towerofanimus | 1st analysis (OPEN)

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1st analysis (OPEN)

Characters: Luca, open
Setting: Starting in 2-05, moving around
Format: Will match your comments
Summary: Luca arrives, is confused.
Warnings: None

2-05 (closed)

She'd been paralyzed before, so she knew better than to panic. Just wait it out and it'll go away. Just wait it out... Sure enough, less than a minute later she was able to move. After letting out a sigh of relief, Luca opened her eyes, sat up, and realized she had no idea where she was. What was she wearing?

"...Master Cid? Rydia?"

Wandering the halls (open; various floors and stairways)

She'd found that letter and couldn't quite believe it. Destroyed? That was exactly what she'd been trying to prevent! There was no way. Absolutely none. There had to be some other explanation.

If she was here, the others might be, too. Master Cid, Rydia, Calca and Brina, and... well, everyone else.

So she left her room to look for answers, after changing back into her usual clothes, pulling her shirt collar up to cover that weird thing around her neck, and grabbing up her shield and axe. If she ran into somebody else, she would wave them down and call out, "Hey! You got a minute?"

Floor Seventeen (open)

Luca stood at the bottom of the staircase, looking around at the bloody handprints everywhere, and covering her ears to block out that horrible screaming.

"Seriously? What the heck is this supposed to be?"

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[Pipit had been ~~re-wandering~~ patrolling the hallways, now that he's getting almost settled in this odd, new tower. Can't say he's used to it, just yet, but at least he's almost settled.

Luca's call catches the other new guy's attention, though, and he turns to her with a helpful smile.]

Yes, of course! What do you need, friend?

[ This guy seems friendly enough. She smiles slightly, in a friendly way. ]

You know what this place is? I found this letter saying someone saved me from the world being destroyed, but that's impossible.

Oh; yes, I do! A friend filled me in, when I arrived. It's a tower of sorts, where people from other worlds seemed to be gathered for reasons unknown; but yes, those letters definitely are nonsense.

If I were you, I wouldn't have given them the time of day!

[He crosses his arms as if in thought, shifting his stance a bit.]

I suppose I should give you fair warning, as my fellow knight had; monsters seem to lurk in this place, and the people who own and run this tower don't seem the friendly, outgoing, or caring kind at all.
If you run into trouble, it would be best to go to others in the tower like ourselves, rather than those who seem to run it.

[And that's the clean explanation, of course.]

[ She knew it. Of course it had been a lie. She puts a hand on her hip as she listens to the rest of what he has to say. ]

Good to know. I've dealt with monsters before, and there's no way I'd trust someone who dragged me here and tried to make me think... [ Hmph. ] Thanks for the heads-up.

How long have you been here? And let me guess, we're trapped, right?

Ironically, I've been here no longer than you have. The others just seem to have a lot of know-how about the place.

But yes; it seems to be that way.

... My friend said that even death is not an escape, here. They just revive you.

[Well, this conversation was getting depressing fast.]

[ Wow, okay, that's... pretty disturbing. Just who the hell are the people running this place? What kind of magic... ]

We'll have to find some way out of here anyway. I don't know about you, but if I don't get home, there's a good chance the world really could be destroyed. Maybe it'll be tough, but we can't let that stop us.

I'm Luca. What's your name?

My name is Pipit; it's a pleasure, Luca!

[The knight gives her a smile, and a polite little bow of his head.]

I wouldn't worry about finding a way out, I'm sure we will find one soon.
Others have been here a while, so surely they've been thinking on a solution, yeah?

Pleasure's mine, Pipit.

You've gotta be right. We'll be outta here in no time! [ She nods back. There's no use moping about; they need to actually work on a solution. ] What do you say we find someone who's been here a while and ask them how far they've gotten on figuring out a way home?

Hmm... That sounds like a good a plan as any.

There's many people here, after all; someone's got to have an idea.

[He pauses then, considering this for a second -]

Of course, if we plan on wandering about the tower and asking everyone, it would probably be best if we stayed together. It's embarrassing to admit, but neither my sword nor my shield are in good enough condition for a one on one battle with the monsters, here.
And I would repair them, but I'm afraid my skills are in fighting with the sword, not fixing it...

Sure, that sounds like a plan. I'd hate for anything to happen to you. Ah-- here.

[ She holds out her shield. ] You can use my shield for now if anything pops up. I'll be able to hold this axe better if I use both hands, anyway. I can't do anything about your sword, but maybe someone else around here'll be able to do something about it.

Ah - if you insist. That's very kind of you, thank you very much!

[Pipit accepts it, a little surprised; but it is a lot better than his battered old wooden shield. That thing wouldn't even last in a sparring match, anymore.]

There's probably someone who could make good use of the workshop here, yes.
But either way; where shall we start, Luca?

[ She nods. Oh, hey-- if there's a workshop... ]

First things first -- we should figure out if we're at the top of the tower, or the bottom, or somewhere in the middle. Then I guess we work our way up or down.

Ah, a good idea. I've explored a few of the floors going down, but I'm not exactly sure if we can go up from here, myself.

[He hooks her shield to his back like his sheath, thinking on it.]

We'll never know if we don't try, right? Thought I saw a staircase this way, let's go.

[ She leads! ]

Yes, let's!

[Yep, he's following right behind her, totally okay with her taking the lead.
She probably has just as much of a clue as he does about this tower, anyway.]

"Some trick by the tower," Ven said, coming up behind Luca, on the stairway and carefully setting a hand on her shoulder, trying to nudge her up the stairs and away from the room.

"There's a few floors like that around here. I'm pretty sure their intended purpose is just to freak us out."

She jumped a little and frowned, tilting her head backward to get an eye at the guy who'd come up behind her.

"So freaking us out is their idea of 'being happy here'? Not surprising from what I've heard so far."

He let out a sigh. "I guess so. I guess their logic is, 'we saved you from destruction, so a little horror every now and then should be a small price to pay," He said, a downcast look on his face.

"Some floors aren't as bad though, so it's not all bad."

That was just stupid. "They lie to us about our worlds being gone and expect us to be so grateful we'll let them do whatever they want? Gee, what great rescuers they must be."

She sighed. "I saw a library, and I heard there's some kind of workshop here?" She turned to start back up the stairs.

Ven shrugged a bit. "No one ever said their plan was fair or flawless."

"Yeah, it's equipped with all sorts of tools and stuff." He carefully followed her up the stairs as he spoke. "There's an art gallery and a media room too, and a special restaurant."

She'd have to take a look in there sometime, see if there was anything she could make use of. "What's so special about it?"

"I think it serves better food than the stuff in the downstairs cafeteria, but you have to get something from around the Tower before they let you in. I don't know how good it is though."

"...Huh. I guess I'll look and see at some point." She emerged from the stairwell on floor eighteen and glared up at the lights as they flickered. "I haven't had anything from the cafeteria yet, either. Guess I should sometime..."

She turned to watch for Ven coming up the stairs. "How long have you been here, anyway?"

"It's worth a shot I guess. You have to eat the oatmeal from the Cafeteria downstairs before you can eat anything here though. Otherwise you just throw up."

Ven had a small look of disgust on his face for a minute as he followed her up the stairs. At the question however, he stopped. "Uuuh....." He had to think for a moment. He never was really good with time anymore. "At least six months I think?"

Luca shared his look of disgust. Oatmeal wasn't so bad; the issue was why it was like that. She didn't like being forced into anything.

"Six whole months?" She let out a low whistle. That long, and still stuck here... "And just earlier I was thinking I'd find a way home in a week at most. Y'think I was a little too optimistic?"

He gave a sheepish chuckle; he hadn't meant to be a downer like this! "Heh, you never know. Some people leave a little while after they come here, but I don't know where they go. I don't think it's posisble for all of our worlds to be completely destroyed though, so there's no need to give up all hope."

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're lying about that part." She'd have noticed. She wouldn't have been able to not notice, and besides, the others would be here too if that were the case. She was sure of it.

"You don't have to worry about me giving up hope. Just make sure you don't, either." She managed to grin at him. "I'm Luca, by the way. You?"

"Of course not! It sucks here, but there are some good people stuck here too."

And he returned the grin in kind. "My name's Ventus, but everyone calls me Ven. Nice to meet you, Luca."

Romeo turned round at the voice and grinned before running over. He paused a moment not knowing if she was an adult or not, she wasn't very tall but she didn't look like a kid. "Can I help you miss?" He decided to play it safe, he hadn't seen her before so he guessed she must be new.

That was a little kid... This wasn't right. Not at all. But she smiled so as not to worry him. "I'm just trying to find some things out, that's all. I just woke up, see."

Romeo grinned at her, "What do you want to know? I know lots of things about the tower. I've been here for ages!"

He liked helping new people, so they knew that there were good and nice people here and everyone wasn't like the bad people. This place could be terrible and scary but if you had friends it wasn't too bad!

"Ages, huh...?" He looked the worse for wear, but he seemed pretty chipper. Had this place not gotten to him? Or was he pretending for her sake?

"Well, I've heard the world was destroyed, but I know that can't be true... Do you know anything about the people who brought us here?"

"Yes miss ages and ages!" He was just very good at keeping his spirits up. He shook his head. "It's not destroyed they are just really really really bad people! Really bad and they kidnapped us and like doing really bad things to us."

He paused before continuing, "There's four of them miss, well I've seen four of them and one of them is a kid. There's also a little girl I think but I only ever heard her. All the people with red collars or no colour at all in their collars work for them so be careful miss because they do really bad things as well!"

Well, that was certainly a lot of information to digest all of a sudden, but she was pretty sure she had it. "Four of them? Where can I find them? Do you know?"

"They never come here, there's a lot more to the tower that we can't get to." He thought about the apartment, and the empty tower, and the cages they had been kept in when they had been experimented on. "We can't find them."

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/I am totally not late okay

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