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[thanabro]

Characters: Ryoji and OPEN!
Setting: Floor Six (The Forest), Floor Twenty Two (The Art Gallery)
Format: Action
Summary: Ryoji's taken it upon himself to explore a bit - and maybe get a little practice in.
Warning: Possible violence (depending who tags him/how threads go), gore, mentions of death.


[Upon reaching this floor, Ryoji seeks out a good place to practice with Thanatos. This forest seems like an alright place, and he heads away from the staircase a bit so no one passing through will get hit. Still, from the staircase one might hear crashing as he fires a few Megidola spells off, as well as practicing with Tempest Slash.]

[Anyone going to investigate might find him casting a healing spell to recover the spent energy on his physical attacks, or just sitting against a tree. Those who are familiar with such things will note that he doesn't have an Evoker on him.]



[Ryoji's always considered himself a fan of art - in various different forms, but art galleries are always peaceful, right?]

[And so he finds himself on this floor, walking around the gallery a little, looking at the paintings of strange locales.]

[And suddenly the paintings aren't so nice anymore. The whole place seems darker, and many of the paintings are now of people dying in gruesome ways - torture, organs ripped out, clawing at their own faces. As he backs away and tries to find where he came from, he turns to see a painting of Minato and Minako dead in front of the Nyx Avatar.]

… That's wrong. We… we defeated it.

[He makes another turn, trying to figure out how to get back to the staircase, and runs into another painting - this one of himself as the Avatar, face a rotting corpse and the city below him, dark and dead.]

No - ! Stop it! I -

[He runs through the gallery, desperately trying to find an exit.]

Comments

[thanabro]

I think it's something specific to my world... but yeah, I'm human.

[He just hosted something inhuman. Not his fault.]

[yang_phase]

Your world.

[She was trying to wrap her head around this. It wasn't easy.]

The letter I received when I woke up here said that my 'world' had been destroyed. If it spoke the truth, it would follow that this is Yomi, correct?

[thanabro]

I guess... but I don't think that's right. The world couldn't have been destroyed just like that.

[yang_phase]

It does seem unlikely, but... I've seen a great many strange things in the world.

I do think it's very likely that we're dead.

[thanabro]

[His expression sobers.]

I know I'm probably dead. Others here? I'm not so sure.

[yang_phase]

I can think of no other explanation for this... monstrosity of a place. Structures like this should be impossible in reality.

[thanabro]

I've seen a tower that's even taller. It's not so impossible... even without weird things going on, there's some really tall towers where I'm from. The monsters aren't as common, though.

[yang_phase]

Taller than this? And as incongruous?

[thanabro]

Well the hugest one I've seen only shows up at a certain time at night... but there's lots of tall buildings in Japan. It's just part of the cityscape.

[yang_phase]

I am from Japan, but I've never seen a building like this. It's not only the height that sets it apart; it's what's in the building.

[thanabro]

That's true. Tartarus was creepy like this place, but this place has so many more different types of areas.

[yang_phase]

'Tartarus'?

[thanabro]

The tower that appeared only at night in place of our high school.

[yang_phase]

Ah! [Something she could fit into a frame of reference! A totally wrong frame of reference.]

You're a scholar, then.

[thanabro]

... I wouldn't say that.

[Erk.]

My grades are pretty bad sometimes.

[yang_phase]

Oh, I... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to broach a difficult topic.

Er, perhaps your family has a business you can take up instead?

[thanabro]

N... no. My brother and my sister are the only family I have left. But I don't have to worry about those kinds of things anymore, I guess.

[yang_phase]

I see. My condolences on your family. But even if you've only your siblings for support, they can still be a great comfort to you.

[thanabro]

They are. They're the most important people in the world to me.