For Thine Is; Part One

[animusmods]

Characters: anyone outside of the Tower
Setting: outside
Format: any
Summary: You have been transported out of the Tower, and you must return quickly.
Warnings: psychological horror

It's pitch black here, though the ground is made of dirt and the Tower gleaming in the distance provides at least a sign that light exists somewhere. It's completely silent. It feels as if things might jump out at you--but that's probably your imagination.

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[ambassadorasshat]

[Like many other people, the darkness and silence makes Luke immediately assume he's been pulled back into the void he occasionally spent way too much time in a while back. Except it's...different this time. There's ground, which he scuffs with one foot--a purple wireframe foot with a faint image of a bare foot under it. That's not what the void did to his body.

And there's the Tower in the distance. In the distance. Meaning somehow they got out. But getting out shouldn't have made Luke feel as uneasy and sick and panicky as it did, he never wanted to be in there in the first place.

Not does he want to be here, where he's standing. So he moves, to fufill the compusion but also to look for those he knows.]

H-hey, anyone know what happened...?

[lorule]

[ This one person was a blue wireframe with her own faint image trapped within this fake body. She was also panicking, but she did her best to hide any such emotions from anyone's view. Hilda had never heard that voice before, but she shared what little information she had gleaned from others. ]

We were expelled from the tower for unknown reasons.

[ Which was probably painfully obvious, but heh that answered the question. ]

And now we are faced with choosing between going back to it or staying here to die.

[ Which was probably not really a choice in the end, who would want to die here? Though if someone really wanted to stay here and die-- There really wasn't much they could do about it. ]

[ambassadorasshat]

[Hilda is also unfamiliar, but he'll take any information he can get at the moment.]

So we are outside...

[Obvious, yeah, but whatever.]

I don't see why anyone would want to stay out here...the Tower's horrible, but it...feels worse out here.

[lorule]

This question would be best asked to Zo.

[ She couldn't even begin to comprehend why the kind boy people had told her about would do that, but facts were facts. ]

I am under the impression however, that many in this tower have been in pain and despairing. If so, they may see our current predicament as an unique chance.

[ Of the worse kind. Death was impossible inside of the tower, but they had no way to know if this was true here as well. ]

[ambassadorasshat]

I'd ask him if I could find him. [Is he even around? Probably not, others would've found him by now if he was.]

Maybe, but there's nothing around here, and I think it's a better idea to go back to the tower.

[So there.]

[lorule]

... That was rhetorical.

[ She sighed and shook her head. She agreed, but her concerns were with those who wouldn't agree. ]

As I do. However, I am more concerned for those who would not agree with us.

[ambassadorasshat]

Oh. Well...

[Okay, he actually has no decent retort for that. He'd still do it though.]

If they don't agree with us, we leave them behind, and they can choose whether or not they want to stick with their decision or change their minds.

[lorule]

[ What kind of foolish reasoning is that? Hilda is unimpressed. ]

... I am thankful you are no leader amongst us. I pray that you never be tasked with protecting the lives of others.

[ Her tone was glacial as she stated this, before she turned away from him. ]

[ambassadorasshat]

I'm not trying to be a leader, I'm just saying that I'm not going to try to convince anyone to go anywhere they don't want to.

[He's probably saying this to her back, but if she doesn't want to talk to him anymore, at least he sort of defended himself.]

[lorule]

[ And indeed, Hilda didn't reply and continued on her way off. She had had enough of foolishness for a day. ]