problems here seem to come from within." Rather than the outside, like their worlds.

[regenleif]

Capell nodded, "That's true everything that can hurt us is overseen by those who supposedly saved us." And though he guessed they had saved them, it wasn't exactly a good thing, if they were just going to hurt them in the process of keeping them alive.

[queensgeneral]

"They have been more flexible as of late, but our time here is drawing to a close if change doesn't happen soon."

[regenleif]

"I think it is drawing to a close if things change or not." They escape or they die, that was the situation as Capell understood it.

He knew which option he preferred.

Just after explosions

[keywrite]

Last time there were explosions, Riku had ended up trapped in his room for a week. This time was thankfully different, even though he'd been woken up from a sound sleep by said explosions and woke up feeling extremely panicked.

It took him several floors to get over that panic, and also several instances of nearly getting electrocuted by damaged staircase areas. He was using the tip of his keyblade--with the top covered in flames, totally a good idea--as his own version of a torch.

He was keeping it away from people, though, like when he encountered Capell.

"Hey, do you know what's going on?"

Re: Just after explosions

[regenleif]

Capell turned to see someone holding fire- a pretty good idea, and realised that he knew him. Riku, one of them anyways. "It looks like the explosions damaged something. I didn't want to get too close."

[keywrite]

"Probably a good idea."

He looks around, moving his keyblade-torch with him, to look for any debris that might be lying around that he can use as a test. Half a minute of searching produces a sizable chunk of wall, which he tosses down the staircase at a bit of exposed Tower column.

A loud crackle, then a shower of sparks and smoke follows. Yeah, probably not a good idea.

"...At least we're not stuck in our rooms this time."

[regenleif]

Capell flinched, glad that he had decided not to touch it himself. "Yeah, and no monsters that I can see, or creepy shadows." Yet, but Capell was trying to remain hopeful.